Now that we're in Open Beta, what do you think?

[Asytra]

I enjoy it. I love to walk around and take in the sights.

 

My issues though..

 

I NEED RP. Need it. And one person trying the beta who was interested in RP'ing with me decided not to because there wasn't around room to type out anything meaningful. This character limit on what we can say in a single message is ridiculously small. There is no room to form a coherent thought, nevermind a small paragraph.

 

 

Synthesis needs a tutorial.

 

 

The entire UI really needs an overhaul and some degree of customization.

 

 

I have no idea what monsters I can fight and which will do 2500 damage to me in a single shot if I so much as look at them wrong.

 

Yes the small chat area is a bit bothersome and I don't think there is any way to /emote an action. I'm used to /emoting a paragraph in prose form with not just dialogue but facial and b ody movements. Kind of impossible here :\

 

I don't mind the learning curve for crafting. I like that it seems like recipes are hidden and you need to do some experimenting to make things. Besides there will be sites that will have recipes on them. I'm thinking about making a cookbook myself. If you do the first local guildleves it does actually give you a tutorial, it just does it all in the chatbox.

 

Yes UI customization and eliminating UI and mouse lag. Waiting 30 seconds for a menu to pop up when you are crafting is inexcusable.

 

There is something of a con system, I think something when you target them is supposed to show up red, but I'm not sure what it is, only overhead this from someone else.

[Pippa]

Well, I'll give you a bit of my history and then explain my thoughts on FFXIV.

 

I've been MMO-gaming since 2002 and I have played pretty much every MMO there is. I have a few favorites and I have a few that I absolutely detest, one of which happens to be FFXI. I played that from launch until a few months in and then of course on and off over the years to see what they've done with the place.

 

Unfortunately I never got very far in the game because there were several things I just couldn't stand about it. I hated the fact that it took forever to tweak the graphics and that it was such a process and even then I couldn't make them look anywhere near as nice as some of the screenshots I've seen (and I've always played games on a top of the line machine). The keyboard controls, and I'm sure most will agree with me, were horrible and really hard to get used to. Last but not least the combat was mind numbingly slow. During the time it would take to kill a goat or a goblin, I could have popped out three kids. It was just not my type of game.

 

Then in comes FFXIV beta and of course since its a new MMO I had already pre-ordered the CE. It doesn't matter that I hated its predecessor, I feel I'm pretty open minded when it comes to games and I like to give them all their fair shot.

 

So far, I can tell you that from the minute I loaded up the game I was already liking it. I felt like the character creation (comparing of course only to FFXI) was such a better process. I love the fact that there are actually more than three looks per class and that you can customize your character a lot more than you could in the past. I've spent hours so far in character creation just checking out the different looks you can create.

 

Sidenote: More hairstyles, in my opinion, are desperately needed especially in the way of the Lalafell. Four hairstyles is simply not enough to distinguish ourselves from one and other. I'd prefer 8-10. Just my thoughts on that.

 

Graphics are visually stunning, especially compared to anything on the market right now. I feel that it gives AoC and LotRO a run for their money, big time.

 

Sidenote: I do have one annoying problem, maybe someone reading can tell me what the heck to do. I have an ATI Radeon HD 5870 and the darn game keeps tearing. It obviously needs Vsync & Triple Buffering but I have no idea (new to ATI) how to enable these for the game. It does not work the same way as it does for Nvidia cards.

 

This time I've hooked up an Xbox360 controller (after fiddling with the keyboard/mouse for a bit). That definitely improves gameplay by a good 99%. It makes it easier to move around, target, kill, etc. It just makes the entire experience so much better.

 

As far as combat goes this time around, I feel like it is vastly improved. It's much speedier than it was in FFXI and that will help me, personally, to stick with the game a heck of a lot longer than I did in FFXI. I feel like when I hit a skill its actually doing something and I don't feel like I'm waiting 10 years to hit the mob.

 

The cities are also really improved. Aside from the instancing into NPC dialog, I've really not experienced any form of instancing. I'm wondering, at this point, if there even is any? I would have to assume there is, but I have yet to stumble across any.

 

There is one major downside so far that I've noticed and thats the chat box. The chatbox is astronomically small and the print is way too big for such a small box. They really need to rework that, pronto. That is going to make RPing very agitating especially if more than one person is speaking at a time.

 

Overall, vast improvement over FFXI. I do think they've learned some things from their time making & managing that one.

 

There are definitely things that could use polishing and there are several issues here and there, but overall I think they have a solid product to work with and I'm very excited to see where they go from here.

 

My apologies for my book, but... well this is what I think!

[Satisiun]

WALL OF WORDS I'm not even reading because I'm only responding to this post because ...

 

... TERANU! :cheer:

[berdyne]

So far I think the game looks good. Iâm not terribly impressed by menu navigation, or the hoops you have to jump to just to change jobs. And right now because you are only able to do guild leveâs for leveling or just grind itâs turning into an issue. If anyone knows how to do local levels I would love to know they let you pick them up but right now they look grayed out and unusable.

[Lunaticked]

Yes the small chat area is a bit bothersome and I don't think there is any way to /emote an action. I'm used to /emoting a paragraph in prose form with not just dialogue but facial and b ody movements. Kind of impossible here :\

 

 

/em and /emote work, but you still gotta pretend to be an ADD twitter user with your words.

[Samriel]

Seems a lot of people got the same opinion, mostly about the UI .. Am I the only one who doesn't feel much for the game? Even after many playtime now, I just don't get ''that feeling'' for it. So, think I'm going to let this game pass me for the while. I'll keep my eyes on it because I feel kinda bad that I don't like it, maybe when the official release is here and they had a new big patch or something, maybe some little things change to give me ''that feeling''.

 

One thing that will really convince me though and I hope they give it to us <3

 

Male Miqo'te, without bodybuilder bodies. Then I will turn around and jump into the game right away.