{My Life} {Where is it?}

Okay so Final Fantasy XIV was released last week.

My life is so screwed.


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Let's put my screwed life aside for a moment and talk about FFXIV.

So CE version retail pre-release (before the 'official' release tomorrow) is finally upon us. The pressure's been on the XIV team for years now so I'm not surprised this got pushed out so quickly with yet so many flaws, bugs, incompletenesses... So yes, FFXIV is incomplete but so was FFXI back in the day. The main difference is that XIV's system/world is so much more complicated thus the amount of negativity and things to complain about are bigger than that of XI by ten fold. Everyone just needs to rant about it (so do I). We'll still keep playing though, no worries there. We just gotta get it out of our system.

But you'd think that they learnt something from FFXI being in service for 8(?) years now. NOPE. WHY IS THAT? Stop trying to make it a completely different game by removing everything that was good! Not saying they should make it the same... but the fact that we see no solution or the feature is missing completely, doesn't make things any better.


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Here's a list of rants I can think of right now (besides the obvious bugs and glitches)... with bonus profanity, caps, and anger:

• FIX THE CHAT - Give back our hotkeys. Make our lives easier please.
• MENUS - This is effing menu hell. I don't use a controller so STOP IT.
• LAG - Inevitable... but fix it somehow! There's more people coming so why aren't you prepared??
• TARGETING - what is this shit? THERE IS NO REAL TARGETING SYSTEM.
• TARGETING 2 - The targeting keys for mobs and parties system are absent. WHY. Make some soon please.
• CHAT LOG - the visible area is too small and with all this spam it's useless since I can't scroll up easily. where's the easily accessible full chat log reader?
• CHAT CHARACTER LIMIT PER LINE - what is this limit crap? this isn't fucking twitter.
• AH please or at least a retainer bazaar catalog system - none of this stand around in Batallia Downs but 10 floors of it bullshit.
• SEARCH - I swear I'm not a stalker but I would at least like to know where my friends are so I don't have to ask them every time. Also for party forming.
• DEGRADING ARMOUR - Fuck. Make it easier for us to find out which piece needs fixing at least.
• DELIVERY BOX - should be essential.

Of course not everything is bad but negatives always outweigh the positives huh. Positives!

• Multi linkshell conversations (although not even fully functional yet :b)
• We can see the accessories we wear now yay!
• Retainers are cool; they're like slaves. My slave's spankin' gorgeous.
• Instant job change transformation is wunderful~
• There's some voice acting. Not too-too bad.
• Crafting is actually kinda fun
• Guildleves are enjoyable, reoccurring quests that are party-able.. although the cooldown timer is still too long.
• Traveling from crystal to crystal to node is quick.
• Job trait/ability/action sharing across jobs is awesome.
• No penalty when you die?

The strange thing is that I've been playing since closed alpha and it feels the same... just more crowded. Although I didn't play it much back then, I feel more comfortable learning things now than before.

They must be really behind.

Oh well. Now that it's released, they have all the time in the world... until we get fed up and leave.

I will finish this post with a bug.

INVISIBLE SYNTHESIS!