Closed and Open beta tester here. The reviews are spot on and …

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Comment on Square Enix: “Don’t Review FF14!” Players: “38%” by Anonymous:

Closed and Open beta tester here. The reviews are spot on and it deserves what it gets. Why should it not be fair to judge an MMO when its released? People need to stop tolerating shitty half-finished releases for MMOs. And FF14 is more shitty and less finished than most.

The UI lacks info and features at many points, while also having extra superfluous info at others. The only “content” in the game right now are the daily quests which are called “leves” and 8 of them can be done every 36 hours. They are all given from the exact same guy in town, and you get around 4-5 every 10 levels. Each new tier is the same leves essentially, just higher level mobs. Kill X, Harvest Y, etc.

The game world is heavily copy-pasta’d. Check Youtube. And it lacks any sort of Points of Interest or Landmarks at all. It’s just endless boring skymaps and landscape with randomly placed mobs. No castles, no bandit camps, no waterfalls, no dungeons, etc.

Communication ingame is abysmal too. No Mailbox, no auction house. No chat channels other than Say, Shout, and Linkshell (sorta like a guild, but with no features other than a private chat channel). Group attacks don’t really work. Targeting is clunky and archaic. The con system doesn’t work to know what to fight.

The engine design is so poor that it won’t even fully use your graphics card for 90% of players. And future hardware won’t even change that due to it only using 2 threads/cores. Turning on occlusion or other special features murders your FPS to below 5, etc.

I’ve played or followed dozens of MMOs back since Ultima Online and EQ1. This is seriously the most pathetic release I’ve seen from a major developer since maybe Anarchy Online or Earth and Beyond from EA.

Anonymous made other comments on this post:

• Square Enix: “Don’t Review FF14!” Players: “38%”:
  

  true gamers dont play FFXIV

• Square Enix: “Don’t Review FF14!” Players: “38%”:
  

  SE has the worst customer service ever. They have claimed i need to reset my account information and have provided no help whatsoever. i’m pretty much giving up all hope with SE and abandoning them. what a bunch of pinheads.

• Square Enix: “Don’t Review FF14!” Players: “38%”:
  

  If a game is unplayably bad…if it is so flawed that the flaws reveal themselves immediately, and it is impossible to overlook them, then it is okay to not proceed any further.

• Square Enix: “Don’t Review FF14!” Players: “38%”:
  

  If they didnt want the game to be reviewed they shouldnt have released it.

• Square Enix: “Don’t Review FF14!” Players: “38%”:
  

  Anyone think that this title might reach am E.T. or Superman 64 level of infamy in the gaming world and be regarded as the worst MMO ever made?

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