FFXIV gets a 4.0 from Gamespot and other reviews & hilarious discoveries about FFXIV

[Firewind]

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I must admit that I did laugh at the term "extensive travels" in a brand new MMO

[Aksannyi]

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Lol another title change. Someone was having fun with their moderator hat today.

[TheGrandMom]

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Sssshhhhh!

[Taskmage]

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Gamasutra - News - Square Enix Ships 630,000 FFXIV Copies, Working On 'Regaining Trust'

Despite complaints about the MMORPG from reviewers and players alike, Square Enix says it's shipped some 630,000 units of Final Fantasy XIV and hopes to start "regaining [subscribers'] trust."

In an investors briefing earlier today, the publisher's CEO Yoichi Wada said of those PC copies (available with a $49.99 version and a $74.99 collector's edition), 190,000 shipped in Japan, 210,000 in North America, and 230,000 in Europe. The company also said the PS3 edition of FFXIV is still slated to release next March.

"We're quickly working on reforms," said Wada, according to a report from Japanese newspaper Mainichi translated by Andriasang.com. The online game has received much criticism since its launch in September due to problems with lag, sparsely populated zones, missing explanations/guides for systems, and other issues.

Square Enix promised to extend the subscription-based MMORPG's (monthly charge of $12.99) free trial period last month due to "the current state of the game", and said it is working to improve FFXIV with future updates.

"We'd like to put our full power into regaining trust," said Wada. "If we satisfy our users, they will return. On the other hand, once the users say, 'forget this,' there's no turning back. We can only recover our trust so far."

[Raydeus]

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Once you know you have a unsalvageable losing hand there's no other choice but to try to bluff your way out of the hole.

[Firewind]

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Once you know you have a unsalvageable losing hand there's no other choice but to try to bluff your way out of the hole.

Please leave the poor horse alone.

[Raydeus]

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See? Even you are trying to kill the poor horse when it's still alive.

[Icemage]

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You know, you never get a second chance to make a first impression, especially if that first impression is as bad as FFXIV's has been for most people.

Square-Enix has maybe 4 months (tentative launch date for FFXIV PS3) to fix the problems and win people back. Given their track record of "slow and steady" change... I don't see this happening.

Not that I think the PS3 version is that important from the viewpoint of actually winning too many new subscribers, but it's probably the last chance to convince people who have already given up on the game to even consider coming back. If anything goes wrong from here, I don't really see any way for FFXIV to recover. If the PS3 launch slips off target, they're toast. If the interface doesn't improve dramatically in the next few months, they're toast. If the game doesn't get some more newbie-friendly tutorials? Toast. Less stupendously murky gameplay (esp. with respect to crafting)? Toast.

S-E claims 630K sales, which is all well and good, but they've got only a very small time window to keep even a tiny fraction of those purchasers as regular subscribers. It will be interesting to see how many subscribers remain at the end of December, after Cataclysm launches.


Icemage

[Grizzlebeard]

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FFXIV: "Full power on regaining trust"

Since the launch of the Collector's Edition on 21st September and the launch of the Standard Edition on 30th September, Final Fantasy XIV has sold 630,000 copies around the world. Most of those were shifted in Europe (230,000 copies), with the US second (210,000 copies) and Japan last (190,000 copies).

Makes me wonder if they still nail EU's with maintenance in their primetime like FFXI.

[Raydeus]

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S-E claims 630K sales, which is all well and good, but they've got only a very small time window to keep even a tiny fraction of those purchasers as regular subscribers.

It's ACP all over again.

They sold tons preorders of that scenario because people were expecting something completely different from what we got.

So as sad as it sounds pre-ordering games from SE is simply not a good idea anymore.




PS > Preordering is a sign of the costumer's trust in the developer, and once that trust is gone...

[ItazuraNhomango]

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Maybe SE should forget revenue for now, refund the purchases, and turn this into a public beta/alpha--then actually take note of the user complaints.

After all the major issues have been ironed out and additional contents added, then relaunch the game (with a new marketing campaign).

[cidbahamut]

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Maybe SE should forget revenue for now, refund the purchases, and turn this into a public beta/alpha--then actually take note of the user complaints.

After all the major issues have been ironed out and additional contents added, then relaunch the game (with a new marketing campaign).

I think it's a bit late for that, don't you? That could turn into even more of a PR disaster than they already have on their hands.

[Neverslip]

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You know, you never get a second chance to make a first impression, especially if that first impression is as bad as FFXIV's has been for most people.

Unless you have a launch for PC then months later you have a launch for a console.

Two hopes I have regarding FFxiv:

1. That everything is fixt and some mechanics are made far more enticing to me so that it blows me outta the water and I actually end up not only being interested in FFxiv but obsessed with it.

2. That SE continues their usual ear-plugging tactics changing nothing; so that people get incredibly tired of failsauce and having reopened the wound that FFxi left there from the abuse they trickle back and repopulate the vast emptiness that FFxi is kinda becoming.

I love the lore SE comes up with... I want them to get winsauce. I hope they do. I'm just cynical regarding it.

[Tickmeoff]

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It's ACP all over again.

They sold tons preorders of that scenario because people were expecting something completely different from what we got.

So as sad as it sounds pre-ordering games from SE is simply not a good idea anymore.




PS > Preordering is a sign of the costumer's trust in the developer, and once that trust is gone...

I remember being a kid and being excited as fuck every time I got to pre-order a game I really wanted. I think I cried tears of joy on the day I picked up Mega Man X.


Now when a new game comes out I am like "It's coming out this week? Cool, I'll go to Fry's in a few weeks and pick it up for $40 or something." There have been very few games I would go out and buy immediately upon release lately, and I don't think I have pre-ordered a game since 2004.

That game was "Wind Waker 2" when Nintendo first announced that a new Zelda game was in development. I kept that receipt for two fucking years and picked up Twilight Princess at that Gamestop the night the Wii launched. They actually let me keep the receipt and it's still in my wallet, so faded that it can't even be read anymore.

[Icemage]

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Maybe SE should forget revenue for now, refund the purchases, and turn this into a public beta/alpha--then actually take note of the user complaints.

After all the major issues have been ironed out and additional contents added, then relaunch the game (with a new marketing campaign).

Bahaha! :D For a moment I thought you were serious. Good one, IfritnoItazura!


Icemage