FF14 Launch

[burningforce]

I played ff11 and quit after a 7 months. I basically just fished (ff11 fishing was the best ) because I got tired of grinding on the same crabs. Also got tired of having to group for everything, I thought I would have to get a group so I can get up and go to the bathroom :P

Also the ability to not be able to solo really made me despise that game. Now my question is this, how much has changed in this newer FF mmo? Seems like the same game with just updated graphics...
I tried the open beta, took me hours to download it and install, and when I get in game I could barely run it .

[Gramzngunz]

I tried FF XIV as well. I was annoyed from the point I tried to create my account. WTF are stupid "Crista" things, and why would I want to pay for my account that way. Oh yes, pay for EACH CHARACTER you want to have going. Want to try all 5 races, well that's 15 extra bucks a month! Then the stupid 3rd party they use for credit card transactions couldn't validate my damn card. It works everywhere else. Then I installed the game and did two annoying fights. Do I really have to click on my TARGETED MONSTER twice after I tell it to cast a spell EVERY TIME? Then when I clicked outside the window to check my email, the game crashed. When I logged back in, I was at the start of my quest, ready to repeat the two fights I hated that I just played. I logged off and uninstalled right then and there. I could tell from creating the account, to playing 10 minutes this game was just not for me. Nope.. not one bit. You know why? because it's a donkey boner. That's why.

[MiRai]

I tried FF XIV as well. I was annoyed from the point I tried to create my account. WTF are stupid "Crista" things, and why would I want to pay for my account that way. Oh yes, pay for EACH CHARACTER you want to have going. Want to try all 5 races, well that's 15 extra bucks a month! Then the stupid 3rd party they use for credit card transactions couldn't validate my damn card. It works everywhere else. Then I installed the game and did two annoying fights. Do I really have to click on my TARGETED MONSTER twice after I tell it to cast a spell EVERY TIME? Then when I clicked outside the window to check my email, the game crashed. When I logged back in, I was at the start of my quest, ready to repeat the two fights I hated that I just played. I logged off and uninstalled right then and there. I could tell from creating the account, to playing 10 minutes this game was just not for me. Nope.. not one bit. You know why? because it's a donkey boner. That's why.

Thank you for this amazing review.

[Ellay]

My RL friends have gotten this game and are saying the exact same issues, that it's still in beta and not ready. Though if I was SE , I would have done the same thing and released before WoW.

I would like to know more on why it's not multiboxable, are the fundamental core pieces not there? IE /Follow and /Assist?
Is it because it requires such a massive rig to even play 1 on?

[Zzc2]

I am currently 2-boxing this game. There is an auto follow, but no slash command to do it. You need to select your target, and then lock on that target, move forward and then set the auto run. There are no assist macros and no way of assisting a player. They do have a few commands like /targetnpc and /targetpc which will target the closest PC and NPC. The PC one might help unless your in a crowded area like when you are porting or in a city. The /targetnpc is not as helpful as mobs will just walk up to you, in front of you, follow you, but not aggro. It gets really annoying so the only way to do anything is clicking or cycling through targets to get the one you want.

A massive rig isn't required to play this game as all my wow machines can run it fine with lowered graphics. If you want higher end game graphics, then massive rigs are required.

Spell casting does suck too where you have to select the spell, determine if you want it to be aoe or non aoe then it casts. You can macro this too, but you cannot put macros on your main bar. You have to hit ctrl or alt to get to the macros, just like FF11.

[remanz]

I knew I should leave this thread alone. But I can't help it.


I reformated my SSD. reinstalled windows 7. OCed my i7 920 to 4.0 Ghz, OCed my GTX 295 by 20% (soooooo risky, almost fried the card, and smell the metal burning). And reinstalled FF bloody 14 and tried again.

You know what. Same result. This bloody game runs at 30 FPS period, at least for GTX 295. It lacks the support. My system is not slow. All the benchmark testing I've done, they show up fine. My single OCed GTX 295 is as fast as GTX 460 SLI in those benchmark testings. FF14 only utilizes 1 GPU (GPU2) to 99% when running, GPU1 is sitting at 3%. When I force SLI through nvidia profiler, it puts both GPU at 50% usage all the time. So my card would never operate at full capacity. Funny, even the FF14's own benchmark, utilize both of my GPUs fine. I got a score of 4100 for the FF14 benchmark, which is high enough already according to their standards. Only the real game doesn't have the support. This is just bad code.

I don't think the game has follow or assist macro. The input lag is , welll, crazy. It also crashes when you alt-tab if you are in full screen mode.

boxing though, I wouldn't say it is impossible. With multiple PCs, it is certainly possible to run a couple characters grinding mobs and stuff. But it is certainly not enjoyable. there is no PVP. I wouldn't spend a couple K on multiple PCs just to do grind some bloody rats/chicken/mules and what not.

I am truly done with this game now. 4.0.1 here I come.

[MiRai]

I knew I should leave this thread alone. But I can't help it.


I reformated my SSD. reinstalled windows 7. OCed my i7 920 to 4.0 Ghz, OCed my GTX 295 by 20% (soooooo risky, almost fried the card, and smell the metal burning). And reinstalled FF bloody 14 and tried again.

You know what. Same result. This bloody game runs at 30 FPS period, at least for GTX 295. It lacks the support. My system is not slow. All the benchmark testing I've done, they show up fine. My single OCed GTX 295 is as fast as GTX 460 SLI in those benchmark testings. FF14 only utilizes 1 GPU (GPU2) to 99% when running, GPU1 is sitting at 3%. When I force SLI through nvidia profiler, it puts both GPU at 50% usage all the time. So my card would never operate at full capacity. Funny, even the FF14's own benchmark, utilize both of my GPUs fine. I got a score of 4100 for the FF14 benchmark, which is high enough already according to their standards. Only the real game doesn't have the support. This is just bad code.

I don't think the game has follow or assist macro. The input lag is , welll, crazy. It also crashes when you alt-tab if you are in full screen mode.

boxing though, I wouldn't say it is impossible. With multiple PCs, it is certainly possible to run a couple characters grinding mobs and stuff. But it is certainly not enjoyable. there is no PVP. I wouldn't spend a couple K on multiple PCs just to do grind some bloody rats/chicken/mules and what not.

I am truly done with this game now. 4.0.1 here I come.

Well FFXI ran at 30FPS, that's what it was capped at because of the PS2 limitation [IIRC]. If you're only seeing 30FPS no matter what you do, then it's probably capped at 30 FPS just like FFXI was possibly due to it being released on console as well. There is nothing you can do about that.

Edit: Doing a quick search on FFXIV's FPS cap doesn't give me much except people asking if it will be capped just like FFXI was.

[remanz]

Nah, it is not capped at 30fps, it gets higher when there is hardly anything to render (look straight up to the sky). It can get 40-45fps. It drops down to 10-20 in the city.

Not just the frame rate, I get this shakey screen when I move also. It is like I am constantly moving up and down while I am merely moving forward. The mouse turn is also horrible. (With a gamepad, it might be acceptable). it is Sooo delayed.

Action delay is even more. There is 1 key you hit for switching between "passive mode" and "active mode" ('F' key). You hit it. 3-4 seconds later, the character will do an animation. I was amazed~. So they can't just do the local animation first, THEN send the packets to the server for confirmation. and Even if they do network round trip, it is NOT going to take 3 seconds to send a packet, is it?

[MiRai]

Even if they do network round trip, it is NOT going to take 3 seconds to send a packet, is it?

Those are international servers so JPN, US, and EU can all play together. I would bet they're hosted in Japan just like FFXI.

[remanz]

Those are international servers so JPN, US, and EU can all play together. I would bet they're hosted in Japan just like FFXI.

I think if they do that still. I would just boycott their stuff (just like what they did for Halo Reach lol). They obviously do not care about US market, which is the largest gaming market in the world. Server in Japan is not playable for us in the US.

Just look at AION, it has perfect US support. The game runs smooth, servers are all located in the US.

If they don't care about the largest video game market in the world, fine by me. There is a good reason for the steady decline of video games in Japan comparing to the fast growth of Korea and China.