Final Fantasy 14 Exclusive PS3!!!

[Onyxmeth]

perpride said:

Onyxmeth said:

Rei said:

Onyxmeth said:

perpride said:
wow I have never seen this many people pissed off with a huge announcement like this. I haven't stopped jizzing for twenty minutes.

For many people FF XI was the black sheep of the franchise. Most people forget it even exists. They skip right from X to XII in conversations. It's natural most people were disappointed when hearing this is an MMO. When's the last time you saw someone really squeal over FF XI?

It's one of the more popular MMORPGs out there. More popular than Sony's own online offerings, for that matter.

 

You know what I mean when I say that. Sure it's a cool exclusive for MMO fans and some FF fans, but considering the feelings so many have for FF XI on this forum, it's natural this announcement was met with a great big fart noise.

See, that's just the thing. I completely disagree with you. Anytime anything is said that has "Final Fantasy" in it people go crazy over it. However, put "PS3 "exclusive" in there and everyone is hating on the game in moments. If FF14 was not online, and was a single player experience coming to PS3 exclusively, people would come into the thread bitching about how 13 has not dropped yet. You're right though, I'm going crazy over it cause I'm a FF fan.

 

Which is why I make the point: he said launching exclusively on PS3. I think he worded it is so because it will be timed. PC and 360 will get love.

You're a fairly regular poster here. I would have thought you'd be aware of a large opinion of FF XI which is that it was not very welcome as a title. Many people basically wished it never got numbered at all. That right there is where the hate comes in I believe. Knock that XIV off the title and 75% of the hate goes bye bye and gets replaced with just general "I don't want this".

Here, I'll give you a few examples. VGC's recent Top 100 games voted on by the community:

(I'm not sure about the placement of the top two because the 10-1 article isn't in the system anymore for some reason, but I think that was where they were placed)

#2-Final Fantasy VII
#7-Final Fantasy VI
#11-Final Fantasy X
#32-Final Fantasy IX
#33-Final Fantasy VIII
#66-Final Fantasy IV
#83-Final Fantasy XII

Now you tell me which Final Fantasy didn't make it onto the list out of the entire Playastation era of releases. I'll give you a hint. Only one didn't make it.

Look at it's gamepage for PS2. It only has 35 owners and only 3 wall posts total. Not exactly grabbing that FF attention is it? Go to it's 360 page also. Not much better. Go to it's PC page. Again not much better. Now go to other FF games and look at the amount of comments and attention they have. Totally different animals.

It's obvious that all Final Fantasy numbered titles are not treated equal. FF XI was basically discarded as non existant by a pretty significant portion of the FF fanbase. Or it just sucked. Take your pick. What's obvious and has been for a while is that FF XI was always ignored in Final Fantasy conversations and that stems for far longer than just the last few hours. PS3 hate this is not. This is legitimate hate towards making another numbered Final Fantasy an MMO and most of that hate would have remained even if this was named multiplatform. If we polled the site two days ago and asked them whether they wanted FF XIV to be an MMO, I'm sure the massive majority opinion would have been a "hell fuck no".