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Final Fantasy XIV’s director on how to maintain a ‘forever game’
- Final Fantasy XIV and Elder Scrolls Online are both examples of 'forever games', and both directors spoke at Melbourne International Games Week about their games' past 10 years.
- Both games have huge player bases of 24 million to 61 million, respectively.
- The directors have to balance the need to attract new players with keeping the existing ones happy.
- The Directors have different approaches to expansion - Elder Scrolls is looking to shake things up, and Final Fantasy is expanding cautiously, planning content up to two years in advance.
- Player feedback is essential for both games, with both walking a fine line that balances player demands with the game's broader needs to keep it engaging.
- The talks emphasised that both companies try to cater to broader categories of players with every change.
- At Asia Pacific conference, Elder Scrolls Director, Rich Lambert, voiced concern about its chapters becoming“formulaic”, and that is something they were looking to change going forward.
- Final Fantasy Director, Naoki Yoshida, has not expressed any broader notions of shaking things up but FFXIV is producing new content such as a new 24-player raid series.
- Players estimate that around 25% of Final Fantasy XIV’s player base attempts high-level raiding content.
- Harrison Polites reviews Final Fantasy XIV's savage raiding content, which is co-op based, tough to master and requires dedication, patience and precision, and rightly draws comparisons with brain surgery.
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