New Final Fantasy Fan Game
Final Fantasy is really busy this year with their full-on rebuild of the much highlighted failure that is Final Fantasy XIV. Ever since the announced overall change to a version 2.0, now known as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn last 14 October, 2011, Square Enix had been non-stop in updating the FF populace of the developments (and delays) that has been happening to the game development. To ease communications, Naoki Yoshida, present director and producer of the game, introduced the official Final Fantasy XIV forums in order to obtain player feedback and suggestions, and stated “that interacting with and growing closer to the community would be a high priority, a change welcomed by the playerbase.”
According to Leif Johnson of PC.GameSpy.com, “It’s all so ambitious, in fact, that it’s hard to fathom why Square Enix didn’t just ditch the entire thing and develop a sequel with the lessons learned from FFXIV’s failures.” It’s been a prediction by many gaming experts, that the MMORPG genre is a struggling race, if not a dying one. Online GMAT study guide gaming did regenerate to different classes already, and they have been successful in those fields, just to add. Social entertainment games like FoxyBingo have taken advantage of simplicity in gaming but are still able to make their games engaging enough to steadily increase their following. The online gaming site makes good use of their online community and social media updates to promote their immersive games. Tower platform games like Angry Birds are even venturing to the online gaming genre. Even Facebook has been all out in investing in various online games for their social users. Given that mind set, it’s not surprising that Square Enix is wholly dedicated (if not hard-headed) into developing their online venture that had a very rough journey when it first got released.
The Japanese gaming giant may have something to prove to the world, that despite the failure, they can make up for their dreadful faux pas, and be able to emerge with a breakthrough MMORPG, something that was once a label enjoyed by Final Fantasy games of past. For loyal followers and even those new to MMORPG and wanting to give Final Fantasy a try, beta testing sign-up is open over at the FFXIV official site.
