Comments on: Final Fantasy XIV Player Populations At Death’s Door

By: wahyudil

wahyudil — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:55:04 +0000

I'm still not understand why FF14 is so bad

By: Setsuna Toshirou

Setsuna Toshirou — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:56:47 +0000

Well all i can tell is wait, about year or so ;)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:06:32 +0000

I don't know about screwing up Final Fantasy right off the bat... FF12 I thought would be an excellent game, but it seemed like they changed writing staff during production - the game map was clearly meant for an open-ended game with a clear start and finish but no clear way of getting there, but they fitted it with a complete failure of a storyline. 13 was so bad I couldn't play past the first few hours. It's like they were going to do well, then ditched the good plan for a hackneyed joke. On the other hand, the games that they only publish rather than make themselves are rather good - the only thing I dislike about the recent Dragon Quest games are the TERRIBLE translation jobs they were given that completely ignore the already established reputation of the Dragon Warrior games (same series, but from before Enix merged with Square). Valkyrie Profile was very well done as well, and then there's Star Ocean... which I have yet to play, so I won't comment on its worth.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:57:05 +0000

if anything i wonder why they tried not to have anything from xi online? the game doesnt have to be 100% the same as xi but if it aint broke dont fix it right. im sure SE learned alot from xi. so use it use what u learn and let it roll. like the no auction house option. that was madness. calling chocobo's horse bird's =/ come on get it together

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:18:29 +0000

if SE ever get around to the ps3 release there population numbers would more than triple

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:47:01 +0000

quality / china = undefined

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:02:27 +0000

First off, yeah it was coming, we all saw it coming from the day it was released, but that aside, i believe square's increasing reliance on visuals and acceptance by foreign markets has made it unable to compete with even the most basic of rpgs these days.
what made ff7/8/9/10 so popular? sidequests, big maps, customization, and even comedy factors in there. 13/14 have none of that, you're forced to walk the same path everyone else that ever played the game has to walk, with no unique experiences or memorable moments. if we could just get square to realize that games are made FOR the players, not the other way around, there might be some way to salvage what's left. otherwise, we might just have to settle for the next namco beta or whenever tri-ace decides to do something.
anyways those are just my thoughts }
/endrant

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:08:19 +0000

Other than nothing to do in game, the worse is there is always a chance to get an error 20524 or something like that when updating.
You cant repair FFXIV like other programs by clicking repair in program files/control panel without reinstalling.
I bet there are lots of better f2p pay2pwn games...oh wait, square claims ffxiv is not f2p.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:15:23 +0000

I play Aion, Wow, War, Lunia, Vindictus, Dungeon Siege 1 and FFXIV.

I'll say this... in population greatness.

Wow
War
Aion
Vindictus
Lunia
Dungeon Siege I
FFXIV

FF14 is on the bottom of the list... in population and Dungeon Seige has 0 Most of the time.

Its a hard feat to accomplish and SE did that achievement alone.

Game breaking Graphics with Game breaking Shitty Mechanics/UI makes a "Game breaking Bankruptcy"

By: PrinceHeir

PrinceHeir — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 06:05:54 +0000

damn for shame how high the mighty have fallen.

im still interested in their Versus XIII, Parasite Eve, Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts, Dissidia Franchises but other than that for shame Square.

why not publish Valkyrie Profile 3 with Tri Ace? :P

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:58:48 +0000

Might just be best to cut losses and use the graphics engine from 14 to make 11 look better.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:51:05 +0000

@15:54
Don't get into arguments with the trollfags. There is nothing to win against such petty people.

What they say about the outsourcing is true through. Publishers can quite easily and frequently outsource actual development to an independent game development studio, especially when their own studios are busy with the mainline IPs of the company.

By: alidan

alidan — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:46:36 +0000

however they are only getting minor quibbles solved, nothing game changing, like the economy, seams to be being touched.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:38:56 +0000

I wasn't trying to start a WoW vs FF war. I'm just saying it would be funny if the WoW players could finish off the last of the FFXIV players. xD

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:35:00 +0000

Shut up fanboy. Nintendo makes some quality games, but there are many great Japanese developers, and many of them produce better games than Nintendo.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:29:45 +0000

WoW is the best? Give me a break, WoW is the most popular and gets the most development money, but there are better MMOs out there who just lack the funding and established fanbase of WoW.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:46:17 +0000

WoW IS the best of the current MMORPGs, no question

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:45:39 +0000

Almost forgot about Blizzard there. The worst western video game developer nowadays. Trolls its fans to no end.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:53:43 +0000

What horsebirds? They still haven't even been implemented yet. Hard to feel sorry for something that doesn't exist. :p

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:35:59 +0000

SE's should close this shit already.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:06:27 +0000

sure that the monster got bigger? maybe that character just got smaller.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:57:04 +0000

The game's actually gotten a shit load better, I play on a daily basis and I've seen a steady improvement with each patch. As for population, the server I'm on, Besaid, is chock full of people. I think it's a very popular server, though. I've never gone to a crystal or gate and not seen at least one other person. Ul'dah and Limsa are always full of people, and there are hundreds of active linkshells. As usual, the best advice would be to not believe anything you read on Sankakau, because it's painfully and irrationally bias.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:54:39 +0000

"never liked" =/= "never played"

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:43:27 +0000

"hey should just ask the player base what they would like changing..."

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/topics/detail?id=7268beda5ef81b10600f4ba07316083b634f7678