10 years ago, Final Fantasy 14's hard-fought revival was nearly derailed by an infamous boss who Yoshi-P says made 300,000 defeated players drop the MMO
Mar. 27, 2024No one liked Titan’s Extreme brawl
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Director and producer Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida has revealed that Final Fantasy 14’s original Titan fight caused 300,000 players to abandon the MMO.
“I remember about 300,000 accounts being wiped out because of it,” Yoshida recalls of Titan’s fight. Yoshida’s comment actually relates to the ‘Extreme’ difficulty level of the Titan fight, in which the boss can chip away at the literal arena around players, causing some of them to fall to their deaths, all while letting rip with the Landslide attack that can similarly push you to your death.
Titan’s Extreme fight is rightly feared among Final Fantasy 14 players and particularly notorious among those who’ve been going with the MMO since its earliest days. It’s interesting that players were quick to drop Final Fantasy 14 back in the day from this one fight - you’d generally see a lot more player ‘goodwill’ towards the beloved MMO nowadays, but this was at a time when Final Fantasy 14’s base version had fundamentally failed.
It’s also worth noting that Titan’s Extreme fight came about when Final Fantasy 14 didn’t have a resurrection feature for gauntlets like these. The thought of deceased players waiting around for minutes, staring at players who would similarly fall to their deaths in the end, probably wasn’t enticing an offer enough for people to stick around and try the fight again.
Yoshi-P also promised that Final Fantasy 14 won’t forget its unanswered mysteries as it heads into its next 10-year adventure.
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