Yeah, SE pretty much killed FFXIV.
It's that the game had potential to really give WoW a run for its money but they just released way before it was ready. All SE had to do was release a working game because they already had so much working towards--
- The dedicated FFXI fanbase
- The dedicated FF fanbase
- The people that wanted to play an MMO on their PS3
- The MMO fans that wanted a fantasy MMO besides WoW
It's just astonishing that game that already has four pretty good sized different fan bases could fail so miserably. The game had some great ideas going for it, it's just SE royally screwed the pooch and released, I think, easily the worst game of the year. By doing that they made the FFXI fanbase outright quit or go back to FFXI, lost the interest of the FF fanbase, gave DC Universe Online their chance to steal the PS3 MMO crowd, and let WoW slip in with Cataclysm to give the fantasy MMO cravers something.
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And that gooble gobble video was just plain distrubing but that finally made me get the Clerks animated series reference!
