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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Impressions [RPG Site]

I've been sitting staring at this blank screen for a little bit too long now, but exactly what to write about Final Fantasy XIV sort of escapes me. We've covered it extensively, and while I was shown stuff that was all new at Gamescom 2012, my primary reaction from what I was shown would be to write three words.

It looks good.

bwazy4263d ago

"It looks good"

.... It looks good? IT LOOKS GOOD? FFXIV "looked good", FFXIII "looked good", of COURSE it looks good, it's SQUARE ENIX. The majority of their production these days goes into graphics and nothing but.

Until I ever get my money back for FFXIII & FFXIV I will never play another FF game again (unless convinced otherwise by its good nature).

What's worse is that they are still justifying that players pay a monthly fee to play their (again until proven otherwise) terribly rebuilt game (again all we have to go on is pretty graphics).

Blah!

Capt-FuzzyPants4263d ago

The writer had a lot more to say than "It looked good." The things they showed off were vast improvements over what they had at launch. The
things Yoshida said about making it feel like a true FF are very promising and he seems to be showing how serious he is about adding in stuff from the classic FF games.

Snarkasaur4262d ago

Maybe asking for your money back for FF14 is justifiable as they as much as said it's broken, but there is nothing broken about 13, nor is it a bad game. You're asking for money back because your opinion was that it wasn't good. If everyone could do that for products they buy, the world's economy would literally collapse.

"This movie sucked. I want my seven dollars back" - The movie industry dies.

"This book's ending did not satisfy me!" - writers become poor again.

Get over yourself.

PooEgg4262d ago

Or perhaps:

"This movie sucked. I want my seven dollars back" - The movie industry starts making movies that don't suck and people start watching more movies.

"This book's ending did not satisfy me!" - writers with real talent who can write a good book from start to end succeed and writers who cannot write stop wasting readers time and money.

Consumers should not be expected to blindly support bad quality, no matter if it is bad quality games, movies, books or anything else. If you think differently you have obviously been brainwashed by the companies who want to sale you more crap.

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Square Enix Releases Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Benchmark Software

Final Fantasy XIV fans can now properly benchmark their PCs and check out some of what's coming to their game this summer.

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Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn Review | TheXboxHub

Richard writes: Final Fantasy XIV Online on Xbox is built for newcomers.

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Xbox Profanity Filter Is Ruining the FFXIV Chat

The Xbox profanity filter is currently ruining the readability of the FFXIV chat on Xbox Series X/S due to censored words.

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Snookies1222d ago

Lol, damn... At this point, they were better off keeping FF XIV away from Xbox. It has been nothing but obstacle, after obstacle.

gold_drake22d ago

wanted to say the exact same thjng.

VenomUK21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

What happens if you say things that used to get you banned on Twitter e.g. 'a man can't be a woman'?

RedDevils20d ago

*insert gift*
"Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina."

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DivineHand12521d ago

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.

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TheGamingHounds21d ago

Well, FF14 itself has some pretty awful chat censoring so Xbox being in the same boat isn't too farfetched

Eidolon21d ago

it censored the S T D in "harvest dance" and I bet the A S S in class. I know this because of Runescape

Aphrodia21d ago

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.

shinoff218321d ago

What happened to just reporting people

NOMATICENIGMA21d ago

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.

NOMATICENIGMA21d ago

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.

CrimsonWing6921d ago

Geezus, Xbox, you get gifted gold and still f*ck things up.

NOMATICENIGMA21d ago

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.

CrimsonWing6921d ago

Does this affect PC and PS4/PS5 users, too? Or is it only happening on Xbox?

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