Is Square Enix DDoSing themselves or what ?

[Tunda]

Please understand poor indie company with early access hatless races (Viera - Hroth).
Unfixable engine, nft projects, juggling 3 game developments.

But "everything is fine" and "everything is overblown" and "you just hate fun"

Cant wait for the world to soften up too in the story. And some real world inserted into the game ala Sweet baby inc. Dragon quest already got swiped.

lol that change in dragon quest is just dumb.. god who are these people?

I was actually hyped for games that been written by Mr. Toriyama blessed hands.. but no, he is dead and we got this political propaganda.

[Hallarem]

Please understand poor indie company with early access hatless races (Viera - Hroth).
Unfixable engine, nft projects, juggling 3 game developments.

But "everything is fine" and "everything is overblown" and "you just hate fun"

Cant wait for the world to soften up too in the story. And some real world inserted into the game ala Sweet baby inc. Dragon quest already got swiped.

[Slayer25c]

lol that change in dragon quest is just dumb.. god who are these people?

I was actually hyped for games that been written by Mr. Toriyama blessed hands.. but no, he is dead and we got this political propaganda.

Roll my eyes u people are a joke.

[Hallarem]

Ups. Double reply

[Tunda]

Roll my eyes u people are a joke.

lol are u offended?

[NegativeS]

You think they're starting to let the praise get to their head?

I remember back in like, 2013-2017, Blizzard was starting to get that 'we are too big to fail' mindset, where they felt like they could churn out anything and people would buy it. Well, they ended up losing like, 90% of their peak players, and it took them until 2022 to finally get it in their heads that they actually need to try to maintain their numbers.

I feel like Square might be hitting that point with XIV. 'These players are too addicted to our game to quit, we don't even have to try anymore!' And that might be true for some people. But I know that if I don't hear the right things in the Live Letter later this month, I'm taking an extended hiatus...

[Reinha]

Nice WHM + DoH + DoL combo you got there.

[HeyMcFly]

Please understand poor indie company with early access hatless races (Viera - Hroth).
Unfixable engine, nft projects, juggling 3 game developments.

But "everything is fine" and "everything is overblown" and "you just hate fun"

Cant wait for the world to soften up too in the story. And some real world inserted into the game ala Sweet baby inc. Dragon quest already got swiped.

pls understand ffxiv is alpha game for the last 10 years
small indie company that uses our sub to fund other mediocre SE projects

[Striker44]

You think they're starting to let the praise get to their head?

I remember back in like, 2013-2017, Blizzard was starting to get that 'we are too big to fail' mindset, where they felt like they could churn out anything and people would buy it. Well, they ended up losing like, 90% of their peak players, and it took them until 2022 to finally get it in their heads that they actually need to try to maintain their numbers.

I feel like Square might be hitting that point with XIV. 'These players are too addicted to our game to quit, we don't even have to try anymore!' And that might be true for some people. But I know that if I don't hear the right things in the Live Letter later this month, I'm taking an extended hiatus...

That would require Square to be bleeding players. They're not. Since 2.0, there has been the typical consistent cycles that all MMO's experience, with gradually an overall upward trend. DT just had the highest presales of any FFXIV installment, and the current player population is likewise among the highest ever (being topped only by the release month of DT itself and that brief massive influx we saw a few years back with the "WoW exodus").

[Kes13a]

I remember when we got extra play time when servers crashed.. good old days

server crashes ARE an SE problem, plain and simple. they should give free time for that. DDoS... completely different story.