Columns of a crystalline substance called Aetheryte initiate these quests and end them by handing over the loot reward, as teleporting you there and taking you in and out.ĭuring a guildleve mission when I was hands-on with FF14's current build, I took on some giant crabs in a cave - megalocrabs, even. These missions are short, simple stat boost n' loot affairs.
This is enabled through the introduction of side quests known as guildleves (named after the quasireligious icon the quest giver hands you when you take a job). And the need to play with a tight all-encompassing party of fellow adventurers has been excised making solo play is now far more of an option. On top of this the game, which once demanded considerably long play sessions, can now be sampled in bite-sized chunks. There's a real taste of Capcom's Monster Hunter about the way it works, and even Ultima Online. But there's freedom in the equipment sets you use and the directions in which one character can specialise. Avatars can be a Disciple of War, Magic, Land, or Hand, and can join any number of skill-specific guilds in one of the game's three starting cities. FF RebornĮach character will get an overall physical level that increases as you play improving your character's baseline stats, but there isn't a need to commit to a single character mould. This means that you're not tied to one build and could warhammer in the morning before switching to waving a magical stick in the afternoon and early evening. In its place instead is what Square Enix call an Armoury system: player's items level up through use. For one, FF11's traditional XP harvest and prolonged levelling frenzy has been ditched. From the human-esque Hyur, the elf-y Elezen, the cute short-arse Lalafell and the rugged Roegadyn, all the way to the Miqo'te, who look a bit like cats. The game's five playable races are entirely similar to those of FF11 to boot. As such, apart from being more cartoonish, FF14's new land of Eorzea doesn't present much of a stylistic change from the Vana'diel of FF11. The target audience for FF14, though, is really the people who've stuck with FF11, and any other Final Fantasy fans who've never partaken of grind. But a lot of people have joined the MMO market, so it does have a lot of potential." All the other titles are appearing but disappearing at the same time. "The only MMO with an increase in subscribers is World of Warcraft.
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"Although the marketplace appears to be crowded, FF11s player numbers haven't really changed in eight years," explains Hiromichi Tanaka, Square Enix's Senior Vice President of Software Development and Corporate Executive of Online Business Management (a man whose job title brings joy to the heart of a freelance journalist writing to a word count). While other MMOs have thundered into gaming loud and proud before watching their player numbers plummet, 2002's (well, 2004's on PC) Final Fantasy XI has retained a constant audience. You think you are kidding Mister Arthas? No-one thinks that the Final Fantasy franchise is on the run, but if it was, it certainly wouldn't introduce a silly Warcraft 'jump' button.
Square Enix, developers of the almighty Final Fantasy series, are the British arrows in Dad's Army, delivering punchy jabs across the sea in righteous indignation as Blizzard's arrows swirl menacingly through China. Sure, Blizzard's systems are inherited from earlier games, but WOW's universal spread and popularity is still the tie that binds MMO development together. The Old Republic will have its differences in content, but it'll still be WOW 'm space boots.
The assumption is that everyone with a latent interest in looting, crafting or exchanging suggestive emotes now understands how WOW works, and so its keymaps, controls and occasional idiosyncrasies have spread through the realm of the massively multiplayer like chicken pox through a nursery. Every New Mmo seems to be laced with the DNA of World of Warcraft.
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