Zepla: Most Wanted Changes in FFXIV

[Recon1o6]

tldr for those who cba to watch

Zepla mentions the following issues in no particular order

1. Netcode
2. Glamour dresser
3. Gearing taking forever
4. Menus/inventory system
5. Difficulty of installing/setting up your account
6. Level sync removing actions

while she's not wrong about these issues, she's completely missed the most important ones: jobs being crap and unrewarding to play (especially healers) and lack of repeatable content and midcore content
A game literally cant function without a good gameplay loop and the poor content and poorer jobs are whats causing this game's decline

[Saraide]

tldr for those who cba to watch

Zepla mentions the following issues in no particular order

1. Netcode
2. Glamour dresser
3. Gearing taking forever
4. Menus/inventory system
5. Difficulty of installing/setting up your account
6. Level sync removing actions

while she's not wrong about these issues, she's completely missed the most important ones: jobs being crap and unrewarding to play (especially healers) and lack of repeatable content and midcore content
A game literally cant function without a good gameplay loop and the poor content and poorer jobs are whats causing this game's decline

Wait she didnt mention wanting another bozja? I feel like that was a very big point in the big video about why endwalker is her least liked expansion.

[ChrysOCE]

Wait she didnt mention wanting another bozja? I feel like that was a very big point in the big video about why endwalker is her least liked expansion.

Feel like the video was more aimed at technical/functional fixes, rather than content fixes. Haven't see her post the "casual" issues that she said she was going to do.

And yea, it's telling that she has to open the video with that kind of disclaimer. But then, look at her other video and the amount of responses to that thread that focused on how she said things, as opposed to the actual ideas.

[Saraide]

Feel like the video was more aimed at technical/functional fixes, rather than content fixes. Haven't see her post the "casual" issues that she said she was going to do.

And yea, it's telling that she has to open the video with that kind of disclaimer. But then, look at her other video and the amount of responses to that thread that focused on how she said things, as opposed to the actual ideas.

She could easily cut that disclaimer, it's futile anyway.

[ChrysOCE]

She could easily cut that disclaimer, it's futile anyway.

100% agree. Whenever I see that stuff on youtube, it makes my eyes roll. Like, well of course it's your opinion. You don't need to apologise for it. But that seems to be the world we are in, where you dare not offend anyone and have to remind people ad nauseum that it's just your opinion and everyone else may feel differently.

[CNitsah]

Feel like the video was more aimed at technical/functional fixes, rather than content fixes. Haven't see her post the "casual" issues that she said she was going to do.

She kinda did. In the podcast "State of Realm #350" where she appeared, she explained than while creating this video, she realised the didn't know shit about how casual played, while she thought she was kinda casual in the way she engaged with the game (It still baffles me she thought she was casual in some way). Her "casual" video was the midcore video she realeased about a week after the first one, and that had a lot less meat to it than the previous one (she does not state that clearly, but it feels pretty obvious). As a lot of hardocre players, it seems she mixed "not engaging in harder content or content that need scheldule" and being casual.

[MisterNublet]

while she's not wrong about these issues, she's completely missed the most important ones: jobs being crap and unrewarding to play (especially healers) and lack of repeatable content and midcore content
A game literally cant function without a good gameplay loop and the poor content and poorer jobs are whats causing this game's decline

This is the biggest thing which I have no hope in them correcting with DawnTrail.

[Asari5]

This is the biggest thing which I have no hope in them correcting with DawnTrail.

its a pitty you cant play the game without playing any job at the same time. makes me always wonder how much the players actually like the jobs or if they only playing them because there are no better options

[Ivtrix]

This is the biggest thing which I have no hope in them correcting with DawnTrail.

Im really tired of the "I just want to log on after a bad day at work and have fun" crowd getting their way.

[Shurrikhan]

Im really tired of the "I just want to log on after a bad day at work and have fun" crowd getting their way.

I'm all for them getting their way, too, so long as by having said after-stressful-workday content... they don't really just mean not wanting anything to be available beyond that. Just as I'm all for having more involved tasks that can keep people together for a good 90 minutes straight of engagement... so long as that ask isn't simultaneously a desire to remove all else.

Outside of the rare "I only want to heal/Malefic spam" or "I don't want to feel remotely enticed to raid" comments, though, neither of those is the case.