Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Bruman
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Is it really? Seems kinda standard for "new MMO during a new MMO drought" to me.
I mean, I'm enjoying the game and it's fun, but mechanically, it's a lot of "been there / done that". They just did a great job with the environment and setting and art style to make it feel fresh.
I'm still expecting a pretty large drop-off in 11 days when the box time is over, and even more after 2-3 months.
Kreugen
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Level breakdown includes every class per character instead of just the highest level class, derp?
I can't make out the class distribution graph. Monk is most popular? The legend is like 3 pixels and I don't see a larger version.
Anyway, have they said anything about completely solving the queue within a queue problem with instances? Because that by far is the worst shit about the game at lv50. I was in queue for AK for *145* fucking minutes (dropped for a premade) because even after you get matched with a group, you then get put into an instance queue and if anyone drops at that point, you have to re-match for your group and then you get put back into the instance queue (at the back). Someone else was up over 170 minutes for fuck's sake. This is a problem that is only going to get worse with time and should be priority #1.
At least some of these encounters are really fun. The primals are all good, and they should really make a standalone hard mode of Ultima Weapon.
I can't make out the class distribution graph. Monk is most popular? The legend is like 3 pixels and I don't see a larger version.
Anyway, have they said anything about completely solving the queue within a queue problem with instances? Because that by far is the worst shit about the game at lv50. I was in queue for AK for *145* fucking minutes (dropped for a premade) because even after you get matched with a group, you then get put into an instance queue and if anyone drops at that point, you have to re-match for your group and then you get put back into the instance queue (at the back). Someone else was up over 170 minutes for fuck's sake. This is a problem that is only going to get worse with time and should be priority #1.
At least some of these encounters are really fun. The primals are all good, and they should really make a standalone hard mode of Ultima Weapon.
Bruman
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It doesn't fix the issue, but I've pretty good luck rolling the dice with "join an in progress" for AK. Lots of time only 1 dps was still in there, and within 2 minutes the tank pops in (I'm a healer), and we finish the dungeon just fine, get our stones.
I mean sure, sometimes the clock might be low and a wipe on the boss means you can't finish, or you get in and some jackass picked "find replacements" even though the dungeon is finished, but I usually get in a dungeon in 3-15 minutes, as opposed to 2-3 hour bullshits.
Also seconding the "Ultima Weapon as a standalone fight".
I mean sure, sometimes the clock might be low and a wipe on the boss means you can't finish, or you get in and some jackass picked "find replacements" even though the dungeon is finished, but I usually get in a dungeon in 3-15 minutes, as opposed to 2-3 hour bullshits.
Also seconding the "Ultima Weapon as a standalone fight".
One reason I'd say those numbers are decent is that it's not a f2p game like most have been launching as or changing to lately.
Low cost (30 ish ) box fee plus a sub.
Games like Neverwinter and SWTOR (after f2p )claim 2 million users - most paying nothing , some with multiple free accounts- others made and account tried for a day and never went back etc.
Not claiming ridiculous things like wow killer - but one million plus unique logins and still selling well ( I nightly see brand new folks in game asking questions after they just bought it ) is pretty decent for a box price plus sub game these days.
Low cost (30 ish ) box fee plus a sub.
Games like Neverwinter and SWTOR (after f2p )claim 2 million users - most paying nothing , some with multiple free accounts- others made and account tried for a day and never went back etc.
Not claiming ridiculous things like wow killer - but one million plus unique logins and still selling well ( I nightly see brand new folks in game asking questions after they just bought it ) is pretty decent for a box price plus sub game these days.
Caved and bought some gil, not a huge amount but hopefully enough to last me until dailies or something.
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It's obvious they put a limit on how many slots one dungeon can take up on the Instance Servers, to prevent a single dungeon from taking up all or the majority of the available slots. Amdapor Keep should have more slots available to it than say Brayflox's, but maybe they need to adjust it more. Maybe after they upgrade the hardware again they can remove the restriction completely.
Basically on Mondays/Tuesdays after Myth stone reset they don't want the Duty/instance server to be overloaded with just AK instances - it would affect other players from having the best possible experience running story missions and stuff.
500k was 10bux, lowest i could buy.Asking for a friend....
what rate did you pay? if/when you get banned, let me know
In 11 they came down hard on both seller and buyer. And they banned in big waves, on a quarterly basis.
Kreugen
Vyemm Raider
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This still makes no sense. What good does it do to cap one instance while others are available? Load balancing is not that difficult a concept. Sure, if ALL the slots are taken up, then everyone starts to get a wait time - but it likely would never reach the level that we're already seeing for AK. And if it did, they'd have to add hardware.
The entire backend system of the game is a giant pile of shit and there's no excuse for it. This is the worst run MMO I have ever played.
I will not sub until I see things like this change. Or at least a statement that they are working on something that will eliminate this problem before it starts showing up in every high level instance.
Bit of a followup though, I did end up cancelling my order because the delivery guy got all huff puffy because i forgot to include my surname and wouldn't give me my money.Asking for a friend....
what rate did you pay? if/when you get banned, let me know
currently sitting at like 8k gil and its killing my motivation to play. Everything i do costs me money, and i aint fucking making any.
ZyyzYzzy
RIP USA
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Reserving an instance is so annoying with limited play time. Instead of being able to do 2-3 ak runs I can do 1 at night when I log in.
Shit is ridiculous since CM premades aren't an option because I'm not relic+1 and full DL (also ridiculous that people boot you out for not insanely overgearing a face roll dungeon)
Shit is ridiculous since CM premades aren't an option because I'm not relic+1 and full DL (also ridiculous that people boot you out for not insanely overgearing a face roll dungeon)
ZyyzYzzy
RIP USA
- 25,295
- 48,789
Reserving an instance is so annoying with limited play time. Instead of being able to do 2-3 ak runs I can do 1 at night when I log in.
Shit is ridiculous since CM premades aren't an option because I'm not relic+1 and full DL (also ridiculous that people boot you out for not insanely overgearing a face roll dungeon)
Shit is ridiculous since CM premades aren't an option because I'm not relic+1 and full DL (also ridiculous that people boot you out for not insanely overgearing a face roll dungeon)