This live letter was a massive disappointment

[EliaStormblade]

it would be nice... if you were grouping with friends to be able to MSQ with them. kind of an irritation to be doing story with them and then.. "solo quest". its disappointing, but not going to burn down the house over it as yet. besides, as you pointed out, a lot of mmos are going this direction

Big agree. Would be nice if they

-Allowed people to stay in groups while doing solo duties
-Allowed people to level sync down with NG+ to play with friends
-Allowed people to do NG+ for leveling. It would probably not be a popular leveling path, but having more options is always good and it would hurt nobody.

[ZephyrMenodora]

it would be nice... if you were grouping with friends to be able to MSQ with them. kind of an irritation to be doing story with them and then.. "solo quest". its disappointing, but not going to burn down the house over it as yet. besides, as you pointed out, a lot of mmos are going this direction

That would be nice - I might even finally make an alt to re-do the MSQ if we could do this.

[caffe_macchiato]

A ton of people are extremely excited about 6.4 from all the various places online. Everyone gets free housing, all our favorite characters return (Golbez, Zero), and we get a ton of new gameplay with the Variant dungeon. But most importantly…look at the OP. Yep, it’s him again. You know what he thinks, so you know what you need to think in response (the opposite).

I mean, come on. This is Final Fantasy XIV. Everything’s good, everything’s fine, we’re all enjoying it, and all the other MMOs are a waste of time because FFXIV is still the best. I play 20 hours a day and still have a ton to do, etc. Better than Shadowlands and so forth.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have other games to play while going AFK.

[EliaStormblade]

A ton of people are extremely excited about 6.4 from all the various places online. Everyone gets free housing, all our favorite characters return (Golbez, Zero), and we get a ton of new gameplay with the Variant dungeon. But most importantly…look at the OP. Yep, it’s him again. You know what he thinks, so you know what you need to think in response (the opposite).

I mean, come on. This is Final Fantasy XIV. Everything’s good, everything’s fine, we’re all enjoying it, and all the other MMOs are a waste of time because FFXIV is still the best. I play 20 hours a day and still have a ton to do, etc. Better than Shadowlands and so forth.

This but unironically.

[Atelier-Bagur]

As a famous bald man once (every few couple of minutes on stream) said "Its is what it is". And thats how I feel about this patch. Its nothing groundbreaking, nothing offensive, just stuff weve already expected based on previous information we already knew.

So Im satisfied, I just feel sorry for the people who foolishly thought that somehow this was gonna answer all of their wishes.

[Remish]

I'm honestly not to happy with the possibility that top 100 rewards might be coming back for PVP especially with all the cheaters running rampant and the horrible balance that is Crystal Conflict to begin with.

[Nizzi]

As a famous bald man once (every few couple of minutes on stream) said "Its is what it is". And thats how I feel about this patch. Its nothing groundbreaking, nothing offensive, just stuff weve already expected based on previous information we already knew.

So Im satisfied, I just feel sorry for the people who foolishly thought that somehow this was gonna answer all of their wishes.

I'm pleasantly happy that they've addressed two of my big non job design related issues, mitigation/buff range and savage gearing. Obviously there isn't going to be extensive job design changes until the next expac but it's nice to see that they've taken issues with the current system in mind too. The 4th floor books being exchangeable too is an amazing change, so overall I think I'm satisfied as well for what we got.

[Payotz]

I would suggest just looking into other games if the current state of the game doesn't agree with you.

I've posted a lot of feedback in the forums over the years, and admittedly, sure, they weren't all that well presented, nor was I consistently level-headed in my approach, but they're very critical of the direction of the game, and the devs just didn't really care for it.

I think Square is just really dead set into making FFXIV into whatever their own vision is, and they'd rather replace the core players who fell in love with the old iterations with new ones. And that's fine I guess. It's their game. They can do whatever they want with it.

ARPGs like Path of Exile are popping off if you're really into buildcrafting. I heard Guild Wars 2 is doing pretty well with the raids. WoW is slowly getting there again (even though it's still pretty awful, but hey baby steps.) Destiny is a decent break (even tho it's also slowly going down the same path that Square is going, but hey at least there's more complexity and depth in that game).

The only real niche that FF14 has right now is that it's probably one of the best social MMOs out on the market. So really, if you're disappointed with the PvP or PvE, I wouldn't really waste my energy trying to convince anyone ( especially Naoki Yoshida ) that what the dev team is doing is a very bad idea. It will never pay off.

Let's just hope that the Riot MMO is good. Can't wait to be a Noxian Warrior with a massive two-hander, cleaving everything in two.

[Elkanah]

Let's just hope that the Riot MMO is good. Can't wait to be a Noxian Warrior with a massive two-hander, cleaving everything in two.

This is what I'm hoping for too.

[Hurlstone]

I thought it was fine. Would have liked them to talk about some changes to variant dungeon rewards, but overall it was what I expected. Just like every other LL more or less.

What did people expect? Yoshi-P to break down crying and personally remove all the things you do not like? There are things I want them to change and adress sure but not every criticism you have will be adressed in LL's and not eveyone agrees they even need to be. Besides, its a mid-late expansion patch. Any ‘big’ changes are likely to come in 7.0.