Anyone else just feeling really disapointed this expansion?*vent*

I think part of why people are seemingly so upset is that they sub month after month for years. I have my issues with the game, but I simply stop subbing when I'm not enjoying it. I don't have a house, and my friends play other games, so I have nothing that is strongly attaching me to this game other than my enjoyment of it. When I get bored, I move on. then I come back when I want.

That doesn't excuse the game for any missteps, but I can easily just move on when it does.

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

I noticed this as well the game seems to get tired way faster than it used to, I can’t believe we are already at the state we are in now barely in the .2 patch, this is the kinda boredom I’d expect from a .5 patch

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It has honestly felt like that to me since the week after 6.0 drop. The MSQ took maybe a couple days at most and after that there was next to nothing but leveling to do. And it really didn't help that the MSQ was awful this time around, at least the main expansion MSQ for Shadowbringers was amazing, even though the expansion was barren in content otherwise. I've been baffled at this with the previous expansions too, how do you release an expansion and basically run out of stuff to do in a week? They really need to take a long hard look at their content release schedule and start pushing out long term content way earlier to keep people engaged. Now we've had to wait what 10 months to get the relics and even the relics sound like noncontent this time around with us going back to no dedicated relic content. So expect farming poetics and Crystal Tower another 50 times, can't wait...

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

I'm not really disappointed. Now, during ShB I was. I was quite a bit more optimistic back then. Now, unfortunately, with EW, I have become more apathetic with and leading up it.

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On par for Endwalker's despair theme.

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Originally Posted by Neoyoshi

• The rest of Island Sanctuary - what we just got is the "introduction phase" - let that sink in for a minute. :)
• A new Deep Dungeon
• The two new dungeon systems
• Part3 of the current 8-man Raid
• Parts 2 & 3 of the current 24-man Alliance Raid
• Lvl 90 Relics + Story quests for said relic
• the 2nd and 3rd Beast Tribes for this expansion
• More Trial fights and their savage mounts
• The meta Trial savage mount quest
• New dungeons

And this is probably the short list considering we really don't know everything they plan on patching in before 7.0

If people want to look back on Endwalker and say they were disappointed, that's fine, but wouldn't it make sense to wait until ALL of Endwalkers' content is patched in before making that judgement? :O

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• The rest of Island Sanctuary - what we just got is the "introduction phase" - let that sink in for a minute. :)
  ---If the gameplay loop still consist of running in circles clicking glowing rocks, trees and shrubs no amount of updates will make it interesting.
• A new Deep Dungeon
  ---This won't be here for another 3 to 5 months.
• The two new dungeon systems
  ---With how badly jobs are balanced for 8 player content I have little hope they're going to be balanced for 4 player content. Also won't be here for another 2 to 3 weeks, if even that.
• Part3 of the current 8-man Raid
  ---Won't be here for another 6 to 8 months. Also, this is stuff we always get during an expansion.
• Parts 2 & 3 of the current 24-man Alliance Raid
  ---Won't be here for another 3 to 5 months. Also, this is stuff we always get during an expansion.
• Lvl 90 Relics + Story quests for said relic
  ---Lol Hildibrand. Won't be here for around 2 to 3 weeks, if even that. Also, Relics are stuff we always get during an expansion.
• the 2nd and 3rd Beast Tribes for this expansion
  ---Won't be here for another 3 to 10 months. Also, this is stuff we always get during an expansion.
• More Trial fights and their savage mounts
  ---This is stuff we always get during an expansion. Farming the same fight again and again, such very fun.
• The meta Trial savage mount quest
  ---What? Probably still something we always get.
• New dungeons
  ---This is stuff we always get during an expansion. And with how dull jobs are to play they're definitely something to look forward to steamrolling.

See the problem? The content with staying power takes forever to be released.

I love that expansion so far, but sure there are stuff that i disliked in it : The deletion of samurai i mean kaiten, the fact that msq didn't felt like the world was facing an apocalypse at all, NPC that were supposed to be dead but came back anyway (even though you see it coming from miles away, it's still a disappointment.)

Overall still a really good expansion that i'll put just behind shadowbringer for now.

Yeah burn out can just pop up out of nowhere. If looking for a new MMO...one I'd suggest is the City of Heroes Homecoming. It's a private server for a game that was killed off even though it was super popular. At the very least it'll keep you busy for a week. It has by far the best character creator you're going to see on any game ever. So if you are into designing characters....this one will keep you busy.

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Originally Posted by Cithaerias_pyropina

See the problem? The content with staying power takes forever to be released.

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MMOs in a nutshell. I touched on this earlier. It's only a problem if you lack the ability to cope with that.

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Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

Everything in any game is an "optional luxury".

Doesn't matter if it's vanity glamour and minions, or endgame gear and player power, it's virtual and you don't need any of it. To some players glamor and collecting is far more important to them anyway and they couldn't care less about gear.

If pay-to-win mobile games are considered being too heavy on monetization, then FF14 isn't an exception. Whether you're fine with it or not, they definitely monetize this game quite heavily.

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How much impact that has varies by the player. Nothing in that shop gives players an edge over anyone else. Hell you don't even have to interact with the shop in game as iirc Yoshi doesn't want it plastered in people's faces.

You yourself have to go out of your way to access if you so choose. Seems a good say for SE to handle that.

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Originally Posted by IkaraGreydancer

How much impact that has varies by the player. Nothing in that shop gives players an edge over anyone else. Hell you don't even have to interact with the shop in game as iirc Yoshi doesn't want it plastered in people's faces.

You yourself have to go out of your way to access if you so choose. Seems a good say for SE to handle that.

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Try being any sort of competent crafter with no retainers

Retainers are literally “pay real money to buy more inventory space” and that is one of the most predatory things an MMO can do outside of BDO style RNG upgrade weapon is destroyed if you fail

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Originally Posted by Deveryn

You wanna talk predatory? Let's talk about the mobile games that start off free, but they run limited time events and offer all kinds of boosts and special sales for currency and special items to use in-game. Some MMOs are like that as well, FFXIV is not. It's 100% playable with full features for the price of sub and expacs only. This is just good business.

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I mean at the end of the day free games need to have some sort of monetisation in order to recoup the costs, whether that monetisation is fair is another matter entirely, but it's not something that they can just take out.
With XIV you have to pay for the base game, then pay for the latest expansion and then pay a monthly sub fee on top of it all. There is absolutely -no- reason for this game to have a cash shop as extensive as it is currently.
Plus it's not like XIV doesn't also run its own limited time events, which are fine and all but the fact that if you miss one of them you then have to pay for the rewards you missed in the cash shop rather than just having it be available again the next year is kind of baffling.
And this is on top of all the other questionable tactics the game pulls to wring some extra bucks out of you. Yeah, Yoshi-P can pretend like it's all fine and dandy for you to take a break and unsub if there's nothing to do, but that doesn't stop the devs from putting a bunch of content in that's time gated just long enough to make sure it takes over a month for you to complete it all like the beast tribes and the tome limit. The biggest pisstake here was definitely with 5.5 when they had those weekly NieR quests that took like 6 weeks to complete for absolutely no reason.

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Try being any sort of competent crafter with no retainers

Retainers are literally “pay real money to buy more inventory space” and that is one of the most predatory things an MMO can do outside of BDO style RNG upgrade weapon is destroyed if you fail

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I mean...being fair here...you chose to take up the crafting role. Many don't and don't have this issue. Many don't and also do have this issue. This is why I said it varies by the person.

If it's predatory don't buy into it. Take the hit and voice your issue with it. But you can't voice your issue with it while continuing to buy it. Makes your points mean nothing in the grand scheme.

I could name plenty of things worse than buying space but again what I find worse may not be as such to you.

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Try being any sort of competent crafter with no retainers

Retainers are literally “pay real money to buy more inventory space” and that is one of the most predatory things an MMO can do outside of BDO style RNG upgrade weapon is destroyed if you fail

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Competent crafter here o/

I bought one retainer once for a couple months when I first got to top tier crafting, while also just getting into farming different things like extreme trials. Now that there are no more HQ harvests, it doesn't pay to hold on to very much, aside from crafted components.

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Try being any sort of competent crafter with no retainers

Retainers are literally “pay real money to buy more inventory space” and that is one of the most predatory things an MMO can do outside of BDO style RNG upgrade weapon is destroyed if you fail

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Tried it. Hated it.

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Originally Posted by Ameela

I mean at the end of the day free games need to have some sort of monetisation in order to recoup the costs, whether that monetisation is fair is another matter entirely, but it's not something that they can just take out.
With XIV you have to pay for the base game, then pay for the latest expansion and then pay a monthly sub fee on top of it all. There is absolutely -no- reason for this game to have a cash shop as extensive as it is currently.
Plus it's not like XIV doesn't also run its own limited time events, which are fine and all but the fact that if you miss one of them you then have to pay for the rewards you missed in the cash shop rather than just having it be available again the next year is kind of baffling.
And this is on top of all the other questionable tactics the game pulls to wring some extra bucks out of you. Yeah, Yoshi-P can pretend like it's all fine and dandy for you to take a break and unsub if there's nothing to do, but that doesn't stop the devs from putting a bunch of content in that's time gated just long enough to make sure it takes over a month for you to complete it all like the beast tribes and the tome limit. The biggest pisstake here was definitely with 5.5 when they had those weekly NieR quests that took like 6 weeks to complete for absolutely no reason.

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The cash shop thing would make sense if it was actually using any sort of P2W model. FFXIV's shop doesn't. It's cosmetics. It can be as "extensive" as it wants. As long as it isn't actually giving one player an in-game advantage over another based on paying extra real money, it's meaningless.

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Try being any sort of competent crafter with no retainers

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The two the game gives you are more than sufficient for crafting

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Originally Posted by Striker44

The cash shop thing would make sense if it was actually using any sort of P2W model. FFXIV's shop doesn't. It's cosmetics. It can be as "extensive" as it wants. As long as it isn't actually giving one player an in-game advantage over another based on paying extra real money, it's meaningless.

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Could argue that hiring the maximum number of retainers and sending them all out to gather mob mats (skins and leathers) gives one an advantage over someone who has only 2 retainers. It also allows someone to have more than 40 market listings.

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Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Try being any sort of competent crafter with no retainers

Retainers are literally “pay real money to buy more inventory space” and that is one of the most predatory things an MMO can do outside of BDO style RNG upgrade weapon is destroyed if you fail

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You can be a competent crafter with the default 2 retainers. You don't need to keep every crafting material you come across. Find yourself a niche market and stick to it. My crafting materials take up about 100 slots on one of my retainers and that's it. I'm still making several million gil a week. Buy only what you need as you need it if you want to make something outside of your niche.

It is a bit rougher to juggle when you're leveling crafting but getting rid of leftovers as you move onto the next expansion's recipes helps - and recovers a lot of the gil you've spent. Anything sitting unused in your inventory that can be sold on the marketboard is gil lost.

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Originally Posted by Cithaerias_pyropina

Could argue that hiring the maximum number of retainers and sending them all out to gather mob mats (skins and leathers) gives one an advantage over someone who has only 2 retainers. It also allows someone to have more than 40 market listings.

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But it's only a negligible advantage and not a win condition for the game. The amount of gil a player needs to play the game is very small. It's more of a convenience feature than a necessity. It's the most helpful below level 50. Once you hit 50, all sorts of options open up for ways to avoid using gil.

Ameela:

You are missing one very salient point. A LOT of the stuff on the shop is for items that were from previous events ( with a few exceptions ), the shop items make sure there isnt a feeling of missing out, people where werent here for these can still obtain them.

I know that there are some who dont like cash shops , and I do get the point on that, however the flipside is that there isnt any FOMO issues with FF 14. Not all items, I grant you, but the vast majority. Suits, mounts, emotes etc...from my POV I find that a good thing. Its all OPTIONAL, so from that perspective the shop is fine.

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Originally Posted by magitekLuna

Well clearly,at what point I say give it all ?
But things make Sense at some point or don't. Things like the island you can give when ever as no one cares for it for real,you can make me believe any one that say they do are not just trolls.
As for important time based progressions like relic it's stupid to give it's first step this late.nsame for the new content like the new dungeon. Then over the expression life do the normal patch bs. Msq/dungeons/raids.

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Originally Posted by magitekLuna

To the point of SE "miss the timeing for the content" . The people say they are not miss the point. Take what we get in 6.25,why it's so late when it need to be content that relevant at the start of the expression not mid of it. Same for the new deap dungeon, why it's in 6.3/4 and don't 6.1 . It's things like this that are a problem.

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You are asking for almost all non MSQ content chunks to all be released on 6.1. (Relic, Deep Dungeon, Criterion dungeon, Island...etc)

For the record, relics have been released, like clockwork, on the x.25 patch since 4.25.

As we can see from other posting, a lot of players don't necessarily enjoy or want to stay on for JUST the MSQ. SE knows this, and drips content for everyone over the course of the expansion. So a little MSQ here, and little endgame raid/grind there.

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Originally Posted by VelKallor

however the flipside is that there isnt any FOMO issues with FF 14.

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Not subbed for an event? I guess you better wait until next year to buy the reward. Speaking of which, a new event is going to happen soon. Don't want to miss that! You might be stuck waiting until next year and have to run Mogstation EX~!

Most event items are no more than 5 USD, so even if you did miss an event, you're not paying for the full month you missed. One exception would be the polar bear mount, but even that's likely to be on sale when the next event comes around.

It's too early for me to say whether or not Endwalker is delivering on a content level.

I will say this is the first time I've felt genuinely unsatisfied with how the story was handled, and I'm not getting a terribly strong first impression from the new writers for the MSQ which is concerning to me if they're going to be handling 7.x as well.

I get that we're still early in the void storyline, but it's failed to grab my attention in the way that Pandaemonium and Myths of the Realm have that makes me anxious to see what happens next.

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I guess you better wait until next year to buy the reward.

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May not be a year. May be only a few months. Or immediately. Bottom line is FF 14 has made sure that FOMO isnt a thing..and to that end, at least IT WILL BE AVAILABLE, unlike Blizzards literally wiping out an entire questline and telling people "you werent here too bad so sad tough luck"

( And yes I am referring to Blizzards blatant lie regarding the cloak and Ordos. That was a despicable act for which they have never apologised. )

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

It's too early for me to say whether or not Endwalker is delivering on a content level.

I will say this is the first time I've felt genuinely unsatisfied with how the story was handled, and I'm not getting a terribly strong first impression from the new writers for the MSQ which is concerning to me if they're going to be handling 7.x as well.

I get that we're still early in the void storyline, but it's failed to grab my attention in the way that Pandaemonium and Myths of the Realm have that makes me anxious to see what happens next.

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Funny enough I feel the opposite. Well in terms of Pandaemonium's story, it's good for what it is, but very lackluster compared to what's going on with 6.2 and beyond. I'm just interested to see what direction they're going with the 13th. Are we going to be able to restore it? Will we get more world lore for it? What's the deal behind Golbez? Is Zeromus truly going to show up or even Cecil Harvey?

What's ultimately going to be the next ongoing story thatll lead to 7.0? It's most likely not going to be related to the 13th but probably will be exploring Meracydia or the New World.

Seriously so many questions here. Pandaemonium is more or less a half solved story, we already know what the end result will be more or less, it's just finding out what we're the pieces that led to Lahabrea and Elidibus's madness.

In terms of side content plot, I feel Myths of the Realm is much stronger since it involved actual world lore and the idea of knowing more about the nature of the revered Twelve is much cooler than Tim and Eric's excellent dad adventures. Still love them and their story, it's just compared to 6.2 and the alliance raids I don't feel that attached to.

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Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur

Funny enough I feel the opposite. Well in terms of Pandaemonium's story, it's good for what it is, but very lackluster compared to what's going on with 6.2 and beyond. I'm just interested to see what direction they're going with the 13th. Are we going to be able to restore it? Will we get more world lore for it? What's the deal behind Golbez? Is Zeromus truly going to show up or even Cecil Harvey?

What's ultimately going to be the next ongoing story thatll lead to 7.0? It's most likely not going to be related to the 13th but probably will be exploring Meracydia or the New World.

Seriously so many questions here. Pandaemonium is more or less a half solved story, we already know what the end result will be more or less, it's just finding out what we're the pieces that led to Lahabrea and Elidibus's madness.

In terms of side content plot, I feel Myths of the Realm is much stronger since it involved actual world lore and the idea of knowing more about the nature of the revered Twelve is much cooler than Tim and Eric's excellent dad adventures. Still love them and their story, it's just compared to 6.2 and the alliance raids I don't feel that attached to.

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I’m pretty confident either Golbez is actually Azdaja in puppet form (helmet is/ has her eye), or Golbez is working with her to essentially force peace on the 13th through tyranny.

Also pretty sure Zero will be Zeromus. If what we understand about the 13th is true, when a voidsent consumes another’s soul, they also mixing with them. We don’t know the details of Zero and Zenos’s agreement, but I’d bet she ate his soul and he’s gonna be back…again.

Not saying I hope that happens- I’d actually be disappointed if it turns out to be true… but from the information given, I see this coming a mile away. Personally I hope it’s just Golbez being a legit villain without need of some goofy twist.

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Originally Posted by Deveryn

Most event items are no more than 5 USD, so even if you did miss an event, you're not paying for the full month you missed. One exception would be the polar bear mount, but even that's likely to be on sale when the next event comes around.

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Any price for an old event item is too much when they could just as easily let you earn the item again the next time the event comes around. Possible exception for one time off events like collab stuff.

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Originally Posted by Reap00

I am not here to argue with you. You are correct though in the fact that only my opinion matters.

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~Self-Own Achieved~

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Originally Posted by Rolder50

Any price for an old event item is too much when they could just as easily let you earn the item again the next time the event comes around. Possible exception for one time off events like collab stuff.

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This is something I have a minor sore spot about;

I first joined the game near launch. During the first Halloween even, I got the ghost costumes, but didn’t bother grinding out the pumpkin heads because I expected I could just do it next year.

Indeed FFXI has always had prior rewards/activities available. When those events came back I often felt sad there was nothing else really to do…so I left the heads as something to look forward to. Then…well… that never happened :/

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Originally Posted by VelKallor

Right now, the entire world, which isnt just America tbh, is still reeling from major issues with chipset shortages and semiconductor production problems. COVID brought those to a slam stop, and it will take time to regain headway, staffing REMAINS a major problem worldwide.

Optimistic projections say maybe first quarter 2023 to get up to even a modicum of speed, clearing the backlog and rebalancing the HUGE supply vs demand chaos?

Deliotte says mid 2023 , my gut call says close to last quarter 2023. I also have to note that what is being produced is going to things that are far more important..like the TCAS systems for airliners.

What do they do?

They make sure that aircraft a and aircraft b dont meet by accident at 35000 feet

Patience.

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let's not forget distribution still haven't recovered 100%

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Originally Posted by Kaoru_Nagisa

But realize some of us have been here for 10 years, and do not agree that this game is "the best we'll see for a while".

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dude, The game's not even 10 years old.

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Originally Posted by Rolder50

Any price for an old event item is too much when they could just as easily let you earn the item again the next time the event comes around. Possible exception for one time off events like collab stuff.

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Easily, huh? When the reward is from a quest line, where exactly does it go and how many years should they go back when they bring back old items? Every event is one time off as it's always a new story with a reward matching the theme.

What about the player that might be too busy around the same time of year? If things just end up back on NPCs for a couple weeks, what does that do for them?

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Originally Posted by kaynide

I’m pretty confident either Golbez is actually Azdaja in puppet form (helmet is/ has her eye), or Golbez is working with her to essentially force peace on the 13th through tyranny.

Also pretty sure Zero will be Zeromus. If what we understand about the 13th is true, when a voidsent consumes another’s soul, they also mixing with them. We don’t know the details of Zero and Zenos’s agreement, but I’d bet she ate his soul and he’s gonna be back…again.

Not saying I hope that happens- I’d actually be disappointed if it turns out to be true… but from the information given, I see this coming a mile away. Personally I hope it’s just Golbez being a legit villain without need of some goofy twist.

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Well to be fair Golbez being a puppet to Zeromus follows what happened in FFIV. However, I agree that whatever happens its not something that is that predictable with Zero being Zeromus just because of their name.

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Originally Posted by hagare

dude, The game's not even 10 years old.

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Game was first released at the end of 2010. It's 11 years old. :nerd:

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Originally Posted by Mat13295

Game was first released at the end of 2010. It's 11 years old. :nerd:

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are you genuinely saying 1.0 is the same game as ARR?
or did you just google ff14 release date without knowledge of the history of the game?

I was very invested in the game for ARR, HW, SB. Addicted actually. Started being disappointed by ShB, EW. It's still about as good as it was, but innovation and improvement is expected. It's been quite stagnant instead. Good for 2013 isn't so good for 2022.

Actually we're 10 months away from the 10th anniversary of ARR. Every system that was established in the first year is still going mostly unchanged. Boring gear and materia system. Farming those weekly tomestones. The 3-part raid series that alternates between normal raid and alliance raid patches, with bosses that are just memorizing a scripted sequence of moves. The basic dungeons of 'trash' pulls and 3 bosses. The FATEs that are either hand items to an npc or plain killing trash enemies, etc.

Yoshida is a good project manager in many ways because he brought stability and reliability of service, gave this game a good reputation. For me though as an FF fan long before XIV, it doesn't feel very FF any more if there isn't some wild experimentation in every major release. I want to go into each new expansion feeling a little bit lost at first, having to learn a new system to progress at certain points.

I feel like the era of maps full of sidequest icons should be over, and an innovative Square-Enix would have created a new way for players to discover lore and tasks by now, new kinds of interfaces, leading the industry in influential modern design. Old Squaresoft was a pioneer and FF represented that.

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Originally Posted by hagare

are you genuinely saying 1.0 is the same game as ARR?
or did you just google ff14 release date without knowledge of the history of the game?

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You were the one being pedantic about another player being here for 10 years. Any 1.0 user could qualify, and with ARR only being able to exist because of those players by Yoshi-P own admission, yes, this is relevant.

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Originally Posted by Rufalus

I was very invested in the game for ARR, HW, SB. Addicted actually. Started being disappointed by ShB, EW. It's still about as good as it was, but innovation and improvement is expected. It's been quite stagnant instead. Good for 2013 isn't so good for 2022.

Actually we're 10 months away from the 10th anniversary of ARR. Every system that was established in the first year is still going mostly unchanged. Boring gear and materia system. Farming those weekly tomestones. The 3-part raid series that alternates between normal raid and alliance raid patches, with bosses that are just memorizing a scripted sequence of moves. The basic dungeons of 'trash' pulls and 3 bosses. The FATEs that are either hand items to an npc or plain killing trash enemies, etc.

Yoshida is a good project manager in many ways because he brought stability and reliability of service, gave this game a good reputation. For me though as an FF fan long before XIV, it doesn't feel very FF any more if there isn't some wild experimentation in every major release. I want to go into each new expansion feeling a little bit lost at first, having to learn a new system to progress at certain points.

I feel like the era of maps full of sidequest icons should be over, and an innovative Square-Enix would have created a new way for players to discover lore and tasks by now, new kinds of interfaces, leading the industry in influential modern design. Old Squaresoft was a pioneer and FF represented that.

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I’m with you here; I love the game despite strong dislike for certain aspects…and as much as I know it would be bad business sense short term, I wish the devs would spend an entire expansion’s worth of effort just on a massive TLC update. If that means training new staff now/through 7.0, so be it.

They need to:
1) just gut systems that aren’t working or rework them. Eg. Materia used to be a sort of horizontal progression/allow for niche builds (remember +VIT on healers to clear Titan ex?). Now there really isn’t a lot of variety/choice towards BiS materia..so why have it at all.

2) build a proper physics engine. Fix the jumping puzzles. Guildwars 2 shows a lot of what can be done with this.

3) ground textures from afar are pretty bad… even EW zones from the air are pretty much pea soup.

4) General improvements to zones; nothing groundbreaking, but the zones in HW are rather bleak, especially the “flying” ones. Giant flying pinecones don’t exactly spice it up.

5) cleanup shops/shopping menus. Why do we need to click -> armor -> enter a menu with tabs on the top for weapons, accessories, etc when all that is listed is armor.. perhaps make shops either just show all their stock 1 click, or a menu like the newer Rowena shops do. Also concise naming “Glorious Gewgaws” or whatever doesn’t tell me what’s sold.

Probably more, but plain usability and user friendliness is a thing they need to work out.

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I’m with you here; I love the game despite strong dislike for certain aspects…and as much as I know it would be bad business sense short term, I wish the devs would spend an entire expansion’s worth of effort just on a massive TLC update. If that means training new staff now/through 7.0, so be it.

They need to:
1) just gut systems that aren’t working or rework them. Eg. Materia used to be a sort of horizontal progression/allow for niche builds (remember +VIT on healers to clear Titan ex?). Now there really isn’t a lot of variety/choice towards BiS materia..so why have it at all.

2) build a proper physics engine. Fix the jumping puzzles. Guildwars 2 shows a lot of what can be done with this.

3) ground textures from afar are pretty bad… even EW zones from the air are pretty much pea soup.

4) General improvements to zones; nothing groundbreaking, but the zones in HW are rather bleak, especially the “flying” ones. Giant flying pinecones don’t exactly spice it up.

5) cleanup shops/shopping menus. Why do we need to click -> armor -> enter a menu with tabs on the top for weapons, accessories, etc when all that is listed is armor.. perhaps make shops either just show all their stock 1 click, or a menu like the newer Rowena shops do. Also concise naming “Glorious Gewgaws” or whatever doesn’t tell me what’s sold.

Probably more, but plain usability and user friendliness is a thing they need to work out.

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Yoshida noted in a recent interview that they actually have some new staff on board.

They're working on some of these items, but it can't just happen on its own and fill the space of a year or two. They have to keep putting out the content.

5) have you suggested this anywhere else?

Look at all the usual suspects acting as unpaid PR damage control lmao. I share the sentiment OP. Not particularly interested in MSQ much after EW, I think the only content I enjoy is Frontlines, and even that has massive problems. Finding it harder and harder to find reasons to log in, which I dont like, but it is what it is.

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let's not forget distribution still haven't recovered 100%

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..and with the current situation, it aint getting any better.

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Originally Posted by Lustre

Look at all the usual suspects acting as unpaid PR damage control lmao. I share the sentiment OP. Not particularly interested in MSQ much after EW, I think the only content I enjoy is Frontlines, and even that has massive problems. Finding it harder and harder to find reasons to log in, which I dont like, but it is what it is.

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The sad thing is that it's not even damage control, it causes damage. When it comes to unhappy customers, 9 out of 10 decide the game isn't for them and silently leave and a small number care enough to actually complain and offer feedback. By stifling that feedback, the community pushes away the few complainers and also ensures the silent leavers never have a reason to return either.

It happened a lot in WoW. Their community positivity brigade was convinced everything was fine and for a good while it was on the surface. Then their playerbase halved and it was still "fine, it's an old game dude, this is normal, MMO's aren't as popular, game is great", then it halved again while they stopped publishing numbers and now they're barely at a quarter of their original. But it's still "fine".