Square-Enix is doomed. Here's why.

[MaxwellGT2000]

twesterm said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

A203D said:

FF14 could recover with the PS3 release, if they correct all the problems. but i dont play MMOs so i dont understand how SE could have the immensily successful online FF11 and then have a disaster like FF14, how can an MMO be so bad when the team already created a successful one??

Mostly cause the team released FF11 as an alright MMO and new teams came behind them and constantly updated FF11 into what it is today, the team that made it went onto 14, my friends that played 11 said it wasn't that great when it released but with the updates it became enjoyable, the problem with 14 is that it's bland, interface is terrible, is sorta buggy, and not optimized one bit it seems as my friends rig seems to chug when playing it and me and him both can play Crysis on max... sooo not only does the game exclude 90% of the MMO base on requirements alone... those 10% are those that buy a computer FOR gaming thus a bit more on the really knowledgable side so bugs and crappy interface don't fly.

FFXI wasn't perfect when it released but it was far from a bad game.  The ideas were solid and it was fun to play.  FFXIV is none of that.  People keep mentioning how bad FFXI was at launch but I think people just assume that it was as bad as XIV is and it wasn't.  Like most MMO's it had a rough start but it at least worked and was fun. FFXI didn't have to fix entire systems, it really needed balances, tweaks, and small fixes.  Everything in FFXIV is broken.

It relelased completely unfinished in a barely alpha state and it did everything wrong.  It had some decent ideas with their class system but Rift is already doing it better now.  Beyond that, they really just failed on everything.

Oh no I wasn't saying FFXI was as bad as FFXIV, not by a long shot, see when they released FFXI they released something people could play and it was decent even if it was punishing for the average MMO player.  FFXIV is just