Asmongold Reacts to "FFXIV Actually Sold Out" | By Josh Strife Hayes

final fantasy 14 just sold out ladies and gentlemen welcome i'm double barrel name british accent well very well dressed in his videos um but he double-barrelled british very you know i think actually it would have been even better it would have been way more meta if he had taken the reaction of me reacting to believers saying that about him um but yeah yeah he makes quick it's so full circle yeah it's crazy well dressed man and if you've been joining me on my twitch streams that normally happen after these video premieres all right you've been playing some final fantasy 14 with me you've been joining me as i adventured through the land of eorzea along with every major streamer to be honest bellars tried it asthma and gold's trying it everyone is giving final fantasy 14 a go in fact so many people there's a camera buying finally 14 that momentarily the square enix store actually sold out that is crazy sold out of an mmo rpg don't worry it's not hit the character cap there are still server spaces left they just didn't have pre-generated codes the recent surge of players was unprecedented over the last two weeks final fantasy 14 has seen a massive boost in popularity but it wasn't always smooth sailing for this game so let's have a look back at its awful beginnings and examine one of the greatest comeback stories in mmo history before we begin consider dropping a like on the video or subscribing to the channel for more stuff for all the future videos and i hope people see this like whenever anybody oh mmos are dead nobody wants to play mmos shut the [ __ ] up that's not true like everybody wants to [ __ ] play this [ __ ] people love this they like they love being cat girls like they love just going home and playing a game and just chilling out dude mmos people have just been waiting like if no good mmo came out like let's say final fantasy 14 never existed there was only world of warcraft and it just got worse and worse and worse over time it would not matter because the moment that a new game like this comes out the moment that happens they will immediately swap over and play it because people are waiting for something like this it doesn't matter when it happens a massive thank you to all the supporters on patreon and twitch more on this at the end for now let's begin mmorpgs are incredibly expensive and complicated to make and they are one of the riskiest genres to go into it is highly likely if you make an mmo rpg you will not see you're burning your money you're setting it on fire you need hundreds of people thousands of hours and millions of pounds you need skilled developers skilled designers level creators musicians voice over artists network architects public relations marketing every single person in your team needs to have such an incredibly complex skill set it's hard to even find a group that could make an mmorpg never mind actually make one if an mmo launches and fails chances are you're bankrupt because you've just spent tens of thousands of hours and potentially tens of millions of pounds developing a product that you're not going to see a return on investment on if you've spent i i think that's definitely true right think about like the amount of investment that you need to make an mmo happen get that off the ground versus like an auto battler er hearthstone think about it hearthstone is so [ __ ] cheap they're making fake versions of cardboard years of your life and millions of pounds developing a game and it didn't do very well yeah what do you do well fancy 14 knows the answer to this when it first launched it did not do well final fantasy 14 version 1.0 was not good releasing in 2010 and shutting down only two years later in 2012. it did not sell well and it did not impress the reviewers with ign only giving it 5.5 out of 10. i think that's about 5.5 minutes 30 percent around 600 000 copies which sounds a lot but for an mmo it's not all that many safe to say final fantasy 14 was a flop critics called it broken an incomplete mess saying it was released long before it was ready the combat system and the experience was overly grindy and the crafting and skilling system had convoluted interfaces and were riddled with bugs it wasn't all bad the music was top-notch and the leveling and job system was widely praised in itself but small elements of brilliance within an overall awful experience can't save a game now critics and players did agree on one general point ayorzia was not a terrible fictional land there was potential there but final fantasy 14 version 1.0 definitely wasn't realizing that potential now this wasn't just a case of releasing a patch or an update or an expansion pack that would fix things because the things that were the problems the bugs the menu the ui the combat that was all stuff at the foundation level that was inherent in the building blocks of the game that was an engine issue the only way they would be able to fix the major flaws that final fantasy 14 version 1.0 actually had was to scrap absolutely everything go back to the very foundation level of game creation and rebuild the whole thing see this is what i want wow to do i think wow has to do this because the game is so old that like if they want to innovate the game in a real way they just have to change the engine they have to update the engine for a while there are so many problems that wow has i think that's why it's so laggy because there's like a million lines of code like imagine like this is like my my visualization of like why wow is laggy is it like the hole for like the code to go through is this small and over time there's just become more and more code and so there's more and more code trying to fit through the same hole and the hole needs to be this big which means they need a new [ __ ] engine and that's what they did yeah at the 2011 tokyo game show square enix issued an official apology to the fans and the players saying the final fantasy brand had been greatly damaged square enix admitted fault they openly admitted they could do better and they asked for forgiveness to mark this momentous event in game the final fantasy 14 version 1.0 and in november of 2012 all players were invited to an apocalyptic world destroying in-game event where the in-game law saw an actual calamity happen and the real-life servers shut down to match the timings as bad as this was this is a fantastic way to see your game off with an actual in-game apocalyptic calamity ending everything for the developers and the players imagine how much 14 version confidence blown up and scrapped they set about to do what very few companies would ever have the money or the time or the skill to do they started again from a completely blank slate they remade the entire game but so much better final fantasy xiv version 2.0 began to take shape and they actually decided to include the destruction of version 1 as inspiration for their in-game lore they added the subtitle a realm reborn and when you start playing final fantasy 14 now you will hear about the calamity the destruction of the world and how no one can seem to remember what happened years ago yeah because they don't want to like that that i think is what the coolest thing about it is is the fact that they added the fact that they deleted everything in the game they put that into the story i find that to be so interesting and so cool square enix had not only admitted their failures they had used them to influence the new reborn games law the calamity was a real event it did really happen and there are other references to version 1.0 of the game spread throughout a realm reborn to spend years of your life and millions of pounds making an mmo is one thing to release it and have negative feedback and negative critical reception that sucks then blow up your own game because it's not as good as you could make it yeah it's pretty ballsy it is but to then take the actual destruction of your game and rebuild it in the ground up using that destruction as the new games law that's genius square enix knew they could do better they knew final fantasy 14 could be something we've got to understand like square enix isn't just like some random [ __ ] gaming company like as i said i show you guys this yesterday i still have it next to me but this was effectively like square enix from back in the day secret amana like they've been the gold standard for games for like 30 years so this isn't like some random [ __ ] company that just comes out and does this this is one of the biggest and most established companies with one of the best track records for good games of all time and version 1.0 definitely wasn't it so when they released version 2.0 they did quite a lot better releasing in 2013 a realm reborn was critically praised gathering multiple five-star reviews and a 9.5 out of 10 from forbes also winning mmo of the year from gameinformer it's safe to say the gamble to destroy version 1 and build version 2 paid off final fantasy 14 a realm reborn went from strength to strength releasing major expansion packs heaven's ward it's so funny for me to see that fight after doing it on the ultimate version it's just so much different storm shadow bringers and each expansion pack was exceptionally well received and this leads us to now with major streaming personalities like asmongold trying the game on twitch and gaining several million views and major gaming sites reporting on the game's sudden renaissance it has been met with so many people trying to download it at once right now that the square enix site momentarily sold out of digital download codes digital codes are generated to authenticate the game when you manage it and connect it to the servers the limitation is usually based on how many players the current servers can handle or how many new players they're expecting on a week's basis to reach that limit with an mmo rpg is not completely unheard of but it's still a very rare occurrence it shows that player demand for the game is higher than square enix we're expecting right now and square enix will need to react to that and provide more servers i assume they're more than happy to do final fantasy is full of redemption arcs it's a story driven rpg with an mmo tacked on to the side it makes me mad and square enix went through their own i get so pissed off redemption and improvement arc they released a game it sucked they admitted it sucked they blew it up they learned from their mistake and then they released one of the best mmos ever made i think over the next few weeks and months we'll see just how much player retention power final fantasy 14 a realm reborn really has and personally i'm confident it will not only hold its impressive boost within the mmo world but it will continue to push this advantage the reason why that will happen is because it has a social structure inside of the game and that social structure causes people to continue playing it the thing is like the game's gameplay and everything like that that hooks you but what really takes it home is the social structure having people that you're gonna play with an expansion in november content doesn't content releases matter like they do matter but what keeps people in the game content releases causes them to subscribe what causes them it's more important in mmo to have things to prevent people from unsubscribing than to have things that prevent people sorry that get people to subscribe and these social experiences keep people from under uh from unsubscribing it's unironically family 14 knows what it's like to fail they know what it's like to rebuild and they know that players nowadays will accept nothing less than the absolute best the team can do and in case you didn't know there is a free trial which contains the entire base game and the first major expansion pack with no time limit and playstation pc and mac players all play together the boost in players final fantasy 14 has seen over the last few weeks has been that's another thing dude i don't know why wow has like dragged the teal so much on making it uh console compatible i think that they [ __ ] themselves over by not making it console compatible i would love if wow was console compatible that would make the game so much better it would give their so it would create so many more people that you could play with no explain why final fantasy can be console compatible but wow can't please explain that to me like i i don't understand add-ons oh great let's necessitate the use of things that make the game worse most add-ons make the game worse unprecedented and i hope it continues i've been having an absolute blast playing on the omega server if you're around feel free to add me or drop me a message and say hi it's lovely to talk to people and i'm loving doing all the raids and dungeons with you guys on stream but i want to know about your experiences with this game were you around before the calamity did you join when a realm reborn first released or have you joined this surge of players and you're experiencing aussie for the first time let me know in the comments below and hopefully i'll see you in game sometime cheers for watching another massive thank you to the supporters on patreon and twitch who keep the chat okay you can support a nice car what a nice thing to say for links to the patreon twitch twitter and as always have a great day that's that's great that's that's a good video i like that video let me let me go back over here i'm going to read these real quick and then i want to probably just get into the game dude not sub all right all right all right all right all right i'll i'll se i'll stop to him i hardly ever stop to anybody on my channel but like i'll do it so popular i ran out of digital versions to sell there's got to be some massive bragging rights from now on i would say so absolutely uh whenever i first heard about how they had a canonical end vmo included in the story i was initially interested yeah i think a lot of people would be i think it's great [Music] you

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Length: 15min 42sec (942 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 15 2021