My problems with Final Fantasy XIV

[twesterm]

Rob-Ot said:

twesterm said:

I pretty much agree.  The game had so much potential and had so many people wanting it (FF fans, FFXI fans, people who wanted an MMO on PS3, and people who wanted a new fantasy MMO) and FFXI was an amazing first try...but then they released that unfinished mess.

About the only thing the game succeeded at was making a good looking game, with everything else it just fell flat on its face.  It had some good ideas but just executed everything as poor as possible.  I'm still shocked that they even released it.

Where was the potential? I believe major mistakes were made on the ground level as well as some mistakes that can be rectified, I never saw much potential.

The leve system was interesting, or at least a different take on the quest system.  It's cool that you can have one quest with variable difficulty and rewards.  It's just a shame that every quest was the exact same thing and if you can one shot the enemy at the lowest level, you can still one shot it at the highest level.  When I played at least, it only really affected how hard the enemy hit.

The other thing that had great potential was the job system with how you could switch at any time and even build your own jobs by mixing and matching skills.  It was a pretty revelutionary idea that could have completely changed the way we play but, like Wagram said, the jobs all played the same and the skills just weren't that interesting.  Add onto the general UI failings and how aggrevating it was to setup and switch jobs, it just failed.

FFXIV could have truly been a great game, they just really rushed it out and released it about six months too early.  It had amazing potential, they just didn't pay attention to what any other MMO, including FFXI, did right and just tried to do everything on their own.  It's not a surprise everything in the game failed as hard as it did.

::resists urge to rant on the game::