Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire 12+

5 star for game design, event ideas, 1 star for performance issues consistently and no control of bullies inside realms! I have to say as a minor spender of games this is one that requires tons of money to stay on top, even as a free to play game it is fun to do events and attack realm bosses but as far as any war aspects the ones who spends the most money will be on top and this game has soo many bullies in it too! There are of course soo many very nice and friendly people as well which is mostly the reason I’ve stayed with ffxv 15 but there is such a divide with the free to play players VS the big spenders, if your not spending $200 USD per week then you will have to stay in protective bubbles 24/7You also must have a minimum of iPhone 7 or androids equivalent for this game to even work now! I’ve been playing on an iPhone 6 for a couple years and it has steadily gotten worse by being glitchy and crashing 50 times per hour now to the point I can’t even get the game loaded up anymore at all! As many gripes I have with the game I do love to play it and conversations with friends are always sincere, I really wish it would work on my phone again!😩😭 I cant afford to upgrade to a better device for a few more months and by the time I do I fear I will have lost interest and friends I had built up for 2 years!

I have been playing this game for over a year. It has been very fun building my empire and connect with people within my realm and others. There are a lot of good people in the game, but to every great thing there comes a bad.

Over the last few months of playing, the developers have royally screwed the game up. They started giving things to people for free and not to others and then taking away items that have been purchased without any form of compensation. We had a couple of guild members stuck in another realm where they couldn’t get back for over a week and therefore missed out on several prizes for several events while the developers kept telling them that our realm had merged with the one she was stuck in. (We had no merge. This was obvious by the fact that nobody else was in that realm from ours.) They post BOGO packs where you buy one pack at full price and the second pack is half off with less than half of the items in it. (They won’t do anything about that either.) There have been several times with multiple players reporting issues and the customer support replies with some copy and paste statement that says “it is working as designed”. It doesn’t seem that the customer support nor the developers really care about the stuff that goes wrong in the game. If they could get their heads out the ground and actually care about customer service and player concerns this game would actually be a great game again.

So being an FF fan I had to play this. Since it was a fresh game, it offered and once in a lifetime deal for $5. Played a little more, found interested players, so still on. I've never played MS or GoW but everyone in the game says it's the same. Because I don't play these games the experience is new and fun, but I can see how this can get old fast. Already having issues building because of bullies. Most players are cool. But there are a lot who are not. The main things tho, this game has very little to do with FF. Besides the Main character and the 5 Chocobos and 3 baby Chocobos that run around on your farm, there is nothing else related to FF. So kind of a double whammy there, little to do with FF and quick repetitiveness. If I didn't spend that $5 I probably would not still be playing...Oh well, just a little longer till it gets really boring I guess.

UPDATE: I hate this game and the P2W players in it! After playing since the start, this game is extremely P2W! You get a couple people who spends a thousand on the game and that's it. They run the entire Realm. You can try to rally, but they will always just throw more cash at it during fights and that's it. There's no way to win, making the game utterly pointless as soon as they started playing. Plus getting merged ruined our Clan, we went from #9 to #50 overnight, without so much as a warning it was coming. Bottom line: if it's not made by SquareSoft, it's not really Final Fantasy!