Letter From the Producer Live Part LXXIX - 24 September 2023 - Summary and Discussion

[Renathras]

It's disappointing but not surprising that they chose to 'censor' Thaliak...

Not arguing against you, just an amusing thought: So THIS is what people mean by "thirsty". (Since he's pouring that magic water, I mean. And...I mean that literally, not in innuendo. I legit have no reason why "thirsty" is a term other than either some innuendo or some metaphorical sense...)

Males get all kinds of body types, women are all models (or lalafells).

Honestly, both sides get it bad. It's not just FFXIV, pop culture in general.

Women are...
Either little girls, models with a perfect hourglass of all heights from 4 foot to 8 foot tall, or "step on me please" mommies.
(Lala, everyone else)

Men are...
Either little boys shorter than 4 foot, or (all taller than 6 foot) shreded athletes, underwear models with body fat measured in negative numbers, hyper-masculine powerlifting gods, hyper-masculine powerlifting gods with a bit of dad bod pooch, or hyper-masculine powerlifting gods with negative number body fat.
Lala, Miq/Hyur, Elezen/Viera, Roe, Hroth, Au Ra

At least females have the Au Ra female to bridge the gap a bit. With men, we get little boy blue or never leaves the gym + taller than Goliath as our two options. I was kinda hoping the Viera boys would be like the Au Ra females to stand in the gap between Lala and Miq, but no such luck, instead we get Miq boys with bunny ears who relaxed the angry hands.

I remember in WoW people complaining the Blood Elf males were too effeminate, then I saw them and was like "Guys, they're more buff than most of the playerbase, what are you talking about?"

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Both genders have unrealistic standards these days, not just [st]men[/st] women. And while that's great for the people who want power fantasies, it sucks for people that want to have an avatar more reflecting their irl selves. I've just come to terms with the fact I have to choose dwarf or giant, and being irl short, I go with the former.

Nophica Mc Bonkers

XD

EDIT2:

Im jealous nobody's called me cute in the official forums before

It's because you're cute!!

[OgruMogru]

Viera boys had the awful posture for a little while then they took that from me too ;_;

[ronibosch]

Im jealous nobody's called me cute in the official forums before

I mean, I think you're cute (I love moon cats!), but I didn't wanna make things weird.

[CNitsah]

Which Mount do you think will be a mogstation mount? pampa feels to dull for mogstation, so it will probably be the motorcycle or the fairy. UFO will obviously be Hildibrandt.

[Limecat]

Maybe Thaliak will do a clothes-bursting flex thing at the start of the second half of the fight.

Which Mount do you think will be a mogstation mount?

My guess is it'll be a rug-pull and the UFO is in the cash shop. Though, failing that, the lunatender seems likely.

[Wyssahtyn]

so what did the director say about the yakisoba incident

[Lauront]

I remember in WoW people complaining the Blood Elf males were too effeminate, then I saw them and was like "Guys, they're more buff than most of the playerbase, what are you talking about?"

On that, agreed. Always found that really odd, they're already buff compared to the usual wiry elf (partly what I like about them) and no doubt the vast majority of an MMO's playerbase. You'd need to be in good shape to get and maintain a build like that. I preferred their V shaped build compared to some of the overly blocky options in the game and the reworked models removed most of the weird animation issues I had with them.

[Turtledeluxe]

I'm whelmed. It's not the devs aren't doing anything, I just don't think this patch does anything special. Content here will be irrelevant in a week or two. We have a long road to 7.0 and I have a sneaking suspicion DawnTrail msq is going to be a snoozefest of ARR proportions. If you're not enjoying Zero just you wait..

[SannaR]

so what did the director say about the yakisoba incident

I guess there was a Yakasoba stall at the last fireworks show that only sold the noodles at steep prices that people complained about on Twitter. I.E people expected some kind of veggies and meat choices to go with the noodles.

[TaleraRistain]

Yeah, I was definitely hoping that Criterion would be more mid-level difficulty - harder than the Variant battles and testing your knowledge from that, but not turning into an entirely different fight.

It definitely is a case where they should have explained Criterion was Savage level and not a step up from Variant when they introduced it. The general feeling because that wasn't explained was that this might be the mid-core content that was being asked for. I think they need to dial Criterion back so it can function as a stepping stone.

I guess I was the only one excited at hearing Theme of the Red Wings in the trailer... (happy FFIV fangirl noises.)

Nope, I was bouncing in my seat, too.