Running an MMO like a country! Michael & Matt discuss the behind the scenes work that went into A Realm Reborn for Final Fantasy XIV
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FX IS GREAT except I don't like how any of the characters look at all….its either super soft look or old haggard….I believe a little more diversity on appearance would bring thousands more players.
Totalbiscuit knew this would happen during the Cata alpha/beta. Then again, I think most did, if a player played during those days.
Can we push sub patches more? 9.1.1-9.1.12? This isn't on console where it cost money to push updates. It's their own launcher. FFS.
The philosophy of the FF14 teams are pretty amazing
Ive been playing wow since vanilla and its a real shame what it has become. Shadowlands is looking to be the first expac i dont play, i usually would play it bad or good, but theres a much better product/game to play and its classic wow/tbc. I want to feel like im playing the game because i want to, not a bunch of chores on a list that i "have" to do. If classic doesnt continue past tbc im probably going to skip shadowlands all together and finally give ff14 a try. Ive made friends and had lots of great moments playing wow, but its just a game thats been getting less and less fun to play and if i can do that in ff14 i guess ill eventually finally get out of this abusive relationship.
i was doing some gold saucer today in ffxiv (its like darkmoon island equivalent but with way more content) and everyone was doing leap of faith (jumping puzzle). We were all gathered at the finish line chatting and cheering for the newer / slower players. It was wholesome AF. Everyone supporting each other, giving tips, advice, people voluntarily giving tactics in dungeons. It's sad that the WoW players feel the NEED to apologise for being new. WoW mindset has made so many people nervous. We try to make them feel reassured and welcome.
I am very casually playing WoW. If you play it while not caring about it, its a ok kind of patch. FF14 though, just look at Mr WoW himself being shocked and awed by the game and he hasn't even got past ARR. If you care about wow the game is actually hot garbage minus the new raid. This is the reason i made the switch to FF14 for Endwalker. The FF14 devs have vision that wow doesnt.
My eyes went wide in shock and horror when I heard the "only allow replies from people who have shipped a video game" part. It explains so much that it came from a WoW dev but it's still absolutely the wrong way to go about this when you want people to like your work. If you won't take replies from people who don't know the complete ins and outs of the industry then you're doomed to make a product that doesn't resonate with what the general player base wants.
ffxiv is so good, i thought i was done with mmos, yeh wow got bad, but i thought i was just done with mmos. i was bored one day, gave ffxiv a try just to see what the hype was about, 2 months in and i feel like i did with wow all those years ago. I have no interest to go back to wow again. Ffxiv just does so many things better its unreal.
wow devs are for whatever reason, been the most arrogant and ahole devs in the industry
WoW really lost its charm. It's doesn't feel like a game the devs want to play. It's very noticeable. Gone are the days of "geek is…"
Lies… they never actually move to Canada.
Left WOW during Cataclysm when they removed all depth from the talent trees and whitewashed all the classes. Came back for Warlords since the forts were interesting. Left again when they made that content completely irrelevant. Seems like every decent idea they get, they throw out right away.
Sadly basically all ideas taken from FFXI wasn't in ARR. Current ff14 is a great game and I'm having a blast but it's not innovative at all. It feels like a huge WoW upgrade to what wow should have been.
However it's still not as much as a true virtual world like old mmorpgs were, like FFXI. The problem is that old school style will never cater to the giant player base ff14 can and has.
But to someone that wants a FFXI 2.0, and have seen that FFXIV 1.2x actually looked really interesting, I'm always left wanting more out of the mmorpg genre that probably will never come
Took a break during the drought. My longest break in 15 years. Tried playing again recently and logged in again today, but I was so uninterested in doing the content they're serving us and in being a side character in the game I just finally uninstalled. And hearing about all the things I'm going to have to collect to gear up and such had me feeling like I was playing one of those free mobile games.
I just switch from 16 years of Wow to FF XIV. I don't think I'll ever come back to Wow anymore in all honesty.
blizzard constantly responding with " this is what we are happy with" while not realizing that the players are the ones who make their game successful…….. it makes no sense……… how could anyone think thats sustainable….
ff11 is still damn awsome tbh. To all the new players, ffxiv is very unique. this is coming from an archeage, bdo, wow(bfa) player. I've been with ffxiv since 1.0 launch and I can say with absolute resolution that xiv is the best pve mmorpg I've ever played next to ff11. I highly recommend trying out ff11 as well as it's just like ffxiv but an older version. it has great story, you can play all jobs on 1 character and has a humongous world.
You guys are saying everything, except: Players pay a subscription, continuously. For that alone. You should care about their feedbacc. Your continuous source of revenue is coming from those players. As a player/consumer/customer. Why would you keep paying for anything that you, dislike. Regardless of promises for changes. If no change, for a reasonable amount of time. Save ya sub and waste it somewhere else. Where you can find enjoyment, possibly.
Ehhh, they won't move to Canada, because Canada has strict immigration policy they probably won't pass, LOL.
The biggest thing FFXIV that does that MANY other MMORPG, including those that failed doesn't:
"A good, consistent update, new content, structure, ideas and future that is ALWAYS explained, planned and organized".
FFXIV gets new content every 3 month, and each 3 month alternates between:
End game Savage raid content
Casual end-game alliance raid content
And each patch has new MSQ story, extra trial/ex trial, crafting/gathering update, update to whatever new content the expansion has brought in (Heaven on High, Bosjorn/etc) and so forth.
Everytime there's a patch update whether its for these content, or hotfixes, changes to things, there's always a Explanation in WHY these things are coming, why things aren't coming or delayed, etc.
They've been doing this for the last whole life of FFXIV, its consistant, its reliable, and we KNOW and can TRUST they will constantly do this for something for us to look forward to and plan around. Many other MMORPG did NOT plan like this enough, or straight up at all, leading to people leaving the game completely, or feel more and more "concerned" in where the game was going or if it will even grow.
Recently, Yoshi.P released a post on the FFXIV page talking about the current huge surge of player-base in FFXIV leading to LONG log-in ques, what they PLAN to do/attempt but the walls that is in the way (They're planning to bring Oceanic Server ahead of time rather than AFTER endwalker expansion, however because of COVID and travel limitation, they can't send people down to Australia, which will be the focal point for the server to be, to actually work on it just yet.)
And he APOLOGIZED for this, saying he was not expecting such a huge surge in players, and that he should have and thought of a fix beforehand. He APOLOGIZED for this.
There is many other things of course, but FFXIV has found a system and organized schedule to bring us players something to look forward, to plan around and relax while playing the game, while still trusting in Yoshi.P and the devs to continue to do this for us.
I started a Realm Reborn yesterday can anyone tell me if Heavens ward is also under the free trial
I still care and hope WoW will improve, but I'm at a point where the improvement has to come soon…
If blizzards the steward of azeroth then atm they are Denethor II
What’s crazy is, Blizz thinks that by making all content relevant people won’t do the new content. That’s the most ridiculous philosophy I have ever heard. In ESO every new patch people flood the new content and the new raids, then visit old zones and raids as well. That there keeps the new zones fresh a lot longer and keeps people from being burnt out too quick.
this video is so relevant to Elite Dangerous right now..
That picture of Yoshi-P collapsed on the floor with a Redbull actually had me laughing out loud.
They also nerfed Gnomish Gravity Well for patch 9.1 :/
Bigger budget?! dude, Wow's CEO eats all of it.
This content, to me, is for people who were put out by WoW/Blizz/Activision some time ago now but never let it fully slip their peripheral. If it ever came back around to the glory days (whatever that may be to each one of us) I would be back in a heart beat. However it would have to come a LONG way back around…
Edit: This also helps me to find validation for my reasons for leaving and not returning yet.
I just discovered the golden saucer last night……..GG rippppppppp
Simple. Blizzard does not care about casual players. It's simple.
I'm one of those ex-WoW players you mentioned who still watches your content. In part, it's because I just like you guys! But also, having played WoW for 14 years, the game has a special place in my heart, and I think I'll always be interested in how it's faring. Now that I'm playing FF, though, I can't see myself ever going back…
An MMO is as much a community driven project, as it is its own self-enclosed game. It makes alot of sense to run it like a government. Where, as you are leading you have alot of information and top down view on things. But dont lose vision of whom you are running things for.
When we talk about a country. Are we talking about the government which runs it? Or the people and its culture which vote its government into office and choose to live there?
Its essentially a bit of both when you think about it. It translates quite well in an MMO conceptually.
Your comment on wow devs playing in their own little bubble– is what ppl have been doing On FB, with YouTube, because of algorithms. Why should this be any different? It is like they have learned patterns that they refuse to step out of, and the last year or so has made it that much worse. They are in their own little feedback bubble, and congratulating themselves for how well they are doing, and refusing to see anything different.
Covenant design reminds me of OKRs at my job
OKRs are fundamentally built to not be attainable.
Referring to MMOs as countries brings a whole new meaning to "WoW refugees" in FF.