Source: https://www.famitsu.com/news/202403/11336660.html
Translation:
"Yoshida (reflecting on the fan festival): So from now on, we’ll keep working to surprise players and go beyond what they imagine. But that reminds me of something I regret… as we’ve continued to operate FF14, we’ve made the game more comfortable, a game you can play without stress. But looking back on the last 10 years, I’m thinking we’ve overdone that a bit.
Shimoda: What do you mean?
Yoshida: A video game should ofcourse have an element of stress, but how to handle that properly, is extremely difficult…
Shimoda: I can agree with that.
Yoshida: For example, in a side scrolling game, if there aren’t any holes you can drop down into if you miss a jump, ofcourse the game would lose its stress, but it would also lose its fun.
Yoshida: Speaking of FF14, I would like to restore that part a little bit. If we do that, we can give everyone a better challenge, in a good way, than ever before. "
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everyone below this post who replies to this obvious bait is moronic.
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We're actually talking about the game here frick off back to your discord
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I've seen your ideal threads and it's a bunch of slackjawed morons going "haha sex cum!" over a handful of modded images. Go back to /vg/.
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>design game to be as stress-free as possible
>continue to remove anything that could cause stress
>"oh no, our game is too stress-free!"
Huh.
For real. Healers are the prime example of that moronic mentality:
>healers should focus on healing, so you only get the bare minimum DPS spells!
>heal checks are still very easy outside of Ultimates and maybe 3rd-4th floor Savage
>heal checks are basically non-existant in dungeons, on Level 90 dungeons Warriors can go through the entire run without getting healed once.
>this means you spend the majority of your time as a healer spamming one DPS button.
Yet healers are still shit at the game.
>helping out some FC mate, light party all FC members
>Anamnesis Anyder
>Am WAR tank
>Ask the healer if they're fine with wall to wall
>they say no
>whatever do small pulls, no trouble whatsoever
>healing for a WAR is basically just staying awake
>afterwards healer PMs me about how I pulled 3 mobs and how I have no respect for them
>and how it was stressful
I don't understand, they didn't have to do anything literally the one death was the first time sprout dying once, how do people end up like this?
I don't have the patience for that small pulls anymore. I would have just trial by fire'd that homosexual until one of us gets kicked. You're a stronger man than I.
really you can't even do wall to wall pulls at Anamnesis Anyder, if it was a roulette with randoms I wouldn't even ask but got to be polite with FC members coddle them and all
i'm not even a healer main or anything but i do occasionally heal and having something to do is better than just sitting there
more big pulls please
>War needing heals outside bosses
Bloodwhetting is all you need to tank through trash mobs solo.
Alliance raids are the prime example in my opinion, the avoidable attacks do so little damage that actually dodging them is nothing but a DPS loss in 9 out of 10 situations, you teach people to play the game wrong with design like that.
No wonder nobody puts any effort in.
24 man should all be at least ivalice difficulty
What the heck is all of this?
Dance choreography, all raid content involves memorizing this and moving to your dedicated spot on stage, try to do anything dynamic against the static boss rotation your entire party loses.
5.3 was the pinnacle of the XIV experience. It's all downhill from there.
Seat of Sacrifice was actually insane with how many mechanics it had for a normal mode Trial. That plus 2 potential total party kill mechanics one after the other.
xiv is in a shit state but so is every other mmo
>lost ark completely dead
>new world dead
>gw2 should be doing better but dead
>eso dead
>retail wow nostalgia baiting and selling patches as an xpac and dead
>classic wow pretty good but lost a lot of players after banning the goldselling homosexuals
>bdo dead
there is literally nothing. MMOs are either in a valley or simply over and replaced
yeah people need to realize MMOs are fricking garbage already
most of the issue is numbers are too high. a rebalancing of CT and MSQ trials would be sufficient. got LOTA in my alliance roulette yesterday and the 3 new sprouts said they were surprised at how easy it was
>alliance raid
>is too easy
Shock.
cloud of darkness probably had a higher time out rate than either ozma, scathach, tg cid when all were current.
the only time cbu3 even had the slightest intention of making ARs hard was in ARR.
they backed off on that anyways, crystal tower was and still is piddle skip easy
true
but after that they just didn't even think of it
i don't think thats true. course given how moronic the playerbase is, even back then, there were many pug stomping encounters.
void ark had the morbol trash and cuchulain, mhach had ozma, dun scaith had both scathach and diabolos, etc. deathgaze isn't a filter because you can recover from a nearly full wipe with 1 rezzer. but he also has a soft enrage
if you made people actually do the mechanics in CT you'd see wipe rates on par with other iterations. scylla and glasya labolas in ST would filter people for weeks. having to do adds in glasya would shock people since he's been tunneled since 2.5
the mechanics don't really mean a lot if you'll never see them even under original circumstances, like ultima weapon unreal where they joked people were skipping mechanics in QA with the original EX trial
>Dungeons in every expansion got reworked, even if they really didn't need it
>CT has been a roflstomp faceroll for so long now hardly anyone playing nowadays remembers when Glasya had mechanics
>Remains completely untouched
For fricks sake Yoshi-P.
They literally admitted that before CT was released they considered making it hard content. After that, it wasn't much of a consideration and has been considered a babby tier activity since.
LotA is still hard in the sense that people not playing by the rules can frick you over. specifically the atomos encounter and the allagan bomb encounter
Part of me is happy to see Shadow Lord getting to be in XIV.
Another part of me knows the fight is going to be a five minute scripted snoozefest.
his fight in ffxi is about the equivalent of an ARR dungeon midboss
Okay but what if they took from Giga homie Shadow Lord?
>Dynamis
AAAAAAAAAAAIEEEEEE
>we’ve made the game more comfortable, a game you can play without stress
I've hated how much this game felt like a daycare. The player ase is definitely partly to blame, but at least it seems like the devs are going to do something about it?
The same song and dance.
Oh, uh, Final Fantasy 14 is good.
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Remove all walls from dungeons in Dawntrail
what he probably means is the game funnels you along a little too hard for MSQ since shit like the in from the cold instance was very well received specifically because it was a bit hard
in from the cold was alright
wasn't even hard, it was just "stressful" because you didn't have any idea what it would ask of you. did it really need you to run all the way back to the camp in that time? turns out it didn't
Yeah
>Ignore the avatargays, use filters to block them out even
>They just make more every day, or edit older ones, deliberately to make filtering them impossible
>Meanwhile, there is always at least one anon who is ERPing with them, thereby validating them with attention as much as the people who seethe about them
Realistically at this point we need an admin to come in and rangeban them for good. It's been going on for more than a year now, they've made it clear their only interest is to turn these threads into /xivg/ 2: Electric Boogaloo, they maliciously evade filters that were created specifically for them (the equivalent to blocking someone ingame, and then they just made alts to continue pestering you), and ignoring them doesn't work because they either reply to themselves, or some anon will ERP with them.
No idea who they are, what has been compelling them to do this for over a year now (literally every single day since they appeared last February), they're here 16 hours straight and the only reprieve is when they go to bed, but it's clear they're never going to stop unless they eventually get bored. But looking at the degenerates in /xivg/ and how long they've been keeping it up, unless the game outright shuts down I don't expect them to ever go away. And even THEN.....
Mods should just enforce rule 13 on them, I have no idea why they refuse to (when I have seen them ban other avatarags, like that one femroe a while back). No other game on this board has this problem of some attentionprostitute breaking rule 13 every thread with impunity and just contributing shitposts and pissing everyone there off. So I don't know why FFXIV has to be subject to this and FFXIV alone.
Because jannies hate the game. How new?
xiv isn't the only community here that has this problem. two other generals i used to enjoy have also gone to complete shit because of a handful of users that they refuse to range ban.
Because you can't range ban people newbie, how stupid or naive are you? People have came up with workarounds years ago, which is how you see the vidya butts and ick on eck spam daily. Not to mention literal feces posting in some general daily
congrats on making the dumbest post this thread, i don't think it'll be topped but we'll have to see how the other 200 posts go
sometimes it's because they're on the same IP range as a janny and this ancient ass software apparently can't whitelist IPs or something, but there are way too many schizos allowed to shit up too much of this website for that to ALWAYS be the case
The only dummy here is you kek, but keep pretending I suppose. You'll still see the same schizos ban evade daily because IP range banning only affects innocent people on the same range, the schizos will never be affected. I mean one of them is literally advertisign his services for free daily, if you weren't such a newbie you'd know better but hey.
I can relate to that as well. It's really weird finding out a specific poster inexplicably has complete immunity from janny action.
Who cares, only autistic wow refugees playing with 200 add-ons and mare trannies treating it like second life 2.0 continue to play this crap. Only the console players are legit at this point, what a joke of a community
uh oh, femra players about to freak out that they might have to be show the most bare minimum of competency
Do not be mean to lizzers
I will stick you like a pig
I still remember when Titan hard mode was blocking people from continuing MSQ lmao
Tex was the killer for me. Maybe had i been more active in the fc I wouldn't have to rely on queue shitters.
Has EW been removed from canon yet?
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They can't really change things, I don't think. They've built up a community of second life rejects who hate any form of difficulty or effort on their part, so if they did try and add more "stress" those people would b***h and moan until the devs capitulated or they eventually just leave.
put body 'enhancing' gear like 2B pants in savage raiding and you'd see engagement rates skyrocket.
though i imagine most of that would be RMT
>second life rejects
Imagine if they added a glamour toggle.
they can change whatever they want and players either accept it or frick off, same as the stormblood-shadowbringers combat changes pissing off every scholar main from ARR/HW
I love how your boogeyman just makes no logical sense.
>THESE PEOPLE JUST STAND IN LIMSA ALL DAY MODTROONING AND THAT MAKES THEM BAD
>BUT ALSO THEY DO CONTENT SO THEY WOULD HAVE A MELTIE IF IT'S TOO HARD
nobody had a meltie at the existence of criterion savage other than people who wanted it to be le ebin m+
The game already has hard content anon, so Yoshida is obviously not talking about that when he talks about making it harder. He's talking about basic content like normal dungeons or trials, the only stuff the Limsa idlers tend to engage with.
he's not going to make stuff that is required for the msq "hard" enough to make you gays wank yourselves to death
it's probably more to do with adding forays and making relics more "difficult" to get again
No, he's right.
Look back at how the western "community" handled Eureka and BA.
They threw a pissbaby trantrum for the entire year because they couldn't just AFK and get their shiny relic weapons that have no fricking use at all anyway other than being a skin.
They turned it into Bosnia, where it's just FATE farming and 99% of the playtime is spent on your mount and trying to get 1 tag so you get credit, and let people get their relics for free without going in and they didn't cry.
Demonstrably, the only time XIV players activate is when there's something they can't get that they think they can pressure the devs into giving.
They don't do it for Ultimates, but they always spam everywhere about how most ultimate clears are bought, trying to take the prestige out of them, and then they started buying them themselves.
XIV players hate playing videogames, that's not up for debate.
It wasn't the majority back in SB, but as content kept getting shaved off everyone who likes videogames stopped playing. I didn't even buy Endwalker myself, and I guarantee you I have more hours played than you do.
careful anon you're gonna get people in this thread gaslighting how eureka was never that hated by people that only did it in endwalker
are you the 'eureka is hardcore content' guy?
eureka isn't hardcore content but it's definitely kept alive by hardcore players considering an entire discord mafia runs it.
that's just BA, anyone can do regular FATE farming
there is little to no point to doing eureka if you can't do BA as the armor, relics completion, and ozma are tied to it, unless you are just rabbit farming for the infinite money glitch
the BA relic looks exactly the same as the hydatos relic, and unless you want to min max ur eureka build it is perfectly legitimate to just stop at that step
>the BA relic looks exactly the same as the hydatos relic
you right, my fault OG
Yeah, see?
XIV players just want their stupid skin and then they frick off.
YoshiP will never put the challenge back into the game because he fostered a community of glamhomosexuals who hate playing games.
The moment he dares do anything like Eureka again they'll KyoAni the Square building for taking away their precious skins (that they're never gonna use anyway).
eureka was never challenging. it just took a long time
what are you talking about
considering how ilevel works in this game then yes, the only purpose old relics have is glam
do you even play the game?
>community of glamhomosexuals
glamgays (forma de unmodded) do quite literally everything, they are ultimate raiders, crafters, farm dungeons, farm alliance raids, all they do is play the game for one piece of gear because it will complete their glam.
but no thats bad somethingsomething limsa somethingsomething mods somethingsomething people talking in a city makes my pp shrink
i literally did TEA just to have a weapon that matches this set, i don't even play bard. taken in limsa to piss that guy off
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would smooch your lala
based piglala
any minion that sits on your head is based, but bacon bits is on a level above that.
Pretty much but god the final step for eureka relics are so fricking ugly
the pyros step has the best looks
unfortunately all my favorite classes either don't have eureka weapons (dancer, reaper) or look ugly (machinist)
You can get the armor just playing normally, you don’t need +2 stuff
No I wouldn't call it hardcore.
But I can see how people would get that impression when you put it against the rest of the handholdy babycontent in the game.
It just had some of the basic features that pushed people to work together, you know, like an MMORPG.
>it was both more fun and more efficient to do
False. Doing the train killed your exp gain and turned a week of casual farming into a month of ratracing with the train.
There's an argument to be made about it being overall better if you plan on getting every single weapon, but that's a self-inflicted suffering and idk if that's even true.
>Look back at how the western "community" handled Eureka and BA.
>They threw a pissbaby trantrum for the entire year because they couldn't just AFK and get their shiny relic weapons that have no fricking use at all anyway other than being a skin.
incredibly interesting interpretation of yoshida killing the anemos FATE train when players figured out it was both more fun and more efficient to do it that way instead of chain grinding mobs
what is it with emet posters and always having the most dogshit farthuffing tl;dr opinions
he's the "i am enlightened by my own intelligence" choice for people that literally do not get he was telling half-truths
From a story that was literally handholding you, too.
Is he unironically the character for pseuds?
>they don't do content and just afk in limsa all day modtrooning and that's why they are bad
>but cbu3 is watering down content and making it easy so that it's not too hard for them or else they'll get upset that the content they have to do is too difficult
reconcile this contradiction without beating around the bush
It's not a contradiction, you're just being obtuse on purpose.
It's people who do the bare minimum to get their skins and then afk 24h in Limsa, or even more commonly simply buy their drops and their runs.
They don't do completely nothing, but they want to do as little as humanly possible, and therefor cry for things to be made easier all the time.
>literally contradiction yourself
>IT'S NOT A CONTRADICTION THO BUT IT ISNT BECAUSE LET ME WORM MYSELF INTO FIFTY DISSONANT PRETZELS
Why is Khloe like this?
trying to bait adult adventures into correcting her
Why do jannies let this ChatGPT slop spam the board
>dungeons are braindead
>normal modes are braindead
>alliance raids are braindead
>Extremes are piss easy
>Savage is an actual video game
>need to go all the way up to Ultimate for some challenge
>easier content isn't even remotely fun because of the garbage-ass job design
game would have died long before endwanker if it weren't for worlo shitting the bed so fricking hard, it's truly impressive that the community managed to keep this kusoge afloat through sheer smugness and vitriol at no longer playing second fiddle
Shut up maretroony parse brain
your shitcraft ACKED itself in sneedolands
xiv has been doing fine and is still doing fine and growing since hw
not everything is about you
>wow out of nowhere
>growing
>waste all the growth from the pandemic
>has not grown in 2 years
>only lost players
>forced to bot trailers
Another troony trying to run away from reality, sad!
>wow out of nowhere
that post literally mentioned wow you dumbass numpty
didn't even read the rest of your shit post go back to your woman within threads
>still crying about worlo
>deflect all the other facts
>"d-dint even r-read it"
lmao is this the power of hrt?
Obsessed, get a real hobby troony!
>lmao is this the power of hrt?
you not being able to read sure is
go back to dilating on your futa draenei in goldshire, wowtroon
>german trailer has the most views
What the frick? You go down their list of trailers on their youtube channel and Germany consistently has far and away the least views out the five, yet here it has more the rest put together by a wide margin.
probably the one listed on german sites or whatever
the best theory i've heard is that its being used as an ad somewhere while the others aren't
now why the other languages aren't i don't know
a lot of views do tend to come from auto playing ads on webpages or youtube videos
it's how a certain trailer of a certain game got more than 5x the views than other trailers made for the same product in less than half the time
Germans are furries so maybe that explains it. Plus I recall seeing a train in one of the promotional images.
The Germans flocked to Yoshida's other game when he refused to put black people in XVI.
chances are the german one was the one that ended up getting caught in YT's "algorithm" and was the one that ended up in people's recommended somehow.
>easier content isn't even remotely fun because of the garbage-ass job design
holy shit this. this is why i like lost actions so much because it adds at least a little bit of interest with normal gameplay. why they made the primary way players engage with the game absolutely braindead is beyond my understanding
It's not hard to understand at all anon, people who came to play an RPG buy a sub and maybe consider a Mogstation purchase. The people who complained about old job design now are the ones who buy 40 fantasias a month and own everything from the mogstation. It makes financial sense for Square to cater to braindead coomers.
"difficult" content isn't fun either because of the garbage class design and formulaic by-the-books boss designs
What if the Crystal Exarch was a clone of Xandes?
that would have been more interesting than what we actually got
>Unique poster count is gone
Oh boy these threads are about to get even more schizophrenic. This is going to be so fricking funny.
>Unique poster count is gone
wtf I only just noticed, why would they do that
Suits arrived at Hiro's office with a proposal and a briefcase full of money.
>election season
>bot posting
>political propaganda can't be seen as 12 IPs replying to themselves anymore
>shilling is already rampant and will be easier
>encouraged chaos destroys genuine conversation even more
That was the first thing I thought
XIV threads specifically are going to be hell
Yeah, I'm not sure what they were thinking.
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the only threads that need the ip count are these ones so most people are never going to care
Shadowbringers was the peak.
It is all downhill from here, only mazed marecucks will disagree.
>Shadowbringers was the peak
story, sure. Shadowbringers ruined the gameplay tho
shadowbringers streamlined the gameplay
making the game easier, yet all the players still playing still suck ass. No modern ffxiv player would be able to play SB SMN.
Shadowbringers was the start of the casualisation era. People just ride it because of muh story made me cry which somehow negates all criticism of gameplay design.
Stormblood was peak for gameplay. Not as great jobs as Heavensward but still had fun execution in most jobs. Content was still good despite Omega ups and falls. Some great fights some meh. Two ultimates, Eureka was grinding kino with gameplay based socialisation but casuals hated it cause grind lol, heaven on high was the last good deep dungeon. 10 button PvP was weird but it still had good engagements without the aoe filled shithole that was Shadowbringers. 24 man rabanastre was the best 24 man they're ever built and 24mans have sucked since Shadowbringers. Four Lords was decent but comparable honestly to Shadowbringers. Shadowbringers is carried by WoL extreme trial.
Shadowbringers' story was fricking garnage and I'm tired of listening to peopel praise it. It was an entire expansion of wasted potential filled with annoyances which have poisoned the story going forward.
The only good story in ShB was Werlyt.
Le epic chatGPT post
typical ff troony deflecting any criticism
>expansion story is finally about your character instead of your character existing for the sole purpose of running errands for other characters
>but that's bad
>About your character
You mean how you're actually the super special chosen one reincarnated from a super special ancient who was the literal studrnt of God and was also best friends with the main villain of the expansion? And how you now have the super special power to summon seven dudes literally fricking anywhere anytime for anything because you're the super special chosen one?
No, frick off. Shadowbringers should have been about the First, not about le ebin Scions running around spouting minor exposition until Emet Selch shows up and makes a snarky comment while also spouting exposition. You shouldn't be the hero because you're thesuper special reincarnation of some dipshit Ancient, you should be the hero because you beat the fricking bad guys to a pulp when they start shit.
Drop the Scions, make Emet Selch an actual fricking villain, and let the Exarch be his own character who doesn't lose his spine at the end of things.
I want my character to have agency, shb and endwalker have started the trend of giving the wol more dialogue options, and that is only going to increase
cope and seethe, stupid braindead stormblood nodder pick up the pajeet poop homosexual
Stormblood already gave the WoL more dialogue options. ShB and EW just gave you more *holds up spork* options
my only regret is that i didn't get absurdly moronic options when talking to fourchenault so that i could embarrass the twins
>alphi, i dont give a shit about the garleans
>uhh too bad, you WILL pick up the aura poop and you WILL like it
progress is progress
>This Emet Selch guy is very clearly evil and is going to betray us
>Well guess we better just wait for it to happen instead of getting ready to kill him, I'm sure he'll wait until all of our plans are finished until he shoots us in the back
>Oh look he shot the Exarch in the back before our plan was finished, WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?
>implying 90% of people wouldn't have chosen to side with tragic mr rat man fujobait selch and his tragic fujo bff roommate who doesn't consider the player character technically alive
That's why Shadowbringers fricking disgusts me.
"yes" and "snarky yes" isn't player agency, moron
You and I both know the dialogue options are as deep as a backyard puddle on a hot summer day. They are completely meaningless choices with no mechanical impact in the game whatsoever. I'd rather not even have it.
>They are completely meaningless choices with no mechanical impact in the game whatsoever.
Here's your mechanical impact: refuse quest.
There, your WoL has rejected their part in the quest you/they don't feel like doing.
>strawman
It's 2024, stop pretending to be moronic. You know exactly what I mean and aren't addressing it.
And they never will and never pretended to.
just go get some wagie job if you want to be everyone else's b***h, no one plays video games for that shit
>And how you now have the super special power to summon seven dudes literally fricking anywhere anytime
yea it was so much better when those dudes just... existed and came out of nowhere
or lyse made some throwaway goofy remark about "hey some of your adventurer friends wouldn't happen to be taking a vacation in the far east eh? XD???"
>You mean how you're actually the super special chosen one
What a brainless fricking groid.
The first cutscene showed that you were one of the few chosen by "God".
>You shouldn't be the hero because you're thesuper special reincarnation of some dipshit Ancient
You're not. Anymore than Amon wasn't who he was because of his soul or Claudien because of his soul.
>make Emet Selch an actual fricking villain
He's killed planets worth of people. He's a fricking villain, even if he gets fujos moist.
>let the Exarch be his own character who doesn't lose his spine at the end of things
He didn't. He fricking died.
G'raha isn't the Exarch anymore than Fandaniel wasn't Hermes.
The memories have an effect, but they are different people.
I don't know if you skipped ARR, were a speed reader, or are just a shitposter working off osmosis but your post sucks.
I do wonder how these "I WISH I WASNT THE SPECIAL ONE SHADOWBRINGERS/ENDWALKER RUINED IT" posts unironically come about. ChatGPT shit? Because anyone who's played since ARR knows you were the special one even then. You were never le wholesome reddit humble adventurer after like level 30.
Hell even earlier than that, at level 20 we were found out to be special because of venat’s ward
I don't think you get it, anon
in 2.0 you were A chosen one, but you were one of many created through the same process
in 6.0 you are THE chosen one
Hydaelyn didn't know you were THE chosen one until you traveled to the first
no shit, that's the criticism here
we went from chosen one to chosen-er one to chosen-er-est one
final fantasy has never had a group of chosen ones picked by a divine power.
except 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16
How is the cast of 6 chosen by a divine power?
Terra fits the bill because of her heritage
though i admit its a bit of a stretch to call espers divine
She's not even the main character in the 2nd half, when the cast faces their true challenge
Terra is the only character that shows up at Kefka's Tower if you don't recruit them
but that already happened in the past, so by the time ARR starts she already knows you're the champion because she already met you 12000 years ago
no. we know that there are multiple timelines because of the crystal exarch coming from a different one. you told venat and co. EVERYTHING, so she'd know that there'd be multiple failed timelines in which the 8th umbral calamity happens and you die. when you leave for the first that would be the sign to hydaelyn that her timeline was THE timeline and that she had to prepare for the events of endwalker
I keep forgetting about the black rose timeline honestly
I don’t think I’m ever forget black rose because anyone with a brain would think this random gas attack that can kill everyone is a bad thing and would 100% get used against themselves would shit it down asap
Black you took down 3 primals and the ultima weapon before 2.0 ends and also take out the main leadership of the 14th legion
hydaelyn literally personally shields and empowers you in praetorium so you can survive ultima (at the cost of her own energy) and fight lahabrea 1v1
then you meet midgardsormr who quite literally calls you for being out hydy's special chosen one babby boy and prison gay penetrates you to get rid of your blessing so hydaelyn can rest and you can prove yourself worthy on your own merits
Hydaelyn shields you because you're the only one in a position to stop Ultima Weapon from destroying Eorzea, moron.
And the Primals summoned in 2.0 are weak shit. By SB the Alliance is using groups like Arenvald's to handle them rather than calling you every time one pops up.
>Hydaelyn shields you because you're the only one in a position to stop Ultima Weapon from destroying Eorzea, moron.
she shields you because you're her special babby boy and she knows you are the only one who can do the job
There's two options here. You can accept that XIV's story always sucked your dick for being special, or you can be abjectly, comically wrong.
Yes, and then we find out we're also the direct reincarnation of some grape-sucking demigod
It's like DBZ powerups, it's just fricking moronic at this point
You can contend that all you want.
But you can't pretend you weren't a chosen one basically day one, because that's just dishonest. As you achieve more and more, your chosen one-ness just gets ramped up, but you've always been one since ARR.
Do you not understand the concept of a sliding scale? The criticism isn't that the WoL is a chosen one, the criticism is that the chosen one shit is now going too far
I guess it's a good thing that we're going 'back' to being an adventurer then eh?
>Do you not understand the concept of a sliding scale?
I do.
But I also know that it's highly arbitrary to complain about being too chosen when you were chosen from level 20.
There was not even a single moment where you were a humble adventurer, nor would one expect that from an FF game.
I disagree I want to be even more special and love the points when people see us and think “ oh shit that’s the WoL, he traveled to the end of the universe and save our universe” I fricking love that shit
Having the Echo didn't make you super special. It was rare but common enough that the Alliance could make a Primal fighting group so as to not wholly rely on (You) and the Scions. SB even went out of its way to show several heroes in history were Echo wielders. Yeah, you're 'special', but you're still one among many, and even then having the Echo isn't a requiremeny for heroism. ShB and EW expressly state that YOU, yes YOU, are THE super special singularly chosen-by-Hydaelyn special Azem reincarnation and that your entire storyline was already predetermined because you went back in time and literally spoke with Hydaelyn before she was Hydaelyn.
>He's killed planets worth of people. He's a fricking villain, even if he gets fujos moist
He's a terrible villain. You immediately know he's going to betray you the moment he opens his mouth. He never makes any proper showing of power except the snap when Y'shtola goes full moron and Warps herself AGAIN. He's a snarky 'schemer' who you can instantly figure out. They never bother to emphasize him as being the omnicidal fricking maniac he is, and instead play up how 'emotional' and 'sad' he is to pander to fujos.
And as for Exarch, that's partly what I mean. Don't do the stupid shit of 'merging' him with G'raha if you're going to turn around and turn G'raha into a completely different character from him. You could literally have made the Exarch anybody else. In fact him being a nobody from the far future would probably have been BETTER.
>EW expressly state that YOU, yes YOU, are THE super special singularly chosen-by-Hydaelyn
Did you just forget UNLEASH ULTIMA, where she keeps you safe?
When she tears the primals out of ultima weapon?
When her blessing specifically is why ascians can't just pop in and frick with you?
>You immediately know he's going to betray you the moment he opens his mouth.
He never says he's your friend. He never says he's on your side. He says he's going to watch and evaluate, and that's exactly what he does.
It's not a betrayal if he was never trusted in the first place.
Him snapping Y'shtola just speeds up what we'd have to do since like you said, she's done this before.
The whole "you aren't real" "I'm not guilty of murder if I kill you" IS playing up him being megalomaniacal. He says that they were stewards of the star but he doesn't see anything as life worth preserving other than his own people. He says his world is perfect but within his own imagining of Amaurot there's shit going down at Akemedia Anyder.
He was an unreliable narrator, but his reasoning was compelling enough to make some people sympathetic. Every character needs a motivation, and that motivation needs to fit their archetype. Emet couldn't just be evil for evil's sake because none of the Ascians were. They were trying to bring back their god, and restore the world to its true form. This was back in 2.x and HW.
All Emet did differently was explain why that was so important to them.
>In fact him being a nobody from the far future would probably have been BETTER.
Nah, the second the Crystal tower came into play it had to be G'raha. It also makes sense that an older, more experienced G'raha who's suffered through the after effects of the 8th umbral calamity would be a totally different person than the historian who really wants to be an adventurer he was when we first met.
>an older, more experienced G'raha who's suffered through the after effects of the 8th umbral calamity
it's too bad so much of this guy died in 5.3.
>it's too bad so much of this guy died in 5.3.
That we can agree on.
Loved Exarch, tired of G'raha.
Not like he completely gone, he did step up when the end days was happening
Holy chatGPT
shadowbringers wasn't any better than ew except the edges were ground off by time and le zany emet selch memes
>the only good story in ShB was the moronic Gundam fanfic
lmao
the whole expansion story was terrible on every single technical level, it was only saved by the last chapter going full-on isekai anime finale
This was very clearly brought up before, at launch and during Shadowbringers, in particular healers being a one-button show. I dont have the energy to be mad anymore no matter how vindicated the rage back then was.
And what is he going to do about it?
Revert hitboxes back to sb sizes melee is a fricking snoozefest to play rn
actually i receive daily stress from not having good robes in this game
clean it up, yoshida
Ktiseos robe is fire
fending is just ok, casting is a travesty where the robe doesn't even reach the ankles
I use it it on my smn it looks pretty good, I just wish we could dye it
every job i just use the sophist robe, its the only above average robe in the game
If you make a game stress free, you attract lots of middle aged women who used to play second life.
Now you can't make it not stress free, out of fear of losing them who spend the most money on outfits on the cash shop.
30 posts here are all me
He did mention years ago that he would love to make a new mmo that was pure high fantasy and that he didn't really care for the tech but since they were introduced before he took over he had no choice but to keep them in game. He also mentioned things like he would have created different races instead of using the ones from FFXI. They also wanted to make XIV a lot darker with more Game of Thrones sort of intrigue, but the ppl above him were not happy with this and said that the game had to be more happy and fun so they had to rewrite a lot of the story arcs they originally came up with for HW and beyond. Which you can see not only in the ending of ARR but also the trailer for HW and in the lyrics to it's theme, which was already in production/complete when these decisions were made.
>Game of Thrones
He is fricking fixated with Game of Thrones.
Yeah he's a westaboo.
it's always funny seeing westaboo japs like yoshida or kojima
my god
the guy who keeps saying the scions should have died in Ultima Thule is yoshi-p himself
I need the benchmark
right fricking now
post fat breasts this instant
lmao that CC is pretty good
Have seen all kinds of good OC and references to other media
thx
>no ip count
schizophrenic thread
dont care. not playing troonytrail. also 16 was horrible.
>sub for 1 month when the expansion comes out to do the MSQ
>sub for 1 month after the last patch of the expansion
>completely done with the entire expansion content in those 2 months
I did it for the last 3 expansions, I don't care. There is nothing in the game that makes me want to stay for the other 22 months of the 2 year cycle.
My fellow like-minded individual.
>Raid
What point? You don't use the gear outside of raiding, so it becomes pointless.
>PvP
Jank, worse than WoW's pvp.
>Cheevo farming
Boring, becomes a second-time job.
I want the improved graphics to launch prior to Dawntrial. I want to play NG+ for the 'first' time. I want all normal content to be atleast half as challenging as savage, and job classes to be more complex and unique from each other. I want mudras as oGCDs again.
Will HW armor sets be included in the initial graphics update?
they said they'd be working on ARR and EW gear first, then going one forward and one back. so the second round should have HW outfits
My character is going to look so fricking weird lol
>gonna be 7.1 or 7.2 before Crystal Exarch no longer looks pixelated to hell and back
AAAAIEEEEE
everyone knows that leaders of nations have larger pixels than others. i mean, look at hien
oh frick hien is in the same boat stormblood will probably be the last to get an update holy frick
Probably not.
It's probably going to be ARR and Endwalker first.
Then HW and ShB.
Then Stormblood.
But for HW you could probably tide yourself over with the PvP versions.
669848280
>local gay realizes there's no greater point to mmos/games as a whole and that a lot of it is time wasting
meant for
thanks for bringing this to my attention, can't imagine how much of a b***h you have to be to do this.
82 posts are all mine wew
nobody cares about Hien even Cirina is too busy diving in Sadu's muff now
I care about Hien
Literally not reading any of this bot shit lmao based hiromoot pulling the curtain and showing that 90% of Ganker is bot garbage
>hiromoot pulling the curtain and showing that 90% of Ganker is bot garbage
it would be if he gave this board post IDs
>combination of both posts back to back
Pottery
>giving himself (You)s because he knows nobody would otherwise directly engage with his garbage post
grim
frick glowshit
I'm mad about the final step of the EW relics being uniform glowshit instead of making an effort to fit with the artifact sets like the previous steps. It's just a continuation of the trend of the final relic step being the shittiest.
Who pissed the lalafells off?
my heart is filled with rage at the shackles placed on me by a god who fears me. if i had the butt i deserved the world would be ours
dawntrail was delayed until November internally, they haven’t broken the news to the public yet
>Delaying two expansions in a row
They won't do this they're not stupid enough to do this. And if they do and fans don't get mad they're just as mazed as wowcucks, and should be laughed at as such.
I can't wait for this moron Yoshida to get replaced bro, what an incompetent frick.
>the guy who turned ffxiv into a big mmo that is still growing to this day from the abortion it was in 1.0
>replaced
any day now
Propagating this meme is the reason why squenix is dying btw.
He saved it by turning into WoW, and slowly raped it into the ground. That's what he did.
yes, by turning it into a game people actually play
if you wanted your "kino" 1.0 maybe you should've bought 20,000 accounts to keep it halfway running because nobody else would ever play that dead garbage
Funny how anyone who fondly remembers 1.0 remember the game after Yoshida patched it to be playable. 1.0 was AWFUL and the fatigue system was the dumbest shit in history
Exceptionally funny
>ree yoshitpissu ruined the game muh wholesomerino 1.0 kino
>the only version of 1.0 that anyone fondly talks about at all is the version after yoship came on board
you can't make it up
Never said I wanted 1.0 dumbass, I just wanted a decent FF MMORPG, not a "WoW-clone but X themed" game.
it's ever had 2 modes
1.0 garbage abortion dogshit
2.0 and beyond which is what it's been for most of its lifespan and is still growing as a game
you yearning and hankering for something that never existed does not apply
You're actually a dumbass. Name a singular gameplay improvement the game has gotten in a decade.
scholar faeries are far more responsive now
Getting rid of cringe haste buffs.
Those aren't gameplay updates.
Movement is still floaty, acting is still laggy, we still don't have a height axis, enemies and players are floating entities with no collision or interactivity.
Movement abilities still feel incredibly bad. We still interact with floating sparkles for 99% of gathering content.
The GAMEPLAY itself, has not been updated in a decade.
damn
guess you better quit the game then
>removing tp isn’t a gameplay update
They could remove MP tomorrow and it still wouldn't change the act of casting spells. Does that make sense?
The removal of TP didn't change how or why buttons are being pressed.
I'd consider that a role update than an actual gameplay update.
It's a real-time combat game with tab-target combat. If you want an example of a game like this that also still more or less has hitboxes and an actual Z Axis just look at Xenoblade. X is my favorite.
Well why make a whole new game then when you could have updated XI?
You clearly never played decently enough
This is an action game, not a rpg.
This is a shameless wow clone not a single player rpg good sir.
>it's a shameless wow clone
>ITS LE BAD BECAUSE ITS NOT ENOUGH LIKE WOW
>LE
Opinion discarded, discussion ended. have a nice day.
I accept your consneethsion
Samegay
No more tp, no more cross class skills, sprinting not taking all your tp was also a good change before they removed it
>no more
>no more
>not
>removed
Gahahahahaha
They were good changes and glad for them
Simplifying all jobs to Fisher price gauge building and getting rid of all the complex rotations so you can focus more on Simon says.
Fishing log
>You're a dumbass because I am talking about wanting a magical version of XIV that never existed because I don't want 1.0 and 2.0 and beyond was ruined by making it Final Fantasy-themed WoW
weird ass schizo narrative
>buffs reset on wipe
>cross-world party finder
>accuracy removed
>TP removed
>portraits and plates
>don't have certain jobs being literally grief picks
>buffs reset on wipe
>accuracy removed
>TP removed
Thank YoshiP for this. Unironically.
>throws arrow on monk
Woah. Thanks for the damage potency buff. 🙂
unironically, the only people I ever see look back fondly on TP are the ones who have zany whacky stories about how they used it to grief players
Never having the opportunity to grief or have friction with other players is exactly the kind of shit YoshiP is talking about in the OP. It's the essence of multiplayer games and XIV doesn't have any of it
You lost.
Gee I sure wish your meters stayed on you after area transition so I could pop stuff like Sacred Soil in cities for fun again
> need to t protect at the start of each dungeon and after each wipe
I love protect but it was such a pointless button to press
>wipe
>hold up, gotta eat some food again
>Can we wait 4 more minutes guys? My invuln isn't back up yet.
the way accuracy was implemented previously made it a non-issue if you just had the right gear. but I feel like i'm in the minority but i think it would actually be pretty cool if you could miss sometimes.wouldn't make the game so "optimized", things couldn't go as planned, you'd have to change strategies or you wouldn't be able to rely on guaranteed dps. just giving every single enemy npc in the game a 2% miss chance no matter what.
but if they did that, then everyone would just start playing whatever class had the highest actions per minute or whatever, so I guess it ultimately doesn't matter. people just love to optimize fun out of games.
Eeh, I dunno. This game loves being very tight with its DPS checks on Ultimates and 4th floor savages, and losing a check because of a few unlucky misses would make people lose their shit. They'd have to make DPS checks less tight (and thus easier) to work that in.
muh crit variance is a similar "issue"
Crit variance is already annoying and this is the same thing but worse. There's some fun in messing up mechanics or adjusting your movement and rotation around your allies' mistakes, but just randomly missing your attack and dropping your combo/enochian/etc would be purely frustrating.
You may have a point in that it would suck to pick up teammates slack. But when I'm playing other games and I try to do a combo, and miss the big attack that I built up, it actually makes the game more exciting. at least for me.
None of these are GAMEPLAY updates
It changes gameplay for me.
Therefore they're gameplay updates.
Simple as.
Nah, it changes your rotation, not the gameplay.
You aren't suddenly having to measure distance to land criticals, you don't suddenly have to charge an attack to deal more damage, you don't suddenly need to aim your attacks, you don't suddenly gain the ability to move faster, you don't suddenly have the ability to block damage in real time...
These aren't gameplay updates. They change the rotation maybe, but this game and the game 10 years ago are identical.
>rotation isn't gameplay
go home
you're drunk
You're misunderstanding. Normally a player makes their own rotation to adapt to whatever is happening at the time, but that's not how CBU3 designs this game. A rotation in this game is the same exact order of inputs to achieve the same exact steps to deal ~big damage~. That's all it is.
Let's say that tomorrow CBU3 adds an update that makes it to Warrior can charge attacks by holding down the button of that specific skill. THAT is a gameplay update.
What if they made Ninja have different abilities while jumping in the air and gave them a mid-air jump. THAT is a gameplay update.
Having less or more abilities doesn't change ANYTHING when you press a button and the ability fires without any changes to the context on all jobs.
Imagine if Machinist had different attacks depending on if they're standing still or running. THAT is a gameplay update.
>Normally a player makes their own rotation to adapt to whatever is happening at the time
name 1 (one) mmo from the past like 20 years
World of Warcraft, Destiny 2, Tera... Just the ones I've played.
>World of Warcraft
this game is literally the king of go on website to find your rotation and do that over and over again
>destiny 2
has good gunplay but that's not really a rotation
>tera
was barely an actual game
sadly i've played all of these.
I know you haven't played these games and you don't know what a rotation is. A rotation is simply what you should be doing at a given time to make more damage.
In WoW I don't have a fixed rotation while playing a Warrior, I don't think any classes or specs have it save for Monk, the one spec known for having a deterministic rotation. But I might be wrong.
Destiny 2 absolutely has rotations for damage phases, specially before when we had Starfire protocol grenade spam. Or the old Ahamkara's spine build on hunters with dodge, melee and nade rotations.
Tera is like WoW in the sense your rotation is changing a lot, if you play as a DPS you HAVE to put your max damage rotation on halt because you will die if you don't use moves to dodge.
>Normally a player makes their own rotation
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
TPS removal is fricking huge
What do you mean decent? Is FFXI not good enough for you?
nobody plays that
Sadly this game is etiher
>Too fricking easy
or
>You gotta watch a video first, then we gotta discuss strat via discord, a tool outside the game and do all this arbitrary stuff
I feel like there is no in-between, something like the Barbaricia battle felt like it was almost on that sweetspot IMO.
>stress free
The game is barely anything other than Second Life. Even RuneScape offers a bigger sense of adventure and world impact.
There is no turning back
It's over
That's fine. It's a decade old game with nothing else to offer with it's limitations. Make a new MMO already.
No. You move on, we'll continue playing.
This game sucks and I use it as a place to meet up with people rather than as a game for fun. At least PvP is fun but it's dead so that's a waste too. Better off playing other games, which has been way more rewarding than this shitty game.
>we'll continue playing.
Idling in LB14 is not playing.
I'll have fun. You leave it and do whatever you want.
Have fun I guess. I'm sure next expac will have another fel cleave tank.
>we
Yes. We.
>Make a new MMO already.
Bro no one will make new MMO. Especially after 1,0. Especially in current age. Mobile pure session only game at best
Alright, alright. How about just a good high budget jrpg then? Or are single player games unprofitable now too unless they have a sub fee?
>How about just a good high budget jrpg then?
boy do i have a game coming soon to the pc just for you.....
Ballan Wonder lworld 2?
>3 views
I could really emote!
so which zone has the most 'final zone' energy to it?
Azys Lla was kino
Azys Lla is second best behind Ultima Thule. complete swing in aesthetics, the only zone in the game where you get flying by default, running into Tiamat. Then finding the Warring Triad on top of the ARF without any warning
I'm not sure anything really tops or can top Ultima Thule. The Lochs sucks ass, Azys was alright and while the back half of the tempest is great the first half doesn't have that 'energy' to it really.
No, you're right.
The Lochs was trash. Azys Lla is just kinda fricking ugly and kinda felt like an "ok i guess so" tacked at the end of HW (even though it was obviously part of the story way earlier on). Tempest is mostly kinda meh except Amaurot.
Ultima Thule was kinda cool all the way through but can look equally janky as it can look cool at times.
I think the game is pretty hard for me. My brain can't process quick enough for p9s football mechanic thingy so I could never clear it.
the game has become so stress free healers don't have any jobs beyond ultimates
he won, again
Idk I thought Abyssos and the last two ultimates were stressful af. Made me quit the game after clearing them because of the stupid DPS checks, length, and one shots.
>Queue into duty with my japanese/samurai themed outfit
>Another person in the duty also has a similarly themed outfit
I don't know why, but it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
It's the blue bathrobe and wooden katana for me. Wish I could find a straw hat and/or a fox mask, but I imagine those'd be cash shop only.
>straw hat
Man, that reminds me how horribly I wish I could glamour the Onishi/Yamashi crafting/gathering gear onto combat jobs, those pieces are great.
And while they're at it give me a port of the Asuran hakama of healing/casting for Striking jobs so I can properly cosplay as a Sekiseigumi.
Personally, I think the WoL should just not exist anymore and just be an adventurer again, and story references other players in tune with the story instead of being a 1 man show.
>still no dawntrail release date
>it's supposed to be out in ~3ish months
it's delayed isn't it
I won't care so long as I get to see the sun through my lalas ears by summer.
Who the frick said it’s coming out in may? All we know is summer and I’m guessing late June to early July
June is 3 months away anon.
It’s March and I said late June, anyone that thinks the expansion will drop the first day of summer is dumb.
it's probably june-july ish
Unironically the first good news I've heard regarding DT
Stop
Playing
14
Uninstall
14
Now
I need to level up all my classes before DT and maybe get the dog mount in DRS
Nope. Still playing it. You quit if you no longer enjoy it.
Don't care, still not playing chink impact
She smells of piss.
isn't this old b***h grifting back to XIV now that the expansion (and more importantly the media tour) is getting close?
She reacted to Preach's EW video last I saw
what was he preaching
That EW was good untill it wasn't.
thank you wowfugee raidboomer for your splendid advice
The lack of midcore content is for sure a huge problem with EW. You either do your easy casual roulettes or fricking savage and ultimate.
I hope we cause another flood of light in the story
>removes your jobs uniqueness
>everyone thinks hes based some how
>releases a shitty FF game with his shitty MMO designed content that people praise him for
>raughs
go back to twitch
>removes my job's uniqueness
white mage has been pretty solid since stormblood, lillies being useless in sb aside
White Mage is trash and bogged down the rest of the healer jobs to it's level. They used to be a joke for a reason.
Everyone disliked the MMO designed content in XVI though.
so true sis time for me to job switch from DRG to NIN because they are literally identical so i should be able to easily perform just as well on NIN as I do on DRG
I fricking wish monk was like samurai, I can’t play monk for shit
No shut up sis XIV is dead all the jobs are literally the same if I can play on melee job perfectly I can, without adapting or adjusting, play all the others.
You will NOT contradict the narrative. Failure to comply will result in being called a cultist troony.
>do the rotation that puts dots on
>then do the rotation that buffs you
>then do the rotation that does the highest number
>rinse and repeat
b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b--b-b-bb-b-b-bbbbbbbbbbbut every class is so unique bros!!!!!!!!
>if I push button, the button does a thing
>point of pushing the button is that i do the highest number in one way or another
FRICK BROS WE'VE BEEN HAD IT ALL COMES TUMBLING DOWN
THE SHILL IS SCARED HAHAHAHAHAHAH
OH NO SISTERS I AM REELING HE FOUND US OUT
Why waste months learning rotations when you can just openly bot in this game
the people who pretend xiv was ever a humble modest hobo adventure are unironically wowfugees
any semblance of not being special died as soon as you hit like lvl 25 in the MSQ
More like level 20 when we find out we can’t be tempted
The echo isn't special. A random sahagin was way stronger than us with it to the point of being almost immortal.
Yea but having the echo and beating a primal is pretty fricking special
The company of heroes killed Titan so killing a primal isn't exactly unheard of. They came to you because having echo blessed adventurers do the job results in a lot less casualties.
i'm pretty sure i said it in a thread many months ago but yes the game is TOO convenient, which is good but not good at the same time
i wonder what he means by this, making fights more challenging than they are now would be tedious i hope he means just the leveling or the world in general
>i wonder what he means by this, making fights more challenging than they are now would be tedious i hope he means just the leveling or the world in general
Probably just stuff like side dungeons, maybe Alliance Raids being a *slight* bit harder, and there being forays with relic weapons tied to them rather than just from tomes.
The MSQ stuff still will probably be easy. Variant will still exist to be the babby tourist mode to Criterion.
i hope it's that way
i'm sure it'll be that way
>got Tower at Paradigm's Breach in roulette yesterday
>absolute blood bath since a good majority of players were new to it
It was a good reminder as to how toothless the EW alliance raids are, especially now that we're able to outright skip big mechanics/finish the fight before the mech repeat segments.
I love the nier raids for that reason, even people who have done them before still frick up the mechanics sometimes
I like that raid but it the hp of the bosses are too much
It's funny you say that because the Nier raids aren't even all that bloodthirsty compared to SB Alliance Raids and the ones before those....
The Nier raids were meh but yeah, the EW 24 mans kinda __sucked_______
I'm not the biggest fan of the Nier raids. Mostly because of the bloated HP
The HP is insane, I got the first one a while ago and it took sooooo long to do...was sick of 9S jumping out of his robot by the end
i think ew AR are fine i don't go into ARs for "ebin bloodbath wipes"
but i do wish they would scale better because skipping the scales mechanic in aglaia is fricking dumb as hell
>ivalice raid pops
>at least 3 people leave
>Just did Thaleia for the first time
That was the coolest Guildhest I've ever done.
Eulogia is a really, really cool cutscene
>I don't even remember which one is Thaleia
grim
>I don't like thing
That's great I mean sorry I understand why you quit good luck on your way to finding a new game
>I need you to know that I think it's shit
Okay but I don't
>And you need to quit because I think it's shit
Why are you arguing with yourself?
>Downscale Scions from ShB, keep them in the Source
>Flesh out the Role Quest group more and turn them into your Warriors of Darkness party
>Incorporate the Cardinal Virtues into the MSQ as Lightwardens
>Make Cyella a more significant character too
Could it have worked?
>having to spend more time with Lue-Reeq
Absolutely fricking not lmao.
No. Casuals need their avengers proxy.
ZODIARK TRANCE
Zodiark Trance would have unironically been kino
biggest place this is evident is in job mechanics. no more expending BotD time to get extra Geirskoguls off, no more worrying about buffs falling off like enochian, no more interesting RNG with ast cards. Every job plays itself its so boring you never have to think or make decisions
Look at the post above you. Those are the types of players the dev care about, not you.
rate my comfy playlist. suggest other comfy songs
starsbreath is unironically kinda comfy
Nobility sleeps
songs from the Ivalice raid
Unironic question:
Would the game be better if it was not so focused on buffs for DPS?
Would the game be improved if 90% of DPS-increasing buffs were removed and all classes got potency buffs to compensate? The obvious exception being buffs that only buff yourself like Lance Charge.
I dunno if it'd be better, but I sure as shit wouldn't mind most DPS jobs no longer having to care about aligning le ebin party buffs and instead just focusing on their own shit.
Have a few dedicated buff jobs like BRD and DNC, let the rest be selfish
The selfish DPS still have to line up their damage to the buffs even if they have no buffs themselves
NTA, but that's not what he was saying.
If there's a single job in your party that increases your damage every X seconds, you want to always use your biggest damage skills in those buffs.
If you remove all buffs from everyone except BRD and DNC, you'd still use your biggest cooldowns during their buffs and not whenever you want to. You'd need to remove every single group buff to get rid of this. I don't think they'd ever remove group buffs from DNC and BRD
>you'd need to remove every single group buff
>people complain about even more homogenization and that after TP, dots, and other non-direct sources of damage being removed, group buffs are now also gone
Group buffs fricking suck, I wouldn't mind if they removed it and reworked jobs to be more unique
DNC in this case would only buff one player's DPS, so only one player would have to line up.
AFAIK, you pretty much ALWAYS have a buff going if you play Bard.
Remove the big two minute buff (Radiant Finale and Battle Voice) but keep the songs.
If you have a single bard who can give you a 5% raid buff, you're not going to hold your burst for 30 seconds when pressing it on cooldown means you get an extra usage over the fight. It's more likely that the bard would hold his buff for a good party-wide lineup if anything. You can also mitigate the issue by introducing percentage pushes or mid-fight dps checks in extreme/savage like ultimate has, which causes people to pool resources and hold cooldowns even in the current strict meta.
If you do it like this:
or
then there's only one job that buffs the whole party and most of its buffing is continuous rather than in a short window. Then AST and DNC can adjust their partner buffing stuff based on who they're pairing with.
It would, because then jobs could have more varied rotations. I would keep raid buffs on bard and single-target buffs on AST/DRG/DNC but the rest should get canned or turned into solo buffs.
>have to to wait until level 70-fricking-6 to get a better chance of becoming straight shot ready
I sure love going almost an entire fight without getting this fricking proc
But it's soul.
Honestly I do feel we need an ability redistribution. Takes too long for a lot of jobs to get even remotely good.
(Looking at DRG not getting a single AoE until like 40, 42 or something? Then their second at 62)
XIV bros, are you playing XI while waiting for Dawntrail? And if yes - retail, or private server?
I'm not.
I already got it over with, finally finished RoV at the end of last year. Can't be arsed to do TVR.
retail because horizon keeps spawning me out of bounds
Retail, because Horizon is shit and still hasn't released ToAU.
Thank god
HW days again soon hopefully
Sure as shit hope DT has more content than HW.
so how many of you noticed that yoship is admitting here that ffxiv is "like a sidescroller without holes to fall down" that has neither stress nor fun? absolutely fricking defeated
I quit FF14 around the end of Heavensward, what did I miss?
Literally nothing. Every expansion has just been a new cost of HW paint.
I still wonder if a full on turn based MMORPG could work. Something inspired by Final Fantasy X's battle system or even the Dragon Quest battle system.
I feel like that would be worse in some ways.
>Bro you didn't use the right skill on turn 59???
>leaves party
I think it would be really fun but most people don't have the patience to sit and wait for other people to take their turns. Especially not the playerbase that plays XIV. It also would get extremely monotonous to grind out turn-based encounters in ANY instance unless they introduced a lot of variance.
>graphical update doesn't *appear* to be taking away any content
>more content than even stormblood
>people still complain that the graphical update "isn't enough"
>even though it basically is for everyone and isn't even a dawntrail feature, and at this point doesn't look to be impeding any content output (yet to see if that pans out of course, but that's where we at right now)
They have been working on the graphical update in the background of all of Endwalker. I bet they had it mostly finished by the time they started fully working on Dawntrail.
Hard to say because they sure haven't shown a lot of it so far and "stated" (yes I know what they claim isn't always the truth) that they were in their first month of testing after EW release.
Which I guess does kinda count as "in the background of all of Endwalker"
They've also already stated that they'll go back and update the graphics on older gear over the course of Dawntrail patches too.
That's true, but like I said, that allegedly doesn't seem to be having an influence on content output from what we can tell right now.
Of course it could all go upside down when we're actually in Dawntrail. I don't exactly have the magical foresight to conclude that the new foray won't be delayed, shit or cancelled because of the graphical update, for example. But for right now, DT looks to be touting the biggest list of features of any expansion.
It's pretty incredible since players (and even the devs) have been talking about "content slots" for years and how Island Sanctuary took the place of an Endwalker Foray, about how V&C is a waste of a slot, even how Bozja is why ShB only had one ultimate. Then in Dawntrail we're getting Foray, Lifestyle, Variant, Criterion, Deep Dungeon, Ultimate(s) and a new limited job all in one expac, on top of the graphics update and the work they did on cloud servers.
time is a circle and speculating mmo players are clueless about development
>/vg/ sloplord running to Ganker again
You lost.
I just like the album, I'm not them
It’s almost like they try new things and building on top of an already existing foundation is easier than making something new
I'd imagine FFXVI being finished frees up some devs to work on more XIV content, but that's purely speculation.
As long as Maehiro stays the frick away from the writing I'm all for it
The guy who wrote Werlyt is writing Dawntrail. Make of that what you will.
Werlyt was fricking based because it made troons seethe
But that's excellent, I loved Werlyt. EX trial series about Gaius being the most cucked man alive with no one to blame
Hope we get another milkman but this time some type of juice
I've re-read this post several times and I still have no idea what it means
He wishes for another character like Valens van Varro.
>he doesn’t remember the milk man
I don't remember this homie ever mentioning milk but I was distracted by femra thighs
I remember the milk because it was the first time we seen someone actively pour liquid in a cup
he means Varro
the spergy tard that was the main villain of the Werlyt questline and enjoyed drinking milk
I thought it was the guy who did the Mhach/Redbills and Pandaemonium stories?
same guy
he also did BRD and I think BLM
>BRD
Oh lord please no
what was wrong with brd?
Isn't that the one where WoL helps cover up Ala Mhihan war crimes performed against Gridania?
technically yes but it's more "wow we'd be shooting everyone in the foot if we published the truth right now" so they're holding off until ala mhigo is something resembling politically/economically stable and nobody's in the middle of resistance
Pretty sure most of bard is pretty shit and then it caps off with an okay story involving ala mhigo/gridania war stuff iirc.
Panda was more recent so honestly I'm just gonna hope he's improved with time and having better material to work with.
My guess is they just kind of abandoned EW after 6.0 and put all that work into 7.0 instead.
Which kinda sucks because Endwalker was supposed to be a big bang. Instead, they drained it to prop up DT instead
I still have yet to find the Elezen Shota collection. It saddens me.
https://catbox.moe/c/r7ia0y
Thanks for the dolphin porn, anon.
my pleasure
>missed the window
God damnit
>XIV has nothing to do
>WoW has nothing to do and any new content it gets is buggy slop
Bros...why are MMOs so shit?
Feels good to not be a "I need a single game to keep my attention for 99% of the time 300+ days of the year" gay.
Exiting my MMOcattle phase was the best thing that ever happened to me.
>Still no thicc lalas
why do I even come here?
>ywn have an adventurer lala wife to sits on your shoulders and plays with your ears and hair
I would rather have an adventurer lala wife who I creampie every night after her hard day adventuring
Frick you for reminding me
Dunno, you beg for them to post in every fricking thread because you can't use the boorus. Or you're too fricking dumb or ESL to just do it yourself.
here's how Dawntrail can be the GOAT expansion with just one change:
Turn Criterion Dungeons into a true endgame activity.
Remove Criterion Savage as it exists, make what is currently Criterion normal into Criterion Savage, add a new Criterion Normal Mode that has a lower difficulty (around the difficulty of a Floor 1 Savage/Extreme) and gives gear, make New Criterion Savage drop better gear/gear upgrade materials that is weekly capped.
Literally everything else can be the same except this and it would be the greatest expansion ever.
That's it, that's all they need to do. They won't, but they should.
i am not opposed to that, but criterion having replayability was mostly considered as a necessary fix to a lack of forays
Forays aren't really an endgame activity in the classical sense. I'm more talking about difficulty and reward structures here.
Make Criterion Dungeon both into something that can work as something players can use to get on board with endgame content that ISN'T Extremes, AND something for sweatlord tryhards.
I think endgame hardcore players would be happier if to get BIS they'd have to do multiple modes and not just the same four fights over and over again.
hello sisters, why does the game punish you if you want to just spam dungeon roulettes for hours by capping the rewards, i just want to do dungeons
To keep you subbed
I remember in ShB you can cap everything by doing maps
When I play my games with dozens of 3rd party overlays that literally play the game for me...I get kind of bored too.
PVP, PVE, it does not matter. They do it everywhere, almost everything in this game can be automated. Stay far away if you enjoy skill based games.
>When I play my games with dozens of 3rd party overlays that literally play the game for me...I get kind of bored too.
So don't use 3rd party overlays.
>3 views
Guys I just got off the phone call with YoshiP.
He said that the next crossover event in DT will be with Corruption of Champions.
If they want to add stress then all they need to do is take a page from Blizzard.
Blizzard took everything good about Wrath of the Lich King and made it bad to the point where the only people who stuck around were hardcore raiders.
I mean the hardcore raiders that didn't quit because their rosters got cut due to the preference for 10 man raids.
>this game is insanely flawed and dying we should fix i-
>AAAAAIIIEEEE NOOOO NOOO NOOOOOOO ITS PERFECT YOSHIT PISS CAN DO NO WRONG LET IT BE A BRAINDEAD GAME STOP MAKING FUN OF OUR GAME GO BACK TO *insert boogeyman game here*
And this is why this game will continue to die
Ive been gaming since the 90s and XIV by far has the worst community in gaming. It makes the sonic and pokemon fanbases look normal
my game now frickhead
>And this is why this game will continue to die
>Meanwhile in reality it continues to grow with every expansion
>this game is insanely flawed and dying
source?
me. i'm the source.
the only way to fix it is to graft X system from other mmo onto it
the one guy (trans) i know that actually plays ffxiv actually talks like this too any time i had remotely negative feedback of the game when i played the msq for 300 hours to see if it was as good as people said
What should be fixed actually? People don't even seem to be on the same page. Is it worth it to upset the status quo by making the game harder for your already casual playerbase? Ignore rp gays, those shitters never leave.
i dont even know anymore
probably something about netcode homogenization verticality or whatever
make the story nonlinear like ff11 so I don't have to slog through 200 hours of the worst writing imaginable to play some mediocre-to-decent raid
They're planning to make it so you can just start from 6.1 sometime during Dawntrail
>make the story nonlinear
>like ff11
stop posting
I got to Adoulin before killing the Shadow Lord, frick off moron
Its not my job to come up with solutions. Just fix it
lol
buy a boost raidbucky or just go back to your own game
The netcode golbez armor motivation criterion dungeon rewards midcore hardcore two minute cooldown 2b stockings meta.
Duh.
>2b stockings meta
I want to know about the 2b stockings meta..
>Is it worth it to upset the status quo by making the game harder for your already casual playerbase?
theyre going to make the game easier for dawntrail since its a fresh starting point
My static does nothing but complain about the game though. Who even are these unconditional defenders of the game? Casuals?
>game has the most players of any of the post x.55 expansions ever
>game is dying
lol I fricking wish the game was dying when a new expansion comes out so I don’t get any queues
no but there's a drought and some people are taking a break now that they're done with the stuff the expansion has to offer that means the game is FVCKING DONE FOR
uuhhhh IGNORE THAT THE PLAYER COUNT ROSE CONSIDERABLY IN ENDWALKER AND EVEN HAD A PRETTY SURPRISINGLY BIG JUMP IN 6.3 THAT DOESNT COUNT ACKWALKER ENDED ZIV
The Xbox thing really got so many people playing, I wasn’t expecting so many Xbox players to be playing
I haven't actually checked for a while. I just know that when people expected player retention to drop off midway through Endwalker, they were perplexed by the rise during 6.3.
loads of ARR AFs walking around and can't swing a dead cat without seeing a sprout
love these new player rushes
>Abyssea
up there with playing through FF2 as some of the worst shit I ever forced myself through, hope you can get through it quick
sex
with moonie bawds
I need to rape Leveva
i mean yoshiP regretting it is a good thing so i hope they manage to up the difficulty a bit, it's rare for devs to just outright admit stuff like this.
Yoshida is great fun with interviews, never forgetti "JRPG seems kinda racist as a term, I'm not sure what the actual difference is"
>JRPG seems kinda racist as a term
but he was literally right about how thats what it was in the past, jrpgs were seen as lesser games simply because of jrpgs back in the day, it's easy to say that doesn't make now but yoshi is an oldgay with an oldgay mindset.
no but if we try to understand his explanation for why he thinks something we cant play this gay telephone game about how yoshitpissu hates jrpgs
>hates jrpgs
>literally spergs out at people calling them jrpgs saying it was a backhanded compliment and everything
anon i don't think he hates jrpgs he definite hates ff15 tho
That's what I'm getting at, he was stirring the pot and knew it. Yoshida is many things but stupid or bad with words are not two of those things
>he was stirring the pot and knew i
me at next fanfest
They won't. Yoshida has little say in how this progress in terms of difficulty. The moment stockholders hear that he's making the game harder they'll demand his head on a silver platter.
Sex with female Au Ra
>all this fancy schmancy new MMO bullshit
Retvrn to tradition, anon.
When will ff14 be discounted on steam?
My favourite part of XIV is when Zurvan flies up to the screen, looks directly at you and says "Your wallet shall suffer in endless torment"
Eden sucked.
Nier was mediocre.
Pandaemonium sucked.
Myths of the Realm sucked.
Please save us, XI.
Eden Leviathan, Titan, and Garuda/Ifrit were awesome. All the other shit they did sucked.
The Puppets Bunker was cool, but the other two were meh.
Hippokampos, Proto-Carbuncle, and Pandaemonium were great. The rest meh and Agdistis was horrible.
Aglaia was good. Euphrosyne was and Thaleia were just okay but I didn't hate them.
They will never top Alexander and Ivalice raids, unfortunately.
stand still and let thing resolve
If XIV could blend a little bit of, say, BDO’s combat mechanics into its gameplay, I think it’d do wonders for the tab-target genre at large. 1-2-3-x rotational gameplay is just far too rote at this point. I think Panda’s difficulty was great as far as mechanics went (even if p10s is still fricking suffering with PF groups), so keep that level of complexity while starting to build up class mechanics again. Or just redo the combat system to feel more fluid in its combos, like BDO.
Who the frick plays raid content?
The game is basically Second Life with worse customization.
The real autists keep making new characters to max out or constantly accumulate gil, meanwhile Raid Content is done by losers that feel accomplished over the wrong things.
I miss when I enjoyed xiv
Try some other games, friend. It's better to move on to other things than stay attached to something you don't enjoy anymore. And maybe Dawntrail will be good..... maybe. So you can at least look forward to that.
I do play other games, I actually rarely log on to xiv nowadays but I do miss when it was my go-to game. The peak of it was 4.3-5.3 for me and it's been slowly downhill since then.
I did go to fanfest last year though and it did get me more hyped for Dawntrail
zenos is never coming back
Good, I didn't really like him
I just wish they didn't butcher the exarch after 5.3
Oh God fricking forbid a game be less STRESSFUL. Who in their right mind would want to play a game like Dark Souls where the entire game is based on oppressive difficulty delivered by boring, voiceless dead people and poison frogs over and over?
>less stressful means literally dark souls
Ugly
it'd be cool if you get a second island in DT
My wife is always cute.
you framed the shot wrong, my eyes keep gravitating towards ur boobs instead of ur face
reminder that now that the unique IP count is gone you can't prove that all of the posts in this thread are not me. i'm him. i'm the guy
they should stay unmodded
>there could be a mere 20-40 IPs in the thread and a majority are just 2-3 discord raiders spamming
>we will never know
I hate it here.