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Final Fantasy 14 players have struggled with the game’s Forked Tower: Blood raid, a surprisingly brutal battle that many players have struggled to not only beat, but actually enter.
Following the release of the popular MMO’s latest raid, Final Fantasy 14 producer and director Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida has admitted that the raid’s difficulty was a “misstep in development” that was supposed to be challenging, but just not that hard.
Speaking to RPG Site, YoshiP explained that the Forked Tower: Blood raid wasn’t supposed to be “hardcore content”, just a challenge that players would have to prepare for. Unfortunately, somewhere during development, the raid became way too difficult.
“I do feel that Forked Tower: Blood was a misstep in development,” the FF14 director and producer said. “It wasn’t meant to be hardcore content, so to speak. The intention was that it might be more difficult at first, but over time more players might be willing to take on the challenge; yet, in the end we made it too difficult for players to even get into the raid in the first place.”
Since the raid’s launch, Square Enix has released a number of patches to make the raid easier for players. However, YoshiP admits that it’s really hard to create content that appeases both casual and hardcore players in a timescale that pleases everyone, and that means sometimes issues like this occur.
“We are trying to work within a specific timescale, and trying to satisfy both types of players,” the director and producer explained. “At the same time, even if we were to double our number of developers, I don’t think we’d necessarily be able to double our output while trying to maintain the same level of quality.”
The next big Final Fantasy 14 update, 7.3, is expected to launch sometime in August, adding Pilgrim’s Traverse, a deep dungeon for casual players with a hardcore extra hard boss for those who want that a spicy challenge.
After apologising for the “quality of service” recently with countless buggy patches, Final Fantasy 14 is still in a great place. While there’s still some developmental quirks to iron out, hopefully everything will shape up soon.
For more Final Fantasy coverage, read about how the long-awaited Final Fantasy 9 Remake project may actually be cancelled. That’s a bummer.
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- Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 3
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