This live letter was a massive disappointment

[VelKallor]

, I only wish I had spoken up more when we lost more and more dungeons and now we've seen beast tribes pushed to the .5 patch when they previously launched at the .0 one.

Okay

You didn't speak up at all. Those changes started in 2015. You didn't join the forums until 6 years later lol.

Burn cream, STAT.

[Archeron]

The thing that irks me about the live letter his that we get told to literally go play other games. I'm sorry, but we pay a sub fee, and you send your developers to go work on other projects, instead of the MMO we pay a sub fee for and expect us to be happy that you've given us a mediocre patch, so that we can "Go play duh zelda, or FFXVI". If this were any other director people would be furious.

[RyuDragnier]

IMo it doesn't really fix anything though. Static groups will still want 8 clears so everyone in the group can get one chest coffer and one weapon coffer, but then that now leaves us with 2 extra books to do nothing with.

So the choices are:

1) Do 8 clears so everyone gets one chest coffer, one weapon coffer and enough books to get whatever they want with BUT then have 2 leftover books for nothing.

2) Do just 6 clears, but then two people are left out.

Take a 3rd Option, clear it another 4 times so everybody has the achievement and there are no more books in your inventory.

The thing that irks me about the live letter his that we get told to literally go play other games. I'm sorry, but we pay a sub fee, and you send your developers to go work on other projects, instead of the MMO we pay a sub fee for and expect us to be happy that you've given us a mediocre patch, so that we can "Go play duh zelda, or FFXVI". If this were any other director people would be furious.

The guy literally says "It's okay to take a break and go play other games, all the stuff will be here when you get back," and you people get outraged because he's telling us that you don't have to live in the game. It's hilarious tbh, absolutely hilarious.

[Archeron]

The guy literally says "It's okay to take a break and go play other games, all the stuff will be here when you get back," and you people get outraged because he's telling us that you don't have to live in the game. It's hilarious tbh, absolutely hilarious.

I'm not trying to live in the game, I think its a hack of an excuse to tell people to play other games, since they can't seem to add anything of value in their mid expansion patches - and anyone who doesn't accept that is really huffing on Square copium

[Renalt]

Burn cream, STAT.

Speaking of cream and burning...I've a story.

So about...18 years ago? Give or take 2 years...My ex and I got into a bad rear end accident. It kinda screwed up her back that standing for long periods would make her back hurt. To help her with the issue I would massage Cortizone cream on her back if she had a bad day or if just needed it.

Well one time after I apparently did not wash my hands enough because after I went to the bathroom...things got...uncomfortable. Then it got hot. Then it was like I was on fire.

Fun times.

[Kisshu]

The guy literally says "It's okay to take a break and go play other games, all the stuff will be here when you get back," and you people get outraged because he's telling us that you don't have to live in the game. It's hilarious tbh, absolutely hilarious.

I feel like it would be ok to say, if the game didn't have so many time limits. Don't log in for a long time, your house is gone, can't catch up on tomes as they're weekly locked, same with raid gear, and not to forget the FOMO battle-pass in PVP.

[Rolder50]

The guy literally says "It's okay to take a break and go play other games, all the stuff will be here when you get back," and you people get outraged because he's telling us that you don't have to live in the game. It's hilarious tbh, absolutely hilarious.

Shouldn't charge a subscription fee for the game, then. Simple as that.

[Archeron]

How dare we expect that our major patches have more than 2 hours worth of content. Just who do we think we are?!

[aveyond-dreams]

You are missing some MASSIVE additions in 5.4:

Save the Queen: Blades of Gunnhildr: Third chapter
Resistance Weapons upgrades
Adventuring Forays: Delubrum Reginae

In other words, the content that actually kept me subbed that patch. I was initially upset that we were getting just DR instead of a new zone but the rewards and the different ways you could approach the raid with Lost Actions made it a fun grind for my Law's Order sets.

Meanwhile in Endwalker there exists no such equivalent when it comes to those armor sets, nor for the Bozjan ones.

I guess I was supposed to do Island Sanctuary for the 365th beach glam they've produced instead?

I'm not trying to live in the game, I think its a hack of an excuse to tell people to play other games, since they can't seem to add anything of value in their mid expansion patches - and anyone who doesn't accept that is really huffing on Square copium

Endwalker should have simply been named "Play Other Games" the expansion. We've been hearing this since the start of the content lull becoming an obvious issue, mostly from people who are either so new that they don't see the issue themselves (yet) or from individuals whose definition of playing the game means idling in Limsa or a venue.

But hey if even the people in charge are more captivated by other games like TOTK, how can I blame them? It certainly has more going for it than XIV does these days. So if that's the kind of energy being put out into the world, all one can do at this point is follow it to its logical conclusion. The passion is gone from here and moved on elsewhere.

I only hope that XVI made good use of all the attention that FFXIV was clearly deprived of.

[Sheriyana]

I guess I was supposed to do Island Sanctuary for the 365th beach glam they've produced instead?

Island Sanctuary takes like 5 minutes a day if I'm being generous too, there's no reason to farm for excess mats so you can't really do it for much longer and you can easily rank up by just doing the workshop.