Workflow sheets were made for every aspect that had to be fixed, and n the end, many MMO cliches were done away with in what would become A Realm Reborn. He brought in MMO experts from inside and outside of Square Enix so that they could guide the game on what was actually needed. Naoki Yoshida was made the director of this new version of the game, and his plan to turn around the game's fortunes involved directly dealing with the first version's issues. Thus, they soon got to work in what would be a do-or-die attempt to salvage the game and the series' reputation. Square knew that the game was not only a travesty but also potentially detrimental to the ongoing legacy of the Final Fantasy franchise as a whole.
Things as simple as changing gears, lack of inventory room, fatigue systems and a general lack of really meaty content made the game absolutely worthless compared to its contemporaries. Their only experience had been with the by then very outdated Final Fantasy XI, so the many changes and expectations of the genre were lost on them.
This can be blamed on the development team's admitted lack of experience with MMORPGs, which even today lack popularity in Japan. Even when the game worked, its lack of real socialization made it borderline unplayable. On top of that, the most basic of motions and actions would require incredibly powerful computers to refrain from being laggy. Only a few characters could even show up on-screen at one time, which was entirely antithetical to the nature of MMOs. The visual elements of the game itself were fantastic, but even this became a problem.īy focusing so much processing power on graphics for even basic window dressing objects that couldn't be interacted with, this meant that other tasks would be left lacking. One example of how buggy the game's system was stemmed from the graphics. This was due to the litany of bugs, glitches and interface issues that made diving into the game's supposedly deep mechanics an absolute chore. The biggest reason for the failure of the first Final Fantasy XIV, especially initially, was that many saw it as being released too early.
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