FFXIV is no longer failing, so there is no need to constantly overhaul everything every few patches and expansions.
Crafting and Gathering, and its systems are the only reason I play this game instead of FFXI, aside from the price, FFXIV being 9.99/month for me as I am legacy, and the updated graphics.
If Crafting and Gathering becomes dumbed down to point and click like FFXI and every other MMO, I will no longer have any desire to play this game.
Everything being easy and accessible, also turns everything meaningless, unfulfilling, and absolutely un-engaging.
There is no journey, there is no experience, there is just you pressing buttons and getting meaningless things. Some people can be artificially sated by such nonsense, most people in fact, but I dont play Final Fantasy for that kind of satisfaction, I play it because normally it has depth, thought, quality, and richness. FFXIV is beginning to seriously lack those qualities in exchange for instant meaningless gratification.
While the story is still good, the fact that everything is so trivial, and the playerbase has become nigh unbearable at either spectrum, the story cannot float this boat for me.
FFXIV is effectively becoming the worst Final Fantasy game in the series. And sorry popularity does not mean quality. In fact, popularity normally means the exact opposite.
See:
Justin Bieber, Nikki MInaj, Kim Kardashian.
Good day.
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Crafting and Gathering, and its systems are the only reason I play this game instead of FFXI, aside from the price, FFXIV being 9.99/month for me as I am legacy, and the updated graphics.
If Crafting and Gathering becomes dumbed down to point and click like FFXI and every other MMO, I will no longer have any desire to play this game.
Everything being easy and accessible, also turns everything meaningless, unfulfilling, and absolutely un-engaging.
There is no journey, there is no experience, there is just you pressing buttons and getting meaningless things. Some people can be artificially sated by such nonsense, most people in fact, but I dont play Final Fantasy for that kind of satisfaction, I play it because normally it has depth, thought, quality, and richness. FFXIV is beginning to seriously lack those qualities in exchange for instant meaningless gratification.
While the story is still good, the fact that everything is so trivial, and the playerbase has become nigh unbearable at either spectrum, the story cannot float this boat for me.
FFXIV is effectively becoming the worst Final Fantasy game in the series. And sorry popularity does not mean quality. In fact, popularity normally means the exact opposite.
See:
Justin Bieber, Nikki MInaj, Kim Kardashian.
Good day.
Continue reading...