Basically the genre is in a rut. World of Warcraft is it at it's worst ever, and is still better than the competition.

If your looking for an online RPG mix, just go with Guild Wars 2 or ESO. Neither have good raiding end games ... but they are damn well more interesting games than FF14 ... just final fantasy fanboyism at its finest ... the game has some of the most archiac gameplay in the genre... its questing/fates(dynamic events) are incredibly limited, what makes it worse is they failed to improve on ANY of these systems in their first expansion ... and the game is limited by supporting the PS3 ... which is a joke in itself. You have floating islands, and you still cant jump off the edge... or dismount - minor things ... but they stack up.

Bare in mind, people like @goodkingmog probably just grind in the game and watch cutscenes .. 2 months "playing every day" ... it does not take that long. and most of it is tedious "walk here, go back there" ... honestly you will grow sick of it fast. At least games like GW2 have a good engine, with good character mobility and more believable quests. FF sticks to cutscenes... outside of that... its very outdated. But then expect someone who says "Star Citizen FPS Module is delay" indefinitely to spout nonsense... and then vouch for things like this.

Those saying "WoW is now like a mobile game business module" just because its garisons have wait times on them ... and the such ... FF14 is full of "click this, wait a few hours then try again" ... and grindy mini games .... and well, just grind... FF is pure grind... its one of the most RNG MMOs on the market in 2015 now (AAA ones anyway) .... there is very little content that actually pushes any sort of skill ... 1 8 man dungeon every 6months (terrible) and the occasional singular boss (primal extremes) that server very little purpose outside of grinding for RNG items ... and as I said, the RNG is worse than most games).

All those shiny graphics, and they can't even creativly design dungeons and boss rooms that are not just circles or squares .... its like FF13/FF10 you walk down a singular corridor, that doesn't even try to hide the fact that its a corridor .... no suprises .... then "oh look, its a lsightly more open circle room, ITS BOSS TIME" ..... all those graphics, no creativity.

I agree that attacking individuals has no place here. However, to the content of the original post there's a big difference between thinking that a game will fail and -wanting- a game to fail. I have yet to hear anyone give a compelling reason for why anyone should -want- a game to fail beyond personal biases such as vitriol towards the developer, the game type, or the community that enjoys the game. While I can certainly understand the perspective that it’s unlikely this game will succeed with its massive budget and increase in scale, that’s totally different from wishing the game to fail for the schadenfreude derived glee of others being wrong about the game.

If you’re interested in fostering a reasonable discussion, try coming out of the gate with less incendiary comments.

-Byshop

Maybe I don't understand the concept of Star Citizen but why would I play a progression-based game where players can just buy everything? How would this be different than if Sony started selling giant tanks in Planetside 2 that dominated infantry, and could only be unlocked with $30 or 300 hours of playtime? And at least PS2 is free :P

sounds like you have something personal against this game. what are you basing your doubts on? because it's not ready yet? LOL.

because here's the thing; Chris Roberts has ALREADY DELIVERED amazing space games in the past many times, so that kind of proves he (out of pretty much anyone else) has the skills to make something amazing like this happen.

will this game be the best space game ever made? hard to say at this point. will it fail miserably? hell no. Chris Roberts is now more experienced than ever before, so it can't fail completely.

EDIT: oh nevermind... i read his posts a bit further, and he's just some troll.

I just don't get it. Some of you guys flame @goodkingmog but you are allowed to spout nonsense about how much this game is a godsend? A person can have a different opinion. If you want to see the game succeed and he wants to see it fail....why is he the bad guy? You are just as bad to blindly follow a game that sells ships For anywhere from 2-40x the price of a normal game. YES, you can call it a pledge all you want but we all know you are buying a ship. Sorry but the game isn't even close to done and you are buying items in it.

Best of luck on your game but do yourself a favor and keep the hate off. Some people are going to dislike what you like.