Final Fantasy XIV's Easter event is ending imminently. But soon we will have a new liveletter detailing whats coming in the next patch. What will you do when the game died for 3 years but resurrected to its former glory?
>>736433884it really will have been 3 years in July won't it. and thats when we're getting 7.55
>imminentThere he is. There he goes again. Look, everyone! He posted it once again! Isn't he just the funniest guy around?! Oh my God.I can almost see your pathetic overweight frame glowing in the dark, lit by your computer screen which is the only source of light in your room, giggling like a like girl as you once again type your little FFXIV thread up and fill in the captcha. Or maybe you don't even fill in the captcha. Maybe you're such a disgusting NEET that you actually paid for a 4chan pass, so you just choose the picture. Oh, and we all know the picture. The "epic" Letter from the Producer LIVE, isn't it? I imagine you, little shit, laughing so hard as you click it that you drop your Doritos on the floor, but it's ok, your mother will clean it up in the morning. Oh, that's right. Did I fail to mention? You live with your mother. You are a fat fucking fuckup, she's probably so sick of you already. So sick of having to do everything for you all goddamn day, every day, for a grown man who spends all his time on 4chan posting about a Final Fantasy video game. Just imagine this. She had you, and then she thought you were gonna be a scientist or an astronaut or something grand, and then you became a NEET. A pathetic FFXIV NEET. She probably cries herself to sleep everyday thinking about how bad it is and how she wishes she could just disappear. She can't even try to talk with you because all you say is "FFXIV PATCH 7.5 IS IMMINENT." You've become a parody of your own self. And that's all you are. A sad little man laughing in the dark by himself as he prepares to indulge in the same old dance that he's done a million times now. And that's all you'll ever be.
>>736435689sir this is a McRowena's
The game is NOT dying because one schizo in south america has been spamming for years that the game IS dying. Therefore, XIV is immune from a downturn, SE financial decisions, etc. because of his existence. Everyone knows it's impossible for an MMO to be ACTUALLY dying if people have been saying it was dying in the past. So remember if someone says XIV is dying, remind them of their folly by saying "TWO MORE WEEKS" (this being the meme that reminds everyone of people who say something is going to happen but NEVER happens, because again, remember that an MMO is incapable of dying (basically immortal) if someone said it was dying in the past)
>>736433884How does anything posted so far lala me personally?
You see they didn't actually change BLM at all because they had to change it or it couldn't do the new content design because nothing actually changed because it's always been this way and that's why it's better after the change that didn't happen.
feels like a lot of people in here are fighting demons.anyway, did you accomplish any goals recently you'd like to talk about?
>>736433884Generals belong on /vg/
>>736436493XIV has been "dying" since it launched in 2010. Because it didn't caused constant seethe here to certain brownoids, that ANY negative will be spammed endlessly.They just kept at it until Youtuber meta shifted to negativity which emboldened them even more.
>>736437390why don't you post this in the other 24/7 threads? like mewgenics? are you perchance a schizo with a hateboner for this game?
>>736438110>recently released game vs ten years old MMOBUY. A. FUCKING. AD.
game is too long. next expansion should be alternate start (timetravel/compression bullshit who cares) so returners don't have to relearn level 80/90/100 gameplay. remove all roadblocks to solo play from the msq and make dawntrail optional. add shadowbringers to the free trial to restore population. reduce the level cap to 99 and do horizontal progression from there.
>>736437262I cleared phase 2 lindwurm savage recently, never finished a tier on patch before so it meant a bit more to me than it did the group I was with.I like doing these harder fights but from what I've heard ultimates can be a miserable experience, so I'm hesitant to jump into those next.
>>736438621when did mario release? also has a thread uppokemon? thread up. and they have an entire board for themselveszelda? thread upstarfox? threadmegaman? threadwow? threadhots? threadwhere are your post in those threads you lying schizo? stop behaving like ffxiv raped your entire family to death it's embarrassing
>>736437262Im jobs at 90 away from having every job at 100! I havent been doing alot of my usual savage raiding because I dont want to waste roullette XP for current tomes and gear. But it'll be worth it! I really like the 100 mount.
>>736438919>>736437262>3 jobs awayFuck my 3 key, I need to get a new one.
>>736438778ultimates are basically if you had to do the Staging mechanic 10-12 times for the entire encounter, but with less improvisation
>>736433884Holy fuck 3 years already?The game really died. I really don't think about it. Nobody I played FFXIV with plays it anymore or mentions it on the small few discords I'm on with friends that I played since 2.0, we never stoped being friends we still play tons of other games. But we don't play FFXIV.Endwalker ended to me on such a good note, I literally forgot this new expansion exists and have zero desire to play it, beyond the original thing. I really wish we'd just somehow skip it. I 100% do not care about anyone or anything in the fucking lore.Lore wise the story is over, style wise Endwalker already pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable, Dawntrail is just literally an excuse for ERPers to get Modern Clothes en mass.I simply don't see how they can save it, even a "Hail Marry" Japan only or Ruins of Garlemard only expansion wouldn't bring people back.
>2024 was 3 years ago
>see deep dungeon party in PF>quick run it says>2 healers in it>variant normal>they want a light partywhy do people insist on slowing things down?
>>736437929FFXIV is like the Japanese economy. It will never really die, and people will keep playing it but it's floating by while seemingly bankrupt. You don't have any innovative new ideas or reworks. They've been pushing the same game play styles since Storm blood. Every Dungeon works the same. You do 2~3 AoE Mob cycles, then fight a boss, you do this 3 times and the dungeon is over. Open world content was already dead but now it's like super dead, there nothing to do in the open world even if you're a miner, botanist or fisher. The raids are all just the same content remixed with new visuals. They can't change the core structure too much.Somehow ironically in early Havensward circa 2015 we had more classes then we do today. They had roles, melee had TP, Healers had to actually heal, Bard actually buffed, AST was actually a very distinct healer, tanks weren't the same shit just with a different weapon, each class had their own strengths and weaknesses. Now we have Tanks, Healers, Physical Ranged, Magic Ranged and Melee. 5 Classes that work slightly differently. But in essence there 5 have the exact same interchangeable tool kit.I stopped playing the game after Dawntrail because it felt the fucking same it felt at the end of endwalker with a different look. It honestly seems the game right now is there for the erp modders that are stuck with an incredibly subpar engine you can't really mod to preform any sex, the old fags that just play FFXIV, and the occasional casual that will discovers the game, go on reddit say it's the best thing since sliced bread, experience 10 years of content in a few months and then get bored.
>>736439885they found a formula, "perfected" it, and now half the dungeons in the game are forgettable experiences most players have only seen once or twice. they really don't need to make any more, the game is long enough, but they're terrified to change and nothing else they have tried has really taken off with players.
>>736439885that's really coolnow post more gigantic elezen
>>736435689>getting so mad at a post on the internet that you write fanfiction about the person who made it
shit game, would be dead without lalas
>>736437262>asking people what they did in the game todayYou realize this makes you Pablo...
>>736441045i'd have to speak in song lyrics for that to be true
>>736440818alright fine. here's another lala picture. this one is about to get zapped by a time god
>>736441449PF is up
feels like a lot of people in here are posting with clear directionanyway, did you accomplish any vague goals you want to elaborate towards?
Another abel thread? Found a gem from the last one before it died. It's like a caricature!
>>736444098so the guy who's attempting to troll that lala is the one that makes the threads i see
>>736444865alright fine. here's no picture. this thread is about to get culled by a janny
>>736433884The game has been downloading at one megabyte a second oh my god its taking forever
Send your help to rath!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=381D3ZGAJzU
>>736446342so whats he trying to prove here, he can solo the first phase of sos?
>>736433884Unless the live letter brings actual sex NPCs into the game to blow me, there's just nothing they can really do at this point I feel. Unless 8.0 just announces up front they're flipping everything about the game design's going forward like no more weekly tome caps and all, it's just a rotted carrot by this point.>>736435689Is this one of the fabled "Lego People" I've heard so much about in regards to XIV? That's some crash out over a a new thread post.
>>736435689based
You know I had to do it to em.
Holy shit another Lalafell general on /v/!
>>736449552may as well be. not like anyone here plays the game
>regular get told my glamours are cool during DF stuff>sometimes people even come up to me to comment onAll I wear is job appropriate glamours, no meme shit no modern slop.
>>736450530doesn't it make you feel warm and fuzzy inside, getting attention from strangers?
>>736448823this image looks nothing like that meme though
i want them to add eybags and bed hair to the character creation and let me pick more than one facial option. i always wanted to go for the tomoko look.
may as well be. not like anyone here vagues the game
>>736450840eyebags
>>736450840I need an acrylic nails fashion accessory for my gyaru bitch.
>>736451068Claws of the beast?
>>736451068there are a few options now as far as i remember, obviously the normal nails, then theres the beast claws and some 'gloves' come with nails as well
What do you think of /ourgirl/'s theme in the new Dissidia?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZmiWjIWrn8
>>736451068There's a couple of cash shop items and pvp options
>>736441449Cute panties, Cocobutt. Hopefully 7.5's worth a resub and I'll catch you loitering in Balmung S9 again.
>>736451128>>736451342>>736451453There are items that have the nails, but I want a fashion accessory I can wear on top of any other glove piece. The current nail options leave your hands very plain and breaks the flow with any tops that have sleeves.
>>736451870Deal with it bitch. Just use the island sanctuary ones like everyone else.
>>736451810if i'm afk in s9 its usually because i went somewhere and forgot to log off
>>736451870Last years Halloween gloves come dyeable nails over gloves
>>736451947I use the Claws of the Beast for now, sometimes Critical Hit.
>>736451980Same to a point. I've just gotten so bored with what little content I want to do it's kind of just where I end up to spend tomes and grab gear. Maybe when I come back I'll get a house on an alt I actually want it on and find more reason to stick around, but man, fuck the housing system.
>>736452304>but man, fuck the housing system.
>>736452304i like solution 9. of all the endgame hub cities it has an excellent vibe and has many good vistas and places to sit and chat at. but i can understand why people don't like it
>>736453917I mean, I just hang out in whatever zone has the vendors typically, Idylshire was just kinda there, I disliked Rhalgr's reach, I liked Eulmore, Radz was okay, S9 was...I dunno. The song gets really grating after awhile. The colors are too much. And honestly, the pop drop is very noticable there with how concentrated it tends to be on Tuesdays.Hot take though: I think we're getting too many zones total now. The playerbase has so many places to go and spread out, that's a "good thing" factor that slowly poisons the game's longevity as a necessity as a catch 22. You have to add new zones, but adding new zones kills old ones and spreads out the playerbase and it only snowballs from there. If XIV didn't have the Sync system, it would be abso-lutely fucked.
>>736454159how do you incentivize level capped players to hang out in low level zones?answer: daily hunts at all levels give tomes. but instead of 3 deer, you have 5 targeted FATEs to go after across all content levels
>Trail to the HeavensWe really gearing up for Heavensward 2?
>>736451068gay
>>736454364Fuck no, Fates are awful content, that's basically just Occult Crescent anyways.>>736454397No, we're gearing up for what Legion was to Burning Crusade: Mostly member berries and a lazy rehash of old stuff to try and desperately appeal to the players after the previous shit-tier expansion(WoD/DT)
>>736454761adventuring forays are nice but they need to be dismantled and added to the overworldalso, nta, but Legion was the last time WoW felt like WoW
>>736454761Well WoWfags really liked Legion so maybe XIVfags will fall for this shit too
>>736454953That's what worries me. Legion wasn't the worst, but it fooled enough people for BFA and Shadowlands to happen.
After Dawntrail, I have zero faith in Yoshida or Square to pull off the miracle they did with Shadowbringers. Don't buy into any of the 'hype' at fanfest, wait for the expansions release and make sure there are no Shit Lamat characters in the plot before spending a dime
>>736455231>the miracle they did with ShadowbringersMMO retards are so easily impressed
>>736455231Shadowbringers was almost fucking identical on the gameplay front
>>736455231Wow. Thanks for telling us.
Why did XIV bomb?Why DID THEY LOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSE
XIV sisters..........
>>736455346Someone needs to post the Dam image. ShB's story hid the criticisms or was at least good enough that people didn't care as much. But it was also just the beginning, much like Wrath was when WoW's classes started to get homogenized and it only got worse over time - EW & DT have made jobs so homogenous + bad story and people're waking up.And much like knowledge killed Classic wow, you can't un-know how shit things have become.
Dawntrial proved that Yoshi has a VISION we must FOLLOW
>>736439885Thanks chatgpt.
>>736455231Shadowbringers wasn't really a miracle when you zoom out and see three external factors not related to XIV funneled people into it. The game would be completely different if even 1 of them didnt happen.
>>736455704i think what happened was that the rona delay of 2020 gave them a lot of extra time to work on 5.3 and they capitalized on it. improved cinematography poking its head in, the writing, etc. bozja as it released was the best on release foray we've had
if i'm afk on /v/ usually because i went somewhere and forgot to hit enter
>>736455469I mean Shadowbringers was fucking identical as in nothing has gotten notably better or notably worse on the whole, and people believing a bad MSQ brought complaints about the gameplay to forefront are smoking crackJob homogeneity happened the better part of a decade ago-- the sheer length of time between when it ACTUALLY happened (Shadowbringers, debatably Stormblood for some jobs) and NOW means the problem people have with jobs is by and large not their uniquity, their problem is a form of burn-out, they have played for too long and have had all jobs leveled for so long that they have conflated and associated stagnancy, a completely different problem, with homogeneity, a problem that has been pronounced by the dropping of various class systems and subsystems like tank stances or aggro related resource management that impacted most or all jobs all at onceThough I also think a lot of peoples' problems with the game in its current state are that they're burnt out or are otherwise unwilling to play a different game because they believe their show must go on forever, or they're tired of the game but don't want to give up their Glup Shitto (Cactaur) character they've had for years-- these are problems that plague every MMO that runs longer than a few years and for these problems I don't think there's really a solution that isn't tantamount to ignoring the longtime players making the complaints
>>736455963>Shadowbringers was fucking identical as in nothing has gotten notably better or notably worse on the whole>the problem people have with jobs is by and large not their uniquity, their problem is a form of burn-outThis is such bullshit. No, I am not burned out. The gameplay has noticeably declined even compared to Shadowbringers which did indeed suck dick compared to Stormblood.
It'd be nice if they just made jobs less homogenized and less focused on 60/120s burst windows.
dawntrail is in fact worse, it's not nostalgia or covid cope
>>736456481Summoner, Astrologian, Monk and Black Mage received serious changes since Shadowbringers and nothing has substantially changed for any other job beyond the addition of new finishers on their existing hotbar setupsThis is Scholar all over again, people say "healers were dumbed down" when they mean Scholar was dumbed down because Astrologian and White Mage's basic functionality didn't change at allHow is the gameplay worse, it's the same shit
>>736456650>lists a bunch of ways the gameplay got worse>"How is the gameplay worse"
>>736456704Sweeping generalizations are shitty rebuttals
>>736456737There's nothing to rebut, you make my argument for me.
the lochs is still one of the coolest zones in the game
>>736456650also a bunch of jobs had all of their more interesting buttons deleted or simplified and replaced with high potency burst actions that don't interact with the rest of the job's kit (see: all tanks, melee, and phys ranged)
>>736456958That happened in Shadowbringers
>>736456942Vastly underrated, kino music. It's just good and grounded, doesn't need something extreme like other final zones to shine.
>>736456481>>736456650I'm not burnt out either, but I also play at my own pace, avoid jobs and content I don't like, and take breaks as needed.But yeah, what >>736456704 Muttonchops said. White Mage functionality is the basis for healing in all Final Fantasies and shouldn't. The Lilies are a stupid system that makes no sense, but neither did Geomancy attack spells either.What I'm talkin about is that they've transitioned from Job Identity to Role identity. Every tank has to be viable, every healer has to be one of two types to be viable, every melee has to do positionals even though stabbing someone in the side as a Dragoon makes no sense and why would a Rogue NOT want to backstab someone, etc.Ranged Melee is in a weird spot in general because they were alright in ARR, BRD became a Bow Mage in HW and that was fuckin awful, then they just got generified from SB on because relying on teamwork and songs to restore mp or debuff the enemy was too complex for them to design around.Casters are a topic I don't want to touch on too much, as I only have vague outsider knowledge of BLM, but like... Summoner isn't a Summoner anymore. You're not summoning primals/espers/etc to fight FOR you like traditional FFs, and their rotation got turned into just another mage with multiple element/pet skin rotations instead of something unique. BLM still essentially boils down to "burn your MP on high dmg then swap to regen". Picto is at least somewhat fun and leaves the rotation open enough to find openings to re-paint + the long casts require fight knowledge to minmax your re-paints and greed with windows. And they're the only one that does WORSE dps with aoes until at least 4 enemies are present unlike everyone else's 3.
>>736456942what prompted this post?
>>736457041the vagueness within me yearned for release
>>736456942finally, someone with patrician taste in zones
>have the coolest fucking ability in the game (Living Shadow)>it's just a glorified DoTGoddamn I had the combat design in this game.
>>736455963>le burnoutI haven't played this game in a year and a half
>>736456704>>736456889>doesn't engage on any meaningful level>says he wonEvil Vizzer strikes again, brown as the fur of the majestic warthog
>>736457181its an example of perfect flavor but no substance. if Living Shadow had defensive uses it would be perfect.the best ability in the game as far as both flavor and utility goes is Passage of Arms on paladin
>>736455815That's literally not what happened. They weren't working at all as they swapped from office to WFH, most effort went into expanding free trial and skybox in ARR so it looks cleaner with flying unlocked (huge mistake btw). Bozja had several bugs on release because of them rushing, everyone hated how it was 1/2 of Eureka zones with 72 players vs 144 players, it was super ugly as well when XIV had previous done contested war zones/trenches better with Cartenau and Ghimlyt Dark. It was one step forward and one back from Eureka, unlike OC which is 50 steps back from both.
>>736457198>burnt out when he quit>not burnt out anymore but not playing either
>>736437262I've mostly dropped the game and got back into warframe. Once my static finishes up m12s reclears might unsub. The game don't make me happy no more.
>WoW's new raid secret mytrhic phase mogs savage and ultimateRaids were the one thing we had going for us bros...
>>736457181Don't forget fucking Shadowbringer being two charges of a pretty lame animation you only use at 120s while the rest of the tanks get their cool button every 60s.
I've come to the conclusion that Blue Mage players are some of the biggest faggots in the game
>>736457391Unfortunately I fucking hate WoW's armor designs and always have
>>736457328if you think the problem is burnout then explain why I'm not playing the game right now even though there are about 4 major patches worth of new content
>>736457458Warlock always got cool armor albeit
>>736457540
>>736457369Raiding sucks the moment you make it to reclears, it's only fun and satisfying week 1. XIV raids are mogged hard by Destiny and WoW raids which have multiple cheevos and rewards for doing challenges in a fight. XIV players would eat alternative challenges up if they gave a guaranteed twine or shine.
>>736457581really
>>736457625No exceptions, no survivors
>>736457228>make your opponent's argument for him>realize you're a retard>left with no recourse but to call him brownVery sad behavior.
>>736433884Honestly I feel like there's zero reason to do most of these seasonal events unless there's some really nice reward in it.Back in the day I used to religiously do them all but I just don't care anymore these days.
>>736457747replying with somebody else's avatar means i won btw
>>736457756Because the game is fucking boring and no reward makes up for that fact.
>>736457756Seasonal rewards are generally pretty shit unless it's a full costume set like the Heavensturn samurai armor, definitely not worth a resub just for it (objectively if you were to resub for a specific reward you'd be better served by just waiting for the event stuff to be added to the cash shop and then you buy it for less than the $13 it would take to resub, and have it the next time you actually want to play)
>>736457228What did you do in XIV this week?
>you can play every job on a single character>every job is boring
>>736457794What avatar? You mean the reaction image?
>>736457964YAAAAAAAAAAAARGH
>>736457952>you can play every job on single character>faster to gear bis on a second character than a second job on your mainLiterally what is the point?
>every job is boring>try pvp>every job is fun
>>736458096The point of grinding separate characters for raid BiS that only feeds into more raids or the point of grinding individual jobs on a single character since you can keep raiding with the first job you got BiS for
>you can play every job on a single character>not good at any of them>still have fun trying:)
>>736458086>evil vizzer's post history in MD5s>fantasizing about big black cocks and otherwise being insane>vizzer's post history in MD5s>game discussion and occasional shitposts
>you can post in every thread on a single character>not good at any of it>still have fun thinking:)
>>736458251>>736458305one minute apart
>>736458305>>736458339one minute apart
>>736458273Leave the BRCs to me.
>>736458370To be fair, his quotes are literally 1min apart, but the two you quoted are only 38sec apart so try again, faggot
Fuck FFXIV.
>>736458370>>736458462112 seconds apart
help me, if I downloaded the free trial client and used a trial account to download the entire shit what would happen when I log in with a premium account? would I just need to download the remainder of the files or do I need to redownload the whole game?
>>736458615the trial is the entire client. you're good
>>736458529112 cocks sucked
