Cosmic Exploration is CASUAL content with a pinch of midcore

[Supersnow845]

The problem is a fundamental disagreement on what a video game is. Many people, possibly billions, believe that video games exist to have fun. There is something they need to do and a challenge with some effort. The issue with CBU3 is they don’t have a good track record of making video games. The Dawntrail MSQ, for instance, can hardly be called a video game much like a visual novel isn’t a game either. Crafting in FFXIV exists in two phases: the easy macro-spam phase, which has no gameplay, and the expert crafting, which is the same but requires 20,000,000+ gil. Crafting can hardly be called video game content because, unlike combat, botting isn’t simply a cheat, it’s baked in to the design. You press a macro button and it works. Then you press it again. There are websites that will design your macro for you. The only challenge is obtaining the gil necessary for a fully-geared setup. But the crafting portion of Cosmic Exploration itself, outside of that investment, is not video game content.

I think there’s a little part of us that like and miss playing video games. It’s unfortunate that the opinions of video game-enjoyers are shunned in the FFXIV community with this new patch.

Expert crafting is actually a minigame, not “botting but with slightly higher stats”

If you look at expert crafting and only see a “well i can macro that but only when i get next expansions gear” you can’t claim that it’s not content because you are actively not engaging with it. Pentamelding current gear won’t let you properly macro all the experts

[s32ialx]

Expert crafting is actually a minigame, not “botting but with slightly higher stats”

If you look at expert crafting and only see a “well i can macro that but only when i get next expansions gear” you can’t claim that it’s not content because you are actively not engaging with it. Pentamelding current gear won’t let you properly macro all the experts

You're funny.