Okay, I actually started playing already. Started on Rabanastre since a bunch of real life friends are on there. The game seems really shakey so far, but I promised myself I won’t make any real judgments until a few weeks from now, after SE has gotten the chance to work out the kinks and do some maintenance.

Lysergic Diethylamide, Thaumaturge

So far it seems like the only real thing to do is to do a couple of levequests, and then wait until you can get them again. I hope it’s not like this trying to level for the entire game… that is, only being able to level for 30 minutes every day. I mean, it’s one thing to make a game catered toward casual players, but limiting people to playing casually is a little lame.

But like I said, I’m not claiming to know all the game mechanics yet. I’m just hoping I have more stuff to do soon, at least.

I retired FF11 a couple years ago. I was RDM75 BLM75 on Diabolos server. I really enjoyed that game during the time I played it, for the most part. But toward the end I just sorta ran out of things to do. It got repetitive and the only thing that I really felt challenged by was Salvage.

I hope SE can take some of the things they did well in FF11 and bring them over to this game. But definitely, more than anything, I hope they learn from their mistakes. FF11 was flawed, severely. I’m confident that FF14 can be a good MMO if SE just learns to listen to their players.

So I guess it’s time to start another MMO.