Final Fantasy XIV

Bought the Collector's Edition for a premium price then quit within a week. This game is a travesty in its current state. Square Enix needs to implement some major patches in order to make this a game worth playing.

I bought this game a week after it's launch because I was bored and wanted to try a new game. I read all the horrible reviews on Final Fantasy XIV but decided to try it anyways. Not having high hopes for the game I began to play it. I quickly found out the game wasn't as horrible as all the reviews said! Sure it was hell-hard to learn at first but that's where common sense like reading a quest-log or looking at the map or even asking other players come in. The game is very realistic but definitely doesn't cater to less-intelligent people or people who don't want to bother trying to learn. These type of people should be playing WoW in the first place, I don't know why they'd try Final Fantasy.

I'm no Square Enix or Final Fantasy fan. The only Final Fantasy games I played before this were Tactics and Crystal Chronicles on the Gamecube. But I think too many reviewers are jumping on the 'ffxiv is the worst game evar!!' bandwagon here. Sure, it's got a lot of issues. Sure, SE should've waited to sell it. But I don't think it deserves all the hate it's getting.

I must mention though: I am a very casual gamer. I'll play a game for a hour or two a day at most. Which may be one of the reasons why I like the game because they catered to the casual gamers with this game.

Anyways, I personally think this game is worth a try if you have $50 bucks to spare. The review is accurate with all the games problems but it's harsh like all the other reviews. Square Enix is trying there best to fix the problems but it may not be worth the $50 in it's current state.

Oh, and ps:
I installed the game on both my Computer AND Laptop and didn't have troubles setting it up on either. Also wasn't hard to set up my account either (Took me 5 minutes...) I don't see the problem people are running into with this.

Accurate, yet harsh? Casual, yet difficult to learn? Worth a try at $50, yet not worth $50 in its current state? Which is it?

This is the first review I've written for a game on launch, and the first review I've written before the embargo's been lifted other reviews have been released. The reason why it came in after the others was because I wanted to give the game the benefit of the doubt. There was no jumping on review score bandwagons - what would be the point?

It's not the worst game ever - it's a lacklustre game with pretty presentation, that's hamstrung by faults seemingly everyone except you has run into. But you should be glad you're enjoying it and think it's a competent product (or not; you seem rather confused on this issue) but plenty of other people - including gamers, reviewers, stockholders and apparently Square Enix themselves - don't think of it in such glowing terms.

Take no notice of the guy pretending he isnt a fanboy of the serious or a suare employee !! everything this review said is true, and the only way this game is different to any other mmo, is that its the worst one ever.

What has happened to the FF francise? I think FF7 was so good that the bar was set too high for future releases. I have heard that this game is too linear, RPG's should never be linear.