NowGamer previews Square-Enix's Final Fantasy XIV beta on PC - "Perhaps we've been mollycoddled by the cosy worlds of Middle-Earth and Azeroth, but MMOs are vast, intimidating and seemingly impenetrable to the uninitiated modern gamer."
Final Fantasy XIV fans can now properly benchmark their PCs and check out some of what's coming to their game this summer.
Richard writes: Final Fantasy XIV Online on Xbox is built for newcomers.
The Xbox profanity filter is currently ruining the readability of the FFXIV chat on Xbox Series X/S due to censored words.
Lol, damn... At this point, they were better off keeping FF XIV away from Xbox. It has been nothing but obstacle, after obstacle.
What happens if you say things that used to get you banned on Twitter e.g. 'a man can't be a woman'?
I'm not convinced this is the profanity filter. It doesn't make sense to censor words like class, harvest and dance. It seems to be a bug.
Well, FF14 itself has some pretty awful chat censoring so Xbox being in the same boat isn't too farfetched
it censored the S T D in "harvest dance" and I bet the A S S in class. I know this because of Runescape
Yeah these new fangled filters are going a bit too far. I have a game that filters "wtf". It's a censor for a self-censoring phrase. But I think overall it's how it should be. If you don't want certain language being used in your game by your player base, then it's up to you to filter/ censor the language you don't want. I can respect that. What I can't respect is when you say things that are not really offensive then you get ostracized for it.
This is completely false, I tested this on my son's child account and mine, this is not Microsoft censoring they will censor swears but not the combination of letters I can prove this with a screenshot where I use all mentioned words in the article but do not know how to upload a picture.
You can all continue your bashing, I was wrong someone explained to me this is a new policy, that's why it only happens for me in this brand new release. I'll try latter on ps to confirm but their response seemed informed wich leaves me rather worried for future censorship on my xbox.
It's not xbox, go ahead start a chat with the youngest person on your friends list then say raid mass class sass said .... they do not censor any of these I even got away with R.Aids. sqaure on the other hand does.
None of this MMO baloney for me thanks.
I played the beta too, this game is shit. Square dropped the ball so much in the last 10 years I don't even care about their products anymore, I'm done. I suggest just publishing more games instead of developing them. Deus Ex and Dungeon Siege 3 seem like they will be much better than this shit.
the more i read about this game the angrier i get i was really looking forward to this i still might try it out if they have a free trial but i have canceled my pre order from amazon.
Really considering cancelling my pre-order as well. As much as I am a fan of FFXI, the beta was a jumbled mess, and previews for the game aren't turning out well. It almost seems like SE just grabbed features from other MMOs and slapped them together without worrying if they would work or not.
In all honesty, I'm not sure why you would defend this title anymore. It just isn't turning out to be that great. Maybe down the road, after a year or so when all's said and done and it's been patched and modified, but until then, this title is all over the place, and not in a good way.