Ars Technica: "Revamp is unapologetic about ignoring accessibility trends, and it's better for it."
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.
Final Fantasy XIV is a good MMO at its core; however, I feel like most everything else mechanically is inadequate. The best example, to me, is the crafting system. I really enjoy that crafting has its own set of skills and is legitimately its own mini-game. Sadly, it tends to leave a negative impression because there is little reward aside from better crafting/gathering gear until you are basically max level.
In contrast, the crafting system from WoW starts enabling you to create green items as early as the teens. It also has trinkets, gadgets, pets, mounts, etc. The actual crafting is just pressing a button and letting it go, yet because you feel an actual drive to craft beyond trying to get it to max level it feels more rewarding than FFXIV which is quite literally a grind. But crafting is just one example of this.
Like I said, the core of Final Fantasy XIV is good and I'm definitely enjoying my time. However, I am saddened that aside from a decent selection of pets there isn't much to do besides grind for high end gear or grind your levels in crafting until you can actually make something of use.
Just my two cents.
This might just be one of the better reviews I read on the game I am enjoying the most on my PS3 right now. It explains the simple joys of this mmo, and why it can be super successful for years to come.
I am loving this mmo, I'm loving it on my ps3 over my PC, even though it looks better on my PC. (Better surround sound on my tv helps ALOT as the music is wonderful)