(02-22-2015, 09:53 PM)Naunet Wrote:(02-22-2015, 02:03 PM)Verranicus Wrote: You can't even compare it to WoW as Naunet seems to love doing, because not only is this game more advanced (and thus takes up way more storage space right from the get-go than cartoony and rapidly more dated looking WoW), but each class/job on our single character takes up the equivalent of a whole character on WoW or any other standard MMO. So while I may only have Yehn'za here, the fact that I've levelled every class to 50 means I'm actually using the space of 12+ characters right there.
Oh boy. It's not just WoW, you know that, right? (Though you seem to think I have some sort of love affair with that game... I haven't played it in... 3+ years.) Every other MMO I've touched out there manages to run their servers better such that any creation restrictions that may ever come up are not nearly so obnoxious and pervasive.
That you think XIV is so very much more "advanced" than WoW (or any other MMO... many of which are much "bigger" than XIV) is rather funny, though. This game doesn't even have high resolution textures, and it's certainly not the only MMO out there with smooth, realistic models.
You're not using the "space" of 12+ characters, though. You have a bunch of gear in your inventory. That is NO different than someone in any other MMO who keeps a bunch of gear in their inventory. Are you concerned about the storage space of, what, your spells? Say hi to Rift!
There's really no reason to try and excuse SE. They've got crappy servers. That's pretty much it. They need to invest in better ones.
Well honestly, out of all the MMO's out there, FFXIV, and SE, have proven themselves to be the best in my opinion. And honestly, you do often come off as pretty hateful of SE. There are plenty of developers out there that deserve a lot of harsh criticism, such as EA, who has been making a habit of nickel and dimming their customers and releasing extremely buggy, half baked piles of dodo feces.Â
And Activision-Blizzard, who have dumbed down their one MMO to the point of laughability, and for the price of 3 expansions, you can bypass all the other content to be near the end goal. In fact as a whole, the gaming industry is heading for a crash on a scale like the 80's. But I feel Square-Enix, will be just fine. Games like WoW are hemorrhaging subscribers. ESO is shifting into a Free to Play as have many other american based MMO's. But FFXIV? We seem to be getting pretty popular, and as the worlds fill up, we end up with these restrictions.
SE isn't perfect. Their handling for example, of the hundreds of black mage bot squads is a good example of a failure. And it is them bots, that is contributing the most to server restrictions. But still, they are not as bad as many American based developers, and it quite frankly, is American based game developers that are dragging the gaming industry towards the inevitable crash.
