Naoki Yoshida produced an open letter detailing how Final Fantasy XIV has experienced a “staggering and unexpected” uptick in popularity recently – and all those players have put a strain on the game’s servers – leading to long queue times and difficulty creating new characters.
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00:00 Intro
00:53 The Story – Transparency from Devs is Wonderful!
08:16 The Analysis – Building the Relationship with Players
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Maybe I got extremely lucky but each time I logged in after the wow exodus I've only had to wait at most 1 to 2 minutes and thats on the same server that asmon plays. So not sure about others but I've waited a lot longer for wow queues.
The great strength FF14 has is that it's pretty much like a single player story game, if you want to play it that way, as well as being an mmo if you want it to be that. It's playing to a huge audience.
ff14 is the same as it was before the asmongold hype train hit ff 14 and it will be the same after he leaves.
Yea older ff they release concept cgi and not the actual game and Yoshi changed that. He really knows what to do is most positive for the game most times
Also not to mention how welcoming we are to new players. We know how long waiting for a final boss can take from the previous expansions so we're all generally ready to help you beat the msq's etc.
So thats mean that FF14 has worse freezer 1980´s servers than the Blizzard ….and on Blizzard servers like today cant be more than 40 people because of INMENSE LAG … interesting…
The issue is that any apology is an admission of guilt in the legal system. It's why we are taught not to say sorry if we cause an accident. Run a red, T-bone drivers side, and there were children in the car. Do Not Apologize! It is as good as standing in front of the judge and declaring guilt.
My NA server is normally 23 to 30.
After the insane influx of players I do worry that square enix will try and cash in on it and overrule Yoshi P on future development. With their background I just hope that they will let the dev team run the game without interference.
Yoshi-P has been such a huge part of the success of FFXIV and the salvation of Square as a company that he's been promoted within Square and is not only producer and director of FFXIV, he's also been given leadership of his own division (Creative Business Unit III, their logo is on all the recent FFXIV and FFXVI trailers), sits on the Final Fantasy Committee that steers the course of the franchise, was given FF16 to produce, and supposedly has a seat on the board. I recall him saying that he considers FFXIV his life's work and it's no wonder, he has cultivated a lot of personal success (although also a lot more work and responsibility) through it.
Call me crazy Bellular at the same time you are excited about ff14. However I can see the pain on your face about the now more obvious failings of Blizz/Wow.
I've been playing ffxiv since beta N gotta say I'm pretty happy the game is finally getting the attention it deserves…
You called it man, Zodiark Light. I went there yesterday and there's at least a few players in every corner. I love it!
They possibly need to make a few new servers for people to get on
Glad to see you are willing to explore new content on your channel too.
As someone who left WoW for XIV during Stormblood, I think what the biggest thing that the recent WoW refugees are missing is that XIV isn't just a booming flavor of the month streaming game. Endwalker got over double the preorders of Shadowbringers before Asmon started streaming it. Shadowbringers is hailed as not just the best expansion but the best Final Fantasy game ever. And YoshiP deserves to be treated the way he does by the players. He visited my server during E3 in 2019 and it was insane. People were flooding Kugane for hours just to get a chance to take a pic of his character. He then went and tried to complete the Kugane jump puzzle and the entire data center was there, jumping along with him and cheering him on. Can you imagine Ion going to your server just to hang out and do Darkmoon Fair with you?
Josh Strife Hayes did this already but better
Well i just want timely content wow patches but according to blizzard devs i am now part of the problem therefore now a sexual offender, i wonder where i went wrong 🙁
I just started this week and I freaking love it! Can't wait to play more after work!
They should buy the extra servers Blizz no longer needs XD
Love to see the transparency from the devs, definitely engenders good will towards the game and the team.
I'll bet ATVI has some spare server equipment available
This is like… 2 weeks old man…
It's actually very surprising to me that it has taken WoW players this long to discover FFXIV. I mean, YoshiP basically asked himself what made WoW successful and then copied it verbatim. Added flying first expac? Check. Added death knights? Check. Patches and expansion schedule followed exactly to a T? Double-check. Granted, they perfected a lot of what WoW tried to do so I'm not downplaying their success at all. I was hooked for the first two years of ARR until they made bad design choices for the Bard class and I quit.
I will say this. All the hype coming down is making me want to re-sub and see what has changed, except that my 2 million gil house is long gone because of how they held players hostage to either keeping a sub or losing your lot. Very stupid decision there, because it is an actual barrier for me to come back.
I really like YoshiP
since the start of Stormblood and Shadowbringer expansions they made 3 worlds in one world instances to lower the numbers in that world for example WorldA – WorldB – WorldC etc…
On DJ kaled words: Suffering from success
The reason why many players including myself are satisfied with how FF14 team is handling things is that they have proved over their years that they are trustworthy and ( at least for me) they are not an American company. The US has created this toxic culture where it's ok to do anything as long as u can make money and so any "deals" I get I distrust by default because there's always a catch.
I started a free trial in ff14 because of watching how excited Matt got and the community events alot of streamers have been getting when they started. Seeing player driven events and a passionate community/dev. team coming from 15 years of WoW is a breath of fresh air. Considering buying just to beat the log in boss since its getting such great reviews xD
Lol @ bellular trying to take credit for FFXIV rise in popularity. It was all asmondgold, without him off wouldn't have blown up.
I can respect the dev's and their work ethic, I just stay away from subscription models if it can be helped.
Imagine if people stick after Endwalker, they'll be able to experience a new beginning, again! Make 7.0 in Ivalice.
Just as I finally decide to give FF a chance…I fracture my left thumb. Playing any MMO right now is gonna be…fun
Similar thing happened in South Korea with Lost Ark. Nexon rigged weapon reinforcement systems for profit in multiple games (maplestory, mabinogi etc.) that they distributed, so gamers all migrated to Lost Ark. Lost Ark's director is well known for high willingness to communicate with the playerbase. I'm not sure how NA server will be run, but I hope Lost Ark follows FF14's footstep.
I can absolutely say that it's because of Matt that I restarted FF14 after many failed attempts, but also because Michael specifically mentioned to not take it as WoW and rather as a proper singleplayer story-focused game with MMO features. I'm at the end of Stormblood and I've been LOVING my time in the game after deleting my old character who was lvl 52. I'm at level 73 now and I'm really enjoying it. Thank you for talking about it from a WoW player perspective and how to approach the game.
I didn't know she wrote Rogue! That is wonderful. I think she did the Scholar, too, and that's my favorite. Never feel behind – there are always people doing content all the way through.
Square Enix is restricting CHARACTER CREATION (they dont allow you to play their game cause of population balance!!!)
Meanwhile in WoW…70% Horde,30% Alliance…all good!
"Hey do you want to transfer to that VERY VERY VERY FULL server with huge login queues on patch days etc? Sure,I'll take your money"
a 1300-1500 queue sounds like most launch queues if your lucky, thankfully ive only seen like a 60-88 queue timer for twintania-Eu
Lets just admit, Blizzard and Square Enix are polar opposites, as far as WoW and FF14 are concerned. This in contrast show the stark difference In attitude between U.S based game studios and European based studios.
9:55 Sir, you killed them
It was the NoClip documentary got me into FF14. I still feel Heavens Ward was a masterpiece as I played Dragoon back then.
This is the same game that recently a few weeks ago ran out of VIRTUAL KEYS on the square enix page, HOW the fuck do you run out of virtual keys?!, that's how successful this game is currently.
Congratulations to the FFXIV team!, I never thought I'd see the day when WOW would lose the title of "king of the MMO" (Though it is also in big part their own fault).
Aussie here leveling on the Japanese servers in anticipation of the oce servers… I jump on after work and the queues are 10-20 long… on the weekend there’s a queue from about 9am onwards… lol glad I didn’t go US.
I've had no issue on the free, but I think I'm getting near the end of the story and will be paying and subbing
The ffxiv Dev team is absolute gold, imo ANY gaming company looking to make it; take pointers from Yoshi P's team. They care so much about their players and team, and we, in turn, love him and his team and are happy to pay for the game and wait for content. Because we KNOW the content WILL come, unlike….other companies.
Edit: I don't understand anyone who doesn't have "anything to do" in ffxiv; the content and stories are almost endless.
Main Story Quest
You can level EACH job on 1 character, each job has a quest (This is both combat and crafting)
Beast Tribe quests and stories
Each Raid has a story as well
Golden Saucer
Chocobo racing
And that's just a few I can think of. I'm sorry, but you don't have "nothing to do", you "don't want to do anything", there's a difference.
The man also writes his player base a poem every new year and end of new expansion. That’s just nice to have.
Victim of their own success or Blizzards failure, or both?
I honestly wouldn't mind giving this game a whirl on my PS4, but I'm worried if I DO, my co workers will never see me again XD
what an amazing game and honestly what an amazing loving welcoming community!!!! So happy I finally picked up FF14 on my PS4 and I'm loving every min of it.
big profit arrow in the thumbnail doesn’t give me the vibe of FF 14 struggling
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