This game was released a year early that was the problem. SE saw a problem with the financial 2nd quarter last year and the CEO made the decision to release it so he would get a better bonus. Sadly SE admitted they released it prematurely for this matter, in multiple interviews as well as Tanaka himself saying I wished I had more time to work on this game its not done.
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03-11-2011, 01:04 AMElkwood
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03-11-2011, 01:06 AMnewtrick
Absolutely not. 90% expected FFXI-2? Your just pulling false numbers out of thin air. How could a company release the same game 7-8 years later but just mildly improved? People want fresh ideas in modern settings.
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03-11-2011, 01:09 AMDraven
We all knew what the OP was going to say before we even opened this thread. 100+ replies and 3000+ views later, lots of people in this thread are saying the same thing others already said and some literally copy/pasting what they themselves said in another thread like this.
Like a bad song repeating every hour on the radio....except every other band is playing the same song. (>.<) -
03-11-2011, 01:30 AMArghit does not matter if tanaka had more time becuase the fundamentals he incorporated into the game were flawed to begin with. adding more content on top of poor gameplay would only have resulted in them losing more money. the best thing that happened was the abrupt termination of the game's direction. there is now a chance to fix the project with new leadership. lesson learned; you cannot strip the core game mechanics of the final fantasy mmo and expect a successful sequel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elkwood
the amount of content had nothing to do with the failure because the far vast majority of players quit before they saw or cared to see additional content to begin with. this is a sign of poor gameplay. the dev team was scrapped 2 months after release....2 months. even before the leadership changes they gave out another free month on top of the free month the game came out with. during that time the reviews piled in with a score of like 4/10. the reviews forced them to give an additional free month. during the second free month extension, while they were looking at their own internal player count data, they realized players were still leaving in droves.
you knew it was game over when the global player count on the server feature was abrupdtly taken out. the day before it was taken out i did a player count search and it resulted at 600 players.....compared to 3500 to 4000 players when the game launched, and this was on the highly populated linblum server. -
03-11-2011, 01:33 AMBlitz0309Exactly, very well said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Argh
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03-11-2011, 01:55 AMAbriaelNot really. The amount of content had a lot to do with the "failure" (big word, a game isn't failed until it closes, and if you expect this one to close anytime soon, you're more delusional than you look. And believe me, you already look very delusional).Quote:
Originally Posted by Argh
Most people that quit early quit because there was nothing to do, other than leves, even and especially at low levels. Quests are few and far between (and basically everyone *expects* quests nowadays, and the ability to at least partially level through them), and levequests were seen as nothing else than directed grinding, time-limited to boot.
On top of that, there is an absolute lack of tutorial content, which is another thing that's seen as indispensible nowadays.
The lack of content was exacerbated by the slower leveling, which meant that to get to the next batch of content you'd have to grind half a day even at low levels.
Love or hate it, but there are plenty mechanics in the game that are fine, or maybe just need a rebalancing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blitz0309
Bottomline, if you want a completely different game, with completely different game mechanics, then you should go play a completely different game that suits your tastes more. Because demanding the very basic foundations of this ones to be radically changed is laughable and delusional at best. Ain't gonna happen. And it's a good thing. -
03-11-2011, 01:56 AMOstiaSee, when you are rational and actually factual we can agree :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Abriael
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03-11-2011, 01:58 AMAbriaelI'm always rational and factual. Sometimes I just say things people don't want to hear :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Ostia
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03-11-2011, 02:02 AMOstiaFunny, because i'm pretty sure all i have said is "This game has no content, and they can add all the tweaks and fixes, but w/o content it will fail" Wish is basically what you said, and i'm labeled a troll <.< SHM!Quote:
Originally Posted by Abriael
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03-11-2011, 02:05 AMAbriaelI'm pretty sure it wasn't by me. Lack of content/quests/stuff to do is my main gripe about the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ostia
And I don't drink, so I wasn't drunk.