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>How would YOU ruin FFXIV?
stream it
my name is asmongold

>Announce Beastmaster as the main feature of the expansion
>It doesn't arrive until two years later.

>>724512557
if they don't make a beastmaster job within the period of 7.4 and 8.0...
wew

I hope Beastmaster is actually comfy and not actually more raidtranny shit like BLU...

Unironic purge of all in game modifications

>>724512964
how would you do an ironic purge of all in game mods?

>>724513030
change the coding of the game so that mods fully break and or enforce an anticheat that scans your entire system to see if anything is running and probably gives you a ban instantly

remove kate

>>724512964
Seething faggot

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>>724511875
>How would YOU ruin FFXIV?
Is it possible to ruin it further?

>>724515278
I stopped at 7.0
What ended up happening with Wuk?

>>724515641
TOBLERONE
HURTS MY HANDS

>>724515556
Of course

>>724511875
Female Middies would be constantly nude with the 2B butt as the default ass shape

>>724515641
Wuk hits a forcefield and her palms explode
She gets a repeat of the moment (You) wake up on the ship after fighting Zenos with everyone crowded around you
Then she gets an unvoiced cutscene where she says she hopes you'll come visit

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>XIV fans are so frantic now that Mr. Happy has to make a video to remind the remaining players that the first half of LL are full of fucking nothing so their insane expectations like 8.0 trailer or job redesign news can be quelled
It has never been this bad before, good lord.

>>724515791
Damn............... I thought she was the heart and soul of Dawntrail...................

>>724515693
Never thought they'd do a XIII reference in the MSQ.

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>b**stmaster
ummm shouldn't it be called allymaster instead?

I'd just keep doing what they're doing

>>724514529
Nah I'm just enjoying the suffering that would commence once it does happen
I don't hate XIV but it would be funny

>>724516387
more?

You QUITE LITERALLY posted this thread yesterday

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>You QUITE LITERALLY posted this thread yesterday

I love deep dungeons but Pilgrim's Traverse feels a bit shallow. They tried to cram in a flavor of each style of the old deep dungeons into 100 floors which ends up making the entire experience feel more like a demo version than a proper deep dungeon.

Now imagine they gave you the option to customize your experience with offerings. It's the perfect type of content for this system

You want to make it feel more like POTD/HOH with stricter HP management? Sure just put in some offerings. You preferred how Eureka Orthos had more of a focus on enemy mechanics? Well then pump up offerings for that to give enemies more variety of attacks and so on.

They could have even made the offerings scale up infinitely until it's impossible to clear. Add a leaderboard so people can create their own challenges and flex how far they managed to push. This would turn both solo and group play into a much more exciting experience without harming the casual side.

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>>724511875
>How would YOU ruin FFXIV?
I would let Kate actually write the story firsthand if I wanted to annihilate any further potential the game had

took the thread parasocial 2 hours this time
guess he lost his touch

>>724516387
Cheeky fuck.

>>724517083
You nailed it.

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>>724518003

WE ARE VELY SOLLY, PATCH CYCLE WILL BE 6 MONTHS. PREASE UNDERSTAND

>>724518817
Yeah, you tell 'em sister! Us allies gotta stick together! In fact, I'm resubbing right now!

I don’t really understand what their intention behind quantum is in its current form because I agree that the better use of the quantum system was applying it to pilgrims, not to the level 100 boss they arbitrarily cut off into its own instance but still clings to some random deep dungeon systems (like the main tank needing sustain potions)

They mentioned suggestions like wanting to add it to forked tower magic but how have they gotten any useful data here because the current version of quantum really isn’t actually scalable content, it’s more like they made 4 slightly different versions of the same boss. How do you apply that to a field content raid like forked tower

>>724512557
they announced it and said it'd be way later and didn't even have concepts drawn yet, silly goose

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>>724518951
>HERRO PRAYERS
>PATCHU NOW 6 MONTHO
>WE A NOWU DO ONE DUNGEON EVVRY 2 PATCHO
>WE CUTTU BACKU CONTENTO TO GET MORE PRAYER IN CONTENTO
>PREASU UNDAHSTANDO PS4 LIMITATIONS

one could argue that all content in this game can be seen as a normal mode boss with mechanics slapped onto it, with the exception of coils and ucob. The only unique bosses that we fight are the 2nd phase of final turn savage (mostly stormblood onward) and ultimate final phases (tea and onward). I think quantum is distinct enough from the floor 99 boss to fit the standard players are used to with savage. I’m actually curious if the floor 99 boss was designed first, or if it was the Q40 boss.

>>724511875
steal Ryne's clothes

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>>724518770
>>724518797
>>724518952
>>724519054
>>724519118

>>724511875
>all english voice actors are americans firsthand screened and picked by kate so we get more troons like the one voicing wuk lamat
>content will either be easy 4man story dungeons as shit or savage-tier but still has only shit rewards
>more HOMOgenisation of jobs within a role
>story will be similar to Dawntrail where there is no racism or other issues like in Tural and the story in general is boring even to people who usually like MSQslop
>longer patch cycles but more mogstation slop
>not only recycling more stories from mainline FFs but doing it badly like post-EW
>Ultimate somehow shittier than usual

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yoshitpiss

It is because from their experience changing the main event causes controversy and for years (arguably a decade) that was the case. Whenever they experiment they relegate to side content and if it gains traction they will partially implement it in the main event. Quantum is a good idea and I think it's implementation is solid with the implication that it would carry on to other content in the future.

A decent experiment and I am cautiously optimistic that it can be used elsewhere.

>>724515791
so they brought zenos back? guess they feel like they dont have time to build another villain
He was my favorite so hopefully they dont rape his corpse too much

>>724511875
>Stop making ultimates
>Make Raiding the side mode instead of what jobs are balanced around.
>Keep the homogenized designs there.
>Allow Jobs to have broken and stupid shit outside of raids.
>Make the game an RPG again
>Slowly but surely introduce unique loot to the game, starting with ARR.
>Unique loot can't be obtained in raids because they don't need it.
>Start making what was end-game side content part of the MSQ instead (IE giving players abilities from Eureka/Bozja/ETC.)
>Suddenly people have reasons to do things besides gil they will never be able to use because the game isn't an RPG.
>Don't release new jobs. Don't release new MSQ. Don't release new dungeons, just focus on making the game a Final Fantasy title.

>Realize all this work would be easier to do on a new title
>Cry because the retard Yoshida intentionally chose to ruin the game with each expansion while lying to the players every opportunity he got
>move on to other games

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>>724519453
>so they brought zenos back?
No, there's a new villain in cahoots with Ascians.

logic is sound even for that, since both are distinctly side content with a separate ecosystem. The last time they added something new you could classify as an expansion to core progression was in SB with Ultimate. Yes, it's technically niche and doesn't advance your character, but it's made to be a post-Savage BiS playground and follows the regular ruleset for coordinated group content. aloalo followed in that vein, but it remains to be seen what they'll do about Variant/Criterion next patch after more than two years since the last one.

So what happened to Variant Dungeons?

I wish they'd kill mods

DT really is the first test it feels like for this new aim and as we can see it's lead to loss and lack of growth, and at the same time they seem reluctant to let go of this new SP casual audience (Likely due to limitations on their end to make content for Casual, midcore and hardcore, and their own personal love with Hardcore content being priority) and hope that in the course of the new story arc up to 10.0, this new casual SP audience will replace the casual MMO audience.

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>>724511875
>Remove kate
>Hire a real writer for expac
>Focus on more story content
>Cut down on savage and raidfaggotry
>Increase normal difficulty drastically
>Permaban all mod users of any kind

>>724519704
Cancelled because they shit themselves over the poor reception to Occult Crescent and had to put a normal mode Tower of Might into emergency development.

>>724515641
>>724515693
>>724515791
holy shit you fags are useless
i'll do it myself

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alright, shitposting aside
do you guys think the game will improve at all in 8.0?

>>724520037
>Cut down on savage and raidfaggotry
can you tell me how many months it's been since the raid tier, and when the next tier even comes out before you say something so retarded.

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i just want my hebe harem back

>>724520589
They're going to play it too safe. Probably get that shb writer woman back and force her to write the blandest, safest copy of shb possible

>>724520589
No. I hope it does but man Dawntrail was bad. I lost a lot of faith in this game really fast. It might just be over.

>>724520609
Its still wasted devtime. People dont play ff14 for the gameplay.
Only MSQ matters. Everything else is secondary

>>724520734
timeskip + lesbo marriage + yuri babies

>>724520921
you realize this mentality is the reason the game is in this state right

>>724520589
Nothing CS3 has done in the past 4-ish years should give anyone hope that things are going to get better.

>>724520589
It's going to stay the same, maybe they add another Chaotic or Quantum raid but most of the same. WHICH I WOULDN'T MIND IF THE PATCHES WEREN'T SO FUCKING LONG

>>724520589
you've only gotten this answer about 50 times already

>>724520756
>Probably get that shb writer woman back
she hot promoted, it's a japanese company she is not coming back.

>>724520971
If they focused on making MSQ good, they wouldn't have made a random failed writer their lead.
They know exactly what fans like and DT had none of it. Instead they went all in on
>Look we can render more grass!

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HOLY KEKAROONIES WUK IS BACK BABY!!!

>>724520589
No.
They promoted everyone competent or shifted them to other teams/projects.
The main problem is the entire foundational design of the game, they play everything by a template. That isn't something that'll change in one expac

>>724521167
people were shitting on the game in endwalker too and that expansion was generally well received. the gameplay being smoothed out too hell and back starting in shadowbringers has been a growing pain for fucking years now, and now having a dogshit msq too. it's not one or the other.
>>724521235
i mean yeah but they've also been making gameplay changes that make the game play worse even before this.

>>724513246
>enforce an anticheat that scans your entire system to see if anything is running and probably gives you a ban instantly

Never happen because its against Japanese privacy laws

>>724519453
Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, is it, Retard-kun?

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>>724520921
>"erm they need to cut more content from the game"
>#1 complaint is that there isn't shit to do
>msq was just a mask for this problem

i actually want XIV to be XIV and know it can be an amazing game, one of the absolute pinnacles of the MMO genre, but they have to fix a lot of core issues, which desu I know they can do, but there's also a time element of will it be too late. XIV's world in ARR-SB is so rich and full, the gameplay was fun as well, it's why people wanted exploration zones back because of Eureka and Bozja, the jobs were so fun and I couldn't wait to ask players to help me learn how to play them, which I did end up doing and I made a ton of friends. EW was my first experience with an expansion release, I found the story good but bloated, and the gameplay was boring and making me fall asleep. I don't play every day like others, I take my time and engage with things I enjoy and I socialise quite a bit and RP, with the only things I don't really do is crafting and savage/ult raiding because I find the prep boring.

The way I see XIV going is not what I want to see from a game I've put time into, have built communities and made friends in and have built a passion for, and knowing that they can do so much better than what we got in post patch EW and now DT, and seeing the actual proof that the games future isn't looking too good from their financial reports, CEO's comments and investors comments, alongside seeing the subtle changes that they have implemented and interacting with so many new players and how they interact with the wider community has me extremely worried with the choice of continuing to support a game that will never fix it's issues or moving on and giving up with it

>>724521334
What if I told you xiv has always had shit gameplay and was hard carried by its msq and the ff brand?

>>724520921
>Its still wasted devtime
the savage tier came out in april anon, they have had 7 months to do whatever the hell they want, and they have however many months until the next tier comes out. they have done nothing with this time.

>>724519592
I think calyx is our reflection from the ninth

>>724521478
Ngl, the constant doomer posts is starting to get extremely depressing to see chronically.

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>>724520589
No.

>>724521478
i disagree, and if you believe this the game was never for you to begin with.

>>724521540
Stop coming in these threads then

>>724521501
I've seen some stupid takes anon but this one is easily the stupidest I've ever seen

>>724521540
It's gonna be that way until the game shows signs of improvement so buckle up bitch.

>switch from vertical gear progression to horizonal/diagonal gear progression
is the game now fixed?

people's biggest complaint originally with DT was that the story sucked, and from personal experience my raid team actually think that the arcadion has been some of the worst raid content by pure gameplay standards.

>>724521456
anyone that ever suggests savage being the problem have no idea what they are talking about. savage could not exist and xiv would still have no content for anything else.

>>724521665
i think the raids are good mechanically but playing the jobs have been so fucking boring that it just isn't ever gonna be fun.

>>724521648
No but it's a start. I think at this point the better idea would be to make gear entirely cosmetic and have horizontal progression tied to something like a sphere grid. Have special nodes unlocked by completing certain content, like if you beat Alexander savage synced you can get a sphere that has a chance to randomly reduce cooldowns, or beating T13 can give SMN a Bahamut buff sphere and BLM a fire damage sphere, something like that.

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>>724521665
>and from personal experience my raid team actually think that the arcadion has been some of the worst raid content by pure gameplay standards.
Week 8 clear ass opinion
>>724521783
Now this is real

Pilgrims Traverse is a Deep Dungeon, Deep Dungeons have never ever been popular amongst the player population, and we know this from lodestone achievments. With Arkveld and Necron, what purpose is there outside of you want the mount to run it? players have ran it, those players have left and want more variation past a scripted fight sequence that ends the same every single time with no deviation. Again, it's not down to players to enjoy what the devs make, its down to the devs to make something the players enjoy, because you end up with everyone leaving.

>>724521665
>my raid team actually think that the arcadion has been some of the worst raid content by pure gameplay standards.
That's because your raid team is a bunch of faggots forged in EW's striking dummy bodycheck raid design. Cruiserweight is the best raid content we've gotten since Alexander.

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>>724521661
>Puts her in Dissidia because Nomura is a coomer, and because he wants his character to shine.
>Even FF14 players who skip story and don't really play optional content have no idea who she is.
Before you say I'm lying, I've seen many, many comments under the official X posts for Dissidia announcing Gaia saying just that both in English and Japanese.
I've seen the preview of the gameplay for Dissidia as well and it looks fucking shit. The only thing that peaked my interest was a remix of some Shadowbringers OST's with Gaia but I'll rip them from Youtube when the game comes out.

>>724521840
>>724521887
tell me without larping how I know you started in shadowbringers

>>724521623
I think you're being obtuse.

>>724521965
I'm a legacyfag and I can prove it any time you'd like me to. Shut the fuck up, faggot. Arcadion is the only good thing to come out of Dawntrail. Cruiserweight is kino and I'm glad it raped you.

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>>724521965

>>724521949
they somehow made her even hotter in dissidia desu

>>724521353
Well they will figure out a way somehow

EW was the big push for the solo or "traditional FF fan" crowd and it couldn't possibly have been timed poorer as it failed to take advantage of the game's surging popularity. As a long-term MMO player, I definitely felt neglected back then and a ton of people, ShB babies having caught up with content for the first time, were left with nothing to do. Duty support, revamped dungeons, Island Sanctuary and a general lack of MMO content outside of raiding. SE was so preoccupied with future-proofing the game that they "forgot" to make what little MMO content we did get last longer (see the "log in and you're done" relic for example).

>>724521965
m8s is genuinely kino

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>>724521665
it's alright, Arcadion feels very safe design but does some stuff decently like M6S which had the audacity to hit the OT with big autos so the healers actually need to do their fucking job for once
first tier was actual shit btw

also FRU fucking sucked, I cleared that shit within the first month and it was lame as hell aside from CT
last phase is cool as a tank

>>724522193
FRU was definitely an over correction after TOP mind breaking everyone

The hardcore content would eventually become midcore if they willed it to be. Right now they would rather keep it locked for, well, we're nearing the seventh month anniversary of the tier now.

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>>724520589
Hunts and treasure have been busted for like 6 years. Savage has never been popular outside of the first raid tier and when I say "popular" I mean a world wide 20% player base engagement average.

The majority of their end game activities are either busted or so poorly designed / presented to players that they may as well be busted and those aren't being changed ever at this point and are certainly never discussed.

>>724515641
They recreated 7.0 final trial with Wuk but in a cutscene and less overtly heinous in 7.3. Honestly, the patch itself was at least getting 1 thumbs up before that scene happened then it became a pretty rough
>Whatever

>>724522361
i dont fucking understand why they take so long to unlock the raid tier

We also need better end game as well, as there is constant complaints that endgame doesnt offer enough.

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I will now play your mobileslop

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>>724521665
There were a bunch of complaints for different communities I'll list them here.

>Dawntrail story sucked ass
>Reaction from YoshiP and the devs to fan reaction was very negative and dismissive
>Kate (lead English localiser) and Sena (American VA for Wuk) and the VA for Koana being incredibly antagonistic with fans on social media
>Lack of content until 1 year into the expansion and when Occult Crescent finally launched they fucked up Fork Tower making it Savage only with no Normal mode and the entry the worst version possible.
>Japanese more specific complaints was the graphics upgrade as the majority if JP players, play on console on PS4 and PS5 they can't alter their characters and were as upset with the graphics update which changed the look of their wol's which they had invested years into, they didn't want their characters to change, they didn't ask for the update, they didn't want it, it was as big a deal as the Dawntrail story sucking ass to them and there were mass quittings because of it.
>Content and jobs overall being stale, slow progress of the patch cycle and content when finally released was either one and done or the rewards for content were seriously lacking which killed motivation for grinding/ repeating out the content.

Those were the BIGGEST complaints, but there were a bunch of minor complaints among the communities, like the quality of the voice acting in the English version was negatively hit in Dawntrail, this isn't a game breaking issue but it is a complaint all the same.

Clear rates for this Savage tier are way lower than LHW and Pandaemonium, and both extremes are on pace for record-low clears this expansion. Why is this? Because Cruiserweight Savage has no reclear value besides the 10-clear achievement and the mount, since the BiS gear is only useful for Extreme outside of Savage. Few players are bothering to get the BiS this tier, and many are skipping this content with little regret. Most likely after it was announced there was no Ultimate or Criterion or Chaotic for 7.3 people just checked out which I can't blame them. It doesn't help that the Extremes having very lenient DPS checks make it so there is zero point of even getting the BiS unless you care about parsing. Please don’t respond by saying “Extremes should have easy/casual DPS checks,” because in the past we’ve had Extreme fights with harder DPS checks than Savage floors, and that wasn’t what people complained about. We already have Sphene this expansion as an example.

>>724522098
She does look hot as fuck, if only the game didn't suck massive ass.

>>724521661
LIPSTICK
MARKS

>>724522515
This little kids name is really not sena right? What's his actual name?

>>724522567
more and more people are not committing to savage too because jobs are boring to play also

It’s really ridiculous, and even more so that not enough people seem concerned about this. The whole Savage/Tome situation should be one of the top five issues being discussed right now.

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>>724522647
>little kid
Sena is a 40 year old man and we don't know his real name.

>>724522669
Honestly the reverse should also be true as a method to 'uncap' the current tonestone. Once the odd patch hits, allow for trade of the uncapped one at a 2:1 ratio, even 4:1 without adding to the weekly cap. Then, at least if you truly wanted to gear an alt char/job, you could do so without needing to spend a month+

I'd say ideally, it'd be even earlier at like the X.X5 patch lol, maybe initially a 4:1 and loosening to a 2:1 at the odd patch. Would allow for people to more easily reclass for ultimates as well, giving possibly more incentive for people to fill multiple roles in the PF.

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>>724522250
TOP was weird because some of it was cool like chaining Limit Breaks in Alpha-Omega and P5 being intense in general during prog with eScape blasting
and then also soulless because from a purely mechanical standpoint it's almost the same on every role aside from shit tanks do (P1 and P2 busters requiring positioning or grabbing tethers I guess)
also I fucking hate the automarker shit, I can mark people in dynamis sigma/omega so it's not that impossible and it's absolutely cheating and I hate the players, troons and (((content creators))) lying their asses off that it somehow isn't

but yeah they probably made FRU easier as a response. does make me wonder if they do SB MSQ or ShB MSQ next, betting on the latter because people will react harder or may be baited to resub because it's le ShB. but shinryu and tsukuyomi are cool fights so missing it is dumb

>>724522647
He's probably called Brian or David, as the other Anon said he's almost 40 and comes from a middle class white family and is larping as a 'Latino' woman. He is white, very white putting on a fake accent and on top of the fake accent he's trying to sound like a woman and the result was the absolute shit show we got in Dawntrail.

Maybe ask again another decade or expansion

>>724521949
>keeps putting black haired girls with pale skin into his games
nomura is kinda based desu

I don't want to do their 2+2+2 reskinned dungeonslop ever again.

>>724521272
we need SUPER WUK

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Are there any decent VIDEO GAME social experiences out there left any more?

I hope the next character they add to the scions is a black man

>>724523097
No. They all want you to "join the discord"

>>724523097
Society is collapsed so there are no decent social experiences to be had anywhere because everyone is angry and miserable and atomized.

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>>724523097
>videogame
>social experiences
most people are fucking awful especially these days, so no
whatever next MMO comes within the next decade that manages to replace GW2 or FFXIV will be filled with w*men and tr*nnies to ruin the game because the devs will adjust it for them while the coomers make their ERP-drama public even though no one asked

>>724521949
are there really storyfags that skip all the optional story content

>>724523097
no normies took over and all they know how to do is ragebait and culture war. welcome to the modern internet

>>724523301
yes
there are also storyfags that skip all of stormblood or ARR because reddit told them so

>>724523301
Yes because they can't raid, they can barely do normal trials. I didn't believe it myself until the videos I saw of people spending hours and hours on the Venat fight in Endwalker, or the massive seethe that In From the Cold caused in Endwalker "too difficult". There are a lot of storyfags who refuse to do the raid series Normals, too difficult for them.

>>724523301
anon you have no idea just how bad people are at playing final fantasy 14 online for some god forsaken fucking reason.

>>724523301
When CT was announced to become mandatory for 5.3's MSQ there was a HUGE freakout. All those people were treating alliance raids like they were being asked to do savage.

>>724522515
>Japanese more specific complaints was the graphics upgrade as the majority if JP players, play on console on PS4 and PS5 they can't alter their characters and were as upset with the graphics update which changed the look of their wol's which they had invested years into, they didn't want their characters to change, they didn't ask for the update, they didn't want it, it was as big a deal as the Dawntrail story sucking ass to them and there were mass quittings because of it
If that's not BS, then I have to say JP players are such crybabies
The character faces didn't look that different. Besides, how many free fantasia potions have they given away now?

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I liked the 7.3 MSQ actually but I'm just not feeling XIV right now in terms of it's job and combat design. I'll probably still watch the LL just to see what they talk about but my heart isn't quite in it.

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>>724523606
It's not bullshit, there's a megathread on the JP forums.

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>>724522723
DIOS MIO

>>724511875
>due to an accounting server error all players will need to repurchase the game and any expansions they owned
>as an apology we will give you 1 month of free subscription, and a Fantasia tied to a limited-time quest with Wuk'lamat!
>additionally all ps4 players will be required to pay an additional 5 dollars usd to keep playing on the PS4. Even the (no longer)f2p accounts.
There i saved Square, hire me yoshida-san

>>724523097
You're only options are either extremely niche and/or extremely new game franchises.
Keep in mind that your enjoyment will be limited to a week or so until content creators cause it to blow up in popularity and normie exposure

>>724523468
>>724523540
Caring about how bad players are in an MMO is fucking retarded, they've always been the vast majority of players and you need them to support the game and make it profitable. Try and view them as an adult with an adult perspective instead of as a cringey tryhard 22 year old asian boy. They're just normalfags that want to have fun in a game. FFXI and classic WoW had MMO combat modeled perfectly, the jobs were simple enough that a stay at home cat mom could perform the role, but the "difficulty" was organization or group execution. You unironically enjoying wiping in the same circle platform for hours and weeks make you the 1% outlier in a bad way, not some elite world first raider.

>>724524058
no i don't think we should cater games to the lowest common denominator because as we can see it makes games worse.

Destroy mod syncing.

>>724521665
Arcadion is more of the same. There's nothing particularly exciting about it so far besides P6S which is the first time in a long-ass time we've seen a somewhat intricate add-phase.

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>>724524058
ok faggot clearly you don't have a modern view on any of these fucking games. wow classic literally released a couple years ago and you had dad gamers en masse complaining about muh too much time investment to play the game, and you know what people did? told them to fuck off and stop playing the game and stop being a whining little bitch about a game released 20 years ago with one button rotations. if XI was rereleased to a populated crowd the same fucking thing would happen because guess what that game also required a lot of time investment compared to the average game in the modern era and that game is even more convoluted than 2004wow. you literally do not have any perspective to be saying any of this retardation.

>>724523097
Please refer to >>724523247 's post

>>724524115
Nobody cares what you think, you're not a decision maker in a company developing an MMO, cope and seethe accordingly.
>>724524378
Didn't read, see above reply.

>>724524439
>anon that doesn't play video games gives opinions on video games that he did not play
ebin

>>724524487
>replies with a complete non-sequitur
I accept your nonsensical concession.

>>724524541
you literally tried using classic wow as an example where parent gamers could enjoy themselves when the opposite happened, you did not play classic wow.

>>724511875
playable loporrits

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Did you at least sex your lalafell today?

itt secondaries play 20 questions to get eachother up to speed on the game they're not interested in

>>724525826
speaking from experience huh
it's okay your thread will hit bump cap in 10 hours because not even the jannies care anymore

>>724525892
kiss me anon

tbqh I really wish I liked this game again but somehow I can't
maybe I just burnt out on it

>>724526293
The gameplay formula became too stale and the wait between patches too long. Gacha shit has more content than FF14 now

>>724526293
burnt out, i burnt out too. after running out of relic weapons i wanted i've been waiting for 7.5 or .55 to jump back in

>>724511875
>How would YOU ruin FFXIV?
Let new players skip the MSQ to get to current content.
Require Wolf Marks for the next relic step.
Go back and censor all the lewd outfits, conversations, and circumstances. The rape den in Sastasha would be removed completely for instance.
Bring back EXP fatigue
Bring back cross class abilities and cross leveling requirements to unlock classes
BLU is no longer limited
BST announced to not be limited
Let Yoko Taro delete characters for failing his content
Bring back all the characters who had poignant deaths
BRD and MCH need ammo to DPS

>>724523728
bunch of cuck faggots as always

>>724527807
>Bring back cross class abilities and cross leveling requirements to unlock classes
>BLU is no longer limited
>BST announced to not be limited
>BRD and MCH need ammo to DPS
These would all improve the game tho. Also we already have a worse fatigue system called tomestones.

>>724515278
It would be less work to rewrite the entirety of DT than to make the ending less shit given what came before it. There was a point of no return where the writing can't be salvaged and it was shortly after leaving Yak Tural. This shit would have been alright for like an SNES era JRPG.
>>724520589
Square could literally end up selling themselves to Sony if they don't get their shit together when 8.0 launches. It needs Endwalker levels of hype and Shadowbringers levels of delivery and needs to maintain that for at least three patch cycles after launch.
>>724523301
There's fuckers that skip canon content if they're bored for more than a minute while expostion is happening. There's fuckers out there that watch the latest episode or season of a show because it's new and skip everything that came before it. It is absolute insanity.

The American voice actor for Leon has been fired for shitting on Charlie Kirk, it was a jap and an American immigrant living in Japan who got him fired.
So if they can do it for him, I want them to do it for Kate next. Let's fucking GOOOO!

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>>724511875
not retroactively applying the PT changes to the rest of the DDs

best time i've had in game since southern front was new

Who's Leon?

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>>724528839
Resident Evil Leon sorry I should have been more specific. Capcom fired him, you know the pozzed Capcom, the diverse Capcom? Even they couldn't tolerate the Charlie Kirk shit talking and got rid of a prime actor for one of their mainline characters.
https://x.com/realmattforney/status/1983512601683267963

>>724528769
rape

>>724511875
Hypno mechanics for fiddies!

Snoy shill thread.

>>724521965
Cleared the tier w1 and it was an unforgettable experience.

Must suck not having either the time or skill to do that.

>>724512238
Janitor application acceptance emails are being sent out. Please remember to check your spam box!

>>724529231
it's crazy how much trouble you can save yourself with a burner account

there's our thread parasocial he's here
in the gold saucer as usual

>>724523097
i’ve been playing PEAK with /v/ and it’s been quite a lot of fun

>>724531725
meds

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>>724511875
I'd fix it by having fat cat tats shoved in our face constantly during MSQ and uhhhh... I guess release patches faster

>>724520589
It will not be a renaissance (but sycophants will treat it as such) nor will it be a disaster. It will be mid and be able to recapture at least the pop in pop out enthusiasm of people pre SHB rather than completely jettison people off the game the way DT did. I say this fucking hating DT and being very skeptical of Yoshida. I just expect WoLwank

DT was so fucking abyssally bad that if 8.0 is "I sub for the game, I finish the MSQ, I have fun then I unsub" it will be a 100% improvement because DT was - and I am not alone in this - so fucking bad that I did not want to do the MSQ or play the game. Logging in was the same as doing an onerous chore.

>>724522515
Thanks Jack, I'm not going to screenshot that but someone should.

>>724523097
>Social experience
I want to say be the change you want to see, but people are so vicious and nasty that I hesitate to venture out. Worse, that shit makes normal people not want to contribute because a strange game, the only winning move is not to play. Which just yields more of the field to the schizos and sociopaths and just makes the situation worse in an endless loop. Do you know why people fall in love with AI? They are so starved for genuine friendliness. I get people having crushes on me just for being nice, which is to say not adversarial.

i will force you to do sycrus runs until i get my amon hat and you'll enjoy it.

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>>724532163
>Raid grinding to get gear
It was around 45 runs on Ridorana Lighthouse to get my Shikari.

Dropped the first run and I got a 80 something and they got a 94-ish and won it. Then it dropped on the 45th run and I got it.

Good luck buddy.

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>>724528753
Square is an evil company, I'm activating my chud mode and saying nothing ever happens because of this
>>724528769
I actually enjoy running with randoms, it's quite fun and the weekly goals are neat
It keeps the loot in circulation too

>>724522116
Just noticed this post and you’re right. I remember the whole talk about them “future-proofing” leading to stuff like Duty Support for ARR-SB.
Man time flew by fast.

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Guys we gotta recapture this game's glory years

We gotta recapture when i started in Shadowbringers. where did it go SO WRONG....................

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>>724531725
i'm playing the game. are you?

>>724531373
>it's crazy how much trouble you can save yourself with a burner account
I use a burner account, I regularly get hit with the 'this account is spam' and it limits my posting but I'm not using my real face, name or any info on there, I'll take the bot accusations over being doxed any day.

>>724520589
Not enough. These devs are lazy cowards.

>>724532752
Finish the update.

>>724532996
never

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Im john endwalker

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>>724533115
I'm Mohammed P

>>724532903
I don't understand people. Go to any youtube channel that's live and look at the comment section. People have their first and last names on their profile with their faces then they say some shit like "Its raining here in arizona sending love!" What the fuck is the matter with normalfags?

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>>724520589
Shitposting aside I haven't really noticed the game get any definitively worse since Shadowbringers, where the tanking changes marked a heavy pivot away from class interaction (such as it is, it's a fucking tab target MMO game, I'm not expecting Mario & Luigi slapstick levels of class interaction)

My only problem with the game in its current state is I ran out of stuff I wanted to do in it and so I did the Yoshida needful and just unsubbed. I'll come back with Beastmaster, probably, or just the Blue Mage update

The posts in FFXIV threads that talk about the game needing reinvented or desperately need to drive up player numbers because of various bubbles popping are like Manifest Destiny raving settlers. I assume they're false flaggers specifically because they remind me of my time on WoW forums where similar posters would do literally nothing but that all day, just complain in increasingly zealous fashion about how the game needed to do X or it was dead forever

>>724533184
millenials are the only generation that understand how to properly use the internet

and most of us are retarded

>>724519704
Boring shit that only wowfugee's asked for. Mythic+ is fucking gay too on WoW and is dying.

>>724531882
>off model trash

>>724533115
I leveled a Paladin just to be John Endwalker in MSQ cutscenes.
No, I will not actually tank content, I will switch to dps when I need to queue for stuff.

>>724533593
It's easy as shit to tank in Normal, why would you change?

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decided i don't like the hairstyle and i don't want an item this pricey clogging up my retainers. so if you'd like simple and clean, come find me and open trade. first come first serve, i got about half an hour

>>724533165
What is the point in dressing in that attire?

>>724533789
Mainly because I've honestly never tanked at all in this game, I leveled this job purely through pvp and sidequests/FATEs

>>724534057
Capitulation to the Saudis, they were in Saudi Arabia hawking FF14 trying to beg for Saudi money, this one year after FF16 was banned in Saudi for the gay kissing.

>Reinstalled the game after a hard drive issue
>All my UI/Macros/Keybinds are gone
The idea of having to set them all back up for every class is genuinely pushing me away from the game. How do I fix it bros?

>>724534156
It's easy as shit to tank in Normal trials and even Normal raids, you simply be the Off tank and do nothing and then you can't die because you've got all those mitigations to keep you alive, you just be a Blue dps.

>>724534242
Did you save a backup of your Documents folder before the issue?
If so you can copy it back to the documents folder and should keep your UI and Keybinds.

>>724534223
sounds like what literally any foreign visitor does where they adopt local dress

>>724534418
Koji wasn't wearing their clothing, notice you didn't have a comment on them begging for money.

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>>724534453
i notice you're trying to win an argument where there isn't an argument

Bring back TP, bring back OG MP scaling, make resource and threat management a thing again. Stop designing raids to be DDR encounters that can be scripted out down to the second, have a little fucking randomness going on in an encounter for god's sake.

>>724534491
>Non-sequitur reply.

>>724534607
>Stop designing raids to be DDR encounters that can be scripted out down to the second
How the hell do you design a tab-target boss battle that doesn't follow a script

>>724534418
Nobody dresses in a fucking kimono when they visit Japan. Yoshi-P has never worn a cowboy outfit in America. You're a coping retard.

>>724534681
WoW did it just fine with a semi-random boss rotation timeline for each encounter, or at least used to I can't speak for it past MoP.

>>724511875
>doing culinarian job quests
>"Okay, we want you to make 1 of each of these three dishes that have 6 ingredients each. Yes, yes, we know you make 3 servings each time, but we only want 1. And we want you to do it with 3 different dishes that you have to go to 6 different places to get the ingredients from. Because fuck you."

Whoever designed the Culinarian job quests needs to be shitcanned. It's the only job with quests this god damn tedious.

>>724534681
Have you ever played any other MMO in your life? That's a rhetorical question, I know the answer is no.

>>724515641
>What ended up happening with Wuk?
She/He realized they were shit at fighting, dropped out and started an onlyfans, only made 38 gil, threw themselves off a cliff, died on impact.

>>724534681
Just stop it being a DDR fight and have some rng to it. They can do it they used to be able to do it frequently in ARR but for some fucking reason decided to simplify fights later in development.
Take Mountain Fire with Valigarmanda Ex, that's what I mean by some RNG. They are absolutely capable of doing it, and they should but they are so afraid of the reaction or because they streamline their development too much and keep to very specific timings for boss fights e.t.c.
Fuckers need to stop and allow chaos to reign.

>>724534740
you used to only make 1 serving

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>>724534849
They stopped doing it because it's way easier to design fights around music and other presentation-forward methods of boss development when you're not hamstrung by a lack of script. You know what they also did in ARR? Had Answers swell when Bahamut Prime was charging Megaflare.

>>724534740
>WAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH WHY DOESN'T IT COMPLETE THE QUEST FOR ME WHY DO I HAVE TO ADVENTURE TO COLLECT INGREDIENTS BAAAAAAWWWWW

Is the new Eureka fun? I haven't played since DT launch

>>724534925
It's OK for the run-through, but Fork Tower isn't necessary and it sucks to get in and has nothing really going for it but bragging rights, so it lacks Bozja's repeatability and staying power. Remains To Be Seen on the second zone coming in 7.4 or 7.5, whenever the hell it was.

>>724534904
>Answers swell when Bahamut Prime was charging Megaflare
We need to go back. XIV peaked there.

>>724532367
Yeah, you tell 'em sister! Everyone gets rights! Gonna renew my sub in your honor. Thanks, Vizex!

>>724534925
No, it kinda sucks.

>>724534904
You're right, music and boss mechanics are so tightly tied now rng fucks it up and they don't like unpredictability.
They had that design philosophy all over the FF16 boss fights as well and while they were huge spectacles, they were boring as shit to play and far, far too easy (except the DLC bosses).

>>724534989
Go play Valigarmanda EX, music likes to swell at certain points of his fight timeline.

>>724534923
if you actually played the game, the culinarian job is a half-baked afterthought. in the beginning it didn't even count as a real doh and you couldn't use it to meld materia. it was like the blue mage of crafters. that's why the job quest is unique in being a pain in the ass

>>724534047
Sell that shit
Made a quick 30 mil myself

>>724535008
That boss philosophy is definitely not why FF16 was a boring piece of shit

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>>724534904
You mean Teraflare, and that's a cutscene. The timeline of the fight isn't planned around the song because it loops the first part of the song over and over for the first phase and adds phase for however long it takes you, because when you get to that point of the fight can change each time. The song jump cuts to the appropriate part at the end of the adds phase. You don't know any of these because you're a shiteating WoWnigger tourist who has never touched T13.

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>combat design will never change because the music is irrevocably tied to boss mechanics and voicelines

>>724535103
surprised you could pull yourself off of fellating vizex to run this chatgpt post

>>724535023
It couldn't meld materia because no gear is made with cooking. You didn't even play back then so keep your fucking mouth shut newnigger.

you think anyone's gonna go and get that hairstyle?

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>>724535126
>my game will never adopt WoW's heckin randorino fight designerino

>>724535024
its only going for 14m on my datacenter. figure i'd get more out of it by making someone's day than just ticking a box off on my collection profile that i don't care about

>>724535130
>no argument? just call it chatgpt!
Next time keep your fucking mouth shut when you have no idea what you're talking about, newnigger WoW tourist.

>>724535062
I didn't say it was, I said the boss fights playing them was boring, I played through the game twice and they were piss easy and once you get over the spectacle of the fight they are very boring (except the dlc bosses).
If you want to talk about why FF16 failed overall we can get into it.

>>724535193
this post insults me the same way every single GPT model writes a 4chan post

>>724522452
>Necklace of Eternal Ice

>>724535204
FF16 was great though

Skill Tree System can work in Final Fantasy XIV as an alternative to raising the level cap 110. Characters effectively reach 100 by gaining skill points through gameplay then unlock new skills and upgrade existing skills through a visual progression path. The only draw back the developers have to plan out a detailed design specification for each of the jobs. FFXIV cannot have a situation where the developers design a bunch of jobs during their lunch break like Summoner for a skill tree system to work.

>>724535220
Next time you want to throat the nu-fight design by coping about how it's designed around the music, try not to pick a fight that jumpcuts the music when you get to the appropriate point because the fight actually has variables. You absolutely retarded motherfucker. Stay in /wowg/ where you belong.

>>724535234
It had high highs, but incredibly low lows. I can replay so many of the PS1 and PS2 era ffgames and not get bored, they feel fresh so many things to explore and find which makes the games highly replayable. I played FF16 twice and felt so fucking bored on my second playthrough I was skipping cutscenes.

>>724535234
FF16 is unbelievably bad.

>>724535287
the irony of tard dumping a reddit post above this post crying about /wowg/ is deafening
chicken jockey

>>724535179
I'm sorry for your retardation anon, I'm sure that's very challenging for you in your daily life.

>>724535350
Was this post supposed to be in English? You find an argument yet, little buddy?

>>724535234
There's probably a great game in there somewhere but all the boring padding brings it down to mid at best.

>>724535337
Nah I've played every Final Fantasy and XVI is easily a top 5 FF. Don't reply to me you tasteless faggot, your trash opinions are what killed XIV.

>>724535429
Let's start with the gameplay. The big focus is on the eikon abilities, but the eikon abilities are all on MMO style cooldowns. There's nothing you can do about the cooldowns, you just use them and do your one 4-hit filler combo in the meantime. Compare to SoP or FF7R where all your cool shit uses a resource, and you're rewarded with said resource for staying on the offensive and engaging with the enemy. That isn't the case in XVI, you just dump your skills and fuck around swinging your 4-hit toothpick filling the time. That's boring. What makes it worse is that there's only one character, with one weapon. So you can't even change up your filler playstyle.
Character progression is on rails which is something FFXIII rightfully got shit on for. You get a new eikon every like 10 hours of gameplay and once you do get it there's no way to get anything else. You're storygated out of further cool shit. Character levels not only don't matter at all, but the exp gain is scaled so it stalls out when you start matching enemy levels, preventing you from grinding up. Not that it would matter, because those levels gain you nothing.
Weapon crafting is completely pointless. Each dungeon/boss gives you a material you use to upgrade to the next sword, which just raises your damage by +5 (meaningless). There's literally no point to this system existing, and yet 90% of all treasure you find are materials for this system that has nothing to craft.

>>724535395
It's a victim of getting a AAA development budget
>brought Soken on
>to do nothing but generic orchestral shit that he's not good at
>brought Platinum and other big-name action game developers in
>largely to outsource shit like eikon fights to them
>brought in DMC5's combat designer for Nero
>Clive now handles like a bad version of Nero
>brought Kingdom Hearts developers on for action game consulting
>the only real indication Kingdom Hearts staffers were consulted is that Ramuh's ability looks an awful lot like Shotlocks in BBS and KH3

>>724535325
I want to say the xbox 360 is the time everything started playing similarly

>>724535429
There are moments in the game where you literally watch a 45 minute cutscene, regain control, walk five steps forward, and get thrust into another 45 minute cutscene. The moviegame bloat is unreal, complete with slow forced walk and talk segments, squeezing past narrow corridors, and 'hold the triggers to do thing' QTEs. There are over 20 HOURS of cutscenes in this game. And that's not including the stilted canned emote sidequest cutscenes you'll spend another 20 hours watching.
Sidequests are ripped straight out of FFXIV. They exist just to fill time and for nothing else. Listen to someone spend 10 minutes telling you how and why they need an object on the other side of the map. Walk over and pick it up. Go back. Bam, more crafting materials you can't use. Thrilling.
There is no exploration. There are four giant open world areas with nothing in them but MMO sidequests, and there are hallway dungeons. The hallway dungeons are also ripped straight from FFXIV with the same two trash packs -> mini boss -> two trash packs -> mini boss -> two trash packs -> final boss structure.
Eikon fights have spectacle, but that's all they have. Segments like the Phoenix fight at the start, or the Garuda fighting game segment, or the Phoenix vs Bahamut segment are all on rails and impossible to fail. They're cutscenes.
The only time the game is remotely challenging are in the chronostones (I think that's what they were called) where you have to use one specific eikon and fulfill challenges to keep your time up. The rest of the game you can sleep through. FF Mode isn't any better because you have all eikons out the gate and can just blast everything even more easily than in normal mode.

They're never going to do this but i wish they would make Blue Mage availibie in Deep Dungeons. It would be so fun. It's the perfect content for Blue Mage.

>>724535395
This, it has or had potential but it was ruined by how streamlined they made the gearing system, no party system focusing only on Clive, having no inns, exploration being meaningless, you can't enter water, too many loading screens, world is disjointed, it's a complete regression in so many regards and not a modern game except in graphics.

>>724535429
Onto the story. The premise of the game is awesome. And then it gets rugpulled almost the instant the demo ends. Within five minutes of the demo ending you watch Clive regain his freedom, his girlfriend, get a new job. Even his dog inexplicably returns at that same moment. And then you play for another hour and find out that he didn't even kill Joshua (hilariously, this comes immediately after he has his big moment of accepting """the truth""" that he killed Joshua). In other words, nothing in the demo mattered. It amounts to nothing except for baiting the player. What makes it worse is that later on you find out that Joshua has a personal ninja cult who was there at Phoenix Gate the night of the attack, and they just didn't intervene. They didn't even attempt to save Joshua, they just literally did nothing until they appeared to yank his unconscious body away off screen. It's nonsense.
It's very clearly stitched together from several different drafts. You have shit like Ultima appearing in the demo wearing Joshua's face and robe. He then appears in the same guise leading Clive to Garuda. But then... Joshua isn't Ultima. Joshua is just Joshua and Ultima never appears wearing his guise again. It's never commented on, it's just obviously a draft in which Ultima used Phoenix to possess Joshua's corpse or something.
You spend the majority of the game's story dealing with Sanbreque and its political situation. Actually most of the cutscenes for the entire game's story are about it. So it must be important, right? Nope. It's just filler. Ultima is fucking around with Sanbreque trying to conquer a continent... that he already has control of. He's literally doing it for no reason. And once Olivier and Clive's mom die, nobody ever mentions the plotline again. It just vanishes, because it actually didn't matter.

I'll be honest, the devs can't even distinguish the existing classes from each other to the poitn that we have 21 jobs, but of those 21 jobs, we realistically have 5~6 ACTUAL gameplays. Tank, Shield/Pure healer, Phys Ranged, Caster, and Melee. You can argue flavour, but the flavour of each job is not enough to set it apart from the others in its own bracket. They can't even get class fantasy right, and people think they have the capability of doing job trees? Naaaaah

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Remember Beastmaster?

>>724535429
You triggered the cultist

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waiter my pasta is stale

>>724535508
>not a modern game except in graphics
It is a modern Sony game and that's the problem.

>>724535547
of the 3 possible options for beastmaster, that one is the one that would work the least in 14

The game lets you level every job on one character. They just need to make the jobs more distinct and then like 70% of the game's problems are instantly fixed (leveling them all is a big start-of-expansion grind, you want to do content on different jobs so it lasts longer, etc).

>>724535545
The only two jobs that feel moderately distinct (heavy emphasis on moderate) are NIN and BRD. NIN Mudras are really fucking fun to pull off in combat and actually do feel rewarding to press and BRD has mostly avoided being solely centralized around a builder spender play style with it being partly proc-based.

>>724535429
Why didn't the Undying, who were present at Phoenix Gate that very night, do anything about the attack?
Why didn't any of them get Joshua from his room? Why did Wade have to do it?
Why did a chambermaid notice that Annabella had moved all her belongings out of the castle a week beforehand and notified the Duke of this, but the Undying were apparently unaware?
Why didn't they rescue Clive?
Why did Ultima just so happen to be wearing the exact same cloak Joshua would be wearing in the future?
Where did Joshua hear Ultima's name in the first place? The Undying said they had no idea about him until Joshua ordered them to investigate.
Why does Primogenesis randomly disappear at times?
Why did Joshua continue killing himself to keep Ultima in his chest even when he was well aware that Ultima was still just floating out there doing whatever the fuck he wanted anyway?
Why do major characters including the main heroine have their conclusions hidden in sidequests while you spend 6 hours a piece on Martha, the Dame, and L'ubor?
Why did Sanbreque never notice the giant tidal wave frozen in time about a mile up the shoreline from their capitol city, or why did they never investigate it?
Why did Ultima spend so much time driving Sanbreque to world conquest only for it to amount to nothing at all and not aid in his plan in any way because he already had control of all the world's nations and could have activated worldwide mind control at any time?
Why was Clive's unit sent to kill Shiva's dominant, when Sanbreque at the time was fighting Waloed? Why would they aid their enemy? Why was Clive's random unit of prisoner soldiers sent to kill an eikon at all?

>>724535551
What's good about the game? Describe it. Use your words.

I think they're a tired and boring idea in single player rpgs as it is. No one asks if a skill tree makes x game better, they just do it because they're "supposed to", nevermind that being an example of homogeneous game design in single player rpgs.

My take on FFXIV is that if you think the problem with job design is square being too safe/lazy/etc., then skill trees won't change this, you'll just get "more" of the same safe/lazy job design you already have. That's a lot of resources to put into something that doesn't change the root conditions of why job design feels bad to so many people. In fact, if we did get skill trees, I'd expect a ton of complaining about them precisely because they won't change anything about FFXIV's foundation.

Ultimately, the people who want skill trees come off as they want a shiny toy to distract them from the game's issues - as if a toy will simply make all the complaints go away.

>>724535429
>>724535551
Seems so

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>>724535429
>XVI is easily a top 5 FF.
>your trash opinions are what killed XIV.
Dude FFXVI is literally nu-xiv, what the fuck are you talking about? It's designed identically.

>>724535765
he's baiting you tard

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>>724535429
>Nah I've played every Final Fantasy and XVI is easily a top 5 FF

>>724515278
Idk how I would rewrite 7.3 ending but for the love of god rewrite the 7.0 speen fight ending. Instead of wuk breaking through reality and infinitely limit breaking, I would have the endless citizens that we turned off all reappear floating around the arena to give the wol a buff which leads to the 2nd phase. It makes perfect sense since the endless were fine with being turned off so them helping against their queen that wants to hurt ppl to keep them around is a perfect way to bring the real sphene back to her senses the same way wuk did that led into the final phase of the fight. That fight would have been my fav in the entire game with amazing music until wuk ruined it.

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thoughts?

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>>724536212
wintery niggas

>>724535181
It dropped quite a bit then, also fair on not using it
I didn't like how it looked on my lala either, looks okay on other races

WE ARE.... THE WINTERWOLVES

I like to think Shale had a rebound relationship with my WoL but it doesn't end up working out since WoL and co. have to move on.

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>>724512238
>>724514618

>>724535497
I wanted it in Eureka(Field Content) too, what a shame

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What have (You) been playing while Fino Fanto 14 is ded?

>>724536434
There are no good MMO options at the moment. I've been trying to work through my backlog instead.

>>724536434
I was playing Pokemon Z-A but now that's done until the DLC so I'll probably start Dragon Quest IV soon.

>>724536434
working backwards through fromsoftware's elden ring and dark souls series, kinda tapered off on dark souls 3 just barely after starting lothric castle, dark souls 1 is still great up to the lordvessel, it's been so long since i last played SOTFS i don't really remember much of dark souls 2

dark souls 1 not having omnidirectional rolling is a pain point i didn't remember, elden ring was a great ride but i honestly doubt i'll ever play it again because it's so fucking long, sort-of excited for tarnished edition coming with a light greatsword class and dark souls gear

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>>724536338

I did all quests in Dawntrail, my map is spotless. Ask me anything.

>>724536571
>tfw you know the missus got something lush going on the hob at home
Phwoar, my pants are tight lads.

>>724536434
either way you're still subscribed

>>724536603
how'd you like it

>>724536603
How good are the cornservent quests

>>724511875
What's the deal with this bitch anyway
Why does she wear the face

>>724537095
She is... LE CRAZY XD

>8 hours
>300 posts

>>724537124
breath of fresh air compared to the 6 cutscens of niggerthonius and his daddy issues. Some fucking tree mystery nigger shows up for 2 mins is better than him too.

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>>724536434
bg3, warcraft 3 custom maps, arc raiders soon

>made 150mil from PT casually
Now THIS is real content.

>How would YOU ruin FFXIV?

I would keep the netcode of the game being bad as it always was, i would also design a new job that requires a lot of forced double weaves and 1.5 GCDs weaves on it's rotation for the expansion, so a large part of the playerbase can't play the job property without hacking tools to bypas the laggy netcode.

Then for the story i would create the most insufferable female characters ever, and o would make her have by far the most dialogue compared to any other character and have her present and on the spotlight at all times. I would also make her voice very bad and she would be ugly to top it off.

fire kate fire hiroi.

>>724537413
WTF!!! BASED!!!!

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Behold, the man that will save FFXIV

>>724537515
>I was raised in Japan. I was schooled in video games. I was given the title of master. They take a video game “Final Fantasy XIV” They have a 4-foot-2-inch little guy, whether he was straight or gay, I don’t know. I don’t care. He had never played Final Fantasy. He doesn’t speak Eorzean. He has never held a sword. They make him the Producer and Director. We got 450,000 phone calls [laughs] from everybody in the world saying, “That role was perfect for you. How did that happen?” Most of the people I know didn’t like the game and didn’t play it. It’s just a classic example of Square Enix and the politics.

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>>724537515
The food graphics budget will skyrocket under his measured, yet fair rule.

>new player count at its lowest ever
How can they fix this? Improving low level gameplay would help but thats beyond CB3s ability at this point.

>>724537828
First thing they should do is let you use your whole goddamn job's kit in low level content so people don't want to lobotomize themselves doing leveling roulette and getting uhhhh fuckin Aery or some shit.

>>724537828
The game is past its peak, we're in the decline. Rather than continue raping the game to bring in new people, they need to actually appeal to the people still playing and give us something to sink our teeth into.

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COMING IN HOT

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>>724537828
I had a brain-wave earlier today that the kind of guy who obsesses over player-counts going up in MMOs probably also obsesses over birth-rates in developed countries.

>>724537986
Abel why aren't you playing Dawntrail anymore even though it's the best the game has ever been?

>>724538042
I don't know who Abel is, but now I know you are completely insane, so my brain-wave had merit.

>>724538095
>says the worlds biggest retard

>>724538075
>post low-effort "how do we fix the game" bait
>get made fun of
>lose his shit
It's just that simple.

>>724538151
>everyone one person
OH YEAH U KNO WE XIVVING NOW BOOOOOYEEEEEE

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>>724536434
Total war modding. It's like miniature painting for me.

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>sena bryer is headlining the bloodborne kart dev's low poly furtroon sitcom

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>>724538180
HE ZIVVIE
YOU ZIVVIE
I ZIVVIE
WE ALL OUT HERE XIVVING OUT WE ALL ONE PERSON!!!!

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>>724538341
Show me how you xiv it!!!

>>724538338
final fantasy xiv?

>>724538338
?

>>724535146
What type of dumbfuck take is this? If that were the reasoning, then a carpenter wouldn't be able to meld to a sword. it would be like how repairs are done. obviously that's not the case

>>724538665
He had his head thrown back in the throes of ecstasy over being an aggressive shitheel and calling himself an oldfag
He got bored and started yelling about xivving it after that

>>724538665
>If that were the reasoning, then a carpenter wouldn't be able to meld to a sword
Yes, that's correct. That's how the game originally was. The only swords CRP could meld were macahuitls. Retard.
>>724538750
Stay on /wowg/ instead of digging your hole deeper, you retarded motherfucker.

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>>724538390
This is me and my squad!!! This is how we XIV IT!!!!!!!

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>>724538850
KINO

>>724538850
That little Miqo'te bitch should have evaporated when she hit the dome.

>>724515914
lmao no way thats true

THIS IS HOW WE XIV IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>724515914
>Source: Trust me bro. I know.

>>724515914
>XIV fans are so frantic now that
People that talk about the game like they're wholly separate from it need a LEGO dug into their heel

>>724515914
They really didn't like this one.

>>724511875
I have really fond memories of FFXIV.
I've stopped in Endwalker main patch, 6.0 I think. Great story, had lotta fun. I could not give a shit about Zero, Wuk, anything past mommy Hydaelin's death.

>>724515914
>actively telling people to expect low quality shit
LMAO
>>724538850
lmao what is this fucking shit

>>724539161
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39zn3mIl8rM

>>724539210
Absolute fucking comedic kino lmao

>335

>>724539318
That's 336
This is 337
And we keep! Getting! XIVVIER!!!!

>>724539102
How do we save XIV /v/ shitposts from the stagnation cycle they've undergone

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>>724539486
I don't know, it's hard to beat the classics.

>YoshiP: "We've come to understand that we cannot truly reinvigorate the game in a way everyone will appreciate with the next expansion, so you will have to withstand an extended delay period as we continue Dawntrail's post-patch period for a bit longer."
>"We are now hoping to turn Final Fantasy XIV into something that feels like the stepping stone to a title like XVI, with team-based, co-operative action combat systems in place, deriving ideas from the mobile iteration we are co-developing with our partners over at LightSpeed Studios."
>"Unfortunately, this means we have no plans to update our servers or their ticrates in the coming future given the decline in player interest after Dawntrail."

>>724539550
>announces delay, announces genre shift and mobile pandering, also announces nothing to facilitate genre shift and mobile pandering
fascinating glance into the mindset of a doomer

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>>724539210
LMAO WHICH ONE OF YOU FAGS IS THIS

>>724539210
jesus murphy

>>724539663
not really dedicated into dooming like most of the other shitposting, but just sort of a situation where my interest drained after 7.0 and i really don't want to bother with the patch cycle grind at all this time, so whatever. every time i consider resubbing, the shit luck and bad rates i had with EW's patch cycle plus that godawful story just push me away.