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Races aren't really leagues. By league I mean a semi-permanent ladder, like the Onslaught one and whatever the others are called. The ones they're doing are just so bland and don't really offer a new gameplay experience, so it really defeats the purpose aside from being an economic reset button.

Is there some reason they refuse to make a self-found league? There's a huge demand for it, they have the perfect opportunity to provide something people have wanted for ages but the genre has previously been unable to provide, and it would take some pressure off of them with regard to RMT by...

It's starting to be a bit stupid how long it's taking them to reach open beta. For a game where playing the beta is a huge, persistent advantage once the game launches, they're really fucking things up. Week after week after week where people who have access can amass cards and other resources...

God, the console version is just so broken. Each difficulty iseasierthan the last because you find a legendary with your class' main stat on it every five minutes. Normal is okayish, nightmare is easier than normal, hell is easier than nightmare, and inferno is easier than hell. It's so...

You mean like huge numbers of players having their gil confiscated, RMT prices dropping by 50% per week, and S-E having to urgently blanket-suspend every player with more than 8mil on them?

It's new. That's pretty much it. The biggest problem with WoW these days is that nothing you do is special, you're just one in a million doing the same thing as everyone else and nobody gives a flying fuck because there's nothing impressive about it. A new MMORPG is the opposite, that's why...

It's not some officially announced feature, but every game has a minimum effective latency due to netcode and such. FFXIV's effective latency has been estimated to be 300ms, largely due to being built with consoles in mind. The game has notoriously slow client-server communication by design...

For one thing, the game basically has a built-in 300ms latency. That alone qualifies as pretty fucking unresponsive. There's also a very noticeable desynch between visuals and application of associated effects. All skills are animation-locked, causing not only sluggish controls but also...

Even the shittiest game has players who think it's awesome. There are long threads about this on the official forums and no shortage of in-game evidence of rampant cheating. For someone raging over "something some guy says on a forum," you provide even less justification for your denial...

The content isn't really there for this to work out, honestly. The first half of Act 1 is crap and mostly empty, most of Act 2 sucks ass and the outdoor desert parts are both inefficient and hideous, and Act 4 is so short and has such shitty mob types that farming it is pointless. Act 3 is the...

Wow. Tragic. This game showed promise at first glance but is speeding so rapidly towards failure that it's just depressing. Scratch the surface anywhere and you quickly realize just how plain incompetent the developers are. Like they've only just managed to get some grasp on the art of...

The main reason most MMORPGs in the last six years have failed is because they tried to innovate the genre. That's very different from simply designing a game where every feature and aspect of gameplay is worse than the main competitor. A game like GW2, for instance, isn't expected to deliver...

My faith in a miracle patch is nil. They've made so many mistakes that scream "we haven't got the slightest clue what makes a good MMORPG" that them suddenly figuring it out in a couple of months, when they couldn't in like eight years over the course of two launches, is a pipe dream.

They have different stats, you need to mix and match in order to get the best gear. You also need three weeks worth of stones for each +1 relic you want, which for most people is at the very least two.

No. Maybe your second one you can quest your way through if you didn't knock out too many on your first go, but other than that, nothing else is even half as quick as leeching FATEs for two days. You can get like 3-4 levels per hour but it barely counts as playing the game, you just ride with...

What they need to do is make it so you get a decent amount of gil from dungeons. It currently costs money to do dungeons, so people willneverdo it just for fun even if they might otherwise have. It's just one of the many signs of how the developers clearly lack rudimentary understanding of how...

Personally, I did some of Coil but that had nothing to do with my quitting. Well, technically part of the reason was that my chosen class turned out to be barely viable in Coil and yet the lead developer insisted it's fine and I'm just a bad player along with everybody else who plays that class...

Yeah, I never pay attention to it anyway. I maintain that it isn't possible to tell a meaningful story to an audience where everybody has to be the main character but can see all the other identical heroes running around right in front of them. Stories are for single-player games where it can be...

Sojourn! Hardcoded factions only really work well when the game is thriving, though. As soon as it isn't, it's just a hindrance to gameplay. One of the factions will inevitably lose more members than the other(s) and then they start to lose even more just because they don't have enough to do...

All they need to do is implement stuff in the mid-levels that matter in the long term. Most of the reason Everquest's journey felt meaningful was that the rewards didn't just become obsolete five levels later. Around level 30 you could get gear that you'd use literally until/throughout the...

It'll be particularly stupid when the 24-man raid content is released, but in the opposite extreme. WoW already had a problem with the transition from group to raid formats because tank demands went from 1:5 to 2:25, sometimes with a third off-tank on certain fights. In FF14, it'ssixparties to a...

The thing is that aside from their hamfisted handling of RMT and their baffling failure to provide regional servers located in their actual region, their mistakes aren't really gigantic. This isn't some Warhammer-esque disaster movie, they've simply managed to make a game that falls short on...

The game genuinely feels like the precursor to WoW. They're ten years behind the MMORPG times and have inexplicably opted to revert many of the genre's fundamental features to how they were before Blizzard improved them. I can't mention a single point where FFXIV delivers to expected standards...

The novelty wore off for me. All the surrounding frameworks of the game are just too much of a step backwards or simply too poorly designed. A lot of the game's features belong ten years ago, and the console-catering 2.5 second GCD is just too much of a blow to endure in the long term. Coupled...

The problem was always that they designed the entire game to nearly force you to use the AH. You could technically play without doing it, but it was such a futile and blatantly unintended experience that the deliberate AH dependecy was very obvious as soon as you got to inferno with a self-found...

There's a 24-man raid zone coming in the next fucking content patch in two months, calm your tits. Normal people are still grinding out their Darklight/relic shit. Developers won't cater to your unhealthy, obsessive gaming habits.

The worst of the several Warhammer Online billing scandals even made it toCNN.

There were like one or two servers left. It only had the small handful of weirdos who will play even the most hopelessly terrible game just because it's associated with something they like; Warhammer, in this case. I believe there were four dungeons or something, and they were extremely basic...

You can play most other games without even trying to stay with your team. Like you can literally ignore them and go solo. It takes nothing to play an fps or moba game. How far are you going to get in an mmo if you completely ignore the existence of your party? Playing an mmorpg with any kind...

Other online games are far worse. The only reason it feels bad in MMORPGs is because you have to interact with people in so many ways. If you had to deal with and depend on other players so directly in games such as CoD, it would be unbearable. That's to say nothing of games like LoL where the...

So is skill speed just a worthless stat or what? I tried to stack a fair bit of it because it happened to be on a number of extra gear pieces I had lying around, and it gave basically no benefit despite wearing almost a full set of it. We're talking less than a quarter of a second off of the GCD...

It's over 4500 tomestones for a full set of Darklight armor and 900 for relic. At 80/run, it adds up to 69 runs, although you can probably shave off one run due to the stones you get from the storyline quest and doing Ifrit a few times or whatever. At around 45 minutes per run, this adds up to...

This was only ever acceptable because the pre-levelcap content could be rewarding. I doubt we'll ever see that again. No modern MMORPG will be designed so that items you get at level 30 can be highly useful (or utterly crucial, as they often were in EQ) at the maximum level. Without this...

Any educated guesses as to whether the first class balance patch will hit before or after 2.1?

This needs to be made into a sitcom.

Just got the ilvl60 tank chest from AK and it's a fucking red dress. A red motherfucking sundress with a pleated skirt. What is wrong with these Japanese developers?

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They could straight up change the group sizes to 6/12/24 instead of 4/8/24 right now without needing to change anything else, honestly. Fights in this game are so painfully slow, it takes like 10+ minutes of just endlessly wailing on a boss to kill it because people do 100 DPS and the bosses...

I looked at some streams and I don't get what the big deal is. It's like Magic for little children, extremely dumbed down and with only the most fundamental TCG mechanics. The gameplay is so utterly primitive and straight-forward. I guess anything by Blizzard is going to get a lot of attention...

I think he genuinely thought he could make a great server and that he has such an unhealthy ego that he assumed it would be great no matter what. He really does seem like he thinks he's fucking amazing and that anyone who doesn't feel the same way is just clueless/trolling. Whatever the case...