What is going on with Square Enix and the 14 team?

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Wait so yoshi main race isnt a lalafell?

[KageTokage]

I have a lot of friends who have been consistently positive and upbeat about this game in their years playing it.

As of 6.1, I'm seeing a lot of unprecedented negativity from places that I wouldn't usually expect it. That is not a good sign.


One major gripe about the patch I don't see around too much but is talked about a lot among my friends is about how the new EX trial is horrible. This fight isn't just the last boss of Endwalker; It's mean to be the final boss of a core story arc that has spanned more than 10 years. Why did it get such a significantly lazier treatment than Shinryu, Hades and Thordan? The EX version is genuinely less interesting than the normal mode. How on earth did that even happen? I knew so many people hyped for the fight to release, and I literally don't know a single person that likes what we got.

It's funny because prior to release they said it would have "several" phases and people were expecting we would get something like Hades EX to actually warrant the extra totems...then it ended up being a single phase fight that starts repeating mechanics around the 50% mark.

[Haruka_R]

Me caring about your mum wouldn't matter, and you know it doesn't. Stop trying to use your mum's illness as ammo.

Were you not the who brought up her mom first? Like how you brought up your family earlier for no reason?

[KizuyaKatogami]

We... don't get less gear.
We definitely get more than back when the game started.

We get 1 dg instead of 2 (thanks god), and because of that, they add other different kinds of cool content.

(Smaller maps? What do you mean?)

We literally didn’t get 89 dungeon gear this expansion, which has never happened any other expansion. We didn’t get our pvp set from wolf marks this expansion yet, we got the others in x.1.(the set in the new pvp rewards is the equivalent of a feast set afaik). We didn’t get a tataru glam in ShB and the one we got this expansion was a reused set. In SB samurai and rdm both got level 50/60/70 primal weapons. Dnc,Gnb,Sage,and Rpr still do not.

Alright, I'll give a solution then. Remove housing from the game and fire everyone involved in housing. They have shown time and time again they don't know what they're doing. Expecting people to stay up all night clicking on a sign? Simply absurd. If they can't do a feature right, then don't add it. Otherwise they are just giving us hope and letting us down over and over. Rework Island sanctuary into actual instanced housing, assuming the people in charge of that have an IQ above room temperature. Yoshi-p let 1.0 burn to remake it to be something good, it's time for the shitty housing team to go the same way.

Unfortunately, if you fire everyone from housing there would be no one to develop the Ultimates. Yeah, you heard that right. The same team in charge of housing is in charge of Ultimate too. I was baffled when i heard that lol

[Kaurhz]

The new EX trial is horrible. This fight isn't just the last boss of Endwalker; It's mean to be the final boss of a core story arc that has spanned more than 10 years. Why did it get such a significantly lazier treatment than Shinryu, Hades and Thordan? The EX version is genuinely less interesting than the normal mode. How on earth did that even happen? I knew so many people hyped for the fight to release, and I literally don't know a single person that likes what we got.

I've largely tried to stay away from Ex and Savage, mainly because I don't really like the design philosophy around encounters. But that backstory aside. I got roped into this fight on Friday, prior to that I was actually freighted by how the overextended the emphasis was on the difficulty of the fight, but I was actually surprised to not only learn it hits weaker than normal mode, but the encounter itself felt like half a fight... That was probably my only disappointing moment of the patch, personally

[Cesarion]

Oh absolutely. I started saying it in ShB, when we saw less content and just overall laziness on the devs part and people called me stupid, a hater, how i’m just so wrong and look where we are now. Ngl i’m a bit amused at watching all of this happen. A part of me wonders if they knew the game wouldn’t be sustainable and that’s why they’re focusing on solo friendly content now and why they cut an expansion.

Honestly I said the same thing about the content drought in ShB, I thought it was stupid how we lost so many dungeons and a deep dungeon because of Bozja, people called me stupid also.

[Vryn]

Were you not the one who brought up her mom first? Like how you brought up your family earlier for no reason?

Yes, I mentioned her mother first and when she tried to use it as ammo. You're trying to do the same thing but by proxy, because she thought stating she had an illness would suddenly make me feel like a lousy human being, not realising I probably think she is lying because she would be an evil child to use their mother's persistent disease to win an argument on something like an internet forum, talk about not respecting your mother's condition, you might give her some dignity in life if you at all cared about them. It's a really evil thing to do to use the infirm as a shield wouldn't you agree?

[Manofpassion]

Unfortunately, if you fire everyone from housing there would be no one to develop the Ultimates. Yeah, you heard that right. The same team in charge of housing is in charge of Ultimate too. I was baffled when i heard that lol

I really hope you're fucking kidding. I thought housing (ultimate) was a fucking meme! Jesus christ.

If there are any rng elements in the new ultimate this is gonna be the worst fight in the game. Every time a mechanic happens the boss might just cast 0 and kick everyone out of the instance. Jesus wept.

I am completely baffled by this knowledge. If they can't make a simple lottery, I'm surprised any of the fights can even be loaded at all.

[IkaraGreydancer]

Yes, I mentioned her mother first, and when she tried to use it as ammo and you're trying to do the same thing because she thought stating had an illness would suddenly make me feel like a bad human being, not realise I probably think she is lying because she would be a really bad child to use their mother's ongoing disease to win an argument on something like an internet forum, talk about not respecting your in mothers condition, you might give her some dignity in life.

Use as ammo. I didn't know stating a fact that makes your "run back to mom" childish joke moot is considered ammo. I don't care to make you feel like a bad human being. I don't know nor care about you. I just hate when people bring things up then deflect.
Keep my mother out of your mouth please and thank you

[Elkanah]

I really hope you're fucking kidding. I thought housing (ultimate) was a fucking meme! Jesus christ.

If there are any rng elements in the new ultimate this is gonna be the worst fight in the game. Every time a mechanic happens the boss might just cast 0 and kick everyone out of the instance. Jesus wept.

I am completely baffled by this knowledge. If they can't make a simple lottery, I'm surprised any of the fights can even be loaded at all.

I just need the new ultimate to have a house placard you click on for 48hrs and then lose to a bot (and auto wipes the whole party at 1%). This way, we know it's working as intended when everyone reaches 0 and nobody ever completes the latest ultimate for several years irl. That's about as realistic of ultimate I could get, and probably enjoy because of all this shitstorm nam flashbacks I'll have to this day XD