We have officially reached maintenance....

New dungeon gear will be another recolor. This time deepshadow gear with ktisis weapons.

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Originally Posted by Amenara

FF14 feels pretty unique in how little combat there is for an MMO.

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Lol? No it isn't?
The amount of combat, talking and running involved it's pretty on par with other games. Hell, in most of them you can skip fighting to a degree (and at all in some cases!) if you're playing a stealth class. But no, it's only ff14 that is bad, yeah.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I'd hazard a guess that if someone were genuinely not looking for 'pointless melodrama' then their most recent posts would not consist solely of attempts to brand any and all criticism of a controversial developer decision as 'whining'.

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Maybe you replied to the wrong person but that’s not my post history. Lol

I forgive you. With nearly 10,000 forum posts you are bound to get confused here and there.

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Originally Posted by MaxCarnage

Having criticism of dev decisions is one thing, but to say the game is "officially in maintenance mode" is silly. Just because you don't like what content is added in patches doesn't mean it's not added. Do I feel like a 4 month update cycle is way to long? Yes, of course. Even if it's only "two weeks" longer than a patch cycle in ShB, it still feels unbearably long. But it still gets updates. It still gets content added.

But since OP has already pulled the "I've been playing MMOs much longer than you, I should know" card, I already know it's going to be dismissed.

Let's not be hyperbolic and label what's happening as something it isn't. The games not in maintenance mode, you just don't like the content added. That's fine. No need to make ish up to justify how you feel.

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Bookmarking this thread don't worry...just keep the same energy when i tag you and zephyr 1-2 years from today. By then both of you will probably back track so ill keep the receipts.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I'd hazard a guess that if someone were genuinely not looking for 'pointless melodrama' then their most recent posts would not consist solely of attempts to brand any and all criticism of a controversial developer decision as 'whining'.

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Facts and I saw em coming...tbh i expected better. Attacking with tired rhetorics is easy do....applying logic however...different story

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Originally Posted by Hatfright

Lol? No it isn't?
The amount of combat, talking and running involved it's pretty on par with other games. Hell, in most of them you can skip fighting to a degree (and at all in some cases!) if you're playing a stealth class. But no, it's only ff14 that is bad, yeah.

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How many mental backflips that take you?

https://i.imgur.com/hsMtnnq.gif

It really isn't on par with other games. You need to go play those other games and stop lying. MSQ is known for how very little combat there is, and how much text reading, cutscenes, and back and forth there is. It's common in each expansion where you'll at times go hours without a single encounter or duty, even speeding through MSQ.

Like sure, over the course of all expansions - There's some good Trials and end-game.. But no, the MSQ and casual gameplay isn't really combat focused unless you're grinding on purpose.

There's really no argument - If you want to sit in denial to impress the sprouts, that's on you.

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Originally Posted by MonteCristo

Bookmarking this thread don't worry...just keep the same energy when i tag you and zephyr 1-2 years from today. By then both of you will probably back track so ill keep the receipts.

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Tagging us 2 years from now doesn't make you correct about an "official maintenance mode" today. Look up official. Look up maintenance mode. LOL!

Hint: You'll probably still be wrong 2 years from now.

I'm doing you a kindness replying again so you don't have to wait with anticipation for 2 years to tag us.

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Originally Posted by MonteCristo

Facts and I saw em coming...tbh i expected better. Attacking with tired rhetorics is easy do....applying logic however...different story

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Adding "Facts" to the terms I recommend you look up.

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Originally Posted by Amenara

FF14 feels pretty unique in how little combat there is for an MMO.

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I agree. But to some this is a good thing. As a huge fan of games like the tell tale series, an RPGMMO is right down my alley. The MSQ of this game felt like an interactive story with occasional multiplayer more than it felt like a "game." It's part of the core of what makes this game successful for me and others like me. "How little combat" there is, as you put it, is a feature not a bug. But I respect that not everyone wants this. I believe those folks would be better served by an MMORPG that caters more to their playstyle. Less story, more combat, more raids more pvp, hmm I can think of many.

Other mmo's are games that you play. FFXIV is unapologetically a world to live in, and Im here for it.

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Originally Posted by Xaruko_Nexume

I agree. But to some this is a good thing. As a huge fan of games like the tell tale series, an RPGMMO is right down my alley. The MSQ of this game felt like an interactive story with occasional multiplayer more than it felt like a "game." It's part of the core of what makes this game successful for me and others like me. "How little combat" there is, as you put it, is a feature not a bug. But I respect that not everyone wants this. I believe those folks would be better served by an MMORPG that caters more to their playstyle. Less story, more combat, more raids more pvp, hmm I can think of many.

Other mmo's are games that you play. FFXIV is unapologetically a world to live in, and Im here for it.

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I think that's fine that people just enjoy the MSQ and lore. Unfortunately I think some people (myself included) are getting frustrated that the mid-tier players are getting pushed out, in favor of pure casual MSQ or high-end. There doesn't feel like there's really a middle ground right now. Hoping it's just an Endwalker issue, but class homogenization over the years has made basic dungeons pretty bland to me now.

XIV has evolved in an extremely frustrating way to me personally.

I wouldn't call it maintenance mode though, maybe maintenance prep because of the old expac bot updates. lol

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Originally Posted by MonteCristo

Title....Im completely done being in ln-denial

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Well you should get out of the river then. The Nile is a beautiful place, but you enjoy its beauty from the bank and not in the water.