Thoughts about the LL?

[Espon]

This patch feels very slim again, much like 7.1. The usual MSQ dungeon and trial, but no Ultimate, no Chaotic, no Variant/Criterion dungeon... Only thing of interest for me is the Deep Dungeon and that doesn't even come out until 7.35.

People complained plenty about 7.1 being such a boring patch, and we're pretty much repeating it with this one. Also where's the housing changes? I was kidding when I said they'll come in 7.55 but at this rate that'll be the reality.

So once again - for the fifth time in a row - we will get a storyline finale dungeon that is a phantasmal/holographic recreation of the villain's long-lost home, where they will explain their sad backstory and why their homeland was so wonderful and great and deserves to be the ONLY thing that exists, and trauma dump onto us as they cope with their inability to let go of the past.
Just like Amaurot.

And Dead Ends.

And Lunar Subterrane.

And Alexandria.

The only difference this time is Calyx is a scientist so he won't be quite as maudlin and whiny about it as other villains.

As much of a Shadowbringers simp as I am, I am begging you, SE... Get some new material.

I'm definitely getting tired of these recreation story dungeons. It was neat the first couple of times but now it's the norm. We have the echo, just let us have some flashbacks to what happened years ago and give us more dungeons that isn't just a walk through the past.

[MiloslavBlazena]

I am disappointed that they are truncating chat bubble messages after a maximum of two lines. Why exactly is the limit two lines? Why can it not be the character limitation that already exists within the chat window? This Chat Bubble feature is already going to be introduced to the game Disabled by default, why impose this limitation?

All this will do is have me look at the bubble then make me look to the chat window after. That's annoying. Why?

To be clear, all the customization stuff for the chat bubbles is neat, but if you limit the messages to two lines only, doesn't this make them completely useless?

[ThreeBeastSmile]

Not to forget that new PvP changes with purify are absolute dog and I now lost all interest to get back to pvp scene. Thought we would get something better but purify with 2500mp cost? really? that makes other classes broken.

I had a more wordy post set up for how I feel about those changes, but that works. Explanations can wait until after the changes are implemented I suppose, don't want to get the "just wait and see until when we have the patch notes" card pulled up on me like it's some Yu-Gi-Oh match. Will say I'm reconsidering my stance of "leaving when 8.0 does not deliver" though, to leaving now, right fast.

The rest of it? Eh. Skimmed DD stuff, looks the same when seen superficially like that. That section went on for quite a bit huh, and I do do that content. Map instance? Yay? Another one of those (personally don't do map stuff). The new CC map I'm pretty sure nobody desired. Phoenix Down being revamped? Might be the only significant thing there was there, and yet in the grand scheme of things... not so much.

Idk was there anything else besides the typical glam slides being marched out (and those pvp ones are zzz modern styled again), the usual merch-pushing drive, and that chat bubble thing? Didn't seem like it.

[yesnt]

Wouldn't a chat bubble disappear before you get chance to read a long-winded speech anyway? That's the reason I would find it pointless.

I think it will be useful for raid callouts.

I think they said this will be disabled for combat.

As for longer messages and timing, it would be as easy as: Mouseover the player to see their last message, use your wheel to scroll through their history of messages in the zone.

[Gortys]

You're talking like you think Yoshi-P is the programmer working on housing updates. You can't be serious.

Nah, it reads like someone who has never watched an LL before or was somehow held down and made to watch it against their will. Why would someone willingly watch the LL and not just a recap if they have seen the previous ones and know YoshiP talks about small things they may not care about.

[Infernodergo]

The only thing that I remember now, after seeing the trailer, is that the WoL is doing things during a cutscene.

My mind is blown.

This

It's the biggest thing I noticed from the game trailer. WOL blocks an attack with their weapon and doesn't just have it jump cut like the Zenos fight and then at the end of the trailer they seemingly attack with their weapon. I'm hoping that last bit is really in the game and changes per class and isn't just fancy trailer transition edit.

Either that or, for the purposes of convenience, your WOL is suddenly a viper for that specific cutscene. We'll see.

[Shinku_Tachi]

Hope and optimism.

Those are my thoughts going forward as we head to 8.0

[MaikoRaines]

People are acting like the drop-off in updates and communication is some new issue — it’s not.

Remember four years ago (June 2021, to be exact), during PLL LXV? That was the one with Yoko Taro and Yoshi-P answering top-rated community questions live on stream.

One of those top-voted questions — mine, actually — asked about the possibility of Flight Unit mounts. Yoko Taro was totally on board, but Yoshi-P gave the usual “I’ll have to check with the dev team” response.

Here’s the proof:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...07#post5585807

I was glad we at least got the Pod mount (since the assets already existed), but since then? Total silence. Even a “sorry, can’t be done” would’ve been more respectful than this endless radio silence.

And that’s not even the only question that got swept under the rug. A lot of community-raised topics just… vanish. No follow-up, no transparency, no closure.

This isn’t a new pattern. It’s just been getting harder to ignore.

We don't need a Liveletter - we need a Town Hall.

[Batbrat]

You're talking like you think Yoshi-P is the programmer working on housing updates. You can't be serious.

I'd ask you to point out where I said that, but I already know you'll hallucinate a sentence you saw in your dreams and then attach my picture to it-I don't care about anything that you think or feel, I'm here to state that as someone interested in housing who is also a paying customer, I would have appreciated it if he said from the very beginning what he already knew and we didnt, which was, "sorry guys, there wont be a housing update in this live letter". Had I known he wouldnt talk about it, then I wouldnt have watched. I watched it because in the last live letter he told us to watch and see today, which today he said theres nothing afterall-it's like Mojo Jojo simulation writing anything here. I'm not talking to you. Why are you even responding like I slapped your boyfriend-I don't need you to defend yoshi's honor. I said what I said. You'll live.

[MicahZerrshia]

I was glad we at least got the Pod mount (since the assets already existed), but since then? Total silence. Even a “sorry, can’t be done” would’ve been more respectful than this endless radio silence.

And that’s not even the only question that got swept under the rug. A lot of community-raised topics just… vanish. No follow-up, no transparency, no closure.

This isn’t a new pattern. It’s just been getting harder to ignore.

We don't need a Liveletter - we need a Town Hall.

It's been like this since 2.1

The lead up to 2.0, the communication was amazing, we could literally have conversations with community managers, who were absolutely amazing btw, and the devs, Yoshi PR and those managers were always quick and gave good answers. Even when they didn't when they said, "just wait for 2.0!" which was the "please look forward to it" of the community team, they were more than happy to talk more when I called them out on giving us bogus, non-answers.

In the space between 2.0 and 2.1, communication fell off hard and after that, it was mostly like it is now. They saw the relaunch as a success and the player concerns, questions and such were just ignored from there on out. The community team even "moved on" and were never replaced with anyone who has made themselves known. We did think they really cared during 1.x-2.0. After that tho, nope we were just subs who will just have to like whatever we are givin.

The community itself hasn't really changed either. I remember saying that the titan quests with all the wine and what not were a bit much and they should trim stuff like that down and the only response was, "the game is perfect! Stop complaining! Everyone here is so negative! Just unsub if you don't like it! blah blah blah" and guess what the devs realized and changed years later....yep about half those quests were just deleted because they were, drum roll please....too much