#Final fantasy xiv a realm reborn pc series#

Yoshida said Square was also stubbornly adhering to policies that had proven successful for them in the PlayStation 2 era. What Yoshida called 'Square Enix's unique culture' allowed the 14 team to fixate on graphics while ignoring the fact that ever since World of Warcraft MMOs had been all about content volume. Square Enix was able to create a huge success in Final Fantasy 11 in spite of this problem, but they ignored massive changes in the MMO market in the eight years between the launch of 11 and the launch of 14. Yoshida noted that because MMOs are so time- and resource-intensive to create, not many Japanese teams make them, which means not many Japanese people - developers or otherwise - play the genre. The second reason for Final Fantasy 14's failure according to Yoshida was the lack of MMO knowledge and experience amongst the game's developers. While this allowed the game to look beautiful while still running, it lost sight of how great it is to log on to an online game and see dozens of players running around at once. For example, they limited the number of player characters on screen at any one time to 20. In order to accommodate such heavily detailed graphics, the original team made compromises that went against the reasons why people play MMOs. He called it 'the loveliest flowerpot in an MMO,' but then revealed its heavy cost: That single flowerpot contained over 1,000 polygons and 150 lines of shader code, meaning it took up as many resources as a single player character.

#Final fantasy xiv a realm reborn pc series#

First, the team had an 'unhealthy obsession with graphical quality.' In a series of videos comparing the original version of Final Fantasy 14 to A Realm Reborn, he showed that the core game may have looked slightly better, but its areas were also empty and it took up a lot of processing power.ДЇor a specific example, Yoshida showed a screenshot of a flowerpot outside of an inn in the first form of Final Fantasy 14. Yoshida pointed to three main reasons for Final Fantasy 14's failure in that first form. It had a Metacritic average of 48 and suffered from unstable servers - up to 400 crashes per day! - a lack of content and minimal story in a franchise known for having plot as one of its core parts. What went wrongД«eginning with a history of Final Fantasy 14, Yoshida noted that the game originally launched in 2010 to an extremely negative reaction from both fans and press.

Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn director Naoki Yoshida gave a presentation at the Game Developers Conference today to dig into the behind-the-scenes story of why the initial version of Final Fantasy 14 failed and how Yoshida and his team managed to pick up the pieces.