The Many Deaths of Final Fantasy XIV

[Clarkamite]

All sorts of hilarity

YES. YES TO ALL OF IT.

I actually, at first, wasn't sure what was going on but after a few lines of "Many players quit the game at this point…" I got it. Hilarious. A+ work. I laughed at a bunch of these. Definitely some areas where people need to just chill the goop out.

EDIT: Just went back one page from where mine is posted to see a bunch of people saying "To the OP if you don't like this game go play something else," or along those lines. It made it even funnier. I love it!

[Maleha]

Great thread, haven't quite gotten through it yet (it's 4 am in the morning ._.) but I have a nitpick I gotta mention:

3. Amdapor Nerf: 2.1 brought new things, Amdapor Keep being a new dungeon introduced. "This dungeon is too hard!" the peasants said. And so, the adjustment of this dungeon happened. "This dungeon was not hard if you knew what to do!"

While just today I ran AK twice (once as roulette and once to help someone with their relic) and me and my friends reminisced about old AK and how back in the day you had actually a tough time with the bees, I have to correct you in that it was 2.2 that took the bees away, so more than 6 months down the line, in order to scale the difficulty to WP, so the two could genuinely be treated as being in the same league, like the new dungeons that were added in sets, not singles. While it's sad that the challenge is gone, Rational Me looks at how people nowadays ignore mechanics of Ak's final boss and eat the Imminent Catastrophe and I know things would be not really any different for our beloved Demon Wall.

Also: Amdapor Keep was definitly in the game from 2.0 (not sure about 1.0, never played). I think you mistook AK for The Lost City of Amdapor, which was the new dungeon added in 2.1, additionally to the 2 hm dungeons.

[Violyre]

I like how a good portion of people on page 10 just think this is a bash thread on the game. If anything, I'm bashing on people who won't give something a try and threaten to quit the game because the game is ruined since a new, inconsequential mob is Pantone color #219C. Kind of like how people didn't give a chance to this thread and decided to tell me that if I hate the game, I should quit. I don't remember once saying I hate the game.

Not sure if OP is being Satirical or not... and I really don't have it in me to read beyond the OP to find out...

titan ex was never nerfed, unless you meant echo

I probably am, you're the second person to say something about it, but I remember seeing people taking jabs at people for wanting it nerfed because "it's already been nerfed." I'm going to assume it was nerfed in the same way BCoB and SCoB were nerfed. I'll need to fix it.

I have to correct you in that it was 2.2 that took the bees away, so more than 6 months down the line, in order to scale the difficulty to WP, so the two could genuinely be treated as being in the same league, like the new dungeons that were added in sets, not singles.

I actually do love feedback that corrects me. While I'm not sure how my train of thought came into my original reference specifically, I do love giving correct information, and that one slipped through the cracks. I'll fix it when I adjust Titan.

[Violyre]

Based on commentary about some deaths that I had bad info on, I have completely redone #3 and #4! As an added bonus, we also talk about people who sell clears in-game!

Also, how do you even complain about the cash shop? Like, it's 100% optional and has no impact on the game. You want something? You have to buy it. This concept has existed since the beginning of capitalism.

I'm not even joking with the "quotes" I used in that one. People were either immediately saying it was bad because it made the game pay-to-win, or that it was SE testing the waters before putting in a pay-to-win system.

[SekhmetM]

I feel like i've seen this before.

[Violyre]

I feel like i've seen this before.

It does pop up every so often. Usually after a piece of new news drops.

On another note, I'm going to start posted think to the Tumblr in a few days! Stay tuned!

[Lori]

What about when we fought verbally with SE demanding that they redesign our character models because they (mostly Mi'qotes) had no ass

[NoahArks]

How is a maintenance something that kills a game? If you want to kill the game take away the maintenances, and it won't take long before it completely crashes...

[Amiraa]

Honestly with people crying "Wahh make it easier wahhhh easy mode now waaah listen to us or we quit etc" se should have never ever created forums from the start lol
People suggestion bitching and crying killing the game it will never end

[Violyre]

How is a maintenance something that kills a game? If you want to kill the game take away the maintenances, and it won't take long before it completely crashes...

I'll have to do some revisions. The maintenance one itself was made before I added the Addendums section, and would fit better there, since it is a "what if SE bowed to dumb suggestions" thing. It wasn't the maintenance itself, it was more about people demanding comp time for every single loss of time, even if it wasn't their fault (I'm looking at you, PSN. DDoS? Of course it's SE distributing denials of service to everyone! Earthquakes and tsunamis ripping through the country that the servers are in? GIVE US COMP TIME (though we did get comp time when that happened, without demanding.).).

People suggestion bitching and crying killing the game it will never end

I have to respectfully disagree. If SE didn't listen to any complaints, we'd still be playing under 1.0's horrendous system...if the game would've lasted that long.

People have valid complaints. While most of them are really idiotic complaints, threads like QOL changes and commentary about class balance and other things are what makes the game more fun for everyone.