JP interviews [pre-6.5]

[poptarts12]

So I guess Dawntrail is just going to be another EW. Thanks for saving me $40 and a sub fee yoshi.

[Kaliesto]

I don't think its contempt from CBU3, but more like tone deaf to the problems around them.

Especially with FFXVI.

They need to learn from CBU1 because their games are going in the right direction, and especially in game difficulty.

[aveyond-dreams]

So I guess Dawntrail is just going to be another EW. Thanks for saving me $40 and a sub fee yoshi.

That isn't fair to say, at least Endwalker's base MSQ seemed to have some meat on it before the story decided it needed to take in generic anime elements like a 500 year old girl of despair and other things I never thought I'd have to tolerate in this game. Now DT is probably going to be as riveting as the beach episode from the FFXIV high school AU manga. Bonus points if they revive Zenos so he can join in on the adventure in the New World because at this point I do not believe anyone is capable of staying gone forever in this game.

[Aldath]

Bonus points if they revive Zenos so he can join in on the adventure in the New World because at this point I do not believe anyone is capable of staying gone forever in this game.

If they do that I swear I'm gonna skip every single cutscene for the rest of forever.

[RitsukoSonoda]

If they do that I swear I'm gonna skip every single cutscene for the rest of forever.

What if he came back as a Loporrit trying to beat you to death with a giant carrot?

[Jojoya]

What if he came back as a Loporrit trying to beat you to death with a giant carrot?

Will he be a housing furnishing dangling from a wall hook stuck through an ear?

[Noumenon]

So I guess Dawntrail is just going to be another EW. Thanks for saving me $40 and a sub fee yoshi.

I have the feeling they are actually going to try something new in Downtrail; but they would all end up like Island Sanctuary - i.e. disasters - and really put the nail in the coffin. Because at this point it's clear that the entire development philosophy is wrong.

[aveyond-dreams]

I have the feeling they are actually going to try something new in Downtrail; but they would all end up like Island Sanctuary - i.e. disasters - and really put the nail in the coffin. Because at this point it's clear that the entire development philosophy is wrong.

The fact that they really tried to pass off a spreadsheet island as "relaxing content" pretty much says it all.

[TaleraRistain]

Just because relics are not earned in raids doesn't mean they should require no effort to get. Why is it so bad to want relics to take some sort of grind like they did in every other expansion rather then get them handed to you with capped tomes every new patch. They should take some form of effort to earn rather than doing what we do on a daily basis of roulettes and hunt trains. We're not asking for ff11 or everquest grinds at least give us the pre-nerf arr or heavansward era relics grinds.

Never said it should? I prefer ARR and HW questlines. I was responding to the poster that mentioned EQ epic weapons that required high end raiding to complete and sometimes even just start the quests. As I mentioned, the long questline and grind with XIV relics is what balanced them against a raid-obtained weapon. So there's some imbalance now without that longer questline and some manner of grind.

Also, Nezerius, it was entirely possible to finish all the relics if you had the classes leveled even in HW. People would grind them all out. I was happy with my couple for my main classes but I had friends who did them all. Steps were still a decent amount of work even if you were just working on a single one.

[Nebelheim]

Never said it should? I prefer ARR and HW questlines. I was responding to the poster that mentioned EQ epic weapons that required high end raiding to complete and sometimes even just start the quests. As I mentioned, the long questline and grind with XIV relics is what balanced them against a raid-obtained weapon. So there's some imbalance now without that longer questline and some manner of grind.

Also, Nezerius, it was entirely possible to finish all the relics if you had the classes leveled even in HW. People would grind them all out. I was happy with my couple for my main classes but I had friends who did them all. Steps were still a decent amount of work even if you were just working on a single one.

I would enjoy having arr and hw type grinds back where the grind lasted for almost the entire patch.