Final Fantasy XXIV Online (Not a Typo)

[Notackan]

I agree with the last 3 parts. I don't agree with the first part. Not everyone plays FFXI on PC. If you say that then you are naive. I know about 70% do in the states, but a lot of people play on Xbox and a few people even still play on PS2 (like my linkshell leader and half of Japan). I actually love playing on my Xbox, because I prefer console games to PC games even though I do play PC games (The variety of PC only games have dwindles in the last few years and I really tired of not being able to just install the game to play seems like every game you have to sign up for some steam clone or it's online only).

Tell you the truth, I was thinking of a way to boost sales for FFXIV and to talk people into getting Playstation Plus. Reduce the monthly price for FFXIV if you have it registered on your PS3 and have a running Playstation Plus account. I bet you could get a lot of extra Playstation Plus accounts if you do that and make it where you can buy months for account. Of course the game would have to be good for that to even work, and I think your other ideas would come in help a lot here.

If you think MMOs are only successful on PC then you obviously haven't been watching some of the recent MMOs that had to go F2P cause of poor sales... FFXI sure was a failure though, most profitable square game and still sucking money out of people. Just cause it didn't have sales like WoW and subscribers like WoW doesn't make it a failure. Mortal Kombat II didn't sell as many arcade units and games than Street Fighter II but they both were successful games >.>

[Tickmeoff]

-Auto-Translate is an awesome feature. Expand on that.

I'd rather they give us separate servers for each region. Auto translate is useless, 98% of the Japanese playerbase refuse to do anything at all with players from any other region. The only people using auto translate are English speaking players, and only to save time when shouting or write out funny phrases.

Rather than having this pointless divide in the community on every single server, just give each region their own servers.

[Kari]

I'd rather they give us separate servers for each region. Auto translate is useless, 98% of the Japanese playerbase refuse to do anything at all with players from any other region. The only people using auto translate are English speaking players, and only to save time when shouting or write out funny phrases.

Rather than having this pointless divide in the community on every single server, just give each region their own servers.

I'd only support this because it could possibly mean having local servers. NA players have pretty high ping in FFXI because of the distance from the server. It only affects a few things, and most don't notice it, but it's there.

On the other hand, I don't see a reason to restrict servers by region. Having NA and JP players in FFXI means there's never a dead time. Every other MMO I've played generally has much less people online at graveyard hours. At least on FFXI I can hop into a party of JP players doing an activity and get something done.

I'd also love to see cross-server matchmaking and such.

[Demon6324236]

On the other hand, I don't see a reason to restrict servers by region. Having NA and JP players in FFXI means there's never a dead time. Every other MMO I've played generally has much less people online at graveyard hours. At least on FFXI I can hop into a party of JP players doing an activity and get something done.

Creates more discrimination, I am sure we have all come across our fair share of people who are either from our country who hate JP players, or JP players who are rude and disrespectful to us. I know I have met quite a few, is it enough for me to say we should have different servers? No, not really, but I can easily see why some people may want it that way, because I have met quite a few distasteful players in my time on this game, many of which from other countries, and can understand why anyone would want them gone.

Also, not everyone can play with JP players well, for instance I speak no Japanese and at the same time I also can not always get my point across to others using auto trans. Doing events like VW seems nearly impossible for such things, so the language barrier prevents me from doing many events with those who do not speak English. As I said, I do not want separate servers, however I can see why some might want it.

[Yinnyth]

Now I know you're saying, "But Choco.. you said this exact same stuff 4 years ago when project Rapture was publicly announced.."

Yes, I did. How many millions of USD (so as to not confuse this with Yen) and how much faith in your company name would you have saved listening to me then SE?

I'm giving away a free formula on how not to suck. This is the third or fourth time I've literally handed you victory, and you reached down and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

So, 4 years later~ish, I'm here saying the same things again. Please understand SE, I kick a lot of ass. Not as much as I used to, which was all the more reason to listen to me back then. Now, I have toned it down to a dull roar. But I can still design and produce a better MMO than you.

I thought about making a humility joke. I considered mentioning off-handed that if you know exactly how to make the perfect MMO, then you should have made it 4 years ago and cashed in on your own brilliance instead of handing it off to an already successful company. I briefly contemplated mentioning that 4 years ago was 2009, and your join date on these forums is 2011, so there is no way we would be saying anything about "But Choco.. you said this exact same stuff 4 years ago when project Rapture was publicly announced.." because we had never heard about you by then.

In the end, I decided to do all of those things.

[Hexadecimal]

I'd rather they give us separate servers for each region. Auto translate is useless, 98% of the Japanese playerbase refuse to do anything at all with players from any other region. The only people using auto translate are English speaking players, and only to save time when shouting or write out funny phrases.

Rather than having this pointless divide in the community on every single server, just give each region their own servers.

While I can't say I've never experienced this, in my experience, it's been few and far between, and I've been playing on Asura since shortly after CoP launched. YMMV, since I can read and write some Japanese, and make the effort to look up what I don't understand.

Like anything else, some people get territorial, and some are willing to reach out. I would go one step further than auto-translate, and make sure that IME (input method emulator), which is used to type Asian languages on a keyboard, be fully supported. In my brief time playing FF14 1.0, I noticed that this seemed to be supported, and I hope that this continues in the future.

[hideka]

I doubt SE will make another MMO after XIV fails.

dude... the only reason FFXIV2.0 will fail is because of ignorant people who are too hung up over 1.0's shortcomings to allow it the chance to be good. i played 14 at launch and just before shutdown, and i have to say, launch was disgusting. just before shutdown however, was one of the most beautiful, captivating and fun MMO's I've played in a long long time. it still lacks a TON of features and content, but they are on track to stomp the crap out of the big 3 right now (11 WOW & EQ). once they start expaning the Armoury system, expecially the DOM portion, and releasing the 2nd jobs for each class, the game will truly start to shine.

getting my White Ravens with only one day left before the final save was the most satisfying feeling i have ever had in an MMO.

[Morier]

Some things work well on Multiple Platforms. MMO's do not.

PC's get more powerful each year, A Single (360, PS3)Platform, to an extent(!), do not. If the game is going to live more then 3-4 Years, Eventually said Platform its on is going to be obsolete, and therefor, they have the option to Drop it, Or Limit the game to accommodate the Old system its on.

Even though PS3/Xbox get updates in ram and so forth, When the 720/4 Come out, They're eventually going to stop/slow updating PS3/Xbox360 (Microsoft/Sony, not SE)... Still, even though i know what it can spell for an MMO, I'll support it, Just hope its the right choice, Or when it comes down to it, In the future, if needed, They migrate to PS4 instead of nerfing PS3 updates as its getting now.

10th year going on 11th. I would say it is working.