TSA’s Top 100 of 2011 – #89 Final Fantasy XIV

Square Enix’s second foray into the land of Final Fantasy MMOing is available right now on the PC. By all accounts, however, the fact PS3 owners have to wait until at least March of next year to visit Eorzea might be interpreted as a god-send. At least by then some of the well-documented issues afflicting the PC version may be resolved.

Reviews have been less than glowing (to be blunt, they’ve been mostly bad), with numerous gripes surfacing. Noted issues range from a cumbersome interface, a broken job system, baffling quest restrictions to, and most damning, the fact that it’s just not fun to play.

The PS3 version itself has been the subject of many column inches, its lateness compared to its PC counterpart attributed to challenges with the console’s limited memory allocation. Based on the almost universal negative reception received so far, in terms of the much mooted 360 version, don’t be surprised if Microsoft simply push away from the negotiation table and say: “Thanks, but do you know what? We’re good.”

We’re still mildly intrigued about the PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIV, if anything to see how a big, financially well-backed MMO actually performs on the console. But the prospect of paying monthly subs, with the bad reaction the game has already received niggling at the back of our minds, looks increasingly unlikely if we’re being entirely honest. That said, we’re still wondering how all this pans out in the end. We’ll find out next year.

21 Comments

  1. i cant wait for this game i think its going to be alot of fun but have silly hard trophies

    • very silly hard trophies!

    • Bronze: “Run for fifty hours.”

      • Gold: Find the mythical ‘man furismo jive’ game

      • @ Kovacs

        “Run for fifty hours” which is translated as push up for 30 hours and occasionallyy pressing X.

  2. in it’s current state ffxiv looks to be a disaster.

    some of it can be fixed, but there are some issues that that klook like they won’t be fixed with a patch any time soon, if ever.

    like on top of your subscription, you also have to pay for every playable character slot, including the first even if you only have one.

    and player shops instead of a unified auction house, now i’ve played mmos that do that, and it’s a bloody nightmare, the cities get crowded with thousands of players sitting there doing nothing selling their items, and with each player having an npc to run their shop for them while they’re offline or doing something else it’ll be even worse.

    in fact that non playable npc is the only free character slot you get, you can buy more of course.

    some of this could be forgiven in a free to play mmo, but charging a sub and then you have to pay another fee on top, every single month, to actually play the game? well, it’s taking the piss is what it is.

    • oh and then there are limit on how many quests you can do in a certain time period, either 36 or 48 hours i think it was.

      the only way i would be any way interested in this, is if it’s goes so badly they change to a free to play model by the time the ps3 version launches.

    • Yes, but how do you really, feel about the game?
      ;)

      • if it wasn’t for the lack of transports, the player shops likely to be clogging up every city and the exorbitant price structure, i’d have to say formerly very excited, but taking those into account, not so much. :)

  3. well depending on costs to play on ps3 im still wanting to get this, hopefully everything else can be patched, provided they support the game

  4. Am I the only one who has never played FF? :L

    • i think there are some monks in a mountain in tibet who have never played an ff game either. :)

    • No i have never ever played or seen an FF game irl juSt seen some gameplay on FF13 and that’s all.

      • Me neither :p

      • nope nether played or seen game play of one. Just a trailer 4 ffXIII (13) and that was here on TSA

    • Me neither.

    • Never played it. Never will. Not my type.

  5. hopefully the subscription wont be too inflated in the conversion from dollars to pounds…

  6. Despite the crappy PC reviews, I still have hope for this game :D

  7. I’d like a big MMO on PS3, but if this hit’s, and it’s a load of old knackers, will other devs bother?
    I’m very interested in joining but I certainly don’t want to rue the decision.

  8. Well, having eagerly awaited this game, and having played it… I can honestly say it doesn’t quite have the same appeal to me at the moment which XI did. However, XI had 2 expansions out already by the time I got my paws on it, and SE have already announced a lot of fixes for the problems (some of which are just bemusing, to be honest – no inventory sort, what the hell?) however I think by the time it comes out on PS3 (I hope…) they’ll have addressed many of the issues. At the moment though… well, not sure if I want to start paying monthly just yet. (SE did give us an extra free month, so that was nice of them)

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