Alleged FFXIV open beta (AKA Squeenix fails at the internet)

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

Literally everything is awkwardly and ineffectually set up. Movement, combat, communication with NPCs, communication with other players, video options... anything that one would consider the bedrock of a video game is just absolute shit.

It's something that I've noticed with a lot of new MMOs where they don't want to be accused of being a "WoW clone" so they try to avoid it in the most wrongheaded manner by just trying to reinvent the UI in a way that's as far removed from what Blizzard did as possible (and invariably coming up with something unplayably worse) and leaving all the generic MMO gameplay elements that people associate first and foremost with WoW in place.

It's like they're throwing out the baby with the bathwater, except they're keeping the bathwater.

This is so weird in that you think it'd be obvious that the best way to make a WoW-killer is to shamelessly rip off everything about WoW, then fix a couple of things people hated about WoW, then add a couple cool things that aren't in WoW.

And when I say obvious, I mean it's how WoW crushed Everquest beneath its sandaled thrice-elven +3 Boots of Buttzhammer-ed feet.