Final Fantasy 14: Flop to fab in a few short years
Final Fantasy 14: Flop to fab in a few short years Final Fantasy 14 (FF14) is a multi-award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Square Enix that boasts a worldwide player base of over 40 million players, with an average daily play rate of 2 million people. But the game was not always this successful, during its launch period back in 2010 the game was hit with heavy criticism by both Final Fantasy fans and the media. This was blamed on the game’s poor optimisation, terrible UI and the dev teams not having enough specialised staff. Dalamud falls By 2012 the servers were to be closed, and the fans looked on as a timer counted down the impending doom that would fall on the FF14 world of Eorzea, in the shape of Dalamud a man-made moon that had been worked into the story. This moon would cause destruction to Eorzea and lead to an umbral calamity. A Realm Reborn Square Enix decided to rework the game instead ...