then again square probably wouldn’t known the problems this game had if it weren’t for the community

Yeah. It was a really big failure for Square-Enix. It cost them tons of money, and was bad enough to get President Wada involved.

He even said it significantly damaged the Final Fantasy brand.

It was an unfinished game, and it still is today. They has no business releasing the game in that state. I admire them for sticking with it though, and trying to improve the game as fast as possible.

On the flip side, You haven’t been missing much. Like I said above, I’ve played it quite a bit. It wasn’t the game or the content in it that had me playing the game, it was the great community.

A bunch of really nice people, playing a not so good game together, can help turn the experience into something fun.

I guess you could say its like eating a meal with friends, and the food turns out to be pretty bad. The experience was good because of your friends, not because of the food.

Oh, I didn’t know that…

Keep in mind. The original 14 bombed, it wasn’t very good.

(I should know, I played the game for over a year.)

The current version is improved, but they couldn’t get it to run properly on PS3. (Not when it launched, and still not today.)

FFXIV 2.0 is like a brand new game, not only will the content and gameplay be drastically different, the engine the game will run on is brand new, and custom made for XIV. (It will properly utilize the PC, and finally provide a stable engine to get the game running on consoles.)

This is why the PS3 version has been delayed. Keep in mind, they switched the entire team who worked on the game originally. All the way up to the team leader.

Yeah, Square Enix should get out of their habit of announcing games WAY before they are released.

Thats Square Enix for you. They love to take their time. Just look at Versus.

Agreed, the chick looks like she could be Ashe’s sister :P