Famitsu interview covers the testing of Final Fantasy XIV

I'm in the Beta and have yet to see a problem with the controls.
The mouse is a little slow but that's it.

I'm actually about to check and see how well the gamepad controls work.

I hope Square-Enix also implement a way to easily search the list of items in the market wards. I'm sure some people love the idea of hopping from one npc retainer to another, checking each one manually for any good offers.

However, I think there's probably an equal or greater amount of players who hate the idea of going through all the npc retainers just to find some crafting materials.

I think it's absurd Square-Enix discarded the working (albeit dated) auction system in FFXI and regressed to a much less efficient system.

I'm thinking this will be a good Christmas present for myself....ok, maybe Halloween. Sounds like the developers are keen to make this work, but it also sounds like they need more time. I can wait for it to be right.

Fix the mouse controls and the game will be fine. I've enjoyed my first 24 hours in the beta, but the mouse controls are infuriating. The game definitely feels and plays like Final Fantasy, but the mouse controls are holding the game back right now to be fully enjoyed.

Same shit controls as Final Fantasy XI. Not catering to pc players is a fools game, especially after so much feedback about that problem with FFXI. Fix that problem and many more players will be on board.

The game pad is 100% better than the keyboard and mouse, and this makes me sad. I don't enjoy playing my PC games with a game pad. I enjoy my keyboard+mouse combo. Overall the game is coming along nicely, but the game needs some core changes and fast or it will hurt the game.

Fatigue system and guildleves two day cooldown are gonna rip this game apart if they stay in. Purposefully punishing someone because they want to play a certain class for a few hours is the most moronic thing ever added into a game.

The guildleves seem to be the go to thing when you want to kill and level up, but once you do your eight, what now? You could go craft/gather, but if you don't enjoy these, then the game is gonna be very limited for you.

The main problem of the game in my eyes is the casual vs hardcore. I know they want to make the game more casual-friendly. The problem is they are punishing the hardcore group to insure the casual can do as much as a hardcore can in a shorter time frame.

Here's the bit from the interview that's making waves at all the ffxiv sites:

F: Tell why you decided to implement Fatigue and Latency (note: I really don't know how to translate that, but it's something in-game to keep you from playing too long at a time on one class).

DK: We'd like you to think of it as a reward to those players who don't have much time to commit to the game. Those hardcore players out there might think it's a little unfair, but the main concept behind it is that you don't need to put in massive amounts of time to enjoy the game.


F: Still though, there are a lot of disgruntled looks coming from those hardcore gamers.

DK: For those who have more time on their hands, they'll be able to try out all the various classes. Fatigue doesn't carry over when you change weapons, so we hope that they'll try out not just battle-oriented classes but maybe some crafting or gathering ones as well. So for those who end up with many high-level classes, they'll have more choices when it comes to any situation, whether solo or party play

Now that people know what surplus EXP is intended for and that it's not just some beta thing, there's lots of unhappy people.

Every vieo I've see of this game looks incredibly slow and plodding. Can someone confirm that this gets better or is that just the way they design this?

If I remember correctly about my year spent playing ff11, I think I played the game without usuing the mouse at all. It was a combination of tabbing and arrow keys and enter to cycle through everything. I actually was quit e good at it and don't remember it being an issue once I got it down. I liked the ff11 controls.