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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    so is it running on bluetooth? or what?
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    Is the MMO Market imploding?

    http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/about/traffic TL;DR version. Over 600k unique visitors, last month. 6 million pageviews since the start of september. For one subreddit.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I did sunken temple today as a summoner, I can't imagine a dungeon much less favorable to a pet class than sunken temple starting with the very first boss... Then you have a pet chasing down a mob that runs at low life... then you have mobs that have to die in exact positioning or they...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Each city has newbie friendly sidequests that can take a person from 1-15. Your starter city will also have an overarching storyline quest that can also take you from 1-15 forcing you to visit each of the questhubs, but you definitely need to supplant it with either a lot of fates, a few...
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    Is the MMO Market imploding?

    Oh god, stop reading that Variety article before you get to the part where they start talking about video games... they are so out of touch and old it's cringe worthy. <old man voice> One of these days the video game industry will make a game that isn't about shooting and guns and...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    The alternative is that you have Dead servers and active servers... I'd argue that being unable to play the game is better for player retention than playing on an inactive/dead server. Psychology 101
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Just logged in again today, 7pm eastern... no queue, no lag, no server full errors... NICE
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    scumbag game developer: We can't allow you to talk to people on mounts, it would break 'immersion'; walk your mount (I giant chicken) up 100 or so steps to the top of a lighthouse;
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    This game could have easily had a slightly harsher leveling curve... I've easily outleveled the main quest by several levels at this point and I'm not grinding fates or anything... just doing the mainquest and "many" but not all side quests... Too late now, I'm sure they won't adjust it, but if...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    according to SE, they just fixed the 3102 20 minutes ago. having played in a few previous mmos, who wants to bet that the patch info reverted the previous hotfix they had done for the 3102s at launch and it was a "simple" fix of just reapplying the hotfix.
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    Dragon Age: Inquisition (Plot Details in Spoilers!)

    B, loved the changes to both warriors and blood mages.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    logged in 10 minutes ago, hit 1017 twice then got in a queue where I was 8th, took about 15 seconds after that.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Quick, flood the server before it locks again!
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I wouldn't compare WHM to the EQ plate wielding indestructible force... It's much closer to WoW, WHM is a Holy Priest (big heals and regen), SCH is more like a disc priest (bubbles and decent dps)
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Something you learned today, there are actually 2 different threat meters built into the UI. The party list shows you a traditional percentage based bar - with your current target as the focus of the length of the bars. The enemy list also has a built in threatmeter. The icons change from...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Use a real operating system? Windows XP/7 or Hell, even 8 would be better than Vista. In all seriousness though, you might want to check IE to see if it has a proxy turned on in your internet options, I remember that used to cause a problem with steam in vista too. Even if the game itself isn't...
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    Best mind blowing movie.

    Are there also aliens that decide to punish us for our pollution at the bottom of the sea in that edition?
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    Weight Loss Thread

    A) I think most of the people on this board weight more than 150lbs. The bigger you are, the more calories you'll burn. B) I'm not bragging when I say that I've never had sex last 6 minutes that their study assumed. I wish I could cum that quick. I've had sex often last for an hour, maybe 40...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Right, as the kids / dayshifters start to go to bed it'll start to get better.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I got in after 75 minutes.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    On the plus side, I do actually have fairly high hope for their server upgrades fixing things, they have been able to keep their forums up after the initial crush, so that means that, properly prepared, they know what kind of load to expect.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Today has been particularly bad, something about a holiday where people don't have to work... something like that. I tried for about 30 minutes today before I realized it was labor day and just gave up.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    it does when you can last longer than 2 minutes!
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Better analogy... Sometimes I shop at Walmart. I absolutely loathe going to Walmart at certain times of the day (around 11pm-midnight) because their store is packed with second shifters getting off work, and they don't have nearly enough cashiers on hand to handle the load. I've waited in a line...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Quick, lynch him!
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I buy things, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, I don't get too upset one way or the other. I'm not a corporate lawyer, I keep airplanes from colliding in the sky, I work at the 5th busiest air traffic control facility in the world. I make 60 dollars an hour. Sometimes it's worth my...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I play with sound on and have it in the background, when it starts queue canceling, that's when I tab back to the game and turn off the script.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Heh, seems like you figured it out on your own... it's actually not that bad now that I got the hang of it, it's really no different than having different user logins on a xbox360... it takes literally 10 seconds to switch accounts back and forth (it's literally the first thing on the ps3...
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    Best mind blowing movie.

    I can't believe no one has mentioned The Departed... Such an intense, serious, drama... to then go full wtf superviolence bordering on comedy, rivaling a Tarantino film in the last 5 minutes? Totally WTF ending.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    P.S. if you weren't such a retard, instead of wasting hours of your life trying to get a refund from multiple global corporations which have explicit no refund policies (but it's ok, you're a unique snowflake, you'll totally just be able to talk to a drone in customer support to get them to...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Ummm, I've put in probably 60 hours since open beta. My girlfriend with a 8-5 banker job (literally, working at a bank), and a 2 year old has still managed to put in about 14-15 hours into the game, mostly during "peak game hours" after putting the kid to sleep, and that's with a very low...
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    Is the MMO Market imploding?

    Really? 5 million console copies? I'll be surprised if it's anything above 1 million. Games that have been out on other platforms for a long time have traditionally done very poorly, "kids" don't want what was cool last year, they want the new hotness.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    If you have a nice computer / laptop, get the PC version (you can always play using a controller if you prefer)... If your computer is > 4 years old or has only integrated graphics on a laptop (Intel HD 3000 or older), get the PS3 version. I'm sure the PS4 version will be great when it comes...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I hope they introduce more decisions like this to the other classes (and from the comments about ACN when it was first revealed to be the way it is, my suspicion is that is the current ideal for the design team). 10k seals is a better system than 50/100g in WoW(a few minutes of dailies)... I...
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    Is the MMO Market imploding?

    This. I like level sync in ffxiv, but it does feel a little forced and arbitrary, it'd be nice if an even better solution could be created. (I'm not creative enough to think of it), But dynamic world should be the GOAL not something to be avoided.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    you already registered an early access code I'm guessing, but not the retail code? (playstation version comes in the jewel case on the back of the manual, amazon it is available under "my account -> video game downloads" or something, gmg it will list 2 seperate codes under the game... SE retail...
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    Puzzles and Dragons

    With a max leveled double astaroth devil team, you're looking at 80k hp, a full heal is obviously extremely powerful with that much hp. With astaroth lead you can also make Amon or Belial (granted, extremely rare) friends if you don't feel like grinding.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    There are 2 fixes. 1) Use an autohotkey script to spam the confirm button (default numpad zero) It will take anywhere between 5 minutes - 40 minutes to log in. There is a thread in the ffxiv subforum that will give you instructions on how to do this. (or you can just manually hit the button...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Oh, they revised their policy regarding streaming, not sure who originally talked about it or I'd quote your post: Youtube ustream and twitch partnership programs (and only those three, they are specifically named) are all allowed to stream now starting today...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I love the game... but I'd recommend people wait at least until next wednesday (or whenever their upgraded server miracle patch hits) until buying this.