While their managing of the 1017 error to idiocy of not having right click ignore is something that makes me wonder what morons run that part of the game , the part you say is a bad thing is a good thing for me and one reason I'm still playing it.
Yet a ton of oldschool MMOers including myself are still having a blast. Much more than any other MMO since WoW. A lot of us don't necessarily want all your WoW features. Maybe we want gameplay that harken to the EQ/DAOC era. It's nice to have that oldschool MMO feel, like a community and slower paced with actual communication, etc rather than another ADD spamfest full of elite "bros". It may not have as much content as WoW out the doors, but there is a lot of content here and a lot more coming down the pipeline.
As a game yo play casually it's decent and will last a month or two. There's just not much content yet. Player base makes wow pugs look like bleeding edge progression guilds.
It isn't nearly as rigid as 11 where you basically need a pre-set from level 15 onward. I'm still a newbie but so far it is a pretty basic run-of-the-mill MMORPG at the moment.
It's nothing like 11 since every class is designed to solo to level cap at post wow speeds. Everything except for later turn in coil is puggable but the same way any mmo is puggable. Ass tons of wasted time thanks to retards.
See I don't think there is anything oldschool about this game . I think there is a lot of tedium but there is nothing 'hardcore' about it. Questing is still hold your hand , pointing out exactly where to go. No death penalty, the only reason people want rezzes is laziness from not binding closer. Fate grinding is just that, grinding with zerging thrown in. I have shout on all the time and it's not like back in the day, when there was ongoing communication from people needing help. For being oldschool it does have WOW caveats, like duty finder, quest markers, etc. add the fact that I don't think the dungeons are all that creative.
Just man up through the onslaught of /emote quests in the beginning. It gets a bit better
The Burning Wall or whatever in Eastern Thanalan is a major example of a very poorly utilized area. Amazing looking location with like 2 quests. How many man hours went into making that area?Just man up through the onslaught of /emote quests in the beginning. It gets a bit better
For me it was 23$ well spent. I enjoyed leveling up and seeing the beautiful FF environments. I forgive some of the shittier elements because it's a Final Fantasy setting, your mileage may vary.
There's a ton of underused environments. One beautiful spot was full of yellow glowing crystals, beautiful waterfalls, cliffs, and whatnot, and I was only there for like 30 seconds, as that area literally had *1* quest.
Can you explain what sort of corporate abuse you've previously endured that has lead you to believe having your product you prepaid for taken away on mere suspicion, pending investigation, is "reasonable" rather than "fraud"?
I'd almost entirely agree. However, I think the degree of failure that has been achieved here - re-launch of a beloved franchise and breaking new territory in incompetent decision making - will be memorable for a long time.
Welcome to MMOs? This shit is common practice, that's why they get you to sign that ToS bullshit at the start, so they have the right to do whatever they want and you can't sue them for shit. They suspended suspicious accounts. They're doing further investigation to confirm these suspicious accounts are in fact gold sellers/buyers/kidnappers/satanists. If you listen to the people who were vocal about being suspended, then sure they're innocent and it's an outrage, but we don't know that.
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 every front. Shit like having one fucking item per slot for each equipment tier... I mean, this game has got to have the smallest item pool in MMORPG history, just to name an example. I think there's less than twenty pieces of gear per slot for each class, only one dungeon per tier, no real class builds, no variety whatsoever at any point in the game. Only two classes to choose from if you want to be a tank or healer - the two roles that really need diversity in order to encourage as many people as possible to play these perpetually shortage-stricken roles - and myriad other things of that nature where you have to genuinely question whether the developers ever played an MMORPG on any more than a casual basis.
I'm not saying abandon the trinity. I'm saying tune it better. Changing typical 4 man group content to 6 man group content requiring 1 tank, 1 heals, and 4dps would theoretically cut the queue time for dps in half. Its just math. And with population number being what they are, no 8 man group should need more than 1 tank either. This is more complex to tune though as this game loves off tank mechanics.
They should have made 6 man parties, I agree, but it really wouldn't have helped a whole lot. I really don't think there will ever be a solution to this, in any game. It's not that people don't play tanks because they aren't fun or can't do anything else, because in WoW, for a while my prot warrior did more dps than most dps classes, and could rapeface anyone in 1v1 pvp and in BG's. It honestly just boils down to people don't want the responsibility. Most people like semi-afk dps tunnel visioning through dungeons. It's easy, and you can tune your brain out and do it. I don't think any fun or overpowered tank mechanics in any game will ever trump this fact. That and the fact that even though every group requires 1 tank, most raids require at most 2 tanks. So even if you get a lot of tank classes, then a lot can't raid unless they can beat out the 50 other tanks who want to tank.
