Should FF14 take a new route? Discussion

[Kaonis]

If you feel like all human interactions irl should be made through sarcasm and belittling, as he's doing, fine with me.
If you find that it is OK and that being harsh make people grow up, fine.
I am living in this jungle every dam single day.

But don't bring this in my fantasy world. Please.

I never said that, but thank you for putting words in my mouth so you could argue a point I never made. Their comment was extremely tame and mild even as sarcasm goes. You're just overreacting. I mean if you found that toxic, I shudder to think what you would consider what goes on over at LoL, or even many of the posts in this very forum, as being.

Also this isn't your fantasy world, its an area we all take part in.

[Moogly]

I never said that, but thank you for putting words in my mouth so you could argue a point I never made. Their comment was extremely tame and mild even as sarcasm goes. You're just overreacting. I mean if you found that toxic, I shudder to think what you would consider what goes on over at LoL, or even many of the posts in this very forum, as being.

Also this isn't your fantasy world, its an area we all take part in.

It is only overreacting, until someone gets offended.
It is never a problem, until a problem happens.
I also suggest you think about this : how do people react when they're called out for being elitist ?
Your answer is yet another proof of how you elitist look somehow totally disconnected of the reality of things, explaining in part how you guys cannot accept that other players aren't at your skill level.

Also, I never meant to say that ffxiv was litteraly my fantasy world - it was a figure of speech...
You talk about putting words into other people's mouth, but elitists are experts in doing this :/

[Remedi]

I know that we are kinda on the same page on this Remedi. I am just a person that likes to answer questions that are directed at me so I gave them even after you already posted a bit more. So yes both are greedy and its kinda sad. I do have a friend that loved FF and kinda bought a lot of stuff from SE but the recent things in FF14 and the greed kinda turned him off and he said that he does not want to buy any bigger things from them. So this can turn negative for them too. (And yes I also have posted that I find it bad that we get more paid retainers and not at least one free one per expansion..)

I just hope that they get more budget, a better server/code and finally take some risk..and if they dont want to risk then its completely fine to just use the great things from other MMOs and put their interpretation of this in FF14. (But without it being completely complicated..)

Dw wasn't saying you didn't, was more directed to interwiews never tackling this problem, the discussion kinda triggered me on what I hate about the microtransaction culture

[Shouko]

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Food industry has changed their recipes over the years many times, that's why the original coke wasn't even a soft drink it was coco wine which was wine with cocaine, it was meant as a way to get the founder off morphine at the time. Even the soda version of coke has changed over the years, there wasn't high fructose corn syrup in it, it didn't have caramel coloring, etc. Recipes change all the time, but they also spend millions on R&D to get that perfect chemical mixture to make you like their food/drinks/ .

There's change and there's too much change, there's stability and monotonous. This game is becoming monotonous and if they aren't careful people that do want change will leave, granted the opposite is the same too much change and people won't like it and still leave.

Think about it this way, do you eat the exact same food every day? Say you eat Subway everyday for lunch and order the turkey breast on wheat with a side of doritos and a coke, do that for 1 year every day and you will never eat it again because it's boring.

I can understand hesitation but that was back in 2012-2013 era, 5-6 years ago is a long time in terms of things not changing much in an MMO. At this point they need to start taking more risks and updating or else people are going to leave for games better more updated MMOs.

[Kaonis]

It is only overreacting, until someone gets offended.

to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.

As for the rest of your reply it's pretty nonsensical. I have no idea where you got me being an elitist from, nor even how you are defining it. Again, much like your misuse of the word toxic I imagine we have very different definitions of that same word. But I think jumping the gun to randomly call me an elitist says far more about you than me. Also, are you actually asking a question then immediately using an answer I never gave to argue a point I didn't make? Because that's exactly how it is coming off from your wording.

Honestly, I feel like you're having an entirely different conversation here.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

And what if it was a beginner, doing his first raids ?
Some must have raged against you for not helping with the healing... or in the confusion, thought you were a 100% DPS healer and told themselve "oh boy I better not throw a single DPS spell and focus on healing !"
No one ever complained to you for not helping ? That must have caused drama if you then answered them that they should dps

I didn't apply that standard to new players. It's understandable they would be apprehensive, thus I am far more accommodating.

The reason I choose that allotted time frame is due how little outgoing damage there is during the initial portion of any non-savage fight. There simply wasn't any excuse for a supposedly experienced healer to not at least dip into Cleric Stance and put up DoTs. Take Alexander normal. You are literally useless in those opening thirty seconds because he just isn't doing a ton of damage. Did I annoy some people? Mhm. One attempted to call me out, claiming "Cassandra is in her PvP gear DPSing." Turns out he was spamming Medica for nearly everything, not allowing HoTs to tick and chose to cast Protect when Preys went out. Which explained how he ran out of MP during adds—something the DRK, who was a WHM main—asked how because she solo healed that phase countless times.

I had no problem sharing the role, however many pure healers back then expected you to carry them while they stood around contributing next to nothing.

A mmo beginner will think "I am playing a healer, I should heal". And if he just plays casually, only on normal difficulty, optimizing is something that will never ever cross his mind. For him, completing the raid with everybody alive will be a total success, even though he didn't cast a single dot.
And this is when the player's ego problem comes into scene.
How some people talk about how other players are underperforming, or how pure healers are bad players... it's that pretentious mindset of considering oneself as some kind of elite player that is annoying people.

This is an acceptable excuse below level 50. Afterwards, the onus is on the player to learn how FFXIV plays and not presume it functions the same as every other MMO.

FFXIV is not an ultra competitive esport game like WoW, with leagues and official first-kill race, and it doesn't try or want to be.
Sure, it is interesting talk, and I do like it - but it is in no way a playstyle I would brag about, or worse, impose on others.
And when you call out people for that, or call them bad because they don't reach your expectation, or like you did, "punish" them for not playing the way you think they should, this is when you're wrong.

Yet it's completely acceptable they contribute not even half the activity of everyone else? A pure healer will have as little as 20% activity. Can I spend 80% of my next dungeon afk or spamming emotes as the tank? No? Why do healers get a built in excuse?

[Marluxia]

I think it's important to note that we, the players, don't have a strong idea of where FFXIV is headed.

The Letters from the Producer are there, yes, but they're sporadic and don't really give players any idea of what to expect other than the content that's been played to death already.

[Musashidon]

It is only overreacting, until someone gets offended.

what? i am all for being nice but who cares if someone is offended? being offended doesn't mean anything it's just you whining you didn't like what you heard.

Yet it's completely acceptable they contribute not even half the activity of everyone else? A pure healer will have as little as 20% activity. Can I spend 80% of my next dungeon afk or spamming emotes as the tank? No? Why do healers get a built in excuse?

main reason i play tank lol xD spend over 80% watching netflix speaking of which jessica jones hasn't been terrible and the san clarita diet comes out in two days!

as long as pretty much nothing is required out of tanks and healers in dungeons they don't really have to do much then use flash/overpower alittle and set up their Hot's and watch netflix/hulu

[Remedi]

I think it's important to note that we, the players, don't have a strong idea of where FFXIV is headed.

The Letters from the Producer are there, yes, but they're sporadic and don't really give players any idea of what to expect other than the content that's been played to death already.

I'd also say that each of us has a personal wiew of how it should go that makes coming together kinda hard.

[Marluxia]

I'd also say that each of us has a personal wiew of how it should go that makes coming together kinda hard.

This is definitely true, but even so I have no idea where the developers want FFXIV to go.

Should I just expect every new piece of content to be like Diadem and FATE grinding at this point? Raids, 24 mans, dungeons? I know the developers want to keep the core of the game (new dungeons, new raids, 24 mans, etc.) and I'm not asking them to change that, but is there anything beyond that to look forward to?