Over the last 30 days, we chronicled our exploits in the land of Eorzea in explicit detail, regularly updating you of our progress and where we stood, before eventually delivering a verdict as to whether it's worth it to start paying for this game via a monthly subscription and continuing to play. Today, it's time to render that verdict!
Richard writes: Final Fantasy XIV Online on Xbox is built for newcomers.
The Xbox profanity filter is currently ruining the readability of the FFXIV chat on Xbox Series X/S due to censored words.
Lol, damn... At this point, they were better off keeping FF XIV away from Xbox. It has been nothing but obstacle, after obstacle.
What happens if you say things that used to get you banned on Twitter e.g. 'a man can't be a woman'?
I'm not convinced this is the profanity filter. It doesn't make sense to censor words like class, harvest and dance. It seems to be a bug.
Well, FF14 itself has some pretty awful chat censoring so Xbox being in the same boat isn't too farfetched
it censored the S T D in "harvest dance" and I bet the A S S in class. I know this because of Runescape
Yeah these new fangled filters are going a bit too far. I have a game that filters "wtf". It's a censor for a self-censoring phrase. But I think overall it's how it should be. If you don't want certain language being used in your game by your player base, then it's up to you to filter/ censor the language you don't want. I can respect that. What I can't respect is when you say things that are not really offensive then you get ostracized for it.
This is completely false, I tested this on my son's child account and mine, this is not Microsoft censoring they will censor swears but not the combination of letters I can prove this with a screenshot where I use all mentioned words in the article but do not know how to upload a picture.
You can all continue your bashing, I was wrong someone explained to me this is a new policy, that's why it only happens for me in this brand new release. I'll try latter on ps to confirm but their response seemed informed wich leaves me rather worried for future censorship on my xbox.
It's not xbox, go ahead start a chat with the youngest person on your friends list then say raid mass class sass said .... they do not censor any of these I even got away with R.Aids. sqaure on the other hand does.
Final Fantasy XIV players on Xbox are receiving console wide bans for seeking or helping others find a Free Company.
That's wild. I'm guessing someone in a position of power is VERY opposed to sharing resources.
Is this not happening on other platforms? It really seems like this game is a very unpleasant experience on Xbox the more you hear about it.
The question is... Is this Microsoft just looking to make more money on micro transactions, or is Square sabotaging the Xbox version? I really don't understand this.
most of the issues are coming from Microsoft.
-Microsoft has insisted on having their own special "currency" called FFXIV Coins that you have to buy and use to pay your subscription if Xbox is the only platform you have FFXIV on. The problem though is that they don't sell coins in increments to pay for just one month at a time. You have no choice but to overpay and have coins left over.
-Microsoft's chat censorship is meddling with the in-game chat log by censoring ridiculous things as well as pieces of other words if that word contains a naughty word such as "class" being censored to "cl???".
-Microsoft refused to make an exception of requiring players to pay for a Game Pass subscription to play the game online. Therefore, Xbox players are the only ones required to pay for two subscriptions since PlayStation made an exception for this game and doesn't require PSN+.
-However, Square refused to budge on one of their policies as well which negatively affects Xbox players. Due to the way Square insists on tying the game purchase to your Square Enix account, it makes FFXIV the one and only Xbox game I'm aware of that does not support Xbox's Game Sharing feature. Each and every gamertag that wants to play the game will need to have its own purchase registered, even if they're all using the same physical console.
YES !
Game is good , there are a lot of mecanics that work correctly and i don't feel that bored when i'm doing secondary stuff. Duty finder works quite well too.
And some of the locales are trully beautifull.
In short i'm having fun
@Redempteur I agree 100%, been damn near impossible for me to go a whole day without thinking about that game. Unfortunately real life obligations prevents me from becoming a hermit and playing it all day! It is a great game though with plenty to do!
its a great game. nice to see that people are loving it and subscribing. I let my subscription run out when i bought my ps4, but will be rejoining after i get through a couple ps4 games and move my sub from ps3 to ps4.
What Final Fantasy nay sayers refuse to understand is that this game IS a Final Fantasy. I log in, I look around, I see big cities, Chocobos, Moogles, Black Mages with pointy hats, fight Ifrit, etc etc.
It's a Final Fantasy that got forced into an MMO, it's just a series getting more modernized.
And to subscription haters, please. You know how much garbage you probably spend 12 dollars on in a month? Seriously.
Jabez I agree 100 percent. Having said that I bought the game on ps4.and wow what a different game. 1080p @60fps it looks and runs beautiful and imo the best mmo right now.