
There’s something for everyone in this game. And a whole different set of players claim that the real draw of FFXIV is its glamour system.

Others will praise its flexible combat classes and end game raids. Some fans will tell you that popularity is because of its incredible, engaging story. It’s become one of the biggest, most well-respected MMORPGs on the market today. But it hasn’t just gained success as a Final Fantasy game. Since then, FFXIV has gone on to become one of Square Enix’s most popular games ever and the single most profitable Final Fantasy game in the series’ history. And from the ashes of the worst Final Fantasy ever produced, a phoenix arose – Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. He sank the original ship with a meteor and rebuilt it from the ground up. Yoshida didn’t just steer FFXIV in the right direction.

The true Warrior of Light himself: Naoki Yoshida. Instead, Square Enix handed the reigns off to the one man who could rescue it. Had they abandoned it, FFXIV would likely have been the most final Final Fantasy. Scoring just below 50 on Metacritic, it was the kind of game that most publishers would have swept under the rug and speed walked away from.īut Square Enix wasn’t willing to let their flagship series go down like that. When Final Fantasy XIV originally launched in 2010, it was an unmitigated disaster on par with Kefka’s destruction of the world in FFVI.
