@Casuals , do you think the message has gotten through?

[Zackmag1993]

Regarding the game itself.

I think there are old features that need to be updated and remastered in this game for them to work again and provide content for people to do, because the majority also tend to leave content behind because it is no longer relevant. (Including myself). Alliances FC needs to have more presence in the game, especially through all the Garlemald war storyline until Endwalker. They are basically the base on which everything revolves regarding the war outside the divine aspect of the war between Hydaelyn, Zodiark, the Ascians, the Scions, and the WOL. Stormblood is the best example of this.
Stormblood needs a rework regarding that. The Gyr Abania section is not good enough; it lacked the content needed to make the area relevant. The Othard section is the best section of the EXP and the best in storytelling developed. Gyr Abania needs to have more warlike features add to it. Like War Fates, war-related bosses, and encounters. Please help us have more content in there instead of a desserted barren land.

[Zackmag1993]

To continue with Stormblood. Alah Migo should be a main city with the difference that we need to restore it exactly as the Doma Enclave. This opens the opportunity to have Alah Migo content with battle, crafting, and gathering missions and activities to do so. Maybe hunt for commerce activities with other cities to have embassies in the city to help restore it and have more Rabahn and Lyse presence as leaders in this development as well. Make Garlemald's presence in Othard and Gyr Abania more present and a new ambientation with war vibes. With that said, you can also make Eureka and Bozja Content have a level max reached at the moment you enter for new and old players to replay it and make them active again with improved drop rate percentages.

Make all raids of both contents accessible through party finder also. People will come back and see this as old content development and that you care to also make other content better time as well.

[Zackmag1993]

Deep Dungeon and Variant Dungeon will have queue systems as well to be visited and completed as well for both normal and savage mode, and make sure the log entry for Variant is completed when the dungeons are complete as well for them to be more accessible and people can replay them constantly for their rewards. This is for all variants.

Make Fate points less for grinding instead of accumulating up to 60 battlers per each purple fate batch to upgrade rewards in each Shadowbringers, Endwalker, and Dawntrail zone.
Make less for ten per each purple badge up to all 5 you need per zone to unlock rewards to make it more approachable and easier to grind.
Make special FATE bosses appear as frequently as S ranks in all zones. and announce them in the chat as you announce the maintenance notices every time. This will help people to be focus and also active waiting for them to appear in case content feels repetitive so they can have something else to do while exploring, grinding, or treasure hunting, etc.

This will help the community to unite more between veterans, raiders, and casuals, and incentivize people to do all content instead of just focusing in raiding or casually playing the game. people will feel more curious about it.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Secondly, Dawntrail Story is bad. Or at least very poorly written. WUK LAMAT is obviously a WOKE character. The dev team of this expansion made that clear by making everything revolve around here. She was a very badly written character; she could have been a better character. She was written as an ignorant princess that never left her castle. And then, suddenly, she knew how to communicate, how to act, and how to understand her people's culture as if out of thin air. I get it; they wanted to use the power of LOVE as a DISNEY WOKE CHARACTER. And it is obvious she was the main character for that. They created a bad character who had the chance to be better in concept. Look, DION from FFXVI was the woke character of this adult game. And he worked out because he was not defined by his preference or bad writing. He was one of the best-written characters with these characteristics that gave depth to his storyline. Exactly what WUK LAMAT needed. She could have been serious and fun at the same time. by learning her people's ways and showing leadership traits. The main expansion song is a DISNEY WOKE REFERENCE. The team that work on this was definitively with an agenda.

People who throw around "woke" don't even know what it means.

This is a clear example of not understanding what it means.

Woke means caring about other people that aren't you. Woke means being awake in the problems in historically marginalized communities.

This is not woke. Stop with the buzz words, nobody will listen to you.

[enthauptet]

Difficulty =/= casual. You need a premade party, scheduling, etc for the challenge floors. The bad side of the random traps is a run can go sideways to a wipe very quick 'wasting' a good chunk of time reclimbing. I've seen many not reattempt because they don't want that time lost again. The best way to imagine casuals: is it easily picked up and put down? No? Not casual.

With a light party and a clean run, sure it is casual friendly, now find 3 others to 'marry' until you clear the 8+ (hoh&EO starting at 21 being less time consuming to clear to 100 than starting at 51 going to 200 in potd) duties with no wipes in a row. Could be 15mins each duty could be up to an hour depending on the run, luck, skill etc. That equates to near 7 hours per attempt for hoh/EO double for potd. Now schedule that with 3 others. Sure, it can be picked up whenever, but I've personally had 7 saves reset because of scheduling issues and needing to use the save.

I have a bunch of friends that meet up for like an hour or two once a week to clear even criterion savage so the argument about time holds no water. If you want to clear stuff quickly you need more time but that doesn't mean it can't be done without a large time investment every day/week. Either way you have to spend time to clear content whether it's what I mentioned, the moon base thing, etc. Either you invest the time to get the rewards or you don't that's the difference. I REALLY dislike PVP in this game so I never touch it but that's my decision so I just don't get those rewards and I don't complain about it being here or not getting them.

[Volgia]

This is where half of forum members will quit reading, and the other half will like your post.

Guh, I'd just ignore them. We don't need "Woke Lamat discourse" to poison our discussion even further.

[Zackmag1993]

Now Occult Crescent. Make the atma materials drop easier, as also the soul shards for the phantom jobs. If you accumulate atma stones or phantom job shards that you already have learned or mastered, allow for them to be exchanged for materials for the occult crescent gears or for silver or gold pieces. And please, if we are going to use tomestones now, we have 21 jobs to farm their phantoms weapons, please make the cost of the Arcanites to be 200 instead of 500. that will allow us to obtain 3 phantom weapons in one single grind of 2000 Heliometry tomestones. to make it faster and accesible for all veterans, and new players. At least to acquire the first round of phantom weapons or for future usage of tomestones for this content.

Currently as it is, is too stressfull to do and tiresome. Sorry to sayit like that but we have 21 jobs and is tiring.

[Zackmag1993]

Society or allied tribes. Please allow for all of them to have missions for battle, gathering and crafting available so all players can have access to all of them through their story with of course, different rewards accordingly to the class you use. ( Battler, Gathering or Crafting) that way will incentivize people to do all of them as well. To be more approachable for all playerbase.

[Mawlzy]

Guh, I'd just ignore them. We don't need "Woke Lamat discourse" to poison our discussion even further.

It seems they've picked up a sufficient head of steam that at some point they'll burn themselves out.

[Merrigan]

Which false statements? That they don't like this type of design? How can this be false? If someone hates "boss puzzle emotes" and fails because of it, and isn't having a great time because of it, not only it's their right to think that way, but being "picked up" again and again until you get carried to the end doesn't sound like the best of experiences tbh.

The one that says failing this type of “puzzle solving” is tantamount to admitting that the game introduces hardcore elements into normal content.