Instead of censoring criticism of the Live Letter maybe actually build a good game

[Red-thunder]

They even did it on NA Friday night which tells you everything you need to know about their priorities.

Where is the improved encounter design you promised? Why are you nerfing normal raids already before they even went live?

Why is the post-patch MSQ just an uninspired nostalgia bait from FF9? FF14 is really going to repeat 6.1-6.5 lmao.

Why is Cosmic Exploration just reused assets from the Moon?

Not mentioned: whether phantom jobs will be anything more than lost actions 2.0 aka logograms 3.0.

Not mentioned: whether Shades Triangle will be the same pointless FATE bumrushing

Not mentioned: improved encounter design

Not mentioned: whether Cosmic Exploration will just be Ishgardian Restoration 2.0

Not mentioned: new variant/criterion dungeons

Not mentioned: anything new that hasn't already been part of the 12-year long formula

[Jeeqbit]

I think that it was pretty clear that:

• Phantom Jobs are instead of Lost Actions and will likely have overlapping features or comparisons that can be drawn.
• Shades' Triangle is mostly using the Bozja format of FATEs and CEs and a CE raid at the end.
• Cosmic Exploration is Ishgard Restoration 2.0. They pretty much presented the same stuff feautre for feature if you analyze it enough.

Obviously they aren't going to word it the way you did.

I think there are plenty of new assets in Cosmic Exploration. In any case they will likely have to make a lot of newer ones for the other patches due to them being other planets.

[Basteala]

It's funny how when a lot of the content in a patch is finally directed towards the casual audience that the raid community wants to cry about it.

[AvoSturmfaust]

It's funny how when a lot of the content in a patch is finally directed towards the casual audience that the raid community wants to cry about it.

Bullshit, where show me exactly where raider are crying about it? im a raider and let me tell you i will love the new content, good im not a fan of bozja 2.0 BECAUSE i liked eureka more and hoped it would more go in this direction, but i will still love and enjoy everything.

[Sneakyotter]

Why is Cosmic Exploration just reused assets from the Moon?

Not mentioned: whether Cosmic Exploration will just be Ishgardian Restoration 2.0

Isn't it make sense to set up a main base before we set out to explore the unknown? and in case you miss it there's a text at the top of the stream saying they will be talking about it more in live letter part 2.

Also anyone mind explaining what "nerfing normal raid before it went live" mean?

[Aniya_Estlihn]

Part one live letters, historically, only reveal the "new" things coming in the patch.
They do not announce quality of life features, they do not detail gameplay changes, part one live letters exist solely to reveal the patch.

I know you know this, you've been playing this game for literal years.

[Wyssahtyn]

only xiv players will trot out an appeal to tradition excuse for the corpos at every opportunity

[TaleraRistain]

Also anyone mind explaining what "nerfing normal raid before it went live" mean?

They said the new trial had mechanics that were too hard in the normal version so they removed some. That was the trial, not the raid series. They didn't say anything about removing mechanics from the raid series.

And this isn't nerfing something before it went live. It's them testing their content and adjusting it to the difficulty they were going for.

[Rithy255]

They said the new trial had mechanics that were too hard in the normal version so they removed some. That was the trial, not the raid series. They didn't say anything about removing mechanics from the raid series.

And this isn't nerfing something before it went live. It's them testing their content and adjusting it to the difficulty they were going for.

Which to me is a good thing (sometimes we will have to see), I think normal raids should be slightly more difficult then the first tier but at the end of the day we want Normal raids and dungeons engaging & fun, more then outright difficult where it's going to be hard for most people to clear. I do worry a little bit that they may have gone too far, but we can't really judge it until we see it.

I don't want to praise DT for much right now, because theirs not a lot right now, but I feel as if the normal/dungeon content have at least had good and engaging boss fights.

[Valence]

Part one live letters, historically, only reveal the "new" things coming in the patch.
They do not announce quality of life features, they do not detail gameplay changes, part one live letters exist solely to reveal the patch.

I know you know this, you've been playing this game for literal years.

Yes and I honestly don't care at this point. Those empty liveletters are a whole lot of hot air beyond a few pieces of info like the Phantom jobs or "we try to take the good parts of both eureka and bozja". If they have nothing concrete to give us because it has to be in part 2, then they could instead tackle all the community issues and actually talk to us about their plans, their vision, what they aim to improve or address, instead of flooding us with commercial screenshots.