Final Fantasy XIV Major Patches Detailed

I honestly would have given would have bought this game and given it a try if it had been distributed via digital download. I just wasn't enthusiastic enough to actually go to the store and pick up a copy and then have to worry about where I put that disk and any information that I might need. Maybe that's lazy, but the way I see it, I came out ahead. I didn't waste money on a crappy game.

Square Enix should have just waited til the game was finished, maybe even have released the PC version alongside the PS3 version in 2011. It's simply a fact of the market that no MMO truly comes back from a bad launch. Now Square Enix have a messy unfinished game, with Cataclysm right around the corner. The subscriber count is going to plummit.

Still playing it and mostly loving it! As are a few thousand folk on my server. Game really isn't as bad as the sensationalists make out.

Im currently playing and plan to stick with it. I can play for an hour or two, do my levequests and lvl up well enough. I am mainly a crafter and ATM I think that is who the game is catering to. If you're a crafting whore, this game will rule your world.

So, you can't jump in this game right?

Don't play a lick of any mmos, but damn the pix are good looking.

My coworkers and friends made fun of me for picking up the CE of this game, without knowing anything about it. I admit, it might have been foolish. But I wanted to enjoy this game so much. After playing for several hours and trying to get used to the flow of things, I got REALLY frustrated. There are things that are missing that should be standard in ANY PC game (i.e. keybinding). Yes, this game has it, but only for certain things. Any menu you want to use, you have to go through the Main Menu to get to. This is dumb. I should be able to keybind my inventory menu, among other things. Also, you can only interact with world objects by bringing up the Main Menu. Again, dumb. I should be able to click it and do what I want (I see these things are in the patch notes and I'm happy). There were other things that made me stop playing this game after 2-3 weeks. But, as they are now going to be fixed, I will more than likely give the game another go.

Also, one thing that frustrated me was people saying "this game was built for the console". I tried to use a controller, and you know, combat isn't really very intuitive for this. It's way too slow. You have to move up and down you're action bar to select an ability, and then depending on that ability, you have to "re-target" your target. That's just silly. 3-5 seconds on the controller to do said action (and that's being generous), versus 2 clicks of the mouse which take maybe 1-2 seconds (if you're slow). I just don't see how this is "built for consoles" when it's so horribly slow to use controllers.

...looks like the 2011 patch will bring it to what people were hoping for at release.

I wanted to like this so bad. I grew to like FF XI and even after I grew older and have a family and no more link shell anymore, the game holds a special place in my MMO loving heart.

But this game was a travesty upon release for what was promised. I heard that it would be a much more single-player friendly experience and to be fair it is. But the friendliness and intuitiveness does not match common day MMO expectations. You don't have to be WoW, but anyone who ignores the lessons it continues to teach will not work.

The interface is not easy to navigate and the input lag is horrible (and I am on a T1 line with a good GTX card so I know it isn't me.) The tutorial storyline you go through is not easy to follow. You never know how much you miss a pop-up dialogue box for an NPC until they try to cram the text for the NPC into your chat/status text window along with everything else.

In this day and age for an MMO to be profitable beyond the niché you have to learn to take the mainstream lessons and adapt them and make them your own. FF XIV seems mired in the past without any care about the future of the genre. I will hope for the best in the upcoming patches and when the PS3 version launches I will give it another go.

I stopped playing until the patches so that it will be more enjoyable to lvl.

Depending on how these patches go, I might actually pick it up.

i can't wait to open shacknews.com and for it to say: Black Ops Patch Coming, Details.