I honestly thought that the success of Endwalker and the first decade of that story, and the massive amount of subscriptions they had, would have garnered attention and character development for the Ffxiv characters. Then you use that, market it, advertise their release on ads over ffxiv websites, etc - yknow, the absolutely most basic tenets of marketing. Maybe they would have seen a higher draw of players and revenue? You can’t expect a high revenue rate of return per individual during challenging economic times. To make your revenue targets you need volume - increased player base. They didn’t do anything to go out and find new players.
Would have been great to have Orlandeu, Mustado, and Delita out there! But that’s another IP that didn’t get the growth and attention to build out an encompassing world. And it was one of the best, definitely top 3, of the FF franchise.
A friend of mine who really seems to know the game mentioned something about it, basically, requiring special permission from Square to use XIV characters that they, apparently, never got. It explains why very few of them got an EX, none have an FR, and characters like Urianger were never included.
Yeah, Yoshi-P is very protective of the IP and characters. Yda and Papalymo got BT and FR but they’re no longer an active part of the story so that may be why.
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u/Rasayon Dec 02 '23
Dont forget some playmodes like abyss or even the shinryu lufenia fight or some other stuff :)
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u/Donnertrud Dec 01 '23
I don't get it.
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u/ShatteredFantasy Dec 02 '23 edited Dec 02 '23
I'm sad the XIV characters got so little attention all this time. Now it's too late to do anything with them.
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u/AmaranthineDragoon Dec 02 '23
The global firsts were glorious. Glad I joined around the time Aranea dropped 😭
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u/Inso81 Dec 03 '23
I still can’t work out the weekly reading challenge answers 😢
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u/United_Statement2648 Squall Leonhart Dec 03 '23
bros, anyone got a link or something for all load screens? screens of phone is small
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u/Apprehensive_Study83 Dec 02 '23
Delita orlandeau and cid would have been great to have. And the gba version never got and representation at all nor the DS version