Brian from Work 2 Game is leaving FFXIV

[LianaThorne]

Is this the new dumpster fire thread?

[Axxion]

Is this the new dumpster fire thread?

[SannaR]

I love that he made a video that talked about him quitting and then after everyone and their pet chinchilla gave their thoughts on it he had to make like three different reaction videos. He and his co-creator even made a don't worry guys one of us is still in love with XIV video. I just wonder if the other will continue with their journey to understand what's going on in the story as he used to be a skipper and have no clue as to why the WoL did anything. Then he had a few talks with a story lover and went oh wow. As I know Brian was one of those who encouraged his co-creator to continue on with slowly working through trying to pay attention to the story journey. I didn't watch most of their stuff as I disagreed with a lot of their takes and didn't like how much of their biases tended to seep through. When they were trying to give things a fair unbiased reviews about other games. Even becoming dismissive about things when asked about parts of new games that seemed to be a con to many others who were also trying out the game. Just because for them they didn't think said problem was a big deal even if said feature had various ways it could cause problems with people enjoying the game.

[Knot_D]

Hmm... Sussy baka right here...

[Carin-Eri]

Is this the new dumpster fire thread?

[Larirawiel]

Chuck Norris watched this gif until the end.


Cheers

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

someone who has been playing the game for 10 more years than you

I've been playing since 2010 and I've never heard of the guy.

[Gralna]

TL/DR (not an exhaustive list)
- he can't get over his hang ups of how old school MMO's used to work (and yet he decided to have 5 kids and wants a career outside of playing MMO's too? he'll never have any time to play lol)
- praises FFXI and 1.0 style (ewwww)
- doesn't like balanced classes as much
- doesn't like how "theme park ride" XIV is (i.e. too much instanced content and not enough open world stuff - i mean this topic has been debated to death and it's something that XIV just isn't going to change really unless the backend of the game can accommodate way more than 300 people in an regular open world instance and honestly I don't think this is something the XIV devs want to tackle at all)
- wants more open world conversation (gross)
- wants people to fail more at content, but yet still get stuff for trying? why should you get anything just for trying if you don't complete it?
- not sure what he means by making marketboard items matter? i mean sure some stuff used to mean something back in the day in ARR days, but then as the game went on people just got more and more money and thus didn't really need to worry about this anymore. eventually New World will get to this point too.

The one thing I saw from Asmongold's and Zepla's react video to GingerPrime's video is that we all want to know what his "joke" was that upset the "hypersensitive" people. I think based on what the basis of his standup comedy is is whether or not people will cancel him or not esp if his jokes are based on bad takes, etc.

Part of why I stopped watching him years ago, for every positive point he'd ever bring up for XIV, he'd have to add two more points of why XI was even better. Watching his videos, just felt like talking current day gaming with your friends, and he's the friend that no matter what game everyone else is talking about, has to bring up how he thinks Sega was the peak of gaming, but that no one understood it.

[Silica-chan]

He published another video.
"New World Top 5 reasons why it beats out Final Fantasy XIV"

https://youtu.be/7CskEwjlp5c

If that's his way of "quitting" i'm guessing he's gonna talk about XIV for a while.
I'm not against the idea of making comparisons between two games you invested a lot of time in, but i didn't expect that to be in the title of his video.

classic way of trying to convince himself that he really likes the other game more.

[Blood_Blossoms]

I've been playing since 2010 and I've never heard of the guy.

same I came across MR Happy before him. there was some other guy as well pretty big back then forgot his name sadly.
But only heard of Brian at the start of Shadow bringers, Probs just a YouTube thing some people go under radar but suddenly pop out nowhere but been making content for years.

But yeah, if needs to move he needs to move on.