most boring MMORPG I've played so far...

[Antyss08]

Im lvl 23, I have no motivation or anything to launch the game other that I paid for the sub.
Its bland and boring in every sense, combat, quest, maps, the way you travel and the story so far...

Playing mostly like a delviery man, bring a bottle of Oringe Juice to Swyrgeim Vesper Bay western coast of Thanalan from Ul'dah.
And there so many of quest like this, nothing but go from point a-b-a
Its just a dead brainer game, I need to switch off my brain for this game to play like a zombie or human bot.
Why this game is so stupidly boring?
Just found a video thats shares exact same feelings that I have
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGy5eVXuLb0

Level 10-20 time 6h
This is the gameplay: travel a-b-a, collect leafs and deliver, kill worthless no brain mobs loop repeat. 6h or doing same thing with different npc and mobs.

• Speak with Keitha at Bentbranch Meadows.
  
• Speak with Roseline.
  
• Slay 4 Qiqirn Scramblers.
  
• Report to Roseline at the Matron's Lethe.
  
• Remove blue trumpets.
  
• Report to Theodore at the Matron's Lethe.
  
• Speak with Roseline.
  
• Search for signs of the shadowy figure.
  
• Deliver the leather bag to Roseline.
  
• Show Roseline's message to Elmar.
  
• Show Roseline's message to Bernard.
  
• Show Roseline's message to Eylgar.
  
• Search for signs of the winged beasts.
  
• Speak with Lothaire.
  
• Speak with Leonnie.
  
• Speak with Armelle at the Mirror Planks.
  
• Salvage the cargo. 0/2
  
• Deliver the cargo to Keitha at Bentbranch Meadows.
  
• Question the people of Bentbranch Meadows. 0/3
  
• Speak with Luquelot.
  
• Subdue the thief, and take back Leia's egg.
  
• Retrieve Leia's egg.
  
• Return Leia's egg to Luquelot.
  
• Speak with Luquelot.
  
• Deliver Luquelot's letter to Miounne.
  
• Deliver Mioune's letter to Bowlord Lewin.
  
• Make haste to the Guardian Tree.
  
• Defeat the Ixal.
  
• Defeat the Gargoyle.
  
• Speak with Lewin.
  
• Consult Miounne.
  
• Collect the artifact from Beatin.
  
• Deliver the wooden lockbox to Miounne.
  
• Put on the Monoa Mask and speak with Estaine.
  
• Speak with Kan-E-Senna at the Lotus Stand.
  
• Speak with Miounne.
  
• Speak with Lionnellais at the airship landing.
  
• Board the airship.
  
• Speak with the storm honor guard.
  
• Present Kan-E-Senna's missive to Zanthael at Bulwark Hall.
  
• Speak with L'nophlo at the airship landing.
  
• Board the airship.
  
• Speak with the flame honor guard.
  
• Present Kan-E-Senna's missive to Bartholomew on the Hustings Strip.
  
• Speak with Baderon at the Drowning Wench in Limsa Lominsa.
  
• Retrieve ripe corpses. 0/3
  
• Deliver the corpses to Isembard at Camp Drybone.
  
• Speak with Marques outside the Church of Saint Adama Landama.
  
• Lay the embalmed corpse at the gravesite.
  
• Bury the embalmed corpse.
  
• Report back to Marques.
  
• Speak with Sister Ourcen.
  
• Speak with Isembard at Camp Drybone.
  
• Speak with the uncombed urchin in the Golden Bazaar.
  
• Save Sister Ourcen.
  
• Report to Isembard at Camp Drybone.
  
• Speak with Thancred.
  
• Search for a clue in the Amalj'aa encampment.
  
• Show the queer leaflet to Thancred.
  
• Show the queer leaflet to Sister Ourcen.
  
• Speak with Thancred.
  
• Speak with Isembard.
  
• Speak with the locals while garbed in a weathered shepherd's tunic and a pair of weathered shepherd's slops.
  
• Speak with Thancred.
  
• Speak with Thancred while garbed in a weathered shepherd's tunic and a pair of weathered shepherd's slops.
  
• Speak with Minfilia at the Waking Sands.
  
  After I will review all the comments, I will select a few and you guys will give a feeback like agree/strongly agree/ neutral/ disagree / strongly disagree of other FFXIV veterans statements.
  For example: FFXIV is mostly solo play focus.
  -disagree
  
  New update
  Asmongold will try FF14 with NO content skip & boost, I believe he can make more than anyone else a fair opinion/criticism and an observation regarding his experience with FFXIV.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlxAseu5Vu0

[Om3ga-Z3ro]

Also different team of developers.

[Intra]

I'm confused. We're talking about basic ass maps here. Like lines drawn in sand for plans level. Why do you need to use FF11's talent for that? To program a map to not run at 15 fps when the rest of the game is 166 fps?

To not look so pixelated that NES games look more HD?

Let's assume the devs are "too stupid" to label elevations, or that it's "too handholdy" or whatever trash you make up for an excuse.

Hire an intern, or a community member, to do it for free. If your staff is too garbage at 2d simple drawings that they can't make a basic map, feel free to leech the talent somewhere else.

Speaking of rancid, trash, utter nonsense map design: there is a reproduceable, constant bug that the map just doesn't load if you click the arrows leading to different sections. Just. Doesn't. Load. So you gotta back the map out, click on the map from the greater whole. The game has trained me how to overcome this trash bug more than it's trained me to play my class.

[meeesj]

Автор сообщения: The Mayor of Murder Town

Автор сообщения: Meeesj

they already "revamped" it, but its still garbage because they monetize lvl boosts and story skips

What do those two things have to do with each other?

If the game was amazing and engaging from the get go the boosts and skips wouldnt make any sense or money because people would actually want to play the game and not skip it

[Intra]

Автор сообщения: GamingWithSilvertail

? Sooo you at one point are complaining aboujtg gettting 15 FPS on an area?

No. I'm complaining about the MAP SCREEN being 15 fps where it gets dragged with your character movement instead of stationary like the mini map.

It has some odd ghosting/flashing bug where it can't remain stationary on the screen at the edges, and that flickering is about 15 fps.

My computer runs max settings 166 fps (because I have 166hz monitor) with additional textures without issue.
(3080)

The map is severely bugged out.

[Om3ga-Z3ro]

Автор сообщения: Intra

Автор сообщения: GamingWithSilvertail

? Sooo you at one point are complaining aboujtg gettting 15 FPS on an area?

No. I'm complaining about the MAP SCREEN being 15 fps where it gets dragged with your character movement instead of stationary like the mini map.

It has some odd ghosting/flashing bug where it can't remain stationary on the screen at the edges, and that flickering is about 15 fps.

My computer runs max settings 166 fps (because I have 166hz monitor) with additional textures without issue.
(3080)

The map is severely bugged out.

That sounds like a problem on your side, my map and I am sure many others map doesn't behave like that.

[Vangalisk]

It's not the game that is boring, its you.

[Intra]

I've played FF14 on 3 computers. The issue still does the same thing when you are moving.

Some crappy Laptop GPU
Quadro
3080

(All three different computers with no parts shared)

Same map issue on all three. Different monitor screens. Different iterations of the game, from

3080 - Trial version
Quadro and Laptop - Steam version

So unless there's a magical setting I'm not seeing, the map screen edges moving back and forth when you're running with it does not appear to be related to one system.

And I can DAMN well say that the lack of resolution on the map is not a system setting issue.

The only thing I can think of, why you guys don't see it, is because this only occurs to maps in pre-expansion areas only? Or that your system settings are so bad that it isn't noticeable to you.

[BrokenG3ars]

Автор сообщения: Hokage Richard

It's not the game that is boring, its you.

Nice hot take there lmao

[War Maiden]

Автор сообщения: Intra

Автор сообщения: GamingWithSilvertail

? Sooo you at one point are complaining aboujtg gettting 15 FPS on an area?

No. I'm complaining about the MAP SCREEN being 15 fps where it gets dragged with your character movement instead of stationary like the mini map.

It has some odd ghosting/flashing bug where it can't remain stationary on the screen at the edges, and that flickering is about 15 fps.

My computer runs max settings 166 fps (because I have 166hz monitor) with additional textures without issue.
(3080)

The map is severely bugged out.

I don't even know how you can't calculate the map. Seriously, I get 150 fps regardless of map or otherwise. What are you even talking about? Elevation levels? That is that the lines are for, can you not read a map? Good thing we aren't going into military map levels and orientation, if we did, most of these people would be lost.

[Intra]

Автор сообщения: War Maiden

I don't even know how you can't calculate the map. Seriously, I get 150 fps regardless of map or otherwise. What are you even talking about? Elevation levels? That is that the lines are for, can you not read a map? Good thing we aren't going into military map levels and orientation, if we did, most of these people would be lost.

... people can't read. Allow me to explain.

When I travel, with the map zoomed in, the map travels with me. It is not smooth. It updates at ABOUT 15 FPS. In the earlier zones around the starting cities, it is VERY NOTICEABLY BAD. I finally got to a new hub at 40, and the map does NOT look 360p anymore by the way. It's like Heavensward brought the map to like 720p ish. They even have elevation shading on it.

So yeah, CLEARLY the early maps near the starting cities are TRASH and still need to be fixed! And also the 15 fps while zoomed in thing also still sucks.

And to REITERATE, this is the MAP'S FPS OF UPDATING, not MY GAME'S FPS WITH THE MAP UP. MY GAME DOES NOT LOWER FPS FROM THE MAP BEING UP. THE MAP UPDATES SLOW! OKAY!!

So yeah, I get why you all "forgot" how bad the maps were because you don't even go to the zones they have problems in anymore, but my leveling experience up to this point was made that much worse because of a map you all forgot existed.

And the updating FPS of the map traveling with you while zoomed in still sucks.

[Intra]

I will now say positive things about the game:

The leveling area I have moved to now has:
GREAT music
The map is no longer 360p, now like 720p
and the plot is actually decent now (major hook, but they are still using fetch quest filler, just less boring and dumb)

Also now that my Summoner isn't gated I'm not hating the game being a stupid worthless Scholar and I LOVE the Summoner. Keep in mind I like playing healers so I'm pretty sure I'll pick up Astrologian and White Mage as well.

For people leveling up Scholar right now, be aware that it may not get a bright future in the next expansion. It's already in an awkward place.

[Om3ga-Z3ro]

Автор сообщения: Intra

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For people leveling up Scholar right now, be aware that it may not get a bright future in the next expansion. It's already in an awkward place.

Scholar's will be in a much better position than Astrologian in the next expansion, since Astrologian is gonna lose their shield capabilities (Which is like almost half of their playstyle, they can switch to different healer types depending what the 2nd healer is) and become a dedicated 2nd Regen healer for when Sage comes in.

[Nico Yazawa]

Автор сообщения: Om3ga-Z3ro

Автор сообщения: Intra

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For people leveling up Scholar right now, be aware that it may not get a bright future in the next expansion. It's already in an awkward place.

Scholar's will be in a much better position than Astrologian in the next expansion, since Astrologian is gonna lose their shield capabilities (Which is like almost half of their playstyle, they can switch to different healer types depending what the 2nd healer is) and become a dedicated 2nd Regen healer for when Sage comes in.

And SCH has to compete with Sage, which everyone and their mothers are gonna be.

I mean, sure they *might* pull a HW AST and have it release criminally underpowered, but I feel like they probably don't want that as its a selling point for the new expansion.

[Om3ga-Z3ro]

Автор сообщения: Koishi Komeiji

Автор сообщения: Om3ga-Z3ro

Scholar's will be in a much better position than Astrologian in the next expansion, since Astrologian is gonna lose their shield capabilities (Which is like almost half of their playstyle, they can switch to different healer types depending what the 2nd healer is) and become a dedicated 2nd Regen healer for when Sage comes in.

And SCH has to compete with Sage, which everyone and their mothers are gonna be.

I mean, sure they *might* pull a HW AST and have it release criminally underpowered, but I feel like they probably don't want that as its a selling point for the new expansion.

Of course everyone and their mother will play a new class, that's how it is with all new things, anything new and shiny is gonna get all the attention, I am saying that AST is gonna get gutted in EW since they are going to be just a second Regen healers with DMG boost instead of an all rounder. As a person that mains a Scholar for healer slot, I am also gonna be playing Sage.

[Nico Yazawa]

Автор сообщения: Om3ga-Z3ro

Автор сообщения: Koishi Komeiji

And SCH has to compete with Sage, which everyone and their mothers are gonna be.

I mean, sure they *might* pull a HW AST and have it release criminally underpowered, but I feel like they probably don't want that as its a selling point for the new expansion.

Of course everyone and their mother will play a new class, that's how it is with all new things, anything new and shiny is gonna get all the attention, I am saying that AST is gonna get gutted in EW since they are going to be just a second Regen healers with DMG boost instead of an all rounder. As a person that mains a Scholar for healer slot, I am also gonna be playing Sage.

I believe they mentioned and changed how DF interacts with their change for Heal Healers and Shield Healers, DF will never put 2 shield healers in the same party. So chances are, you'll never be seeing SCH *because* everyone will be playing SGE.

AST will still be a good healer, AST were always in Diurnal anyway.