FF14 Launch

[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.

[d0z3rr]

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.

Impressive.