Square Enix shutters the studio behind Forspoken
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On the topic of Final Fantasy XIV- another failure to this degree will likely destroy the company
Was that a lie, or did XIV's amazing turnaround give them leeway again? Either way, their executives haven't learned shit.
Edit: oh hey, they're firing the president. MAYBE they'll course correct?
https://twitter.com/RPGSite/status/1631538950279135238
I played XIV recently up to the latest content, cleared all current savage raids and was appaled that they only release 4 encounters every 8 months. Vast majority of the player base seem to be just using this as a roleplay hub. I know it has a lot of side activities but I'm still surprised how it supposedly has so many active subs year-round.
They're making good content. But it's still a long grind. I couldn't keep subbing having reached what was the furthest point at the time, and didn't buy the next expansions from there. I'm sure I could have a couple more months of fun if I get the next expansions from where I left off (Shadowbringers and Endwalker), but once I reach meta, it's back to the boring grind.
YoshiP did really awesome shit to not only revive XIV, but turn it into an amazing experience that's still going. He's the biggest reason I haven't completely written off SquareEnix as a developer.
It's worth playing through the last two expansions just to see the story wrap up. Felt like a good finale to everything that was built up. Just don't bother with the end game stuff, quit after you've finished Endwalker's story. The Nier raids are worth seeing once too, but you can use the Duty Finder for those.
The Endwalker post-plot stuff is the FFIV antagonists. If I come back and get that far, I'm DEFINITELY going through that.
FFXIV is a game that actually diversifies its content and end-game raiding is not be all end all.