What was this game going to be?

[gifthorse]

And are you ok with that? are any of us here who enjoy the way ffxiv was going to be from the interview really enjoy this? The idea of final fantasy xiv was to give players something away a new from wow type games. Sadly it seem that yoshi-p is not the best guy in the world for this game and once again i lost trust for him the only thing he said i like was he going to add RDM,WHM,BLM,MNK but he thinking of a tree base system which is just like wow -.- sadly i guess i have to deal with it and play "Final Fantasy XIV Warcraft"

Of course I'm not okay with that. FFXIV had potential to succeed its predecessors. Now I doubt it's capable of even making a dent in the market. And absolutely no future content suggests otherwise.

How much more forgettable could Yoshi make FFXIV?

If they want to improve FFXIV, get rid of Guildleves. Don't get rid of active combat! The imbeciles who make these decisions deserve to be fired.

[Zenaku]

Of course I'm not okay with that. FFXIV had potential to succeed its predecessors. Now I doubt it's capable of even making a dent in the market. And absolutely no future content suggests otherwise.

How much more forgettable could Yoshi make FFXIV?

If they want to improve FFXIV, get rid of Guildleves. Don't get rid of active combat! The imbeciles who make these decisions deserve to be fired.

When you mean active combat you mean the fact they adding Auto attack? i agree FFXIV wont make a dent in the market and one of the reason is. SE care more about there offline games then there online. There no Time card for this game there no iphone app for this game so you can use your token without waiting 14+days for it to come by mail. There no tv ads there noting about ffxi or ffxiv anywhere i hope SE learn and do some marking outside Japan if not then everyone would be to busy playing WoW or rift. I played wow and more then 80% don't even know what ffxi or ffxiv is even Final fantasy fan don't know there online version of the game or just don't care about it.

[Mack]

Many of us actually bothered to stay because we were looking forward to Player-run Companies and ships

And you can bet your ass those are still coming - they've mentioned two different companies, Grand Companies that are NPC run and private companies that are what you're talking about but those aren't going to save the game but I admit they will be pretty cool. And you can't say anything of what you're saying with any legitimacy, since Tanaka didn't give you crap before he left and Yoshi hasn't even been given the chance. My biggest problem is they're so discrete about everything but I'd have to be an idiot to think they're just sitting there doing nothing.

[AlexiaKidd]

I would think they will market the crap out of this game for the PS3 release there is no point in doing it now while they are still fixing it.

[Zenaku]

I would think they will market the crap out of this game for the PS3 release there is no point in doing it now while they are still fixing it.

Seeing how FFXI was i don't really think so the best they do just a few ads in gamestop then gamestop,ign and other website would try and give a good review but only say this game look awesome but it still lacking we give it a 6out10 because it look so awesome -.-

hands down this game wold be anywhere near RIFT or wow player base just the fact that SE does not really do much market out side usa. But then again in E3 they did have lot's of FFXIV even a big ass final fantasy when you enter so i have to agree maybe but i don't give that much hope.

at least fix the payment and give us time card and a way to pay you straight up and paypal way then others would play this game also.

I wonder if FFXIV still looking at this game as to get more older players? i remember tanaka saying that this game is aim more for the older player base but not sure about that anymore.

[AlexiaKidd]

I think SE have to market the crap out the game at this point, they will only release the PS3 version when they think they can overturn the huge backlash from the media and critics at launch. When it is ready they will have to do a lot of marketing to get back the players they lost and bring in the new ones. The fate of the game really depends on how well they do at PS3 release as they will bill it as a relaunch of the game really.

[Zenaku]

I think SE have to market the crap out the game at this point, they will only release the PS3 version when they think they can overturn the huge backlash from the media and critics at launch. When it is ready they will have to do a lot of marketing to get back the players they lost and bring in the new ones. The fate of the game really depends on how well they do at PS3 release as they will bill it as a relaunch of the game really.

Very true but i wonder how long that would take i hoping that 1.18 and 1.19 bring in the new battle and class system and maybe by patch 1.20 and 1.21 this game would be up and running to a good mmo. I wonder if they thinking of releasing FFXIV for ps3 this year or maybe next year. I think they making a new pack to be release for the PS3 if not they just going to release FFXIV on the ps3 how it should have been from pc release.

[AlexiaKidd]

I think it will be September on its 1 year anniversary. Yoshi P. said in an interview that September would be when he see new players and old players coming back to FFXIV. That to me pretty much confirms it but they aren't going to make it official until they are sure it will be ready by then as they can't afford to screw this launch up.

I am not worried about content as I believe they have loads ready to go, the evidence is all around that stuff has been pulled from the game at the last minute. I imagine they are waiting for the core mechanics to be finalised like the battle system to be put in so they can balance the content for it all at once. Then SE have 2 choices really:

1. Give us the content asap, it would create some hype and get PC players back, but they wouldn't have much to help generate more hype for the PS3 release.

2. They save as much as they can for PS3 release then show us what is coming for it and use that to generate even more hype and get PC and PS3 players into the game. If they say on PS3 launch they will put in Chocobo's, Airships, New cities (Ishgard), new missions, new quests, new gear, remove R50 level cap and so on.

I think they will go with option 2 but we shall wait and see.

[Verecund]

At this point I personally could not care less about companies.

There are still horrible technical problems that have been in the game since release several months ago! As long as those exist, it will surely put a big damper on what they can really do as far as real content of any kind.

But at the very least, they could be more candid in regards to what they are at least considering as far as improving in-game systems goes.

[Zenaku]

I think it will be September on its 1 year anniversary. Yoshi P. said in an interview that September would be when he see new players and old players coming back to FFXIV. That to me pretty much confirms it but they aren't going to make it official until they are sure it will be ready by then as they can't afford to screw this launch up.

I am not worried about content as I believe they have loads ready to go, the evidence is all around that stuff has been pulled from the game at the last minute. I imagine they are waiting for the core mechanics to be finalised like the battle system to be put in so they can balance the content for it all at once. Then SE have 2 choices really:

1. Give us the content asap, it would create some hype and get PC players back, but they wouldn't have much to help generate more hype for the PS3 release.

2. They save as much as they can for PS3 release then show us what is coming for it and use that to generate even more hype and get PC and PS3 players into the game. If they say on PS3 launch they will put in Chocobo's, Airships, New cities (Ishgard), new missions, new quests, new gear, remove R50 level cap and so on.

I think they will go with option 2 but we shall wait and see.

They said Ishgard would be opening once they fix the battle system which i think it's 1.18 or 1.19 let's see if they do open it up. I hope ffxiv would get good but i not seeing much hope for now at least.