FF14 beta Homepage LIVE!

[dionious]

Even though this is supposedly 5% of the content in the actual game, I don't know if I see myself getting this. I play for about 10 minutes, then become extremely bored. A friend of mind played for about 5 minutes, got irritated, and then stopped playing. I do enjoy the quests and bits of the battle system, but other than the graphics, nothing about the game really grabs my attention. Guess I'll stick with SC2 until Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 and Gears 3 comes out.

[Ploid]

Yeah, everyone is saying that it's pretty boring. The enemies are also spread out making you run to them instead of having camps for exp.

[Boba]

Its a beta, its not supposed to be exciting, its supposed to help SE find and fix problems with server stablity, and general systems that work within the game. If they were going to give you linkshell, end game, mission line, nm, and all other activity access theyd have called it a demo, or wouldnt have bothered with it at all and waiting till full release.
If you judged FFXI off its initial 10mins you never wouldve continued playing either.

[Ploid]

My first 10 mins of FFXI might have been the best. I know the first 3 days were for sure. Got dragged to Dunes, told I couldn't exp with my friends (Thf 6/Job 0, as far as I knew I was the bomb), then got lost on the way back to bastok but ended up going to LaThine and seeing a storm for the first time (thought I was in K.Highlands). I was so innocent and pure then. Looking at these videos it just seems boring, and now I'm no longer new to this mmo thing so I doubt I'd get lost in amazing settings.

[Boba]

My first 10 were awful, no idea wtf to do or where to go.

[Scorsese]

Well at least if this game doesn't live up to its hype, I'll have WoW's Cataclysm expansion as a backup.

[Mrdude]

wow is extreemly gay... Even someone without hands can be good at wow.

[Scorsese]

It's not so bad. I can summon mounts from thin air and fly on a magic rug. Beats having to walk everywhere!

[Fujikun]

Bored with the beta tbh.. i don't think i'll play ff14

[Boba]

Read above.

[Ploid]

Just because it's a beta it doesn't mean it won't give players a feel for what the game will be like. Running to each monster, the level up system, the party dynamic, the curing/targeting system, the job change system, having crafters in your party to fix weapons, fish, bake?

[Boba]

Again, if you took the dunes to be the entirety of ffxi most people wouldve quit long ago. Theres nothing wrong with the level up system, the UI is something theyre obviously still working on as theyre only just introducing macros and better mouse controls in beta 3. The job change system has no problems and theyre now making it easier to switch between active and passive for different occasions. Crafting is slightly strange, but figuring things out is why a lot of people play these games in the first place, they wouldnt be fun if it was all handed to you on a plate.
The battle system feels strange because its very different from ffxi, and they havent really explained battle regiemes and the such properly yet. It looks to be a much deeper and complex system than xi, which entailled you staring at your character while it hit things, or waiting for one spell to cast, then spam to and fro between 2 spells for the entirety of the fight.
They seem to be working towards fixing peoples main problem with xi which was experience gain with leves. Instanced monsters which actually give more xp and skillups than regular monsters and can only be claimed by your party, as well as a fairly decent amount of gil for the effort required to complete them. Dont forget before you hit any main interesting moments in the game (Storywise) you were around level 15 in quifim starting Zilart. All the running around finding monsters and nms and exploring the map will be exactly the same, it just doesnt feel it yet because the map isnt fully populated, or accessable.
From what ive seen and played in the game at the moment, I personally think its looking very promising indeed. Roll on beta 3 and then september 22nd.
Not to mention they actually seem to be listening to the feedback theyre getting and yknow, doing something about it this time around.

[Mrdude]

my first few days in ffxi basically made the next 5 years

I met socomturbo, then that mithra, Coolbreaze's girlfriend (I'm embarassed I can't remember her name) pearled me to SecondroadtoRuin, and then I met Aemo, meka, Keli, Jage, etc. They were mah niggaz all through ffxi.

I'd play ff14 if I had the scrilla to buy a new pimp comp that could run it np, but my laptop is terrible.

Edit: someone play D2 with me.

[Boba]

Whore yourself out to men and youll be able to afford it np.

[Mrdude]

Or I could pimp out some little english bitch and make him do it for me.

[Boba]

English bitches are plenty, we call them Chavs. Takes as many as you like, though I wouldnt count on anyone wanting to sleep with them.

[Mrdude]

niggah I meant you.

[Boba]

Ah, well, iirc, youre canadian. And well... 'nuff said.

[Fujikun]

Honestly ff14 can run on decent pc with medium cpu and medium gpu , like a core 2 duo and idk a geforce 240m or a hd radeon 4650 (ff11 was able to run on shitty pcs.. i mean really shitty stuff like old business laptops too ). And isnt expencive stuff , sure if you go for i5/i7 and high res./performance directx 11 graphic cards the price is...

[Lutia]

...still cheap?