Live Letter Thoughts

[RobynDaBank]

Unreadable thread, lol. I didn't follow the Live Letter as closely as I usually do since yesterday wasn't a good day for me, but I did skim the translations channel in the Reddit FFXIV Discord server. Really looking forward to Island Sanctuaries and the Glamour Dresser expansion. And no Yoshida, I WILL fill it up with carp like you expect!

[AwesomeJr44]

And no Yoshida, I WILL fill it up with carp like you expect!

Everyone be looking to fill it with flowers and minions and stuff, but the truly based people fill their islands with carp.

[Jojoya]

6.1 gave me 3-4 hours of new content outside of the unbalanced mess that was PvP and ultimate which my group isn't doing yet. Expecting more than 3-4 hours of non-ultimate pve content every 4 months is not expecting massive content releases.

So if all you got out of 6.1 was 3-4 hours of content it sounds like you did the MSQ and that's it (other than the PvP) since it takes 3-4 hours to get through the 6.1 MSQ unless you're cutscene/dialog skipping.

So you skipped:
Part 1 of the Alliance raid
Endsinger's Aria
Ultimate
Ultima's Bane Unreal
Tataru's Grand Endeavor
Omega: Beyond the RIFT
Somehow Further Hildebrand Adventures
Arkasodara Tribal Quests and raising your rank to Bloodsworn
Ameliance Custom Deliveries and increasing your reputation for the title and glamour
Doing the Excite-a-tron for the new rewards that were added
crafting the new gear and housing items

Can't do all of that in 3-4 hours and most of it is PvE content (there's more to player versus environment than just killing a monster). Maybe you should check out all the things you missed.

It's your choice to tunnel vision on a tiny segment of what the game offers but it completely false to state that the game does not offer more when it does but you're choosing not to do it.

[VelKallor]

6.1 gave me 3-4 hours of new content outside of the unbalanced mess that was PvP and ultimate

FF 14 isnt" raid pvp or m plus". if you cant find more to do thats on you, not the developers.

[Silverbane]

check our start dates: 2015 (me) vs. 2020 (you)

The 'Join Date' refers to the Forums, not the game. Thus I wouldn't use that as a metric as you'll come across people like me who stayed off the forums for years. I started playing in 2013. I joined the forums in 2020.

You started your current character in March 2020 -- just before joining the forums.
So in the context of you being a no-life who leveled every class to 90, it is disingenuous of you to imply that 2020 is not the relevant start date.

Although really, what marks you as a no-life is how salty you get when there isn't new content that you want to run. People with lives simply find other things to enjoy. Watching cormorant fishing in Kyoto, taking a helicopter to a picnic at a jungle waterfall in Hawaii, photographing the stars at the Grand Canyon, taking river cruises in Europe, things like that. Things that are actually more fun than FFXIV, but also substantially more expensive.

BTW, I started my first character in January 2015, my second in February 2015, and my third in June 2016 ... possibly because I came to FFXIV from SWTOR, where alts are the norm. And to have more to glam, of course.

[MonsutaMan]

Job design is absolutely a facet of gameplay and without a doubt the most important in a game where 99% of content is combat. That being said, let's not do this here. I don't wanna derail the thread any further, already messed up by thinking I was in one sixty seven thousand of the SAM megathreads.

Yeah, it is like swimming, and not getting wet. How can you have one without the other? They are directly correlated.

Job design dictates game-play. Imo, just my opinion.....every job sounds good in theory, but the execution is terrible.

Never understood the "NO MORE JOB" crowd....I am starting to see their point hahaha.

[VelKallor]

the most important in a game where 99% of content is combat

Um.....wha??? Thats not even barely accurate .

Better than 50 - 60% of the content is story, MSQ, crafting, gathering..where on earth did that come from?

99% of FF 14 is combat?

NO.

[LisSquid]

Not to butt into a really stupid argument, but the MSQ.. definitely is combat content where job design is at the forefront.

[Lustre]

People really calling 10 minute yellow quests content lmao

[VelKallor]

Not to butt into a really stupid argument, but the MSQ.. definitely is combat content where job design is at the forefront.

Having gone the entire MSQ start to end 2 or 3 times?...no. There is a huge percentage of non combat MSQ...ALL the crafter / gatherer content is not combat related at all, there are many tribes questlines that arent combat either.

People really calling 10 minute yellow quests content lmao

Many of those are chain quests, that last a lot longer than 10 minutes.