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Player rating 3.8
konrad16660
Member Posts: 182
Wowee, player rating is 3.8
its kinda odd how it says its over 6 on here somewhow through a "miracle." I wonder how that changes.
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/final-fantasy-xiv-online
for the actual meta-critic rating from critics and players you will see the rating of this game by users is 3.8
I dont think I have ever seen an MMO rated this low from users ever. While the critics gave it a 52.
While 52 is amazingly bad, it seems high for this game seeing as it doesn't deserve more than a 3.8
But you will usually find that the user ratings on a game are higher than t he critics, so this game defies the norm.
Why did I post this? Because I am an avid gamer and I don't want my fellow gamers, especially those that work hard for their money to get ripped off by this game. There are good games out there, and there are even some that aren't that good but we can still see the value in them. But this game is neither. It will just leave a bad taste in your mouth while you wonder where the good is.
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nothing new brought here, infact im gonna give this thread a -100 for wasting my time
no one has paid a fee in 3 months and copies of the game can be purchased for a reasonable sum of money so hows it a waste of money?
the games not the worst by far and it will improve, i would suggest people who fancy giving it a go, do so
The game is mega bad, don't listen to this guy. Save your money.
Waste of money is the kindest thing to say about it.
Decisions made by the devs relating to this game will cast doubt on everything they ever make in the future. As well it rightfully should.
"I'm not cheap I'm incredibly subconsciously financially optimized"
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This game released after multiple bad releases from 2008 til now. People are sick of it and they reacted harder against this because of how sick of all the crap that is being put out.
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I wouldn't go so far as to say that it should cast doubt on everything or even most of what S-E develops in the future. Square-Enix is a damn good company that produces quality games with mind boggling consistency, this is why FFXIV is such a glaring failure. I would only think that this game should cast down on what they develop for the next few years, however it should cast doubt on every mmorpg they develop in the future. After all, even a cursory comparison between FFXI and FFXIV is enough to make impartial people wonder if they are looking at a poorly conceived but beautifully envisioned sequel.
(1)TL:DR must be your way of saying that thinking hurts. Then again, this may explain why it looks like you responded to the post without using your brain.
(2) It's not about community, is it? You just have nothing better to do.
If you count FF12 FF13 and FF14 it really start to cast a big doubt for the next FF SE will make.
Many games released under the SE flag are simply distributed by them. I would look closely at any game actually developed by the same crew that developed FF14. Rumors are they outsourced the development of FF14 to China and there is a lot of evidence to support that including misspelled words etc. so if that is true I personally won't trust anything they make without a good hard look at the game and it's mechanics.
"I'm not cheap I'm incredibly subconsciously financially optimized"
"The worst part of censorship is ------------------"
This is a very good point. We can't be sure if the FFXIV fiasco is a problem of the entire development team, a few bigger fish on the team or even just one big fish.
(1)TL:DR must be your way of saying that thinking hurts. Then again, this may explain why it looks like you responded to the post without using your brain.
(2) It's not about community, is it? You just have nothing better to do.
Unfortunately ,the op is wrong,there is not a lot of good games out there.I feel only FFXI was decent,it needed a lot of improvement but it still did a lot more right than all the other games.FFXIV is basically a cheaper version of FFXI,not one aspect of ffXIV is better than FFXI and all the sums are barely even close and not as in depth as FFXI was.No time will not change the design,people could give FFXIV ten years and the design will remain the same ,it is a fail of a game.
VG/EQ2/Wow all average games,they are the best of the runner ups but that is not saying alot for this genre.In comparison,i still on many occasions have more fun playing UT99,a 12 year old game if counting unreal 1.
People over rate all of these games,my fave is FFXI and i really could only give it a 6 or 7,as there was tons of room for improvement.FFXIV improved ONLY on graphics,that is not nearly enough to warrant me buying the game.Most of the games have such a lame poor excuse for design ,they deserve a 5 at best.Role playing a character inside a world is not the same as following linear quest>quest and beg for massive xp/sp.Let me see maybe i am wrong,i am pretty sure a Warrior back in ancient days was running around looking for quests to gain XP and SP?Just the thought of this is silly at best,surely soemone can create a true MMORPG?
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LOL. The game is so broken I think they should be paying their current beta testers (aka people who still play). There is no way in hell this thing went through any kind of QA. No way. And if it did, it was done by the most easily entertained humans on this earth.
It's a 3.8 on metacritic because on metacritic the rating is compared to ALL games. On this website FFXIV is only compared to MMOs, so in that comparison it is a 6. What you can gather from this statement is that MMOs in general are hardly games, they are fun initially, but really they all suck overall when compared to actual games. FFXIV (in my honest opinion) is just as fun as any other MMO once you get past the clunky UI, and after six devout years of only playing MMOs, and then finally going back to playing regular single player games just recently, I can tell you that most MMOs just aren't fun. MMOs have become a job, not a game. FFXIV is lacking somethings, but once they implement those things it will be just as fun as any other MMO. Y'all stop beating a dead horse with a stick; you can keep ranting about how bad FFXIV is, or you can just move on. I don't think this game is any different than any other mmo, and I honestly think it's a step up in many regards from what I've played in the past. Nonetheless, I am resigning from MMOs for a while, and I can attribute some of my loss of faith in mmos to FFXIV, because I thought it was going to be the one MMO that set itself apart, but instead it just ended up being the same as any other. MMOs just aren't fun, they never were, we were all just excited that we could play online with other people, but now we must resign to the fact that just playing with other people isn't going to cut it anymore. We need substance. I may return to MMOs for Guild Wars 2, but for some reason I even doubt that that will live up to my expectations. (I also wanted to make it known that I know I went off-topic, but my response is still semi-relevant)
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It must be cool to hate on this game these days or something. I've seen very few MMORPGs come down the pipe that have been as universally panned as this one. With that said, I believe the game deserves criticism, but it's far from the worst MMORPG I've played, and SquareEnix seems dedicated towards turning this game around.
I am glad that people like the OP post about these issues on games.
The reviews from Beta stopped me from buying the CE. I was looking forward to the game and planning on buying it. Now I figure to wait a year and see what the reviews are. Probably go F2P by then.
52 is over 13 times more than 3.8
Critics grade on a weighted scale. So a game like this will rate decently purely because of something like nice graphics and sound. It's one of the reasons you should never put much weight into online reviews by gamesites.
That high? Too nice.
i just dont understand why the game is still being heavily bashed. we have had the same criticism of the same issues for over a month now
yes, we get it, the game lacks content and the ui blows.
did you all not read the million reviews telling you to stay away from ffxiv? at this time, we have had a chance to read the warnings before trying the game and those that bought it before review and hated it, why are you still here?
that decision could have been made having read the other million reviews, not the 1,000,001 review mentioning the same crap.
as i said, the reviews are out there by the truck load, no need for another one saying the same jack shit.
Don't you think it kind of presumptious of you to assume that it is your job to save the gaming public from the abissmal game that is FFXIV? There is nothing wrong with saying that you think a game isn't worth it but I think you have to know that you couldn't possibly represent every gamer out there.
These kind of warnings are like dating the hottest girl in school, sure you know all of her bad points but if the two of you break up do you really expect that people will just "take your word for it" that she isn't worth the time or effort?
I have nothing good to say about this game but I certainly would never ask or expect anyone to simply take my word for it, if the game is truly as bad as you say it is won't people find that out when they give it a shot?
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
Letting others know the game is terrible and a rip off of your money is a nice thing to do for the mmo gaming community. People complaining about the warnings to stay away from this game are getting mad at the wrong people. They should be getting angry at the developer instead of supporting badly developed games.
"I'm not cheap I'm incredibly subconsciously financially optimized"
"The worst part of censorship is ------------------"
nothing wrong with letting people know the flaws of a game, saying what has been said a multitude of times before hand however is what takes the piss. what was raised in this thread was nothing new.
anyway, it simply goes to show that those who want to try it will generally bypass what others say and try it for themselves and good for them.
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