This game is on a terrible state right now.

[ronibosch]

I mean, the 1 post removal per year is still better than the Materia GM's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7g65hQd78w

Dear God. Why is this even allowed to go on for so long?

[MonteCristo]

I'm just doing what the director tells me to play other shit rather than force myself to do stuff in this game. Granted since I play alts, I always have some progression to do in terms of content but lately I've been playing other MMOs and games.

And yes, Im also a house owner and I still pay for the sub even on break because Im more likely to still want to log in to other stuff or hang with friends besides having to reset the demo timer.

The play other games thing while understandable is still....irritating. Play other games sure! Can we not be charged while we do? Negative

[SturmChurro]

Yeah that last fight with Xenos was really fun and I wish there was a way to just reply that fight without having to do a large chapter to get to it.

Felt like Ocelot and Snake slugging it out on top of that sub.

I think Zodiark got it bad. Like...they built him up and it was a simple trial. That really urked me.

I know a lot of people dislike Zenos from all crowds, but I liked him! My favorite villain in ffxiv. He finally got his duel in the end and it was great.

Zodiark, yeah, but Garlemald got it the worst.

[Renalt]

I know a lot of people dislike Zenos from all crowds, but I liked him! My favorite villain in ffxiv. He finally got his duel in the end and it was great.

Zodiark, yeah, but Garlemald got it the worst.

The reason I disliked him happened to be the same reason I ended up liking him. He is a broken man who can't process feelings and the only thing that gave him life was the feeling it can actually end.

He felt like One Punch Man if there was an end to the series and he was still undisputed. He felt empty. He saw something in you and that was ALL that mattered.

[VeyaAkemi]

Yeah that last fight with Xenos was really fun and I wish there was a way to just reply that fight without having to do a large chapter to get to it.

Unironically, I wish there was a way to answer to Zenos just, "Hey, I have a proposal, you help us with all this bullshit, and once things calm down enough and I can be certain the world won't end if I end up hospitalized for a month, we can have the fight you want anywhere you want, how about that?", which is sorta what ends up happening anyway, just Zenos is the one who decides to do it rather than the Scions extending the olive branch, but I wish it could've been put the proposal down sooner in the story.

[SturmChurro]

The reason I disliked him happened to be the same reason I ended up liking him. He is a broken man who can't process feelings and the only thing that gave him life was the feeling it can actually end.

He felt like One Punch Man if there was an end to the series and he was still undisputed. He felt empty. He saw something in you and that was ALL that mattered.

Guy was a psychopath, and made no apologies for it. He had nobody who could challenge him at his level - until he met you. All he wanted was to experience that 'feeling', the thrill again. The enjoyment of the hunt. No real tragic backstory, or being a villain who was the hero in their own story. It was a breath of fresh air.

[DixieBellOCE]

Dear God. Why is this even allowed to go on for so long?

because the Materia GM's will not take responsibility for leaving it this long.

This person has been perm banned one one account for this exact reason.

[Absimiliard]

Guy was a psychopath, and made no apologies for it. He had nobody who could challenge him at his level - until he met you. All he wanted was to experience that 'feeling', the thrill again. The enjoyment of the hunt. No real tragic backstory, or being a villain who was the hero in their own story. It was a breath of fresh air.

I dunno. I would call his childhood pretty bloody tragic. Being the Garlean-equivalent of a designer baby whose parents couldn't even be arsed to glance in his general direction, whose caretakers (not to mention everyone else around) were absolutely horrified of him, and whose supposed swordsmanship teacher kept trying to kill him... well, with that in mind, the man he grew up to be makes perfect sense. The Garleans wanted to create a monster -- and they did, but they mishandled everything that came afterward so badly that any hope of keeping him under control went out the window before he was even an adult.

It's basically just a retelling of Sephiroth's backstory, which makes sense considering Zenos himself was a rather blatant expy. At any rate, I find it curious how people will regard Sephiroth's upbringing as a terrible tragedy and ample explanation for what he became, whereas Zenos, whose backstory is the largely same, is apparently widely considered wholly unjustified in becoming a monster.

[ronibosch]

because the Materia GM's will not take responsibility for leaving it this long.

This person has been perm banned one one account for this exact reason.

I don't want to even imagine how many victims there are, thanks to this creep (and the neglect of the Materia GMs).

Too many people abusing their power, if you ask me.

[Ishe-P]

I don't think 'play other shit' is a valid excuse for any MMO, to be honest and frank. A director who says 'yeah give Eldenring a try' or whatever is not very good at his job IMO, and isn't very receptive to ideas that could allow the game to evolve and change. This sounds controversial but I present evidence in how Shadowbringers and Endwalker went down, progression-wise. You could predict exactly the dungeon and trial-boss beats all the way up to level 89, and even at level 90 you could reasonably expect certain outcomes. A lot of laziness and complacency goes into this game's design, which is a crying shame because they could do so much and more. Criterion dungeons are the biggest example; Yoshi-P was clearly clobbered from out of no where with this request and in its implementation they had no idea wtf to do with it, because it wasn't in the formula. So we were left with really fun content that had shitty-af rewards; if they don't do anything with that on 6.4, 6.5, it will be clear to me at least that they will not be willing to change. I would also present the savage lockouts taking so long to unlock; that is frankly unacceptable. They need to look at their formula, check player feedback, and make sure they're on the right track with regards to their timing. It's completely unacceptable to abandon the game effectively for 6 months at a time. I for one will not resub, no matter what the expansion promises (hint: it will be 2 jobs perhaps, and then you get 10 more levels, with level x1, x3, x7, and x9 having something happen, you unlock x0, do some extremes, then wait for the raid tier to come out, which invalidates all your progress up to this point because f you, also be sure to keep running extremes for your mount you schmuck). If they do anything different, I'd be frankly surprised. Even narratively I just don't think I could give a damn.