FF Youtubers are always wrong

[Vickii]

Little harsh I think.... I mean they are "Guesses" not like anyone would actually know whats gonna happen in the future. Thats what "Speculation" is, they had nothing to go off of in the 1st place. Did you think any of them had insider leaks and info or something?
They do what every fan of the Community does, they talk and offer ideas, predictions and insight. If thats worthless to you...well.. :/

And I guess this means the FFXIV team and YoshiP shoot past expectations.
We think and expect this...and then they do something else. I think thats good...keep us suprised

They make money from it and talk like they are experts. As I said that one guy kept calling it forespoken even when officially denied by Square Enix.

Forget the name of the guy, but he made a long video literally telling us what was ‘likely’ or ‘almost certainly’ going to happen and every single bit of it was wrong.

Someone like Zepla I do have more time for because she is just speculating, but people like Meoni and that guy who’s name I don’t remember do act like they’re somehow special when really they seemingly know less about the games direction than half my casual FC.

[Legewiel]

*They make good guides
*If you're a little out of the loop or you couldn't watch a live letter you could watch a video while you're doing the dishes and you get all the info you need
*They're invited by SE to test the content and they release the info we want
*They do Q&A with the devs

ppl who watches this video expecting that they'll just tell you everything that will happen an upcoming event is just fooling themselves

[LisSquid]

I was blindsided by sage and not geomancer, but honestly I'm rather delighted to be wrong.

YTers are able to have opinions and have guesswork all they want. There's fun to be had in speculation and theory crafting on what is coming next. It's when you watched those videos and saw them as definite fact is what's wrong.

I was pumped for geomancer and chemist. I'm even more pumped for sage and whatever this new melee is!

[Vickii]

I was blindsided by sage and not geomancer, but honestly I'm rather delighted to be wrong.

YTers are able to have opinions and have guesswork all they want. There's fun to be had in speculation and theory crafting on what is coming next. It's when you watched those videos and saw them as definite fact is what's wrong.

I was pumped for geomancer and chemist. I'm even more pumped for sage and whatever this new melee is!

I didn’t see them as definite fact. I always doubted that they would be right because they are almost always wrong. And once again they were wrong.

You misunderstand the point of my post. This isn’t me asking why they weren’t right. It’s me asking why they act like they are experts here when they guess everything wrong every single time. And why they can make money doing so. And why people in similar positions for other games have a far better success rate.

[Vickii]

I was blindsided by sage and not geomancer, but honestly I'm rather delighted to be wrong.

YTers are able to have opinions and have guesswork all they want. There's fun to be had in speculation and theory crafting on what is coming next. It's when you watched those videos and saw them as definite fact is what's wrong.

I was pumped for geomancer and chemist. I'm even more pumped for sage and whatever this new melee is!

Also why were you pumped for geomancer and chemist? Presumably because they were what mr happy said we were getting. And then the whole community starts to expect that, and you get pumped for it.

But why? He has never made a correct prediction ever that I have seen. You may as well have listened to any other player who plays the game which one of the obvious on the table jobs that are likely making it at some point, they think will get in this time.

[SturmChurro]

You misunderstand the point of my post. This isn’t me asking why they weren’t right. It’s me asking why they act like they are experts here when they guess everything wrong every single time. And why they can make money doing so. And why people in similar positions for other games have a far better success rate.

Because they spend the time recording and uploading videos, and people watch them. Whether you like it or not. Anyone here can do the same, they could even make their unique content for YouTube, or follow the trends and also potentially make money. Maybe the people criticizing this content would offer up more accurate predictions? I somehow doubt it though.

[MonsutaMan]

I don't watch other people play games, so I have no idea what the guesses were but among my friends at least...some of our guesses proved to be correct and others were incorrect.

To be fair, though, WoW has always had things datamined months in advance so it's much easier to guess where its story is going.

At one point, these forums demanded you watch people play through raids so you know what you are doing.......

Not sure if that is a thing now; I am a lone wolf for the most part. On and off XIV.

[Vickii]

Because they spend the time recording and uploading videos, and people watch them. Whether you like it or not. Anyone here can do the same, they could even make their unique content for YouTube, or follow the trends and also potentially make money. Maybe the people criticizing this content would offer up more accurate predictions? I somehow doubt it though.

Yes but it’s not about whether I can make more accurate predictions (which I actually did). It’s about why mr happy gets everything wrong every time but his counterpart on WoW gets at least half of it right everytime. That’s my question. I know a lot of the WoW youtubers have contacts but it just seems to me they have a much higher quality of content creators in general, presumably because there’s more competition.

[Cidel]

Do Japanese companies just have less leaks?

I mean, it can't be that everyone has forgotten how somebody leaked BLU coming and not being a "full" job, the bosses of the Omega raid series and probably most notable of all; how ShB was getting Viera and a new lion-race.

[Hycinthus]

I thought there were a lot of predictions about the Moon, I think even more than predictions for Sharlayan. Garlemald was also predicted. Also, a Healer and DPS were also predicted, though you cannot fault people for thinking Chemist, since it was featured so prominently in MSQ.