Video Game General 2: Definitive/Remastered Edition

@Penguin Dragneel
Oh no.

@Penguin Dragneel
Found your forever MMO?

@Meanlucario
Seems like it.

I would say until it gets shut down in the near future, but considering how FFXI Online is still around after 2 decades, I doubt XIV will be going anywhere anytime soon.

@Penguin Dragneel
I thought the FF MMO was very popular.

1 more day until 2v8 mode for DBD.

Or maybe 2 days, its updates are never really consistent on if they drop Tuesday or Wednesday.

Welcome to my life

@Meanlucario
They are. That’s why I said I doubt it’d be going anywhere anytime soon.

The only Final Fantasy MMO that actually did get shut down was the OG XIV from 2010, and… I think we all know why.

@Penguin Dragneel
And it was reborn into the beloved game we have now.

@Meanlucario
You really ought to give it a shot. The Free Trial covers up to the end of the Stormblood expansion, so you’d get to play a fair bit of the game itself before needing to spend a single cent on it.

Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV? With an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award-winning Heavensward expansion AND the Stormblood expansion up to level 70 for free with no restrictions on playtime?

@Penguin Dragneel
No. I don’t know.

@Penguin Dragneel
After you try Cyber Sleuth.

@Meanlucario
Send me the money on PayPal and I’ll play an hour of it.

@Penguin Dragneel
Let me know when it’s on sale and I’ll buy it for you, if you have a Steam account.

Long story short, the original version of the game launched unfinished, broken, barely any content, damaged the Final Fantasy brand as a whole and even all the fixes and improvements made under Naoki Yoshida’s direction couldn’t make the game great cuz the game engine was pushed way beyond its limit already, so they had to scrap it and build it up from scratch (though they did incorporate the original game’s end into the lore so it’s not entirely swept under the rug).

@Terton
I remember hearing that the engine was the main problem, and that they had to remake the game from the ground-up to fix them. And I heard that players gathered around for the closer of the game because it was a world-ending event in the world, and the one we have now is the world reborn.

@Meanlucario
I have a Steam account, but my computer is so awful that even the classic Sonic games have trouble running properly on it. At that point, gifting me a Steam game would be the equivalent of giving a 3DS game to someone who only owns a DS.

I do have PlayStation Plus though, so if there’s a game available there that you want to substitute it with…

@Penguin Dragneel
It was originally a PS exclusive, so it should be on their store. I’ll send you the money next month, than you’ll be legally oblige to play it.

@Meanlucario
Guess I’ll be seeing you soon, fellow Warrior of Light…

The engine was an issue, aye, but:

It was only after they put YoshiP in charge that improvements started happening, but the engine limit meant that expansions were impossible, and an MMO without expansions is basically doomed.

@Terton
So the game was so bad back then.

You think he’s bad as is, try playing Revelations 2 merc mode where multiple scagdeads can spawn with speed buffs.

@Dustcan
The devs knew how broken and unbalanced this bastard is, THEY FUCKING KNEW.

@Penguin Dragneel
Does the game have cross-platform comparability? That might cause issues next month if that isn’t the case.