Loyalty Test

[alienbaby]

ffxiv or gtfo, only reason im still playing it and not star wars

[Alhanelem]

Are you loyal to the game?
Or are you loyal to the name?


Would you still play if the game was called Omega Odyssey or Online Adventures in Eorzea?

How much weight does the Final Fantasy name carry?

It's pretty safe to say that people who are still here like the game, however, if it wasn't published and promoted by square enix or carried the final fantasy name, not as many people would have noticed or known about it.

[faris]

For me, my loyalty was more based on the fact that Akihiko Matsui got the lead combat designer job. I was really into XI and his work on ToAU and WotG's BCNMs and stuff was wtf awesome. Out of all the expansions, to me ToAU and WotG had the more entertaining, frustrating, and fun fights. (I won't forget Lancelord Gaheel Ja or Amnaf in a hurry, let alone Besieged or Campaign.)

My loyalty was totally won by the new team. Akihiko Yoshida on concept art is also a very, very good thing (as you can tell with the 2.0 information.)

...That, and XI's no fun any longer. I have no reason to stay there now I've completed the four expansions. I can't be bothered with the mini-expansions or Abyssea and severely need something to play. XIV works for that, because there's a chance the classes I love will eventually be included.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

It's pretty safe to say that people who are still here like the game, however, if it wasn't published and promoted by square enix or carried the final fantasy name, not as many people would have noticed or known about it.

it's unfortunately true.

The SE name force does not carry enough weight alone. Games like Parasite Eve, Bushido Blade, Saga Frontier, Vagrant Story, the Bouncer, the Last Remnant, and Nier do not push the sales a numbered FF title can.

Even for Koei, they adjusted the name of Gundam Musou to Dynasty Warriors: Gundam and it outsold other games with the Gundam name.

The single identity does all. The graphics. The level of communication that opened up amongst dev, cm, and populace. It touched me *censored for inappropriate and dangerously sexy talk*

Yup.

[Xatsh]

Honestly the name for me, but it because of what the name means.

While XI was never WoW popular it had something in it that made people stay with it, made you get on to play it everyday. The people you meet ment something to you where in other mmo they where tools to get from point A to B. The community mattered, the economy simply worked, you literally had more valid content then WoW ,TOR, and RIFT combined at Xi's peak.

Final Fantasy is also SE's biggest global IP, which gives it the title as too important to fail more or less. Which is why they dumping millions more into a currently failed mmo, to bring it up to par. a FF game is not something that can simply not fail for the company so the chances of the screwing it up again are fairly low... it would cost them alot more then the dev cost if the game completely tanks.

So for me it is the name, and the company. I personally hate the current game due to how broke things are and how limited the content is but love what I see coming up. I really love how this is not a solo focused mmo which everyone else is doing. XIV is possibly the last of the true group focused mmorpgs, and that means something to me.

A company that made one of the best mmos ever developed, the best rpg series in the world, and a company that is willing to spend millions to fix it regardless of what the press thinks. That is why I stay with it. With all those elements together and more or less the same dev team, it has to eventually get good. And 2.0 for me look like a real mmo worthy of the FF title. Only time will tell now though.

[Meleena]

When I first started it was because that I loved FF11, but the reason I stayed was because of the Square Enix name behind it.
That's right it was not the Final Fantasy name, but the square Enix name that kept me.

[Biggs]

Its no suprise to anyone here that I played the crap out of FFXI, and while I certainly played some of the other numbered titles, I never touched any sequals, spinoffs (EXCEPT FOR TACTICS! ), or dozens of other games with the FF name. I essentially only ever played 7,8,10,11,12,and 13 (heh "ONLY"). I would say that list is probably in line with what many other players of XIV have played, but I certainly had this game in my sites since its announcment.

All that being said, I can't put to word exactly why I play, but ol' Biggs has a short tale that sums it up. I have been smacking into starwars for the past few weeks as a means of distracting myself from waiting on XIV, and it has easily been almost 2 months since playing for any longer than it takes to log on, do a guild supply quest or 2, and log off. Today I jumped on, threw on the ol' fishin hat, and took the airship to Gridania for some fishing. As I approached a remote dock that extended into the small lake just NE of Camp Tranquil and threw out my lure, the absolute beauty of that spot struck me. The casting animation combined with the fireflies over the water and the sounds of the Black Shroud at night blended perfectly with the background music there. And it was then I still realized how freakin awsome this game can make you feel. I didn't want to be anywhere else in the game but right there fishing. After having not played for almost 2 full months in earnest, I smacked into fishing that spot for 3 hours. It was awsome. The fact that the game can do that, without any "action", or a large group of friends needed (although always welcome) is the reason I stay. It still has a lot of potential, even with all the problems.

See you all in the Shroud. I will be the Galka sittin on the dock with his straw hat on. I am gonna go log on now

[Mikita]

As I approached a remote dock that extended into the small lake just NE of Camp Tranquil and threw out my lure, the absolute beauty of that spot struck me. The casting animation combined with the fireflies over the water and the sounds of the Black Shroud at night blended perfectly with the background music there. And it was then I still realized how freakin awsome this game can make you feel. I didn't want to be anywhere else in the game but right there fishing. After having not played for almost 2 full months in earnest, I smacked into fishing that spot for 3 hours. It was awsome. The fact that the game can do that, without any "action", or a large group of friends needed (although always welcome) is the reason I stay. It still has a lot of potential, even with all the problems.

The first time I visited Gridania I thought I might just retire there. I still sometimes sit outside the Leatherworker's guild in a small patch of flowers -- chatting with friends while watching the light change as it filters through the trees, the water flow by as it churns the watermill, listening to the unseen birds chirping away in the trees, and enjoying how the butterflies give way to fireflies at night... it really is a beautiful world that SE has created.

Sometimes it's nice to take a break from doing the primal battles and grinding this or that, while still being immersed in this fantasy world.


I never played any other Final Fantasy title so I don't have any attachment to the name or the company.

I continue to play FFXIV because of the game itself and the people I have befriended there.

[Arel203]

I'm loyal to the brand, for the most part.

I would of never came back to XIV had it not been for the information of the new dev team and 2.0. While I will be the first one to say the game is not that great in its' current state, it's not too costly to enjoy it a few hours a day in hopes that 2.0 will turn it around, and i'll be a bit ahead of the average croud if it gets big.

Although, if 2.0 doesn't turn the game around fast, my brand loyalty can only indure so much of a beating. I haven't enjoyed an FF title the same since X and XI. XI may of not ever been popular, for obvious reasons, combat wasn't one of its' strong points. But, it did provide an old school feel which at the time, I enjoyed. And X was the last great Final Fantasy in my eyes. XII was 'ok', good story, decent gameplay... XIII/XIII-2 was all about gameplay and lacked a lot the reasons I buy FF titles. JRPG's aren't really evolving much, and haven't for a while. So, while my loyalty is the reason why I'm here now, it could also be the reason why I wont be, if things continue to go south. Because my loyalty is to the original Square quality that I know and love.

[Nakiamiie]

Are you loyal to the game?
Or are you loyal to the name?


Would you still play if the game was called Omega Odyssey or Online Adventures in Eorzea?

How much weight does the Final Fantasy name carry?

Both. Yes. About 25%.

Basically, I prefer to play 1 game a lot than many of them a little.