Final Fantasy XV - General News Thread

[Storm]

Interesting, can you show any screenshots of that red sky that you activated if you're able to?

i would like to see them too

a time-lapse with the blood moon would be great as well

edit:

lol

 

[Dorothy95]

 

[Bazztek]

Interesting, can you show any screenshots of that red sky that you activated if you're able to?

I would but ever since the update with the mod support came, the debug version of the exe doesn't work anymore, and I have to do a rollback to get the debug mode to work again that seems like too much of a hassle to get to work. There's no way to have both the debug mode and mod support at the same time as it is right now.
In case you're wondering I found the debug mode exe on youtube by just searching "FFXV debug mode".
It's in the video description here.

And he made a follow up vid on how to revert back to the Debug version from the Mod support version here. So if anyone here wants to try it out you can play around with it.

 

[Storm]

Luna's nobody ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://twitter.com/statuses/1023540746937229312

https://twitter.com/statuses/1024262753576513538

 

[Loganight]

I wonder if the reason Character Creation has been so badly delayed is because they're going all out and doing voice work for all of the cutscenes? It's doubtful but I really do hope the delay is due to them working on adding to it rather than it currently not working well and needing fixing.

 

[stolas]

I wonder if the reason Character Creation has been so badly delayed is because they're going all out and doing voice work for all of the cutscenes? It's doubtful but I really do hope the delay is due to them working on adding to it rather than it currently not working well and needing fixing.

I thought that Avatar Creation, User Treasure System, Custom Level Design wasn't happening till Fall.

Edit: my bad only the Custom Level Design is set for Fall. At this point if they don't announce anything by the end of month I wouldn't be surprised if they did a bigger patch update that includes the last two comrade patches they promised, the modding stuff, and the limited event in the Fall.

 

[Nova]

The Avatar/User Treasure mod was suppose to be out during Spring.

 

[Storm]

this month we have gamescom, we will probably hear something there

winged noct (20% more edgy)

gentiana mid-transformation *NSFW

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1461322337&searchtext=


hunter outfit

https://twitter.com/statuses/1022506666527543296

but the best one is this gem

lol perfect

 

[SonOfEtro]

Winged Noctis is the best. And beware...Behemoth Noctis may inspire more bara fanart than Gladio ever did!

 

[Nova]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1025082379289804800

 

[Vallen]

I see still no news on the next update?

 

[jonataeyeon8992]

this month we have gamescom, we will probably hear something there

winged noct (20% more edgy)

gentiana mid-transformation *NSFW

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1461322337&searchtext=


hunter outfit

https://twitter.com/statuses/1022506666527543296

but the best one is this gem

lol perfect

Yoo full body Winged Nokuto pls.. Thanks!!

 

[Bazztek]

FFXV has now sold 7.7 million worldwide. As stated on SE's Japanese product info page for it.
https://jp.finalfantasy.com/news/2000

That makes it keep it's current trajectory of being the fastest selling FF, with it reaching 7.7m sales much faster than any other FF did, and in terms of total sales it's currently the 4th highest selling FF worldwide, with FFVII at 11m, FFVIII at around 8.8m and FFX at around 8m currently being the only ones ahead of it.

By this time next year XV will defninitely have crossed the 8 million milestone, and will probably be around FFVIII's total sales if not above it.

 

[Ikkin]

FFXV has now sold 7.7 million worldwide. As stated on SE's Japanese product info page for it.
https://jp.finalfantasy.com/news/2000

That makes it keep it's current trajectory of being the fastest selling FF, with it reaching 7.7m sales much faster than any other FF did, and in terms of total sales it's currently the 4th highest selling FF worldwide, with FFVII at 11m, FFVIII at around 8.8m and FFX at around 8m currently being the only ones ahead of it.

By this time next year XV will defninitely have crossed the 8 million milestone, and will probably be around FFVIII's total sales if not above it.

Wow, that's really impressive!

I wonder if there are any stats as to how much VII, VIII and X had sold at this point in their lifespans.

 

[Nova]

FFXV has now sold 7.7 million worldwide. As stated on SE's Japanese product info page for it.
https://jp.finalfantasy.com/news/2000

That makes it keep it's current trajectory of being the fastest selling FF, with it reaching 7.7m sales much faster than any other FF did, and in terms of total sales it's currently the 4th highest selling FF worldwide, with FFVII at 11m, FFVIII at around 8.8m and FFX at around 8m currently being the only ones ahead of it.

By this time next year XV will defninitely have crossed the 8 million milestone, and will probably be around FFVIII's total sales if not above it.

 

[Lord_Ham_Mork]

FFXV has now sold 7.7 million worldwide. As stated on SE's Japanese product info page for it.
https://jp.finalfantasy.com/news/2000

That makes it keep it's current trajectory of being the fastest selling FF, with it reaching 7.7m sales much faster than any other FF did, and in terms of total sales it's currently the 4th highest selling FF worldwide, with FFVII at 11m, FFVIII at around 8.8m and FFX at around 8m currently being the only ones ahead of it.

By this time next year XV will defninitely have crossed the 8 million milestone, and will probably be around FFVIII's total sales if not above it.

Those are good news. I hope SE considered that too, so the content ment to launch in 2019 doesn't receive a cut in budget or time of development.

In the case of the other FF are they counting relaunchs and remasters as total sales?

 

[Bazztek]

Wow, that's really impressive!

I wonder if there are any stats as to how much VII, VIII and X had sold at this point in their lifespans.

Doing some research the earliest sales point for FFVIII states that it sold 6 million which at the end of December 1999, meaning it sold 6 million in 11 months, 1 million of which it did in the US, and that same press release stated that FFVIII was the fastest selling FF, meaning it also sold 6 million faster than FFVII did within those 11 months from release. https://web.archive.org/web/20080421065602/http://www.gamasutra.com/newswire/news/index19991206.htm

In 11 months FFXV had already reached around 6.6 million, making it the new fastest selling FF. XV also had the highest sales for any FF in the US, at about 1.8-1.9 million just for it's launch through to December 2016 period alone, which NPD cited was the highest selling FF in the US too.

https://twitter.com/statuses/928234069091016704

It's much harder to find data during the late 90s and early 00s, but the next earliest point I count find was a financial report from March 2003, which for pretty much all the mainline FFs listed is well over 2 years after each of their releases.
www.jp.square-enix.com/ir/e/explanatory/download/0404-200402090000-01.pdf#page=27

By 2003 FFVII had sold 9.3m (6 years after release), FFVIII had sold 8.1m (4 years after release), FFIX had sold 5m (3 years after release), FFX had sold 5.8m (2 years after release) and FFX-2 had sold 2m just a few weeks after release.
For pre VII FFs by 2003 FFI had 1.9m, FFII had 1.2m, FFIII had 1.4m, FFIV had 2.1m, FFV had 2.6m and FFVI had 3.4m, and that's across all releases, and that's almost 10 years from release for VI and over a decade for all of the others.

As for FFXII, that only sold 6m total on PS2 by November 2009, and XIII didn't hit 6.6m until 2013, 3 years after each of those had released.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150505005802/http://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/print/54
https://web.archive.org/web/2013082...y-xiiis-creators-justify-a-third-game-in-a-se

 

[rukloveis]

Did it count Window edition and royal edition too ?
With 7.7 M ship and download.

 

[Vallen]

Those are good news. I hope SE considered that too, so the content ment to launch in 2019 doesn't receive a cut in budget or time of development.

Yeah I think the game was doing "well enough" for them to have green-lit the second DLC Pass, but with these numbers I'm sure there are no concerns about giving them the needed budget. Plus it's also good to note that their dev team has considerably downsized to be more cost efficient and allow others to move on to different projects (the smaller team working on the DLCs probably is the reason why they're a little behind the 2018 updates). This fall will likely yield some good updates and then it'll only be a few short months until the 2019 DLC drops ~

 

[NoxFleuret]

The sales numbers are good to see!

So, the press release for the Gamescom showing went out. No XV present, don't know if they'll show anything about that Tomb Raider thing they announced back during Pax or what at this rate.