"Oh btw, FFXIV Online in 2010"

[ghost]

Hah.  If we didn't have the new baby I would consider picking this up just to experience the bad first hand. 

[01101010]

Hah.  If we didn't have the new baby I would consider picking this up just to experience the bad first hand. 

No. This is not the game you are looking for. 

[Shatter]

Hah.  If we didn't have the new baby I would consider picking this up just to experience the bad first hand. 

Save yourself 50 bucks.  Go to your bathroom.  Lift the toilet seat up.  Place your head onto the dirty rim.  Slam your head with the toilet seat repeatedly.  You have now played FFXIV. 

[Rasix]

Hah.  If we didn't have the new baby I would consider picking this up just to experience the bad first hand. 

You can try to simulate the FFXIV experience playing your own MMO of choice:

- Play with your elbows.
- Crank the graphics up to something that makes your machine sputter and wheeze.
- Whenever you hit a hotkey for an interface menu, hit it 3 times.
- Whenever you travel some place, be sure to double back a lot to create the feeling of running through a copy/pasted world.
- Targeting is best simulated by randomly clicking on an entity in range.
- Don't use the auction house, run up to random people and ask them if they've got what you're looking for.
- Do 8 quests then halt all progression for the next 36 hours.  You may only do more quests if you're doing them with someone else.
- Keep telling yourself this isn't so bad and that fun stuff is surely just moments away.

[ghost]

That's fucking awesome.  Thanks for the morning laughs, guys.   

[Furiously]

Geld's writing has really improved, I used to just scratch my head trying to figure out what he was saying.

[stu]

I viewed several of his posts last night, just cuz. His posts read like Super Limp Dick Monacle Guy Monologues. Now I feel mean, but that's how his posts read. Good for a laugh, I guess.

[Morfiend]

Geld's writing has really improved, I used to just scratch my head trying to figure out what he was saying.

And now you are just left wondering why he is saying it, right?

[Mrbloodworth]

Geld's writing has really improved, I used to just scratch my head trying to figure out what he was saying.

NO! THIS IS BAD. BAD BLOODWORTH. You know better

[Furiously]

I think Serek Dmart got his Phd at the same school.

[palmer_eldritch]

Give it up people, he has a degree.

[Amaron]

I just saw this got a 5.5 on IGN http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/112/1123824p1.html.  I had to go "wha?" for a moment because that number was so far from 10 that I couldn't even remember what the max was for IGN.   Now I'm trying to remember if I've ever even seen a big AAA publisher get slammed that hard by them.

[tmp]

I just saw this got a 5.5 on IGN http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/112/1123824p1.html.  I had to go "wha?" for a moment because that number was so far from 10 that I couldn't even remember what the max was for IGN.   Now I'm trying to remember if I've ever even seen a big AAA publisher get slammed that hard by them.

Given the rating scale generally starts at 7 yeah, it's doing roughly on Darkfall level.

[Simond]

I wish Amiga Power had turned into Gaming Power or something - their hypothetical review would be a sight to behold. They once gave a game 2% because they felt it was more insulting than a 'gimmick' 1% score.

[Stormwaltz]

"This game sucks! Screw you, Square Enix! I'm quitting FFXIV and taking my $25 million in stock with me!"

He'll see you in Shadowbane, bitches.

[Ginaz]

And now for your daily dose of insanity:

FFXIV received it's first full review from a major U.S. game site with Gamespot giving it a score of 4 out of 10.  Reactions from people on most forums seems to be that this is about what they expected.

Over on the MMORPG forums though (I'm sure you can all see where this is going), one man decided to go batshit insane.

"     Originally posted by

NO. BAD AGAIN.

Is this guy for real?

[Lakov_Sanite]

Shame he doesn't post here/got banned. The entertainment value alone....


Also that 26mil sale of stock? that needs to go down in internet history as the biggest ragequit ever. You simply can't top "your game sucks, I'm leaving and taking 26mil with me."

[Velorath]

Shame he doesn't post here/got banned. The entertainment value alone....

Is funny when it's limited to a couple threads that nobody really cares about.  When he posted here though, that was not the case.

[Amaron]

I wish Amiga Power had turned into Gaming Power or something - their hypothetical review would be a sight to behold. They once gave a game 2% because they felt it was more insulting than a 'gimmick' 1% score.

If we're going to turn back the clock what I'd really like to see is that old rumor mill site on the gaming industry back(I think it was fat babies or something like that?).   All the mud slinging about Brad McQuaid and his pot bowls and John Romero preening his fucking hair 24/7 was great.

I can only imagine the Japanese equivalents have a great amount of "WTF" factor.

[rattran]

Next person who quotes Geldon here, I'm referring to Trippy to have them gelded. He's banned. Gone, done. Stop quoting him.

[Samprimary]

"This game sucks! Screw you, Square Enix! I'm quitting FFXIV and taking my $25 million in stock with me!"

He'll see you in Shadowbane, bitches.

We've brought ragequit to an 8-digit financial figure level. A ragequit that involves the average lifetime earnings of something like 30 median income americans, over the game sucking. Consequences will never be the same.

[Rasix]

Next person who quotes Geldon here, I'm referring to Trippy to have them gelded. He's banned. Gone, done. Stop quoting him.

But but but.. I find it amusing.    (Especially since I banned him)

It's like the kid you beat up in 5th grade has your name written on a list posted in his mom's basement, still rants incoherently about his past injustices and his current struggles, and is just waiting for the day when he can... wait.  I don't like where this is going.

[Furiously]

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1870260/billy.jpg

You are so on the top of his list...

[Velorath]

Next person who quotes Geldon here, I'm referring to Trippy to have them gelded. He's banned. Gone, done. Stop quoting him.

What's the matter, did someone post a Geldon quote in the LOTRO forum or the cat thread or something?

[Bzalthek]

Next person who quotes Geldon here, I'm referring to Trippy to have them gelded. He's banned. Gone, done. Stop quoting him.

But but but.. I find it amusing.    (Especially since I banned him)

It's like the kid you beat up in 5th grade has your name written on a list posted in his mom's basement, still rants incoherently about his past injustices and his current struggles, and is just waiting for the day when he can... wait.  I don't like where this is going.

I can add you to my list if it makes you feel better.  I have a recent opening.

[Hutch]

Next person who quotes Geldon here, I'm referring to Trippy to have them gelded. He's banned. Gone, done. Stop quoting him.

I agree with what you said.

[rattran]

No idea why I disagreed with you, you were right!

[Mrbloodworth]

Play.tm: 4.9/10

Meristation: 5/10

3dJuegos: 6.7/10

[Murgos]

3djuegos?  Really?

[Mrbloodworth]

"The suck" is international.

[Samprimary]

3djuegos?  Really?

¡Ayyyyyyyyy! Aburrido calamidad. ¡No suscriba!

[satael]

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/news/detail?newsId=60bd5ecff1b7645d4e1ead107941f0d8c4e88994
(FF14 “So Bad They Gave Players Another Free Month” to quote Sankaku Complex)

[ghost]

Sounds like they are moving towards F2P

[Rendakor]

"If we give everyone another free month, we don't have to admit how badly our subscription numbers look because they're still subscribed!" 

[Shatter]

Yeah lets all signup for another month of self cutting!!