No keyboards

[Emitans]

The decision to make a minigame that excludes console players is puzzling, but then again whoever thought that a limited time, typing minigame to be whored out to IPs was just what Gold Saucer needed has questionable taste/motives to begin with.

The "quick buck, FOMO-filler during content lulls" is too on the nose this time.

It doesn't exclude console players. The typing challenge requires a typing device, which every console supports.

[Heavenchild]

Are there really players on consoles outside, who play FF14 without additional mouse and keyboard? D :

I play the Switch 2 version at the moment. And I am using controller, mouse and keyboard. I would go crazy with just a controller. xD

[Allooutrick]

Blizzard: don't you have smartphones?
Forum users: don't you have keyboards?

[Ilisidi]

I didn't buy a handheld to schlepp a keyboard and mouse around.

[Arthur-Holt]

Do people really try to play MMOs without a keyboard?

Going to be honest there has not been much of a reason to use a keyboard because normal mechanics very rarely require me to say anything past one sentence

[CaptainLagbeard]

Blizzard: don't you have smartphones?
Forum users: don't you have keyboards?

Fair enough, but at the same time for Xbox and PS, it's not that expensive to buy a keyboard. It doesn't need to be a brand new one even, just needs to work for a few days (depending on how many points each run gives).

[Carighan]

So the event that’s happening in the 28th is only limited to keyboards only and others who don’t own are basically screw off…who thought of this in SE?

Did you know that keyboards can be obtained commercially?

[Veritas-Ancora]

If there's one thing I learned to not do in FF14, it's socialize with anyone in-game, because most people will ignore you and the ones that don't will just bite your head off.

You have a terrible perspective on an excellent community.

[Carighan]

You have a terrible perspective on an excellent community.

Yeah but if you read across their posts, I think I kinda get why they get this reaction in-game. Their tone sounds inherently pissed-off most of the time, given the choice of words and sometimes sentence structure.

And sure, in particular in roulette dungeons most people are silent. This also makes sense because a lot play on consoles, especially now with the Switch 2 in the game, and without Keyboard Brawler which might change this, a whole lot probably don't have a keyboards connected. So it's not inunderstandable that there might not be that many replies in most dungeons. But it also depends on what you want to socialize about, and whether you can make your written text sound like someone else might want to reply to it.

[Sacae]

Yeah, in my decade or so of playing this game, I've learned that the key to appreciating the community is not being an asshole while playing.

Which, granted, is something that the majority of the General Discussion Forum can't manage, apparently.