FFXIV - Likes / Dis-likes (Changes)

1. I for one, do NOT want an AH, it regulates the economy too tight, and making a decent buck becomes next to impossible without high level crafts capable of HQing items.. Sure you can farm items to make money, but nearly every NM drop worth the time spent on camping it, is already over camped as is, and it demands a high price for two reasons, and two reasons only, the drop is rare or the mob it drops from is very difficult, if not impossible to kill by a single person or a couple of people, so even IF you do get claim, you're facing one of two options..

Profits will be split, and the profit a single person makes is drastically dropped, or, you stand a very small chance of actually getting the drop, and if you don't, congratulations! You just wasted 3+ hours of your life for nothing. The other method of making money is farming items.. Again, either the drop rate isn't that great, or the mobs are heavily camped.. Then as if that wasn't enough, you have to compete with constant undercutting.

With an AH you are left with only a handful of ways to make money, though people here seem reluctant to admit that "do your research there are plenty of ways to make money" to that I say, ***. I have done my research, finding a decent way to make gil is far more difficult then it should be. However with the system that's in place now, it's much easier to make an honest buck..

2. I can't argue with the lack of content, but the lack of content isn't enough for me to agree the game should have stayed in development before release. I'm quite happy with what I have, but I was looking for a change anyways, XI is stale and dead to me. I desperately needed a new time sink and I found one..

3. Have you played retail? Menu lag has been greatly improved upon.. It's not lightning responsive like in XI, but it's no where near as bad as it used to be.

4. XI's crafting system blows donkey balls. You have 0 control, it lacks any depth what so ever, it's monotonous and tiring, boring as ***, you never forget the fact you're simply grinding through materials, and it's completely based on luck. XIV's system draws you in, lets you feel like you're actually doing something.. There's still luck involved, but choosing which synthesis method to use DOES make a difference on the outcome of the synth overall.

5. I dunno about you, but I much prefer being able to explore or get to where I'm going without having to look at a black screen every 2 damned minutes. Are you seriously going to sit there and tell me that XI's zone system is better then the openness XIV offers? I think you're just struggling to throw in extra 'negative' points.

6. If it's not your cup of tea, that's fine.. But what did you do in XI? It's not like XI at this point really offers much more to do then grind crafting or levels either (for most players anyways)... Most everyone has done the majority of missions available, and they've completed pretty much every quest they need done, there's the rare occasion you find yourself needing to do a quest you haven't yet done, but that happens 1-2 times a month TOPS, unless you're new to the game/you're building up a new character.