What would you do with XIV if you were in charge at Square.

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Originally Posted by ZephyrAM

There are minor, fan based online Pokemon games that are strictly the single player game with multiple people in the game with you.

Not the same thing.

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called pokemon mmo? right........... one i'm talking about is advertised as a pokemon mmo.

Please don't take offense: I would scrap it, pretend it never happened and release a finished MMO 6 years down the road that is fresh and that is amazing (and preferably set in Ivalice).

I'd probably take the game down for a year to rework it like APB and re-release it with free gear for those who played the botched version.

I'd re-design the game from ground-up and get rid of ALL the leve-centric gameplay aspects. I'd have the entire story re-worked to be a bigger part of the actual gameplay experience and to live up to FF standards. I'd also fire everyone who did the arrangements for Ueamatsu's tracks and hire Kumi Tanioka and Naoshi Mizuta to arrange all the music with him.

Like a rock star I would personally smash every guitar in the building.

The money I'd save from upholding the servers and forums would go to marketing when the game is re-released. I'd also do everything in my power so that 360, ps3 and next Nintendo versions would be released at the same time as the console crowd is mostly a lost game at this point.

The menu system would have to go to make way for a FF I-XI style menu that has XII like elements.

I'd remove skills, maps and travel options from the beginning of the game and would make them work as meaningful rewards for completing missions and quests.

I'd fire the environment designer and hire people from any other FF titles to get the job done.

I'd keep some of the XIV players as alpha testers during the entire process but wouldn't make every creative decision through voting like N.Yoshida is doing.

I'd BEG for Hironobu Sakaguchi to come back to SE and help with this travesty.

I wouldn't twitter anything during the entire process. I'd leave that as N.Yoshida's only job that he seems to be good as but I wouldn't let him in the building in fear of him actually starting to make sense in his twitteria.

Make some excuses. Take down all the servers. Make more excuses. Hire a bunch of experimented MMO programmers and start negotiation with Trion to get their network engine. Add in few excuses. Have all the content designers play a week of WoW, Eve and Rift, and ask them to make plans for long term reusable content based on horizontal progression. Throw more excuses. Scrap the PS 3 release and begin to inquire on PS 4 hardware, hoping it won't have hard limitations. Excuses. And hope that 3 years later, we can release a brand new game offering multiple ways of horizontal progression, a stable economy, a single world server decently balanced using instancing, no repetitive gameplay, deep storylines, content scaling in difficulty, a topnotch network and graphic engine and including all the recent MMO features they could have listed in those 3 years, but within FF lore.

And few more excuses.

If I were in charge I would make it my #1 priority to get 1 million subscribers.

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Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus

already one around look for it :)

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I want a real one by Gamefreak!

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Originally Posted by Evangela

I don't care about oldschool FF fans anymore, I'll add 70% of WoW/another standard MMO system to the game add another 20% from FFXI and 10% for new ideas

Give away 1 months trial ID and then release PS3 version

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70% of WoW Players?.. so more crying for new stuff which is like WoW... and more "i quit threads" out of the sudden cause the game is to hard? Thanks for the offer, but i have to pass.

Didn't I make a thread about this just last week?

first thing i would do is take all of the staff and force them to play the game they are feeding us. make each one of them sit there non stop and go straight through to cap on one class and then report back on how much fun they had. once everyone explains how not fun it is then i'd take suggestions on how to make it more fun and final fantasy.

i understand yoshi said he played it for a few days and did different things, but a few hours does not show you the problem the game has. take a class and start at the very beginning from install and setting up payment to creating the character then make them take that class they started to cap solo. if they are doing a dow or dom we'll even let them do leves as a group or grind as a group. i just feel sorry for the unlucky mofo's that got stuck with crafting to cap without a dow/dom to farm mats for them and have to buy all the mats through the wards.

once they actually played the game i have a feeling they would have a video of them on their knees begging us to forgive them for the game that is in use now. i feel that if they ever played the game more than a few minutes just to test to see if something works and actually got to see how it affects people in the long run they would see the issues. that would allow them to actually see the problems people have with the game.

I would honestly scrap it. No game in history has been this behind and ever made something of itself. It will likely never be worth the name, and some things you just can't repair.

Sucks for everyone, but this game will never be close to what ffxi was in terms of success, let alone be the smash that ffxi should have been.

Monumental lesson learned, hopefully. Better fortune next time.