Final Fantasy 14 Exclusive PS3!!!

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Onyxmeth said:

perpride said:

Onyxmeth said:

 

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".

I think the problem is that this isn't a PC site. This is why MMOs other than World of Warcrap aren't popular. Honestly how many people played Star Wars Galaxy when it had the original gameplay? how many people here actually played FFXI at its prime when there were easily over 400k users? I seriously doubt that there is more than a very few on this site. This is why it was not in the top 100 and why it isn't popular on this site.

FFXI is and will forever be a welcomed numbered Final Fantasy in my book and FFXIV will be too.

When launched I would not be shocked if the number of active WoW accounts drop.