Indeed, there's not a drought for hardcore raid content. There's only been a drought of fun content. Fortunately other good games have released this year.
I did play savage for most of the expansion and it was /okay/. But the most fun stuff has been extremes (especially in week 1), fishing, experiencing the new alliance and normal raids for the first time, and chatting with friends. I'm not going to do raiding ever again unless they make major changes to it so I'll probably end up being one of those players who subs for one month a year to catch up on what's new, and just keep in touch with my friends out of game.
IMO the biggest missed opportunity and thing that would have kept me more engaged is Criterion. They should have released it at extreme level and with a low ilvl sync instead of savage level and requiring BiS (or close to BiS), and had Criterion (Savage) be the Savage/Ulti level one. And given weekly rewards from clearing it (twines/shines/not-quite-bis-gear/tokens to buy mounts/etc). It would be a great reason to log and play fun content in a similar model to Unreal (which is a underrated part of the game).
It's an MMO, they're not meant to be entertaining they're meant to fool morons into staying subscribed with mindless skinnerbox bullshit. FFXIV just happens to have a mostly good story.
>why DO you play the game?
Story content. Exploration zone content like Eureka and Bozja. Triple Triad and Chocobo Racing. Decorating my house.
However the thing I enjoy doing most in post patch content is relic weapons. I like the accomplishment of finishing one when it's relevant.
Endwalker has failed in this regard. The Manderville weapons are not relic weapons. They're tomestone weapons with some cutscenes tacked on.
He's fricking fantastic on all accounts. I don't mind happy merchant characters if they don't hide the fact that you're a means to an end and try to be your friend despite that rather than trying to be your friend to hide it.
seemed a completely generic one-note character when first introduced and delivered nothing but dry exposition with a couple of (intentionally) unfunny jokes so I'm puzzled why he keeps returning and some people seem to like him/remember his name. like when the WoL is supposed to think of a businessman he for some reason thinks of this bland middle manager on the other side of the world? is his Jap voice actor famous? Or is it a weird anime stock character thing I don't get?
I assumed he might be interesting and betray us in StB or something, but nope nothing he's just a friendly corporate stooge.
hanwiener is your (admittedly tenuous) link back to eorzea while in kugane and made sure you had a pretty plush stay while you were there, and one of your first guides to the area as a self professed mega-weeb who wanted desperately to work there as an excuse to stay for a long period
whenever you're in kugane and your target npc isn't alphinaud, gosetsu, hien, tsuyu or if leveling samurai ugetsu, it's probably hanwiener
I don't blame Lala women for being huge bawds in all honesty, they'd surrounded by clocks big enough to spit them open on the regular it'd be hard for them to not be a bit stit crazy.
hanwiener drops a line about tataru frolicking about kugane with "her hingan paramours"
the line is intended to be read that he's seething about tataru being in kugane on vacation while he's there for work and can't run around as he likes
>the line is intended to be read that he's seething about tataru being in kugane on vacation while he's there for work and can't run around as he likes
No it's not, because Hanwiener loves working in Kugane. It's meant to be read as him poking fun at her.
"i love working here" =/= "i am completely content in my context for being here"
9 months ago
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>"i am completely content in my context for being here"
He literally is, though. That's one of the central aspects of his character. He fell in love with some ukiyo-e art in Lolorito's office and became a turboweeb who wanted to work in Kugane. He absolutely loves the position he's in. Waifugay derangement really has no end, huh?
9 months ago
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i'm not in the mood for moron fights today anon chalk this up as a win if you're really dead set on it
I don't actually see how Hanwiener liking where he is contradicts the idea that he's fuming about Tataru being there for fun and not work.
9 months ago
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>character teases another character >"WOOOWWW HE'S SOOO MAD HE'S LITERALLY SEETHING!!!"
9 months ago
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What the frick is your problem?
9 months ago
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>"Hehe Tataru is pretty popular if you know what I mean ;)" >OOOOH MY SCIENCE LOOK AT HIM HE'S LITERALLY SEETHING HOLY SHIT WOOW I KNOW HE MUST BE FRICKING FUMING THAT TATARU IS THERE ON VACATION, YEAH THE VACATION SHE WENT ON TO HELP START A WAR WITH HER COWORKERS THAT KIND OF VACATION HOLY SHIT HE MUST BE SO MAD!
>the line is intended to be read that he's seething about tataru being in kugane on vacation while he's there for work and can't run around as he likes
No it's not, because Hanwiener loves working in Kugane. It's meant to be read as him poking fun at her.
>le everything is le heckin sexerino prostitutes like my pornos that I am addicted to!!!!!!!
let me guess
ryne and gaia are lesbians just like your porn fantasies too?
I'd say he's mid-high tier as far as side npcs are. Entertaining enough that he doesn't get tiring, proves himself useful regularly and there's some slight hidden depths behind him.
I like his weird sense of humour. I still remember back when you first meet him, he made a joke about Teledji being split in half and bursts out laughing while the scions couldn't believe what he just said.
Completionistgay, for two characters, played since 1.0. For example, both characters currently have all fish caught currently, including Ocean fishing.
I do need to do Criterion (second one), and actually do Eureka Orthos solo. But getting all Relics was a long time goal of mine that I've wanted to do forever.
I'm not a fan of the ridiculous achievements like the S-rank Hunts, or Mentor Roulette stuff. I just like completing various things for my characters.
Plus it was fun to optimize doing Animus books, I could knock out a book in 40-50 minutes.
Sadly, I have been an office wagie since 2015. When I was between jobs in 2021 cause of Covid layoffs, that entire year I was able to catch up to a whole lot, knocked out many goals.
And funnily enough, I could keep the momentum going because there hasn't been too much "content" in Endwalker lol.
More like the covid bonus that effected literally every game is no longer here. Fricking New World and Lost Ark had record high stupid numbers all because people couldn't leave the fricking house. Now that all the pandemic shit is over people have choice again.
If only XIV was losing players hard that would mean something. But literally every MMO right now is dropping hard compared to last year.
Unlikely. Most of the surviving strains are more infectious, but less severe symptoms. The standard viral survival strategy. So if we ever get another big COVID wave, it'll be about the same number of sick (cause people know how to deal with it better), but minimal deaths.
Washed up shill who runs defense for the company at every turn because his career is dead without this dying game. There is nothing worse than an MMO shill
This happens in every expansion. There's always a large gap between the last patch and the big next release. The problem is EW is focusing a lot of attention onto island sanctuary when most people abandoned that shit hard, and Criterion/Variants and Deep Dungeon only mattered for a week before people fricked off. There's not much replayable shit that isn't doing the same Raids over and over as a result.
It's never been this bad because they forced it back to summer release.
Keep in mind patch cycles used to be 3 months, then 3.5 months, now 4 months.
Then they started splitting patches in half to spread content out so you don't even get to play everything on patch day.
I've gotta say, the last huge content lull (the one between 5.55 and EW) was pretty comfy for me.
There was barely anyone online save for the same 7 other autists and we were still progging some dead raids. We knew each other because there was no one else doing shit and we progged all Promise, it was like a static pretty much, but in pf.
Pretty cool, and I'm still friends with many of them.
Don't know about this expansion's lull, since now I have less things to do.
>wants to be free of her title >tries her best anyway >grows up surrounded by snakes who want to use her >endures tragedy, betrayal, and loss >still has her people in the forefront >still becomes politically capable despite being trained wrong as a joke >still cute and pure
I love Nanamo. Gods bless the sultanate.
>wants to be free of her title >tries her best anyway >grows up surrounded by snakes who want to use her >endures tragedy, betrayal, and loss >still has her people in the forefront >still becomes politically capable despite being trained wrong as a joke >still cute and pure
I love Nanamo. Gods bless the sultanate.
Imagine walking in and seeing Tataru getting railed and mindbroken
9 months ago
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Who cares about Tataru?
9 months ago
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>wants to be free of her title >tries her best anyway >grows up surrounded by snakes who want to use her >endures tragedy, betrayal, and loss >still has her people in the forefront >still becomes politically capable despite being trained wrong as a joke >still cute and pure
I love Nanamo. Gods bless the sultanate.
Oh shit, my bad. I didn't mean Tataru, I meant NANAMO.
I don't know why I typed out Tataru, kek.
9 months ago
Anonymous
It's because you know Tataru is a bit loose and Nanamo is more pure than fresh snow.
Go back to trolling shtola gays with runar or something.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>Lalagays are the ones covertly shitting on other waifus, trying to deflect to other characters whenever they catch any criticism and who unironically post furry shit
Why am I not surprised in the slightest?
9 months ago
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>implying your cuck fantasies is criticism >implying my waifu is Nanamo >implying I'm a lalagay
Sorry anon, you got trolled twice.
9 months ago
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And I'm not the anon who first responded to you
9 months ago
Anonymous
Oh yeah you are. You are absolutely awful at hiding your speech patterns.
9 months ago
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This
>Lalagays are the ones covertly shitting on other waifus, trying to deflect to other characters whenever they catch any criticism and who unironically post furry shit
Why am I not surprised in the slightest?
Imagine if ARR set up a romance between Nanamo and WoL that eventually culminated in her abdicating the throne to join their party and be with them.
Get Alisaie and Y'shtola off my screen. Ardbert got his Lamitt, now it's the WoL's turn.
9 months ago
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>Ardbert got his Lamitt, now it's the WoL's turn.
So Y'shtola then.
9 months ago
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What do you mean?
9 months ago
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All the Warriors of Darkness are shards of a Scion. >Conjurer who becomes the first companion to a marauder Ardbert/WoL. >Becomes group mom, with the lore book even spelling it out. >Has a conflict revolving around how one of their loved ones is suffering from an affliction but their other friends don't approve of the method to solve it so they become outcast from that group. >Learns forgotten magic from the ruins of Ronka in an effort to solve it.
Lamitt is Y'shtola's shard.
Also Thancred is Branden's shard (man loses female protegé, becomes depressed from it and tries to make up for his failure to protect her), Nyelbert is Urianger's shard (man loses childhood friend companion, eventually sacrifices a friend while thinking of what said friend would have done in their place) and Alisaie is Renda Rae (spunky tomboy mistrusts party on first instance and tries to ditch them to do tasks alone, changes opinion once they actually prove their worth).
9 months ago
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>>Has a conflict revolving around how one of their loved ones is suffering from an affliction but their other friends don't approve of the method to solve it so they become outcast from that group.
Is this a 1.0 plot thread? Because I don't remember Y'mithra talk about being sick during the summoner quests.
Or was that more linking toward Shtola usling flow to excape from the brass blades?
9 months ago
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Much closer. I was talking about WoL in ShB suffering from aether overload and Y'shtola telling all other Scions to frick off over it. That was within the same expansion as Lamitt's own role quest plot.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Ok, that makes sense.
Besides Eulmore's attack, the cave session and the lightwarden I was pretty glazed during the ronka section.
I like to think WoL moonlighting as a crafting savant helped bolster her ability to keep pushing on in hopes of things like another delicious meal from "my dear [WoL]
One of my favorite things of note is how the way she refers to the player changes over time.
More neutral to friendly in ARR (more shown for uldah starts) to very near and dear as of EW.
Truly the best.
Fricking nothing. Dragonflight is constantly on sale and has multiple free trial weekends because it has completely failed to entice players to return. There's a new patch soon with a new raid, who cares.
Classic recently introduced the WoW token, which a lot of people were worried would happen and now it has. They're going to introduce Dungeon Finder in the final phase of WotLK Classic, cementing that it is in fact retail lite.
Classic Hardcore was a popular gimmick for a bit, I guess because leveling is the most fun part of the game and there you get to do it over and over forever.
I was thinking of something more like Thordan with the 12 coming to fight one after the other or dishing out mechanics in the background while the alliances fight 2/3 others proper.
I think it would just be cool to have all the mechanics knowledge you've accumulated by doing the previous raids pay off a little.
I was thinking of something more like Thordan with the 12 coming to fight one after the other or dishing out mechanics in the background while the alliances fight 2/3 others proper.
I think it would just be cool to have all the mechanics knowledge you've accumulated by doing the previous raids pay off a little.
They already said there's a thirteenth god who stands vigil. His name is Eorzea.
I'm 99% sure Eorzea is female. Eorzea has been referred to in the feminine since the 1.0 teaser trailer.
Course, according to the Watcher, he was based off of one the Hydaelyn summoners, specifically the one we see talking to Venat in the 5.2 anamesis anyder cutscene. So is the Watcher female, or is the Watcher a red herring?
yeah. but the direction we're being told to look at at the end of the Euphrosyne questline is that the Watcher is the unnamed 13th member of the pantheon. I can say confidently that its probably a red herring now, given how Pandaemonium turned out and how Zero and Zeromus turned out to be different entities
>or is the Watcher a red herring?
He obviously is. The completely casual way all the NPCs just settled on that halfway through the story makes it obvious that the Watcher is not actually the thirteenth god.
Kek I'm in France and every fast food from McDo to BK have you go to a screen, place your order, take a plastic stand with a number on it, and wait for someone to come and deliver your meal to your table.
And theyre still considered upper shitty fast food joints. Only above the kebab places.
Every fast food place needs to look et how Chik Fil A runs their shit and copy it. Always incredibly efficient and courteous despite also always being absolutely packed.
I'm french and McDonalds is trash. You way too much for way too little, it doesn't tastes good and even if you fill yourself you're hungry 30 minutes after.
>>then no content for 8 MONTHS
have you finished all the other content that was made before this new one? if not then go do it. Oh have you completed the WHOLE content the game has to offer?
Too bad, go play another game or simply take a break
SE makes sure to give older content some severe expiration dates thanks to action pruning, potency and stat bloat, and lack of item level sync. If it's not recent content it doesn't fully count because SE is intentionally limiting any enjoyment you could have squeezed out of it.
Im farming all the tank mounts from basically 0 and hopefully get all the hunt stuff done before DT. Its not so bad since I just keep the tracker and game on a seperate monitor while I play other games.
After that trailer? No way. She's either sacrificing herself for the 13th or staying in there to help heal it. She wouldn't drop that kind of speech and then bail out on them.
They deliver that once every two or three months, those mod messages are cookie-cutter and always toothless. We're talking about a board where the WoW general was ripping into the game and talking about XIV instead and shat on the mod when he tried to force it back to being on-topic.
The game got popular so it attracts more mentally ill people who either want attention or feel the need to defend their own game by attacking and disrupting conversation. It also doesn't help that a certain other game went into freefall and sent over a large amount of undesirables.
how will you react if Zero joins the scions in 7.0?
I think the bigger question is will
Zero is absolutely moving back to the Vpid to try and fix it from that end, not a chance in hell she is in the main party in 7.0
they continue the void storyline at a later point and keep her around or will they close the whole thing off right now.
>Heavensward: Huge content drought from 3.0-3.1 that nearly killed the game >Shadowbringers: Content drought:The Expansion with time between patches getting logner >Endwalker: No excuse like Shadowbringers with COVID and yet still manages to have content drought
Have you all apologized to Stormblood yet for being the best expansion for content?
People hated Stormblood cause people hated Eureka. Atleast until they took the soul out of it and made it easier.. After that everyone started pretending that its always been kino.
>tfw for the first time since subbing since pre ShB days, I am considering unsubbing
Welp goodbye XIV bros, it was a fun time but I think I'm burning out finally
>different skin colors >different glams >different heights >b-b-but they use the same haircut
Meanwhile every single femelezen and femroe look and dress the same and are all max height
It's because the game has a limited set of face customization options and people will naturally pick the ones they think looks the best/cutest or whatever, so you'll end up seeing the same shit everywhere, this isn't as big of an issue in games with more sliders
there's absolutely no excuse for the customization in this game to be so limited. there should be sliders, more face types, should be a TON more hairs. no wonder everyone mods the shit out of the game when the vanilla game is so lacking it hurts. why is this game stuck in early 2000s when it comes to character customization?
Game desperately needs more options, it's very telling how if you join any big syncshell a decent amount of those copy-paste catgirls and femra become something completely different for better or for worse
Because the entire game is a salvaging of a game that itself was operating off of semi-modernized PS2 rules, now following WoW rules, and the engine is an absolute clusterfrick nightmare of moronic bullshit as is.
>why does everyone play only catgirls and lizardgirls
the races in this game are bad. you eventually accept the devs only care about a few of them while the rest get treated like trash, some even in the story >why do they all look the same
the character creator is terrible which contributes to the first issue
>FC member seething endlessly about how they still haven't gotten the Starbird after hundreds of Dead End runs. >tfw got it my very first run of the place.
veena viera are extremely underappreciated with lots of potential to be cute bnuys. miqo and au ra players are too insistent on being midgets and feel that even min height viera are too tall. but when I compare min height viera to any male race, they're still shorter. explain, miqo/au ra players. why won't you embrace the bnuy lifestyle?
Unironically the only thing I miss about the game is being able to strike up a convo with a random girl and that turning into sexually charged conversation on discord within hours. I haven't had such an experience with any game until FFXIV 2 years ago and I've been missing it since I unsubbed a few months ago. The best part is that unlike other places like fricking Tinder, it's so much easier to find cute girls who have a bunch in common with you than there. Any alternatives bros?
>I've seen sorority girls play this game
Is this on Aether?
I saw a line of catgirls in limsa and their FC tag was "ABG", checked it out and they were ravebawds from a sorority.
>I've seen sorority girls play this game
Is this on Aether?
I saw a line of catgirls in limsa and their FC tag was "ABG", checked it out and they were ravebawds from a sorority.
doesn't that stand for asian babygirl? alpha beta gamma?
9 months ago
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>asian babygirl?
Yeah, for some reason there's a surprising amount of them that play this shit
9 months ago
Anonymous
>toxic narcissistic women playing a game that gives them attention
not surprising at all tbh
9 months ago
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>asian babygirl?
Yeah, for some reason there's a surprising amount of them that play this shit
I'm convinced like 99% of ABGs grew up on maplestory and play this shit to try and relive the past.
9 months ago
Anonymous
I mean I wouldn't be surprised, people love to say troon this troon that but I've met way too many women playing Light Lich/Raiden, again europeans probably have less trannies but still, so many girls. See some "Mocha Latte" bullshit type name with genuine care for plate and character design? 80% of the time it's a cis girl.
9 months ago
Anonymous
It's probably a data center thing too, most of the troons are probably on crystal
9 months ago
Anonymous
they're on faerie (aether)
9 months ago
Anonymous
I subbed for a static with few they consistantly parses higher than me
9 months ago
Anonymous
Wow, girl gamers are like soooo cool!! Totally wholesome much? I guess girls CAN play video games huh? This is everything!!
Retweet if you respect women in gaming!
9 months ago
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Anon I parse blue
9 months ago
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Oh dude when girls are into harder content and genuinely care for improving they often outperform an above average dude. I don't know how or why but when girls give a frick they give a frick hard. I was also doing two statics and anecdotal of course, but the girls both times were definitely top 3 performers.
don't start. The moment I whiffed out a person is potentially trans or some dude playing a fem character I noped out, which happened quite rarely ironically and I've had discord calls, exchanged snaps with a bunch of girls ages 19-25. > webm related, this girl literally saw me chilling on the fricking rock in gridania clicked on my au'ra and side nice glam, we chatted a bunch, I made a cwl to chat even during duties, eventually I got her discord, she looked like a fricking model head to toe.
I've had various exchanges like that in the ~18 months I've played XIV.
hate this game so much i'm gonna post in it for hours and hours every day and try my hardest to derail it immediately after a live letter and when it hits 500 posts i'm gonna make the next one so i can keep hating it
no but it is my first time in a larger mmo community, i've only heard horror stories about the kinds of people that world of warcraft produced and my only other experience is henehoes in maplestory
I don't know if maybe you're getting unlucky because the npcs are scripted to frick up occasionally, but here's a trick in case it's not just that. Follow Y'shtola every time, she does every mechanic right. It's designed so if you just stack with her you should win.
I don't know if maybe you're getting unlucky because the npcs are scripted to frick up occasionally, but here's a trick in case it's not just that. Follow Y'shtola every time, she does every mechanic right. It's designed so if you just stack with her you should win.
Follow Y'shtola. She does all the mechanics correctly.
Imps stand in front of Ultros and tank his aquabreaths to build stacks, then punch Typhon to deplete his stacks while he's charging his super sneeze to cancel it.
who cares you don't need to do any mechanic ever until extreme
I wish 95% of the game wasn't balanced around literal zombies rotting on their keyboards
it's weird and a bit off-putting that it even caught on for that kinda usage since it's so hyper-specific and kids don't yell UR A troony across the playground like we did homosexual when i was a kid
9 months ago
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It's not weird at all unless you want to act willfully ignorant as to what's going on around you.
9 months ago
Anonymous
oh get off it moronondo kids on the playgrounds are not getting into culture war arguments on fricking twitter all day the way apu and fashwave accounts do
9 months ago
Anonymous
Are we posting on the playground right now or are we on a video game imageboard where everyone is perfectly aware of the corporate sponsored jannisaries fricking up every single community at once?
9 months ago
Anonymous
and boom we've already lost scope of what the frick we're even talking about, this went nowhere slowly. based posts all around
9 months ago
Anonymous
Concession accepted
9 months ago
Anonymous
Sorry he didn't take the bait and call you a chud, anon.
Blue is the number of characters with the first recorded achievement in that time period.
Green is the number of characters with no confirmed achievements after that time period.
Red is the number of characters whose achievements were confirmed during the period, excluding new and final characters. However, if the same character is counted as new and last within the same time period, the character is subtracted twice from the continuations, so +1 is added.
So if I've understood right:
Blue = New players
Red = Old players that are still unlocking stuff or that just finished some long grind
Green = Old players that are either not doing much new or that ran out of stuff to do
>that massive drop off
looking at the past xpacs all of them managed to retain players, EW was extremely barebones in non raid/hardcore content and that's reflected here. Recent interviews with yoshitpiss shouldn't give you any hopes for DT though, the recent relic weapon steps are here to stay at 1500 tomes for the next xpac because "player statistics show it was popular!" We've entered the managed decline point of the game.
People who says PVP is bad in this game are either incredibly shit at it or simply never touched it or only shit like Frontline/Rival Wing and base their judgment on it.
>actually telling me i'm an insane moron just proves me right! >hehehe you see the fact that there are different IPs is just proof that the man in my walls is hitting airplane mode every 20 seconds on multiple phones!
Lol you really love this one
mysteriously everybody who says you're samegayging is one person but anybody who notices your vocabulary choices are static is just crazy, i honestly cannot imagine myself finding this posting pattern funny or worthwhile but there again i'm not obsessed with a game i hate
Do you ever feel embarrassed at the fact that I can pick you out of a crowd even outside of FFXIV threads only for you to play stupid and come back the next day trying to act like you're actually the one picking me out of a crowd? Like do you have any shame at all bud? Let me give you a hint, I'm not whatever gay is saying endfetus, I just knew exactly who you were the moment you made that post.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>I'm not whatever gay is saying endfetus,
why'd you run in to defend his honor then
9 months ago
Anonymous
I didn't run in to defend anyone's honor, I saw you and your trademark self righteous masturbation and ran in to laugh at you for being an insane moron.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>i'm laughing at you i can smell you a mile away and
yeah ok charr
the doomposters were all over the LL threads but they were drowned out by the sheer amount of posters that actually play the game
now that they're gone the doomposters have taken over again
Never. They had to make the poster boy stubble an entirely separate fricking face. You have to buy a fantasia if you want to give yourself a clean shave.
You just couldn't resist making everything about you before the thread hit bump limit could you, you were just waiting patiently to pop up the second someone had an issue with you or your degeneracy, making little pokes and prods baiting with your cheeky little unfunny comments that nobody acknowledges until they're fed up with your obnoxious fricking homosexualry then you all come out of nowhere like starved little attention hungry rats. Nobody fricking likes you. Nobody likes your posts. I'd hide them if I could. Maybe you should use a trip so I never have to look at your posts again. I don't need to be jeff the killer. I just don't want to see you or read your posts. At all.
Absolutely fricking dogshit 6.3 and 4 I quit within 3 days. No patch has had me quit like that. I always played 30days and enjoyed myself. This expansion fricking sucks
>CLUTCH ALMIGHTY HOLD ON TIGHT >TO BEGIN NEW WAKING WANDERING MIND >MEMORY SLOWLY BLINDING WHITE >POWER UNTO THIS STONE WE SHALL PRAY
This theme had no right to be as good as it is
it is a bit hammy, but i feel that P12N's phase adds and phase transition is the new gold standard, from her conjuring up swords and breaking your screen, her actually attacking you during the charging phase and her making the call back to the Praetorium. good shit all around
Has same amount of content as other 6.5s. More if they do 2 or 3 pvp seasons in that time. Problem with the game is they listened to the Shadowbringer WoWtards and made savage dungeons for them. Nobody wants them.
Island Sanctuary is functionally your exploratory zone because people b***hed about them too much and Covid made them opt for leisure rather than challenge.
It's mind boggling to me how full the game is now even on congested servers where you can't make characters there is a sea of sprouts going through the msq and in town.
>casualshitters complain about bozja and eureka >SE removes doesn't do exploration content this expansion because everyone but people that actually enjoy the game hate it and instead does shit like variant dungeons and island sanctuary to appease casualshitters >people hate it and now suddenly everyone wants eureka and bozja back
the majority of the people in this thread don't even have demi ozma and eureka was impossible to talk about on Ganker when it was current content. i am sick and tired of the larping.
i said majority for a reason, i would say the vast majority of people in xiv in general don't even have the fricking mount or even completed hydatos let alone got to it. you are a rare breed.
>people >ecelebs and their fans
I'm a shadowbab but it took a while for me to get into bozja, and that was only because I really wanted the katana.
Only did delibrum twice, and it was alright would be more fun if the content wasn't obviously dead.
Barely touched Eureka though, so I have no opinion on it yet. Though I do like the elemental system, and having to stay on your toes for mobs that counter your current element.
>ecelebs and their fans
idk where youre getting at here, are you refering to the people that complain about bozja/eureka or the people that like bozja/eureka
The people who are suddenly, constantly talking about how they moss bozja and eureka came about after zepla made her videos.
Before that Ganker would lament that there wasn't an exploratory zone, but nowhere near as much or as passionately as currently.
Its pretty obvious that the game needs something like that for at least this expansion. If they're going to keep the 4 month dev cycle (they will even if they ran out of plausible excuses) then exploratory zones are the perfect stopgap.
I whole heartedly agree, but nowhere in my short time playing did anyone talk about bozja as something necessary for a good expansion.
Anon no one fricking cares about a streamer who gets less than a thousand viewers, not on this site and certainly not ingame. Just because YOU are obsessed with them doesn't mean anyone else is.
People don't have to care about what they're shitposting about to shitpost.
It's obvious that most of the posts that parrot ecelebs are parroting ecelebs.
See
Anon no one fricking cares about a streamer who gets less than a thousand viewers, not on this site and certainly not ingame. Just because YOU are obsessed with them doesn't mean anyone else is.
I don't understand why this game thinks that pretending to kill off the Scions is good writing.
>Oh no, Y'shtola died! (she's ok, lifestream magic) >Oh no, Y'shtola died again! (she's ok, Zenos slicing her in half with a sword was non-fatal) >Oh no, Y'shtola died again! (she's ok, falling off a cliff is non-fatal)
Bullshit. The only one that actually has any kind of plot relevance is her "death" in Shadowbringers, Emet-Selch bringing her back is supposed to make us trust him.
No Y'shtola fake death is as worse as fricking Thancred giving a literal death speech after fighting someone using a literal heart-stopping technique, the camera fading away while he faints just for him literally being just fine 5 minutes later in the next cutscene.
I don't know if he was genuinely meant to die there and they pussied out (probably the only one of all the fake out death scenes that actually feels like it) or if they just wanted a dramatic finish, but I don't particularly care. I just wish he had actually fricking won. Why isn't Thancred allowed to fricking defeat his own rival? It would even have made said fake out death scene better because then you could have the scene after with Ran'jit's corpse nearby as a sort of lesson on how one did it right and the other didn't and let Ryne move on (it just fricking dawned on me that we never see a single scene of Ryne talking at any length with Ran'jit, what the hell).
"Pretending to kill Y'shtola" wasn't the point of any of those
No I will not explain it to you
>>Oh no, Y'shtola died! (she's ok, lifestream magic)
That was to save Thancred, so they could get their disabilities/superpowers, and to have them removed from the action for a while so they could do triumphal returns in HW. >>Oh no, Y'shtola died again! (she's ok, Zenos slicing her in half with a sword was non-fatal)
That was to save Lyse. And mainly because the SB writer wanted to get rid of competition. >>Oh no, Y'shtola died again! (she's ok, falling off a cliff is non-fatal)
That was to give Emet-Selch character development and push Y'shtola to making peace with Urianger.
"Pretending to kill Y'shtola" wasn't the point of any of those
No I will not explain it to you
[...] >>Oh no, Y'shtola died! (she's ok, lifestream magic)
That was to save Thancred, so they could get their disabilities/superpowers, and to have them removed from the action for a while so they could do triumphal returns in HW. >>Oh no, Y'shtola died again! (she's ok, Zenos slicing her in half with a sword was non-fatal)
That was to save Lyse. And mainly because the SB writer wanted to get rid of competition. >>Oh no, Y'shtola died again! (she's ok, falling off a cliff is non-fatal)
That was to give Emet-Selch character development and push Y'shtola to making peace with Urianger.
No Y'shtola fake death is as worse as fricking Thancred giving a literal death speech after fighting someone using a literal heart-stopping technique, the camera fading away while he faints just for him literally being just fine 5 minutes later in the next cutscene.
>NOOOO WHY DIDN'T THAT KILL HIM MODS MODS MODS
>this isn't like my marvel movies or game of thrones at all... >XIV HAS FALLEN >SCIONS MUST DIE!
>if a main character doesn't die it's bad writing
Amerirot is taking over media. Game of Thrones becoming a TV series was a mistake.
The problem isn't that nobody dies. It's that characters keep having these weird fakeout deaths that are clearly meant to elicit an emotional response from the player but are almost immediately undone. Having everyone live is fine. Having everyone die is also fine. Having every major character having dramatic, heart-wrenching "sacrifices" that are instantly retconned just gets silly after the 3rd or 4th time it happens.
Casting Flow is not dying. If it was the same as dying, Y'shtola wouldn't have gone blind the first time because her living body couldn't survive in the lifestream.
Also that reminds me they made sure (You) see the effects of the Flow spell being cast as soon as she falls down that hole, how the frick did anyone think it was a death scene?
You know that's not the actual complaint. Why do you gays always argue in such bad faith on this subject? The complaint isn't that they aren't dying, it's that the writers keep writing fakeout deaths over and over and it has killed any kind of tension in the story. You know they could just not write fakeouts three times an expansion, right?
People who says PVP is bad in this game are either incredibly shit at it or simply never touched it or only shit like Frontline/Rival Wing and base their judgment on it.
It's not just death for the sake of death, people want stakes and consequences. Those never seen to apply to the scions anymore. The banquet in ARR was more lethal than the imminent end of the world
It feels like the whole "forge ahead" and "thou must walk" thing is only applied sometimes and only to certain characters. I can no longer care about whatever speech the scions make when I know they're pretty much protected by plot armor and the only characters who die are antagonists and NPCs introduced 5 mins ago with obvious death flags
If Heavensward was written today, Ysayle and Harcheufaunt would be alive and Hilda would die
>you only think that because of its context
That's why most music is good. It evokes an emotion or a memory of an emotion that makes you feel good (or bad or w/e).
if i asked you what makes your favorite song your favorite song would you be able to explain the music theory in why you like it? or do you like it based on the feeling and emotions it provokes.
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>or do you like it based on the feeling and emotions it provokes.
music can be good for it's emotions, never said it couldn't. emotions invoked aren't extra context. you wouldn't like to the edge if it wasn't a song in xiv's story, simple as.
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>emotions invoked aren't extra context
9 months ago
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Literally wrong. >t. multiple friends have ffxiv music on their playlists despite not touching the game just because they heard it playing in my car
9 months ago
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>he plays xiv music in his car >around friends
cringe
9 months ago
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what no friends does to a motherfricker, im a music autist, it's fun to listen to shit my friends like. music is INTERESTING.
9 months ago
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I also play vidya music in the car all of the time when I'm with friends
It's either that or they play their own music, which is usually shit like Linkin Park which I don't really like
9 months ago
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Dumb fricking normalgay
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Not him but hearing Titan's theme is what made me try FFXIV back in the day.
"Battle" and hype music are good, world and zone themes are rather lackluster outside of the ARR ones provided by Uematsu. I really miss the world tunes from XI.
I'm so tired bros........
Milky
we WILL arise, lalabro...
>NO LALASCUM GO BACK TO /vg/ -ACK
Never post again
just rent in the bosom of your kot
I think HW is in competition
I refuse to believe the people b***hing about the content drought have cleared TOP, Criterion (Savage) or Blue Mage.
Indeed, there's not a drought for hardcore raid content. There's only been a drought of fun content. Fortunately other good games have released this year.
I'm curious, if you don't like raiding or ERP, why DO you play the game?
What sort of content would entertain you?
I did play savage for most of the expansion and it was /okay/. But the most fun stuff has been extremes (especially in week 1), fishing, experiencing the new alliance and normal raids for the first time, and chatting with friends. I'm not going to do raiding ever again unless they make major changes to it so I'll probably end up being one of those players who subs for one month a year to catch up on what's new, and just keep in touch with my friends out of game.
IMO the biggest missed opportunity and thing that would have kept me more engaged is Criterion. They should have released it at extreme level and with a low ilvl sync instead of savage level and requiring BiS (or close to BiS), and had Criterion (Savage) be the Savage/Ulti level one. And given weekly rewards from clearing it (twines/shines/not-quite-bis-gear/tokens to buy mounts/etc). It would be a great reason to log and play fun content in a similar model to Unreal (which is a underrated part of the game).
It's an MMO, they're not meant to be entertaining they're meant to fool morons into staying subscribed with mindless skinnerbox bullshit. FFXIV just happens to have a mostly good story.
>why DO you play the game?
Story content. Exploration zone content like Eureka and Bozja. Triple Triad and Chocobo Racing. Decorating my house.
However the thing I enjoy doing most in post patch content is relic weapons. I like the accomplishment of finishing one when it's relevant.
Endwalker has failed in this regard. The Manderville weapons are not relic weapons. They're tomestone weapons with some cutscenes tacked on.
Yeah but isnt like it matters anymore.
Is Hanwiener a good character?
yes I like him
he's a cheeky c**t and so has more personality than most of the scions
He's fricking fantastic on all accounts. I don't mind happy merchant characters if they don't hide the fact that you're a means to an end and try to be your friend despite that rather than trying to be your friend to hide it.
seemed a completely generic one-note character when first introduced and delivered nothing but dry exposition with a couple of (intentionally) unfunny jokes so I'm puzzled why he keeps returning and some people seem to like him/remember his name. like when the WoL is supposed to think of a businessman he for some reason thinks of this bland middle manager on the other side of the world? is his Jap voice actor famous? Or is it a weird anime stock character thing I don't get?
I assumed he might be interesting and betray us in StB or something, but nope nothing he's just a friendly corporate stooge.
hanwiener is your (admittedly tenuous) link back to eorzea while in kugane and made sure you had a pretty plush stay while you were there, and one of your first guides to the area as a self professed mega-weeb who wanted desperately to work there as an excuse to stay for a long period
whenever you're in kugane and your target npc isn't alphinaud, gosetsu, hien, tsuyu or if leveling samurai ugetsu, it's probably hanwiener
This man has single handedly ruined Tatarus reputation
She did that herself being a prostitute
I don't blame Lala women for being huge bawds in all honesty, they'd surrounded by clocks big enough to spit them open on the regular it'd be hard for them to not be a bit stit crazy.
qrd?
hanwiener drops a line about tataru frolicking about kugane with "her hingan paramours"
the line is intended to be read that he's seething about tataru being in kugane on vacation while he's there for work and can't run around as he likes
>the line is intended to be read that he's seething about tataru being in kugane on vacation while he's there for work and can't run around as he likes
No it's not, because Hanwiener loves working in Kugane. It's meant to be read as him poking fun at her.
"i love working here" =/= "i am completely content in my context for being here"
>"i am completely content in my context for being here"
He literally is, though. That's one of the central aspects of his character. He fell in love with some ukiyo-e art in Lolorito's office and became a turboweeb who wanted to work in Kugane. He absolutely loves the position he's in. Waifugay derangement really has no end, huh?
i'm not in the mood for moron fights today anon chalk this up as a win if you're really dead set on it
I don't actually see how Hanwiener liking where he is contradicts the idea that he's fuming about Tataru being there for fun and not work.
>character teases another character
>"WOOOWWW HE'S SOOO MAD HE'S LITERALLY SEETHING!!!"
What the frick is your problem?
>"Hehe Tataru is pretty popular if you know what I mean ;)"
>OOOOH MY SCIENCE LOOK AT HIM HE'S LITERALLY SEETHING HOLY SHIT WOOW I KNOW HE MUST BE FRICKING FUMING THAT TATARU IS THERE ON VACATION, YEAH THE VACATION SHE WENT ON TO HELP START A WAR WITH HER COWORKERS THAT KIND OF VACATION HOLY SHIT HE MUST BE SO MAD!
What the frick is your problem?
Melt for me waifugay
Why?
schizo moment?
"You're a schizo lmao" is a very strange read of that post.
>le everything is le heckin sexerino prostitutes like my pornos that I am addicted to!!!!!!!
let me guess
ryne and gaia are lesbians just like your porn fantasies too?
Cope Wedge
I'd say he's mid-high tier as far as side npcs are. Entertaining enough that he doesn't get tiring, proves himself useful regularly and there's some slight hidden depths behind him.
He's phenomenal. One of the best NPCs and Rokkon super elevated him to that status.
Tataru gave WoL the privilege of working in her sweatshop.
Hanwiener gave WoL a battle with a cool ass samurai.
He is the best merchant buddy.
I like his weird sense of humour. I still remember back when you first meet him, he made a joke about Teledji being split in half and bursts out laughing while the scions couldn't believe what he just said.
unironically a dead game
It's LITERALLY full to capacity, though
that's not what that means and you know it
it's not a dead game but those queues mean nothing
>she doesn't know
zip zip zooooom!!!!
so fast!
Sex with buns.
I'm sorry G'raha. Lyna will be plapped.
SEXO'D by big futa buns and cats!
>spoiler
Yes please
Imagine still playing XIV
I've been working on ARR Relics. I've only done one Zeta prior back then. So this is 5th Animus out of 9 done.
I feel like players like you have absolutely nothing to do in the game so you look for something to do, or you're a completionist gay.
Completionistgay, for two characters, played since 1.0. For example, both characters currently have all fish caught currently, including Ocean fishing.
I do need to do Criterion (second one), and actually do Eureka Orthos solo. But getting all Relics was a long time goal of mine that I've wanted to do forever.
I'm not a fan of the ridiculous achievements like the S-rank Hunts, or Mentor Roulette stuff. I just like completing various things for my characters.
Plus it was fun to optimize doing Animus books, I could knock out a book in 40-50 minutes.
Maybe you should get something called a job
Sadly, I have been an office wagie since 2015. When I was between jobs in 2021 cause of Covid layoffs, that entire year I was able to catch up to a whole lot, knocked out many goals.
And funnily enough, I could keep the momentum going because there hasn't been too much "content" in Endwalker lol.
You were out of work for an entire year? Jesuis.
I stupidly played most of the expansion as healer so it's been pretty bad.
IT'S OUT
gold
>dude people are bored
More like the covid bonus that effected literally every game is no longer here. Fricking New World and Lost Ark had record high stupid numbers all because people couldn't leave the fricking house. Now that all the pandemic shit is over people have choice again.
If only XIV was losing players hard that would mean something. But literally every MMO right now is dropping hard compared to last year.
Don't worry, it's gonna go back soon
Thank Nurgle.
Please make it deadly this time, you weak frick
Unlikely. Most of the surviving strains are more infectious, but less severe symptoms. The standard viral survival strategy. So if we ever get another big COVID wave, it'll be about the same number of sick (cause people know how to deal with it better), but minimal deaths.
I'm so glad these gays and hags are leaving my game.
>shilling your gay youtube channel
Cringe
Oh no how will we survive without these trannies and gays whining on youtube.
these people leaving the game is a good thing
10 minutes of a washed up bald man coping
sad to witness really
XEEMS SAYS MANMODE DOOD
Washed up shill who runs defense for the company at every turn because his career is dead without this dying game. There is nothing worse than an MMO shill
This happens in every expansion. There's always a large gap between the last patch and the big next release. The problem is EW is focusing a lot of attention onto island sanctuary when most people abandoned that shit hard, and Criterion/Variants and Deep Dungeon only mattered for a week before people fricked off. There's not much replayable shit that isn't doing the same Raids over and over as a result.
It's never been this bad because they forced it back to summer release.
Keep in mind patch cycles used to be 3 months, then 3.5 months, now 4 months.
Then they started splitting patches in half to spread content out so you don't even get to play everything on patch day.
>now 4 months.
It's closer to 5 months at this point.
>Then they started splitting patches in half to spread content out
been like this since stormblood at the latest
t. started in stormblood
ZERO SEXO
I've gotta say, the last huge content lull (the one between 5.55 and EW) was pretty comfy for me.
There was barely anyone online save for the same 7 other autists and we were still progging some dead raids. We knew each other because there was no one else doing shit and we progged all Promise, it was like a static pretty much, but in pf.
Pretty cool, and I'm still friends with many of them.
Don't know about this expansion's lull, since now I have less things to do.
Are we really going to lalafell islands?
Yes and there's a cute goth faerie with a gun
you have lalafell at home
lalafell at home:
SPREAD YOUR LEGS.
Yeah I'm throwing this in the trash.
Nanamo > you dumb gays
>wants to be free of her title
>tries her best anyway
>grows up surrounded by snakes who want to use her
>endures tragedy, betrayal, and loss
>still has her people in the forefront
>still becomes politically capable despite being trained wrong as a joke
>still cute and pure
I love Nanamo. Gods bless the sultanate.
Imagine walking in and seeing Tataru getting railed and mindbroken
Who cares about Tataru?
Oh shit, my bad. I didn't mean Tataru, I meant NANAMO.
I don't know why I typed out Tataru, kek.
It's because you know Tataru is a bit loose and Nanamo is more pure than fresh snow.
Go back to trolling shtola gays with runar or something.
>Lalagays are the ones covertly shitting on other waifus, trying to deflect to other characters whenever they catch any criticism and who unironically post furry shit
Why am I not surprised in the slightest?
>implying your cuck fantasies is criticism
>implying my waifu is Nanamo
>implying I'm a lalagay
Sorry anon, you got trolled twice.
And I'm not the anon who first responded to you
Oh yeah you are. You are absolutely awful at hiding your speech patterns.
This
is my first post homie
Shocking if true!
Imagine if ARR set up a romance between Nanamo and WoL that eventually culminated in her abdicating the throne to join their party and be with them.
Get Alisaie and Y'shtola off my screen. Ardbert got his Lamitt, now it's the WoL's turn.
>Ardbert got his Lamitt, now it's the WoL's turn.
So Y'shtola then.
What do you mean?
All the Warriors of Darkness are shards of a Scion.
>Conjurer who becomes the first companion to a marauder Ardbert/WoL.
>Becomes group mom, with the lore book even spelling it out.
>Has a conflict revolving around how one of their loved ones is suffering from an affliction but their other friends don't approve of the method to solve it so they become outcast from that group.
>Learns forgotten magic from the ruins of Ronka in an effort to solve it.
Lamitt is Y'shtola's shard.
Also Thancred is Branden's shard (man loses female protegé, becomes depressed from it and tries to make up for his failure to protect her), Nyelbert is Urianger's shard (man loses childhood friend companion, eventually sacrifices a friend while thinking of what said friend would have done in their place) and Alisaie is Renda Rae (spunky tomboy mistrusts party on first instance and tries to ditch them to do tasks alone, changes opinion once they actually prove their worth).
>>Has a conflict revolving around how one of their loved ones is suffering from an affliction but their other friends don't approve of the method to solve it so they become outcast from that group.
Is this a 1.0 plot thread? Because I don't remember Y'mithra talk about being sick during the summoner quests.
Or was that more linking toward Shtola usling flow to excape from the brass blades?
Much closer. I was talking about WoL in ShB suffering from aether overload and Y'shtola telling all other Scions to frick off over it. That was within the same expansion as Lamitt's own role quest plot.
Ok, that makes sense.
Besides Eulmore's attack, the cave session and the lightwarden I was pretty glazed during the ronka section.
I like to think WoL moonlighting as a crafting savant helped bolster her ability to keep pushing on in hopes of things like another delicious meal from "my dear [WoL]
One of my favorite things of note is how the way she refers to the player changes over time.
More neutral to friendly in ARR (more shown for uldah starts) to very near and dear as of EW.
Truly the best.
Roes and lalas are so painfully unfunny
ffxivsisters....
we lost...
time to reinstall WoW
what is wow up to nowadays?
winning apparently
Fricking nothing. Dragonflight is constantly on sale and has multiple free trial weekends because it has completely failed to entice players to return. There's a new patch soon with a new raid, who cares.
Classic recently introduced the WoW token, which a lot of people were worried would happen and now it has. They're going to introduce Dungeon Finder in the final phase of WotLK Classic, cementing that it is in fact retail lite.
Classic Hardcore was a popular gimmick for a bit, I guess because leveling is the most fun part of the game and there you get to do it over and over forever.
The only way the final boss of the 24-man won't disappoint me is we fight all the 12 at once.
too chaotic for an alliance raid. though i do expect a 'our powers combined' phase transition ala every final alliance raid fight has had since HW
I was thinking of something more like Thordan with the 12 coming to fight one after the other or dishing out mechanics in the background while the alliances fight 2/3 others proper.
I think it would just be cool to have all the mechanics knowledge you've accumulated by doing the previous raids pay off a little.
They already said there's a thirteenth god who stands vigil. His name is Eorzea.
I'm 99% sure Eorzea is female. Eorzea has been referred to in the feminine since the 1.0 teaser trailer.
Course, according to the Watcher, he was based off of one the Hydaelyn summoners, specifically the one we see talking to Venat in the 5.2 anamesis anyder cutscene. So is the Watcher female, or is the Watcher a red herring?
Watcher is a dude, he's meant to be the guy from that one short story
yeah. but the direction we're being told to look at at the end of the Euphrosyne questline is that the Watcher is the unnamed 13th member of the pantheon. I can say confidently that its probably a red herring now, given how Pandaemonium turned out and how Zero and Zeromus turned out to be different entities
The Watcher is male in the short story about him and Venat.
>or is the Watcher a red herring?
He obviously is. The completely casual way all the NPCs just settled on that halfway through the story makes it obvious that the Watcher is not actually the thirteenth god.
that sucks, because i thought i'd nailed it with the idea that the shoebill is his vessel of choice
I can see the shoebill still being the thirteenth god's minion form, just not the Watcher's.
lol look at my hp
nice
me too
>tfw kfc in Japan is the equivalent of a 5 star michelin restaraunt
Feels bad man.
They say Jap McDonald's are pretty high class too
American fastfood outside of the US is a complete different world.
Look up what McDonalds in France looks like.
Its baffling to me that they had this promo and made it Jap exclusive though, KFC is an actual American restaurant and somehow JP gets the exclhsive?
They'll do it in America later.
Well they'll get me with that shit if they do, though they'll probably print like 500 codes or some dumb shit like always
They'll do it in America (west coast)(not in Canada) later.
America got the pizza emot that used to be JP exclusive at a later date.
EUgays meanwhile NEVER got the pizza emot.
Kek I'm in France and every fast food from McDo to BK have you go to a screen, place your order, take a plastic stand with a number on it, and wait for someone to come and deliver your meal to your table.
And theyre still considered upper shitty fast food joints. Only above the kebab places.
Every fast food place needs to look et how Chik Fil A runs their shit and copy it. Always incredibly efficient and courteous despite also always being absolutely packed.
To be fair Chick Fil A has about 4 items on their menu while McDonald's has 50
Well maybe McDonalds should try yo specialize a bit more instead of shitting out 30 mediocre products
i like the chicken nuggets
Hating the french is just politically correct racism
French isn't a race it's a privilege
Don't make me baguette you.
I'm french and McDonalds is trash. You way too much for way too little, it doesn't tastes good and even if you fill yourself you're hungry 30 minutes after.
I am not saying McD is good. I am saying that Euro McD is in a much better state compared to US McD.
Between worse shit and better shit I prefer not to eat.
its just deep friend low quality chicken full of
antibiotics
Japanese people have kfc nuggets for Christmas
KFC is not that great in Japan. I've had it and it's just not what you think it is.
QRD?
I had McDonald's in Spain and it actually had meat, the patty didn't taste like a piece of seasoned cardboard. Why are we like this?
Jesus, what do they feed you guys in US?
Have you ever seen what American call a fricking Pizza?
It's a disgrace.
>>then no content for 8 MONTHS
have you finished all the other content that was made before this new one? if not then go do it. Oh have you completed the WHOLE content the game has to offer?
Too bad, go play another game or simply take a break
>Oh have you completed the WHOLE content the game has to offer?
Post Pteranodon.
kys, shill
SE makes sure to give older content some severe expiration dates thanks to action pruning, potency and stat bloat, and lack of item level sync. If it's not recent content it doesn't fully count because SE is intentionally limiting any enjoyment you could have squeezed out of it.
Im farming all the tank mounts from basically 0 and hopefully get all the hunt stuff done before DT. Its not so bad since I just keep the tracker and game on a seperate monitor while I play other games.
xboxbros can't stop winning
>still no option got highlander eyebrows
Yeah it's dead. No I'm not painting on fake ones.
highlander is played by shitters and gays so don't worry about it
goku doesnt need eyebrows
Play a Chad race.
how will you react if Zero joins the scions in 7.0?
Zero is absolutely moving back to the Vpid to try and fix it from that end, not a chance in hell she is in the main party in 7.0
After that trailer? No way. She's either sacrificing herself for the 13th or staying in there to help heal it. She wouldn't drop that kind of speech and then bail out on them.
unbridled joy
I'd rather she replaced all of them instead
Wouldn't care. Would rather she died and the shitty post EW MSQ got sweeped under the rug
>>>/vg/
you know its bad when even the /vg/ jannies are tired of the avatargayging
They deliver that once every two or three months, those mod messages are cookie-cutter and always toothless. We're talking about a board where the WoW general was ripping into the game and talking about XIV instead and shat on the mod when he tried to force it back to being on-topic.
what if they're making a new ff mmo with 16's combat
Action combat MMOs never work, and this is square we're talking about.
if they're making a new mmo it better be FFXI mobile
Both terrible ideas.
Not while Heavensward still exists.
for me, it's the mcchicken
What happened to xiv threads
The game got popular so it attracts more mentally ill people who either want attention or feel the need to defend their own game by attacking and disrupting conversation. It also doesn't help that a certain other game went into freefall and sent over a large amount of undesirables.
I think the bigger question is will
they continue the void storyline at a later point and keep her around or will they close the whole thing off right now.
hoes everybody get to hang with those or is it based on your god choice at the start?
It's the same for everyone
lame
Lalafell pussy
Kill all lalafels
behead all those that wear wings
>Changes to AR roulette
>On the same patch free trial players get SB
I'm gonna eat so good, you have no idea.
>Heavensward: Huge content drought from 3.0-3.1 that nearly killed the game
>Shadowbringers: Content drought:The Expansion with time between patches getting logner
>Endwalker: No excuse like Shadowbringers with COVID and yet still manages to have content drought
Have you all apologized to Stormblood yet for being the best expansion for content?
People hated Stormblood cause people hated Eureka. Atleast until they took the soul out of it and made it easier.. After that everyone started pretending that its always been kino.
anemos and pagos on release were objectively shit, all you did was fate trains
hydatos is kino
Anemos was some of the best time ive had in this game
Anemos was great gay, Pagos would have been great too without the shitty mandatory light farm.
Only the "MSQ only" gays complained about SB, and their opinions are less worth than a single piece of materia.
>tfw for the first time since subbing since pre ShB days, I am considering unsubbing
Welp goodbye XIV bros, it was a fun time but I think I'm burning out finally
see you next year
you're not burned out, there's not enough content to burn out on
I can't take anyone seriously who uses the term burned out unironically, especially when using it in reference to a MMO.
why? just means you are bored of it.
No use for causality tomes this next patch right other than dumping for mats? Gotta wait until relics?
Last time I called you, I woke up without a kidney.
He solo'd your kidney
why does everyone play only catgirls and lizardgirls
why do they all look the same
it's so goddamn tiring
What do you mean?
Yeah they should all play as a lalafel instead.
Do people really do that?
Theres more diversity in those femras than any of the snowflake races
>unironic femra cope
glorious
>different skin colors
>different glams
>different heights
>b-b-but they use the same haircut
Meanwhile every single femelezen and femroe look and dress the same and are all max height
You're all the same sis!
It's a mistery
This one shows different hairstyles, faces, horns, and glamours unlike these ones
Can you do one with Highlander males next?
>Why do people play the best looking races?
Truly a mystery
But if they were doing that they wouldn't be playing catgirls.
It's because the game has a limited set of face customization options and people will naturally pick the ones they think looks the best/cutest or whatever, so you'll end up seeing the same shit everywhere, this isn't as big of an issue in games with more sliders
there's absolutely no excuse for the customization in this game to be so limited. there should be sliders, more face types, should be a TON more hairs. no wonder everyone mods the shit out of the game when the vanilla game is so lacking it hurts. why is this game stuck in early 2000s when it comes to character customization?
Game desperately needs more options, it's very telling how if you join any big syncshell a decent amount of those copy-paste catgirls and femra become something completely different for better or for worse
That hair is ugly and generic
Not my cat but I disagree
now this is cute
slap that hair on the cat
sorry anon that's not my femra either.....
Wife
Ok this is cute, most of the time elezen are hard to make look good
Because the entire game is a salvaging of a game that itself was operating off of semi-modernized PS2 rules, now following WoW rules, and the engine is an absolute clusterfrick nightmare of moronic bullshit as is.
You say that when 99% of femroes use the same face, the same haircut and the same uraeus coat glam?
Femroes, assemble !
troony roes just can't stop losing
if i tell you to get new material are you gonna freak the frick out about /vg/ for a hundred posts
I don't have much that I can post without risking a ban.
>tfw ywn have a dom-leaning switch femroe to ERP with
my catgirl is differnt
I have to use a few minor mods just to look slightly distinct and it's still bland. Hated an au ra look I had even more, though, so eh.
You picked the best face at least, try some light makeup and hair mods
>why does everyone play only catgirls and lizardgirls
the races in this game are bad. you eventually accept the devs only care about a few of them while the rest get treated like trash, some even in the story
>why do they all look the same
the character creator is terrible which contributes to the first issue
Game should've only had 2 races: midlander and elezen
Also glory to Allag
I don't know. I don't play troon fantasy. It's full of discord trannies and schizos.
I rather play WOTLK classic.
>FC member seething endlessly about how they still haven't gotten the Starbird after hundreds of Dead End runs.
>tfw got it my very first run of the place.
Frick you Black person for reminding I gotta farm that with trusts. At least I have until next summer lmao
>Didn't farm it during the tomestone event
Rip
lack of fantasy
speaking of "he's not seething"
>Finally adressing the lack of rewards in Criterion
A bit late, but finall-
>For Savage only
ONE JOB
N
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Tataru has been a prostitute since hw, the elezen guy also commented on her fricking around
i have a free trial toon and use it to mod my middie into a big booty viera
game ended for me years ago, glad i dont have to pay for shitty content
veena viera are extremely underappreciated with lots of potential to be cute bnuys. miqo and au ra players are too insistent on being midgets and feel that even min height viera are too tall. but when I compare min height viera to any male race, they're still shorter. explain, miqo/au ra players. why won't you embrace the bnuy lifestyle?
I like chins and helmets
152cm is the ideal female height
you mean 86
86-90 is the sweet spot
88cm for me
so basically you're saying your ideal is a child?
...out of 10!
>lala pedos openly admitting to being pedophiles again
wat
222.7cm master race to give you strong children.
>roes
>strong
Merylwyb is actually on the shorter side for femroes. She's about a head shorter than a max height femroe.
Generally speaking, most npcs are nowhere near max height.
How is she the only good looking femroe?
>mutton chops on grandmas are so hot dude!
You forgot this poor innocent girl.
Misija should be pregnant with my children.
Custom face and body.
Custom skin color.
for manlets sure.
wtf is a bnuy
Discordtroons, especially XIV players, have a weird thing where they talk like babies for some reason
bunne rabot
funny space creature
who's the redditor shitting his pants about roegadyns
>the most popular mmorpg on the market is World of Warcraft Classic
xivsisters? how can we cope?
>the most popular shooter on the market is call of duty
battlefieldsisters? how can we cope?
activision-blizzard wins again
He wants to be Bazztek so fricking bad but he just has no nuts and no real insanity.
Talking to the voices in your head again sis?
maintenence mode game run by a skeleton crew with no budget OMG IS THAT A NEW MOUNT IN A TRAILER?? kys.
careful the cultists won't like that. they'll use any cope logic to defend this godawful game.
artist?
Krilesmasher. Their previous account got locked, but they have a new one. They haven't posted any Krile on the new account, though.
well don't be a tease give the new account
KRILESMASHER70.
What's the new account?
I was devastated when I discovered him and his account got nuked 2 days later
I'm guessing this place is Baron? It looked like it was part of a dungeon but it might be the solo instance we get in post x.x5 patches so idk
Yes, the Lunar Subterrane is going to shift into Baron.
yes, it's Baron. It also looks similar to Rosaria
What's Baron? I skipped the MSQ after Zero got introduced.
The starting kingdom of FF4
A kingdom that existed on the XIIIth before it was a void world. Only named country we know of before it was the void I think.
wat PS2 game is this
XIV wishes it looked as good as a PS2 game.
Might be Damcyan since it looks like you fight an antlion there.
No one knows what that is.
>Another dungeon where we relive the dying moments of a world
Should FFXVII be a new mmo, perhaps with action-rpg gameplay?
I just hope we get sky islands and airship kino my only ask for XVII
Unironically the only thing I miss about the game is being able to strike up a convo with a random girl and that turning into sexually charged conversation on discord within hours. I haven't had such an experience with any game until FFXIV 2 years ago and I've been missing it since I unsubbed a few months ago. The best part is that unlike other places like fricking Tinder, it's so much easier to find cute girls who have a bunch in common with you than there. Any alternatives bros?
>"girl"
there's plenty of thots if you know what to look for. I've seen sorority girls play this game but you'd need prior knowledge of thot vernacular.
>quotationmarksgirlclosequotationmarks
>I've seen sorority girls play this game
Is this on Aether?
I saw a line of catgirls in limsa and their FC tag was "ABG", checked it out and they were ravebawds from a sorority.
stop spilling the secrets you turbohomosexuals
there might be like 5-10 people in the entirety of Ganker that actually knows what an ABG is, we're safe bros.
doesn't that stand for asian babygirl? alpha beta gamma?
>asian babygirl?
Yeah, for some reason there's a surprising amount of them that play this shit
>toxic narcissistic women playing a game that gives them attention
not surprising at all tbh
I'm convinced like 99% of ABGs grew up on maplestory and play this shit to try and relive the past.
I mean I wouldn't be surprised, people love to say troon this troon that but I've met way too many women playing Light Lich/Raiden, again europeans probably have less trannies but still, so many girls. See some "Mocha Latte" bullshit type name with genuine care for plate and character design? 80% of the time it's a cis girl.
It's probably a data center thing too, most of the troons are probably on crystal
they're on faerie (aether)
I subbed for a static with few they consistantly parses higher than me
Wow, girl gamers are like soooo cool!! Totally wholesome much? I guess girls CAN play video games huh? This is everything!!
Retweet if you respect women in gaming!
Anon I parse blue
Oh dude when girls are into harder content and genuinely care for improving they often outperform an above average dude. I don't know how or why but when girls give a frick they give a frick hard. I was also doing two statics and anecdotal of course, but the girls both times were definitely top 3 performers.
Umm trans women are women ok?
don't start. The moment I whiffed out a person is potentially trans or some dude playing a fem character I noped out, which happened quite rarely ironically and I've had discord calls, exchanged snaps with a bunch of girls ages 19-25.
> webm related, this girl literally saw me chilling on the fricking rock in gridania clicked on my au'ra and side nice glam, we chatted a bunch, I made a cwl to chat even during duties, eventually I got her discord, she looked like a fricking model head to toe.
I've had various exchanges like that in the ~18 months I've played XIV.
stupid sexy boys
>girl
stop fricking lying
>""""girl""""
>Will <thing that happens every expansion> make this the WORST EXPANSION EVER?!?!?!?!?!
Previous expansions had content to do during the downtime such as Bozja and Eureka.
Show me your BA clear
lol? Are you fricking stupid dude? Do you think everyone here was a endfetus gaylord?
>finish bozja in a week
>nothing to do
waaoowww so much to do for 5+ months!
1-3 Stay cat
4-6 Lizard
7-9 Rabbit
0- play OSRS instead
Do you use reshade?
I would never use 3rd party programs!
on occasion
hate this game so much i'm gonna post in it for hours and hours every day and try my hardest to derail it immediately after a live letter and when it hits 500 posts i'm gonna make the next one so i can keep hating it
first time on the internets?
no but it is my first time in a larger mmo community, i've only heard horror stories about the kinds of people that world of warcraft produced and my only other experience is henehoes in maplestory
>close to finishing EW
>get to Hydaelyn
> NPCs never stack correctly and I die with her at 15% health every time
man I wanted to do it with the crew for the dialogue but frick this
I hope there's some good Hydaelyn lewds cause she hot
Follow Y'shtola. She does all the mechanics correctly.
I don't know if maybe you're getting unlucky because the npcs are scripted to frick up occasionally, but here's a trick in case it's not just that. Follow Y'shtola every time, she does every mechanic right. It's designed so if you just stack with her you should win.
estinien, alisaie and urianger stand in shit pretty often, don't stand near them or thancred. yshtola does the mechanics perfectly.
ty cat mom helped me clear
Mothercrystal was the duel of the WoL mommy gfs.
guh
*pat*
>Do trial roulette.
>Get Ultros and Typhon.
>The people that get kappa/imp'd actually do the mechanic correctly.
...What's the mechanic?
Get hit by Ultros water. Punch Typhoon.
Imps stand in front of Ultros and tank his aquabreaths to build stacks, then punch Typhon to deplete his stacks while he's charging his super sneeze to cancel it.
Absorbing Ultros's aqua breath gives you stacks that you use to hit Typhon and stop him from sneasing.
You use Arm's Length on ultros final attack.
That was an old as frick fight, when only PLD had knockback immunity
who cares you don't need to do any mechanic ever until extreme
I wish 95% of the game wasn't balanced around literal zombies rotting on their keyboards
silence raid troony
t.limsa troony
troony is the new ">implying" we post when we got nothing else to say huh
It's just the new Black person/homosexual/moron. Totally generic meaningless insult.
it's weird and a bit off-putting that it even caught on for that kinda usage since it's so hyper-specific and kids don't yell UR A troony across the playground like we did homosexual when i was a kid
It's not weird at all unless you want to act willfully ignorant as to what's going on around you.
oh get off it moronondo kids on the playgrounds are not getting into culture war arguments on fricking twitter all day the way apu and fashwave accounts do
Are we posting on the playground right now or are we on a video game imageboard where everyone is perfectly aware of the corporate sponsored jannisaries fricking up every single community at once?
and boom we've already lost scope of what the frick we're even talking about, this went nowhere slowly. based posts all around
Concession accepted
Sorry he didn't take the bait and call you a chud, anon.
Can't wait for Scott The Woz's goth video for Halloween.
Who's the edgelord homosexual in the middle?
play the game and find out
No
then suffer
>got 10 mill for a C41
Alright, that's what I'm doing until 7.0 I guess
>Baron City/Castle dungeon
Cool I guess, the rest is very underwhelming like all these patches have been.
>Just saw the new AR sets.
Really? Again with the same look? 3 times in a fricking row?
Savage isn't midcore
It is albeit
savage is hardcore and ultimate is turbo-sweat, EX and criterion is midcore
Hardcore = turbo sweat
And AMR is harder than savage, play the game
i said criterion not variant/savage
AMR is criterion, variant is the easy mode with branching paths
You can't just say albeit.
perchance
Savage is absolutely midcore. Lv. 70 ults are also baby hardcore with how easy they are now.
The three first turns of every tier are 100% midcore.
Savage is for sure midcore
So many morons clear it and so many morons are in my reclears.
is this game dead yet?
give it another 2 expansions
What does the color difference mean?
Blue is the number of characters with the first recorded achievement in that time period.
Green is the number of characters with no confirmed achievements after that time period.
Red is the number of characters whose achievements were confirmed during the period, excluding new and final characters. However, if the same character is counted as new and last within the same time period, the character is subtracted twice from the continuations, so +1 is added.
So if I've understood right:
Blue = New players
Red = Old players that are still unlocking stuff or that just finished some long grind
Green = Old players that are either not doing much new or that ran out of stuff to do
Pretty much.
>back at sneedobringers levels
damn, yoshida fricked up
The novelty wore off and the WoWgays all went back home.
Not that FFXIV is geting any better, mind you.
>and the WoWgays all went back home.
As an ex-WoWgay I think you should have a nice day.
Don't project your fantasies on me, troon.
Close the tab you're copy-pasting GPT responses from.
No, machines are for performing lowly tasks such as talking to subhumans
>that massive drop off
looking at the past xpacs all of them managed to retain players, EW was extremely barebones in non raid/hardcore content and that's reflected here. Recent interviews with yoshitpiss shouldn't give you any hopes for DT though, the recent relic weapon steps are here to stay at 1500 tomes for the next xpac because "player statistics show it was popular!" We've entered the managed decline point of the game.
Stop pandering to raidgays.
Frick your ultimates.
Frick your Savage Criterion shit.
I base my judgement on the game being a laggy, janky mess with awful tickrate lol play a real pvp game
meant for
extremely. it's maintenance mode and sub count is dropping rapidly.
>6.2 had Scream
>6.3 had Menphina theme
>6.4 had Athena theme
>6.5 has nothing
it's over
they aren't going to reveal the phase 2 song of the final fight of the Myths of the Realm
>scream
>Scream
>not Embers
Literally deaf.
>When thunderer kicks in
>>When shadows withal kicks in
>realized i havent ONCE searched youtube for Athena's theme
it was that bad
>realized i havent ONCE searched youtube for Scream
6.2 really had nothing huh
No one can convince me that savage is midcore, this shit is CBT.
This game seems to have a lot of autists with their own personal favorite insults. It looks like just one guy that uses "endfetus" in the archives.
Wow luckily for you it turns out everyone you don't like is one person
Lucky for me your stupid ass confirmed it by trying to jump down my throat about it. I'll try not to notice your revolving-door of IP addresses too.
>actually telling me i'm an insane moron just proves me right!
>hehehe you see the fact that there are different IPs is just proof that the man in my walls is hitting airplane mode every 20 seconds on multiple phones!
Lol you really love this one
mysteriously everybody who says you're samegayging is one person but anybody who notices your vocabulary choices are static is just crazy, i honestly cannot imagine myself finding this posting pattern funny or worthwhile but there again i'm not obsessed with a game i hate
Do you ever feel embarrassed at the fact that I can pick you out of a crowd even outside of FFXIV threads only for you to play stupid and come back the next day trying to act like you're actually the one picking me out of a crowd? Like do you have any shame at all bud? Let me give you a hint, I'm not whatever gay is saying endfetus, I just knew exactly who you were the moment you made that post.
>I'm not whatever gay is saying endfetus,
why'd you run in to defend his honor then
I didn't run in to defend anyone's honor, I saw you and your trademark self righteous masturbation and ran in to laugh at you for being an insane moron.
>i'm laughing at you i can smell you a mile away and
yeah ok charr
What's the last new MMO that didn't completely crash and burn within a year of release?
unironically just ARR which released in 2013
1.X's replacement with ARR was announced in just a year and a month
sex with pixie with a gun
I miss her every day.
>during and immediately after live letter
>threads are perfectly fine
>some hours after live letter
>mental illness sharply increases
the lalaposters are always here, so I'd say the mental illness is always on full blast.
no anon it's not the lalaposters doing it you've got two more tries before you strike out
NTA but yes it absolutely fricking is
one more try
Ok lalagay, but just so you know nobody likes you
shut up bigger
the doomposters were all over the LL threads but they were drowned out by the sheer amount of posters that actually play the game
now that they're gone the doomposters have taken over again
When are male characters in this game getting more facial hair options?
Once hrothgirls are done, character artists can get back to adding features for existing races.
Never. They had to make the poster boy stubble an entirely separate fricking face. You have to buy a fantasia if you want to give yourself a clean shave.
Never. People begged for new races instead.
Tataru own the WoL's wiener.
Is it that time again?
it seems it's going to permanently be that time, assuming he isn't even crazier than i think he is and he's playing both sides
>he thinks it's one person
>he doesn't remember the nikocado spam that swept an entire thread of MODS MODS PLS BAN LALA MODS MODS MODS awa y
do you WANT me to have a meltie?
the rent is free 24/7
stop begging for cream
I genuinely think the third one is cute.
You genuinely need an axe in the skull
You genuinely need therapy
Ow, the edge!
Sorry dude, she reminds me with a girl I used to play with as a kid. Bit more of a tomboy than the lala looks, still cute though.
Based. Death to lalaposters, death to lalapost enablers.
you are mentally ill
THERE HE IS!
the jeff the killer poster
he ain't jeff the killer until he starts writing much longer and much more unnecessarily verbose posts about how much he hates the lalafell cabal
OH SHIT new boogeyman dropped????
yes
sneed it or feed it?
seed it!
You just couldn't resist making everything about you before the thread hit bump limit could you, you were just waiting patiently to pop up the second someone had an issue with you or your degeneracy, making little pokes and prods baiting with your cheeky little unfunny comments that nobody acknowledges until they're fed up with your obnoxious fricking homosexualry then you all come out of nowhere like starved little attention hungry rats. Nobody fricking likes you. Nobody likes your posts. I'd hide them if I could. Maybe you should use a trip so I never have to look at your posts again. I don't need to be jeff the killer. I just don't want to see you or read your posts. At all.
The lalagays are really going off at this post lmao
so there's like 1 or 2 dedicated lala haters compared to 5 lala lovers is your complaint
Absolutely fricking dogshit 6.3 and 4 I quit within 3 days. No patch has had me quit like that. I always played 30days and enjoyed myself. This expansion fricking sucks
everyone here should calm down
>Scream this
>Ember that
ENTER
>CLUTCH ALMIGHTY HOLD ON TIGHT
>TO BEGIN NEW WAKING WANDERING MIND
>MEMORY SLOWLY BLINDING WHITE
>POWER UNTO THIS STONE WE SHALL PRAY
This theme had no right to be as good as it is
You have done well to reach the seat of Godhood...now...bear your souls to me!
TREMBUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLL
it is a bit hammy, but i feel that P12N's phase adds and phase transition is the new gold standard, from her conjuring up swords and breaking your screen, her actually attacking you during the charging phase and her making the call back to the Praetorium. good shit all around
CHREMBULLLLL
AT LAST MY THEORY SHALL BE PROVEN AS FRICKED
Savage gods, m-my knees, they're bending on their own!
Has same amount of content as other 6.5s. More if they do 2 or 3 pvp seasons in that time. Problem with the game is they listened to the Shadowbringer WoWtards and made savage dungeons for them. Nobody wants them.
Same amount of content? So where's the exploratory zone?
Island Sanctuary is functionally your exploratory zone because people b***hed about them too much and Covid made them opt for leisure rather than challenge.
It's mind boggling to me how full the game is now even on congested servers where you can't make characters there is a sea of sprouts going through the msq and in town.
When will Soken finally put his Adidas on and put some hardbass in XIV?
He's getting closer and closer with Zeromus's track being breakcore
I wish someone uploaded the theme from the stream somehow
Looking forward to Zero becoming a Paladin and setting off to save the 13th.
>casualshitters complain about bozja and eureka
>SE removes doesn't do exploration content this expansion because everyone but people that actually enjoy the game hate it and instead does shit like variant dungeons and island sanctuary to appease casualshitters
>people hate it and now suddenly everyone wants eureka and bozja back
the majority of the people in this thread don't even have demi ozma and eureka was impossible to talk about on Ganker when it was current content. i am sick and tired of the larping.
I have demiozma. Eureka was good.
Bozja sucked.
i said majority for a reason, i would say the vast majority of people in xiv in general don't even have the fricking mount or even completed hydatos let alone got to it. you are a rare breed.
>people
>ecelebs and their fans
I'm a shadowbab but it took a while for me to get into bozja, and that was only because I really wanted the katana.
Only did delibrum twice, and it was alright would be more fun if the content wasn't obviously dead.
Barely touched Eureka though, so I have no opinion on it yet. Though I do like the elemental system, and having to stay on your toes for mobs that counter your current element.
>ecelebs and their fans
idk where youre getting at here, are you refering to the people that complain about bozja/eureka or the people that like bozja/eureka
The people who are suddenly, constantly talking about how they moss bozja and eureka came about after zepla made her videos.
Before that Ganker would lament that there wasn't an exploratory zone, but nowhere near as much or as passionately as currently.
Its pretty obvious that the game needs something like that for at least this expansion. If they're going to keep the 4 month dev cycle (they will even if they ran out of plausible excuses) then exploratory zones are the perfect stopgap.
I whole heartedly agree, but nowhere in my short time playing did anyone talk about bozja as something necessary for a good expansion.
People don't have to care about what they're shitposting about to shitpost.
It's obvious that most of the posts that parrot ecelebs are parroting ecelebs.
See
for the most blatant example.
Anon no one fricking cares about a streamer who gets less than a thousand viewers, not on this site and certainly not ingame. Just because YOU are obsessed with them doesn't mean anyone else is.
I don't understand why this game thinks that pretending to kill off the Scions is good writing.
>Oh no, Y'shtola died! (she's ok, lifestream magic)
>Oh no, Y'shtola died again! (she's ok, Zenos slicing her in half with a sword was non-fatal)
>Oh no, Y'shtola died again! (she's ok, falling off a cliff is non-fatal)
After a certain point it has to lose its impact
"Pretending to kill Y'shtola" wasn't the point of any of those
No I will not explain it to you
Bullshit. The only one that actually has any kind of plot relevance is her "death" in Shadowbringers, Emet-Selch bringing her back is supposed to make us trust him.
No Y'shtola fake death is as worse as fricking Thancred giving a literal death speech after fighting someone using a literal heart-stopping technique, the camera fading away while he faints just for him literally being just fine 5 minutes later in the next cutscene.
>NOOOO WHY DIDN'T THAT KILL HIM MODS MODS MODS
Thancred was eulogizing Minfillia, using her exact words that she said to him in 3.4 before she went to the First
I don't know if he was genuinely meant to die there and they pussied out (probably the only one of all the fake out death scenes that actually feels like it) or if they just wanted a dramatic finish, but I don't particularly care. I just wish he had actually fricking won. Why isn't Thancred allowed to fricking defeat his own rival? It would even have made said fake out death scene better because then you could have the scene after with Ran'jit's corpse nearby as a sort of lesson on how one did it right and the other didn't and let Ryne move on (it just fricking dawned on me that we never see a single scene of Ryne talking at any length with Ran'jit, what the hell).
>>Oh no, Y'shtola died! (she's ok, lifestream magic)
That was to save Thancred, so they could get their disabilities/superpowers, and to have them removed from the action for a while so they could do triumphal returns in HW.
>>Oh no, Y'shtola died again! (she's ok, Zenos slicing her in half with a sword was non-fatal)
That was to save Lyse. And mainly because the SB writer wanted to get rid of competition.
>>Oh no, Y'shtola died again! (she's ok, falling off a cliff is non-fatal)
That was to give Emet-Selch character development and push Y'shtola to making peace with Urianger.
>this isn't like my marvel movies or game of thrones at all...
>XIV HAS FALLEN
>SCIONS MUST DIE!
The problem isn't that nobody dies. It's that characters keep having these weird fakeout deaths that are clearly meant to elicit an emotional response from the player but are almost immediately undone. Having everyone live is fine. Having everyone die is also fine. Having every major character having dramatic, heart-wrenching "sacrifices" that are instantly retconned just gets silly after the 3rd or 4th time it happens.
Y'shtola actually died in ShB
Emet pulled her back from the lifestream
Casting Flow is not dying. If it was the same as dying, Y'shtola wouldn't have gone blind the first time because her living body couldn't survive in the lifestream.
Also that reminds me they made sure (You) see the effects of the Flow spell being cast as soon as she falls down that hole, how the frick did anyone think it was a death scene?
Everyone knew she casted Flow, but the last time she did that you required the intervention of demigods to get her out.
...so everyone should have assumed the demigod accompanying us at that moment would have something to say about it.
Free trial here, should I just wait for Stormblood to upgrade all my crafter/gatherer's gear?
you'll be forced to upgrade it at some point just to be able to complete job-quest tasks
you'll need to finish namazu tribal quests in order to get your crafted set
>if a main character doesn't die it's bad writing
Amerirot is taking over media. Game of Thrones becoming a TV series was a mistake.
>subverting expectations is... LE GOOD
brabo yoshider
You know that's not the actual complaint. Why do you gays always argue in such bad faith on this subject? The complaint isn't that they aren't dying, it's that the writers keep writing fakeout deaths over and over and it has killed any kind of tension in the story. You know they could just not write fakeouts three times an expansion, right?
We're going to kill Zeromus, right? It just feels anticlimactic
They have to, since this whole moronic patch arc has 0 connection to the DT
Disappointing, but true.
People who says PVP is bad in this game are either incredibly shit at it or simply never touched it or only shit like Frontline/Rival Wing and base their judgment on it.
Frontline and Rival Wings are the best version of PVP in the game, MMOs are at their best PVP wise when it's large scale encounters.
Let's agree to disagree then, I find CC a lot more fun and a better experience in general than just getting zerged and get lucky kills.
It's not just death for the sake of death, people want stakes and consequences. Those never seen to apply to the scions anymore. The banquet in ARR was more lethal than the imminent end of the world
It feels like the whole "forge ahead" and "thou must walk" thing is only applied sometimes and only to certain characters. I can no longer care about whatever speech the scions make when I know they're pretty much protected by plot armor and the only characters who die are antagonists and NPCs introduced 5 mins ago with obvious death flags
If Heavensward was written today, Ysayle and Harcheufaunt would be alive and Hilda would die
Even Hilda would've been to prominent to kill for modern standards, it it was made today they would've killed her two sidekicks instead
I'm surprised no one ever remembers Alisaie's fake death scene in Ruby Sea that had Lyse crying into the sea and all.
What's funny is that they keep doing these weird fakeout deaths with the marketable characters everyone knows aren't dying ever.
all xiv music is overrated and just mid at best don't @ me
to the edge is genuinely one of the best game ost's ever made
you only think that because of its context. the lyrics are corny as hell and it tries way too hard.
>and it tries way too hard.
The frick does that mean
Post hands, fatty.
the lyrics are pretty simple in the story it's getting across in the context of the game.
pseud post
>you only think that because of its context
That's why most music is good. It evokes an emotion or a memory of an emotion that makes you feel good (or bad or w/e).
That means it's not good on its own though. Music should be able to stand on its own, to be good without the added context.
>That means it's not good on its own though
this
is right you are a pseud
No you. but unironically.
No music stands on it's own, because it has the context of your life's experiences.
if i asked you what makes your favorite song your favorite song would you be able to explain the music theory in why you like it? or do you like it based on the feeling and emotions it provokes.
>or do you like it based on the feeling and emotions it provokes.
music can be good for it's emotions, never said it couldn't. emotions invoked aren't extra context. you wouldn't like to the edge if it wasn't a song in xiv's story, simple as.
>emotions invoked aren't extra context
Literally wrong.
>t. multiple friends have ffxiv music on their playlists despite not touching the game just because they heard it playing in my car
>he plays xiv music in his car
>around friends
cringe
what no friends does to a motherfricker, im a music autist, it's fun to listen to shit my friends like. music is INTERESTING.
I also play vidya music in the car all of the time when I'm with friends
It's either that or they play their own music, which is usually shit like Linkin Park which I don't really like
Dumb fricking normalgay
Not him but hearing Titan's theme is what made me try FFXIV back in the day.
only the chorus is good
"Battle" and hype music are good, world and zone themes are rather lackluster outside of the ARR ones provided by Uematsu. I really miss the world tunes from XI.
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