FFXIV & FFXVI nominated for two categories at the 'Game of the Year Awards' each.

[Reap00]

Dont even bother, dude is basically like that other poster that spends their entire time telling us how great FFXIV is and how it has 0 flaws and is all perfect

You should try it. Spending your entire life focusing on the negative and being miserable as a result is no way to live.

[Stormpeaks]

You should try it. Spending your entire life focusing on the negative and being miserable as a result is no way to live.

That's called being in denial.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Nah, Re-read what I said and don't cherry pick. XIV is OVERLY consistenet. If you're a long time player we know when it's gonna happen, how it's gonna happen, why it's gonna happen, People have literally predicted the entire story of the last two expansions and been right because the writing is toooooooooooo consistent.

Not taking leaps to change or switch it up ain;t it chief.

Or just be blind and strawman.

You're also comparing it to one game in an industry FULL of other games. We get it, Blizzard Bad, but your salt at them doesn't equate to several other companies. LMFAO

Funny enough as someone whos playing WoW, their playerbase finds the endgame activities boring and consistent every patch, yet these open world activities are actually fun and engaging stuff to do for character progression weekly, coming off from a perspective of a FFXIV andy like myself.

So yeah I prefer if FFXIV copied current WoWs endgame

[LittleImp]

You should try it. Spending your entire life focusing on the negative and being miserable as a result is no way to live.

There is an immense amount of irony in this considering the fact that all you do on these forums is get upset and make posts riddled with insults.

[ACE135]

Content patches are overly consistent to, the mechanics within them are too consistent if you aren't doing ultimate content. Relics count in the content cycle as well, because they literally are never consistent, they flip flop around, neither is hildabrand, or if we're getting deep dungeons. we're also not getting Island sanctuaries again? Whens the last time housing has been consistent? OH! Let's not forget how they seemingly can't find an identity for BRD or Astro! XIV is consistent in places where it's becoming extremely stagnant, and Inconsistent in places it Should be consistent. AND THATS OK. But it's not deserving of that award as the game stands rn. They can do better because they HAVE done better.

Yoshi P is purposely vague, They actively refuse to go into detail about job changes for fear of people being upset? They literally do NOT tell us WHY they make changes half the time, they just make em and tell us to play it. They refuse to hotfix major issues and we have to waait several months with job balance in most cases. The list does go on.

What does a consistent patch cycle has to do with the consistency of the content provided with the patches?

[Sorimachi87]

Best of Luck to the nominees and to our home away from home. FFXIV!

[Darkobra]

People that disagree with you are a white knight? Ok then I am a white knight. Do I care what you think? Nope. Not a bit. Next!

You're not disagreeing. You're contradicting. A disagreement comes with at least some vision of facts from the same coin we're all looking at. It comes with examples. You're meant to convince people that they ARE doing something and you're not doing that across any of your posts.

Show me why you think what you think. You're repeating the same cliches over and over without any independent thought and not bringing forth discussion, but a wall that just says "No."

[Oizen]

I disagree with your assessment. The XIV devs go out of their way year after to year to support this community. If you are to blind to see it that is your problem.

Well I mean, these forums go completely unmoderated and I don't even think Square Enix looks at them anymore.
Cheating basically has to break into social media meme status for anything
Botting has been a problem in the game for longer than I can remember, and SE doesn't even seem to care or respond to reports in a way that stops it.
Most features introduced in Endwalker had a notoriously short shelf life, ignored community feedback, and just sort of let it to rot. Like Island Sanctuary was so hyped and talked about everywhere until it wasn't, EO fell off the map so fast, and I really like V&C, calling it wildly popular is stretching it.

So its not very transparent, they're not very responsive, that leaves them posting to social media and updating the game. Which yep they sure do.

Like yeah this game updates and gets social media posts but not more so than other games, and that isn't even something worth celebrating.

[Arzalis]

The devs have to do more than insist everything is impossible and actually listen to their community to get that award. People still acting like this is a few years ago. They've grown increasingly isolated and out of touch from their community. Heck, they went so far as to remove the community Q&A from fanfest this year.

So not this year, no.

[GTK0HLK]

TLDR, people gonna vote what they vote for.
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My view, BG3 is gonna Sweep most things as it should.
While other categories have many titles that don't belong.
(Like Cyberpunk, Both Played and Watched all of it. Including Edgerunners. Played it at launch as well. Certainly has gone far.
But for many, certain criteria don't match.)

Which is too say, it's too subjective in their limits.
But in the down low, the game has earned its nominations(begrudgingly based on the minority of us that consistently use the Forums)
[Personally, don't even hold anything against folks here. But many have been taking it to their cores, just like I've slowly been rubbing thorns with those I agree. and likely disagree with me only cause words hurt when they ain't being Scaled on all topics ]

The surge in small QoL has increased. But you could say how many "martyrs" do we need.(or is it a result of having to show strength, while dealing with their hobbled start, and prepare for the next 10 years when they were reduced in number for a certain amount of time. DURING THIS DAMN TRANSITION PERIOD.)

If XIV wins any/either/both, and the dev that partakes in the thanks speech/video doesn't express that they feel any small amount of embarrassment for accepting, then the reflection has gone full circle with the devs being part of our own lack of whelm.

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In the end, you can either vote or not. Regardless of what you all chose, it won't change that it's a vibe check of how they see themselves, if they have to show face when accepting. "If you had completed said work in said amount of time, would make you feel embarrassed to even accept pay."(paraphrased)

If anything all it does, is confirm the negative, or show us all which is currently the minority.

[Remember, just cause you all disagree/agree with one topic, don't mean it's all. It's why those who speak strongly when it's not needed even stay around. Cause they ain't wrong on the few things they care about. But you also got to make sure you ain't over pressurized.]