Why we are not allowed to have fun?

[Elissar]

First they changed how LB works in ultimate instead of improving the fight
Now they made GNB worse


why we are not allowed to have fun with your game design (that sucks)?
Worse, why SE is acting like blizzard, forcing their will against silly things that players do in order to have some fun?


what the f* is going on? is Yoshi P still leading anything?

[Daralii]

Yoshida himself has said that the new projects and board work keep him too busy to pay much of any attention to XIV. He just gets wheeled out for PR reasons.

[Carin-Eri]

Yoshida himself has said that the new projects and board work keep him too busy to pay much of any attention to XIV. He just gets wheeled out for PR reasons.

Yeah - those new projects that benefit from FFXIV's income generation, as opposed to said income being fed back into the game that generated it....

[OMGJesuis66]

Worse, why SE is acting like blizzard, forcing their will against silly things that players do in order to have some fun?

This always have been the case. They make classes balanced by enforcing repetitive gameplay and chained to a singular style of mandatory gameplay. Be it in the fight design and your class rotations.

That's literally what everyone praised on this game for the past decade.

[Daralii]

Yeah - those new projects that benefit from FFXIV's income generation, as opposed to said income being fed back into the game that generated it....

Square needs more flops so they can lose another 27% this quarter.

[Turtledeluxe]

Yeah - those new projects that benefit from FFXIV's income generation, as opposed to said income being fed back into the game that generated it....

Only for that income to be wasted, since FFXVI suffers from same design problems and probably barely broken even..

[Daralii]

Only for that income to be wasted, since FFXVI suffers from same design problems and probably barely broken even..

It probably broke even just because it had a pretty small budget for a modern AAA game($59m dev budget, maybe another $20m-$30m for marketing), but Square still said it undersold.

[Hyperia]

It probably broke even just because it had a pretty small budget for a modern AAA game($59m dev budget, maybe another $20m-$30m for marketing), but Square still said it undersold.

We should also take into consideration that a lot of the tech that was created for 16 is and will be used in 14.

[LittleArrow]

I couldn't agree more. This game went from a scrappy underdog MMO that had some janky mechanics here and there, to a really well developed fun MMO that was following the feedback of their fanbase and on the road to becoming a really fun game, to a completely stale unfun corporate "triple AAA" snoozefest.

They've completely forgotten what it is to let the players have fun. Everything has to be fit in a bubble. They no longer add in cool new mechanics to jobs, they in fact take them away. Every job feels the same, either build up resource now use it on burst or use resource now use it on burst. They don't even add the fun final fantasy features that they were implementing before (summoner is such a joke with the ugliest summon I've ever seen added this expansion, and that includes anima one of my fave summons in the mix of "ugliest").

The game isn't fun and the developers forgot what fun was. They just want safe safe safe. I'm not even a player that likes games that take risk. Shoot, I've been a white knight for FFXIV since 1.x beta, and I can't defend this anymore. I think the devs need to get out of their bubble and go play some fun games. They need to remember that games are supposed to be, fun.

[Turtledeluxe]

We should also take into consideration that a lot of the tech that was created for 16 is and will be used in 14.

So it can be a beautiful underselling IP just like XVI...

I cannot wait to talk to 3 people in glorious PSSR 4k...