Review of 6.3 Story Content

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It has been over a year since the Scions disbanded... and yet they're still the main cast

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That was the story they told the city states. As Alphinaud said, they are stepping back to let the states manage these crises by themselves, in much the same way as an elite team goes home and rests, their mission done for now.

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Returning to the Rising Stones to celebrate their victory, the Scions decided the rest of the world needed to learn to resolve problems themselves. With no more world-ending threats to Eorzea, the Scions publicly disbanded and went their separate ways but vowed that should the world be threatened, they would reunite to combat the threat.

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h/t Kes13a ...in yet ANOTHER thread by Aveyond :D:D:D:D:D

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ws-from-Reddit.

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Quote Originally Posted by Kes13a View Post
thing is, the "disbanding" was just so the leaders of Eorzea would stop calling on them to solve all their problems. it was never going to be a "goodbye, never see you again" kind of thing. they were still going to be around, but the only way to get off the speed dial was to dissolve the scions and appear to go about their separate ways. its nice to be the only fire brigade in Eorzea.. but the leaders need to hire their own fire brigade, not always run to us.

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/waves to Kes.

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Originally Posted by VelKallor

We have seen your "fixes" and I have asked this before, you have of course ignored it: what makes you think that what you want will be in any way popular or what the players even WANT? How do you know what will be well received and what wont? How do you know whether or not these supposed 'fixes" wont result in a mass exodus?

How do you know with any certainty that the wishes of others even remotely reflect your ideals? You dont ...do you?



Im enjoying myself immensely..so guess what. What you want isnt what i want. Not even close....in a way you are headed down the same cul de sac Blizzard did, "this is our game and our vision, we dont care what you want or dont like"..see theres your "ideas", and outside this absolutely miniscule message board are millions who are loving the game as it is.

So: how do you intend to address this fundamental disconnect?

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Oh, I can answer this as it has been explained by him. Long story short he is convinced that people who like the story are extremely dumb so they would not leave whatever the story might be.

We're also spending a lot of time with the Scions because this is likely the last time we're going to see many of them again, at least for a long while. Much of Endwalker's patch content has been a farewell tour to the past decade of the game. The MSQ content feels a bit awkward because it has to juggle the multiple responsibilities of building out the Thirteenth, serving as an epilogue to the Scions' character arcs, and eventually setting things up for 7.0. But it is still ultimately a long farewell.

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Originally Posted by MoofiaBossVal

I don't care about any of the current storylines. That would be fine... if the GAMEPLAY in the video GAME was fun. Unfortunately there isn't any fun content releasing. Teleporting onto a platform to fight a strictly choreographed boss fight isn't very fun. No grind zones to spend hours and hours in this expansion with at least some amount of character customization. Not even new limited jobs like Beastmaster.

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I wanna take a moment to acknowledge that unlike OP, you actually seem like a reasonable person. I will say something though: Taste is a very personal thing. You seem to be the type that enjoys the grind in MMOs, and I imagine you'd be the type of player to have a bunch of relics and stuff from Bozja and Eureka, and I think that's cool. A lot of people hate the grind in MMOs though. I know people who hate both Eureka and Bozja. I'm somewhere in the middle. I can enjoy a grind for a good reward, but as someone who has every ShB relic, it just becomes exhausting after a while, though I think it's cool if that's your favorite type of content.

The point I'm trying to make is that no matter what they do, it's going to be impossible to please everybody every patch. If they made another zone like Eureka and Bozja that you would enjoy, and even if it was really good, you'd have people saying... "The creativity is dead, and we have yet another boring zone to just grind mindlessly". My favorite type of recent content is easily Variant dungeons, and though that wasn't on this patch, I'm ok with it. Raiders are gonna get another Ultimate and I think that's super cool for them.

Deep Dungeons have a dedicated fanbase, and they had to wait an entire expansion to get a new one, and I'm very happy for them. Maybe you'll enjoy that? It will be on this patch cycle, though I'm not sure about how you feel about DDs. I just find myself happy at how many things there are in the game for all kinds of players, and I understand that not every patch is gonna be the "next best thing" for me.

I'm sorry you aren't enjoying the patch too much this time, but chances are they'll eventually rotate to make content more up your alley.

PS: I think it's cool you appreciate some of the stuff that goes unnoticed in ARR's story, which I think suffers more from pacing than from being a bad story or poorly written.

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Originally Posted by MoofiaBossVal

Four archfiends were killed with zero effort

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Kinda like how they were in IV?

https://scontent-ams4-1.xx.fbcdn.net...Ig&oe=63E72A0F

is this a early april fool aveyond-dreams thread? or a imposter

Unless i did miss it he did not complain about Jullus and Zero eating buuz and we know from past thread´s how he feel about Npc eating food

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Unless i did miss it he did not complain about Jullus and Zero eating buuz and we know from past thread´s how he feel about Npc eating food

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Actually...he did.

https://media.tenor.com/dhp_CgTV32YAAAAC/alice-in.gif

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Originally Posted by VelKallor

Actually...he did.

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Pewww thank the twelve so it's a typical aveyond-dream thread, thought for a second that i woke up in a different realm there.

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Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams

Ok so basically what I can gather from the last several long-winded essays is that if I’m expecting anything other than a game handled with kiddie gloves that god forbid has anything to do with the more fleshed out Final Fantasy worlds/writing then I should just leave. Cool. There’s no point sticking around in a game that has seemingly completely betrayed me at every turn - 6.4 will either be the final nail in this coffin if Pandaemonium ends in some nonsense that fawns over Venat again or makes further mockery of Lahabrea.

Whatever this has become it no longer resembles the way this game was back in Heavensward. What a mistake it was to get invested in a game that I thought would take itself seriously. And yet, FFXVI seems to have embraced those elements. A contradiction I’ll never understand as to where CBU3’s true interests lie. One thing is for certain is that this game didn’t have half as many controversies when the team members of FFXVI were in charge, I’ll certainly take the regime of Maehiro/Koji over whoever is steering the FFXIV ship now.

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Weird that you take the game not being what you want as a personal attack. That alone tells me theres red flags here. Ill let you in on a secret, none of the devs know or care about who you or anyone else here is as an individual. Its not personal dude, like at all.

Story is quite literally fleshing out the world of XIV so even that bit makes little sense. Also we get it...you hate Venat (yet bring her up at any turn more than her fans do). Also when did Laha start to be mocked at all? If not for EW he'd be the "Harr harr I'm bad" guy we've seen 100 times. His dynamic with himself and hi son is very interesting and well done so far imo.

Also yes new flash, games change over time. A stagnant game is a dead one. Also I'm seeing deju vu here as you've said this already before. The game does take itself seriously it just doesn't need to be super edgy all the time. Hell not even HW was. There's quite literally no contradiction. XIV is a theme park MMO. Always has and will be.

But as we all know, you won't leave. You'll be back to repeat the same stuff in a coming patch. Go fund XVI, the better game as you claim

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Originally Posted by MoofiaBossVal

Why does anything have to go to the chopping block? Stormblood was releasing trials, deep dungeons, multiple dungeons, raids, alliance raids, and grind zones each patch. The quantity and variety of content has drastically decreased since then, despite the game having exploded in popularity. The game should be pumping out at least Stormblood levels of content quantity and variety, if not more so.

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HW and SB era had so many extra dungeons. Meanwhile ShB and EW have two each. When I went back and did all the Sb dungeons I could feel all the love put into them. It was a lot of fun. But I guess now that the games made it big the devs don't care.