Goldsaucer Minion Game

Just because I’m so curious, does anyone -ACTUALLY- play that game? Honestly, I’m personally just doing it for the challenge log bonus, I’m starting the AI enemy challenge fight where he pumps creatures like crazy and go do laundry or something, waiting to lose and repeat this five times.

A Po…mon pet battle system like in W..W would have been much more fun IMO.

Unless they revamp it to be more like Pokemon I will not be playing it.

It was a concept that was dead on arrival.

If I wanted to play League of Legends, I'd be playing League of Legends. Not a washed out worse version of it.

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Originally Posted by Kandraxx

Honestly, I’m personally just doing it for the challenge log bonus, I’m starting the AI enemy challenge fight where he pumps creatures like crazy and go do laundry or something, waiting to lose and repeat this five times.

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Do challenge 4, Little Big Beast. The boss tutorial one. Takes 90 seconds max and is impossible to lose.

i played it enough to the get the shalloweye, penguin prince, and clockwork twintania minions. will I ever touch it again? probably not. lol

Triple triad get love with more fix over time..... please give some love for minion game, when i knew there is a game where i can use my minion, i was excited.... but when i play it.... its very unfun, just make it like turn based battle game but with minion, like old final fantasy game, i will play it a lot just like my 100 hours++ (probably, i didnt really count) time i spent on triple triad

I'd like to get into it but it personally gave the impression of a bigger headache than I'd prefer for side content. I just play Triple Triad mostly and collect the cards; maybe one day I'll get into Verminion.

For me it's mahjong. The game is everywhere in asian media but I tune out everytime it comes up. The whole thing seems esoteric, so much mahjong terminology, for me it's like looking at a mechanics manual when I take a glance at the rules. I thought I'd give it a shot in Gold Saucer but nope, couldn't even get through one game.
Tables are always empty on my server too, hope they didn't spend too much time on that.

A lot of of the Gold saucer games sadly have the problem of

"this is a nice idea we should do that" to "its 80% done lets just be ok with that"

Chocobo racing feels super unresponsive at times (jumping for boxes) as well as having no real reward to it, yea i got all achievements but what does it really get me? about 500k one time reward in MGP a couple titles, a barding and a mask, Racing lacks endgame and replay ability maybe cups would change this with special rewards. The only reason i sometimes go back to it is challenge log, winning races is bad mgp/h even on highest level.

Triple trial often feels off when you play against npcs who have multiple 5s or 4s but only like 7 cards in total, yes you have to use the rules to win but still, winning cards is just a grindfest. BUT the tournaments are actually fun and players do them theres also rare cards which you collect that are not connected to the Mount, which is a pretty good idea.

But you have to accept that your triple triad collection becomes a picture book, i'd say theres 30 cards players use frequently and the others are just to collect dust, they do have some nice flavour text and lore bits though, so it actually works as picture book.

Mahjong, i dont think is played at all on any but the japanese servers, or maybe in very small circles, personally i have not played it and when i asked anyone ... the answer was always "never tried".

And lastly lord of verminion, an ok idea that once again just has no players behind it, i guess its the time commitment? I also heard someone say that certain store minions were really good, but i don't think SE would have a p2w problem here.

There's potential here but SE will likely not go for it.

Nope. I tried it when it was added and never looked back.

I did it for the minion. The tournament is easy to win because nobody does it and can give a lot of MGP like 100,000.

It’s ok for some mgp. Just spam the gooboo fight 5 times for the challenge log. Gets you about 25k mgp for like 5minutes work. All you need to do is spam a minion and kill gooboo. Easy mgp

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Originally Posted by _Pigzig

I tune out everytime it comes up. The whole thing seems esoteric, so much mahjong terminology, for me it's like looking at a mechanics manual when I take a glance at the rules.

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It's literally like Gin Rummy; you just make pairs and suits and runs.

There's many excellent YouTube videos for people that A) Don't read Chinese characters, and B) don't know thing 1 about mahjong. Like myself, a couple months ago.

This one is perfect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pka0nVIahb0 ("A Chill Mahjong Tutorial for Beginners"). Starting from absolute zero I left this video with a solid understanding of the basics and enough knowledge to get into it in FFXIV. If you can see and match shapes, and count groups of shapes, you can grasp Mahjong to the extent needed to play casually, here in FFXIV or in real life.

No OP, as a controller user I don't play the minion game.
RTSes are really weird and pretty frustrating to play on a controller, and my introduction to the genre was StarCraft64! I should be used to it!

Verminon is one of those examples where they should have just done what WoW did and made a pokemon copy. Pet battles in WoW were great content. For Verminion, the devs decided they had to be unique and create something entirely new and the result is a failed idea.

Personally I'm not sure why they don't just scrap it, learn from the mistake and make Pet Battles.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

I did it for the minion. The tournament is easy to win because nobody does it and can give a lot of MGP like 100,000.

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This. You can just do the NPC tournament battle and instantly forfeit at the start of each game for 10 points, then repeat 15 times. Very easy MGP, only because no one does Verminion so your 150 points gives you a high placement.