Keep your expectations low and you'll never be disappointed

[Stormpeaks]

As as pointed out in the liveletter, the glam, dresser and the armoire were created at DIFFERENT TIMES, you have no idea how hard it is to go back and refactor someone elses code.



If you were a possible new player, id be happy to...but that and your demand that others



are two separate things entirely.



..as opposed to WOWs system where you can grind and grind for fifteen years and never see the mount drop? Mount called the Love Rocket with a 0.00005% drop rate, players have been after that for a decade and never seen it.

ill take the token option, thanks.

Im having fun. Sorry you arent.

oh boi here we go again

"wow bad ffxiv gud"

cringe

[VelKallor]

"wow bad ffxiv gud" cringe

It seems to me that pointing out the disparity in game design , especially in this area, is quite relevant. One ties you to eternal RNG, where said item may never appear, as opposed to a token system that provides a path to an achievable goal.

When there is discernable design flaw that could be corrected to be in line with modern gaming paradigms..makes sense to note that fact.

Yes 99 runs is a lot..but at the end the mount can be obtained. In other games, effort does not equal reward.

Hardly news.

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

oh boi here we go again

"wow bad ffxiv gud"

cringe

also the fact the other points I made they have no comments on at all. Another system that is bad is the friend list you can get rid of someone but you remain on theirs and can stalk you but guess what the devs won't fix that and refuse to fix that issue basically saying " you deal with it" Players like Velkarr are living on hopes and dreams and not reality and remain ignorant to all the issues at hand. Must be nice when players like them have lower standards and enjoy dumbed down systems

[Gemina]

The devs can take a page from Diablo 4 and make Ninja like their Rogue. Using poison skills, shadow skills not some Naruto wannabe. Now you say you love the content but people who have been white knighting and defending it have not given any defense on why the content is great. No one names one reason how the current content has been great at all despite people pointing out the flaws time and time again yet falls on deaf ears

I like Naruto, and rank Madara among the top five villains of all time in any format and genre. You know who else likes Naruto? Literally effin everyone. It has a much bigger fanbase than Diablo, that is for damn sure.

And what reason do the defenders need to give other than they enjoy their time online? That consumes a lot less energy than working a real job and using that money to pay a subscription for a game you can list off things for days you hate about it. Besides, when we mention what we do enjoy, all you do is say something condescending to take a dump on it.

Here, I will give you an example:
I enjoy healing in this game because the simple offensive kit allows me to focus more on keeping everyone alive while doing the game's mechanics.

Go ahead.... Go ahead and tell me now that I enjoy boring, mediocre gameplay where I get to just smash one button and whatever other hyperbolic nonsense that doesn't even come close to what I experience in the game. Go on. Tell me. Tell me all about the great days of Stormblood. Swim in your nostalgia while continuing to perplex my mind on why exactly you are still subbed to the game.

You see, it's one thing to have constructive criticism towards the game's flaws, which no game is without. It's another to have so much vitriol that you can't mention anything you enjoy outside of owning a virtual house or a glorified chatroom. But it is something else entirely when you spew hatred towards those who do enjoy the game all because they don't sit in a cesspool with you and your kin, in an absolutely hateful, negative, and toxic atmosphere devoid of any color.

[LaylaTsarra]

Another system that is bad is the friend list you can get rid of someone but you remain on theirs

They are working on changing that sorry I don't have a link to it. Wondering if that will only apply to new deletions or if it can be retroactive.

[Striker44]

So if I was a possible player on the fence of possibly getting FFXIV no one gives any reason on why FFXIV is a great MMO.

People do. They do all the time. The story. The music. The gameplay. The ability to keep up with doing pretty much any content you want without having to feel like the game is your second job. The veritable mountain of content of all varieties (Sightseeing, Ultimates, Deep Dungeons, Mount/Minion collecting, etc.).

You just don't accept those answers because for whatever reason, you personally don't like them. Which is partly okay - you're allowed to not like things. The part that's not okay is that you seem unable to accept that other people are allowed to like them.

Take something like this:

The jobs of FFXIV have no identity, no skill and are just cookie cutter jobs.

It's an opinion, nothing more. My opinion is very different. I find the jobs sufficiently distinct and definitely engaging. If they had no distinct identities and were just cookie cutter replicas, then I wouldn't enjoy playing SCH and WHM while avoiding AST and SGE. Why do I do that? Because each of those jobs does in fact play differently, and I personally like how some of them work compared to others. Same with why I prefer ranged DPS over melee DPS, and then even within that group always level RDM first now. It has its own style that I enjoy. All of that, of course, is just my own opinion.

But it seems like there are certain folks on this forum that just can't stand the reality of other people enjoying the game, and it seems genuinely unhealthy that they seem to stick around and continue actively torturing themselves and playing just to spend hours on a forum bashing everything and personally attacking anyone who disagrees.

[VelKallor]

But it seems like there are certain folks on this forum that just can't stand the reality of other people enjoying the game, and it seems genuinely unhealthy that they seem to stick around and continue actively torturing themselves and playing just to spend hours on a forum bashing everything and personally attacking anyone who disagrees.

Yup.

To quote an old seagull i once knew: :"They delight in clipping the wings of others, because they themselves cannot fly"

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I like Naruto, and rank Madara among the top five villains of all time in any format and genre. You know who else likes Naruto? Literally effin everyone. It has a much bigger fanbase than Diablo, that is for damn sure.

And what reason do the defenders need to give other than they enjoy their time online? That consumes a lot less energy than working a real job and using that money to pay a subscription for a game you can list off things for days you hate about it. Besides, when we mention what we do enjoy, all you do is say something condescending to take a dump on it.

Here, I will give you an example:
I enjoy healing in this game because the simple offensive kit allows me to focus more on keeping everyone alive while doing the game's mechanics.

Go ahead.... Go ahead and tell me now that I enjoy boring, mediocre gameplay where I get to just smash one button and whatever other hyperbolic nonsense that doesn't even come close to what I experience in the game. Go on. Tell me. Tell me all about the great days of Stormblood. Swim in your nostalgia while continuing to perplex my mind on why exactly you are still subbed to the game.

You see, it's one thing to have constructive criticism towards the game's flaws, which no game is without. It's another to have so much vitriol that you can't mention anything you enjoy outside of owning a virtual house or a glorified chatroom. But it is something else entirely when you spew hatred towards those who do enjoy the game all because they don't sit in a cesspool with you and your kin, in an absolutely hateful, negative, and toxic atmosphere devoid of any color.

Im going to be Cringe real quick and not apologize for it by saying...SLAY QUEEN

[EliaStormblade]

"a large scale overhaul"

lmao

you mean what modders have been doing for years ?

just like viera and hrothgar hats that have been a thing for years as well thanks to modders ? But apparently the devs are incapable of doing it ?

The fact you have such high expectations for the "large scale graphical overhaul" is absolute comedy, and I cannot wait for it to actually be released so you can see how underwhelming it will be.

Character mesh vert increases, texture uprezzing, PBR material rendering, opacity map resolution improvements that affects all single-sided cutout assets, like hair planes and foliage, lighting improvements, fog updates, increased world/zone clutter, shadow resolution upgrades.

Nah, seems pretty large scale to me.

[RyuDragnier]

Im going to be Cringe real quick and not apologize for it by saying...SLAY QUEEN

SLAY. SLAY! SLAY THY ENEMIES OH RULER OF MORTAL REALMS OF MEN, SMITE DOWN THOSE WHO OPPOSE YOU! /meme