This thread is full of so much cope, damn....
Of course. Didnt i say that? They both failed. The difference is ff fail is farther in the past and they are doing fine now apparently even growing while blizz is failing.
FF is too casual/slow for me but the company is doing much better than blizz. Their fans seem to be largely fawning over them while blizz has a lot of people like me fed up with their constant fuckups.
That's always been kind of odd.
On-topic: If they do so, it should be like the OW/HotS/HS news, where you have to click over for it (possibly include an option in the account settings for which you want the homepage to default to, if it's not already there). They should only do so, however, if they think it's worth the time and investment to set up and get people trawling for and posting newsposts related to the game; IIRC most players just go to the Lodestone or YouTubers like MrHappy, Meoni, and Speakers Network for updates.
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Real question: What news of FF14 would even be there? Outside of stuff revealed at fan fests and the occasional letters from the Producer? Like there isnt any datamining nor is there the same amount of focused coverage on events/resets to FF14.
It would be like an article one every 3-4 weeks at most. There isnt any datamining in FF14. Not really any weekly changes or hotfixes.
End of the day MMO-C already struggles to keep up with the games that it covers now....adding another game is just gonna put more stress on the foundation.
There are sites that cover FFIV news already.
i think it will continue to chase them and kill the chance for a new mmo for both of them - actiblizz and ff publisher are similar in other aspects too in that they released both different games with lower development cost making more money which will decrease the willingness to take a risk with another mmo. Though you got that riot studio developing Palia with lots of blizz devs which supposedly want to do something completely different than another standard mmo. So we kinda will still get a new mmo with blizz devs.
That's not really how language works. We're not speaking Japanese, we're using a term re-derived from the Japanese one, which refers specifically to the Japanese style of animation. You might as well argue that claymores, rapiers, and scimitars "are katanas", because katana is a general reference in Japanese, not the specific sort of sword.
I mean they have the numbers on their side to see what is and isn't popular on their site. Odds are it's not gaining enough traction to worry about. Case in point, where did the Rift news go? It's still alive and has an active albeit small player base, yet no news? They never covered wild star to my knowledge and it had way more players than Rift did, what about SWOTR?
Point is, people only want FF14 news because it's the first and only game to "rival" wow, and I use that loosely because the sh*t show at blizzard is the only reason it's gotten that far. Had the issue with Afrisabi never come to the forefront, we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
The "failures" aren't what's keeping them from making new MMOs....it's their successes that are doing that. Why put all the time and resources into making a new MMO that's just going to end up competing with the one you already have?
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Thing is though...Anime is already a borrowed word. It was borrowed from the english word animation...and then borrowed back.
For an extreme example i dont think eve online is competing with wow. The games are too different. I think they were going with a similar mindset at titan doing scifi as an alternative to fantasy wow. Secondary consider how you felt about ultima online - thats how the next gen of kids will feel about wow&ff. So there's definitely room to develop new games.
That is quite literally impossible since the meaning of any given word is partially derived from its cultural context and you're going to have a different cultural context than whatever language you're borrowing from. Also, there wouldn't be a borrowing of "anime" if it had a general meaning, it would be pointless because we already have words for animation or cartoons, it only has a function because it is being used as a specialized meaning.
I mean, we also have the numbers.
FFXIV's subforum on MMO-C has fewer viewers than the druid specific subforum.
Well, you can argue that we shouldn't have changed the meaning of the word...but it's kind of pointless to do so because we already did.
I don't wanna be all "Urgh FF is too weeb for me" But I like legit just don't like the artstyle? And yeh, it kinda correlates to the specific aesthetics eastern MMO's seem to rely on.
A bummer tho, because the designs themselves are great, but the artstyle just doesn't do it for me.
Also I just can't with elezen proportions.