Satisiun Wrote:ArmachiA Wrote:The review had fair points. Whether or not we like the game, some of the things they left out (Auction House, Mail system, Chocobos, more quests) is just inexcusable and should have been there from release. I mean, that MMO 101 right there.
I can't help but feel as if this whole mess is due to a rush to get the game out to market before Cataclysm came on to the scene during the holidays. If that was the case, it is sort of a catch 22, isn't it? Beat Cata, but have a real piece of barebones shit that is missing the most simplest of things (by the way, people who use the excuse "Well FFXI didn't have everything at the start either!" need to be dragged out and shot. It's 2010, not 2001). Don't beat Cata, and everyone is busily grinding away on the game that is basically an electronic form of crack for online gamers and unwilling to give XIV a spin.
Bear in mind that is total, unadulterated speculation right there. And although I did call FFXIV what I did call it in that last paragraph, I'm still getting enough mileage out of it and, yes, enjoyment, that I foresee hanging on -- albeit by the skin of my teeth -- until the holidays to see if they can pull this game out of a nosedive in the content/ease of use department.
Figure the benefit of the doubt is deserved since I really enjoyed FFXI.
This is pretty much exactly what happened. Back in E3 '09 two MMO's were announced for release at the end of the year of 2010: FFXIV and TOR. They thought they were pretty much safe, Cataclysm was announced to launch on the same day as Star Craft II. But Blizzard, being the "It's done when it's done" types, weren't ready to release it on SC II's release date, and changed the date to November.
When that was announced, SE and Bioware released their official dates: SE for Sept 2010, and Bioware for early 2011. Bioware pushed back the date and SE pushed forward, both of them avoiding Cataclysm all together.
FFXIV could have used some more time before release, it's pretty apparent, we're really just playing Beta right now. However, I think we'll probably see one of their big updates around the time Cataclysm comes out, if not sooner.
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