Square Enix understands your pain.
Massively multiplayer role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV was slammed by critics and gamers upon its September release, but today, as Square Enix revealed a raft of updates designed to improve almost every aspect of the game, Final Fantasy XIV’s creator reassured fans it understands their complaints and explained why the fantasy online game failed to meet expectations.
“We believe players had a very high expectation of this title from the alpha and beta tests,” Hiromichi Tanaka, senior vice president of software development, told Eurogamer this morning.
“We received a lot of feedback from the beta tests. The development team should have focused on shaping up the game during the beta process, but because we were really concentrating on de-bugging the game fixing all the bugs that’s one of the reasons why we were not able to have all the requests implemented during the beta process.