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Hello everyone o/ Been playing FFXIV for 2 years at this point. My character is "Ash Cat" on the server Courel. I left WoW at the start of BFA. What I love about FF is the game isn't a race to endgame its all about the journey. Veteran players and new players are rewarded for playing together, You have side activities that don't effect character power what so ever. All of these are what I want in an MMORPG.
Also onto the combat. I know alot of WoW players are turned off by the longer GCD. Let me tell you right now you won't miss it. I actually much prefer it. So for example a trial in FFXIV (essentially a boss fight) is played out more like a dance. You can see the boss patterns to learn the attacks and move accordingly.
I highly encourage anyone to atleast give the free demo a try 🙂 Just remember it's not a race to endgame take your time embrace the narrative nature of the game and get lost in the world of Final Fantasy!
I've watched this doc a few times now. At first I thought it was an amazing, triumphant comeback and all was good in the world.
It's still amazing that they pulled it back, but they had no excuse for the original being this bad.
This isn't a small dev team, it's final fantasy. Kinda sad seeing how hard giants can fall.
We need more Yoshi P's, less arrogant companies and less apologists when their favourite companies make such terrible mistakes.
Like Koji, I also started my primary MMO experience with FFXI. I'd seen WoW and played like 5min of it prior but didn't really want to get into it at the time. Then I saw FFXI at Software Etc and thought "eh why not?". Little did I know, that would be the drug that hooked me into the MMO genre. To this day, there has never been an experience quite like it, for better or worse. FFXI is still a game I play today.
FFXIV 1.0 comes out and… I liked it? I think I liked the concept, more than the execution. It tried to recreate the unnecessary difficulties of FFXI. The fatigue system was something even FFXI didn't dare do, outside of fishing (but that was due to their attempts to counter bots). The thing was a huge mess. That lag though… that lag was so fucking infuriating. There was no fucking auction house lol. How the fuck do you go from a working and fully functional AH in FFXI, to nothing but bazaars that don't work properly!?
LOL! For those of us that continued to play, we saw there was something good there. Like you're seeing the diamond in an ocean of shit. Something that will change everything.
Then Yoshi-P came along and actually fixed shit over time. He actually made the ocean of shit not so thick with it. The game was fucking playable. It didn't suck as much ass just to spend time on it. Like you didn't question as yourself as much if you're just stupid for playing it lol. Then came the communication. A level of communication that put the old blue posts by Blizzard to shame.
Now, as a Legacy player that stuck with it, I get to celebrate my time with 1.0 in current FFXIV with permanently reduced subscription fees and other benefits. I sincerely believe a lot of the sway behind the decision to give us those things (especially the reduced fees) came from the man himself, Yoshi-P, and possibly those around him who worked so hard on the games. For all the work these people put in, they deserve all the respect people give them. They also deserve fair criticism for their fuck ups, but always with that level of respect they've rightly earned.
Hiromichi Tanaka was the one responsible for this mess. He literally did nothing to organize the mess that was the dev of FFXIV. I personally think he should have stepped down before the game's released but his fucking ego got in the way and almost killed SE. He later used the excuse that he was ill. If that was true he should have just stepped aside and have SE delay the launch….
One of the things that cemented me playing FF14 in the early days starting out watching lots of FF14 content creator vids in research was people in various video comments referencing the FF14 documentary that I had never heard of spellbound to WoW. I had bought and played the game on launch day, quit on first day it was so bad an experience. It was watching the documentary with great interest that turned things around for me just starting out as I was just trying out the game.
I’ve watched this doc probably 6 times now. Still gets me in my feels.
The original 1.0 version FFXIV actually improved so much after Yoshi P took over. So many changes to the game that ARR should have been labled ver.5.0 not 2.0… and by the end 1.0 was a very playable and enjoyable game. I have so many amazing memories and it was so much fun. But ARR is still the vastly superior game.
I think the only reason why Yoichi Wada made the decision to accept option B was because he already knew his foot was out the door with the company. The company lost massive amounts of money that year and he was going to be force out of the company… so he thought to himself.. I have nothing really to lose so why not. This way I can atleast do my part to save the company and streer it in a better directions before I am forced out. And it wasn't him saving his own skin and just ditching or spitefulness. Yoichi Wada staked his own reputation on the line as well making many many public appearences with Naoki Yoshida making sure people knew he was involved with the decision making and that if it had failed he was going down with it. It was a bold move and one I don't think we would see from a company like Blizzard or Activision.
Lol the chat assuming stuff about the japanese. Piss off
It's sad that the idea that MMOs will fix themselves is still the predominant mentality in development.
The guy in the Superdry jacket looks so much like an astronaut I just can’t get over it
I never get bored watching this 3 part series.
They did the impossible and will NEVER be replicated again, no other company has the balls to pull it off… no other company has a Yoshi-P.
wait square and final fantasy are older than the term weeb? but…… but its a weeb company that makes weeb games tho….
that would be awesome if you played the older titles Preach, I'd recommend to start FFIV, V, the VI they are not connected, but a great intro…. then… then … do FFVII, YES!!!!
I participated in Alpha 1 Phase 1 of 1.0…. the battle system was EVEN WORSE than what was shown in the documentary. It was the first and only time the dev team listened to feedback before release.
Also it required a dual core processor. But it had to be two physical cores. Some players were only running 1 core with hyperthreading and the game would not work with that setup. The reason for the second core? The UI. The entire UI was a separate thread and felt entirely separate from the game. There was just SO MUCH wrong.
Square "we knew it was shit before we released it"
blizzard "our game is ALWAYS perfect the players are just assholes
Well, for me the problem w/ FF is two fold:
1) I have spent 17 years playing WoW, im too old to swap to another MMO, I just dont have it in me even tho I dislike retail WoW very much. So I would rather quit than swap, which is what will happen soon. On top I am not invested in the lore or the story like I was addicted to the Warcraft one at the start.
2) And arguably the bigger issue, I don't like the eastern art style in games. It may sound silly to say, but it REALLY distracts me from the game that im playing. And as such I dont play games with that kind of art. Just not for me, sadly.
I guess a bonus 3) would be that the game has had a few xpacs already, and I have missed out on a lot of "fresh" stuff. I am a firm believer in getting that "first" so if a new xpac comes out you should be in the top idk… 0.1% to lvl up, to get geared up, do pvp etc etc. And that takes A LOT of knowledge and a heavy time investment. Both of which are problematic for me at a point where I have a wife and family.
So best of luck to the people playing FFXIV, I have heard only good things about the community and the game. And I am happy that there is finally an MMO out there to shut Blizzard down. They have stopped deserving the top place long long looooong ago and have become a horrible company over the years.
Yoshida-san is so fucking cool dude. He's punk rock, professional as the devil, and REALLY fucking good at his job. The man is actually a real life Chad.
This documentary morale is not just for the gaming company but also all type of companies and jobs.
Yoshida views is, If customers are happy they will keep coming and be our free advertisement and if we be the customer we can see what is wrong with our products and what need to be fixes. So he spent years upon years just to fix this game and now become one of the most popular mmorpg and possible revive the mmorpg genres.
i genuinely hope to see a documentary done like this for wow. ff14 proves that no matter how bad your game is, you can always revive it. and no matter how bad wow is today, it IS still very much playable and has many things to enjoy, it just needs people with passion to lead it.
Let is not also forget that even in FF11 you could play all jobs on one character.
now, whenever you roll your eyes at at pun, you can put a face on who to blame: Koji "Pun Master" Fox
But then again, he is also to blame for things like:
"Grade 3 Skybuilders' Hemp: Compared to the grade 2 variety, this is the good shite" or
"Grade 3 Skybuilders' Stew: The grade 3 stew contains ingredients with names other than "dunno" or "not sure but it was definitely dead when I threw it in"
and now wow is in that position "we know better, we will do it our way"