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Final Fantasy 14 (FFXIV)
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Well, I'm finally back in as of today
Drowning in quests, figuring what I'm meant to do with bags jammed with "dated" gear....
Not liking what I'm reading here about CS, one thing I loved about FFXI is the level of manners thru most of the community. CS's were rare enough, but if I remember rightly, there were no icons or anything to show u we're watching one and it wasn't like everyone was at that point in the storyline. So u could enter whatever that bone tower was called while in an exp party and someone looked like they were just idle a few mins. No one ever said anything, it was understood what was happening and it was all good.0 -
Well, I'm finally back in as of today
Drowning in quests, figuring what I'm meant to do with bags jammed with "dated" gear....
Not liking what I'm reading here about CS, one thing I loved about FFXI is the level of manners thru most of the community. CS's were rare enough, but if I remember rightly, there were no icons or anything to show u we're watching one and it wasn't like everyone was at that point in the storyline. So u could enter whatever that bone tower was called while in an exp party and someone looked like they were just idle a few mins. No one ever said anything, it was understood what was happening and it was all good.
You can other hang on to your old gear so you can use it for levelling other classes and give it to a retainer(which will you get later by following story quests if you don't have one yet), or you can convert it to materia(again, follow quests to unlock that), or you can sell it on the Market Board.
The way it works is the character goes idle and their health bar in the party list changes to "Viewing cutscene". But if even one person skips the cutscene they can keep on playing, start the boss battle, etc while the cutscene viewers just stand around. That's what happened to me, we'd reach a boss arena, a scene would play showing the boss arriving or whatever, I'd watch it, then by the time it was finished I'd find the rest of the group had already killed the boss and had left me behind as they moved on with the dungeon.
Don't get me wrong, I never had any problems with cut scenes until the last two dungeons. In all the previous ones people were very courteous, never said anything, generally they would take the time while the scene was playing to type a boss strategy into the chat, that kind of thing. The problem only really becomes apparent in the last two dungeons, which are 8mans(everything up to that is 4man), and which drop currency which you need to buy end game gear. So you get people who just want to do the dungeon as quickly as possible and get the currency. That conflicts with people who are following the main story, are doing the dungeon for the first time, and either get pressured to skip cutscenes or just ignored. It creates horrible drama.
If that thing another poster said about adding a "Story Mode" checkbox to the LFG interface in an upcoming patch is true, great, that will solve the problem. Or the people who want to grind should not be using the dungeon finder, they should be forming their own parties. Or they should be grinding other dungeons that are not part of the main story. Because the current setup just left a really bitter taste in my mouth after a levelling experience I had really really enjoyed as part of a great game.0 -
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