Hey all, I'm on a break from FFXIV at the moment. Unfortunately this happened only a few days after my boyfriend finally started playing the game. We did some leves together, which was fun for a while, but it's just always the same.... always the same. No exception.
We did level up quite quickly and also mastered some harder fights with just the two of us, but never played more than 2 hours at a time.
Upcoming patch notes from SE mention nothing content wise, no story whatsoever, and the group play is still horrible to me. No tactics, no real roles for each character except maybe the tank.
What they add is new equipment that is "sexy looking" in many people's eyes- in mine all those Mi'qote just look like whores and I wonder if SE really has nothing else to offer anymore. No offense to Mi'qote players behind their chars, you might be the nicest person, but your char looks like a whore, I'm sorry.
So anyways, I will keep an eye on the patch notes coming up, but at the moment I just can't get myself to log in. Even thinking about it makes me want to turn off the computer and just do something fun, which FFXIV clearly isn't at the moment.
I'm deeply disappointed with SE who brought out so great games in their FF series with great story, great synergy in fights (Vivi and Steiner), tactics and last but not least graphics and in this game the only thing FF wise is the extraordinarly good graphic. That's it. And that's sad.
February 04, 2011
January 05, 2011
Back after some kind of break?
After not having played for a while because of a pretty eventful RL and a little burn out from the game, I have now picked it up again at a very much slower pace than before.
Another patch happened, adding a semi-good search function to the retainer system. It still sucks as hell, but it got a little better, I guess. Sadly, to efficiently buy anything you still have to use third party sites like yg for example - which is a really great site and I use it frequently, but I wish SE would just put the information we got on there in the game D: Well, maybe some day.
They did add a Christmas and a new Years event. While they work with the exact same pattern, and have gear as a reward which will only take away space, I think they did succeed in creating a "Christmassy" atmosphere within the game, which is cool. I haven't seen much of the New Year's event so can't comment on that, but I imagine it was the same.
I'm still mainly focussing on BTN and CUL, and only very occasionally on THM. The new SP system makes it easier to level, but it still is very boring. At least the leves etc which are repetetive are boring, and no challenge at all. I'm not speaking about the new NMs or some faction leves or behests, those *can* be fun, though I'm not so sure the NMs are fun, as I saw a vid where it was, once again, mindless thrashing of the mob without tactics.
Hamen is almost done with his thesis and he got a new computer with a great video card (better than mine). So far we haven't got to play at all together yet, but I'm hoping that leveling up together with him will be fun.
Anyway, let's look at a few screenies I took :):
Some new animation at crafting. Looks nice and makes a special sound, I'm always happy when I get it xD!
Awesome looking forest scene during the story quest.
Still story quest, some Sylphs :) I just love how detailed everything is. I should try to remember and take a close up pic of an elemental just because of how awesome they are designed.
Another patch happened, adding a semi-good search function to the retainer system. It still sucks as hell, but it got a little better, I guess. Sadly, to efficiently buy anything you still have to use third party sites like yg for example - which is a really great site and I use it frequently, but I wish SE would just put the information we got on there in the game D: Well, maybe some day.
They did add a Christmas and a new Years event. While they work with the exact same pattern, and have gear as a reward which will only take away space, I think they did succeed in creating a "Christmassy" atmosphere within the game, which is cool. I haven't seen much of the New Year's event so can't comment on that, but I imagine it was the same.
I'm still mainly focussing on BTN and CUL, and only very occasionally on THM. The new SP system makes it easier to level, but it still is very boring. At least the leves etc which are repetetive are boring, and no challenge at all. I'm not speaking about the new NMs or some faction leves or behests, those *can* be fun, though I'm not so sure the NMs are fun, as I saw a vid where it was, once again, mindless thrashing of the mob without tactics.
Hamen is almost done with his thesis and he got a new computer with a great video card (better than mine). So far we haven't got to play at all together yet, but I'm hoping that leveling up together with him will be fun.
Anyway, let's look at a few screenies I took :):
Some new animation at crafting. Looks nice and makes a special sound, I'm always happy when I get it xD!
Awesome looking forest scene during the story quest.
Still story quest, some Sylphs :) I just love how detailed everything is. I should try to remember and take a close up pic of an elemental just because of how awesome they are designed.
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