The end of Final Fantasy XIV came quite some time ago, but the game is still going. That’s because the launch of the game’s original version was an enormous disaster, one that could easily have shuttered the game for good. Instead, it got rebuilt and is now on its second expansion. How did we get from the disaster of launch to the present? A new series of documentaries from Noclip is chronicling the path of the game from its initial launch, the design decisions involved, and how it became a current hit after a launch disaster.
The first two parts of the documentary are below; part one covers the original launch and the reasoning behind the design, while part two covers the unprecedented decision to throw out the whole game and start over from scratch. Part three is due out on Wednesday, but with the documentary already running nearly an hour and a half, you should have plenty to watch until then.
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