Noclip releases Part 1 of their FFXIV Documentary - One Point O

Final Fantasy XIV is, by all accounts, a fantastic game. Currently 20,280 people worldwide are playing it - and that's just on Steam alone. FFXIV is also available on the PS4, and available on the PC without having to necessarily use Steam. And yet, it wasn't always like this. Final Fantasy XIV, when it first launched on September 30th, 2010, crashed and burned. Many reviewers in the gaming industry frequently gave it a below-mediocre score. Square Enix was losing profits frequently, and the name Final Fantasy XIV itself was a stain on the entire company. And rightfully so - the battle system was clunky, level progression was artificially gated, and the game ran terribly slow, unoptimized for anything.

Until Naoki Yoshida, known most commonly as Yoshi-P, the Producer and Director of FFXIV, turned the game into the hit it is today.

Noclip, a Youtube channel that produces video game documentaries, has taken it upon themselves to fly out to Japan and interview members of Square Enix, to give people a behind the scenes look into FFXIV 1.0's development, and why it was a spectacularly bad game when it launched. It goes beyond the surface of FFXIV, and features interviews with Naoki Yoshida, the head of North American localization Michael Christopher-Koji Fox, and Yosuke Matsuda, CEO of Square Enix.

Part 1

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Part 3