ff14 need to step on their ego and shorten the GCD before i give it another try (third)
im not dealing with twice the GCD . it literally makes me impatient and angry.
Additionally… FFXIV developers are actually listening to their playerbase. The “transmog/glamour is the endgame”-crowd aren’t second-class citizens. As the belt does not contribute to this facet of gameplay, and in fact makes it annoying when belts drop rather than something that gives you a new look, they simply removed them entirely.
And it makes it easier for others to get geared up.
Wins all around.
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Only 4 allied races don’t have a starting zone.
Mechagnomes, Lightforged Draenei, Highmountain Tauren, Void elves, Nightborne and Dark iron all do have their own starting zones.
FFXIV’s early game is absolute trash in this regard. It feeds you all the abilities on the GCD first, then at level 50 or so starts dealing all the off-GCD abilities that you weave in-between and actually give you a full kit that isn’t mind-numbing.
I don’t blame anyone who can’t make it to that point, though.
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They have a “home” zone. They don’t have starting zones, complete with quests, to get your character started.
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Wasn’t exactly much money to be made after 1.0…
I mean tbf, you can say the same exact thing to other pre-cata starting zones too. Just leave and never think twice about them.
Oh wow look ANOTHER, ff post
Citation on that?
You could make the argument for Gnomes and Trolls. The rest had thematically-appropriate content for the first 15-20 levels of your specific race’s journey. If you wanted to go elsewhere, you had that freedom in the past, but that doesn’t change the fact that they had zones designed for starter experiences for those specific races.
It was a complete flop at release to the point that they suspended all subscription payments because they legitimately felt awful for making people pay for this drivel. And that was with a speculated $120 million development cost.
You might argue sunken cost fallacy, but if you’ve been paying attention this whole time, you can see that it was solely wounded pride and passion that drove the development of the game from thereon.
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The argument presented here was “allied races don’t even have a starter zone”, and that’s only true for 4 races, and even then, 2 races, Zandalari and Kul’tiran’s start at their own capital. If you really want to be technical about it, it’s only 2.
I mean just by the fact they exist at all is enough of a starting zone, considering you can do pretty much the same with the pre-cata starting zones too. Having less quests or things to do doesn’t make it any less of a starting zone.
You are redefining the definition of “starter zone” to the literal.
I gave FF14 2 shots, and I’d have to say, there are things it does well, and things it does poorly. The story elements are decent, and visuals are neat, however, a lot of things in the game are really confusing.
The other thing that put me off was the lack of addons, and I don’t really like the default UI.
A good game though.
Okay…
I’m question it’s only just passion driving forward, considering this the same company that introduced pre-order crowdfund hybrid with Deus Ex Mankind divided before launch and released Marvel’s Avengers.
I don’t hate Squenix, i just don’t think their any different from Rockstar Games, Activision, EA, Ubisoft, CDPR, Bethesda and so on.
Eh, all those games have differing degrees of overt corporate influence. FFXIV has a degree of it, as well. But if that was the sole motivating factor… the game would have been binned shortly after launch. It was not a smart business decision to suspend your income from an MMO while you redevelop it for 2 years and relaunch hoping for a different outcome. What they would have done was everything they could to wring it dry and hope to break even. Deals for long-term subscriptions, etc., while adding only perfunctory changes to the game, minimizing development costs.
Pfft. Square doesn’t even ned to advertise their game. You guys are doing it for free. Even bad publicity is good publicity 
You’re guilty for doing that as well. 
If the Allied races didn’t have a starting zone, they would all start in SW or Org, but they don’t. Only 2 of them does.
You’re acting like you can’t skip the pre-cata starting zones and just go right off into questing like you can with allied race starting zones, and that’s even more true to do so then ever considering the entire zone practically scales with you.
/looks at the ff14 store.
… Define “degree”? 
I didn’t say it’s the sole motivating factor. You can do both here.
I just think we shouldn’t play favorites here and imply that Squenix isn’t just doing this for the money and willing to lose money nearly all the time just for passion.
Oh no, i agree with that. Infact, i don’t think Squenix now would want to do that again, even with passion driving them forward.
Those are all entirely optional items that have no impact on the overall design of the game.
You don’t see corporate influence on the actual design choices of the developers. Their gear treadmill has a shorter runtime. You can do everything released with a patch when it’s released - it isn’t meted out over a period of months. And if you get bored? They aren’t wringing your arm to keep you playing. They overtly state that you should take a break and come back when more content that you enjoy has been added. They aren’t artificially extending your subscription through manipulative design.
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You can say “it’s just cosmetic” all you want, but that’s not a valid defense. Especially since cosmetics do effect the experience and in turn, gameplay even. Isn’t RP important to the RPG genre even? Plus wasn’t there boosts to skip the story in FF14?..
Even if it’s all just cosmetics, i don’t think even Blizzard has this many cosmetics in their store. You got Emotes, Playing Housing stuff, tales of adventures, minions (how is that just cosmetic?) and tons and tons and tons of cosmetics to a point where it’s pretty much bordering on greed for the amount of stuff and money it’s asking you to buy. The only thing to make it all worse is if you put it in a lootbox.
I am literally scrolling though pages of cosmetics right now on their cash shop, sort of gob smacked and you’re telling me i don’t see corporate influence here… I’m honestly wondering right now how reward swallow the game is now with this much cosmetics on the store here.
The fact you’re saying “it’s just cosmetic” tells me there is corporate influence here.