Final Fantasy XIV discusses companions and crafting

Its fine and its your option to return the game if you want to.

But to me it sounds like you didnt really want to play the game in the first place. I think if you really wanted to play you have a tried to work it out for more than a day or so. You gotta have passion though, and from what it looks like to me atleast with this game you didnt.

Oh and lots of games have problems with routers, the ones i can think of off the top of my head and have experienced personally are:

World of warcraft
FFXI
Lotro
Guild wars

Each one of those has had some kind of wierd d/c issue that i eventually corrected. Some were just minor, some were major (world of warcraft)

@Relgoth
GTFO

It's not conceivable that someone might have a dealbreaking issue that your fanboy passion is ready to put up with no matter what? Accordance bought the game, tried to get it to work and it didn't. I'd return the P.O.S. too.

MMOs have issues with routers and FFXIV is no exception. Frankly all games since the start of PC gaming have various computer issues that needed to be dealt with in order to play.

Even if you problem solve the router situation you will not get the patcher to fully work as most patchers do. It seems SE didn't have the 'passion' to fix their damn updater... pathetic.

You're doing something wrong. With all the noise I heard here about the patcher, I expected it wouldn't be up and running until the following day. But I got home on day one around 11pm, installed the game and patched it in under and hour.

Yeah you're not missing much. If you ever decide to come back wait a few months so there is more content/fixes for the system.

Even the minimum requirements the system needs are buggy as hell. It says you need a dual-core CPU at 2ghz minimum. I'm running 2.2ghz dual core with all graphics effects turned to the lowest setting and it's still jumpy/jittery in congested areas.

What's up with that!?

What store did you go to that actually let you return the game after you opened the box and tried to install it?

"Its fine and its your option to return the game if you want to.

But to me it sounds like you didnt really want to play the game in the first place."

Yeah. I buy games I don't want to play all the time. Just the other day I got a used copy of Big Rig Truckers off of Amazon!

I cringe when anyone mentions 'torrent'. From what I have heard it's a good way to ruin your system if you don't know what you're doing with it. And I don't know what I'm doing with it. My experience is limited, but frankly I just don't trust it. With my luck, I'd end up making the issue with the updater worse. But I did read that it was possible to get the files I needed that way and the process was pretty involved - downloading the files and then putting them in the correct directories where the game was installed on my system. I also read (and wasn't just saying off-hand) that the game has an issue with my particular router.

So yes, my original statement was an accurate, albeit short, account of my experience with the game out of the box. And for whoever suggested it, I did not have the same issues with WoW, or LotRO, or Guild Wars (though I did have similar problems with FFXI) and I am opposed to trolling as a rule.

@ Psycholips - I think that's truly a great thing that the game already has a community dedicated to helping computer illiterate people like me to solve their problems. No BS there. At the same time, however, I feel like there's something wrong when consumers are required to fix a product they just bought. I think I would feel much the same way had I purchased a new lawnmower, brought it home, and discovered that I was missing critical parts or needed to repair the engine prior to mowing my lawn.

@Accordance A torrent really just a pointer to a group of people who have/want the same file as you. The download software simply grabs parts of the file from others while at the same time shares the parts you have already downloaded yourself.

Torrents will not mess up your system.

Now, if you choose to utilize torrent technology for fast downloading of pirated software and you neglect to scan seriously for trojans and viruses... then you could mess up your system. That said, downloading any executable software from any untrusted source is a danger.

Again, torrents themselves - not even as complex as a word document.

John, obviously you're opinion about this game is wrong.

That's right, according to everyone else your OPINION is wrong.

Don't come in here being all opinionated and not liking what the kids like.

Obviously you're ignorant and just don't want to play the game.

I doubt his opinion is what did it. Maybe the way he put it. Maybe the fact that he added nothing to the conversation. I find it rediculous that voting someone down can dim or take away someone's comment, but in a case like this, where all he really did was say it sucks and walk off, I'm okay with seeing it disappear.