Metal Arcade: Nate Gray writes:
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn's release is on the horizon, and early indicators have our interest piqued.
Final Fantasy as an MMO franchise seems almost cursed to initial failure. The original 2003 launch of Final Fantasy XI was met with disdain, surprising people with excruciating grind and difficulty aimed at encouraging party play, not including the myriad of server and social issues. It eventually found its niche audience and has since proven a moderate success with a stable, even fanatical, fan-base. Whether Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn can redeem the original release's terrible launch is yet to be seen, but early indicators have our interest piqued.
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.
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.
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.
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.