It’s been a rocky road for Final Fantasy XIV. The game arrived as Square Enix’s brave new attempt to crack the MMO market. But it failed.
One critic wrote “the kindest thing that can be said about the FF MMO is that it has a good intro movie”.
Square Enix president and CEO Yoichi Wada even apologised to fans. The publisher extended the free trial period, reshuffled the development team, and issued several game updates. But finally, two years later, Square Enix made the tough decision to simply start all over again.
Final Fantasy XIV fans can now properly benchmark their PCs and check out some of what's coming to their game this summer.
Richard writes: Final Fantasy XIV Online on Xbox is built for newcomers.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
I'm hoping people re-review this game when the 2.0 version comes out so I can see if it's worth the investment.
By announcing the release date of Versus XIII...
I'm sure it'll get some attention. I think I'm like many others that either A) have been patiently waiting for a PS3 release and B) played when the game first came out and quit because it was so bad, yet very much want the game to be good. I hope 2.0 feels more like an updated FFXI
By hopefully making funeral arrangements, it's gonna be just as bad as when it first came out. No amount of making it looks better or adding new things can make up for the fact that the gameplay was terrible.