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Since you can insta-port to anywhere in the world youвЂ™ve unlocked the aetherytes for, without a cooldown, at any time, the world will open up in a way later on. And you eventually get used to the loading screens. But at least they cram a helluva lot of detail in some of those zones. Many of those issues either fix themselves, or become non-issues later on, but things like small zonesвЂ¦ well, even when you get the ability to fly, theyвЂ™re still small. Your cons list is accurate, and many people share them. First impressions have killed many peopleвЂ™s desire to invest at all in FF14, and imho, that is the games biggest flaw. It is king of the planet in terms of WORST first impression, though.ДЇair. ItвЂ™s so far a 4/10, but as I havenвЂ™t done any instanced, dungeon-based content yet, I will hold off on condemning the video game. The level up sound is so, so satisfying.ДЄll in all, thereвЂ™s just enough to keep me going.Character customization, as a whole, is LEAGUES better.Getting a surname with your character is awesome.Acquiring new gear feels rewarding, even if the quests are kinda lame.

#Ffxiv preferred servers how to#

You know what youвЂ™re playing and how to play them right out the gate.

Loading screens separate different sections of both outside zones AND CITIES.

Very little to get you invested until they finally give you quests to LEAVE.

Very little race identity outside of a tiny snippet you get at character creation.

Many characters presented IвЂ™m supposed to care about with very little offered for that.

The zones feel absurdly claustrophobic.

I actually managed to get a character made just before the servers went down last night. IвЂ™d love to tell you that this game is awesome, but I canвЂ™t f***ing play it. I want to actually enjoy playing video games with my friends again, which is the entire point of dipping my toes in other MMOs again to begin with, as they donвЂ™t play WoW. I want to play on the server my friends play on. Why is server selection the LAST step? Why let someone make a character, then slap them across the face by saying вЂњMm, sorry, have you tried this garbage, low-pop, PREFERRED server, tho?! :DвЂќ You just have to wait in a queue to get into them first.

#Ffxiv preferred servers trial#

Even Blizzard allows trial characters to be made on every server. SEVERAL servers are prohibiting character creation. I canвЂ™t make a character on the server I want.

So, I get the game installed, deal with the nonsense that is Mogstation, get the character creator loaded up, made up my character, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand IвЂ™m feeling kinda burned out on WoW content (Who isnвЂ™t), and decided to see whatвЂ™s on the other side of the fence. Hey gang! So I caved and decided to try out Final Fantasy XIV again. I know you didnвЂ™t like it when it launched, but itвЂ™s different now! ItвЂ™s MUCH cleaner!вЂќ So the dev team can know that the game needs a delay since Friday, but the rest of the company that the decision impacts need a week to get all their ducks in a row too.вЂњHey Rho! You should try Final Fantasy XIV if youвЂ™re bored with WoW. Then the bug has to be tested multiple times over new builds to make sure it's not still happening. Customer service needs to be adjusted, marketing needs to be updated, community managers need to be prepped, business people need to do the financial calculations, etc. You can also make the decision to delay but then spend the week evaluating how much time you need too. So the dev team can know that the game needs a delay since Friday, but the rest of the company that the decision impacts need a week to get all their ducks in a row too. Only after all that shit clears can you tell the players about the new date. Once a bug like that is found and the decision is made that the game needs to be delayed, a whole bunch of teams need to be informed, need to weigh in and need to plan for the adjusting schedule. If done correctly, the entire game map would be underwater permanently. from the beginning with no debug) playthrough of a 20+ hour game and then entering a DLC area then going back to the main map at a specific point. For instance, the one I found required a clean (i.e. This cannot be done in a day and often not even a week depending on the scope of the bug. Then the rest of the game needs to be tested just to make sure that fix didn't break anything else.

#Ffxiv preferred servers code#

As someone who used to work in QA and found a backbreaking game bug two weeks before a game went gold, sometimes massive bugs don't pop up or can't be properly tested for until the code is near final.ДЄnd then once the bug is found, if it's a sensitive bug, the team has to go back and sometimes surgically figure out how to fix it without breaking anything else.