mmorpg's review

[Nilheim]

I feel it is a fair score. Honestly I'm surprised they gave FFXIV such a long time before reviewing it, you can't say they didn't give it a second chance. It's a shame they didn't wait for 1.18 but honestly would it have changed that much? That 5.5 would maybe have become a 6 or a 6.5 if we wanna be really generous, so it's not really the cream of the crop anyway.

Like the game or not, everything he said is true, and it doesn't matter if you're rank 10 or 50, the problems he mentions are there regardless. The UI doesn't suddenly evolve when you ding 35...

[Trocien]

I told yall it was too late.

We feel we’ve waited more than long enough to give FFXIV a fair shake.

[Seif]

Well frankly anyone should have the right to assume launch issues have been ironed out after almost a year after the release few days give or take doesn't really change that assumption nor do the contents of the patch have that much to do with his critique. I think it's fair because it's still basically the same game that it was in launch and it's still the same game it was in beta. UI is a lot faster but still just as badly designed as it always has been.

[zoekwon]

i say its fair review. nothing to do right now other than levelquest and craft. maybe NM sometimes.

[Platinumstorm]

It's not MMORPG.com who is dumb. Who released the game in the state it was in?

[Renshi]

Gah, same usual sh*t as the other reviewers.
If my friends have chosen to play XIV is because it's under constant development and something different from the other MMOs. Also they are hardcore and casual by occasion, so XIV is the perfect game for them (because I told them with MY review =D)

I don't give a f*ck about gamesite reviewers, as the opinion is to be asked at who keeps playing the game under these circumstances (like us).

[Lyndis]

I think it's worth commenting the reason why we've waited ten months before we get a big update for FFXIV is because the staff changes. When those took place the ideas from the previous producer were scrapped. This is what Yoshida was trying to explain in those recent interviews. It takes six months for the equipment to get to the ready to be implemented stage. But once we reach the end of those six months we won't see that six month wait again because everything was started six months ago. This works for all the other content too. So after this update we'll be seeing a lot more large scale updates. The wheels are turning.

Games that you've mentioned like rift didn't get their entire infrastructure ripped out meaning their development cycle had been going long before release. Yes it's sad FFXIV is suffering this badly but that's why they're not charging.

Edit: I guess to make this post more on topic. The reason why it's low for a company to review FFXIV now is because they know the above facts. If they make FFXIV look bad right before it starts getting good people won't bother to try it when people say the new updates are great.

[Fated]

I'm not too sure that the ideas from the previous producer were entirely scrapped. I remember the schedule that was originally posted by the old team and a bunch of things that were on that have been implemented by the new team. I think a better way to put it is that the priority of everything has been shifted considerably.

[Eugenics]

Just read the review and it sounds about right.

[Winterclaw]

You are knocking the women for when it was released, but if this patch doesn't do all that much to help the game, it doesn't matter anyways. If that's the best critique of the article, then you're grasping at smoke.

It's a fair review. They even waited a long time like Squenix asked. If this game wasn't failing, it would be charging every month and that review would be incorrect. Sadly it is a failure. Consider, it's been ~10 months since release. If SE did a good job, it'd have 250k users paying 12-15 bucks a month each. They'd be making 2.5 million a month and would have made 25 million from monthly revenues by now. Instead they've made nothing but box fees (they get half of those) and had to spend 10 months at $10K per employee per month to fix this game (10K pepm was a rule of thumb for development costs a few years ago).