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This hasn't better be a joke, or I will scream in rage. (It was posted, what, yesterday? And I doubt SE would like their representative posting a joke like that on their official forum. BUT PARANOIA.)
FFXIV is getting auto-attack omg yesssssssss NO MORE 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 (WHY IS IT STILL ALIVE??) 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 'You cannot attack a KO'd target' (oops). I mean, I kinda like their set-up now (it does have some good ideas), but god, I really hate having to click EVERY TIME I want Rana to even just swing her sword.
So, yeah! I give XIV (and SE) a hard time 'cause, look, that was an embarrassingly bad launch, and it only got funnier and more embarrassing as the months went by. But they are doing a really good job of working to turn it around. I am so proud of you, SE. (For example: some of - I don't even know what the hell all the problems were - whatever they changed has allowed the game to run significantly better on my computer. I mean, no, this isn't a hardcore gaming machine, but wtf, it shouldn't have run as poorly as it did. People with hardcore gaming machines had troubles running it.) (They've been running surveys asking the player base what they want to see and in what order, and then they listen, which you'd think would be obviously, but this is SE we're talking about, man, they know what's best so stuff it.) (You can even navigate the menus now! Yay! ... yes, really. The menus were horrible on launch, almost unusable for some.) (Also, the love they've given XI since XIV flopped helped, too.) (... that said, if they suddenly announced they were going to start billing, I'd probably cancel my account, because it's still not good enough for me to pay them to play it.)
I'm almost done packing (should be working on the straggling bits, but, well... I'm tired of it), woohoo. But, 'cause I'm an idiot, earlier today I went to the game store (...I went to pick up the key, then I went to the bank, and then I got lost on the way back and magically found myself at GameStop) and bought more things to pack. Genius me r. (Someone else's post recently reminded me that I need to pay attention to DS game launches now, and then I wanted to go check it out, even though I'd already looked up the price online. And then, hey! They had a used copy of Birth By Sleep that included the cover art and booklet - and the product registration code, which was a surprise - and I've never even seen a used one, never even mind one with all its parts, since for some reason everyone else throws out everything but the game when they buy things for the PSP. I will probably never see another one! So I had to buy it. And then immediately pack it, since it's not like I can get to my PSP right now, anyway! Since it's packed, too.)
And while I was there waiting in line, two things! One, apparently there's another Silent Hill title (STARRING A PRISONER, whee, I'd say more but this is getting too long and it would mostly be WTF, whining, and fan-bitching, anyway) coming out at some point. The girl in front of me was reading the Upcoming Games! list and was like, what, another one? So then we whined a little about how the more recent ones haven't been any good. And then I found out the guy working there had also played FFXI and wanted to play FFXIV (and to get back to XI, but POL kept crashing when he tried to update, so I gave him some hints on how to get around it and a bit of a summary of both their current states). Kinda cool! Never met another SE MMO player (or, rather, met someone who played either and not because I'd talked them into it). (No, really, all the people I know who play/ed it are people I knew before it launched or people I met in-game. And I've only tripped - ie, met in a place that wasn't a FFXI/V-based community/forum - over one person online who played XI. I WAS EXCITED OKAY? ._.;)
FFXIV is getting auto-attack omg yesssssssss NO MORE 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 (WHY IS IT STILL ALIVE??) 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 'You cannot attack a KO'd target' (oops). I mean, I kinda like their set-up now (it does have some good ideas), but god, I really hate having to click EVERY TIME I want Rana to even just swing her sword.
So, yeah! I give XIV (and SE) a hard time 'cause, look, that was an embarrassingly bad launch, and it only got funnier and more embarrassing as the months went by. But they are doing a really good job of working to turn it around. I am so proud of you, SE. (For example: some of - I don't even know what the hell all the problems were - whatever they changed has allowed the game to run significantly better on my computer. I mean, no, this isn't a hardcore gaming machine, but wtf, it shouldn't have run as poorly as it did. People with hardcore gaming machines had troubles running it.) (They've been running surveys asking the player base what they want to see and in what order, and then they listen, which you'd think would be obviously, but this is SE we're talking about, man, they know what's best so stuff it.) (You can even navigate the menus now! Yay! ... yes, really. The menus were horrible on launch, almost unusable for some.) (Also, the love they've given XI since XIV flopped helped, too.) (... that said, if they suddenly announced they were going to start billing, I'd probably cancel my account, because it's still not good enough for me to pay them to play it.)
I'm almost done packing (should be working on the straggling bits, but, well... I'm tired of it), woohoo. But, 'cause I'm an idiot, earlier today I went to the game store (...I went to pick up the key, then I went to the bank, and then I got lost on the way back and magically found myself at GameStop) and bought more things to pack. Genius me r. (Someone else's post recently reminded me that I need to pay attention to DS game launches now, and then I wanted to go check it out, even though I'd already looked up the price online. And then, hey! They had a used copy of Birth By Sleep that included the cover art and booklet - and the product registration code, which was a surprise - and I've never even seen a used one, never even mind one with all its parts, since for some reason everyone else throws out everything but the game when they buy things for the PSP. I will probably never see another one! So I had to buy it. And then immediately pack it, since it's not like I can get to my PSP right now, anyway! Since it's packed, too.)
And while I was there waiting in line, two things! One, apparently there's another Silent Hill title (STARRING A PRISONER, whee, I'd say more but this is getting too long and it would mostly be WTF, whining, and fan-bitching, anyway) coming out at some point. The girl in front of me was reading the Upcoming Games! list and was like, what, another one? So then we whined a little about how the more recent ones haven't been any good. And then I found out the guy working there had also played FFXI and wanted to play FFXIV (and to get back to XI, but POL kept crashing when he tried to update, so I gave him some hints on how to get around it and a bit of a summary of both their current states). Kinda cool! Never met another SE MMO player (or, rather, met someone who played either and not because I'd talked them into it). (No, really, all the people I know who play/ed it are people I knew before it launched or people I met in-game. And I've only tripped - ie, met in a place that wasn't a FFXI/V-based community/forum - over one person online who played XI. I WAS EXCITED OKAY? ._.;)
