After 14 years, you can finally play Final Fantasy 14 on Xbox and the wait is absolutely worth it

Fear not, weary Xbox players, the incredibly long wait for FF14 on Xbox is finally over as the MMO’s open beta officially begins on Series X|S.

[anast]

Imagine waiting 14 years to play this. The game isn't good.

[CrimsonWing69]

What’s bad about it?

[anast]

I maxed the free trail when it was out. I thought the combat was horrible and the graphics. It felt cheap and janky to me. And I would have thought they would have overhauled the game by now.

[anast]

"I don't judge a game on how many people like it."

If you paid attention. I said the game was going to fail because of it and that the game would have been better as a solo experience. They are different arguments.

[PapaBop]

ARR probably. The game is amazing, there is nothing quite like it out there, the level of character development and story is unmatched in gaming. The early game though poorly reflects the overall value of the game, the early combat, story, gameplay in general and even the voice acting (English) are all pretty bad in comparison to where the game has been since Heavensward really. I'm not surprised many people tried it and didn't stick it out and it's why it's such a hard game to recommend. "Hey here is one of the best FF games ever made but the first 50 hours are average at best" isn't a particular enticing sell.

[jznrpg]

It’s a good game but it’s been out so long it’s hard to enjoy past content when you don’t get to experience it when it comes out. MMO’s are best played in the first couple years imo or at least the first 5 but 14 years later you will level up and go to newer end game stuff and skip a ton of content or bypass it fast as you can. It’s just nowhere near the same playing it towards the end of its life instead of experiencing everything as it releases.

[anast]

There is this point too. It makes sense.

[Angyobangyo]

The game has been around for 14 years.14 successful years and still going strong. You just sound bitter.

[anast]

I don't judge a game on how many people like it. I think for myself. Candy Crush sucks and it is still going strong. You will need to, at minimum, come up with a decent argument instead of guessing how people feel.

[ModsDoBetter]

"I don't judge a game on how many people like it."

If I recall correctly, you were always complaining about how Friday The 13th had a low player count and that reflects how TCM was going to be poor.

Kind of sounds like you judge games based on how many people like it.

[andy85]

Probably the best MMO that exists right now. When did you play it, 2010?

[anast]

Yeah, that's sad.

[Felix313]

that's your opinion - I've been playing since the 2.0 beta and have enjoyed most of the game (Stormblood was a bit meh imo) and the current game has only been out 11 years not 14

[anast]

Yes, it's my opinion. A ton of people enjoy the game and they should if that's what they like.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Sounds like your judging it based on the initial release which was an absolute disaster. Then it was overhauled completely into A Realm Reborn and it was almost like a completely new game.

[Hereandthere]

This game is assss, i guess this is their cope for phil selling them up the river for a nickle.

[andy85]

https://www.gamesradar.com/...

[Einhander1972]

It'll take another 14 years to pay back the investment in getting the game to run for the 2 people left on xbox. I guess that's why they have to pay for gold just to play the game. Xbox is the worst place to play FF14.

Hopefully maintaining the xbox version doesn't take money that could have been better spent on the game itself.

[Reaper22_]

Sounds like you are in your feelings. Get used to it because this is where the industry is headed for Microsoft as well as sony. This is only the beginning. In the near future you won't need a ps to play sony games or a xbox for Microsoft games. It's a good thing imo because hardware sales don't make up for all the money lost on them.

[DarXyde]

Never played it, but this is the first I've heard any bad about it (after ARR, anyway). My understanding is that it's a great game and the article does mention that it even outpaced WoW. Not a small feat.

It's pricier on Xbox though, which is unfortunate, but at the end of the day, if you've waited this long, you'll have hundreds of hours of content upfront and that's a pretty good thing.

[Felix313]

afaik the Gamepass requirement is on Xbox not Square

[DarXyde]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's correct.

It's a step backwards when you consider it took forever for them to relax their Gold requirements on F2P titles.

[BrainSyphoned]

Who this is good for--people that have a secondary FFXIV account stuck on their PSN ID.

[TheColbertinator]

Been some time since I played FF14. Probably since the days of Stormblood

[OneLove]

Way too many games for me to keep up. I only got to create my character before going to sleep.