Alleged FFXIV open beta (AKA Squeenix fails at the internet)

[Nique]

These initial impressions are uncomfortably bad.

What kind of issues? I need to know what I'm getting myself into here :/

Yeah, the graphics are god tier but then they forgot to actually make a fun game out of it.

ERRRGYHHH... FFXIII was frusterating enough. What is the deal? Square, you are literally and metaphorically stabbing me in the face. Why?! I was even on board for FFVIII! The one everyone hates! Come on!

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Nique

What kind of issues? I need to know what I'm getting myself into here :/

Literally everything is awkwardly and ineffectually set up. Movement, combat, communication with NPCs, communication with other players, video options... anything that one would consider the bedrock of a video game is just absolute shit.

It's something that I've noticed with a lot of new MMOs where they don't want to be accused of being a "WoW clone" so they try to avoid it in the most wrongheaded manner by just trying to reinvent the UI in a way that's as far removed from what Blizzard did as possible (and invariably coming up with something unplayably worse) and leaving all the generic MMO gameplay elements that people associate first and foremost with WoW in place.

It's like they're throwing out the baby with the bathwater, except they're keeping the bathwater.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

Literally everything is awkwardly and ineffectually set up. Movement, combat, communication with NPCs, communication with other players, video options... anything that one would consider the bedrock of a video game is just absolute shit.

It's something that I've noticed with a lot of new MMOs where they don't want to be accused of being a "WoW clone" so they try to avoid it in the most wrongheaded manner by just trying to reinvent the UI in a way that's as far removed from what Blizzard did as possible (and invariably coming up with something unplayably worse) and leaving all the generic MMO gameplay elements that people associate first and foremost with WoW in place.

It's like they're throwing out the baby with the bathwater, except they're keeping the bathwater.

This is so weird in that you think it'd be obvious that the best way to make a WoW-killer is to shamelessly rip off everything about WoW, then fix a couple of things people hated about WoW, then add a couple cool things that aren't in WoW.

And when I say obvious, I mean it's how WoW crushed Everquest beneath its sandaled thrice-elven +3 Boots of Buttzhammer-ed feet.