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Final Fantasy XIV News - Final Fantasy XIV Game Director Naoki Yoshida has been given a position on the Square Enix Board of Directors. The announcement was made as part of the latest investors' quarterly meeting. Yoshida has been instrumental in the amazing turnaround of Final Fantasy XIV and, as tipster 'Coolit'said, is "very much deserved".
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mmorpg junkie since 1999
Reporter: What's behind Blizzard success, and how do you make your gamers happy?
Blizzard Boss: Making gamers happy is not my concern, making money.. yes!
The only gripe I have with it, Is that there's a lot to push through before the story really kicks off. But I suppose the same could be said of any great game in the series.
Monster Hunter since '04!
Currently playing: MHW & MHGU
I couldn't make it, those quest are absolutely awful and take way to much time to complete.
I followed the quest chain for around 20 hours but just can't take it anymore.
It's a bit of a shame since the game is normally pretty great.
It's not really 20 hours though, but you could buy a ARR story token and then jump straight into the Heavensward expansion now.
I would not skip that expansion, since it's one of the best expansions in any MMO I have played. The story is simply amazing and very dramatic. I absolutely loved playing through Heavensward and was actually sad when I finished it. Stormblood expansion is also ok, very dramatic, but I guess I just have a soft spot for Dragons :P
You don't even give him credit for doing almost the impossible, regardless of what IP. Not sure what would impress you.
I played that a shit ton on PS1. The Soul Reader games were awesome as well.
While there is no doubt the FF name has a lot of draw, the quality would have spoken for itself over time... I think the real question is, would anyone other than SE have enough pride in their IP that they are willing to invest so much in correcting their mistakes?
And grats to Yoshi P, very much deserved (and appreciated for creating a modern FF game worthy of the name).
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
If shoe-horning absurd quantities of fan-service and nostalgia from other FFs into FFXIV, because his own attempts at original content have missed the mark and fallen short time and again (Diadem 1, Diadem 2, Tower, Verminion, PoTD, and so on...), instead of creating a world that stands firmly on its own within the series, with its own original world, lore, story, etc (aka FFXI) is what makes a FF "special" to you, then I guess he's doing a great job.
It's a numbered entry in name only. If not for the name 'Final Fantasy', and SE's money and support behind it, FFXIV would have been written off a long time ago as another derivative themepark in an increasing line of them.
FF7? Special. FF6? Special. FF9? Special. FF10? Special. FF11? Special... you get the idea. Each of those, and more, stood on its own, with its own world, lore, etc.
FF14? No. Just no. Its best days were 2.0 and the beginning of Heavensward. It's been on an ever increasing downward slope since then.
Frankly, the FF series has become less and less "special" since Sakaguchi left.