can't stop laughing. Hahahaha.....

mechanical macro nice lol

haha now I know why sometimes even the lobby server crashes cause people keep spamming it with login attempt

I did that few days ago and after doing that the problem became worst I can't even load the character list
I freaked out thinking that spamming the login might have made SE ban my account or IP or sumthin

Wait, where's that guy from Ipoh? I'm in Taiping if you wanna get that client. Not that far only what.

yes the v1.0 was really bad.. lol

here u both , @dave , my hometown at taiping



This post has been edited by deyamato: Sep 2 2013, 10:51 PM

hey long time no see your ff13 still with me xD

Thanks for the info, but you are playing in JP or US server?

Ya I know, so I wait for Wednesday only decide want to get it or not

The failure was due to (well, i'm not entirely correct on details, but it's not far from wrong):
- the server design was very poor
- everything was server based: NPC merchant, inventory, skill list etc. e.g talking to a npc to buy/sell stuff (delay 5s), getting to the menu then choosing options (delay 5s), then choosing your items to sell (delay). it's the same for viewing your own equipments or skill menu
- The graphics were really really pretty, even prettier than ARR now, but the world is very ... empty and bland, same tree, same rock, same roads, same outpost, same this, same that.
- the whole game is very taxing on your pc performance.
- there's not very much story, no end game, no purpose
- confusing mechanics as in 1 class can mix match many skills/spells
- basically exp through doing leves, there's an allowance on how many you can do, then wait 12hrs for refresh, adding to that, a fatique system where u reach the max exp you can get for the day, need time to reset to gain exp again something like that.
- the whole UI of the game sucks.
- the real problem is, you create ur character, you watch the intro movie, then you're dump into a world, with no guide, no quest guide, and literally you're like stranded in an island and need to learn ur survival ability. The maps were HUGE, you don't really know what to do lol
- almost forgot about the markets. you would expect 2010 mmo to have an auction house so you can search/buy/sell item with ease. but the dev team at that time decided to go the old fashion way of hiring npc(retainers) who you can place your items in them and sell. it's not a problem but when everyone does that in a cramp dedicated market area, it's chaos searching items u want to buy or sell. don't forget the high delay when interacting with npcs.

After the failure launch and negative response, the team leader was removed, replaced by naoki yoshida. then the whole game was being fixed slowly. During that time, dev team felt that they need to trash the game and re-design the whole server structure, in which they decided to make 1.0 have a story that the world was "destroyed", then ARR is reborn. The only thing i miss is the graphics, I do feel that 1.0 had really pretty and smooth graphics, where ARR have abit of jagged polygon, maybe it'll be perfect when they introduce the pc version with directx 11

This post has been edited by poipoy: Sep 2 2013, 11:23 PM

Nice guide

Queue menu now has one new button - Cancel button It used to have no button.

This post has been edited by Vickyle: Sep 2 2013, 11:35 PM

The way the thread almost becoming to a rage/rant thread is so amusing I'd suggest to shoji to change the thread name haha anyways, due to my 2 weeks course, I'm spared from the wrath of 1017-sama huhu Do hope the servers will be much better when I come back. Man, such a waste of free trial period

Wow really long time no see indeed. Are you still in town or went off elsewhere already? Getting FF14 as well? Come join la.

thank you for the explanation
I guessed SE was a bit inexperienced making mmorpg but FFXIV is not the first mmorpg they've created right, I think there's the FFXI?

Yes, they had a 7 year old mmorpg FFXI. XI director was the same as XIV. You wouldn't expect that it's a problem during that time since XI was successful in its own way. Many dream and felt that XIV would be the successor of XI with better graphics, animation, story. Many wish all the best element of XI will be brought forward. sad to say the director think differently and want XIV to be a totally new game and just design something that had nothing in common with XI.

That's final fantasy. A sequel to XI would be XI-2, instead of XIV. New digits means it got nothing to do with any other game with same name but different numbers.

(for those who played FF11) would you recommend to those who played FF14ARR but haven't played FF11... play FF11??
Since it's so old already is it any good on today's standard?

so late still serveer full lol

can't even pass the error 2002.

yea suddenly 2002
i just want to go in and put it in sanctuary
then i can go sleep in peace edy xD