No, we do have enough content

[KillaKilala]

Also this is just absolutely rich when multiple people have explained exactly how and why the BLM changes reduce their fun.

You dismissed their legitimate concern about BLM, so how would you like for people to dismiss your concern about undercutting bots?

*ahem*

Are you sure they're bots???? uwu They could be real humans who simply play the game a LOT!! XD

Also why is it a bad thing for there to be crafting bots?? :3c I can buy my crafted gear for only 30k gil!!

And please shush about the crafting bots how is that even an issue o.O this game isn't a game about crafting it's just side content oh em geeee~~!

Besides, they post about the weekly bans on the Lodestone!!! owo That means you're just exaggerating the issue!! The bots get banned every week so it's not actually a real problem!!

Also, please shush about this problem because the only way they can solve it by putting anticheat in the game and it's illegal to put anticheat in JAPAN!! So you're asking for Square to break the law huh?? Just deal with the crafting bots, it's not a big deal oh em geeee~~! It's far better than having anticheat in the game uwu

uwu owo :3c <3 <3

Sorry I didn’t read their yapping much. It would be great if you could provide a link to that explanation or the answers to my questions instead of trying to argue with me.

And yes I’m sure they’re bots. I saw them crafting. I saw them gathering. You don’t even need the anti-cheat to notice they’re cheating. Not to mention that when plogoons are down the prices of for instance pots go from 1400 to 6000. Why is that a problem? Because I want to make the gil from crafting and I can’t. I want the devs to rework crafting in a way that it will be almost impossible to bot it or otherwise ban these cheaters, so that we can have a healthy economy. I feel so sorry for the honest crafters that play on consoles. And I don’t believe these lodestone post, to me these are just random numbers, or maybe it’s the number o banned gil selling spammers.

[User202503201232]

Sorry I didn’t read their yapping much. It would be great if you could provide a link to that explanation or the answers to my questions instead of trying to argue with me.

And yes I’m sure they’re bots. I saw them crafting. I saw them gathering. You don’t even need the anti-cheat to notice they’re cheating. Not to mention that when plogoons are down the prices of for instance pots go from 1400 to 6000. Why is that a problem? Because I want to make the gil from crafting and I can’t. I want the devs to rework crafting in a way that it will be almost impossible to bot it or otherwise ban these cheaters, so that we can have a healthy economy. I feel so sorry for the honest crafters that play on consoles. And I don’t believe these lodestone post, to me these are just random numbers, or maybe it’s the number o banned gil selling spammers.

I think my point is completely lost on you.

It's not even about black mage or crafter bots. It's about the, hopefully, innate human capacity for perspective-taking. I hope you actually seriously reflect on how your legitimate grievances with crafting are the same as those grievances made by BLM players.

[Exmo]

Even some visual novels try to involve some kind of engagement with the player--player choice and multiple endings being some of the more common. This is still "gameplay" insomuch that it provides opportunity for the player to be an active participant--something that is ultimately missing in FF14's story atm.

"Some" does a lot of work there. Loads of visual novels don't have multiple endings or branching stories, yet are enjoyable and engaging regardless. A player is an active participant not because of these bells and whistles, but by virtue of being an audience through which the medium comes to life.

[Exmo]

Sorry I didn’t read their yapping much. It would be great if you could provide a link to that explanation or the answers to my questions instead of trying to argue with me.

You're talking to a troll account that's a vessel for those bots. You'd be better off trying to convince a dog to stop barking.

[yesnt]

"Some" does a lot of work there. Loads of visual novels don't have multiple endings or branching stories, yet are enjoyable and engaging regardless. A player is an active participant not because of these bells and whistles, but by virtue of being an audience through which the medium comes to life.

Personally, I don't care and it doesn't matter for the point of this thread. MSQ is the selling point of the expansion. It is -bare minimum- to provide MSQ content. It's not a fancy gimmick. Acting like SE is generous for handing us MSQ is just ridiculous. As we mostly only sit and watch MSQ unfolding ONCE, I can not see this as gaming content either. Plus the MSQ is not the best in this expansion which made many players skip on purpose, which is a shame and entirely on the devs.

[KillaKilala]

Now imagine what happens if the players will follow this advice.


Cheers

I guess it’s not a big deal since Yoshi-P himself said the same thing. It’s not like every single player is going to unsub. I seriously don’t understand why should you stay subbed if you don’t play the game.

Does the box price of the expansion not count here? You are paying 40 dollars upfront just to access the new quests, raids, etc. on top of the monthly subscription.

I would much rather purchase elden ring knowing I am getting a well crafted 60 hour experience than to purchase a 40 dollar expansion and pay 15 dollars for a one month subscription each month for what you say is 27.5 hours of content each month, especially when most of the content in the game right now is a reskin of something we have had before.

Its extremely hard to be constructive when the devs don't listen or communicate with players well at all.

Maybe I’ll do more calculations later, please look forward to it.

I think my point is completely lost on you.

It's not even about black mage or crafter bots. It's about the, hopefully, innate human capacity for perspective-taking. I hope you actually seriously reflect on how your legitimate grievances with crafting are the same as those grievances made by BLM players.

Ah yes, your uwus made it feel like you’re the one who’s cheating and don’t want your tools to be taken. I would sympathise to them more if they played the new blm first. But then again some people act like playing sam with kaiten was as hard as juggling 100 knives blindfolded, and how sam without kaiten is not a sam anymore but whm or archer.

[yesnt]

Ah yes, your uwus made it feel like you’re the one who’s cheating and don’t want your tools to be taken. I would sympathise to them more if they played the new blm first. But then again some people act like playing sam with kaiten was as hard as juggling 100 knives blindfolded, and how sam without kaiten is not a sam anymore but whm or archer.

They ruined Astro, I can 100% understand why BLM players are upset. But I mean. You are a Gladiator main, maybe you should try using a job stone at all.

[User202503201232]

Ah yes, your uwus made it feel like you’re the one who’s cheating and don’t want your tools to be taken. I would sympathise to them more if they played the new blm first. But then again some people act like playing sam with kaiten was as hard as juggling 100 knives blindfolded, and how sam without kaiten is not a sam anymore but whm or archer.

lol this is the median ff14 player folks

Ever wonder why nothing gets fixed?

They ruined Astro, I can 100% understand why BLM players are upset. But I mean. You are a Gladiator main, maybe you should try using a job stone at all.

It's actually hilarious how white knights pretend to be nice and reasonable, when their actions and words show a deep abyss in the human dimension known as "empathy".

At least this round of white knights isn't as bad as VelKallor lmao

[Exmo]

Personally, I don't care and it doesn't matter for the point of this thread. MSQ is the selling point of the expansion. It is -bare minimum- to provide MSQ content. It's not a fancy gimmick. Acting like SE is generous for handing us MSQ is just ridiculous. As we mostly only sit and watch MSQ unfolding ONCE, I can not see this as gaming content either. Plus the MSQ is not the best in this expansion which made many players skip on purpose, which is a shame and entirely on the devs.

If I was a player who only cared about msq and I wasn't feeling it this expansion, I'd unsub for most of the year and resub at the end of the patch cycle in advance of the next expansion. That's what a reasonable person would do. I don't think most people only care about msq, like you say, though. I think people like other things in this game. At the end of the day we're all expected to be adults here and it's up to each of us to choose how we spend our money. If you think you don't get enough out of your subscription, there's an easy course of action you could take. So I'm sure we all agree that most people who remain subbed find the game is worth the cost of their subscription.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

[...]The thing is I’m so tired of the constant, non-constructive yapping. Have you ever thought maybe that’s why the devs stopped listening to us? You probably didn't. But you've made multiple posts about the game dying because of blm changes, without even playing it first. Please tell me, how is it possible for the timer to run out if you know exactly how many gcds you can put in that window? Have you thought, maybe it will be more fun to play if you don't need to stress out about something that will probably never happen? Or maybe it will create some new non-standard rotations? No, you didn't think about it, you're too scared of any changes even though you ask for them[...]

Then don't look at the complaint threads...? Is complaining about other people complaining the main content now? Guess that's just show how dry the content in-game right now lol.

Jokes aside, good amount of veterans have already had their trust running dangerously low at this point. For example: remember StB Lilies? How community reacts and what was SE's responses? And ho boi how they turned out---why are we even surprised---quite possibly one of the worst job gauges they could've come up with? Adding insult to the injury, they basically also spent the entire worth of expansion trying to salvage the system before finally indirectly admitting how the gauge was a failure by ShB (a.k.a. oh my gosh the community is actually correct!) and rehaul'd them while also starting to adopt the "Yeah we're not going to speak much about job adjustments now lol"-stance?

And that, is only one of the example. Going back to tread their track record we'll find more or less the same pattern of occurrence happening several times. No wonder the best treatment for any jobs nowadays is "to get ignored by the devs" unless you're a healer/tank main.