Selling of IP's

[Ranaku]

Yoshi P. has already said that they won't implement any NFT bullshit into XIV. And tbh i myself can't care less about SE making a NFT game, the best way to protest is still...well...not playing said game or buying the NFTs.

[Vahlnir]

Yoshi P. has already said that they won't implement any NFT bullshit into XIV. And tbh i myself can't care less about SE making a NFT game, the best way to protest is still...well...not playing said game or buying the NFTs.

He can oppose it all he wants, but he has a boss, and that boss wants NFTs.

[Thoosa]

Maybe not in 14, but maybe in a new mmo.

[Dzian]

FFXIV as far as I know has always been gaining players over time.
I rly wonder what game you're playing if you think that the quality hasn't gone up too..

Technically yes the game gains players over time but it's problem is keeping them..

The recent ads you see on social media are upto like 25million players now..

But what that actually means is 25 million people "have" played the game not 25 million people "do" play the game... someone could download the game create a character make get to level 2 on there first job and never play again... and still be counted in that 25 million.

The active population of the game hasn't grown that much at all on average over the games life.

You can see hints of this just with the login queues.. That big influx from WoW or whatever and the new expansion we recently got saw players getting login queues of hundreds if not thousands of players..
and yet literally weeks later those queues were all but gone..all those players arent here anymore.. bored and quit already.

The overall quality of the game has deterioated quite a lot. there's more examples of that than you can possibly list. content quality, jobs, story, aesthetics...

if the quality is continupusly imporving why are the 4.0 versions of many jobs like ast and brd widely regarded as the best iterations to date? the quality of jobs has basically tanked.

[Darthgummibear]

FFXIV as far as I know has always been gaining players over time.
I rly wonder what game you're playing if you think that the quality hasn't gone up too.

This forum is just overly negative all the time, people always talk about toxic positivity but tbh this forum is toxic negativity incarnate and it's mainly the same people running rampant and who are ultimately for the most part mad about minor things in the grand scheme of things.
The forums don't really represent the general view of the game at all.



This was about FFXIV, there is no evidence at all that FFXIV is suffering or is going to suffer because of what other branches of SE does.
Yoshi P also has an abnormal amount of control over the game too.
Their Western studios have been doing rly poorly too.

Back when WoW started to fall apart there was always a number of really vocal people who sounded just like you swearing up and down that "this is fine" while the proverbial house was on fire. As people started to leave the game there was less and less counter to those voices which just helped to reinforce the idea that nothing was wrong. Now here we are 10 years later, with that company struggling just to keep the game from collapsing. Keep your head in the sand if you want, but there are those of us who greatly desire for this game to succeed. Partly because we love the game and it's universe, and partly because there's nowhere else to go.

Seeing a lot of the same mistakes being made by this team just in the past year doesn't exactly do wonders to assuage any of these concerns. If these guys don't seriously step up their game over the next year, not only will they likely lose a significant chunk of their gains from WoW but they may also start losing loyal fans.

[Fyrebrand]

I am concerned for Square Enix in general, but not FFXIV. Somewhat of a backhanded compliment, but between the notorious "spaghetti code" designed for PS3 and the fact that the servers are held together with popsicle sticks and play-dough, I don't think they could implement NFTs into this game if they wanted to. I love FFXIV to death, but... come on. We all know it.

[YukiB]

I am concerned for Square Enix in general, but not FFXIV. Somewhat of a backhanded compliment, but between the notorious "spaghetti code" designed for PS3 and the fact that the servers are held together with popsicle sticks and play-dough, I don't think they could implement NFTs into this game if they wanted to. I love FFXIV to death, but... come on. We all know it.

"Spaghetti code" makes for a convenient excuse when it comes to doing things that are hard but players want, like overhauling the glamour system, the housing system, Hrothgar hair.

Don't be so sure it will hold up when it comes to Square Enix forcing NFTs into the game.

[Wingale]

I'm waiting for Elon Musk to take over Business Division 3

[Caitlinzulu]

I'm waiting for Elon Musk to take over Business Division 3

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Darthgummibear]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I would be for this just because it would be an even more entertaining salt mine than the people losing their collective minds over twitter.