Questionable decisions on patch 2.35

[Obysuca]

As it is right now, some people can't train their chocobos because of a requirement that is unnecessary.

>_> Just going to point out, there is 0 reason not to be in a FC. Way more reasons to actually be in one, besides you know, the big obvious one, that it's a mmo and mmo's have socialization.

I laugh at the people who whine and complain about having to be in a FC to do certain things, they're only hurting themselves by refusing to join one. Like I said, there's no reason not to join one, it's also a mmo, not a single player game.

[Baneus]

>_> Just going to point out, there is 0 reason not to be in a FC. Way more reasons to actually be in one, besides you know, the big obvious one, that it's a mmo and mmo's have socialization.

I laugh at the people who whine and complain about having to be in a FC to do certain things, they're only hurting themselves by refusing to join one. Like I said, there's no reason not to join one, it's also a mmo, not a single player game.

Indeed. People that take everything that SE does as a personal insult against their specific play-style are also good for a chuckle. Those people really should stick to single player games where they can choose not to apply a patch if they don't like the changes. Otherwise they really just need to suck it up and deal with it. Unless something is actually broken (not liking something doesn't mean it's broken), then it doesn't need fixing.

[Dark-Saviour]

>_> Just going to point out, there is 0 reason not to be in a FC.

As I've said before; I dislike the very concept of guilds. Their very presence has done more to damage the social atmosphere I desire in most game than virtually any other feature.

the big obvious one, that it's a mmo and mmo's have socialization.
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Like I said, there's no reason not to join one, it's also a mmo, not a single player game.

As I've said, they don't promote the type of social atmosphere I want, or feel a game should foster.
Guilds are at their core a system that promotes insularity and the 'group' over the individuals that comprise it. I much prefer the idea of treating everyone else as being just as (potentially) relevant and worth spending my time with as anyone else, regardless of what arbitrary tag they have over their head. 'Guildies' would never be anything more to me than random non-guild-player #254 and would never merit any more of my time, attention, or consideration than anyone else simply by virtue of guild membership.

And as far as joining one of the faceless mega-guilds goes, at that point, what is the point in having all this stuff behind such a pointless and useless wall? I'm already stuck as a member of the mega-guild known as 'Cactuar'; just give all the benefits to all such members of this 'guild'. :-)

To answer your question, having to do one thing in order to start or progress in another thing.

You don't have to do fates to get the GC seals for those crafting mats. If nothing else, you can just buy them from the marketboard from those who are OK with getting/spending seals.
Though not ideal, I'd have been OK with buying the fruits from gardeners and just using them on my Chocobo as I'm able. THAT part of the system is slightly comparable; it's the stable/feeding part that is not.

Likely will be available w personal housing as well; if such is the case, this being limited to FCs only is a short term issue.

The problem is this keeps coming up. I knew personal housing had been dragged out until that point, but with that being known there was no reason to make so many of these systems restricted to housing in the first place. Every patch having the main feature I'm interested in being flagged with a huge "You'll get access to this later!" banner has gotten really old.
Why not start with public stables and then add them to houses later?
Why not start with a public garden area and then add garden plots to houses later?
Why not design chocobo dyeing to be something that can be done freely instead of this arbitrarily convoluted, housing-dependent mess in the first place?

As it stands, I really wish I had waited to give them any more money until they've actually added the features I want in an approachable manner.
Though I knew (and was willing to tolerate) the reason for personal housing coming later than FC housing, that had been the feature I was looking forward to the most in this game, honestly. But at this point, as long as its taken to surface, with everything else of interest being pushed off into it, I've become rather bitter and jaded towards it in general, and I don't see myself finding much fun with it anymore.