NPC faces on Mog Station

[Alacran]

I Think we as a community need to ask for another massive relaunch of the scale of 2.0. As ridiculous as it sounds, Final Fantasy XIV is among the most successful Pay to play MMORPG's in existence as of now. Only the behemoth that is World of Warcraft has a more vocal and numerous fan base. However, the repeated, and frankly upsetting argument of limitations being so often the culprit to many of our request is doing nothing to sow confidence in this game.

I love FFXIV, i have been here since 1.0, and i'll be here until the servers shut down for good, but even i hate to see such a wonderful game placed on the back burner to other SE ip's. There is still life in Final Fantasy XIV, as there is room for so much more exciting, immersive, ground breaking, and amazing content. Limitations as they are know will strangle this game, continued use of them as a excuse will simply tighten it's hands on it's throat.

We need a revamped character creation, better servers/ game engine, an over haul to quest and instance design (already prepared for the congestion issues once Eureka launches), new instanced housing content, fixes and additions to PvP modes (why we have yet to see a simple free for all, and capture the flag game types is criminal), and for all that is holy more staff assigned to already successful, money making game. Where are all the resources going for funding Final Fantasy XIV?

Player loyalty, love, and patience saved this game before, i saw it, i was there. I am hopeful it will do so again, but a little communication as to how decisions are made in this game will go much further than "server/ Ps4 limitations".

[Vahlnir]

-snip-

There are quite a few things that need overhauled, and the source code is probably one of them. It'd take a ton of work and time, but it'd pay off well. SE has the money, resources and time I'm sure, they just choose not to give Yoshi and the devs what they need. But...if they were to somehow receive such aid, such a massive overhaul of the game's systems would probably be part of an expansion. If they were smart though, they'd do it a little bit at a time, and do some of the "bigger" fixes for major content patches. At some point something will give, just a matter of when really.

[Mahrze]

There are quite a few things that need overhauled, and the source code is probably one of them. It'd take a ton of work and time, but it'd pay off well. SE has the money, resources and time I'm sure, they just choose not to give Yoshi and the devs what they need. But...if they were to somehow receive such aid, such a massive overhaul of the game's systems would probably be part of an expansion. If they were smart though, they'd do it a little bit at a time, and do some of the "bigger" fixes for major content patches. At some point something will give, just a matter of when really.

With Yoshi's promotion to Chairman in the board of directors, this should be less of an excuse and more of a catalyst.


I'm actually interested on how many things have been shot down due to "x limitations" that really stem from old code. Or things that were "please look forward to it" 4 years ago (beards and Mnk Weapon shifting to tattoos)

[Vahlnir]

With Yoshi's promotion to Chairman in the board of directors, this should be less of an excuse and more of a catalyst.


I'm actually interested on how many things have been shot down due to "x limitations" that really stem from old code. Or things that were "please look forward to it" 4 years ago (beards and Mnk Weapon shifting to tattoos)

Time will tell as to how much say he does or doesn't have as a result of his promotion, but this is my hope as well. The reality of it is, things probably won't change until something drastic forces their hand (and I believe it will happen eventually), but one can still hope.