Final Fantasy XIV Refunded

[Demon_Skeith]

Customers who purchased Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn on the PlayStation Network from August 27-28 are receiving a full refund from Sony.

Customers who did purchase the game through the PlayStation Network on August 27 or 28 will find a full refund, and the game will reappear in the PSN download list.

The refund comes as a result of unstable servers, a problem plaguing the MMO since its relaunch last week. Director Naoki Yoshida explained on developer Square Enix's forums why the servers have been problematic.

"Considering the outcome of our first launch, our sales estimates were decidedly conservative," he said, "as we believed that there would be a more gradual rise in users over the opening weeks and months.

"Instead, to our pleasant surprise, we experienced tremendous support from a great number of players who were eager to get into the game from day one."

Yoshida said that FF XIV was designed to support 5,000 simultaneous players in any given world at one time. However, high concentrations of players in the same three city states toward the beginning of the game led to crashes, followed by more when all of those players tried logging back in at once.

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I think this is a sign that SE needs to stay away from MMOs.

 

[ToCool74]

wait really?

When is the refund coming?

I purchased it on the 28th through PSN and have not received a full refund yet...

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I assume sometime in the next few days or next week.

 

[ToCool74]

wait, just read it somewhere else where they elaborated on it further that Sony refunded it to the players PSN wallet.

I thought it would be put back on my prepaid card lol.

About to check it now, if so then i guess I will use the 30 bucks to buy something else.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Something like that would take some time though.

 

[ToCool74]

Something like that would take some time though.

yea your right, just checked and nothing.

Well either way I plan to buy something else once my refund comes, nothing against the game, for the little time I played it I enjoyed it.

But I just hate the monthly fee attached to a game I am already spending my hard on money on.

I guess DC universe and other free to play games have made me this way as of late.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Pay to continue MMOs is a bit of a touchy issue. But to keep a long game going it needs constant money. Square enix should have belly up and admitted the game was crap and just move on.

If they really want to make an MMO they need to keep it off the main series line and make a whole new department just to run it.