Live Letter Thoughts

[Ransu]

If only that Zenos scene ended with either the injury of a scion or the removal of one from the plot,

You're so hung up on this terrible plot idea that its actually annoying. Thank God you have no involvement with the writing team. Your idea of a gripping story is pretty bland honestly.

[SannaR]

Says you. I rather enjoyed endwalker.

You are not the sole owner of standards of this game.


Also, again, I'd like to point out that you can, in fact, play XIV, enjoy it, and also play other games, and enjoy them. Crisis core remake will not stop me from enjoying XIV, even though I will play it. You seem to be a 1 game person. I am not.

He and a few others come off as those who are burnt-out but are in a denial stage of grief. As they constantly use language those with burnt-out use but they have this strong aversion to admitting it. That admitting that the thing they enjoyed is no longer for them or at least not satisfying the itch it once used to is shameful in some way. That they're unable to play XIV unless it's their number game they pour more hours into than the other ones. Reminds me of when I stopped listening to a XIV podcast. I and several others stopped listening to it because hearing how checked out and burnt-out on the game the hosts were every week wasn't fun. That they again felt guilt and pressure to continue on because they were hosts of a podcast. It also didn't help that some of them had another thing that they were more interested in that they then would spend more time promoting then the XIV podcast.

[RobynDaBank]

Oh no, the Ascian sigs have invaded.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Neither are you. I love this community, all the rampant hypocrisy makes my day slightly less BORING.

In all seriousness, the entitled and condescending tone in so many of this forums' retorts make it hard to take people seriously on the best of days.



In the future, I'd appreciate if you didn't make assault allegories. Making light of that to take a crack at Aveyond is offensive, totally beyond the pale and unworthy of these forums. Or anywhere, really.

Kindly never utter such things again in my presence.

~Signed, someone who has gone through something of that nature~

~THANKS SO MUCH FOR SO CASUALLY REMINDING ME~

Except I don't come here and insist my opinion is the one that matters and everything I say is the only correct way.


And if you want to talk about condescending, look no further than the people who can't talk about venat without "mOmMy GoDdEsS" ing her name and acting like anyone who likes her character is flawed as a person.

[Bobby66]

Neither are you. I love this community, all the rampant hypocrisy makes my day slightly less BORING.

In all seriousness, the entitled and condescending tone in so many of this forums' retorts make it hard to take people seriously on the best of days.



In the future, I'd appreciate if you didn't make assault allegories. Making light of that to take a crack at Aveyond is offensive, totally beyond the pale and unworthy of these forums. Or anywhere, really.

Kindly never utter such things again in my presence.

~Signed, someone who has gone through something of that nature~

~THANKS SO MUCH FOR SO CASUALLY REMINDING ME~

Sorry will come off as harsh or maybe I just missed the sarcasm.

Why exactly should someone be mindful of what they say around you?

If I missed the sarcasm sorry.

[Rowde]

Was this second island thing on a slide in a older liveletter or should something he said? Because I really wonder why they would already give us a new one soon (this expansion) when we just get a huge one right now. Of course I take it but maybe they could simply increase the one island and give us more there instead of two different ones?

But who knows maybe that will still change in development until then.

From LiveLetter LXVIII
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5861033

6th image in this post
to be fair it specifically says
"Additional area for Island Sanctuary"

the 2nd island thing seems to be community imagination running away with that sparse piece of info

[SannaR]

Was this second island thing on a slide in a older liveletter or should something he said? Because I really wonder why they would already give us a new one soon (this expansion) when we just get a huge one right now. Of course I take it but maybe they could simply increase the one island and give us more there instead of two different ones?

But who knows maybe that will still change in development until then.

I'm not sure where the second Island is coming from. I don't remember reading anything about a second one. Even from unofficial translations. A second one so soon after being given this one with only the devs at this time know how long the average person should take to "finish it" feels as a bit much. Especially if it would be more of the same. Just not be a tropical Island. Not saying if there is a second Island that it would be more of the same, but without more information I'm not sure how much different they could make other Islands be.

Edit: Ahh should have read further down the thread.

[redheadturk]

You've asked for more then a Heavensward Approach.

For example, you keep bringing up other games and how they do their storytelling. Thats not asking for a Heavenward approach.
Saying how we should constantly be setting up camps after a dungeon and eating food rations and hunting for food, is not asking for a Heavensward Approach.
Talking about Friction between people, Arguments. Tension between party members as seen on other games, is not asking for a Heavenward Approach

I too want more of a HW approach, darker story where death has meaning. I also want them to take the shb approach, unravel the time loop and allow both Ancient and Sundered to have their happy endings in a separate timeline. There was no reason they couldn't have gone with a branched timeline, which would have satisfied those of us who love the Ancients.

[BaconBits]

Except I don't come here and insist my opinion is the one that matters and everything I say is the only correct way.


And if you want to talk about condescending, look no further than the people who can't talk about venat without "mOmMy GoDdEsS" ing her name and acting like anyone who likes her character is flawed as a person.

Whether you're for or against Venat, you cannot deny she exudes Big Momma Energy™.

She is referred to as the Mothercrystal for a reason lmao.

[Shougun]

Ugh. No. Never.

GW2's mount system feels insanely better than FXIV's, like incomparably better almost. Of course WoW's original system is akin to FFXIV but if WoW is inspiring from GW2 as it appears, for dragonflight, that imo is a fantastic addition for WoW players.

I would lose all my mounts, paid included, for that system.. not that I suggest that be the way they do it if they did lol.