Final Fantasy XIV "Damaged" Final Fantasy

For a game with grand ambitious, Final Fantasy XIV has been a grand disappointment. Today in Tokyo, Square Enix honcho Yoichi Wada once again addressed the game's shortcomings.

"The Final Fantasy brand was damaged," Wada said, adding that the game was being "substantially reworked" so that the game can be revived as the FFXIV that should have been released.

With Dragon Quest X now an online role-playing game, Wada also addressed questions whether all Square Enix games will be online titles. He said not all of them would be, but yes, many will have online elements.

Last December, Wada apologized for Final Fantasy XIV, stating, "While more than two months have passed since the official launch of Final Fantasy XIV service, we deeply regret that the game has yet to achieve the level of enjoyability that Final Fantasy fans have come to expect from the franchise, and for this we offer our sincerest of apologies."

The game was such a bust that the PS3 version was delayed, and the game's developers were booted out. The PS3 version was slated for a March 2011 launch, but still hasn't been released.

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http://kotaku.com/5844193/final-fantasy-xiv-damaged-final-fantasy

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I don't think it was FFXIV....

A delayed game will be goof eventually, but a bad game is bad forever. When Yoichi blamed FFXIV, he was aiming a little high

And most of all, Wada damaged the FF brand, along with damaging the whole of SE.
He's not one to speak.

Bwahahahahaahah

Final Fantasy XIV: Wada damaged Final Fantasy brand.

Wada fuck

but to be fair.. I don't think Wada made any design decisions that f*cked up FFXIV..

thats not the only reason. after FF10 there was no hope in sight.

Nope he just made the dev team release a game that was clearly still in the Alpha stage.

I have recently been playing FFXIV. The game is considerably better then what it was a year ago. The problem is though that it has been a year. The game while better is getting content but at a slower pace then it should. Yoshi P got assigned a challenge that he will more than likely never pass. Restructuring an entire game and adding new content is hard.

FF11 was a good game and I put endless hours playing it, despite the huge issues it had. All ff14 needed was to improve the previous game not to fuck it up harder.

FF14 battle system is fun now actually but I cba to play the game anymore.