Today Square Enix held the second part of the Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Tokyo Game Show Letter from the Producer Live with Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida answering questions from the fan and giving information on the Binding Coil of Bahamuth dungeon, the Crystal Tower raid dungeon, player housing and more.
Square Enix president Takashi Kiryu discusses the dropping player count of Final Fantasy XIV and the numerous projects of YoshiP.
Looks like Square Enix is self-aware but still stuck in place, they see the player drop and apologize for the bugs, but nothing really changes. Shame, FFXIV used to be the gold standard
My entire free company has stopped playing. The writing has consistently gotten worse and the content is sparse and lacking; unless you are a hardcore player there's very little for you to do. They are over-catering to the people who will grind three+ times a week on a single fight for multiple months when the playerbase by large doesn't want that sort of content. Square needs to dedicate more resources to the game instead of wasting them on mobile and other live service slop.
The biggest factor for me is the way they butchered job design over the years , the casualization and over simplification really hurt a good chunk of enjoyment I used to have . Jobs lost any form of complexity and just became " press glowing button" DDR style for fighting where the gameplay loop is a about the 2 minute burst window . They removed most DoTS, timer mechanics , cast times, pets, RNG ect and all around homogenized everything . When you try and can cater to everyone ... you cater to no one .
YoshiP, the director and producer of Final Fantasy 14, has apologised for the state of the game at the time of writing.
Do you not see this happening during development? Like, why are we apologizing after the fact instead of stopping it during development?
I was unhappy with DT and have spent far less time in it than any other expansion but it's things like this that makes me respect Yoshi P. It's rare for such a high profile developer to be so candid in his assessment on a live game.
Square Enix released new screenshots of the upcoming patch 7.25 for its popular MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, including the Occult Crescent.
Already excited. Best mmo to come out in years.
I am really enjoying this game a really solid game imo. I am looking forward to hearing more that is coming to the game.
They just had to throw Lightning in there didn't they? Out of all their magnificent creations, they choose her. <sigh>
The FFIII gear you can get looks awesome. Looking forward to this patch.
Why? Why Lightning? I understand that they wanna promote their new game but there are so many other amazing characters to use, like my personal favorite Squall. I feel like they just need to let FF13 go it was good but not great.
Ps. a job that uses the gunblade would be awesome!