FF14 Launch

[MiRai]

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.

I cannot agree that the US gaming population outweighs the Asian gaming population. Asia [KR/CN/TW] accounts for half of WoW's 12 million subscriptions if I'm not mistaken. As for Aion, they have US servers because, well, they're for US players. There are Korean and Chinese Aion servers as well if you had the client to play on them. I understand it's slightly retarded to host international servers in only one country for the entire world, but, what do you propose they should do? I'm sure they're trying to keep cost down since they aren't pulling in the amount of money that Blizzard is by any means. They could host a few servers in different countries across the world but it would just be the same thing and people would migrate to the closest server for the lowest latency. FFXI and FFXIV are games that do not require the fastest reaction time, everything is fairly slow paced. Why the menus take forever to navigate through? I really have no idea on that one.

[remanz]

Its all about the direction and decision of the company. SE certainly has the money to market/support FF14 if they wanted to.

I think,
they just made a shity game. and rushed it out before WOW expansion. They know the game would not sell well. So they refuse to put more money into marketing and operating cost (Sounds like something, the old EA would do). Compare to FF13, 14 hardly got any marketing/hype.

NCsoft on the other hand, makes better MMO.

[Zzc2]

I think 14 is saving their marketing until it launches for the PS3 in march. PC, to me, was the test launch. Get the feed back, the bugs fixed, and test the server loads. Pretty much open beta but make the players pay for it. I dont think there has been one MMO that hasnt followed that model though.

[BobGnarly]

I really wanted to like this game, but it sucks in a major way. In fact, I feel cheated because it's so bad.

Keep in mind, I've played most MMOs from launch, including "classics" like Anarchy Online. This, in terms of expectation from a 2010 MMO and their delivery on that, is rock bottom IMO. I could go on for hours, but I'll spare you and just say that I pretty much was irritated from the time I started installing the game until I quit (which, BTW, was probably 20-30 hours of gameplay over that weekend, so I gave it a good try).

It isn't just that it's not finished, or doesn't deliver what I feel a contemporary MMO should - I am pissed off because SE said this game was going to be designed from the start to be played on the PC. BULL F$*&%ING SH!T!!! Ya, I won't go on, but they broke pretty much every important promise they made, and I really resent the amount of money I paid for this game.

In fact, I've pretty much hated everything they've done lately, so for me, the SE I used to love is gone. Who knows what happened, but they are a pale shell of a once great company in my mind, and it will be a LONGGGGGGG time before I give them another dime.

Sorry for the rant that isn't particularly d-b related, but I definitely could relate to some of your posts.

[Gramzngunz]

I just want to add FF is currently rocking a 57 on metacritic, with a 4.1 user score. This game is BAD. Ever signed up for an MMO, then tried to log in and had it say "You have not purchased a character slot" or something to that effect. Thanks to FF XIV I can say I have.

[Bigfish]

Word on the street is they are banning people for using copyrighted names. Account termination banning.

[remanz]

My name is

Tigeruppercut Shroyuken


show my love to Capcom, it might get me banned. Good, this saves me the trouble or urge to upgrade my rig to prove that I can play ff14 lol.


edit: got this quote from that thread talking about banning ppl. a lot of truth in this

I think they are assuming that if you haven't cancelled your account in disgust by now, you must be a gold seller.

[Ridere]

Have to agree with ZZc2 on this one. I don't think S-E really gives a crap about the PC market. JPN players don't really give a crap about the PC market. They love consoles. I think S-E cares first and foremost about the PS3 launch, and I wouldn't even call what they released anything more than just a paid open beta.

Yah, the "follow" command offered above works. If you count manually targetting your other char, initiating an auto-run and then locking on the target a single command. Larger zones have invisible zone lines in the sense that WoW has phased content, and that will break follow.

The UI lag complained about above, with three second delays, is because all of it is stored on the server, and the server is needing to provide it to the client. I don't think it's packet transferring issues as much as it's the server itself doing crap before deciding to send back the requested information. Either way, it's retarded.

S-E maybe shot themselves in the foot by releasing the game they way they did now. I really don't know. Maybe there's a ton of JPN players waiting for PS3 launch, and the game will really take off then.

A lot of the issues right now are retarded and will get fixed. As I said before, the big question is if it's too late to recover in the public's eye and get high subscription numbers. I'd really like to play this game, as the friendships I've made in the FF MMO's are way better than the battle.net crowd that plays WoW. But if they all quit for other games, then it'd be no fun playing it by myself. haha

[MiRai]

Here is a little guide I found for FFXIV, it explains a lot of the introductory stuff.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6281676/index.html

It also contains a macro section, showing a follow macro:

/lockon
/automove

Look at the guide to see the rest of the macro commands.

[Ridere]

Bunch of update information today, to which I can't directly link, because this is the only forum I can reliably access from this computer.

But they changed the retainer system around to help encourage people to sell certain items in certain areas. They also extended the free trial by an extra 30 days as sort of a "We're sorry" gesture. They also outlined a good deal of changes that they have planned over the next two months, half of which will be available while still under the 2 month free trial period

So that's all real good. Looks like a lot of good fixes/updates in the next two months. Still think that it's a beta for PS3 release, but at least it won't be a paid beta for the month of November.