In the time I played, I probably went through about 40 dungeons with random groups, and only one of the groups was really, truly awful.Īnd you will need to group up, at least a little bit in FFXIV. Speaking of grouping, the game makes it pretty easy to jump into pre-made parties with other players to encounter dungeons and bosses (though you can admittedly find groups faster if you are playing a defensive “tank”-type class or healer class). It also means that if a friend jumps on who is a lower level than you are, you can just switch to a class that matches their level so you can group together. This opens up the game immeasurably, and allows each class to have a more clearly defined roll than they do in most MMOs, since you can always switch off to a different class if you don’t like the one you currently play. This came from a feeling inside the company that the game - which had a score floating around 50% on Metacritic at the time - had damaged the Final Fantasy brand*. Also Known As: Final Fantasy XIV Online: The Complete Collector's Edition (EU), Final Fantasy XIV Online: Complete Pack (JP) Franchise: Final Fantasy. Half of its features weren’t implemented, it was a technical mess and certain aspects of the game were flawed on a deep design level.īut, instead of just giving up and letting the game drift away into nothingness, Square-Enix decided the game had to be made right. Genre: Role-Playing Massively Multiplayer. When Final Fantasy XIV first was released in 2010, it flat out stank. Savings represents a discount off the List Price. The strikethrough price is the List Price.
It’s also a game that by all rights should not exist. 29,464 in Video Games ( See Top 100 in Video Games) 1,883 in PlayStation 4 Games. It’s also one of the most engaging MMOs released since World of Warcraft.
My original review of Final Fantasy XIV followsįinal Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is the best Final Fantasy game to be released in the past decade. Article contentĪll told, it’s fairly impressive that Square-Enix has a game as complicated as FFXIV running on three different platforms using the same servers. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.