Does Yoshi P not look at metrics for the XIV audience?

They Jewry in this company is off the charts, holy shit.

want Shtola merch

get sent 8 Tatarus

next year is year of the horse

no zero

PAY UP GOYIM

I always get my land/hand capped in the first couple of days of an expansion so it didnt wobble my jhonnies but i watched the grinding gears guys do it as beginners and kept hearing "oh i need to hit 30/50 for this upgrade" and i feel like its meant to take a long time for beginners but the true autists we we at the 'endgame' of the first area in two days tops.

Nta but ff14 would work better as a f2p gacha since it's more vn than anything

Buy HQ endgame axe and scythe

Aw shit new relic did i just blow like 1.3 mil?

Mfw its so dogshit i just use the endgame HQ gear and even when its the relic the only difference is like 10gp and a 20% to one collectible ability.

I mean i'm still gonna do it because i'm a fucking autistic asshole playing a japanese mmorpg in 2025 but still. The final model better be KHNO or im sticking with my scaly axe.

new female character

joining the scions

with ishikawa in charge

people are buying Scion merch

a lot of people like the Scions

do nothing with the Scions in game

I will never ever understand the fucking company decisions.

The cosmic tool's bonus credits stack up together. It is worth it to unlock them if you plan on doing cosmic exploration. Each unlock makes the next one even easier, eventually once you have 3 of them at max rank you'll pretty much blow through the rest

No Graha relating to endless sphene about defending a city on a dying world

No Estinien showing up in the Arcadion

No Urianger being autistic about trains

No Thancred hitting on short brown hispanic women and married lizards

No Alphinuax fucking anywhere

At least mommy is back after dropping her litter.

2 FF14 generals

FF14 is literally the sloppest game of all time short of actual gachas
If you are a fan of this game you have no standards and therefore nothing to complain about

Actual gachas are more fun than XIV
Running around opening chests in Genshin is infinitely more fun than running the same dungeon over and over and over for a crumb of XP

fans loved the 12 and the writer's immediate reaction was to kill them all for no reason but they will quadruple down on Woke Lamutt

finished EW yesterday, what did i think of it?

I'm cooking

Because there is literally nothing else to do. Even just this reworked leve system took almost a full fucking year to implement. SE's output for FFXIV is absolutely shameful for how large a company they are and how much money they make.

What even is crafting in this? ive just been gathering and its just leves with collectibles.

Whoever decided the Scions were breaking up after Endwalker was a literal retard. They are in the Top 5 FF Gangs for a lot of people and have good chemistry. It made no sense to break them up and immediately have them reform -1/2 people next expansion.

A bit weirdly paced at times, rushed at others. But othertwise a pretty decent ending

No, it won't.
Gacha is the worst video game format, and you should be ashamed for even suggesting this

I'm retarded a d didn't realize the bcompletion bonuses were a thing so I've been bouncing back and forth between jobs instead of concentrating on one at a time,

remove Tataru from the story

quality instantly nosedive

They've brought this upon themselves

Crafta that High Tier Melds to attempt Gold Star Medal with weird requirements for some of them in A-Rank. Like 20 durability with with 15k+ in Quality.

Regular crafting but you're given all the materials and you don't need catalysts either.
There's a lot of expert crafting which is nice to see, even though you can macro past most of it unfortunately so people won't interface with the expert system unless they wanna gold all the leves.
It's by far faster than gathering, I'd save gathering for red alerts.

The time limits and some of the raw numbers can be pretty brutal on some of the missions (20k progress lmao) but I like it, can't just mash Prepatory four times and win like usual.

A rank mooncrafts need me to use food

Better get to fishing up those cloudtails anon

FF14 does a shit job explaining the mechanic unlocks for new players in general

play through the msq

mount? Nah, bro, you'll have to google how to unlock it?

materia crafting or slotting? Google

leves? Just google lmao

hunts? Google

the whole delivery system

It is insane how poorly all of it is handled, resulting in a playerbase that doesn't know how to even play the game they're playing. And what for? Anything that isn't extreme or savage only requires you to somewhat remember to breethe.
Also FF14's ui is just awful. How do you manage to fuck up one of the most imporant things in an mmo that we've had figured out years ago is baffling.

If you can't figure out how to craft in this game you're an actual fucking retard who should dine on a bullet

Nigga just open your map and do your blue quests

oof, nope, no thank you.

Its also kind of nice to have some old school "autists have layers deep knowledge of systems even endgame savage raiders not only do not understand but might not know exists" like this. Its a level of anti esports autism i can respect.

Not all of them are like that. Some can be easy like 700 Quality/20k Progress. There are experts crafts as well. Crafting is by far the easiest and recommended option to start off with since you get double relic xp for any DoH/DoL if you finish at least one job.

Work together with your fellow Disciples of the Hand and Land to explore the uncharted terrain of the cosmos!

You may only access cosmic exploration areas and quests from your Home World.

This is the only bit I criticise. I can't sit in UCOB PF for 2 hours waiting to fill and also do CE.

*POMF*

Ahhh, just got done getting railed by a train of Big Black male Roegadyns in Gridania. What did you all get up to in FFXIV, bros?

What the fuck happened to the worldbuilding in this game?

how DARE a video game expect it's PLAYERS to PLAY the game instead of sit in limsa all day

shit out content

content isn't fun and wastes time

WHY WON'T ANYONE PLAY THE GAME?!

Shadowbringers funnily enough.

How it started

Long story questline about getting a wedge of cheese

How it's going

You hold an ancient key to interdimensional travel and must protect from a faction that would use the power selfishly

No. You want that restriction. I remember back when Ishgard Restoration was popular I couldn't enter The Firamament because there were too many people in there who didn't belong because of ranking scores.

I can't even finish dawntrail, I absolutely hate story/setting/atmosphere. If there was interesting end content I could've pushed through but it doesn't look like it's coming.

depressing that the developers don't consider any feedback. i just want jobs to be fun and coherent again.

the literal problem with jobs is that they are TOO coherent

setting wise you can't have a near omnipotent group of benevolent gods who are now free of their binding orders and have any meaningful conflict in the setting. them leaving somehow was the only path forward

could it have been done better? perhaps. but what i really want is a song for each god on the level of In the Balance/Dedicated to Moonlight

The content arrives next month (finally)

Understood, we'll add more healing oGCDs, strengthen tank mitigation, remove positionals, shorten all cast times and give you 5 charges of swiftcast.

Free Dawntrail msq skip, right bruddas?

he thinks OC will be good

Oh brother...

It died at EW anon, i mentally let it go. Now play the game for the gameplay, what's left of it, because you wont be getting quality out of the world and story anymore. At least grinding crafts is kinda fun right?
Also how're the Anon Babble threads after the purge? are they still cancer on sight or are they reasonable now?

And even then, SE is way too stubborn to just stop doing their stupid bullshit. And now even the french are doing their job better than them. Rest in piss Square Enix.

mechanically, yes. thematically? not since heavensward.

It's clear the team is conflicted about the scions.
Part of them want them to keep being a major part of the story and the other part don't want them around at all anymore. Really sucks because all expansion none of them have been acting like themselves due to the team being so conflicted about their presence.

some of them require food, meds AND BiS melds for gold rating

completionists are going to rage

You get to see Sphene in booty shorts

Retcon ShB, EW, and DT

One of the best things 7.2 did was "where are the scions? oh here they are doing shit all over" and thats really the baseline of what we needed.

take a break from Anon Babble

decide to come back

it's down

take a second break

come back to this

the same 5 schizos talk to themselves about their dead tranny mmo
nothing changed, huh?

Started in Stormblood (arguably post-ARR) when they introduced "Not-Japan/China" as a region as a place where the Au Ra came from.
To be honest though, I'd say the whole "member berries" started at ARR launch. Final boss is Ultima Weapon straight from FF7.

janjan spent a few hours when the site came back up sniping threads on sight, probably because they were actually talking about the game and usable since the usual suspects hadn't returned yet
of course now that the usual thread raid group is back doing their thing that stopped

Now they just need to let her join your trusts as a SMN and I'll forgive them for Dawntrail.

mount is mandatory in the MSQ now, as is getting shown the levemete, as is materia

the other systems explain how to interact with them when you find them. or did you want every single piece of content to be msq mandatory

Yeah and Anon Babble turned out to be the same dozen cia and mossad agents trying to mk ultra like 20 american rednecks. Dead internet theory bro. Shit twitters 84% bots now.

poopsock raiders are flailing monkeys who have meltdowns when something that isn't a raid appears (just like they bitched shadowbringers was crafter/gatherer oriented for dropping ishgard restoration and reworking crafting and gathering) and expert crafters use plogons and don't understand what they're doing

friction has returned to the gameplay loop and additional content and people aren't happy about that. people are bitching about cosmic exploration's more elusive rewards and long-term rewards being hard to obtain or taking too long. fuck all of them
you could have moved to 8moe instead where the same soulless monsters who float around the periphery of the "dead tranny mmo" kept whining it was a dead tranny mmo and everyone could see they were used to replying to themselves because they weren't paying attention to thread IDs

Thread IDs would improve board quality tenfold but since this place is meant to be a shilling and glownigger haven they'd never add a feature that would lessen their obfuscation.

It's clear the team is conflicted about the scions.

They shouldn't be. At the very least we should have Y'shtola with us all the time.

pictured: lala on the moon meeting a draenei, 2 7AE, colorized

ironically almost all friction coming from the move to 8moe came from thread IDs and their implications for the repetitive shitposting cycles

the remaining friction came from the local hotpocketeers actually, like, responding to reports in timely manner, so being an annoying faggot with catchphrases had consequences, and from an /xivg/ affiliated spammer who saw a female lalafell and went completely berserk to the point of spamming the site to half death

Get the points to do big gamba

get sunglasses, astronaut suit, mount, parasol and minion five tickets in a row

So what do tickets do for me now? just materia?

extras of those things that you can sell on MB

gil. i'm pretty certain you will need full materia melds to push A rank missions over 50/50

It's Bozja but not ugly, it will save the game.

already worthless on my server thanks to bots and undercutting.

bozja but not ugly and with an FFV coat of paint is really all i could have asked for
define "worthless", like 1m-2m? 500k gil a pop for something you'll get at a semifrequent rate is still not a chunk of change to sniff at

It will make the poor job design stand out even more.

lol no it won't you don't remember what lost actions and essences could do for a job and all that stuff is tied to subjobs now

20k

holy shit what server
for uh reasons

Hey, where were you when Anon Babble was down? Afraid of looking like a samefaggot on other website?

nah turned out all the lalafells' hangers on were enormous samefags and all of the hanger on behavior was thoroughly inorganic which even a four year old could figure out without an altchan omve, "*starts cripwalking* vizex xene!" and all that totally dried up after one or two tries and everybody realizing there were thread IDs

I mean, yeah? I wasn't talking about them though.
What?
Go find me a recipe for ham soup or some shit.

lame

i didn't go to any other site. this is my home

i did get a lot of housework and such done

Wait you mean people haven't realized that the dreanged antilala poster is also a huge samefag? They're both cancer but I thought that was obvious.

oh boy cosmic seems fun so far, though my gear is a bit out of date

hit A rank

suddenly scrambling to even gold leves

gather plus craft leves where the crafting is brutal (and nobody crafts without macros because the crafting system is shite)

for some it wasn't! legitimately. somehow. only person that didn't realize it was the poster himself until a couple posts in with IDs and failing to explain his case to an /xivg/ ebin who was suspicious at how hard he was shitting his pants about it

too casual to craft?

macros will get you through B ranks and the red alerts just fine

crafting (savage)

tfw I just now almost a week later remembered Delineations were a thing

Well shit

where are the crafting macros

Anon, if you legitimately craft manually, you're an autist. Everyone uses macros snd gets them via shit like raphael.

you're not getting space relics using macros anon

Estinien and Y'shtola easily the most popular scions among women and men respectively.

Have them spend the most time fucking off of the whole lot.

Playing through the dead computer land was only made tolerable because G'raha was there behaving like the crystak exarch more often than not, and I wanted to fuck Erenville's ghost mom.

macros are not actually an option for most/all of the expert crafts cosmic demands of you

Unironically the only thing that would make me consider resubbing after EW.

Estinien

more popular with women than Graha

Nah

estinien for shoujo, g'raha for fujo

And there is a reason I'm not bothering with them.

gotta risk it for the biscuit

sour grapes. probably a genesis of legends too

Well, the whole point of the raid arc was to waste their aether to the utmost limit, they could've just lived a regular life like Oschon. I still think Endwalker would've been better if most of the Scions died to reinforce its message to push forward through hardships and losses (it's pretty easy to say that when we lose literally nothing) and then, could've "replaced" a good chunk of them with some of the powered down gods as supporting cast for the next expansion.
Azeyma alone seemed extremely eager to have some adventures with us.

Instead we got this garbage "void arc" that straight up ignored all of the set ups it had in the previous expansions ("Unukalhai is right there! Let's not talk to him about the void!") with a NPC that fucking spammed *tips hat* of all things and had one of the most generic "character numb to everything learns to enjoy things again" arcs I ever saw.

Risk it for what? A tool that consistently stays a step behind crafted tools outside of being slightly better at collectables?
Face it, cosmic is just as shitty as any other crafting content they introduce and it's murdered any hype I have for fucking Occult somehow.
Bold of you to assume I have the patience for ultimates.

it ignored those setups because they were in side-content hell and they're not gonna enforce pretty much everything done on the side in heavensward and shadowbringers just for MSQ's sake, side note this is also why they seem to be doing trial series in MSQ now so they won't ever run into the unukalhai problem again. once a failed cecil always a failed cecil

the gathering relic does in fact increase your productivity outside of the moon base which means more scrips which means more money. which is an actual material benefit from doing it. maybe its not worth it but thats a different discussion

Does Yoshi P not look at metrics for the XIV audience?

Yoshi P has not cared about XIV ever since the first patch of Endwalker. He and the oldguard that made this game great has already moved on for several years now. Why haven't you?

A class gatherer missions

I can't meet the GPS check...

I'm not going back to WoW.

They could've easily reintroduced them for this arc and have a prompt when people start the Heavensward arc explaining that it happens before the DW void arc, it's not like they never had side stories be in direct contradiction with the MSQ, like the CUL's level 50 quest being about making a meal for Nanamo even when she was dead in the MSQ.

The only time to efficiently grind class points is during the Red Alerts. 400 for the high end missions for a gold is a fuck ton of effort to reward ratio.

Unukalhai and Cylva were tragically wasted due to being buried behind multiple role quests + additional side quests.
You have so many "people" who outright refuse to play certain roles.
It's a damn shame all that good stuff they did with them will never be part of the MSQ, except that one time they did an extra voice line where Y'shtola mentioned him for those that actually did it, but that's all you're getting.

correct. its also a waste of time to do the fates if you're not in a mech

The people still playing are just too young to have gone through FFXI. They think it's impossible for a game that's still (relatively) popular and makes money to stop getting invested in by SE. They don't understand product lifecycles, or simple business logic like "We're not going to get more subscribers by pouring more money into it at this point, so we're not going to put more money into it than we have to". It's in a death spiral where the more players it loses, the less SE puts back into the game, which causes more people to leave, repeat.

money

Positively worthless. Especially since, last I checked, housing demo is still offline.

You have so many "people" who outright refuse to play certain roles.

Only mentally ill or incredibly desperate people play healers. Specially in their current state.

insane how they haven't addressed any of the issues with the role in over 6 years now.

Its frustrating how lazy the devs are. All the components are there to make a fantastic ff mmo but they just won't do anything.
I wish kuso-p was more spiteful to the foul dregs that infest our game.

Yoshi never exepected intended to keep the WoWrefugees. That is why they axed the Garlemald expansion and rushed out Endwalker as the last squeeze before all those players left. I'm sorry anon, but the rug was pulled - not just for the refugees, but also for the players that stuck with the game since ARR/HW/SB

*expected or intended

I imagine the overwhelming majority of consolefags don't.

yoshi-p is fucking washed, he needs to go, maybe he got depression after ffxvi or something because it was downhill after that

I remember people blowing their load over how shadowbringers made side content relevant to the msq, even making one of the characters a major character for the expansion. At the time, it was indeed cool, but now the crystal tower raids are mandatory so that connection is cheapened.

i don't think it's reasonable to enforce all shadowbringers role quests just for cylva to step in when they finally decided to do something with the void for MSQ, it's less severe but still not desirable for unukalhai with a trial series where unukalhai himself does nothing of real note and he's there mainly to prop up elidibus as a future character, g'raha only got canonized because they put the cart before the horse on crystal tower and the exarch for shadowbringers and the character made literally no sense if you hadn't done crystal tower which a lot of the dialogue options available reflected before the FF3 alliance raid was made mandatory

like we're talking about a character whose whole arc is he isn't old enough to do anything yet even as an undead apprentice to an ascian, or cylva who has a similar failure arc and has a lore blurb unexplained in the actual game itself about deepshadow weapons and armor being the stuff her dark knights used on the first, there's a reason they both got discarded in favor of zero who has her own failure arc and is a very explicit and unambiguous cecil reference all the way down to being a reaper en reference to dark knight, where even cylva was vaguer about it with some kind of werewolf thing going on

there's no issue with the role and its playstyle. maybe just stick to dps if you need to press more glowy buttons

I wouldn't say they're lazy. I think the problem is more that the xiv team is only just big enough to scrape by at the current content pace.

I think XIV's success saw him promoted above his station and he didnt want it, it spread CBU3 too thin and he's burned out.

AND WHERE THE FUCK IS MY BOY KOJI??

koji's still present, loads of items are still punny and he's the one doing vocals for M6/back to the drawing board

It's this.
Shoestring budget that's getting worse as time goes on. Time between patches getting progressively longer while content within those patches gets thinner.

Consolefags can do it just fine though?

i don't know what throwing more money at XIV would actually accomplish, it needs more people not more money and even then there's no real incentive on the devs' side to accelerate their content pace which is already obscenely fast and regular for an MMO

"content gets thinner" is literally not happening and you should be ashamed of yourself for trying it, 7.2 is the most dense X.2 patch ever released

I think he's too busy with other projects. FF16 opened the door for Creative Studio 3 to work on things outside of XIV

i don't know what throwing more money at XIV would actually accomplish, it needs more people not more money

You think people will work for free?

Crating/Gathering is complete dogshit in this game and extremely confusing.

that's not a budgetary issue, they have the money for more employees already

He means the game makes more than enough money for what it is, so money isnt the issue, ya dumb fuck.
This shitty game keeps that shitty company alive.

Now that the dust has settled and everyone loved M6S adds phase, what are the odds we get more like it in future fights?

119 points to finish Botanist relic

not a single fucking mission popping with rank 4 botanist xp

YOSHI PLS

This just goes to show how absolutely fucked FFXIV is as a game. All these fucking systems and none of them are require, much less useful for completing the game and 90% of content. Crafting is probably the biggest waste of time in the game.

Pots and foods aren't needed to do basic content and only see use in Savage or parsing

Armour crafting is useless until endgame, and that's only if you also happen to raid/parse or just came back from a break and are low on tomes

Seriously, so much shit in the game never sees the light of day unless you're a fucking raider or parser

odds are very very high, M5 to M8 both normal and savage were the best received raids in ages

SE practically begs people to apply for dev jobs in almost every live letter. Unfortunately SE can't manifest new devs out of the ether.

they have the money for more employees already

Yeah, and those employees are on other projects.
It doesn't matter how much xiv makes when most of it is funneled off to SE's next big flop.

I don't think you retards understand, SE is not reinvesting into xiv. The team has obviously been stripped down to the bare essentials. Just enough to shit out reused content every six months so the money printer keeps moving.

especially not MMO devs which are a borderline dead breed in japan

square enix as a whole is not at yoshida's disposal and their skills as applied to other projects and games do not necessarily apply in any way to XIV's development

please learn game dev, this is not an "effort" issue or actual resource-allocation issue same as it's not a budget issue, the higher production values between heavensward to now are rather self-evident

Convocation of 14 add phase in Hades Ultimate

Forced wipe but Azem comes in with the revive

or like in respect to the fact that XIV has probably the most steady, regular and frequent content drip of any MMO, what IS the issue? IS there an issue? part of the patch delay is yoshida treating his employees more like human beings than like coal miners, giving his cronies more time to reduce crunch was one of the stated reasons for patch timings getting longer, quite probably even yoshida himself tasted work-from-home and very long delays during COVID with endwalker and decided he wanted that as a permanent fixture, because why wouldn't you, game dev is stressful and time limits are unforgiving, so what is the issue, that it doesn't update as frequently as fortnite or something? it strikes me as one of those issues where somebody needs a reality check

Really wish they hadn't skipped the Shinryu Ultimate. Then again, I doubt they have the gumption to portray the Garleans as good guys (see Endwalker).

they'd have to reiterate to players that zenos is canonically a mother

Well, you know, due to the INSANE popularity of M6S, we will have to... adjust... healers a little AST is quite a bit too flexible with their AoE being ranged, that is a big nono. And tanks... well... tanks play a bit too different, we have to sand some more edges off there. And while we are at it, we really need to make sure ranged DPS and mages play a bit more similar, cast times are objectively hindering our design process. 8.0 will to a lot to make a role based job design more streamlined, and in turn, you people can look forward to 4 cool fights every 8-9 months!

Haeh

Yoshitpiss doesn't know a damn thing about how to make a game, full stop.

He makes money hand-over-fist and people bitch about him doing so

PC:

copy/paste the generated macro into a new macro slot

Console:

has to manually type out the generated macro line by line

The content is stale.
The gameplay is stale and homogenised.
The content has no longevity, yet it's expected to last for months.
Use your brain Mr. Corporate Drone.

See the little faggot with the earring and the make-up?
Yeah buddy, that's his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot, he's a millionaire

nooticing

portray the Garleans as good guys

UNHAND ME YOU FUCKING SAVAGES I KNOW MY RIGHTS

waddles into a field full of rogue magitek

AIIEEEEE I AM IN DANGER SAVE ME YOU FUCKING SAVAGES

A lot of those just boil down to RNG you have no control over in the end, especially if you're going for gold rank
Collectable+Reduction is just 'bonus didn't proc on desynth? YOU LOSE!'
Chains is 'Eureka Moment didn't proc? YOU LOSE!'
all other missions are 'didn't get enough boon procs? YOU LOSE!'

Thankfully you only have to Gold each mission once for anything meaningful.

they should lower the subscription cost if they're updating the game less frequently and putting more items in the cash shop.

Noticing what? That content we get is the same shit we've been getting for years, but with worse gameplay and longer patches to go alongside it?

Its sub cost is already lower than normal for an MMO if you only have the one character and don't pay for other perks.

Oh no, 30 seconds longer, how awful.

This, unironically. The story basically ended at the Ghimlyt Dark with a cliffhanger that never got resolved as the lore kept getting more and more fucked up. Shadowbringers was good in a vacuum but did irreparable damage to the game and its setting as a whole, culminating in Endwalker, the absolute nadir of XIV as a whole. Every interesting plot line was severed, Garlean threat neutralized, political stories are done in general because everyone everywhere is best friends now, tempering is no problem we have pigs for that lol, the Allagan Empire was totally demystified because "lol Ascians XD". Every interesting locale that could have supported an expansion of their own was wasted, people bitch about Garlemald being wasted but I'm still beyond agitated that they did nothing with places like Sharlayan and Radz-at-Han.

Shadowbringers basically ruined everything and Endwalker was the deathblow. I think the 4.X content in Stormblood is probably the best the game had ever been, and we lost it for nothing and now we can never go back.

even the silver is very tight on most of them
a couple I was only able to just silver rank because of good RNG, otherwise I was either one gather off or 1 sec too slow to make silver

While I agree that there was a very clear break of style between SB and ShB, the latter kind of story telling resonated a lot more with people and the established lore was a very good foundation for it. I would even say EW was good if not a little rushed. That being said, everything after 6.1 was a tragedy. The complete killing off the 12, resolving every single plot they had left and starting from a blank slate was a bold move that didn't pay out. The ShB style story telling falls completely flat when your world building isn't done well and DT is the best example for that.
Also, in a sense I want to say SB did most damage to the Garleans by painting them as absolutely incompetent, while during ARR and HW they still were a substantial thread.

there's no way Zenos isn't the final phase of Endwalker MSQ ultimate

Tfw people thought the reason there was a hidden area of shaloani was it being where the missing garlean legion set up their own feifdom like artorios becoming king of whales after defecting from rome.

Instead its just stinkbombs, dinosaurs and SO SMILLLLLLLEEEEEE

guys...

click on rocks

nah

I am still completely mystified people get hung up on the Twelve, getting an alliance raid revolving around killing them and giving a reason for why they couldn't be summoned without reimagining them into a different entity is more than I ever expected them to get.

It's actually really distressing when you find out that the average player has never had more than a few million gil and what they do have just came from MSQ rewards adding up

>Tfw people thought the reason there was a hidden area of shaloani was it being where the missing garlean legion set up their own feifdom like artorios becoming king of whales after defecting from rome.

Who the fuck thought this. I swear mfs will invent the weirdest shit to get mad over.

garleboos hold hope eternally even after the total identity death of the empire

grind out the 20 aquapolis title

get a policewoman glam

go around fining crafters for blocking the footpath and rpfags for loitering

I'll never not be sad about Garlemald the empire being entirely resolved off screen and only given a few brief glimpses with cutscenes.

surely they would have the data to show how few players unlocked that stuff right?

Why should Yoshi-P make content aimed at people that don't play the game and can't read?
Do you just want all game updates to be a new bench added to a city-state for idlers to use?

Because fantasy religion can be fun and a lot of early XIV had to do with them. Hell one of the very few RP choices XIV has you make is deciding on your patron god. NPCs keep mentioning them, landmarks are called after them, crafter skills were names after them. It was a bit of world building you kept encountering and it ending up as "Yeah its just 12 buds from Venat that want to stop existing" was kind of a let down. Having them in the background unsure if they are gods or not that might even stand above the player character in terms of power is important.

not buying the devalued undercuts and reposting at a higher price cornering the market

You wouldn't last a day in Ul'dah.

tell me...will i dream?

>A rank mooncrafts need me to use food

how is this a bad thing?

Not a chance.

Having them in the background unsure if they are gods or not that might even stand above the player character in terms of power is important.

I recall ARR and HW both heavily implying they weren't any more real than primals, true deities in the setting just aren't a thing

FF7R is completely imploding

If you say so...

watch them add this to ultimates and people pretend it was a bad idea all this time

Because in the Blue Mage quests back in the day the whalaquee tribe talked about sitting on a huge vein of ceruleum a garlean legion was trying to kick them off the land for. People saw wild west zone with cerulium oil derricks and trains and the blue mages in XIV are native american analogues and shockingly people thought the writers would know that.

whalaquee tribe talked about sitting on a huge vein of ceruleum a garlean legion was trying to kick them off the land for.

That was an Ul'dahn mining concern wasn't it

There are many players that refuse to meld materia into the guaranteed slots on their combat gear because its' too much work and sweaty, but crafting content requires overmelds and even food buffs. What is Yoshi-P thinking?

yoshi-p is thinking "you're fucking stupid if you REFUSE to meld materia"

hello faggots i missed you

because materia in crafting actually matters. the outcome of your M8N isn't a numbers thing

The low tier stuff can be done without melds. If they care enough about crafting to try and grind out a relic though, they can figure it out.

Story only noob here, what do I even do in this game? Crafting seems to result in gear weaker than tomestone gear, and I'm stuck waiting for my weekly mathematics cap to unlock. Am I expected to just go grind mounts and pets?

story only

unsub till the next story comes out i suppose?

It's crafting (Savage)
If you don't have your shit together, that's your problem.
Crafting relics have always been a bitch to get when they're current and even after you get them they have a very niche use that ultimately isn't that great but autists love that shit.

Story only

Unsub until next patch, or just browse around until some other piece of content strikes your fancy.
Shit, if you're a real storyfag you can go do yellow quests, or side content you skipped.

Still doesn't know the (((monetarists))) were funding the garlean war effort to glass gridania.

That was Azulmagia and Ul'dahn, and we made him stop in the first BLU storyline. If the Whalaquee had been conquered by Garlemald afterward then surely Martyn's associates would've mentioned something.

They should have a presence in Dawntrail besides the FSH quest and 1 line from Erenville, but expecting a Garlean castrum would've been insane.

i'm still convinced there's something we're missing in this mural

Sold less than fucking Mario RPG

expecting a Garlean castrum would've been insane.

Nigga they added a bubble from another dimension dropping a whole kingdom. How is that crazier than "the largest deposit outside garlemalde and the perfect staging point to conquer tural?
Hell that could be the reason zorall ja was pushing for more military.

mario rpg is a good game and was faithful to the source material

The people who care enough to engage with crafting are not the same people as Limsa idlers, especially not for high end crafting content like this.

And hopefully the performance of the two gamess is a fucking lesson to SE, though I don't have fiath it will be.

a 16+ jrpg sold less than the most popular video franchise in the world marketed for people of all ages

Rope

There's nothing wrong with designing content for the people who actually play the game. XIV's biggest problem up to this point was that they kept doing the opposite and making things for people who don't play, like ignoring the void team on the First because they can't expect people to grind up 10 levels in each job. If someone hasn't unlocked aetherial reduction or manipulation then fuck them, they can play the game and unlock them or they can leave.

Still amazed Gaia showed up in the msq.

remake of the game heralded as the absolute definitive JRPG ever created can't outsell a remake of a game that didn't even release in Europe

Continue coping faggot

An emergent problem from a new force makes substantially more sense than expecting that either Garlemald had colonized Tural years ago with no one mentioning it until now, or like half of a legion fled the decimated Garlemald during the Final Days and managed to start colonizing Tural and also Wuk Lamat didn't mention it.

I'd tell to ask your mom whether she's heard of final fantasy or super mario, but then I remember she's too busy sucking your dick

Remember Shaloani is across the great bridge and they could easily defend tural and be in a tense standoff.

Why haven't they deleted grand companies from the game yet? What's up with all the dead content

Running back and forth clicking 2 things 30 times is amazing gameplay, truly yoshi p and the team have outdone themselves this time

Immortal Flames ride or die nigguh.

*makes 30 posts about it*
wow i fucking hate doing the same things over and over this is the game's fault

No reason to delete them compared to just leaving them to rot, which is a shame. I've honestly had an entire rework for GC that would not only separate it from trusts/duty support, but also allow for unlocking the last 8 company ranks with a content progression that could feel natural.
Hire me Squeenix

That still stretches belief pretty heavily that any of the Promises would somehow not know, especially Koana who's got his dick in Shaalaoni's advancements up to his nut hairs

raid loggers mad something other than Simon says in a circular or square arena was added to the game

Every single time

expert crafting is fucking retarded because it's still ultimately RNG or burning consumable items.
If you want to make a crafting system for experts, have it reward skill, not luck.

Yeah but new players are gonna approach this content and waste their time, it's pointless and the squadron AI is abysmal

I heard from blufever that the original plot of Dawntrail was going to be that Meteion had teamed up remnants of Garlemald to create a new smaller more energy efficent Zodiark, and the WoL was going to join them in their mission to spread freedom to the savages of the New World, but then Sera Bryer forced Yoshi-P to rewrite it to be about corn and tacos.

They should a diplomacy minigame where you cultivate relationships with the other grand companies as a means to continue advancing as an officer, the WoL has pretty much maxed out his value as a field operative.

Skill issue

painting everyone who wants actual massively multi-player content in the game as a raid logger

Fuck off, if the new eureka was out already, almost NOBODY would be bitching about this content being dogshit for everyone that isn't an autistic poopsocking achievement whore

There actually already is a diplomacy minigame, it's been around since 1.0 and you got it in your toybox for doing ARR Hildibrand. It's called Parley. It was made for progressing the MSQ as a crafter/gatherer in 1.0, you could just argue with MSQ enemies instead of fighting.

you now remember island sanctuary.

had to spend 400k on gear to clear D-rank missions

This is who's complaining about cosmic.

Nigger the Cosmic shit is the most "massively multiplayer online" content in the game with the cooperative building going on. Sorry you didn't get fates in an instance first but it'll be here in a few weeks so you can soothe your ravaged butthole about jt.

We could've had war story kino
Instead I'm going through chemo because of the cancer Endwalker gave me
I also agree on Thavnair and Sharlaya being wasted.

Nah, I think the better way of doing it is to give the player more control over squadmate actions (Where to move as a group and individually, role abilities, individual targeting) while removing the player from having a direct role in combat. Make it a 4 squad members + WoL as leader in a limited 'Commander' job. Then you could scale it up to higher content as you get more ranks. Start with normal dungeons leading 4 squad members, expand it to your full platoon of 8 for trials/raids. Final ranks would let you take on Alliance Raids with two other players from the other grand companies.
How the fuck do you get filtered by crafting that bad while still being level 100?

where do i find the crafting macros?

complaining about XP gains instead of having all crafters at 100 back in august

Sexy cat sisters looking for innocent, battle minded WoLs to corrupt...

Reminder that people got filtered by the two button role playing duties

Levequests in an instance instead is a kick in the balls, just because you're a masochist who enjoys it doesn't mean everyone else is. Imagine releasing content for fuckung CRAFTERS AND GATHERERS before you release the content that 90% of people have been looking forwards to since they announced it

raiders angy it's not THEIR poopsock being filled
i try not to, literally everything in endwalker was a dud except the first relic step and matte second step

I can't forget it I'm still grinding those stupid green tickets.

Sorry nigger, Crafters and Gatherers run this game.

Trannies aren't women.

Which brings me back to.my.lriginal.post >[708365431
Continue impotently seething something other than battle content was added to the game. Hell the current Savage tier has been the best received content in a really fucking long time so acting like raiders are starved for content is some bullshit anyway.

I thought i was getting a vacation with my daughter-wife red alphinaux, wheres my holiday yoshi?

Considering DT completely character assassinated Alisaie and Krile, both of them sitting out was a boon.

There it is again. "Raiders". Not everyone who wants battle content to do is a fucking raider you inbred mongrel. Raiders have content right now, the people unhappy are the NON RAIDERS who want shit to do

No timeskip to where Allisae is a beautiful giraffe mogging on mother mioune.

someone complains about content being too hard

yoship just laughs

Imagine

Friends all stopped playing due to the absolute nuclear grade cancer the 7.0 MSQ was

DT MSQ managed to character assassinate every single beloved character by making them act like skinwalker versions of themselves

World building is virtually non-existent since the great 6.0-6.5 plot thread resolution

7.1 patch story was dogshit, 7.2 only slightly better

Game play systems aren't good enough to carry water for the above issues

The downfall of XIV should be taught in schools as a case study in project mismanagement. They had the industry's darling at the tail end of ShB and have somehow made every single possible wrong decision for YEARS. It's insane what SE managed to squander with their ineptitude

Would it be so hard to introduce dating/slice of life content with the Scions? Interacting with them outside the MSQ would be really fun and it seems like such an easy W for the dev team...

He's still around just so he can push for the Tactics Remaster to be made (specifically by CBU3)

I'd be fine with that. 16 was p good despite it getting the Xenogears treatment. If TR isn't a fucking turn-based strategy game I swear to God I'm done with this shit company.

The only.thing that's bullshit and needs adjusting with the Cosmic missions is that your GP should refill when you finish a mission, having to just fucking stand around and wait for it to refill before you can launch the next mission is retarded.

FF16 was garbage dude.

unironically this happened in recent patch notes
people bitched about the insane expert crafts and long-term rewards
patch notes said everything, after review, was working as intended

Adult twins

still identical

Allisaie is still the base model and Alphie is woman(blue)

death to everyone still obsessing over MSQ quality a year after base release and months after getting the stark improvement they've been begging for

If only there was some zone in the game that was full of crafters crafting. Do a /sh or fuck off.

i'm 99% certain that one of the patch notes about a change to black mage said 'actual output of the class may be attributed to player performance' or something long those lines

also, whatever happened to those black mage mains that were going to quit forever?

This game has like 10,000 vendors with pages upon pages of items (almost none of which progress your player power), all bought with 30 different currencies, I don't get it

doesn't engage with raiding

doesn't engage with crafting and gathering

but doing rote rotations on brainless overworld mobs with the occasional FATE boss with an in/out? Now THAT'S the good shit

Lmao. Double LMAO since you'll be getting what you want in a couple of weeks anyway.

They will keep her athletic sillouette

Wide hipped, big titted milf allisae will never happen.

Alphie is woman(blue)

Draw a girl and call it a boy. Just the way it should be.

World building still in shambles

No good characters to latch onto

World aesthetic is a garbled mess

No clear direction to get excited about

This car crash has been playing out for literal years now

The fact Wuk Lamat wasn't literally in every single cutscene in 7.2 doesn't change these facts, stop sucking corporate cock

You never did Bozja or Eureka if that's what you think the exploration zone gameplay is like, retarded faggot

every party on the pf was waiting for a caster for reclears nigger, I waited 2 hours just for a caster to do m6s reclear

"leves in a zone" vs. "fates in an instance" who will win this endless battle of petty reductionism

World building

garlemald is dead bro

Right, you forgot the god awful shout chat trying to be funny and/or spewing politics.

twinks boypussy becomes manpussy

may as well just fuck a woman..

Eureka absolutely was that outside of BA and the final zone bosses. Bozja only had slightly more complex mechanics in CEs and Duels were basically just "cheese this with the proper Lost actions or lose".DR was a 24 man with bombs in the hallways. DRS was probably cool but I never bothered with it.

if you complain about that don't ever play GW2 ever

Pipe dream, but I hope he bans modders one day.

They had the industry's darling at the tail end of ShB and have somehow made every single possible wrong decision for YEARS

ShB is when SE enacts the great simplification and we go from 16 jobs to five - tank, melee DPS, ranged DPS, healer, and magic DPS

people love it. wowee, everything sure is balanced now!! crazy work cbu3, this is great!

EW rolls around - well if it worked, why change it? It was a lot harder to balance all the different jobs against each other before. this is much easier!

people are beginning to get tired of 4 years of samey job design, but don't worry DT will fix it!

DT happens

people are now very very tired from 7 years of playing shadowbringers

balance is incredibly fucked and ranged DPS is back to being irrelevant

SE is incredibly reluctant to rework things because this is how the game has been played for the majority of its lifespan(!!) and going back to how things were in ARR-StB is just going to make it more expensive to maintain

but don't worry 8.0 will fix it!!

YOU ARE HERE

Imagine wanting to age this up. Mental illness.

Dang, even after the purge, same old shitposts. Not sure what I expected.

Take comfort knowing they were here furiously refreshing every second while you were out doing something productive.

Mate we were doing cosmic exploration.

8.0

keep the leveling cap at 100

create all sorts of horizontal content, unique and varied raids that each drop unique weapons with gimmicks a la different set effect paths

overhaul the job system to have complexity again and not a 5 button action game

open world pvp via control of territories, the true endless content that writes itself

you now have an mmorpg

DRS was probably cool but I never bothered with it.

DRS is the best raid in the game

new avatarfag just dropped

actually I'm a borrowed persona

he's not a fucking avatarfag alright? the lalafags post pictures of their characters i'm just using a character from the game. he's not trying to make people jerk off to his lalafell

create all sorts of horizontal content, unique and varied raids that each drop unique weapons with gimmicks a la different set effect paths

not happening.

overhaul the job system to have complexity again and not a 5 button action game

not happening, expect further simplification to dps and phys ranged.

open world pvp via control of territories, the true endless content that writes itself

obviously not happening.

vertical content

bis is in one place and it changes every few months

horizontal content

bis is spread out thin and it changes once every few years

balance is incredibly fucked and ranged DPS is back to being irrelevant

It feels so good to be mid on the DPS chart as BLM but at least I'm not a MCH.

OSRS Won...

I do not believe in Naoki Yoshida.
I just do not believe the man has what it takes to develop and run this game. He was promoted beyond his station. The game needs a director; a real director.

What's actually going to happen

you still get five new skills, three of which are just upgraded reskins of existing skills but the ,"twist" is that you'll earn "talent points" (or whatever) so you can unlock the skills in any order in order to give the illusion of choice

This is straight up propaganda to defend the man instead of acknowledging his many flaws. Flaws worse than Yoshinori Kitase & Hashimoto had ever demonstrated.
You should be ashamed of yourself.

start A craft

already know I'm bronze medalling from not getting the 50% CP cost on master meld

Since you have mech bonus 100% of the time it shouldn't really bother me too much but fuck me does it bother me

ENTER

Boots up Artisan

Craft all

Go AFK

Max all my relics

Now this is CONTENT

I still don't get why are they using FFXIV funds and team for other projects

Sis your gatherers...?

So I only have fisher at 100, that means Cosmic Exploration is useless for me, right?

He'd be fine for things like lore, art & world building but the issues with Yoshida's writing and questing team would still remain.
It needs an actual director who has vision and the competence to realise what the flaws in the production pipeline & content delivery model are. Not trying to knock Metzen, I don't think he'd be suited for XIV but I also realise he alone could not give the team the vision they need. You can see that with Overwatch, once they were finished recycling his, Tsang & Goodman's concepts the story flatlined, yes he left, but you still need an actual director at the wheel.

Might just start going for Silver ranks, supposedly the difference in reward is only going from 4x to 5x so all the extra worth and stress about Gold may not even be worth it.

keep the leveling cap at 100

Genuinely needed for longevity. They can't keep doing level squishes because the game is set up to need the player playing through all content

create all sorts of horizontal content, unique and varied raids that each drop unique weapons with gimmicks a la different set effect paths

Pretty unlikely, especially if you intend for it to be backwards compatible. It'd be nice though, I'd love to see wands make a return.

overhaul the job system to have complexity again and not a 5 button action game

An overhaul to the job system is pretty likely, though I think that's where horizontal progression will be placed. Alternate forms of classes and such.

open world pvp via control of territories, the true endless content that writes itself

Never gonna happen. Any form of open world pvp would require such an overhaul it wouldn't be XIV anymore. Imagine being a gatherer, even max level, and you're attacked by another player. Instantly killed because you lack the health.

You can level in cosmic exploration.

its the second fastest way to level crafters now. i'm fairly certain spamming regular leves is still faster for gatherers because of travel time

yes, it's like how both a granite maul (2003) and twisted bow (2018) both have their uses in 2025 runescape. bdo does a good compromise where you hunt down various bis pieces which start at tier 1 and you slowly upgrade to tier 5, but tier 5 stays bis for years. otherwise you get garbage like lost ark where people feel like they're playing a job simulator and not an actual game.

Boots up MMOMinion

Set gatherbot

Go AFK

Max all my relics

here's your new post-100 non-character-level power progression, sis

Wrong game, sister.

wow post leveling progression is the illusion of choice and complete garbage. it's hilarious how in TWW they touted this new new talent master class path system and you end up picking 9/10 of the talents anyway

omg borrowed power!!! based based based based! that's so nostalgic!!

Yeah but I mean, can i get the same rewards like everyone else since the start? or do i need level up until certain point?

I love sphene

I'm tired of the new arcadion tier already.

you'll get more of the currencies as you level up. gear does matter as well

the sphenis

raphael-xiv.com

you didn't beat cosmic exploration

Not to be rude but isn't that how it is every tier?

aetherial reduction

wtf is this and how do you unlock it?

500k FSH points through red alerts only

You definitely didn't beat cosmic exploration

This guy fucks.

talk to the crafter NPC in Mor Dhona with a blue+ quest, who also unlocks scrips and collectables

dunno never got into crafting in this game, i have enough problems with my inventory filling up already

no inventory necessary for space exploration

I think it was late ARR or HW but its intended to be part of the endgame hand/land loop

Gather collectible

Use aetherial reduction

Turns into aethersand, crystals and other shit

The higher the collectibility rating the better the result

Depending on patch/expansion its the best way to get stuff like crystals sometimes, but in endwalker they changed it for a while so it was better to just use abilities on base nodes for a while.

There are currently more meaningful differences between two builds of the same WoW spec (of which there are 38) than there is between jobs in a role in XIV. But yes keep ranting about "illusion of choice" and jerking off to screenshots from 2021. Surely that will stop our game from continuing to hemorrhage subs like crazy while WoW is entering a second golden age.

He doesn't have four retainers bringing back gear he desynths

He doesn't know what desynthing is

Its ten years too late to catch up.

The omnidesynther is simply a higher caste than you.

Play Red Mage

Alliance raids literally cannot finish without us because people are retarded and queue for tank and heal fast times and die constantly

As such we will never ever get fucked with

You are welcome.

I miss Heavensward launch and people melting down that 70% of players were unable to beat the Steps of Faith trial and finish the 2.X MSQ.

That's the most insane part of this whole thing for me. Might aswell do 3-4 missions in the time it takes to walk to the fate and do it, complete fucking waste of time.

you can teleport to the fate at the dude who sells the mech permits

Is XIV saved now?

isn't WoW full of brazilians who will rage and break your key?

2 dots, 2 cds, and 3 skills is a wow "build"

Yikes...

eh, its moving in the right direction very very slowly. Occult Crescent is the real shit we are waiting on.

it's insane to me how people say WoW is somehow better despite the state of XIV's healers and tanks.

Doesn't matter. Getting back on track is only half the problem. DT MSQ is forever going to be a huge barrier to any future content. There's no getting around that.

It will be in one month when we get the real content.

makes millions

worst

Because you don't like it doesn't mean it doesn't make money. Ffxiv needs gacha format. I'm not paying for it as is. And the story ended with base endwalker, so there's that. Anything after that is filler garbage. And we see it immediately in dawntrail and woke lemutt.

The fuck is happening in cosmic shout chat?

Genuine MMO content

I honestly don't get this argument when Estinian is LITERALLY the poster child of promoted to MSQ, HW even retreads the DRG questline, it really doesn't take much to sum up the sidequests.

but what if you do the role quests later??

Again, they did it for Estinian and have gone on record saying all quests canonically happen when they are released during their expansion time unless specifically stated otherwise

Launch window crafting and gathering is literally barrens chat. Daidem launch week was the most autistic general chat i have ever seen and i still think of it fondly.

Type anything in zone chat

crickets

Make space station alpha reference in cosmic exploration

AEIOU

JOHN MADDEN

WWWWWWWWWWWWWW

ITS NOT GAY IF ITS ON THE MOON

Nature is healing.

garleniggers still seeting about their never happening garlemald expansions

the congregation of simpletons crying and seething still

they cant craft either

new eureka coming theyre dooming

the dot head niggers cry every thread.

Thank you endwalker you are a gift that keeps on giving.

Yfw we start the heavyweight arcadion and we get challenged by a new up and comer from ishgard...

players skip everything, including the tutorial text on how to do things

they screech when the things they skipped become relevant

While I have never played, if that's how it played out, it's a story as old as time. "Fuck you, I'm not reading all that shit. YEET." goes hand in hand with, "I am going to master this system." So the ball is left to the developers. Do they reward effort or laziness? Do they punish ignorance or diligence? History tells us this only goes one way.

it is genuinely impossible to talk about ffxiv in the xiv general past all the ERPing avatarfags so we have to do this here unfortunately

Speaking of estinien we really should have got more of his dad master instead of gay aymeric quips about estinien and their faggot past

god damn aymerics a fucking basic bitch loser who was dogshit in his rolequest when it should have been all about artoriel

Never had a moment where any job was too daunting to understand. I miss old Astrologian.

Actually this stuff isn't part of the main crafter and gatherer level up experience. Quite a lot of FFXIV is comparable to stuff in WoW like the winterspring cub questline. You could play for a decade and unless you scrape every corner a casual player simply wont encounter npc's off the beaten path that teach you shit.

Like they added an npc to meld materia into slots for you because back in the day you have to learn yourself from a goblin out in the sticks AND you could only meld materia to gear if the crafter for that type of gear was a high enough level.

Just give me back time dilation and I'll play the lobotomized one we have now.

fire kate fire hiroi.

I'm a girl and I hate Estinien. He's not a Scion as far as I'm concerned.

literally what is there to even hate about estinien

allisaie...

Graha is not your "little meow meow" and he would NEVER have sex with your gross cooter.

the worst he could cherrypick is something with two dots

Grim. Yoshit probably still has night terrors about old summoner to this day.

tits or gtfo

him being nidhogg being a joke and none of his powers explained.

lel
not without, ishikawa, yoshida, ozma & the quest design goon

WHERE THE FUCK IS ISHIKAWA?

garleniggers still seething kek.

G'raha should've stayed dead at the end of 5.3.
back before 5.3 i would head to the lota entrance and play eternal wind on a flute

I miss emet but also fear the day they introduce us to a trio of little viera kids, two with white hair one with violet and the leader of the trio is a brat with yellow eyes and a familiar dislike of WoL.

for the story

oof, thats rough

tits, you know the rules
but also yeah, he's more forced than krile and the self insert
gaius would make a better fucking scion
dude should be a job quest good like hilda and the rest of the trash in the brume

G'raha is a true bro and the scions would be far lesser without him

making hytloadaeus a gay twink was the biggest sin. how the mystery nigger version has more charisma is crazy.

I'm a sucker for doomed heroes

A rank MIN/BTN mission ask you to not just autogather your way to victory and actually use your skills in a meaningful way to get gold ranks

I'm honestly enjoying this shit way too much
Though the weather based stuff is purely devilish

A3 crafted mission ask you for an expert craft with only 20 durability and full quality

Playing MMORPGs for the gameplay

Shut up bitch. Go sell your playerbase the same expacs for a third time.

Are there any dragons on the First? Did they go extinct from the Flood of Light or are they only on the Source?

first brood source only. any other dragons are just enemies mooks or their own little quest stories.

Dragons come from space, there are no dragons in the reflections

It's not Estinien himself it's how fucking forced he is ever since he was introduced. I fucking HATE how the other characters react to him and have all these lines that try to gaslight you into thinking how FUCKING COOL AND LE MYSTERIOUS he is just because he dares to just live his own life and take his free time and not be at the beck and call of a fucking NGO like the Scions.

We TRIED to get a hold of Estinien but we couldn't because he's SO BADASS.

Tee hee that he is!

I always fucking hated that shit.
You will never make me think he's cool.

AND THEN there's the fact that he only jumped on the Scion bandwagon at the LAST FUCKING SECOND in a manner which was so forced and nonsensical and was so blatantly solely because they needed another melee for the trial Trusts they added in Endwalker so he was shoehorned in because they had already killed off a perfectly good melee Scion ages ago. And then despite his gay little speech making excuses for why he finally decided to join up, during EW he acts like he would rather be anywhere else when stuff is going on. Like everyone else is huddled around a map trying to figure something out and he's on the other side of the room leaning against the wall with his arms crossed because he can't live without acting like an affected faggot. He has no investment in any of this shit.

Emet-Selch who?

The only time he ever talks is when dragons are brought up to remind everyone that he fucked a dragon once or whatever or act like some kind of expert on them. Fuck Estinien.

He was kind of fine at first but they ruined him.

Chris metzen

Dead game dead content

Thanks bau bau
Dead post

HERE COMES ANOTHER DOMAN EARTHQUAKE ERBRBRBRBRBRBRBR

Meanwhile there's at least 1k players in every servers in the instances

This but with alisaie shes a waste of space and brings others down with her shit arcs.

they should have just combined exploratory content with cosmic exploration
niggas going out to fight and quell rabid ayys while we build up the base and ways to get around

The Gamer (their source are reddit posts)

lol
lmao

exploratory queers are homo. no one should listen to them. they think bozja is good.(ITS NOT)

im just glad its new eureka.

eioueioueioueioueioueou

artillery/tank support built from crafters

vietnam fun box of traps made by gatherers

It's one of those slop outlets that aggregate data and use AI to churn out content for clicks and ad revenue

Game ask you to know your class and gear up for their hardest works

It's somehow a bad thing

lol
lmao

Him constantly wanking Alphinaud

BOZJA IS KINO ON A LEVEL YOU CANNOT COMPREHEND LITTLE MILALA

youtube.com/watch?v=Hr_s8Mm0amM

wrong bitch

you and alphinaud saved estinien

struggling in a CE

suddenly from the sides a fucking rail cannon shot goes off, chunking the boss

its the crafters off to the side who finished their support CE in the nick of time

Field operations should just be the base format of the game. Why the fuck do they even bother making all these new zones and then put all the world content somewhere else.

There's nothing they can do. FFXIV is a massive freight train that can't change course easily. They plan content out a decade in advance. As I'm typing this now, they're probably making assets for 9.0. When 6.2 came out, 7.0 was mostly finished except for some VA and translation work.

If they started working on making changes when they realized 7.0 was received poorly, those changes wouldn't show up for 2 years.

what a retard.

New shard finds a way to your shard

Large group of villains that are stronger than you

Dead scions everywhere

Need Zenos to help you stand a chance against them

Cringe or kino?

tranny post.

fuck off secondary.

They had what you're describing in 1.0. They were called Hamlet Defense and they were really fun. DoH/DoL/DoW/M all played together. They could have brought back a concept like that at any time and they just choose not to because these devs are retarded.

blink twice if Ishikawa has a shotgun held to your skull bwo

Please don't call Yoshit Piss names. You're going to make him cry again.

Lets all UNSUB RIGHT NOW

They have a weird obsession with the idea that all content must be completely separate from all other content at all times. And since they're japanese, it's never going to fucking change

should I resub? i instantly unsubbed after finishing dawntrail story

New shard finds a way to your shard

we wouldn't NEED a new fucking shard every expansion if they didn't systematically kill everything interesting about the source in 6 months

enough about that, let's get back to wuk lumat lore

seething limsa tranny

do you find the thought of doing crafter/gatherer leves exciting enough to pay square enix $15/month?

wait til we react to 7.3 or just all the way to 8.0

The only thing we killed was Garlemald and it wasn't interesting, ever. No, not even then.

we still got erenville 2.0 slop to do and Krile ignore her 3.0 crap

what the fuck are thancred and urianger up to?

garleniggers still seething about there never was shit expansion.

hahaha its been wonderful.

lel

for vhat

Who CARES what thancred is doing

thancred and urianger are flanderised garbage too desu
urianger had all of his remaining character killed in 6.0 & 6.x
thancred should be fucking dead
same place he should have been in 5.1

It's not 2019 anymore btw

>Game ask you to know your class and gear up for their hardest works

>It's somehow a bad thing

This is true, however it does give mixed signals being that you can unlock it and go there with a level 10 DoH/DoL

whats wuk la mat doing?

levelling quests are piss easy dude, the only hard ones are at level 100. the gear you buy in the zone is sufficient for everything while you're levelling.

and the big headliner NPC for the mext expansion is Hiroi's shitty self-insert waifu (made to replace his Vampire Hunter D ripoff)

God I'm so glad that dogshit character is so universally hated that he must be absolutely fucking seething.

Let's be honest, 7.2 MSQ was at best a 6/10, more reasonably a 5/10. It's a serious improvement, but we don't relax until they prove they can hit at least HW standards consistently once again.

I'm just sayin it's presented as being super casual, like The Firmament, while at the same time it ends up having the hardest crafting/gathering content.
But whatever, shitters need to learn.

shes not as bad as wuk la mat but making a hat tipping character and taking the hat away is the stupidest decision as well

they really need to fire hiroi.

Not really. I'm almost certain the content level scales and higher mission tiers have min levels attached to them with the actually hard stuff being level 100 content

I'm fucking glad they offed Garlemald basically off-screen. Literally the most boring faction to ever exist, it was solely carried by Gaius and Zenos being interesting characters but they were so not because they were Garlean.
They probably tried several times internally but every single story you could tell focusing on Garlemald is doomed to be dogshit, whatever little that could work is present in 6.0.

Krile still wears that stupid hood instead of letting her sex hair free

i am a little upset for real.

Hell you don't even need to pay the premium for other characters with World Travel unless you have very specific needs like FC shenanigans. I have my main and 3 alts (one originally for RP, one obsoleted by DC Travel, and one obsoleted by Glamourer + NG+) and have never, ever felt the need for same world alts strong enough to pay for it, least of all over an extra retainer.

Adventure to another land or shard where we're cut off from everyone else but, we're with ryne, gaia, and sphene

FF7R is completely imploding

can I get a qrd?

did they kill off wuk yet?

I'm still not sure how wuk lmao ever made it into the story, literally several people must've read the script and signed off on it being decent.
She's literally what would happen if you take Naruto, strip him of the little redeeming qualities he had and then made him into a furry.

why didn't they give her a picto beret, with cat ears

It's not, it's just part of his narrative.

I do not actually want essences and lost actions as the main game backbone

7.2 introduced a villain, gave your character a Goku moment in getting blasted with the highest attack possible by Alexandria, introduced a supporting character in familiar format, and raised an enormous number of questions, patch 7.2 MSQ was an 8 easy

hit at least HW standards

HW standards are 5/10 maximum

Oh lol back to thread autosaging, even site death doesn't stop it being done for free

idk
I'm not subbed, and I don't play the MSQ until the game literally forces me to since 5.2

tempering cured and then primals also cured meaning the tempering cure was pointless

all beast tribes are now peaceful and friendly after one meeting

splinter factions of Garlemald like Gabranth's vanished off screen

Heart of Sabik wrapped up

the Twelve wrapped up

the noise under Mor Dhona wrapped up

But yeah man it was just Garlemald! I also started in late Shadowbringers and think the game's setting is shit because it's not about the Ancients and Venat!

I don't care about the scions

Give me more dragons

autosage

Don't you love this website? Aren't you glad it's back? Aren't you mad those evil sharties doxxed our wonderful moderation team?

Tempering cure is more relevant as an elemental imbalance sickness by defining tempering's brainwashing as that

The Twelve is some kinda fumbling tradcath projection onto this game isn't it, literally nobody gave a shit about the Twelve or wondered what they were/were doing or thought they were super important before the raid series ended. The last chance at the setting having real deities went up in smoke.

I won't miss

I'm still not sure how wuk lmao ever made it into the story, literally several people must've read the script and signed off on it being decent.

False.
One person did. Naoki Yoshida.

or well, it should be Oda. It should be Ishikawa. There should be an editor or anyone there to guide it. Instead it's an unfocused mess and then gets punted straight to the out of touch Japanese businessman.
It's a Yoshida problem.
Same as what happened with 4.55, 5.0 5.1 > 5.55, 6.0 & 6.1 >6.55.

Oda and Ishikawa are paid for, basically nothing. Then it's punted to Yoshida and that's what's shat out.
People have blamed Hiroi, but the guy's got his own unique strengths. The question is what happened to the infrastructure and quest design team that supported that? Why are there literally 3 writers working on the MSQ each with unique strengths and flaws yet, somehow, it goes straight to Yoshida for sign off.

The Twelve is some kinda fumbling tradcath projection onto this game isn't it

No, but thanks for accidentally admitting why you're glad they're dead. Having a major background lore element be revealed just to be wiped away takes a lot of interest away from the setting. You simply don't care about the game's setting because you only jumped in for Emet-Selch.

literally nobody gave a shit about the Twelve or wondered what they were/were doing

You believe this because you started in late ShB with the WoW exodus.

Dragons suck dick. Ruined by Ishicuntwa.
You can thank the race reports lmao.

"I miss when the setting had an element of mystery to it like when we could wonder if the Twelve were real, or if they were misremembered history like the primals, or if they were made up out of whole cloth."

YOU'RE JUST A FUCKING CHR*STIAN AREN'T YOU

shartyfags should rehack the site, and post dox twice over for faggot mods not getting any better, not even a moment of self-reflection

good to see everyone again

You'd think having everyone cheer for the doxxing and having nothing but ill wishes for them would make them reconsider how they run this place.

I actually hoped you'd gotten hit by a train.
Well, always tomorrow.

It's truly amazing how they not only didn't learn a single thing, but deserve worse and still run it business as usual with no changes or more upfront reasoning that at least visibly explains why they make choices instead of the gay "figure it out" sometimes moderation that happens

thats why stormblood was so fucking boring and shit. mhiggers, garleniggers, not japan slop makes for shit writing and world buildling. which is why bozja was dogshit too

Curing tempering isn't invalidated because stopping more tempering from happening didn't fix the issue of those already being tempered. Primals weren't actually interesting, they were an excuse for big FF themed boss fights and nothing more. Plus we only technically fixed it in the Eorzea area.
The Heart of Sabik still has open plot threads in being a man-made version of Ultima rocks that we haven't solved.
The twelve weren't done perfectly but they either do them like they did or they don't touch them at all because gods are background lore material and not much more. And they stop being good background lore as a setting progresses past certain points which we did.
You're probably a rare legacy-tard who thinks that shit was peak. I have been playing since ARR release and tying up the big parts of the games story are not a bad thing. Shit has to be tied up at some point so you can make way for new things, which they are slowly but surely doing.
But clearly I'm wrong and we should go back to the peak writing of Kingdom hearts ass-cians sitting in their darkness chamber talking about DARKNESS and doing mustache twirling nefarious things and just generally being generic baddies. Because THAT is good shit, clearly.