Selling of IP's

[Darthgummibear]

*FFXIV does better than it ever has*

The forums: '' OMG IS THE GAME DYING!?!?!+1 ''

Yeah, it gets a massive surge in population with the biggest game in town going down in flames obviously giving them a fair deal more resources, and what have they done with it? How is this "massive success" represented in the quality of the current product?

[Vahlnir]

Yeah, it gets a massive surge in population with the biggest game in town going down in flames obviously giving them a fair deal more resources, and what have they done with it? How is this "massive success" represented in the quality of the current product?

The quality is hit or miss depending on where the team's focus is, much like it always has been, but in some areas the quality has clearly taken a serious hit.

[Theodric]

The quality is hit or miss depending on where the team's focus is, much like it always has been, but in some areas the quality has clearly taken a serious hit.

Yep.

The problem, I suspect, is that some people are acting as though because they, specifically, don't care much about any given issue then nobody else should give a damn either.

At the risk of repeating myself across a great many threads...it doesn't matter if someone thinks the concerns about the game's lapse in quality isn't a concern. Many of us investing in FFXIV have experienced this sort of gaslighting elsewhere - particularly in WoW. Even to this very day, when people speak up about that game's issues, there's no shortage of devout defenders emerging from the woodwork to downplay and deflect criticism. It happened even as more and more people spoke up in an effort to divert Blizzard's path since people who are actually invested and critical are more prone to identifying problems that will fester than players who just shrug and accept whatever is placed upon their plate.

All of this has been pointed out a great many times already, though - and can be deduced with even a tiny bit of critical thinking. As such, to me the whole 'tHe GaMe Is MoRe PoPuLaR tHaN eVeR' angle strikes me as both disingenuous and deceptive.

It hasn't exactly reached the impressive heights of ten million active players that WoW enjoyed during the height of its golden age back in WOTLK. FFXIV's slow and steady rise in popularity is impressive in its own right, though let's not pretend as if a large part of the success is not in itself due to the lack of viable competition in the eyes of many MMO enthusiasts combined with the age old plight of 'sunk cost fallacy'.

I'd like the game to do well. I'd like to continue investing in it. That's why I - and many others - speak up when we see problems to be addressed.

[YukiB]

*FFXIV does better than it ever has*

The forums: '' OMG IS THE GAME DYING!?!?!+1 ''

More like,

*SE sells 300 million dollars worth of IP and studios and invests it in blockchain and NFTs*

The forums: "OMG DOES SE KNOW WHAT THE HELL IT'S DOING ANYMORE?"

The answer is no, coincidentally.

[Kranel_San]

I doubt we'll see any blockchain nonsense in XIV.
Not because SE doesn't want that junk in there, 2021 and 2022 showed us that the company makes some of the most out of touch decisions I have ever seen.

We won't see it because XIV's engine is such jank that they'll never be able to implement something like NFTs.

For once, a game limitation has saved the game.

[Themarvin]

NFT or whatever is on the way out... the way it is done now is a massive power drain to mine these things, with rising energy prices and more and it not being able to be sustainable... yet actually show value will make it difficult.

[Kolsykol]

Yeah, it gets a massive surge in population with the biggest game in town going down in flames obviously giving them a fair deal more resources, and what have they done with it? How is this "massive success" represented in the quality of the current product?

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.

More like,

*SE sells 300 million dollars worth of IP and studios and invests it in blockchain and NFTs*

The forums: "OMG DOES SE KNOW WHAT THE HELL IT'S DOING ANYMORE?"

The answer is no, coincidentally.

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.

[KizuyaKatogami]

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.

Well let’s see here. Job design? In the gutter. Healers? In the gutter. Hrothgar hairstyles? Literally an objectively dramatic decrease in quality. Housing? Couldn’t even be released without huge game breaking bugs. Pvp? Couldn’t even be released without huge game breaking bugs. Less gear on expansion release, more reused gear than any other expansion, still reusing gear and not making it dyable in dungeons, the most expensive thing this expansion was animating someone’s foot on a balcony. I’m not really seeing an increase in quality here.

[Vahlnir]

Well let’s see here. Job design? In the gutter. Healers? In the gutter. Hrothgar hairstyles? Literally an objectively dramatic decrease in quality. Housing? Couldn’t even be released without huge game breaking bugs. Pvp? Couldn’t even be released without huge game breaking bugs. Less gear on expansion release, more reused gear than any other expansion, still reusing gear and not making it dyable in dungeons, the most expensive thing this expansion was animating someone’s foot on a balcony. I’m not really seeing an increase in quality here.

Hopefully they'll wake up just like some of us did eventually.

[Doc_Seraph]

For once, I am glad this game's coding is a pile of spaghetti.

Kupo, I wonder what type of spaghetti? I like many kupo ^_^