CraveOnline writes: "It's been just under three years since the Final Fantasy XIV development team was restructured, which is an eternity for MMOs. Now badged as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, the game has been overhauled from the ground up, from its world design to gameplay functionality.
Spearheading the game's new vision is Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida. His job has not been an easy one as the MMO market is always evolving and extremely unforgiving. As the hired hero, it was up to him to restore faith in fans and make the game a success.
With Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn finally here, Naoki Yoshida has kindly taken time out of his schedule to answer questions about the game he has been working tirelessly on."
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?
Criticism and reflection occur after the fact. The apology acknowledges the past criticisms with the new expansion and they're keeping transparency with players about it. Now that they've acknowledged it - it will be interesting to see what kind of cycle we'll get with a new expansion and I wonder if they're planning something special with beast master since they didn't mention it in the last live letter.
The base game and expansion go on sale all the time and doesn't stay full price for very long since a new expansion is on the horizon.
If you're stating they should reduce the price of new expansions or the sub fee, no, that's not gonna happen lmao people aren't even complaining about that. They are criticizing the same old pattern of content that releases and how it is devolving into mediocracy.
"They are criticizing the same old pattern of content that releases and how it is devolving into mediocracy."
The product should be cheaper then.
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.
Same, i've found my self resubbing every two patches instead of keeping it up. Don't own a home in the game so there's no point in keeping a constant sub going. The post story is getting interesting though.
Square Enix released new screenshots of the upcoming patch 7.25 for its popular MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, including the Occult Crescent.
A Final Fantasy XIV fan has embraced the way of the Warrior by creating an axe-shaped controller for IRL Fell Cleaves.
The phoenix shall rise again
Brilliant little piece, quite suprised that he has the script for the first expansion ready. Hard working to say the least. I wonder if they are going to re-use the previous engine in the first FFXIV in other games also.
The game is great roll on 10am BST tomorrow!
At lest we know with the original team that made FF11 on 14 that it won't become stupid to play like the devs that added the abby sea when the 11 dev team got taken off to fixs 14. Bring on Tuesday unfortunately i was able to get the collective edition.
im registered for early access and ready to go along with my CE coming from amazon tuesday , thinking of going to sleep now and getting up when early access starts and play all night before I got to go to work . Then make an excuss to get out of work early and play the rest of the day and all day sunday lol