Final Fantasy XVFollow

So apparently Square believes that there is no point in developing games in HD. I'm looking for a site with direct reporting of it, but what is said is roughly: I guess it makes sense when they also said they were going to focus on social games.

Edited, Jun 20th 2013 12:48pm by lolgaxe

SE hasn't exactly been seeing incredibly returns on most of their titles, which is probably part of the problem. I feel like they don't really know where to spend, and where to hold back.

There's definitely a huge market for HD games. But they have to make HD games people want to buy.

To what lengths they go to besmirch my fond memories of the FF saga... :/

Just releasing a game is a money grubbing strategy.

(Why else do developers release games? To try to make money)

Edited, Jun 21st 2013 12:52pm by TirithRR

Mostly. Square has become the McDonalds of the gaming world, manufacturing subpar shlock and making money off name recognition.

Yes, that is a link to the game we've been discussing these past few posts. Spoiler

Edited, Jun 21st 2013 4:06pm by Spoonless

I somehow managed to completely miss Olorinus's post. I thought we were still talking about SE sucking in general.

Oh, and it turns out if you are in the PS3 Beta, you can download the PC version and play too. PS3 Beta just gives you the PS3 Code for the client download, as well as the general Beta access code.

PC Version has native controller support. Detected my wired 360 controller and mapped keys accordingly, even changing all the text and icons to match the buttons as is standard for games that support the 360 controller for windows. With gamepad enabled in the options, the standard PC hotkey layout switches back over to the console controller layout.

Here.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ARR-Test/forums/196-Test-Client-Download

The PS3 beta email had a link to a forum post on how to download the PS3 client. In the same subforum is the how to for the Windows client. I'm not sure but you probably have to log in to your SE Account to get access to it.

The subjob (or, subjob like) system is a bit different than FFXI, I never saw it in FFXIV cause I only played the Beta and didn't go that far. Rather than assigning a job you just get to pick abilities and traits to slots that unlock as you progress.

I was doing some story line missions and ran into one that was very difficult (solo) and I decided to take a trip to the next town over and unlock Conjurer (for cure). Assigned Cure to my Thaumaturge. I was pretty much invincible.

Thaumaturge have basically two modes:
Fire - High Damage at the expense of massive MP costs and no MP regen
Ice - Low Damage, but you get a nice boost to MP regen.

Swapping between the two during battle is key to being efficient. But I just kept myself in Ice mode, blasted away at the enemy with relatively low damage spells and used my additional Cure ability from Conjurer. I could have swapped back and forth between Fire and Ice and made the fight go by quicker, but I had lost the fight once, and crashed (memory issues I think, the game had been running since noon), so I just wanted to ensure that I won.

The beta ends in about 4 hours I think. Starts Friday at 2am PDT and ends Sunday at 2am PDT. Same as last weekend I think. It's much more user friendly. So much different than the FFXIV Beta that it doesn't make sense to list all the things. So far everything is good.

I guess I'm going to go to bed now. While it would be nice to keep going, I think I need to sleep... the story sounds interesting so far, and there are quite a few cut scenes, a few have voice acting. They seem to have pulled in some from FF6. SpoilerThey have Magitek armor and factories. (Not really spoilers, I guess).

I'm all downloaded and ready to go on the PS3.