FF14 Launch

[Souca]

So FF14 launches today for the people that bought the Collectors Edition, and I was curious who all was going to be playing, either tonight or next week when the main launch is.

Also, do we want to all try for the same server? Selbina has been suggested in a previous thread, but if someone has a good reason for a different server, let us know.

My copy will arrive sometime tomorrow, not sure why Amazon didn't send it today, and I'll be starting up a char then. Look forward to seeing you guys ingame.

- Souca -

[Naji]

Will be playing tonight just picked up the game this morning and went through all the setup (my head hurts). I would be interested in playing on a server with some others on the forums

[Hivetyrant]

Will be playing tonight just picked up the game this morning and went through all the setup (my head hurts). I would be interested in playing on a server with some others on the forums

Is the setup and regsitration as bad as the old one?

Was almost painful enough to not bother playing it!

[Naji]

Is the setup and regsitration as bad as the old one?

Was almost painful enough to not bother playing it!

was not to bad... not as simple as it should be, but much better than that playonline viewer crap.

the majority of the annoying stuff is payment options

[d0z3rr]

Probably gonna pick it up today. And God was the playonline shit terrible!!!

[Naji]

Probably gonna pick it up today. And God was the playonline shit terrible!!!

Yes it was, and support was even worse lol

anyway

im on selbina, has anyone else got it yet?

[Souca]

Just set mine up. No where near the pain Pay Online was. When you set up the account, chose Crysta as the payment type. You can change it later, but if you select Crysta you don't have to provide any more details, they just discount everything so it costs 0 Crysta during the 30 day free period.

Also, anyone besides me think the stuff in the CE is great, but the box is so cheap that they might as well just throw it away?

- Souca -

[Naji]

Also, anyone besides me think the stuff in the CE is great, but the box is so cheap that they might as well just throw it away?

Yea its got some neat stuff - the in game item is uglyyy though lol

[d0z3rr]

Was playing it some yesterday. Beautiful game. But seems slow and I have no idea what I'm doing. I managed to make it to some camp outside where you stand near a crystal and do the "leve" quests. Is that pretty much all you do in the game to level?

I started a lancer. I'd like to be a class that is rare (kinda like druids in WoW) that no one plays. Anyone have any ideas on what classes that would be?

[Souca]

Was playing it some yesterday. Beautiful game. But seems slow and I have no idea what I'm doing. I managed to make it to some camp outside where you stand near a crystal and do the "leve" quests. Is that pretty much all you do in the game to level?

I started a lancer. I'd like to be a class that is rare (kinda like druids in WoW) that no one plays. Anyone have any ideas on what classes that would be?

Slow. Perfect word. It's almost like they built lag into the UI. This is the biggest thing that is getting to me about the game and really makes things that wouldn't be a chore normally (exploring the world and talking to NPCs) utterly tedious since it takes almost 20 seconds to actual walk away from an vendor after you are done looking at the items that you can't afford.

The second biggest thing is that you have no idea what you are doing. I am level 5 and still have no clue what I should be doing in the game. I'd love to answer your question about the Leve(l?) quests, but I can't since I have no idea what I should be doing after I completed the one quest in the game.

As for rare class, I haven't seen many Lancers, but considering you just need to buy the weapon and equip it to become the class, I'm not sure there really will be a rare class. More likely there will be rare abilities as few people will get the rank 50 abilities of a class. I do think it is kind of interesting that there are just as many or more crafting/gathering classes than there are combat ones. I just hope that only having a couple of those is required and you don't end up having to grind every crafter class to do anything useful.

I'm still playing, because there are nuggets of fun, but they really did miss out on some fundemental design issues that make the game painful in ways no games needs to be.

- Souca -