Well, I think the most pressing content issue in FFXIV is the lack of low level content. Every other MMO I've played has opened with a lot of low and mid level content, leaving the high end for later. That's usually a good bet, as most players don't stick with a game for very long, and the nature of MMOs means that a lot of low level content helps you get good reviews. I can't recall a single MMO I've played short of EQ1 (which has always had content issues, in a sense) that had such a weak early game experience as FFXIV. Sure, the intro quests are good, but... that's the end of it. In EQ2 at launch, you could go quite a ways before you hit the "everything worth doing requires a group" barrier, and CoH could be soloed with missions only into the low 20s or early 30s (depending on XP debt). Even Earth and Beyond, which was notable for lacking content, had non-random missions into the 50s, which was at least a month of play. I can't conceive of what possessed SE to release the game with such little content and an abysmally poor economy implementation -- other than a desire to launch before Cataclysm. That's a big mistake, seeing how chasing WoW is never an effective strategy.
I've got hope SE will fix up the game. These recent patches show they're committed to making it into what it needed to be at launch. I won't be paying them to do it, though.
I still get a kick out of the "worst MMO ever made" statements. These people never played Lineage 2? Anarchy Online? Neocron? Matrix Online? Geez, you'd think WoW was the only MMO these reviewers had ever seen...
I've got hope SE will fix up the game. These recent patches show they're committed to making it into what it needed to be at launch. I won't be paying them to do it, though.
I still get a kick out of the "worst MMO ever made" statements. These people never played Lineage 2? Anarchy Online? Neocron? Matrix Online? Geez, you'd think WoW was the only MMO these reviewers had ever seen...
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