Square Enix’s CEO has admitted Final Fantasy XIV is “unsatisfactory” and stresses that the company is “trying as hard as it can to regain lost trust.”
Quoth CEO Yoichi Wada addressing investors:
“The FF14 service is currently unsatisfactory, we’re trying to improve it as rapidly as possible. We’re trying as hard as we can to regain lost trust.”
He also admitted that FF11 player numbers have remained stable and that they seem not to be migrating to FF14 in significant numbers.
According to Square Enix, the game has sold a healthy 630,000 copies since launch (190,000 in Japan, 210,000 in the US and 230,000 in the EU). The PS3 version is still scheduled for March.
Server populations have been in freefall since launch however, now standing in the region of 30,000 at peak, despite Square Enix extending the free trial by a month, and the reaction of players to the game has generally been negative.
Wada acknowledges the release sorely disappointed the expectations of fans, but clings to the hope that the game can be patched into a state where it can be salvaged:
“If we satisfy the users who left us, they’ll come back. On the other hand, if they think it’s irredeemable, there’s no future for it. We’ll do everything we can to recover that trust.”
Users seem to agree – in thinking the game is irredeemable. The latest figures for average server populations:
Let indie game rise. Star Citizen – until RSI follow EA, Activision , Bethesda, Soyny way of fucking games.
But i have supported (buyed) other small games:
My life at portia , Stardew Valley , Kynseed , Northgard , Frostpunk ,
Currently WoWs from wargaming has player friendly decisions. Not Extremely grindy WoT ideas .
Even their planes got better, but well. Too late now.
I played ff11 and it was horrible it’s just long grinding. Played wow and it is infinitely better.
thats all pple do is complain ane moan get over it u get 2 free months atleast what fcking game would do that for u and atleast they can admit they fcked up AND admit it to their core players and buyer and attempt to fix what pple payed for half the pple bitching havent even played more than 5min <.< suck it up pple not everything will be spoon fed to u
Their failure may cause the “Golden Egg” To emerge.
FF7 Remade will grow money from s♥♥t.
..And since it’s from s♥♥t money it’ll emerge to s♥♥t as well and turn all things that are SE to an even shittier company for relying on remakes to save the shitty company.
Ask Square Enix to buy the rights for Suikoden from Konami and make Suikoden 6. maybe it could save them.