Blitzball is truly dead

[Bright-Flower]

The community response to blitzball has always baffled me.......when players ask for blitzball they mean an underwater 8v8 PvP mode that has actions based on your class (defender, fielder or goalkeeper). If they gave this concept to the PvP team it would be the expansion highlight.

Nobody wants a football manager simulator, they want a fun PvP mode with less combat focus.

I feel like they struggle to get people to pvp enough as it is and investing this much in a new pvp mode that is blitzball related rather than tied to our actual jobs would be a much bigger risk in terms of player engagement than you're making it out to be as a big new pvp mode.

[Graveyardprincess]

honestly thats depressing I would have sit in golden saucer 24/7 doing no other content but blitzball like i did in ff10 just sitting there playing blitzball for weeks. I think thats what he is really afraid of noone doing anything else but blitzball

[Hasrat]

This! I would be so excited if they did this! I don’t know why they’re so resistant to even considering it. It seems to have a lot of player support.

The why is easy. Players are expecting so much, the idea is far beyond a "mini-game."

What players want is, effectively, a fully fleshed out game, and they somehow also want that shoved into another game.

Start asking them to release a full game, rather than trying to shove this into a game where it can't possibly live up to expectations.

[Graveyardprincess]

The why is easy. Players are expecting so much, the idea is far beyond a "mini-game."

What players want is, effectively, a fully fleshed out game, and they somehow also want that shoved into another game.

Start asking them to release a full game, rather than trying to shove this into a game where it can't possibly live up to expectations.

yes we can have gaint gundam battles but not a simple game of water volleyball basicly lol that doesnt make much sense at all.. I mean pre stormblood it made sense but we can swim now.. we have action bars and fetes have us carry plush toys/boxs lol is it a risk sure, but everything we do is a risk stop worrying about how risky things are and just do them lol

Fear and worry are such worthless tools

[Bright-Flower]

A gundam battle is easy. It's pretty functionally really not that different from any other fight where we control an NPC. Fine for a one off 'go smack this solo instance boss and a bit of trash around.' Other than visual flair it's really not that much different than when we controlled Alph when he ran into Gaius back in SB.

Creating a full fledged balanced sport game with different roles that is meant to have high replay value and keep people coming back, and getting all of that to function well in a pvp environment, is a whole other ask.

And while the game shouldn't take 'zero' risks, 'screw it take any risk some posters on the forums wnat you to take' isn't exactly a viable strategy.

[PintyMcEars]

Blitzballer should be a job.

[Bright-Flower]

Blitzballer should be a job.

I'm imagining now if they did this. And blitzball games were only in the job quest and handled the same way as the hippo races in the ew beast tribe quest cutscenes. I think that would really annoy the pro BB crowd lol.

[Wolwosh]

Did anyone ever think that Blitzball is really going to work in 14? Like really?..
With how simple the Gold Saucer events are in 14 did you really think they could pull off something as complicated and intricate as Blitzball in 14 and well?

[Sunhwapark]

Just keep asking ?

It worked for blue mage anyway.

[CidHeiral]