FFXIV is too simplistic and bland

[SakiKojiro]

Gee I wonder why a game that nearly sank the company and probably still hasn't payed for itself all these years later wants to play it safe?

I mean, it just boggles my mind.


Because then they'd have to come face to face with the fact that maybe, just maybe, they don't have nostalgia goggles big enough to cover for the fact that FFXI doesn't hold up today. That it's actually not that great and they just stockholm syndromed themselves after punching millions of crabs.

So it's just better to not touch it. and just ride off those nostalgic memories of sitting in Jueno for months on end trying to get a party because you had the termerity to pick a crap Class/ subclass. Because, you know, fun. Better to live off those memories than actually re-experience it and ruin those memories.

Hasn't payed for itself? Citation needed.

[Razard]

Hasn't payed for itself? Citation needed.

"Probably still hasn't payed for itself."

If that was a attempt at a gotcha, do try harder.

And Yes. You have to remember that, on top of the usual costs (Including being free to play for a while) and a cost prohibative releauch working in the background, the 1.0 version of the game was so bad that a SE investor sold their stock in disgust.

https://www.pcgamer.com/investor-rag...f-the-company/
(The only article i could find on the subject, it was literally a decade ago.)

The fact the the game is still going strong and with a growing install base, no matter what whiny nay sayers like TC and his blind FFXI fanboyism say, is nothing short of a miracle. One that, I must say, I am quite happy for.