AH not at release- Probably the biggest Drrrrr, even before fatigue system, because it means one of the biggest things (the economy) isn’t even in the game. Serious crafters aren’t going to craft, or maybe even play at first, which mean, the whole idea of the players creating the economy doesn’t even apply. Actually I don’t even get that idea to begin with, because it still gets created by the player base through the AH. No idea what the logic is behind that.

I definitely won’t be doing crafting expecting to sell anything. I’m just going to fish and cook, feeding myself, and putting the extras in my bazaar because I really love the crafting/gathering system, but don’t expect to find anything I really need.

I’m wondering if rolling DoL/DoH right now wouldn’t be the smartest choice at launch? Go do your own mining, turn it into weapons and profit while the other crafters are sitting around crying for materials.

When they give us more social features in beta, I’ll do an opinion on the 48hr limit of guildleves to see how easy party forms up and how many leves can be done in a reasonable amount of time.

However for those that have much time to play, guildleves would be simply “burst experience”, the normal way to exp would be to group grind.

There is of course also the factor that they may change the timer (doubt it), or add new types of guildleve’s, or change the amount you can do in a single day (ive heard there is a limit of some kind?)

In any event Rome wasn’t built in a day as they say, and neither will this game.

@Minxie: Very true, the games I listed have all very much tried to copy WoW and have failed for it, to a degree. There were actually other issues that killed the games as well, but trying to compete with WoW so directly probably didn’t help.

Still, there were some good chances for success. Warhammer was a popular IP backed by an experienced company. Wharammer online even did really well at the start and was considered to have much better PvP than WoW and, however badly implemented, came up with the happily accepted idea of public quests.

The game had issues with a terrible PvE system however, lack of a real end game (trading keeps became the norm, how horribly flawed), and lack of content at all. High level players found themselves deprived of PvP, done with the more or less useless PvE rather fast, and then left to sit and constantly fail city sieges..which had a limited amount of instances available for use.

But what’s worth doing, is worth doing well.

When you present an MMO to gamers, especially fans of FF, you’re not giving them just a game. You’re giving them a world. And this is exactly why FFXIV must be done well. Because you either give them a world or you don’t. There’s no in between.

I sincerely pray the core functions will be worked out. The Japanese are famous for working damn hard beyond normal human limits. Let’s see some of that godlike effort being dedicated to the right areas.

The game will turn out fine.

Whether it’s in September or in March is another question.

If I have to wait half a year for the game to be good, no problem. I don’t have to play it right away.

I think it’ll turn out fine in September though. They’re simply testing stuff right now.