Comments on: Square-Enix says no free-to-play for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

By: athavan.indranathan

athavan.indranathan — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:54:46 +0000

Give Yoshida a chance, he is pretty zeroed in on fixing the god awful crap storm that was ffxiv. I think the game itself looks stunningly beautiful and you’ll get your money’s worth, assuming Yoshida spits out a brand spanking new mmo with no bs.

By: Phil Winkel

Phil Winkel — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:08:23 +0000

they lost all the final fantasy visionaries and brilliant minds that paved the road to where they are today. If you wanna play final fantasy, go play The Last Story for Wii - the guys at Mistwalker studios are some of the original final fantasy visionaries. etc, etc.

Now, Square Enix is just riding on the popularity and success of their golden days. Gaming in general is just heading in a shitty direction, where it's all about making stakeholders happy as opposed to making a quality game.

By: Riley Crowder

Riley Crowder — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:03:02 +0000

"Yoshida goes on to say that he doesn’t think it was subscriptions that hurt The Old Republic and The Secret World but the quality of the games themselves."

Says the company who had to totally crash the first version of this game because of how bad it was.

Pot..Kettle...I think your getting a call.

By: jesterking

jesterking — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:47:36 +0000

Also, you said “Among the MMOs in the market, only Blizzard and Square-Enix are making money without investors in the background.” Does this include CCP’s EveOnline as having investors in the background?

By: jesterking

jesterking — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:37:00 +0000

Aaaand Square continues to die. From a high of $36 in 2008 to $12 a share today… The low sales numbers of square’s games. Why doesn’t square see what they are doing wrong? I am not talking about not being f2p. I am talking about their direction altogether.