>Expedition 33 is making millions
>I thought the modern audience doesn't like turn-based combat
>When did I lose my vision?
>FFXIV is dying, and FFXVI flopped
>Is it over?
It could have been me, FFXVI would have been IT if I made it like Expedition 33

Your WoW thread died at 8 replies and you’re seething, we get it.
Now fuck off, retard

Anyway, when's the next MSQ patch? The new eureka didn't really convinced me to keep playing. I only care about the story

>>712688295
Caring about the story post dawn trail. God anon have standards

>>712688361
Actually yeah, base DT is ass, but the patches have been alright.

>>712688295
august.

>>712688035 (OP)
What's even worse is that his team is doing the FFT remaster and they're already butchering it

>>712688035 (OP)
Squeenix getting curbstomped by indie and AA 4niar games has been the zenith of my elation the past few years. Absolutely 100% deserved.

I wish someone thought about me as much as Barry thinks about FF games.

>>712688536
matsuno is on the lead, though

>>712688445
There's no fucking way. The last MSQ patch was in march. 5 months between each story portion is insane

>>712688035 (OP)
Just make a turn based RPG with the Job system like the one from Bravely Default or FFXI, make it be fun as shit and win people over, Yoshi-P. It's easy.

>>712688536
>>712688617
that doesnt inspire confidence. hes a hack and always quits like a pussy when stressed.

>>712688740
its fucking way sis.

>>712688740
It used to be 3 months.

Then Covid hit and it got extended. They've never gone back to the previous cadence. They got used to being lazy.

>>712689124
he made the og one, there's no better person to lead

>>712688035 (OP)
what killed ffxiv?
I thought it was doing well

>>712688536
>his team
maehiro's entire claim to fame is having worked on the game, why do you retards never actually pay attention to who works on SE games

>>712688617
That's the worst part. Matsuno is a hack.

>>712689254
colored hair localizer that sucks at her job but installs political slop and a bad msq writer who wrote dogshit like bozja and the void story ff4 stuff

>>712688035 (OP)
get fucked trannylover

>>712689254
new xpacs still bring a lot of people back
I don't see them panicking just yet, so it must be performing according to projections

Yoshida hasn't played his own game in months.

>>712688563
Real shit though. In my own experience the series hasn't really been in the public eye since 13 almost 18 years ago.

>>712688035 (OP)
Everyone that has played the turn based shit and gotten a kick: Know you are damned and won't be forgiven. The low standards you want to claim as highest and yours will torture you in hate wiping you from existance. Through that process becoming the opposite. Carved right. Nothing of you allowed in and all out of you destroyed.

Then they allowed elsewhere.

>>712689450
that's not Yoship Sampo

>>712689254
FFXIV will be fine but it won't grow anymore

total xivnigger death

>>712688035 (OP)
xiv-loving jeets are behind the cancel campaign targeting E33 devs

>>712689254
New expansion teams of massive mid-development course correction caused by DEI consultants.

>takes place in fantasy South American
>recently at peace, for formerly a half dozen or so warring tribes
>all made friends by telling them slavery was bad or how to make tacos with each other's ingredients
>player character completely sidelined because you can't have Europeans come in and fix everything
>new girl constantly touted as the best thing ever, despite being retarded
>entire cast voiced my Hispanics except lead role given to a white trannie who pretends to be both a woman and Hispanic

>>712688839
unrelated to the thread but how are the bravely games after the first one? I'm playing BD now and really loving it. I haven't been spoiled either so excited to see what the hype is about, on chapter 3

i'm starting to see hidden posts, i asumes he's already here lmao

>>712690126
can't hide the truth

>>712690126
xivkeks being pussyniggers is what killed their game

>>712689859
>takes place in fantasy South American
And you don't get to conquer everything and breed the natives? Boring as fuck

>>712689254
It is. The story in the latest expansion wasn't well received. The rest of the story is pretty good.
>>712689892
I've only played Bravely Default and Second. I enjoyed them quite a lot. I think BD was better than BS, but BS was still pretty good. Really happy the remake of BD is making people allowing people to try the franchise out and make SE realize the Job System is fun tier. Haven't played BD2 yet but I haven't heard anything negative about it yet.

>>712689892
I LOVED bravely second. Most people seem to dislike it, mostly for story reasons. It was kinda like a FFX-2 situation where people were not able to take the tonal difference between default and second. But it's not as extreme as X-2. I think it was especially hated in Japan for some reason. And I think because of the Japanese reception, the entire bravely series was put on ice and we probably will never see Magnolia and gang again.
I didn't touch the mobile games so I have no idea about those.
Neither have I played bravely default 2 because, well, just look at it. They also made retarded changes to the battle system.

>>712691701
funnily enough I actually bought a 3ds a couple months ago so I'm playing the original, I'm glad people have access to the new remaster though too
>>712691898
good to know, I plan on playing it next and as long as the gameplays still good I'll be happy. hell I liked X-2 even when blindsided by the tone shift on launch, Im sure I'll be fine with BS especially knowing about it beforehand
thanks anons. I'm excited to get to this notorious twist, I've been avoiding threads like the plague

>>712688295
>>712688361
>caring about "muh story" in MMOs
You trannies are the cancer take killed the genre.

>>712693215
That*

>>712688120
You are so mad xiv threads never exist on /v/
How early do you wake up to try to sneak one by?

>>712693346
Nigger are you new or intentionally being dense. There were 3 just today which all hit bump limit

>>712688120
kek it's always this 100% of the time
it's actually crazy how rent free this guy lives in the heads of WoW players
and then they call everyone else cultists when the only people ever talking about this guy are the haters

>>712688035 (OP)
You can thank XII and XV for tanking the series and then VII remakes doing fuck all.
Time to go back to Turn based combat, bitch

>>712693215
it's a FF first
i'd say other mmo turning into glorified looter shooters killed the genre before xiv

>>712689383

>>712688035 (OP)
>The FF version of MTG is the first turn based mainline release in years and it is doing insanely well
Yoshi P BTFO once again

>>712688035 (OP)
>One is an MMO
>One is a single player RPG
Are you retarded or just being a faggot intentionally?

>>712693530
>things that happened in my head

>>712689892
Bravely Second is pretty good. Bravely Default 2 is ass that starts gaining massive plot holes at the end

>>712693857
Archives exist, anon

>>712693346
4chan threads is all these trannies have left lol
just leave them alone

>>712689859
Luckily the tranny is out of a job now

>>712693783
Having a "storyline" where you (and thousand of other trannies) are the special snowflake "chosen one" is fucking retarded and catering to this breed of casual mongoloid ia literally what killed the genre.
The whole appeal of MMOs is that you start as a nobody with the possibility of making a name for yourself

>>712693940
I am quite literally - and I quote - literally, looking at the archive
You'd be lucky to see more than two over 300 today, unless you're just acting like a bad faith faggot as usual. If this was a year ago? Yeah, sure. I agree completely.

>>712693698
XII was a great game Legit one of the better FFs and better than FF9 and FF6.

XIII was a fuck up but even bigger was just the fact that they stopped releasing games on a regular basis and the fact that there's like 20+ FF titles so new players dont want to get into it

>>712694048
just need to fire kate and hiroi.

Personally, I think Yoshida deserves to watch his legacy go up in flames, and I'm saying this as a longtime and still current XIV player.

>>712694159
Most western game Devs have nuked their DEI/Ethics departments so SE is probably gonna follow suit because it's no longer trending

>>712693813
It's also the only version that got a huge boost from the MTG collab

>>712694160
The game really has had a shard decline in quality ever since Kate was given power

>>712694064
See >>712657551
Only one I bothered to find and spoonfeed you. Now fuck off

>>712694256
japan is always 10 years behind in corporate trends.

>>712694281
Aaaaand this faggot is repeating shit I've posted again.

It's up
IT'S UP
>IT'S UP
post about XIV

>>712694613
>He doesn't know about Spheeen posting

>>712689709
A sizeable chunk of subs are also just people not wanting to let go of their houses

>imagine stalking an anon you don't like from another thread

>>712694130
Fuck I meant to say XIII.
I actually want to try out XII one day

>>712693698
>Witcher 3 but set in FFT's medieval Ivalice
>FFT's art/music/atmosphere
>keep classes
>combat turn based or FFXII-like
There you go, FF is saved
Hire me squarecucks

Came here to laugh at all you. After you shit for brains come into OUR XIV threads to do the same it's pretty funny to see your routine nonsense to create a bigger shithole with even less conversation about the game itself.

You don't even have any original content produced as threads or even memes.

>>712688839
Yoshi-P for some reason hates RPG mechanics despite being a fan of Matsuno who implements tons of RPG Mechanics in his games

>>712689124
FFXII seems to have broken him. It sounds like Square Enix higher-ups kept going into the kitchen to mess with his cooking since they think they know how to make a fun game.

>>712695185
hes coasting. hes a hack. his fanbois are kojima tier cuckoos

>Be Yoshida
>Go all in on DEI shit because extremely vocal minority of XIV's playerbase are trannies
>Start shill campaign trying to make yourself look like an ally
>Hire solely American VA's for DT's cast and let Kate rewrite things to make the Trannies character the most important person in the story
>Also make stupid remarks about how Turn based isn't good or some shit
>DT releases
>It's hated by almost everyone other than the freaks you are pandering too
>Try damage control
>Piss of Jap fans in the process
>Cope and seethe for months
>Get removed from the board but try to act like you wanted that
>E33 drops
>Sells absolutely gangbusters
>People start calling you retarded for you previous comments on Turn Based Combat
>America also starts shutting down DEI shit
>Jap studios start following suit
>yfw your career is over if the next expac is hated as bad as DT is

>>712693346
>>712693857
>>712694064
Why do you retards say shit you know is blatantly untrue?

>>712695486
What?

>>712689254
I don't want to play 13 final fantasy games just to understand what's going on

>>712695609
Do I need to help you read your own posts too?

>>712688035 (OP)
Unironically is the brand name too damaging for FF now? If FF16 was literally just E33 would it have sold well?

>>712695686
Why'd you quote me though

I just finally went back and finished XVI and the fucking DLC and uninstalled. I immediately installed XIII, I need to know which one is worse

>>712695730
I saw your posts and decided to call you a retard for being wrong

>>712695747
>You now remember the bullshit Crystarium leveling and sparsity is gil in XIII
>You now remember the party AI is retarded
>You now remember that it's game over if the party leader dies
>You now remember the objectively great OST though

>>712695627
>he thinks the Final Fantasy games are sequels
Somebody tell him

Daily reminder that Yoshi abandoned XIV shortly after launching base Endwalker and is still out of touch with the game

ready to parry

Has anyone from Squeenix actually commented on E33 yet?

>>712697028
yes. in fact its yoshi-p himself posting in these threads

>>712697105
You jest but I would bet money that Barry genuinely believes this

>let's make everything savage content to alienate our pissed off average player even more
Are the devs fucking retarded?

>>712688035 (OP)
Excuse me while I login to FFXIV without reading your anti-FFXIV faggotry, OP.

>>712694051
I've never actually groaned in disgust out loud at a comment until now

>>712688035 (OP)
>Expedition 33 destroyed me and my franchise
I would say Exp 33 destroyed YoshiPs premise that realistic graphics can't work with turnbased
Source Here
>Final Fantasy 16 Designers Discuss Why The Series Hasn’t Been Turn-Based For A While
https://www.gameinformer.com/feature/2023/02/28/final-fantasy-16-designers-discuss-why-the-series-hasnt-been-turn-based-for-a

Which was completely debunked source here
>'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' utterly destroys Square Enix's gaslighting over Final Fantasy turn-based combat
News
>By Jez Corden published 27 April 2025
A new "JRPG" from France has destroyed Square Enix's Naoki Yoshida gaslighting over turn-based combat, and reminds us how corporations kill creativity.
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/clair-obscur-expedition-33-utterly-destroys-square-enixs-gaslighting-over-final-fantasy-turn-based-combat
And here
>published 9 June 2025, Turn-based RPGs are officially back in fashion, but I want more: It's time for modern developers to take another pass at FF12's gambit system
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/final-fantasy/turn-based-rpgs-are-officially-back-in-fashion-but-i-want-more-its-time-for-modern-developers-to-take-another-pass-at-ff12s-gambit-system/

That's how Expdeition 33 destroyed YoshiP and the aura he had built of some visionary game dev.

Now onto Stellar Blade which is the genre of combat YoshiP moved Final Fantasy into, into action and away from Turnbased so did the gamble into action combat work for YoshiP? Well let's see

>Stellar Blade, first time I.P. PS5 exclusive action combat
>FF16, a franchise using over 30 years of brand recognition, PS5 exclusive action combat
>Both released 1-2 years later on PC
>FF16 had a max ceiling of 27k concurrent players on Steam
>Stellar Blade 188k concurrent players on steam

So even in the genre that he moved the series into it utterly failed to gain a new audience.

That's not even taking into account what he did to FF14

So what happens when FFXVII is revealed to be turn-based?

>>712697482
That's not going to happen.

>>712697482
Then I will be a very happy anon.

>>712697482
ideally i'd like to see FF10 styled turn based. but i'd settle for FF10-2 ATB

>>712697482
the schizo will turn around and start screaming that turn-based games are bad

Epic schizophrenia simulator

Thinking about trying FFXIV but don’t know what class to main
I mained havoc demon hunter in WoW because it was easy and I could relax even while playing high tier content. Is there an equivalent in FFXIV? I just wanna be able to play with my brain only half on while not being totally useless to my team

>>712697814
>Thinking about trying FFXIV but don’t know what class to main
uninstall wizard

>>712697923
Fuck you

>>712697814
Viper or Reaper

>>712688035 (OP)
>is making millions
FF16 sold 3 million in a week, on just a single platform. E33 needed a month to get that across multiple platforms.

>>712697814
How bout you stay the fuck over there if you’re considering playing that shit. I don’t want you in my game little tranny

>>712688035 (OP)

>>712697814
viper for dps, marauder/warrior for tank

>>712697482
It won't happen, the people at Square hate the idea of Final Fantasy being turnbased for some reason, don't ask me why but they've convinced themselves to appeal to a new demographic/ audience they must throw away their old fanbase through action combat, which of course didn't work but Square Enix will double down thinking they know better than the customer who is paying for their games, or in recent years isn't.

>>712698085
>you can only play one game
>if you play anything but WoW you’re a traitor
You’re autistic as shit

>>712689892
If your enjoyment of BD is playing around with jobs to try and find set ups that let you break the game, you might not enjoy BD2 (not Bravely Second, that's a different game).

The devs felt they needed to balance that shit so a lot of enemies are just given the ability to arbitrarily counter certain actions by giving them free turns. i.e. an early boss in the game will instant counter with silence if you try and use Cure.

>>712697435
Wouldn't expect anything less from a genderqueer zoomer animal

>>712698256
Idk about any of that it's the fact that you're being dishonest

>Bought XVI a few days ago because it's finally on Xbox
>Installed it this morning
>I am absolutely dog shit at DMC
Am I fucked?

>>712698051
>>712698124
>viper
Isn’t that a class you don’t unlock till later?

>>712697814
>Thinking about trying FFXIV
Who's going to tell him?

>>712698124
>Viper
You absolute retard, he's saying he's thinking of trying out FFXIV so you recommend a class he can't unlock until he's at Dawntrail, a level 90 class. FFXIV players are fucking retarded.

>>712698330
it is. you need to hit level 80 in any class. the game piles exp onto you via the MSQ so getting to 80 on 2 classes is pretty easy.

also, to be Viper you actually have to pay for dawntrail so if you're doing the free trial you can't do it anyway. recommend starting as marauder. you can pick up a melee dps class there that gets a little button mashy in rogue/ninja

>>712688035 (OP)
FFXVI is unironically too good for this board.

>>712698342
Nani?

I want her so bad.

>>712698639
The game is on it's last legs, it's very unpopular right now because of the recent expansion. Even the Japs are leaving in droves.

>>712698470
Ok thanks anon

>>712698256
Fucking how am I being dishonest? I guarantee you never played a MMO from the golden era. All you know is tranny DEI storyslop like WoW and FFXIV
When everybody is important, nobody is l.
"Progressing" your character by reading text, watching cutscenes and braindead easy PvE while being told your character is the second coming of jeebus is lame and stupid. It's basically welfare progression.
Why not play a single player game at this point?

>>712698782
Meant to >>712698296

>>712698639
Don’t listen to the retard doomer>>712698706
hes been at it for years. Game is doing fine and will for the foreseeable future.
It’s the same retards that say WoW is dead every other week. They’ve been saying since ShB but the game is still fine

>>712688035 (OP)
Source where he said that?

any speculation on the 4 bosses in the next wing of the 11 raid?

>>712688361
Why not? DT was a step up after the shit that was Shadowbringers and Endwalker.

>>712698848
>Game is doing fine
You're in a cult if you this delusional.

>>712698925
it'll be boring shit

>>712699136
the second wing of 24 mans tends to be pretty good. and the direction that they took with jeuno is excellent. i'm looking forward to it

>>712699114
>in a cult
No. I just have played WoW and XIV long enough to know that you doomer faggots are always wrong.
I heard you say XIV was “on its last legs” back in ShB.
If I had a nickel for every time someone said WoW was dying/ dead then I would be able to buy blizzard out.
Same for XIV.
Just shut the fuck up and stop crying

>>712698706
You've been spamming this for a decade. When does it finally become true janny?

>>712699391
>I have played WoW
Oh you're one of those retards who jumped over from Shadowlands and now latch onto FFXIV as the savior MMO, yeah you're a cult.
The Japs are literally saying the game is dying and they're posting their quitting messages.
PlayerScope and Luckybancho both reflect player pop is down over 400k-500k since Dawntrail launched.
PC gamer released an article a few days ago covering the downfall of the game.
People like you can be told it's raining and you'll respond "no it's not the Sun is shining (behind the clouds)".

Why does this game charge a monthly fee and full boxed prices for expansions and only adds new content once every six months while Chinese gacha games have 100x better graphics and writing and add new content and story every month for free?

>>712699729
you already made this post

>>712699729
That's what we're all asking.

>>712699619
>jumped ship
Are you projecting? I’ve been playing since HW. WoW since wrath. I still play both.
You’re a genuine fucking retard. I play video games, I don’t adhere to tribalism cultmind like you seem to do. Both games are fine. I do not give a shit what X said.
Again. Just shut the fuck up and stop crying

nothing but bait. poor quality bait

>>712699815
>Both games are fine
slave mentality

>>712688563
>>712689491
FF16 sold more though

>>712699815
>I don't adhere to tribalism
That's the biggest load of shite I've heard all thread, you're literally ignoring the evidence being presented because of tribalism.

>>712699892
What tribalism? Are you about to call me le xivtroon now? I already told you I play both. And both are very active and show no immediate signs of “dying”
WoW has died about 2300 times according to you retards. The writing was on the wall you said all the way back in Cata. The writing was on the wall in SB too.
Yet both games are fine.
Just fuck off tribalist retard

>>712700042
Try reading for once instead of projecting.

>>712697472
>>FF16 had a max ceiling of 27k concurrent players on Steam
FF16 sold 3 million in 1 week on PS5, Stellar Blade sold only 1 million on PS5 after 2 months.

>>712700065
>literally less than 0 retort
>just the retard’s version of “no u”
Concession accepted. I can’t wait for you to still be posting how the game is dying soon in the next few years

>>712699839
It's just the same handful of people replying to themselves, everyone left

whats wrong with FF16?

>>712700147
It's good.

>>712697320
>man I can't wait for crescent island!
>Crescent Island dungeon is shitty retarded discord only sweaty savage content that requires poopsock levels understanding to enter and participate

GG squareenix. Go fuck yourselves. Waited months for this shit. I am dissapoint

>>712700097
FF16 cost $250million
Stellar Blade cost $80million

FF16 on Steam hit 27,000 maximum concurrent players
Stellar Blade hit 188,000 maximum concurrent players
Either way you want to look at it, Stellar Blade and Exp 33 are more successful than FF16.
They cost less to make and made a larger profit than FF16.
It cost 3x+ more the cost of Stellar blade to make 3million sales for FF16.

>>712688035 (OP)
FF have been shit since FF8, peaked at 7.
No idea who this guy is, but he either lost his vision long ago or never even had one.

>>712700147
How long have you got?

>>712699619
>the japs say it’s dead so it’s dead
They also said that they would be a world superpower after WW2 so I guess they are

>>712700145
except that one guy who took the bait. poor guy must be new

>>712700325
I'll be fair and say it peeked at FFX. Everything after has been downhill. I'm an old fag and I remember so much hype behind 10.

making 11 an MMO was a mistake, and 12 was a shitshow. 13 was the absolute bedridden decline. I remember Microsoft was so scared that 13 was going to be a system seller, they invested so it would be on xbox too instead of sony. But they didnt need to worry, because it was garbage and failed spectacularly all around. That was that absolute definitive point in which FF failed.

Ready to parry!

>>712698706
You’ve been saying this for years

>>712700419
They're the 5th largest economy in the World. That's pretty amazing considering they were a defeated nation after WW2, there are nations that never had the touch of war to their lands still mired to the dirt.

is that a lalafell? time for me to post 151+ pictures of archives to prove i'm based

Post'em boys

>>712700592
It’s because they became America’s best friend