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Game Description:
Final Fantasy XIV is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Square Enix. Directed and produced by Naoki Yoshida, it was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 3 in August 2013, as a replacement for the failed 2010 version of the game, with support for PlayStation 4 and macOS releasing later. An Xbox One version is in development. Final Fantasy XIV takes place in the fictional land of Eorzea, five years after the events of the original 2010 release. At the conclusion of the original game, the primal dragon Bahamut escapes from its lunar prison to initiate the Seventh Umbral Calamity, an apocalyptic event which destroys much of Eorzea. Through the gods’ blessing, the player character escapes the devastation by time traveling five years into the future. As Eorzea recovers and rebuilds, the player must deal with the impending threat of invasion by the Garlean Empire from the north.
The original Final Fantasy XIV, released in September 2010, was a critical and commercial failure. In response, then-Square Enix President Yoichi Wada announced that a new team, led by Yoshida, would take over and attempt to fix the issues with it. This team was responsible for generating content for the original version as well as developing a brand new game which would address all of the previous release’s criticisms. This new game, initially dubbed “Version 2.0”, features a new game engine, improved server infrastructure, and revamped gameplay, interface, and story. The original version shut down in November 2012 and was followed by an alpha test for Version 2.0.
The game released to largely positive reception; critics praised the game for its solid mechanics and progression, and they commended Yoshida for turning the project around. After a poor 2013 fiscal year, Square Enix executives attributed the company’s 2014 return to profitability in part to the game’s strong sales and subscriber base, reaching a total of over 20 million registered players by 2020. Since release, the game has had a number of content updates produced for it, including three major expansion packs: Heavensward (2015), Stormblood (2017), and Shadowbringers (2019).
Gameplay
Final Fantasy XIV is an MMORPG and features a persistent world in which players can interact with each other and the environment. Players create and customize their characters for use in the game, including name, race, gender, facial features, and starting class. Unlike in the original release, players may only choose to be a Disciple of War or Magic as a starting class—Disciples of the Hand and Land are initially unavailable. Players must also select a game server for characters to exist on. While servers are not explicitly delineated by language, data centers have been placed in the supported regions (i.e., North America, Europe, Japan) to improve the communication latency between the server and the client computer and players are recommended to choose a server in their region. Regardless of server or language, the game features a large library of automatically translated game terms and general phrases which allow players who speak different languages to communicate.
REVIEWS
“a great MMORPG experience”
8.6 / 10 – IGN
“One of the best takes on the MMO experience I’ve ever seen”
92 / 100 – Ten Ton Hammer
“rounds up every great MMO feature we’ve seen in the last decade”
9 / 10 – Machinima Inside Gaming
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Subtract is just the name of the ability that drops your health down to the single digit value. Then the next cast is the command for adjusting that value. watching someone else do this fight highlights to me the importance of having UI elements near each other so your eyes don't have to dance all over the screen to resolve a mechanic. Especially the boss cast bar location wasn't doing you any favors during mathbot. Unless you're playing tank or doing hard content it can be hard to really get in the habit of reading every cast bar (and you generally don't need to in normals), but moving the boss cast bar closer to your center of vision might help with the scrutability of some of the game mechanics!
The floor panels always add. "Subtract" is just the name of the attack that drops your health to a random single-digit number. Everyone fails this mechanic the first few times.
So yes, they did cut out a rather large chunk of story, believe it or not. At one point Jeromis tells you to go waste time, so you talk to a Wandering Dramaturge (representing guest writer for this raid series and head Ivalice guy Yasumi Matsuno) who sends you off on an utterly pointless trip back to WINEPORT of all places, for a brief story about wine and to revisit some of the characters from the feast before fighting Titan. It was absurdly pointless, self-indulgent and not related to anything, not even Ivalice fanservice like most things in this story. Just a big ol waste of everyone's time.