This year I've been reading up off-and-on on some of the changes being made to FFXIV, and what has struck me the most is the candor from the development team about how much FFXIV sucked when it was first released. I suppose this could be both a sign of honesty and a sign of how terrible the game was. I was reminded of that reading this interview with the producer:
How often do you hear "oops, our bad" from a production team? Of course, they did back themselves into a corner; there was no way they could get people to play unless they admitted mistakes and made some major changes. Is this candor legitimate, or just out of necessity?Quote:
"At the original launch, we let down a lot of our fans. Fans around the world were expecting something great, and we feel like we let them down and we lost their trust. To regain that trust we have to show them we're still behind the project, and that Square Enix is dedicated to making something that's great. It's kind of a crazy idea, but we've got to do it."
Anyway, my main question here, for people who have played and are still playing the game (or just BoB), is how big of an impact have the current changes made? Is the game being dramatically changed, or is it a lot of tiny changes just to make it look like something is being done? And how significant do you foresee upcoming changes to be? Because at this point, I'm strongly considering trying the game out once 2.0 (now Realm Reborn) comes out.
And for people who haven't played FFXIV or quit shortly after the original disaster/launch, is any of this persuading you to give 2.0 a try?
