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A Realm Misbegotten
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/15/2021
Way back in 2010, Square-Enix did what all of us old-guard, frequently-former Square and/or Enix fans desperately wanted them NOT to do: They took a second main numbered entry in their flagship ‘Final Fantasy’ series and turned it into a subscription-based Massively-Multiplayer Online RPG. After “Final Fantasy 11” in 2003, we hoped Square-Enix had gotten it out of their system… but alas, they had not.
“Final Fantasy 14” (“FF14”) launched to dismal reception, and this original form of the game still sits at an incredibly-low 49 score on Metacritic. However, not wanting to abandon their abject failure, Square-Enix handed the malformed project to a new director – Naoki Yoshida – who directed the team to think about their mistakes for a few years. Then, in 2013, the …
