It's so incredibly stupid to bother typing this. I'm not defending shit but fucking think about things for your god damn selves. Try to follow "This is stupid." with an internal "I wonder what decisions and circumstances led to something this stupid." before spouting meaningless statements. Bonus story about my weekend if you read to the end.
"Why is there no content square spent so much time remaking the game!"Remaking the game.I'm sure there are exceptions but every square inch of the game world I have personally explored barring the cities(which were changed in numerous ways themselves) is new. Zones were scrapped entirely and redone. They rebuilt the world. They populated it. They wrote a new story line. They made new quests. They scrapped or redid the questing system, the leveling system, the combat system, the abilities of every class, the social systems, the crafting system, the entire leve concept, every single thing in this game beyond art assets which were added to and often reworked.
They built an entirely new mmo on top of a framework of art assets and basic concepts that were too enmeshed to be removed. It would have been easier to start fresh in my eyes. Who is building new zones? Not the people starting from scratch with the zone right outside the god damn city. Who is coming up with new mechanics for end game dungeons? Not the people building and balancing an entirely new combat system. Make your own examples.
This isn't the 90's. This isn't the early 00's. There will never be another game released with the mystery and content to explore of vanilla everquest. There will never be another game released with the content, quality, and attention to detail of vanilla WoW. Making these games is a job. You have to pay someone to do a job. You have to pay a lot more money to pay someone who is extremely good at doing a job. There is a finite number of both types of people as well as money to pay them. There is a finite period of time where you can pay those people before you run out of that money. Give me thirty years and 10 billion dollars and I will you a game with those qualities and enough content to last those of us who consume it at an... above average pace ten years without seeing and doing everything. We can call that game the ten billion dollar way to not make a profit and piss away thirty years.
There a lot of things wrong with FFXIV. There are even more things that could have been done better. Is it a good game? I don't think it is. It's an okay game. I enjoyed it for what it is and I'm probably going to log in once I post this since I have hundreds of better things to do but lack either the ability, need, or desire to do them. I've come to terms with the fact that the mmo genre is not the same as it was ten years ago and neither is my life or desires. If I had a choice between reliving my experience with EQ or my experience with WoW I would choose to put a gun in my mouth and spray my brains against the wall instead.
Play a game. Stop when it's not fun anymore. Then do something else. Don't piss and moan for a fucking week on a message board about how it's so god damn stupid and unbelievable that you have to run AK 70 times to attain a level of gear that helps but is not necessary to get to a zone you are going to run SEVENTY GOD DAMN TIMES AS WELL. Seriously. God forbid you spend 70 hours of your time doing one thing over and over. Like farming MC. Or BWL. Or AQ. Or farming Lucid Shards. Or learning NToV. Or figuring out exactly what the god damn shit is going on in this awful, awful zone in PoM. Or jacking off. Or anything else in the world. If you don't enjoy it don't do it.
Take your dumbass female coworker out drinking with your friend to put her in a situation where she is probably going to cheat on her piece of shit locked up boyfriend because it will be absolutely hilarious to you if she does and she would be better off without his worthless ass so no harm done. Because despite being stupid as hell and naive as a newborn she's sweet and decent enough to look at and could probably make a nice but deaf and kinda stupid guy somewhere happy. And they could have extra-retard, deaf babies. That's what I did instead of play FFXIV last weekend. Had a way better time. Although she waited till Tuesday to cheat on him and it wasn't with my ex-coworker/friend so it wasn't nearly as funny as it could have been. Partial victory but I'll take it.
"Why is there no content square spent so much time remaking the game!"Remaking the game.I'm sure there are exceptions but every square inch of the game world I have personally explored barring the cities(which were changed in numerous ways themselves) is new. Zones were scrapped entirely and redone. They rebuilt the world. They populated it. They wrote a new story line. They made new quests. They scrapped or redid the questing system, the leveling system, the combat system, the abilities of every class, the social systems, the crafting system, the entire leve concept, every single thing in this game beyond art assets which were added to and often reworked.
They built an entirely new mmo on top of a framework of art assets and basic concepts that were too enmeshed to be removed. It would have been easier to start fresh in my eyes. Who is building new zones? Not the people starting from scratch with the zone right outside the god damn city. Who is coming up with new mechanics for end game dungeons? Not the people building and balancing an entirely new combat system. Make your own examples.
This isn't the 90's. This isn't the early 00's. There will never be another game released with the mystery and content to explore of vanilla everquest. There will never be another game released with the content, quality, and attention to detail of vanilla WoW. Making these games is a job. You have to pay someone to do a job. You have to pay a lot more money to pay someone who is extremely good at doing a job. There is a finite number of both types of people as well as money to pay them. There is a finite period of time where you can pay those people before you run out of that money. Give me thirty years and 10 billion dollars and I will you a game with those qualities and enough content to last those of us who consume it at an... above average pace ten years without seeing and doing everything. We can call that game the ten billion dollar way to not make a profit and piss away thirty years.
There a lot of things wrong with FFXIV. There are even more things that could have been done better. Is it a good game? I don't think it is. It's an okay game. I enjoyed it for what it is and I'm probably going to log in once I post this since I have hundreds of better things to do but lack either the ability, need, or desire to do them. I've come to terms with the fact that the mmo genre is not the same as it was ten years ago and neither is my life or desires. If I had a choice between reliving my experience with EQ or my experience with WoW I would choose to put a gun in my mouth and spray my brains against the wall instead.
Play a game. Stop when it's not fun anymore. Then do something else. Don't piss and moan for a fucking week on a message board about how it's so god damn stupid and unbelievable that you have to run AK 70 times to attain a level of gear that helps but is not necessary to get to a zone you are going to run SEVENTY GOD DAMN TIMES AS WELL. Seriously. God forbid you spend 70 hours of your time doing one thing over and over. Like farming MC. Or BWL. Or AQ. Or farming Lucid Shards. Or learning NToV. Or figuring out exactly what the god damn shit is going on in this awful, awful zone in PoM. Or jacking off. Or anything else in the world. If you don't enjoy it don't do it.
Take your dumbass female coworker out drinking with your friend to put her in a situation where she is probably going to cheat on her piece of shit locked up boyfriend because it will be absolutely hilarious to you if she does and she would be better off without his worthless ass so no harm done. Because despite being stupid as hell and naive as a newborn she's sweet and decent enough to look at and could probably make a nice but deaf and kinda stupid guy somewhere happy. And they could have extra-retard, deaf babies. That's what I did instead of play FFXIV last weekend. Had a way better time. Although she waited till Tuesday to cheat on him and it wasn't with my ex-coworker/friend so it wasn't nearly as funny as it could have been. Partial victory but I'll take it.
