Onyxmeth said:
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 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". |
OK I see your point about the userbase of this website not liking the game. But tell me this: is the userbase of VGChartz representative of all gamers? A new Final Fantasy being announced as a (console) exclusive is a megaton. The fact that square made it a numbered entry into the franchise means that there is no fucking around to be had here. It's the real deal.
Online changing has beomce mainstream since FFXI. For its time, making XI a numbered entry into the series was a bold move. I think FFXIV will absolutley obliterate XI and sell quite a few copies. Obviousley it will not do FFVII numbers. The fact that XI didn't make our top 100 says enough though. It deffinitly explains why people in this thread are not pumped.
