Final Fantasy 14 producer and director Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida has apologized for the present state of the MMO, and has shared some modifications coming to some of Dawntrail’s newest misses, Occult Crescent and Cosmic Exploration, to treatment followers’ disappointment.
As per custom, the Final Fantasy 14 group has held a Letter from the Producer stream to showcase what’s coming subsequent. Whereas a truthful quantity of patch 7.3 was on present, a massive half of the broadcast was devoted to Yoshida addressing some fan issues about the newest Area Operations and life-style content material and what’s been performed about it.
Whereas the stream is predominantly in Japanese, the broad strokes are posted in English throughout Final Fantasy 14’s socials, and you’ll find more in-depth translation efforts over on Nova Crystallis and the Final Fantasy 14 fan Discord. As per these sources, Yoshida begins by apologizing for the decrease high quality of service followers have been experiencing recently, reminiscent of the more and more frequent want for hotfixes to flatten bugs.
To treatment that, Yoshida says he has spoken to the related groups and expressed concern that everybody may be too snug with permitting these types of issues to grow to be more frequent. Yoshida additionally apparently notes that the group has grown considerably and that implementing main new content material has been tough, however is set to treatment that as properly.
Talking of main new content material, Yoshida then addresses some ache factors with Occult Crescent. One of the larger questions is why the Forked Tower raid would not provide each a ‘Regular’ and ‘Savage’ model, to which Yoshida solutions that it was down to value. Fortunately, he additionally notes that future situations of Occult Crescent will implement each issue variations.
Moreover, if you happen to’re eager to enter the raid with a pre-formed 48-player alliance, then the choice will arrive as half of Patch 7.3 – simply in a tough and prepared state. At present, your finest hope of doing the Forked Tower is by leaping into Occult Crescent and hoping sufficient folks present up in your occasion to be part of and full the encounter.
Contemplating that the new Alliance-style raid has apparently only been cleared 400 times in 23 days, it appears like the tweaks are wanted.
As for Cosmic Exploration, the highlights embody mount availability for ease of motion, adjusted closing dates for some stellar missions, and higher visibility for sequential missions. Different tweaks are being thought of, although Sq. Enix is gathering more knowledge first.
Final Fantasy 14 has had a robust time of it over the previous 12 months or so. The Dawntrail enlargement did not get issues off to the finest of begins, although the roadmap main to the MMO’s subsequent enlargement had followers hoping for a Stormblood-style comeback.
Whereas the raid and battle content material on provide has been constantly excellent, Occult Crescent and Cosmic Exploration gave followers hope that the MMO would have one thing for everybody. Casuals may come and go to meet up with the story, hardcore gamers may smash the raids to bits, and everybody else trying for the midcore content material between may hang around whereas participating with Occult Crescent and Cosmic Exploration.
Now, Patch 7.2 did get issues off to a good begin, as mirrored in the Steam opinions. Nonetheless, the subsequent patch that launched Cosmic Exploration kicked off a neighborhood debate on FOMO and time-gating, whereas the patch after that, which launched Occult Crescent, noticed the latest Steam opinions for FF14’s Dawntrail enlargement sink to “Largely Unfavourable.” You see how we acquired right here, hm?
Transferring ahead, Final Fantasy 14 has patch 7.3 to look ahead to, which’ll introduce even more new content material to the combine. That, alongside some fixes for Occult Crescent and Cosmic Exploration, ought to hopefully return the MMO to surer footing.
Final Fantasy 14 devs know some followers discovered Area Operations “boring,” however it’s helped make Occult Crescent higher: “We hope these varieties of gamers shall be positive to strive it out.”
