How to Restore Confidence in FFXIV

[VelKallor]

blah blah blah blah blah blah game is perfect, people complaining bad blah blah blah blah blah blah bla

I never said that, as as Aveyond has stated above..kindly dont misrepresent what I did say..actually your comment and the one above have zero to do with each other.

[Stormpeaks]

I never said that, as as Aveyond has stated above..kindly dont misrepresent what I did say..actually your comment and the one above have zero to do with each other.

that's a tldr of every single post you make tbh, its a perfect fit /shrug, I will correct it though because my previous one was wrong

"blah blah blah blah blah blah the game is perfect it has endless content but i dont do any of the content, blah blah blah blah blah blah" is actually the right tldr of all of your posts

[AwesomeJr44]

blah blah blah blah blah blah game is perfect, people complaining bad blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

"blah blah blah blah blah blah the game is perfect it has endless content but i dont do any of the content, blah blah blah blah blah blah"

This is the perfect summary of the average Vel post. I love it!

(The only thing you forgot is to make every other word in either CAPITALS, bold, or italics like this to catch that OG Vel rant feel)

[TowaIsBestGirl]

Aveyond has a long history of sweeping claims and grandiose statements on what everyone wants, going back to his ridiculous claim that "Overwhelming player feedback is they want Yshtola gone" and "The Scions have reached their use by date and we want a new cast" are just two.

"We?" Who is we?

Him, maybe, but IMO I am not a hypocrite when i state categorically that what he wants is not what others want and yeah, damned right, no one speaks for me.

I never asked him or anyone else to either...Ill give you a parallel, when my late wife was in hospital, a nurse who had known her a few days, had the nerve, the gall, the absolute CHUTZPAH to tell me, her husband of twenty years that she knew my wife better than I DID??

With respect, Towa, you want to know what I think? Ask me. If you dont then neither you or anyone else speaks for me. Ever.

How is that "hypocritical"??

We are all free to state our own opinions and wants, absolutely, but no one, and I mean no one here, has the right to claim to speak for others. This forum is a tiny microcosm and to an extent an echo chamber..again, what we see here does NOT reflect the wants, needs or preferences of the vast majority who play and who DO NOT post here.

So, unless by some magic or other device he or others are able to discern the opinion / mindset / wishes of every player on every single server worldwide?

No.

Yes, but what entitles you to demand everyone consult you every time they state their case? You're literally not seeing it, what you do. I've not seen a single poster claim to speak for you nor others, at least not in those words. They only ever seek to put forth their stance on any number of given matters, and the manner in which you word your seemingly every post doesn't do your image nor your credibility any major favors. To be frank, in comparison most of the more contentious posters around here seem far more approachable. You are highly combative, and if you truly wish to be consulted it would do you well to tailor your speech accordingly. If they've made use of unreasonably aggressive language, I haven't seen it so you'll have to excuse me for the time being at least. In conclusion?

[Ghost_of_Ebina]

Although I agree with some of the points, FF14 still retains plenty of confidence based on its financials.
SE's Q1 result does show decreased sales overall but their gross profit has never been better -- this means SE isn't spending much and making more money -- FF14 is one of the major bread-winners for SE that brings income every month. I doubt any of the executives or the shareholders feel any confidence issues exist with the game.

Thus, the whole premise that "FF14 needs to restore confidence" doesn't make sense. What confidence? Your own? Then it's just your opinion.
It is okay to have one's own opinion but to write it as if it is a truth acknowledged by a large number of people isn't all that convincing.
Similarly, when using words such as "indisputably" -- I would like to see data that would show how indisputable it is... if not it's just your opinion.
(no offense really, but the argument will become stronger with data especially when based on financials the point seems less supported)

With that said, I would agree that the overall world seems less "lived in" compared to HW or ShB or even with ARR.
The new areas in EW include places that are uninhabited, but even in the places that have habitation t doesn't feel all that convincing as a setting.
One thing is the lack of FATEs that involve towns / cities that gives me the feeling these storytelling devices exist only as disconnected points.
It's a similar feeling I had in SB's story especially in the latter half of liberating Ala Mhigo.

I didn't find Hermes horrible -- I liked the story of him and Meteion.
The idea that having too much hope that some solution will bring rose-colored results ends up in total disaster is pretty good.
(that and I don't expect superb story-telling from MMOs when there are so many factors that can derail consistency)

[Saraide]

I've not seen a single poster claim to speak for you nor others, at least not in those words.

Aveyond once told us that society at large is sick of yshtola. Funniest stuff he ever posted.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Yes, but what entitles you to demand everyone consult you every time they state their case? You're literally not seeing it, what you do. I've not seen a single poster claim to speak for you nor others, at least not in those words. They only ever seek to put forth their stance on any number of given matters, and the manner in which you word your seemingly every post doesn't do your image nor your credibility any major favors. To be frank, in comparison most of the more contentious posters around here seem far more approachable. You are highly combative, and if you truly wish to be consulted it would do you well to tailor your speech accordingly. If they've made use of unreasonably aggressive language, I haven't seen it so you'll have to excuse me for the time being at least. In conclusion?

Have you not actually read aveyonds posts? They all read with this smug, unflinching pretentiousness "my way or the highway" voice rather than the usual critical posts. You can literally feel the "begone peasant" facial expression he makes when writing his stuff, it just so happens to be done in the most effective way by being subtle enough where most people might glance over it.

Theres no sense of approach of seeing the other perspective at all.

[Stormpeaks]

Have you not actually read aveyonds posts? They all read with this smug, unflinching pretentiousness "my way or the highway" voice rather than the usual critical posts. You can literally feel the "begone peasant" facial expression he makes when writing his stuff, it just so happens to be done in the most effective way by being subtle enough where most people might glance over it.

Theres no sense of approach of seeing the other perspective at all.

You mean just like all of the white knights like Strike44, Vel amongst many others ?

"just quit the game already if you dont like it why are you still playing ?"

"just quit already"

"just unsubscribe if you dont like the game" and a million variants of it

cant even complain about anything or suggest some improvement in the game without these kind of responses getting literally spammed, so it goes both ways buddy, let alone Vel's giant rants that tldr's to "ff gud wow bad" and the billion rants from the endless white knights "game has gud content lol just do achievements you didnt do them it's on u"

[Saraide]

You mean just like all of the white knights like Strike44, Vel amongst many others ?

Literally yes. He is 100% exactly that just on the other side.

[Jeeqbit]

Wow, a mostly reasonable post by OP for once.

I agree there has been experimental content this expansion, although there have been other expansions with a lot of experimental content (you could argue Diadem, Palace of the Dead, Aquapolos and squadrons were in Heavensward, or Eureka and Ultimate in Stormblood, or Ishgard Restoration, Ocean Fishing, Role Quests, Critical Engagements, Duels and Delubrum Reginae Savage were in Shadowbringers). Even ARR had it with hunts, maps, sightseeing logs, alliance raids, extremes, savage coils and relics which obviously stuck.

I don't spend much time engaging with Island Sanctuary, I agree, but I think it's not aimed at players like us on these forums. It's to provide an alternative for some people who want a home, but it won't satisfy everyone. Just to make sure someone actually does it though, mounts were thrown into for collectors. I found it useful to burn 200,000 cowries on crafter pentamelds as well because I never have a lot of gil.

As for Criterion dungeons, my item level is high enough to wreck the bosses in there but my thought process has been to possibly try farming it in 6.4 instead when we can sync ever so slightly higher than we can now and get capped crit substats to make it even easier. I'm probably not the only one with a plan like this considering the unsync culture in this game. I also don't feel rushed to do it because of the fact it syncs to the tier unlike other content where you are completely deprived of any fun after item levels increase.

The lack of an exploratory zone has been felt especially painfully, even moreso with these relics having no specific content geared towards them. The illusion of choice provided with them does little but to funnel players into Roulettes or Hunt Trains. This however is not satisfactory gameplay for those of us who would much rather spend time in the social and gameplay environment created by zones like Anemos and Bozja.

I agree.

All of these content issues are further exacerbated by the increased patch length cycle

This is the part I stop agreeing because it's going to take them however long it takes. Humans make these things and humans need rest and breaks and take time. But maybe they will all start using ChatGPT and become more productive because I think Yoshi-P mentioned they had been playing with it.

Endwalker did not do all that came before it justice given its abrupt termination of far too many storylines that different sectors of the playerbase were intrigued by.

Although I agree, other expansions and sidequests also did this and concluded most of the lore we had to left to speculate on.

• What happened to Louisoix? Resolved.
• Ala Mhigo? Resolved.
• State of Isle of Val? Resolved.
• What happened to Minfilia after meeting her again? Resolved.
• What is the backstory of the Warriors of Darkness? Resolved.
• Who is Elidibus? Resolved.
• Who are the Ascians/paragons? Resolved.
• What are Hydalyn and Zodiark? Resolved.
• Who were the Allagans and how did they start? Resolved.
• What are the Garleans and how did they come about? Resolved.
• When will we battle the garleans and free the Garlean terrirotries in Ilsabard? Resolved (never, we got transported to The First instead and then learned Emet created the Garlean Empire killing the entire plot point).
• Who are the Twelve? If you're reading the hints SE has dropped, it's resolved.
• What are the voidsent really? Resolved in the current patches.
• When will we jump in a black hole to the 13th and save that too? We got that covered these patches.

We have not had a lot of new things to speculate on for the next 10 years and what we have are remaining plot points from the start of the game, the New World and Meracydia. Once those are resolved there is a plot point starting with the crystal tower raids and built upon in Heavensward and Shadowbringers, where we have 13 shards and a source world and we could visit the other 11 shards.

But lore videos speculating on 11 mysterious shards are not quite as interesting as all the things in my list that were resolved.

The key things that I feel would rejuvenate FFXIV’s storytelling is fresh characters and a fresh location for 7.0 to take place in, something that invokes the same feeling as Ishgard in the distance that makes players go “wow! I want to go there!”

I agree, and Shadowbringers did this really well at first because you would see the Crystal tower and think "wow! I want to go there!" but then you went there immediately...