Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

I think ff14 pulls a lot of square Enix disasters with its money, rather than going back into its development

It 100% does, although that happens with lots of companies: One area does well, one doesn't, money from area that does well helps shore up the shortfalls of other areas rather than invest in the area doing well.

There is also a delicate balance between under and overfunding an area.

On a side note, cool interview with Koji Fox where he talks about developing the game and localization.

Cybsled said:

Lolstralia. What’s with Australia and the UK being censor happy nanny states?

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I believe that is the whole reason for FF14 going after the Modded client thing(Mare Lament??? whatever, I don't use mods), even Yoshi stated it after the initial C&D was posted, they are protecting the game its self it has nothing to do with anything else. Also at the time all the credit processing business were being hounded by fucking morons, cause "They didn't like this game on steam.. etc etc".

As far as the blood thing though.. who knows I really don't understand the disdain for any kind of violence fake or real.

I think fundamentally the story telling was solid in FF14 but I felt the overall gameplay sort of sucked outside dungeons. They needed to weave in more combat into the MSQ somehow.

Caeden said:

I think fundamentally the story telling was solid in FF14 but I felt the overall gameplay sort of sucked outside dungeons. They needed to weave in more combat into the MSQ somehow.

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They have tried to add in more combat stuff during MSQ, playing other Scion Characters/Wuk(this one really sucked, War will War I guess..)

But of course people complained cause they were constantly failing at extra character sections.. even though if you read the tool tips on some of the abilities.. You have to try REALLY hard to fail..(From what I remember all the scions we played all had some form of group heal/stun style type damage that worked 100% on enemies.)

MSQ is what takes away from the good part of the game, aka the MMO part. I would go back but the enduring the MSQ is a no go. At least WoW lets you bypass it.