Instead of cutting Ultimate from 5.5 why not cut bozja?

[Reap00]

Wait casual is not a slur? You sure? I do not believe you! My whole world is crumbling before me! AHHHH!

You still won't get your Ultimate kid.

[Payotz]

Ah, another person trying to usual the word casual in a negative way...

Yeah, I'm making fun of it. That's the point.

In all seriousness though, I've been blaming a lot of what's wrong with Shadowbringers on casuals ever since launch.

Job changes(dumbing down of Ranged Physical and removal of its identity[Literally just a 1% damage buff lul], Healer changes, Tank changes and removal of TK Monk),
Crafter changes (No more cross class skills, removal of skills and removal of Whisper Rotation),
Dumbed down EX fights with no dps checks (Innocence, Emerald Weapon EX, and even Titania).

Among many other things. Ultimate being cut is just another thing added onto that pile.

[Euphares]

This community for this game will always be strange to me.

I feel like Squeenix will just ride the "covid btw" reason for years and folks will just continue to accept it.


After so much time there really is no excuse for a billion-dollar company to still be so inefficient at working, other game companies JP based or otherwise aren't having these issues so its really not acceptable by this point.


The sub price has been the same for the entire pandemic; and I don't believe that unsubbing is a viable solution considering that even with all the money they receive, half-assed content is still being pushed out. I worry to think what would happen with less money to work with. I think its about time that people start holding the devs accountable the way communities in other games do.



The reality is that we've gotten less content that's either worse or on par with previous content quality-wise so I struggle to find how exactly players benefit here. I fear this ultimate will just be added to list of things SE has failed to deliver on and be forever stuck in dev limbo.

[AziraSyuren]

This is the worst end-of-expansion blunder (maybe blunder period) since the Coven weapons and the worst part is that they couldn't do much of anything about it once COVID hit.

Their biggest mistakes were not being clear about their struggles with getting it out on time and not releasing an ultimate in 5.3 instead. Game design really isn't as simple as resource allocation, so I can understand why they couldn't delay anything else just to get this out.

That being said, I actually think Bozja is the best casual BS "filler" content this game has ever had so at least there's something to do.

[Mahoukenshi]

Yeah, I'm making fun of it. That's the point.

In all seriousness though, I've been blaming a lot of what's wrong with Shadowbringers on casuals ever since launch.

Job changes(dumbing down of Ranged Physical and removal of its identity[Literally just a 1% damage buff lul], Healer changes, Tank changes and removal of TK Monk),
Crafter changes (No more cross class skills, removal of skills and removal of Whisper Rotation),
Dumbed down EX fights with no dps checks (Innocence, Emerald Weapon EX, and even Titania).

Among many other things. Ultimate being cut is just another thing added onto that pile.

Since you seem to be deeply troubled if you cannot put the blame on casuals: I'm a casual and for all the unpleasantries I've indirectly caused, I say the following with pride and self-consciousness: You are welcome.

[Listrella]

get over yourself, only about 1% of players do ultimate, bozja appeals to more people, that takes priority.

[Awha]

You still won't get your Ultimate kid.

I will get it around 6.1, still in a better boat then some other features in the game.

For everyone it was a joke though. Just in case it was missed.

[CaedemSanguis]

Final Fantasy XIV = designed for casual player

HC players just need to sub 1 month each time a raid tier is released (4 weeks, double alt, its enough to get stuffed) and if an ultimate is announced you resub

That's it, I wouldn't be surprise if there is only one ultimate next expansion, after all, some people (I don't know how) find a brain dead grinding more fun than raids

[Steviejd]

Final Fantasy XIV = designed for casual player

HC players just need to sub 1 month each time a raid tier is released (4 weeks, double alt, its enough to get stuffed) and if an ultimate is announced you resub

That's it, I wouldn't be surprise if there is only one ultimate next expansion, after all, some people (I don't know how) find a brain dead grinding more fun than raids

At the same time I don't know how someone finds attempting to kill the same boss for weeks and all the drama that comes with 'hardcore' raiding fun. Different strokes for different folks.

[CaedemSanguis]

At the same time I don't know how someone finds attempting to kill the same boss for weeks and all the drama that comes with 'hardcore' raiding fun. Different strokes for different folks.

I thought there was an ultimate for 5.5, otherwise I'll just kill E12s and then unsub for 13 months