XIV

game has a very nice (re)start

keeps building up with an absolutely K I N O sequence

most games still can't compare in story + soundtrack quality

...dawntrail happens

How does Yoshi-P plan to ever recover from this disaster?

meanwhile in the real world

a realm remastered

Is there some truth to the rumor that the Mobile chinese version is going to be used as a base for the new engine they're gonna use to replace the current PC one?
I can see that being a smart move going forward, actually. They're clearly limited very hard by engine limitations and if they could bypass that issue maybe they can fix the core systems and job balance that feels not very satisfying to play.

dead

I think it's the most likely reason why they are doing making the mobile version. The PC version's backend is ripping at the seams.
There is no proof that it's happing, but it's most logical reason it's being made
But than again this is SE we are talking about so lol

Yeah they're the type of people to refuse to make an anti-cheat or at the very least actively moderate cheating in their own fucking PvP mode so anything is on the table for what they're willing to neglect and ignore regardless of how much it ruins the game for regular players.

playing mmo for PVP

you get what you deserve
go play a genre that requires actual skill if you want pvp

When's the next xpac after dawntrail anyways? Is it still a year away? Think I might skip this one and just buy in on the next for my annual playthrough of the game.

The new PvP mode was the most fun I had with XIV before a week passed and scripters started cheating.
Keep in mind you can't chat in PvP and the only way to communicate is through emotes and already built in phrases such as GOOD JOB!
Guess what.
If you spammed that phrase? In chat? And it came off as sarcastic?
You were fucking warned or suspended for it.
For what? For being hostile.
So cheating is OKAY and the GMs don't give a fuck, but if you're passive aggressive?
Get that ass banned.

This is literally a prime example of how fucking whack XIV is today. The sheer level of neglect borders on self-sabotage.

I tried but couldn't get into it not after End Walker. I feel like Xenos. Utterly bored of the world and it's characters.

Have you considered not being an asshole?

Yea it doesn't look good. And the way people talked about it here had me skip. That's why I'm thinking maybe the next will be better and I can hop on then and just push through Dawntrail and move on. I'm thinking not having to stop on it will make it less shitty.

Dude please just shut the fuck up.
He literally spelled it out for you. If you spammed an emote in-game during a PvP match you can get suspended but if you cheat you don't even get a slap on the wrist.

You're not going to get any upvotes here you dumb faggot.

start ranting about homestuck next please

then ask people to talk about the game while mocking the mods

I would ask what the fuck is wrong with you but who gives a shit.

You don't even have to be an asshole to get a warning in XIV lmao. If you're a little bit of a banter that's enough to get people triggered and it actually takes very little for the GMs to go on a power-trip if the reporter lays it on super thick.
One of my boys called someone a nerd and the GM put him in jail and gaslit him into saying sorry because that's 'abusive behavior'.

I guess I kind of get why XIV's community sucks so much ass. It was probably a girl or a tranny faggot like you.

You already replied to that post, everyone knows you like to samefag now

I wasn't pretending to be someone else. How mad are you right now?

It's entertaining watching you play coy and slow while trying to lay low after the mods took a fat shit on your face and humiliated you in front of an entire thread.

Oh I get it. It actually makes sense to me now.

XIV threads have this one mod who hovers over them like a vulture. The guy's extremely obnoxious and just absolutely hates it when you shit on the game for some reason.

You know they're not paying you or anything to defend it, right? I don't even play WoW I just think what they're doing with XIV is really shitty.

Don't blame me the game sucks dick, dude.

I honestly hope you get help man. Nobody gives a single shit at the end of the day how much you think you 'owned' a strange on the internet.
Literally nobody.

are you talking about this schizo? arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/709353139/
he ban evaded right away and came back so he's probably still seething right in the thread right now

Dawntrail is narrative vegetables. It's the broccoli the story's eating to set up the magic telesnort door that's gonna open up free travel between the reflections so the plot can go somewhere interesting again.

Which will be good only for the Runar chads.

why do you type like a redditor

Yeah that's not me, but apparently people like that live in your heads rent free.

94 deletes

all the samefags

Holy SHIT!

You would know how a redditor types, wouldn't you?

you didn't answer the question

year ban

That's the one.

XIV threads aren't natural on Anon Babble? Who could have guessed?

Where the fuck are the Sphene lewds? This thread sucks.

Year that saw the release of a new paid expansion saw Year-over-year growth compared to the year that didn't see the release of a new paid expansion.

Wow great fucking point Sherlock you really hit the nail on the head this time. You know that when a company reports "YoY growth" its a comparison of just the recent earnings compared to where revenue was at the same time the previous year right? Genuinely do not even bother reporting financial statistics if you lack a fundamental understanding of how financials work, it's embarrassing.

I remember that thread it had some really good lewds.

Because you're not asking a question. You're accusing me of being a redditor because you don't have an argument against me.

no, the earliest date they can launch the next expansion will be December 2026

The XIV defense squad has arrived

i don't care about your schizo drama and schizo wars
talk about the fucking game

still not answering the question

Does anyone even like the cosmic exploration shit they added? I haven't resubbed since the launch of DT and don't plan to. Island sanctuary was a huge let-down for me and my enthusiasm for crafting/gathering content has practically died.

The problem is that it sets nothing up and it's fucking boring. ARR is an example of what you're talking about. It has a ton of setup and worldbuilding and introductory stuff. Dawntrail introduces nothing of value despite being longer than ARR. It's just paced awfully. Dawntrail does less setup, character building, and worldbuilding than literally any other expansion despite being the second longest one.

Worth noting is that worldbuilding and setup SHOULDN'T be boring. Especially in a fantasy story. Worldbuilding is one of the main things fantasy fans come to fantasy stories for. The best way to engross an audience in your fantasy story is to build a world that gets them interested and intrigued and wanting to learn more. That's what Shadowbringers did and why it was beloved. Everybody loved the First. Setup should naturally intrigue the player and catch their interest so that they want to know where it leads. Dawntrail doesn't do that with it's worldbuilding or setup because the tiny bits of either it has are fucking boring as shit and lame as hell.

It's much more like Ishgard Restoration than Island Sanctuary. It's alright. It could do with some more rewards and I don't like the setup or framing nearly as much as Ishgard Restoration. I also preferred having the Diadem to source resources to give to crafters and so on to make it more collaborative, rather than it basically just giving the mats to crafters for free and the gatherers just doing really difficult levequests.

I'm kind of waiting for the foray.

Dawntrail was nothing more than a blatant DEI angle and calling it a story is an insult to anything they built up before.
They've clearly given up on the fucking story when main-stay characters have less agency and relevance than a fucking random NPC who claims to love peace and happiness out of fucking nowhere.

If the story was gonna be this ass the least they could have done is focus entirely on building up the core mechanics and job identity of already existing jobs, but instead we got picto and viper which was honestly disappointing in terms of design. Corsair would have been better than viper and picto just feels out of place given the fact that Krile got absolutely sidelined for Woke Lamutt.

The wait-time between major patches is doing them no favors either. I wonder how much of a player die-off we're gonna end up seeing before the next expac which has to make up for not just DT but EW's later patches which sucked, too.

forced tranny generals belong in Anon Babble

Based preach posting clickbait to exploit opposing tranny tribes

lol stormblood was dogshit too. how the fuck do you make gook stories so boring and stupid.

sam job quests

kugane

doma

hien

fish face gook asahi

boring slut whore yotsuyuu.

slop.

we should have gotten lupine instead of hroths

SWTOR is the actually good storyfag mmo. 14 players are just uniquely fucked in the head.

anything away from tulloyal slop and sol9 slop is fine. thank god theres no hiroi or kate trash on the moon. funny too no garlean faggots.

ziv will never recover until they fire and publicly behead kate

no apu moments

take the fattest giant smelliest shit on ff xiv

thanks kate !

Multiverse shit is so fucking lame and overdone jesus christ. Shadowbringers was cool with it's check out this doomed world shit but do we really need to do this like 12 more fucking times? It sucked with the endwalker post patch it sucked even more with Alexandria we do not need ANOTHER doomed world "remember us :))) remember... shadowbringers..."

I'll take XIV threads with a schizo over jeets shills and bot spam

beg for resubs on nip live tv

get banned for life

What did this cancerkike mean by this?

Why was he allowed two fuckups in a row?

do you get anything cool from the moon exploration shit, all i saw was the mount thats lame as fuck

xiv is just devolving into multiversus tournament arc dogshit

I'm not resubbing just to play Kathryn Cwynar's Beerus fanfic.

heavensward having the 2nd lowest views

is widely considered the best expansion

Proof that numbers don't mean shit.

Gachas already took more than half of ziv's players, Star Resonance will take the remainder

shut up faggot. dt is so fucking shit its preferable to wash the stink off and go somewhere else and let new writers not hiroi and kate try something.

finally the correct twin.

completely fuck over any coherent worldbuilding

aesthetics are also fucking with S9 and the Alexandria shit

MSQ is a complete trainwreck

patch MSQ is the same shit but now switching Wuk for Sphene

EN version gets even worse due to the trans VA

release literally no casual content almost one year into the game: Cosmic is the first casual stuff they have introduced

savage stuff continues to only cater to tryhards

Jobs get gutted to unfathomable levels

only way to increase difficulty is increase mental load while speeding everything up

graphics update did nothing meaningful, fucked some characters over

dye channels are incredibly hit or miss

female hrothgar are completely fucked in several ways

patches have more bugs than every before

patch cycle is laughably slow now

little content gets stretched out further and further to get one more months of subs from the player

housing still is fucked

hats on viera and hroth still are fucked

netcode still is fucked

Y'shtola gets way too little screen time

100% all on the devs. Usually I'd blame the community for falling out of love with the game, but DT is solely on the developers, they had all the chances to do something great with the goodwill from ShB and EW.

I need to figure out a good nude body type for him for lewd gposes.

that somewhere else could be somewhere in the current world instead of throwing up your hands because writing in an existing setting is too hard only to just copy shadowbringers again 1:1 but somehow worse again. DUDE CHECK IT OUT ITS A DOOMED TIMELINE WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THATS A (INSERT OLD FINAL FANTASY) REFERENCE EPIC!!!

twink with huge cock.

people will never understand how massive of a failure dawntrail was. The trailer suck, trans actor, the fucking boring fanfest lead up and the writing.

oh youre a faggot garleniger larper obsessed with illsabard

lmaoooo kys

oh sick genuine schizophrenia

Ah you mean the mobile port

schizo post.

The saddlebag is proof enough

we can't give you more inventory space because the server wouldn't be able to handle all the data requests

here's a sequestered version you can only use outside of instances aka literally all of the content

bozja is dogshit.

steamcharts.com/app/39210>>709986738

you love to see this game fail

square makes less in an entire year than what the average gacha makes in a single month

kek

fire kate and hiroi.

Speen was nice but the calyx shit is still boring ass shit. hopefully its resolved in 7.3

no loli censorship

no hrothnigger freaks and modbeasts

This is unironically going to rape XIV's mobile port.

Demoted and has less responsibilities on his plate

Continues to neglect XIV

what is he even working on these days

post more

Sell me on this game.
Is it looking good or what

only thing that is bad is the companies business practices before so beware of that.

this game feels dead desu. Atleast in ultimate pf.

it is. its late raid tier, everyone got their moon mounts, 1.5 weeks till OC.

Ultimate PFs are only active when there is a new one or at the end of the expansion when people have free time

If I cared more about FF9 and Kuja maybe I'd care about Calyx. Beatrix was a great trial so it's not all bad, but the only story I'm anticipating is the FFXI alliance raid and the WWE plot line.

They never learn. I guess I'll skip this too.
It baffles me how XIV is just a monthly sub and even that is effectively wasted on blunders and side projects that never return any revenue back into the game.
Square Enix is fucking worthless.

I feel the opposite. idc about FF9 but like Calyx and the direction of 7.2 alot. Don't give a shit about the FFXI AR tho, that was worse than Ivalice for me which I also didn't gaf about. Arcadion is by far the best storyline rn tho.

just bring them back, Yoshi. we need our daughterwives.

do y-you think they scissor

to be fair you didn't end your sentence with a "?"
thus making your statement an obnoxious rhetoric

(You) -1, Anon +1

zenos didn't get excited when there was two copies of the WoL's soul on the source at ome point

I miss that guy every single day.

still dodging the question

thinking it's the same person

clearly can't distinguish rhetoric VS question

-2
L

i cant tell if this is modded face gaia or not. i remember her being a lot more ugly.

Dang, cool tho Lamitt was there too.
Reminds me I need to look up the default female hyur from 1.0. I remember there was an alternate cover I think.

Here. This one.

Have you tried not being a sensitive nigger?Up yours nigger!

Goy Wars MMO

actually good

Does your gf have a black friend that she regularly sees?

still haven't answered

They've had years and an enormous surplus of cash from wowbabies to do something with the game, and instead we got Dawntrail, a piss poor ending to a near decade long story with multiple major asspulls, followed by a fucking horrible post msq wrap up for the rest of the expansion.
Only to be hit with fucking Dawntrail that continued the clear trend of objectively bad writing Endwalker started. Not to mention, that Yoshi for months leading up to launch promised over and over this would be the most content packed expansion ever, and so far its nowhere near as promised.
For most of the games life I've genuinely enjoyed it, an okay mmo, that had bits of great writing and some really neat takes on mmo fights/raids, but they've really, genuinely rested on their laurels and taken their foot off the gas. Not to mention the gutting and homogenization of most of the combat jobs.

Never a good thing when your job was somehow more interesting and engaging to play 9 years ago than it is now.

endwalker's ending literally opened the doors for more worldbuilding potential than ever

yeah and they follow it up with killing the twelve and involve every plot point with shard hopping
now pray tell, what worldbuilding or mystery or even a plot point is left in the game?

Never a good thing when your job was somehow more interesting and engaging to play 9 years ago than it is now.

the worst part about this is you could say this about mmos as a genre, like mechanically they were more interesting over a decade ago and have only gotten worse. They might be selling more and have larger playerbases though but was it worth the removal of the RPG part of MMORPG?

a piss poor ending to a near decade long story with multiple major asspulls

objectively bad writing Endwalker started

Either a garlecuck or zodiarkfag. And are you still mad that dynamis is a force that exists in the XIV universe?
It's not like you can do anything with dynamis unless you're actually at Ultima Thule.

I feel like companies THINK this is something that has to happen to bring in newer/younger players unfortunately, and they may be right, but they alienate the normal playerbase in the process, which is whats happening with XIV. Even some of my most diehard FFXIV playing friends have turned on the game and SE in general, some of them just because the jobs fucking suck to play.

Either a garlecuck or zodiarkfag

Neither, although the mistreatment/dumping of zodiark was retarded for the amount of build up for YEARS.

And are you still mad that dynamis is a force that exists in the XIV universe?

I'm not mad about dynamis existing, I'm mad it was dropped in as a painfully convenient plot device at the very last second of the entire story because they couldn't write a proper ending. I'm also mad that EW and the entire story pretty much can be wrapped up as "retard created a teenager that had its first brush with nihilism and was mind broken".

There was a genuinely huge downturn in writing quality from SHB to EW.

Do these cunts ever get tired of folder trancing?

xiv healers are worst of all mmos.

not a teenager but more of an infant thats an emotional sponge
I mean the point of EW's story was happiness is what you find it to be and where you find it
a nihilism lesson and a story about finding self is perfectly fine for me, its also done well with how it relates your journey as a player
even though the shit gameplay doesnt deserve the well told message of joy through hardship from the story lol

xiv is worst of all mmos

NTA, but I'm mad about that. It was so pointless in the end, there was no reason to confirm they were "real".
And then the whole baiting from Yoshi-P about "hurr durr maybe they'll look different than what you think?" but that didn't go anywhere.
My one cope is that maybe in the future they could be like "yeah all the others decided to also become mortals and live one last life like what Deryk is doing and you can unlock them as Trusts or see them in the world."
Huge fucking waste, and I'm mad about that unironically.

another doomtranny thread

xiv won and wow lost. got over it!

End of thread?
TIME FOR RYNE!!!

the nation of garlemald is a congregation of simpletons.

The falseflag op from this dumb bad faith nigger is my favorite part especially. Multiple xiv threads in the past week trying to paint the image of one guy getting 93 posts deleted, nobody is this dumb or bored or autistic on this website to do it that much, some of which are shorter gaps between the post timer. op also got his post deleted. must have been samefagging too here

What is with you faggots and disinformation tactics I genuinely don't understand it - I hate this schizo as much as anyone else does here but straight up lying is worse. Not that very many people use these threads nowadays for it to matter. Call me a ban evader, the schizo you're a huge fan of, whatever fits your headcanon I can hate and defend as much this shit is just pathetic
NOBODY CARES ABOUT THREAD DRAMA

You kneel before the jannies cuck

I want to sexually violate Ryne

she needs to be more thancred instead of nice girl.

I don't care about the jannies faggot
Imagine being so new that you think tapping someone with a one year does anything - look at the dude schizo spamming uncontested
Fat shit your hero did, huh? Suck my chode

Talk about xiv or perish

What does this post have to do with XIV?

I am laughing at this epic gotcha
What other jokes do you have haha

I mean that aside DT is financially speaking the second highest earning year of the MMO sector ever, even considering post launch period only

and kate and hiroi blew it. they better fucking shape up for 8.0

>game has a very nice (re)start

>keeps building up with an absolutely K I N O sequence

>most games still can't compare in story + soundtrack quality

>...dawntrail happens

How does Yoshi-P plan to ever recover from this disaster?

blizztroons are STILL asshurt not even shadowlands was enough to break their addiction

Apparently Yoshida is absolutely PISSED OFF at the B-Team he left behind that worked on post Endwalker and Dawntrail. The company restructuring from the shareholder's report is to finally save FFXIV, and all hands are on deck for 8.0.

who was talking about wow here.....
other anons may not be noticing but i am

even considering post launch

I mean did you even read what I wrote? The MMO sector made 11 billion yen in net sales from December to March. That was peak doomerism on the game mind you multiple videos where half the collages spammed in this thread come from. Probably made more than some past expansion launches despite that. XIV is unironically not going anywhere anytime soon.

Stormblood is Dawntrail-lite.

Change. My. Mind.

Also people just want to erp in an mmo environment because the game is ass.

Change. My. Mind.

I can't because you only think this way because you weren't there. You are repeating the propaganda of WoW exodus Shadowbabies that were in a rush to get to SHB to see what the hype was all about. Stormblood was a kino time, and a kino expansion. It was the last one before jobs were gutted with the new philosophy shift that still persists today.

Its hilarious how boring they made doma and kugane.

fucking katana slop.

bad story with better patches

focus on content

Yeah

stormshit.

I wish the far east had its own dedicated expac instead of having to be shared with mhiggers. It still better than dawntrail though.

maybe we'll get something with inner kugane or nagxia anon.

if we have the same writers as dawntrail I hope not

Oh yeah,

story is split between two major areas

Ala Mhigo
Doma
Tural
Alexandria

mhiggers

garleniggers

zzzzzzzzzzz some of the most boring shit ever.

Endwalker was mostly bad too.

yea the 2 tower bullshit story, the garlean slop shit with jullus, beating golbez and him going NO us just becaues they needed to pad the patches. the complete dogshit writing of vtra. zeros stupid writing.

hiroi is a faggot.

Dawntrail trailer views are only so low because Square fucked up and view-botted the German trailer instead

Remember this expansion is going to be the most filled one with content when it finishes, if that can't make the game grow, they really need another overhaul on content delivery

I feel like the majority of players are quite attached to their character for that to work.
Attached to their role in the story too, which is why nobody liked being sidelined for Wuk.

Stormblood did a way better job at tying its two areas together

wild west zone

duel at high noon

with rubber bullets

this will never not be funny to me

engine replacement

This does not happen ever for active games

wait im confused, they "only" made 8 more billion yens during an expansion year compared to a year of nothing? Their non expansion years have to be really strong or they just dont make that much money with expansions.
Were DT preorders aviable during the prior fiscal year?

And desu the other trailers were used as youtube ads for like few months

keep in mind hes also the one cheating in pvp cause he "just wants to get the series rewards". So he'll report you for being "mean" while actively cheating in the game and making the experience worse for everyone in the pvp session.

Stormblood was the best expansion. No amount of content could save DT because SHB ruined the game play

I honestly don't blame cheaters for behaving like absolute subhuman scum.
They only get away with it because the GMs are fucking useless. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they found them licking windows and just decided to hire them as GMs because that's how low the bar is.

If you refuse to get an anti-cheat, you NEED to have an active moderation team banning people who break your TOS actively. If you're so toothless that you have bots undercutting real players you really have nobody to blame but yourself when the game loses players in such high numbers.
The story falling apart was the crack that broke the dam. They're not getting me back, I'll tell you that.

i uninstalled the game and unsubbed at this exact moment

It’s so out of hand. Hell I’m having missions automated now in CE, Forager got updated so I’m just resting in bed while it runs.

It was so toothless. Like the whole thing about the damn expansion is they intentionally avoided any mention of “colonialism” but still used real world settings that were a result of colonialism. Like America’s Wild West or le taco shops.

stormblood was dogshit.

Silence shb nigger

Dawntrail reminds me most closely of Heavensward.

Stormblood was better than Endwalker. That's a fucking fact.

game has a very nice (re)start

Also, something that I was thinking about is in Stormblood, they leaned into “real world” settings with Kugane and Othard, but also had lore years in advance, like Au Ra naming conventions for the Azim Steppe and Sui-no-Sato. And in addition, it didn’t stray from being dark, when it comes to Kugane’s trafficking, or the ongoing war. They didn’t do “consultants” for inspiration, they just did what they though was cool.
But when Kate took over afterwards, the whole sensitivity consultants is what led to this when making Tural. In addition there was no pre-existing lore for them to work with so they were making shit up to be harmless at the last minute. I also have an image from Fisher quests showing they intentionally spent time to make sure all Hyur NPCs were dark skin tone. Lemme find it.

DEI is so fucking disgusting lmao I wonder who comes up with this shit

Here it is. There's two models for this NPC in the quest chain, first one is light skin, the second one is dark skin. Basically prior to release they were trying to make sure all human NPCs were the "correct" color, cause you can't have light skins in Not-South America, apparently.

SE is so fucking safe nowadays, the FF7 demake removing smoking, swearing and blood also made me laugh.
Absolutely infantile.

Yoshit Piss is a fucking hack

This is basically how it works with skin color in Latam media.

Game was ruined by fucking trannies. Square fucked up when they started listening to trannies

Just because you're loud doesn't mean you're in the majority. The higher-ups are senile and mentally retarded. What did you expect from indoctrinated feminist cultists and DEI plants like Tracy Fullerton in the board of directors?
They haven't made a single decision in the past 10 years that a sane and competent board would make. And they're too proud and stupid to admit it.

Funny oopsy
All americans should be fired

sex with emotionless Au Ra sluts

inaccurate, the bottom row isn't covered in tattoos

ARR was dogshit. Stormblood was perfectly decent

arr was world building.
hw was kino until it went back to arr slop
sb was pure dogshit
shb was great until it went back to sb slop
endwalker was great until it went to sb slop again
dt was pure dogshit.

shb was great

ew was great

you killed XIV threads lil bro let it go no one's coming back to Anon Babble

how is easy is it to make a small mod to edit the neo kingdom tabard I want to cover the chest window because I keep thinking an arrow will shoot me there or something

There's chainmail underneath, you can see from the neck it going down

I wanted to ask about the new bozja that's coming out but the thread is full of schizos

I can see the chainmail from my neck but is it suppose to be open like that to make a window to the skin

I unsubbed after finishing the DT MSQ last july but I can spoil it for you:

FATES but in an INSTANCE!!!

also some temporary powers like eureka

wow so hype bros

Based on what I've seen them show so far I'm kind of worried. It doesn't seem like it will be anywhere near as cool or as innovative as Bozja was.
They gotta give us more than a handful of skills to switch in and out if they want it to feel like we have some freedom of choice. I at the very least want to be able to turn my tank into a DPS like you can with irregulars in Bozja. That made the whole expansion for me solid. I hate playing DPS jobs with their disgusting bloated fucking rotations and yearn for a more simple approach that Tanks tend to have except for Gunbreaker which is kind of gay.

I guess we'll see but the wait time alone is really dampening my enthusiasm to resub. It just doesn't feel worth it.

It's honestly impressive just how bad DT's story is.

most ppl think of the patches of stormblood, and the general music/new mechanics, rather than the story itself. (the only ppl i know who liked the story, are the type to just like 2d evil villains, and therefor finally got attached. and actually lost interest in ShB lol... because the villains werent 2d enough anymore.)

dmcfags are so embarrassing

Why do they add more than one belt as if it contributes to anything?
It doesn't.

SHB had a lame story for women, I miss the politics

Convince me to stay away from ffxiv
My rational part realises it's not worth it but it still beckons me
I've been clean of this shit for over a year now

Play it tranny, no one cares.

slop.

ff16 was crap
ivalice was crap
bozja was crap

all flops

Don't let me stop you faggot.
Go sub right now. You'll figure out how little there is to do within minutes of logging in.
Even the ERP scene is weak right now due to how many players the game has bled since DT's shit launch.
Don't take my word for it go waste your money I don't care lol. Maybe then Kate can afford to buy a fucking tampon for once and stop smearing her shit all over development.

I mean its free what, up to Stormblood now? I think Heavensward is at least worth experiencing.

I liked Ivalice and Bozja. It definitely wasn't worse than DT or Endwalker.
Endwalker should have been two expansions not one it's so painfully obvious certain aspects were rushed as fuck.

Ivalice was great. Bozja was only bad because it used trash races (furnigs and a roenig)

Shadowbringers was really good and still brought plenty of content with patches every 3 months. EW at least had an interesting story... even if it was fucking barren otherwise. Dawntrail is the worst of EW, cranked up to 100. It's fucking unreal.

shb sucked with that bozja shit. two faggot japs wrote that one too.

SHB had no content for over a year because of the muh coviderinos and the content it received wasn't fun to do because it ruined every job

are things so bad in the MMO space that the fight right now is about housing? there is no way WoW implements it without a metric fuckton of retarded decisions but im glad everyone gets to make a house instead of Yoshi P running it over with a bulldozer if you have a life and dont log on for a week

Bozja was great gameplay wise and the story, while forcing useless characters like Makoto and her stupid powers into it, actually had enough moral ambiguity to leave you wondering about things, like how the hrothgar were traitorous niggers and how Garlean occupation was actually better for their society than whatever went on there during the rule of monarchy. It also had one of the most brutal antagonist demises, with Misija getting her throat cut pretty much on screen while she was lying on the ground wounded, by the supposed "good guys". Everyone involved in the Bozjan conflict under ideal circumstances would be tried as a war criminal.

garlenigger matsuno cope.

Housing in WoW is like 10 years too late, blizzard is retarded for thinking people need more reasons to hide in some single player instance instead of playing.

I really liked Bozja's designs with the fights, how the Critical Engagements actually had mechanics and such.
What it was missing from the start was a sense of power progression during it, instead of the Rays/Suns being at the end of the last one.
So that's what I think makes Occult Crescent so appealing to me, with the Knowledge Level. Also instead of just teleporting to the new Critical Engagements, you have to physically travel there before it begins (but there's no limit so the full 72 instance can do it). Don't think there will be solo duels so that's whatever.
But I am so looking forward to leveling all the jobs.

thankfully they wont have any of that stupid queue mechanics which were pure dogshit.

the latest wuk lamat animation from sinilyra

honestly made me rethink my hatred for that shitter

Asking why a Final Fantasy has belts is like asking why Dragon Quest has slimes.

Most of the coomers went to play the beta. The feet and armpit renderings is immaculate in this game. Can’t wait to mod it, hopefully the mods from BP works here.

I'm surprised this doesn't have a dozen replies by now because it's such an absurd find. Holy fuck.

Little buddy Homestuck

And 'fans' in 2020+5 still hold feelings of loyalty to any given company no matter what they do. If it seemed believable or cool, these fans would let these company hire bulls to fuck their wives and publish it on twitter. The video game redpill over the past 5 years is that no company or franchise is a trusted friend whatsoever and as long as you continue to consoom, they will do whatever the fuck they want with your money, even if an evil force has captured them from within.

weve given up on dt and kates dumb shit.

Such a nothingburger thing to have a meltdown about. I would understand is the character was meant to be not!American, but SA is stereotyped as brown because they ARE majority brown.
By the way, you will never be white, Pedro, you will always be seen as brown anywhere outside your third world continent.

*If the character

Don't bother, he's just samefagging his own post because the thread is dead

Honestly, that’s actually someone else replying to my post. I was in CE hoping for a Meteor Shower red alert but now I’m going to bed instead.
When I first posted that a couple months ago I mentioned I’m a middie enjoyer so that’s how I realized it when she changed skin tone right after you speak to her.

Whatever you say, Goldman.

is the thread just the same doomerism with the same pictures?

picture unrelated, its a lala

How does Yoshi-P plan to ever recover from this disaster?

You know, I'm not actually sure.
I think you have to change every core element of the game at this point.

Most Job rotations are missing an engaging, central mechanic/gimmick, a lot of them lost over time to accommodate for 2% of the raid population (see Astrologian).

Dungeons are a hallway with 7 add walls, and three bosses. So a fundamental change of design there needs to happen.

Raids are gatekept by YouTube guides and in-game text macros to act as a way to prolong content for a 10 minute fight, not to act as a means of player engagement or skill in the moment.

The story reached its end, but still has a few stories left to tell, Dawntrail's troubles speak for themselves.
The overworld being a traverse between MSQ quests and static Fates also speaks for itself.

So you have to:

Redesign dungeon design to take more rougue-like and random play elements in to bring up player engagement

Redesign raid design so that it's replayability and entry point aren't focused solely on jump-rope mechanics

Redesign jobs to bring engaging gimmicks into the rotation

Bring the story back up to par with Heavensward, which is the equivalent for 8.0's story

Make the overworld more dynamic, taking queues from things like earlier ARR events like Odin and the 1.23b sieges

All in all, that's like an entire game reboot. To pull that all off, you'd need at least 4 years to iterate and better those design formulas, as well as bringing players around on them (established players will be initially adverse to these changes).

That's how you fix XIV. It's an irony because ARR was built to shield itself from failure by burying itself in formula, whereas a revolution of the game has to step back out into 1.0 territory.

muh job HOMOgenization

fuck off.

alright guys here me out... ARR Classic

When you streamline and optimise jobs based on the output of people doing high parse runs for Savage and world firsts, you'll immediately fall off in terms of design.

Why? Because those groups will optimise and meta-game those changes even further, meaning it leaves a gap between the core playerbase and the hardcore.

anon...they're dumbing down jobs. the world first raiders you're claiming are ruining game design will play whatever class has the highest potency no matter how complex or simple it is

you're putting the cart before the horse

v8.0 combat rework will save FFXIV.

kino, I saved a few images from that thread. thanks for posting kek.

after all the "reworks" we've seen over the years
lol
lmao even

anon...they're dumbing down jobs

They streamlined it because they don't want players and roles gatekept out of harder content.

They know that metas show up in Raid floor 4.0 or whatever where you bring a Paladin here because X and Y.
They know that parties would sit and wait for 2 minutes until Balance showed up on a Draw.

What is the rework

we don't know. yoshi-p said combat changes are happening in 8.0. what that entails we never got any specifics on

but anyone thinking classes are going to get more complex is the warrior of cope

Uhhhh i thought you guys LIKED the buuz segment?

Honestly they can't salvage the combat in this game, at its core it's just dodging orange circles while pressing buttons in a specific order
If they want to actually make the game feel good then make the net code as smooth as wow and then they can start thinking about how to make the core gameplay more diverse than DDR
Like adding cc, mob management, resource management, team comp, job customization and meaningful gear and stat choices

i'd just suggest finding another genre than trying to change a genre thats designed for aging millenials to socialize in that hasn't had meaningful innovation in about 15 years

I mean, it is very, very obvious what they are going for: Baseline will be VPR and PCT, all jobs will adhere to that. I don't think they will touch tanks at all, no idea what they will do for healer.
NIN will be completely reworked, is is barely useable right now.

Their goal is 100% difficulty by encounter, Jobs will not and can not have any fail states or overly technical properties. That BLM is now by far and wide the most popular DPS Job shows you that the community doesn't care for it and just wants to play the easiest thing with the biggest numbers.

job design is better now than it was in ARR. i'm also looking forward to having more shit to do as a healer. and no, doing 2 3 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 is not more engaging than 2 1 1 1 1 1 1

last patches ruined nin, blm and gnb

haha...hah... heh hah...

black mage as it is now with its execution barriers whittled down to nothing makes is popular. is popularity an indication of quality of successful class design?

You know what, I agree! The Job design now is better fitting for their encounter design. Old Jobs would not have been fun in what basically boils down to 100% DDR content.
However, the old design was not made with that in mind, old design went harder for more job synergies between party members and having a more old school XI flair in their encounters.
Btw, there is now way they will ever go back to that, too much shit was pruned from the combat system, there is nothing left but making the DDR faster/more obfuscated.

is popularity an indication of quality of successful class design?

Job barely got any play before vs. Job that gets played most is a fairly good metric for success. Again, this has nothing to do with Job fantasy or mechanical fun, it is purely due to how they design encounters at this point.

Design jobs for retards and only retards will still play your game.

get a new talking point
7.2 savage showed it was raid design choking jobs
nobody complaining about job homogenization knows what the fuck they even mean

retards money spends just as good as patrician's money. and retards are easier to get to spend money

AND retards tend to be more pleasant to be around in general

People saying BLM was ruined are delusional, I don't really feel any practical difference between how it was before to how it is now. I'm not racing against a timer or anything now, but now more than ever does it suck to not know what I'm doing well enough that I'm not casting something. I will never touch Scathe for as long as I live.

nobody is this dumb or bored or autistic on this website to do it that much

Newfag or bait

However, the old design was not made with that in mind, old design went harder for more job synergies between party members and having a more old school XI flair in their encounters.

I'm having very vivid flashbacks to Titan EX which is still decently difficult because the fight was all DDR.

This.

They design Jobs for the Japanese who only want Savage slop.
t. Japanese servers are falling back in cosmic, showing that they really don't care for any content that isn't Savage.

You're saying this ironically right? No one is taking the supposed 8.0 rework seriously? R-right?
They're just going to iterate on what already exists, it's impossible to change the job design because they've balanced the job design around raids and Ultimate fights, if they fuck with the jobs they fuck with their encounter design and they don't want that headache.

Short answer the "rework" will be a few more skills and removal of older skills more than likely to bring jobs in line with what Viper is, than anything you've got in your heads.

Miss me yet?

No, ever since the COVID gave them an excuse to delay their update cycle by an extra month and next expansion by 6 extra months, they kept that slower pace so next expansion is likely to be late 2026. They really need to pull a real tour de force to keep people in or get people back in if it is indeed a late 2026 thing.

well the turboautists have already 100%ed all the relics. the 'midcore' crafters bounced off of A ranks actually putting up a fight

You're saying this ironically right? No one is taking the supposed 8.0 rework seriously? R-right?

Do you live under a Stone IV or something
They did the whole Savage refresh and raid design refresh they said they were going to do over a year ago, at the point they said they would do it, 7.2
Do you get all your game news from Anon Babble threads and you dunno what's actually going on
Or are you just committed to the bit and you can't "backpedal" from the idea the devs will never do anything ever

they are falling back because the western servers have nothing but a bunch of cheaters with artisan and mmo minion lmao

Japs are responsible for everything wrong with the game, healers and tanks being lame and gay, now dps also being lame and gay.

Dude I want every mechanic to be pantokrator I love DAAANCING

I liked that best girl was featured in your story, so yeah you were cool.

i'd be up for a pruning of healers. WHM and AST have too many abilities that do the same thing, SGE could use a bit more optimization. i'm fine with SCH as it is as 'zomg buttons' is an adequate gameplay philosophy

I hope they remove melee positionals next expansion.

They did the whole Savage refresh and raid design refresh they said they were going to do over a year ago, at the point they said they would do it, 7.2

Savage refresh

Putting in an add phase is a Savage refresh

Holy shit are some of you brain dead.

holy shit some of you are desperate for some kind of bad news

well they haven't mattered outside of parsing since stormblood, and nowadays you gain what, 240 potency per minute from perfect play versus pressing the glowy button on monk?

based. imagine thinking crafter or gatherer slop is actual content.

human tranny instead of fur tranny

Nah, not really

Sorry chuddy, Splatoon is the most popular mod in Japan. All the splatoon presets always release in Japanese language first.
Didn't the world first FRU group blatantly cheat as well, get caught and the devs never did anything about it?

Putting in an add phase is a Savage refresh

Self-own spotted, you do just get your news from Anon Babble threads
Afraid I don't spoonfeed doomniggers anon

No really what refresh? They added in an Add phase that was removed from Shadowbringers.
Explain what they added in.

you fucking idiots have beaten the insult into total uselessness

I hope they remove everything that made the game interesting so only drooling retards who can't beat CT without wiping to ancient flare 5 times still play the game

So you'll be able to easily explain what the "fresh" is if it's so obvious right? Oh wait...

When people talk about jobs being shit, what do they actually want? More buttons and/or inputs per second?

And when people talk about bosses being shit, what do people want? Honestly, as someone who never played XI or any old MMO, I'm curious how the design of boss fights has changed for the worst, and what they used to be like that was apparently more engaging.

The TOP jap group was the one with the blatant cheater stuff like the ultra zoom out
FRU drama was just one screenshot of the jap using Pixel Perfect, nobody really cared

I've already said I'm not spoonfeeding you and this is where the spoonfed (You)s cease
Suck the sweat off my nuts my nigga

Sorry I only like cute girls, not the products of femroe and male viera race mixing

No you don't get it, they reverted the hitboxes to what they were in Shadowbringers and added in an Add phase. This has "saved" FFXIV raiding by reverting it to what it was before.

Exactly you don't want to be embarrassed by admitting the changes were basically nothing.

Well, id the devs don't care about pixel perfect, they might as well make it an in game feature.

Tight Ryne pussy
Tight Sphene pussy

too eager, settle down

Which fight in shb had an adds phase even close to m6's? Also have you even cleared a single fight this tier?

I actually agree as a casual player of the mode, it lacks the depth (plus actually functional netcode that doesn't add an entire sec of delay between action and consequence) to be anything more but a fun distraction but cheaters, social rejects and mega-sweats completely ruin it for me. Its funny that the devs finally manage to make something fun out of their PvP and then it immidietly falls apart thanks to the complete lack of good moderation and the communities inability to be anything more than a loony troon cesspit.

Nobody really knows what they want when they complain about job design, to the point it's a stereotype that it's a Scholar main bitching to get his ARR to SB era DoT gameplay back and saying "job design" to mean "Scholar design"

Honestly, as someone who never played XI or any old MMO, I'm curious how the design of boss fights has changed for the worst, and what they used to be like that was apparently more engaging.

FFXI combat in particular was slow enough you could have conversations since it was more like a multiplayer turn-based game than what's identifiable as a WoW and derivative MMO, not helping is FFXI's UI was already considered prehistoric even when it released

Picture a wall boss in FFXIV but it's fifty times slower, there are fifty more people, and everyone is shitting debuffs and ailments

Learn to read nigger, Shadowbringers removed add phases that's what is said there. Now, do you want to try and explain what this "refresh" of Savage is or are you going to keep trying to obfuscate because you don't have an answer which leads into admitting the devs have no answer for the job rework in 8.0.

obviously no he's fishing for savage info to do future epic shitposts with

Go back to sb job designs

Add back unique skills like leeches and dark skin

XI was more about how you played with the rest of your team, because Jobs had very obvious ways of synergising for more damage via skill chains and support abilities. Switching out a single player in your group meant the playstyle could change completely. It was also a lot slower to accommodate this and the communication needed during the combat which in turn made people talk. A boss actually asked questions like "Alright, my gimmick is that I start the fight with 6 adds that hit hard, how are you going to handle this?" And you had to either bring a BRD who had a more or less reliable AoE sleep and focus on bursting the adds down before getting to the boss, or split each add up to one player and rely on the healer keeping people alive, which meant you needed a RDM to keep Refresh on them or chip in with the healing or you had a Ranger who could kite them or you could have everyone use NIN as Subjob so you could use Utsusemi to have shadows tank some of the add damage or even have a fucking BST who would charm one of the adds and have it fight the others. All while the tank had to deal with the boss.

What XI didn't have was "look at the rose petal floor and solve a sliding puzzle to figure out the safe spot".

for some jobs this would be really shitty, thinking machinist and monk here

That silence is deafening

the life thread of a doomer cut short

HW mch would be preferable, but I would still take sb mch over shb mch

aiiiee

Install xivalex

My god I wish Zero was just a bullshit explanation to make (not)Zenos a party member based off his lingering void avatar.

But it's you who was cut short with your none answer.

silence fujo

MCh at this point has no identity, I have no idea what they want to do with the Job. Making ranged DPS be somewhat of a support Job is perfectly fine imo, DNC works well. Is BRD still considered support-ish? Anyroads, MCH has 0 support and 0 DPS and is a net detriment to bring in almost every scenario.

What you want is a rotation that rewards variables and feeds into a larger payoff for the burst phase.

You don’t want rote 2 minute rotations, you want agency.

An example would be a job that enters a heightened burst phase based on the amount of damage you absorb.

To expand on this, Delerium on Dark for example or Living shadow would come OFF from being on a cooldown button, and instead be states the player has to reach via a gimmick, whether that’s damage output or damage reduction.

Member when you had to do different openers depending on the fight..

Something like summoner would be another example, where it’s not about choosing between AoE and single target, but rather a the effectiveness of your output, leading into a Phoenix/Bahamoot instead of them solely being on a timer.

You are clearly ESL which made it a little difficult to understand what you were trying to say. I'll leave you to figure out how to correct your grammar and hopefully look like less of a third world monkey in the future.
Your original question doesn't really deserve a response considering you clearly haven't done this tier, or any other savage tier for that matter, so even if I took the time to explain you wouldn't be able to grasp what's different about it.

Another anti-FFXIV and anti-YoshiP thread

I'm still playing FFXIV. What are you going to do about it, besides making anti-FFXIV threads while stuffing your fat neckbearded Cheetos-dust full of Cheetos.

He'd just be estinien 2 if he was still around but good god if he isn't more entertaining than anyone from dawntrail.

It's so interesting that you were asked a basic question and you've done all this obfuscation, post after post all to try and deflect from admitting you have no answer.
You talk a lot but you've nothing to say.

it looks like the thread got stunlocked for a while over the squeenix internal report saying the game's more profitable than it's ever been

Enjoy it all you want but I can't bring myself to play this slop, and I've been subbed since HW.

I tried to fill the void after DT. Wuthering waves, Star Rail, Destiny 2, WoW, gw2.

The truth is that no games beat XIV if you’re a story&boss fag.

you played heavensward and you somehow can't play dawntrail?

DQX doing the heavy lifting

I think that the sub-job concept is cool on paper but based on what I've seen the devs do since DT started I've just given up hope on it being anything but a shittier version of Bozja so I won't even bother, how they handle BM is going to make or break my will to resub again. If the next expansion doesn't immediately hook me I'll just sell my account to some Limsa faggot and try to ignore the fact that I've wasted close to 2.5k hours on this fucking game.

That's a report which covers Dawntrail's release. It's a YoY annual report. No one has suggested or said that the release of Dawntrail itself, the expansion box price was unsuccessful that isn't what people have been saying.
What has been said is Dawntrail caused sub and player numbers to drop drastically which is verifiably true.
The YoY report is comparing an Expansion release year against a none expansion release year so if you want to suggest that an Expansion year release is more profitable then no shit.

The true comparison if Dawntrail continues to be successful or not is the YoY annual report over Dawntrail's entire year against Endwalkers expansion release year, Shadowbringers release year, Stormblood's release year and Heavenswards release year.

It is down from Endwalkers release year by 10billion Yen. That is what the execs will be looking at, what the shareholders will have been looking at I own stock in SE so this is what I personally look at

Why would I bother though? Like I could sit here and type out a paragraph about how there's nothing similar to m6 adds phase since HW at least, or how m8p2's use of the arena is unlike anything else in the game, or how even the little things like perfect groove/music sync with mechanics in m5 or how the adds are used in m7 show that their fight design philosophy has changed quite significantly. But I won't because you wouldn't understand any of it due to the fact that you are an ESL retard who has never even done savage.

he wouldn't understand because he wants you to go red in the face countering him just so he can go "nuh uh :3" and then show you his penis and demand you take him seriously

Why are you weirdly samefagging your post?

that sounds much better than what we got in XIV

runs out of arguments the second I actually address your original point

Yeah I'm thinking you lost

I asked for you multiple times to explain the Savage refresh but then I got bored of you deflecting, being rude and then finally insulting me so you got the energy back you were giving out.
I asked a very basic simple question for what this "Savage refresh" was and you couldn't answer so was it the add phase? Was it the music, the standing still in one spot to emote? Multiple platforms? You didn't answer any of that you immediately had some sarky reply.
This is the community that is left in this game, rude obnoxious people who are unable to hold a conversation.

a lot of the time it was a boring slog but the difference was it was a boring slog in a different way than XIV is a boring slog

now we get niggas nostalgic over boring slogs

being able to tackle a fight with different tactics depending on who is in your group sounds much better than having to follow a hector fight to the T or wipe when one guy fucks it up

What a strange creature you are.

I am honestly not paying any attention to savage shit since it lost me around ShB, but I am actually curious: What makes M6 adds so unique/fresh?

you're part of the community too if you keep thrusting yourself into it to ask stupid questions you supposedly know the answer to already
yeah it sounds novel and deep and all that but it's fucking boring dogshit when you're actually sat down doing it. it's still an MMO just say you're tired of XIV and move on to some other game. there's no shame or embarrassment reaction for that that makes any logical sense

they're dangerous, can't be ignored in any way, and sugar riot is still active while adds are out

2 minute raid window ruined combat.
Ditching more dungeons to make Ultimates
Story scenes just getting longer and longer and longer

I think YoshiP fucked up big time by rushing Endwalker and skipping the Garelmeld expac.

you already made this post

garlenigger larper seethe makes me smile everytime. EW was a gift.

banned for a year with 94 posts deleted btw

Offer dawn tail story skip to go straight to a y'sthola story

but the outfit aesthetic demystification for the garlemald expansion
this would fix the 2 minute window for yoshit playing since 1.0 and kate sena

How does Yoshi-P plan to ever recover from this disaster?

Triple down on everything that people hate, and rely on corporate spindoctors to trick the shareholders into believing that the game is still massively successful

i'm happy the game sucks

Okay. I still enjoyed EW but you have to be retarded to ignore the massive flaws it has with pacing and resolving storylines due to clumsy combination of two xpacs

I still hate that support dps doesnt actually support things in this game
like you just press your buffs on a cooldown and use emergency revive if like your team member died or something
would honestly be cooler if theres a class that is solely focused on buffing teammates
and your tools actually do something cool like you can refresh CDs for a teammate or restore MP for the party

recover?
squeenix hit financial targets with dawntrail easily
once again you fags confuse game quality with game success

every night i can still feel them
my job homogenization
my toothless tural
even my wuks

would honestly be cooler if theres a class that is solely focused on buffing teammates

I was dumb enough to hope dancer would be this

The story being an absolute shit heap is what has ruined FFXIV, all the rest, gameplay, raids, crafting, cosmetics it's all window dressing but the story is the not just the foundation it's the entire house, and Dawntrail knocked it down to where I don't know if it can be rebuilt.

I think that what people want is more mechanical depth akin to what this anon is describing: since playing DDR with a keyboard makes EVERY fight feel exactly the same unless EVERY fight is designed around a central scripted gimmick is impossible for devs to keep doing which is why the games mechanical complexity currently feels so erratic since it essential swings between a decently complex "Savage" and easy as shit "everything else".

To oversimplify, the devs have removed depth from classes just so that they could add it back into encounters instead. Instead of the boss acting like a question that players answer with a strict list of options the boss is now the list of options while the players ask the question, but only if the content is "hardcore" enough.

This is the community that is left in this game, rude obnoxious people who are unable to hold a conversation.

And yet you still post in these threads. Why?
Also was it not rude and insulting for you to call people braindead and niggers?
~3 mins long, several different types of add all doing different things, very high consistent damage on tanks, everything needs to be killed in a certain order, requires a very different attitude to doing dps that we haven't seen in ages

the flaws were garlemald boring ass arc and the stupid instance that retconned lore and that didnt matter, the flaws were hiroi writing the patches. dumb ass dot headed nigger larper.

actually thinks Elpis and Ancients being a different flavor of Allagans was interesting

Pathetic

Hey heads up for next time Gronk if you don't want people to insult you, don't insult them first. It's that simple, you can't hit someone and then act the victim when they hit back.

unironically the coolest thing about dancer is the paired heal
everything else is just dps stuff

I am still amazed Dawntrail made it past editing. Surely someone at SE knew it was shit but was told to shut up by management

You flung insults first thoughbeit
Not an innocent little birthday boy

That's not the first post I made in that comment chain, try again.

"That wasn't my first post" doesn't actually make sense as an ass-cover here, try again

Living shadow only stays alive if you keep it alive by continuing to build your meter

You can sacrifice your own GCDs and/or personal MIT to keep it alive if you fuck up your meter usage/building

It would essentially just be old BLM but with a pet, fuck it, it still sounds more fun than the carpal tunnel BS that the devs always start turning the job into. GNB should just have its limiters removed and be made the official "mash all the numbers until my fingers bleed" job of tanks since it fits with their fantasy better anyway.

writing?
hiroi had either bad management (isakawa) or absent managment
kate probably just went ham and her troon allies in the localization dept nodded along and post on Anon Babble defending her.

put the kool-aid down anon

If you can't follow a comment chain what are you doing here? I'm not here to validate your own weird sense of ego, so you're admitting you inserted yourself into a conversation that wasn't aimed at your or you're again trying to deflect and pretend you're the 'victim' here.

I quit during Dawntrail's opening month. Forced myself to finish the story and immediately unsubbed. What have they even fucking added in almost a year? 2 trials, 2 dungeons, 4 raids and 1 Alliance raid? That's insane.

Gachaslop unironically releases more content than that

They were working on a different game for the first half. That or the South American areas were handled by some consulting company.

how many more times can i read the same slightly rewritten "i quit because of dawntrail" post that's not relevant to the rest of the thread or to the OP

let's find out

follow comment chain back two posts farther to root

you're still the one that punched first

crybully lol

~3 mins long, several different types of add all doing different things, very high consistent damage on tanks, everything needs to be killed in a certain order, requires a very different attitude to doing dps that we haven't seen in ages

So tanks take damage and there is a fixed order you have to kill them? And instead of a 2 minute burst you have to hold your shit?

Games that aren't even meant to be live service have released more content than FFXIV, look at Space Marine 2 it's getting monthly updates, Missions, pvp maps, new modes, more cosmetics you can grind out, new weapons and it's not a live service game it's a pay once and you own it forever game AND it released after Dawntrail and it's had more content released and added into the game, more support and communication from the dev team than FFXIV has with it's own community.

can’t even read the op

boring contrarian

I noticed you didn't link the post this time unlike last time, oh you silly ESL.

Gachaslop unironically releases more content than that

Even modern "one and done" games have more content patched into them in a shorter time span than XIV at this point

Wuthering Waves releases 2.0 in 7 months

ZZZ is already on 2.0 in a few months as well

How do these gacha games do it? What is Japan missing?

This thread is one guy talking to himself again isn't it

yeah it sounds novel and deep and all that but it's fucking boring dogshit when you're actually sat down doing it. it's still an MMO just say you're tired of XIV and move on to some other game. there's no shame or embarrassment reaction for that that makes any logical sense

I disagree. There was a whole lot of prep you had to do for those. To keep with that example: If the BRD was to sleep them the BRD player needed to have excellent gear with CHR and Sleep+, so if you were in a fixed group that meant looking for ways of procuring that. If you did the one where each party member tanked an add, you'd have to have Enmity+ gear or a WAR subjob. The road to Burning Circle encounters was also very perilous (the overworld was the main attraction of XI) and you had to map it out, actually get the map, get enough supplies of sneak and invis items/spells. There were no mounts, you were foot slogging unless you had a WHM that could get you to one of few teleport points. It was very, very different to XIV where you just go into the duty and have instant gratification.

I am not saying one is better than the other, just trying to paint how you can tackle an MMO in a different way.

The video game redpill over the past 5 years is that no company or franchise is a trusted friend whatsoever and as long as you continue to consoom, they will do whatever the fuck they want with your money

Oh you make me laugh so much, I really don’t know how you can even be a functional adult with such a naive mindset. Even kids are capable to understand this same lesson in less than 5 years, you don’t need a shitty MMO to discover this fact. I also hope you are not a burger because that would make your post even funnier.

nothing, FFXIV just a subscription model, you can release all things at once because people will burn it them quickly

Money and people to do the work.
Apparently there is a massive shortage of programmers/IT technicians of all sorts in Japan and it mostly seems to come down to a shrinking population, cultural mismatch and just how fucking bad your average Jap is at the English language.

XIV is the Cash Cow on SE, all revenue will be invested into other projects. In addition their pool of workers is incredibly small. China has so much talent and they are not shy about hiring English speaking colleagues. SE only hires people who are at the least competent in Japanese. This narrows the pool so much, especially since their wages are hilariously low. Even if you are a Japanese graduate, you are better off working remote for a Chinese or American company than hire at Square who rolled back their Work From Home, needing you to live in fucking Tokyo on a shoestring wage.

They put the money back into the game to develop it further, SE does not do that with FFXIV. It puts back maybe 1/10th of the revenue FFXIV earns to develop it further and the other 9/10ths go into other projects in SE. As of the latest earnings report MMO's made up 54% of SE's revenue down slightly from last year of over 60% but that is still a huge percentage.

i miss shb summoner

Found the woman
Post tits

Shrinking population

This is one of those retarded newspeak phrases that doesn't mean anything but is a word that tries to justify demographic replacement.
The population of Japan is 124million
The population of France is 60 million and made Expedition 33 (Sandfall)
The population of UK is 67 million and made Red Dead Redemption and Grand theft auto (Rockstar)
If Japan can't find the people within a population pool of 124million that's because they aren't training their own people, they don't need to bring in more that's a retarded ideal that I completely and utterly disagree with and every time I hear someone talk about shrinking populations I just hear that you're trying to replace the people there with a foreign population for your economic benefit.

Aesthetically the rework is better, it’s just that’s there’s no thought to what to summon or use.

There’s that Webm of the entire rotation being on one button.

I can imagine an aging population can cause problems in corporate productivity when they force people to be promoted or quit so nobody older is working under a younger boss due to societal heirarchy rules.

Then that's a problem then need to work on internally without demographic replacement. Todd Howard was the boss of Bethesda and had a bunch of older guys working under him, same with a load of companies I could rattle off the top of my head.
I mean thinking about it more, the current SE CEO is younger than YoshiP by a decade.

folder dumper is here !

I mean I agree they shouldn't resort to demographic replacement and importing millions of brown people,
I'm just saying there are problems and theres going to be problems from nobody having kids.
Not one country knows how to deal with this shit.

They do it's to give incentives for their own people to procreate in the UK this used to be through a welfare payment called "Child Benefit" where you are given a flat payment for the number of children you have. It used to be uncapped, meaning no matter how many children you had you would get money for each, but it was reduced to 2 children per family maximum.
It was introduced after WW2 to encourage population growth and it worked. Russia has also introduce a similar system recently because they are facing the same problem and it's working.

Suncats, Duskwrights, Seawolves all have incredibly cool background lore being alluded to since 1.0

all we get, without a fail is Lalafell shit

I hate these devs so much.

it's working

You got a source on that? From every metric I can find (especially from Korea and Japan, both of which have tried the exact same thing just for it to fail) it's not working one bit. Before you go all /vpol/ on me like before, I'm not saying that we should all be replaced by another demographic, I'm just saying that this shit has been tried and it isn't working.

did he just pause to make a vaguely game related post and then go straight back to dumping

As I said historically it worked and it's working in Russia now. I have no knowledge on Korea or Japan because I'm European and not Asian so there are cultural factors there at play which aren't in Europe for example the lack of land, the population density which inserts itself into the culture leading to a more cautious attitude and wait and see approach in life towards family.
Also, fundamentally in some countries they need populations to shrink as they are far too dense and populated so a few years of shrinking populations isn't always a negative for some nations.
The ageing populations will have to be cared for, by their own families or communities around them.
There isn't a silver bullet that will solve the problem, if it even is a problem. It's a catch all approach with Child benefit, lowering inflation so house prices are more affordable, encourage cheap mortgage rates for first time family buyers, encourage the nuclear family in culture again, in marketing, in television, in internet marketing, bring it back into schooling that individual freedoms are all well and good but they can only exist when there is a family to support you. That sort of thing.
Back to Japan, it's absolutely a cultural issue and I believe fundamentally they don't need anymore people into their nation, they have the intelligence to solve this current problem of skills, they aren't stupid people. They just need to develop more and perhaps encourage slightly less corporate rigidity into their culture, but then again I'm unaware of how the second order effects of that would lead.

Stormblood MSQ was so mind numbingly boring.
At least Dawntrail had Solution 9 to make things a bit more interesting.
SB content was good tho, except the extremes, as I am unfortunately being reminded by the unreals.

SB was nowhere near as bad as DT. Lyse was fuckable, woke lemutt is a troon. Simple as

dt is awful but so was sb.
content was shit except the 4 lords and
omega was cool at the end tier

ivalice was slop.

both were boring

(the overworld was the main attraction of XI)

I really miss that about older MMO's like XI, GW1, Gemstone, etc. In XIV the overworld is treated as essentially visual fluff between hubs and the entrances to instanced content, whereas before navigating the world was very much apart of the greater experience and some fights throughout it were essentially dungeon encounters in and of themselves.
In GW1 I remember when me and my friends very early on were trying to breakout west of Piken Square for main progression/some quests and managed to get lost, just missing the new hubs, and wiped several times to bad mob pulls. The world was sometimes a slog to get through but even then failing at it was still engaging and rewarding because the gear that you got from drops on attempts could be sold for fair amounts or be broken down for necessary materials for better gear.

SB had Ivalice, Eureka, 4lords and Omega that was the content and it was great.

If Dawntrail isn't a flop why is the game down to 400k active players?

Aside from boss design, who is saying Dawntrail is peak?

just fix the fucking bland combat
you can shit on my face with a garbage story all you want as long as the game is fun, which it isn't anymore

It is a flop maybe not in revenue but it killed the brand name of FFXIV.

You know weebs loving the idea of living in Japan? I think I could be okay with living in Sapporo or Kobe or Osaka. I remember seeing some day-in-the-life of a southern city and it was like if a Western city (Not a megacity) was not a crime ridden shithole. Looked nice. I'd sooner want to eat a bullet than live and work in Tokyo with its 14 million.

There's a whole range between peak and people leaving by the 100s of thousands. Even with Endwalker's shit patches it maintained a high playercount. Nobody is saying it's peak, but people claiming it's even doing fine are in denial.

ARR was kinda a little tiny bit like that. But flying pretty much killed that when you had to go to places like the Kobold mines in LaNoscea.
They tried with Eureka, but made the mistake of people having to rush from A to B thanks to FATE train shit, which makes a dangerous overworld incredibly tedious and frustrating.

retards

>most games still can't compare in story + soundtrack quality

and you’re that game?

Absolutely. No other game does politics like XIV and Witcher 3.

You're trolling but XIVfags really believe this.

And both games doing this part in the most shitty way. Witcher 1 was the only good Witcher games when it comes to the political aspect.
You should play more games like Tactics Ogre or The Banner Saga. XIV, even with ShB/EW, is shonen shit.

Any soulslike
Any arpg
Expedition 33
XIV is dogshit

even with ShB/EW

Especially with*
Literal isekai slop.

He's either baiting or he genuinely believes it because he's played a total of 10 games in his life.

post your favorite characters the game forgot about

less than a year into dawntrail its only slightly higher up than it was a year ago

a year ago was the tail end of endwalker and the end of a yearlong content drought

This is pretty terrible if you stop to think about it for even half a second.

Here's mine.

Khloe and T'kebbe, my sleeves.

Most people who play XIV are mentally unstable.

Le quirky villains focussing on the wol since Stormblood and especially in ShB/EW.

faggot trannies loving attention

this the only reason why retards are hyping these parts of XIV

Deus ex

retarded

people bought it

they didn't know it was shit when they bought it
when you do things like this, your NEXT expansion or title suffers
squenix know this, they've experienced it with half their fucking ips. it's the same reason 13 sold well, the negative impact of 13 on sales occured after the fact, same for this shit

operating income

14 is played by legitimate retards, they will never unsub for any reason, they're genuinely skinner box trapped worse than any other fanbase has ever been in history
14 is not a good game to begin with, an mmo with zero rpg mechanics, where everyone is the same with the same moves and same gear and same playstyle is automatically bad to begin with
but nobody gives a FUCK about msq story type games in an mmo setting

also this. Deus Ex is peak too.

unulkahai
b team scions
puglist team
atoriel

XIV had a good run, but it might be beyond saving at this point. Keep it alive but keep the B-top phoning in new content and get the A-team working on the next MMO. Make the next one with an actual good engine that can handle what you need it to, and have it be written by Ishikawa from the ground up.

I will never forgive Yoshit for promising her a major role and then doing fuck all with her. Even the one major character moment she got was hurried along so we could cut off her parents' life support. Unreal.

Game has erratic amnesia and only sometimes remembers she is around.

housing

Cool, I would have loved that back in 2006

2006

spotted the newfag

kek he doesn't even try to hide it

Imagine a timeline they made the worlds as dense with late-game meaningful activities and instead of instancing Eureka/Bozja they started incorporating that kind of stuff into the actual zones, riding boats around the The Ruby Sea that could be attacked...

I want to give her my cum chalice so bad and have her warp me away from dawntrail

unsub faglord.

first they have to fix the horrible overmaps they introduced with Heavensward. Every xpac after ARR has a ugly overworld.

every overmap is wonderful. dawntrail has some good stuff its just shit world buiding, story building, and localization slop hurting it.

IP count never went up more than 12 times

Not that anon but i quit ff14 after endwalker final post launch quest and i do wonder if those numbers from XIV are from subs alone or they consider the cosmetic/mount store sales, because let me tell you anon, the amount of retarded players with RP symbol activated, who spent money buying glam gear, haircuts and most of all fantasias many times a e year i really believe that their RP and glam community alone became the equivalent of the gacha whales for SE