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twesterm on 09 October 2010
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Cross-X said:
twesterm said:

Yeah, it's pretty infuriating how bad this game is.

I can handle a bad game and I can even handle a bad game I was somewhat looking forward to, but FFXIV just pisses me off.  It's probably because I liked FFXI so much and I just assumed they would learn from that game that FFXIV would be great.  Hell, I even built my new PC because I wanted to play FFXIV on it.

Instead, we get this horrible mess with an interface that feels like it was made in 1995, gameplay decisions that lead me to believe the people in charge never actually played any other MMO (including FFXI!), and just a general completely unfinished game.  The most upsetting part is the game had the potential to totally rock the MMO world but they wasted it on things that others have been doing right for years.

I was thinking I was going to give the game another try when the PS3 version comes out but the more I think about it, the angrier this game makes me and frankly I don't think it deserves a second chance.  I can't wait for this game to fail and the servers to shut down.

Yeah I'd do the same if I were in your shoes.

I thought for a moment that Square should take in all these reviews and fix SOME of the major fail issues in FF XIV for the PS3 version but then I realised that there isn't time for Square to do that (also considering they're having a difficult time fitting the game onto the PS3).  So yeah, I wouldn't give the PS3 version a go if the PC version was abysmal.

I actually never intended to give the PS3 version a go, I was just going to install the PC version again.  Playing an MMO on a console is pretty much impossible for me since my consoles are, you know, hooked to my TV and The Wife might get a little angry if I hogged the TV all day playing a game. 

But yeah, I believe they will fix the economy issues and fixes to the terrible questing system are possible if they can admit their mistakes.  If instead of 8 30 minute quests every six hours they gave us 4 hours worth of quests every 36 hours that would be much better.  Have quests range in value from 15, 30, 45, and 60 minutes so that way those noob quests that take only 5 minutes wouldn't mean I'm done with the game for a day and half after playing an hour.

Fixing those two issues alone would go a long way towards fixing the game but sadly that wouldn't be enough.  The biggest issue by far is just the plain abysmal UI.  To fix that they need to completely scrap what they have and start over from scratch.  I really just don't see them doing that and even if they do they aren't going to get it in and polished by March.