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38 thoughts on “An Unprecedented Moment For FF14…”

  1. I fired up my old account yesterday evening and go in okay, in Melbourne, maybe you are locked out because of the lock down in Sydney, and they want you staying home.

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  2. Don't forget about the impact of a wow dev openly calling literally the biggest wow streamer asshole and supporting a harrasment campaign. Even among my friends people dropped the game because of this. They were already gotten bored of the game but that was the last straw for a couple of them.

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  3. I'm guessing they 'sold out' for 2 reasons. 1 as said, to maintain servers and keep the player experience as positive as possible. 2nd, though, I think is they've done a cost benefit analysis and they see that it's possible to have too many players and have the game burn out. Having a max of players and being able to predict income as well as creating a degree of scarcity with which can help their long game by keeping demand higher than supply perpetually.

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  4. I consider myself an ignorant plebe when it comes to mmos' logistics & upkeep but I'd think if Square Enix was confident the population increase wasn't a temporary surge & a new standard level of players then just add a new server for the more subscribers. Of course I've never played FF14 so I don't even know if FF14 has different servers.

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  5. Just saying, maybe they are just claiming the keys sold out to drive up more interest while making those on the fence want it more because they can't have it.

    You know. Like Nintendo.

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  6. Nice stuff, guys. In the 14 hour interview it was announced that SE would be investing multi-millions in upgrading infrastructure. I think it is safe to assume that the motivator was to accommodate the unexpected sell out and population increase. At that point in time (during the interview) they had already sold 3 times more Endwalker versions than Shadowbringers in the same time frame. They expect to be able to accomplish the server upgrades before the November release date.

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  7. Kudos to Square Enix that they made the decision to rework to the game instead of doing the thing that 95 percent of all MMO developers do in that situation: killing it off (yes I am looking at you, NCSoft)

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  8. SE should give Yoshi & his team more resources and let his team grow, we could really do with more (raid) content (but keep the "quality over quantity" mentality), … besides an easy fix to growing numbers (too many keys,)is "add more servers or datacenters", in wich SE should already be investing in for Endwalker

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  9. your gonna try ffxiv? hold thru, early on it can feel stretched & tedious story, quest & gameplay-wise (at lv 50(×) main quests, it starts to pick up, lv 80 is NUTS), .. focus on main & class quests (keep side quests for later and for alt classes, when u have a mount and can fly)
    .. and recommended trying out Pugilist/ Monk ("Hokuto no Ken"), Rogue/ Ninja ("Naruto") Lancer/ Dragoon (best glamour in the game?).. or maybe Arcanist/ Summoner (the only "double class", u automatically level up dps Summoner and a healer Schooler class parallel).., those classes are fun and engaging early on (and definitely Samurai too, when reaching lv 50)

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  10. I'm glad they are sold out. In just the past few months I've started experiencing wait times even on off-peak times! I'm on one of less popular servers and it's always full. I can't imagine the wait times on the places popular streamers stream!

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  11. So basically they have a cap on it because their Servers can’t keep up with that many Players and it will be bad experience for Gamers but doesn’t it mean more money in their Pockets if they open another Server and sell Digital Games again plus don’t People already pay Subscription monthly

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  12. FFXIV is an example that got their core game done right (2.0 at least) but lacked enough quality of life features until recent years. I’m shocked to find out how many features that are new in the UI that would have been deal breakers for me had I started playing in 2013. As a result of all these recent changes, the MMO has aged gracefully, unlike WoW and how boring it is to level a character.

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  13. The only thing I hate about FFXIV is the fact that it takes over 40 hours to start having fun. Games like WoW or even Wildstar hook you right away. This game is sooooo slow and boring. It starts picking up the later you go but good god, it's not even close to as fun as ESO.

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  14. Welcome to FFXIV guys! Remember to pet every lalafell you see! Enjoy yourself at the Golden Saucer and help all the little sprouts out there and be patience with them, you were once a sprouts too!

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  15. I haven't played Final Fantasy 14 in nearly 3 years crazy how it justs blown up out of no where feels like I'm missing out but don't have time or money for it anymore

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