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this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2025
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It says he left in 2003. For reference that’s when X-2 came out. Honest I thought 12, 13-2 and to some degree 15 were pretty good, and it looks like 14 is going strong. So I think “collapse” is a rather strong word.
I think it's Square organizationally after Sakaguchi took major step back after the movie failed. So Square management was visionless in its time of financial peril and that brought on the need for the Enix merger
/rant about ff14 feel free to ignore
I play 14 and I would say right now lots of players are very unhappy with the game
mostly:
main story was by far the worst they've had in an expansion
combat content is good but the punishing design is confusing players as they made it very open to casual/beginners yet they made it so making 1 mistake ruins it for everyone (chaotic alliance, forked tower)
people are saying "raiders are eating well" except they release a raid tier where the gear doesn't matter because they won't release an ultimate for this raid tier, meaning you finish the raids and for what ? yeah there's a mount to get but if you want the mount the content doesn't last you more than 8 weeks, consider even getting the mount right away which means the content is essentially dead after your first clear
I love the raid design but clearing the extremes 300 times can only be so fun, I'm almost done clearing ex3 for the currency it gives you for the mount and after that I guess I have to do ex4 100 times as well
For me this would be about right but I felt X was peak FF.