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#27 Oct 08 2013 at 9:02 AM Rating: Good
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Why exactly did SE decide to go with splitting servers? I thought that was differentiating aspect of the FF universe.


People complained about latency.

People are still complaining about latency, but now we can blame Canada since the NA/EU data center is in Montreal.
#28 Oct 08 2013 at 9:19 AM Rating: Good
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Would install the game, but they insist on using captcha for every goddamn thing, and I can't for the life of me read that sh*t!

Addendum: ******' hate captcha. I get that robots can't read crap like that, but neither can I.

Edited, Oct 8th 2013 5:25pm by Mazra
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#29 Oct 08 2013 at 10:10 AM Rating: Good
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I really like the game so far. I just wish they had some sort of thief/ninja/rogue type class.
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#30 Oct 08 2013 at 10:49 AM Rating: Good
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I really like the game so far. I just wish they had some sort of thief/ninja/rogue type class.


Supposedly that's the first class they're adding. Not sure when it'll be though.
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#31 Oct 08 2013 at 11:23 AM Rating: Good
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Managed to install it, but so far it hasn't won me over. Spent the first 10 minutes just reading text and watching cutscenes without voice sounds. Pretty boring. Spent the next 20 minutes doing absolutely no killing of anything at all. Also fairly boring.

Way too much text accompanying each quest. Wanna kill squirrels/pick roses for moneys? Okay, but first you have to click through these ten frames of text about what's going on right now. Ugh. Is this an Asian thing or just a Final Fantasy thing? I don't mind there being text, but having to click through every damn frame gets old real fast.
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#32 Oct 08 2013 at 11:32 AM Rating: Good
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No auto scroll feature like WoW has?
#33 Oct 08 2013 at 11:33 AM Rating: Good
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No, as far as I can tell, you just clickity-click to progress the story, but only after a certain amount of time has elapsed (can't spam-click through it). Takes forever to pick up any random quest in the game.
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#34 Oct 08 2013 at 11:36 AM Rating: Good
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Almalieque wrote:
Why exactly did SE decide to go with splitting servers? I thought that was differentiating aspect of the FF universe.


People complained about latency.

People are still complaining about latency, but now we can blame Canada since the NA/EU data center is in Montreal.
You can blame all of Canada for something happening in Montreal the same we can blame all of America for something happening in Dallas or Austin.
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#35 Oct 08 2013 at 11:39 AM Rating: Decent
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I drove through Montreal in August...never again.
#36 Oct 08 2013 at 12:06 PM Rating: Good
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Mazra wrote:
No, as far as I can tell, you just clickity-click to progress the story, but only after a certain amount of time has elapsed (can't spam-click through it). Takes forever to pick up any random quest in the game.
And there goes any interest I might have had in the game.
#37 Oct 08 2013 at 12:18 PM Rating: Decent
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Odd, I always spam through the quest text. The only ones you can't are the cutscenes where there is animation that sometimes need to finish.
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#38 Oct 08 2013 at 2:15 PM Rating: Decent
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Anything that's not a main story/class quest of some sort can be spammed right through. It's only CS text that can't be spammed.

There is a lot of main story/class content though but I wouldn't call that a negative..
#39 Oct 08 2013 at 2:56 PM Rating: Good
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That must have been it, then. Just remember spamming and nothing happening most of the time, but I imagine the main story quest takes up a bit of space early on.
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You can blame all of Canada
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#41 Oct 08 2013 at 6:45 PM Rating: Good
So many on Ultros...can't even make a new character on the server.. sad day.
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#43 Oct 08 2013 at 8:36 PM Rating: Good
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So many on Ultros...can't even make a new character on the server.. sad day.


Wait until a slow time, like during the day.
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#44 Oct 09 2013 at 6:08 AM Rating: Good
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Sandinmygum the Stupendous wrote:
So many on Ultros...can't even make a new character on the server.. sad day.


Wait until a slow time, like during the day.


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Sandinmygum the Stupendous wrote:
Iamadam wrote:
Sandinmygum the Stupendous wrote:
So many on Ultros...can't even make a new character on the server.. sad day.


Wait until a slow time, like during the day.


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Was going to make a character with same name as my main, and if friends want to xfer when that goes free, move over to Ultros and get a free name change out of it.
Can you make a character, save the appearance, and then just load that up in character creation in the morning or something, before you go in to work?
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Can anyone tell me what the hell a Moogle is?

Yeah, I'm new at this...
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#47 Oct 09 2013 at 8:18 AM Rating: Good
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Sandinmygum the Stupendous wrote:
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Sandinmygum the Stupendous wrote:
So many on Ultros...can't even make a new character on the server.. sad day.


Wait until a slow time, like during the day.


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Can you make a character, save the appearance, and then just load that up in character creation in the morning or something, before you go in to work?

You can, actually. It's an idea.

The problem with spamming through the quest text is that you often miss vital clues, like "This monster is really hard. Take this acid to weaken it." If you use the item on the monster the task becomes face roll easy. If you missed the bit about using the item and just start trying to kill it, you're going to have a bad time.

The NPCs in cutscene fights are also always shouting out helpful instructions. "Focus on that guy! I have this one!" "Stand your ground and don't give an inch!" (e.g. don't move) versus "Watch out for his lava pit!" In the GLD class quests there was a big one - "Make sure you're drawing attention away from your healer!" The solo quests double as tutorials for how to play the game.

Ignore the dialog, and you'll miss out on some pretty important aspects of game play.

Edited, Oct 9th 2013 10:23am by Catwho
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Can anyone tell me what the hell a Moogle is?

Yeah, I'm new at this...


You get to have sex with it.
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#49 Oct 09 2013 at 8:48 AM Rating: Good
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Mazra wrote:
Can anyone tell me what the hell a Moogle is?

Yeah, I'm new at this...


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It's this guy. They're normally the event/quest/information NPCs in the FF MMOs.

Edited, Oct 9th 2013 10:49am by Shaowstrike
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#50 Oct 09 2013 at 9:03 AM Rating: Good
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That must have been it, then. Just remember spamming and nothing happening most of the time, but I imagine the main story quest takes up a bit of space early on.

Level a tanky-tank, willya? So many White Mages - I've never seen so many healers in an MMO before.

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When I was last on, I mostly saw Paladins. Whm was second.

And it's because the queues are SO much shorter for tanks. I was seeing 16+ minute queues on my Whm, so I can't imagine what it was like for DPS. Waits that long were relatively rare for my DPS when I played WoW, so it was weird. Especially since healers get instant queues until level 30, when suddenly there are a whole lot more healers (due to Scholar) and their times plummet.
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