Thread: What do you think was the worst thing this game experienced from 2.0 until now?

I see a lot of people citing the forced cutscenes for the MSQ Roulette dungeons, and yes that's fair enough. But I'd go as far to say that making those dungeons into 8-man mandatory content and then putting such long, important scenes into it rather than making it a single-player story instance in the first place was probably a far greater failing.

Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

I would happily do Yokai again over Pagos, and I despised that event. The difference is I could take my time, socialize or even progress it solo should I choose.

..you can do that now. A lot of this is a player issue. There's nothing stopping people from taking it slowly, duoing or light partying it, taking breaks in the middle of the grind to chat. You mention parsers, but...again thats a player issue. The game issues exist and revolve around them trying to nerf the fate train too much, then underreacting by just boosting the fate train without fixing the issues. But they can't be blamed if players make it also a joyless slog on their end. The content isn't really going anywheres that you need to hardcore grind it to get everything in two weeks to a month.

8man msq has left an indelible bad taste in my mouth. All of that story build-up...only for it to be butchered by instance environment that basically allowed new people to be left behind or rushed to finish, accompanied by the broken jingle record of "just watch it in the inn." Yeah, because that's what I played the msq for: the ultimate end goal of watching the "its a story driven mmo; go play another game if you don't like" cutscenes in an inn.


Excuse my jadedness.

Honestly? Pepsi Man

Destroyed the majority of the raiding scene, effects still felt to this day.

Eureka and Mogstation combined can't hold a candle to the defection Alexander (Savage) brought about.

I can't even experience Pagos because I couldn't tolerate Anemos for long enough to get through it.

I'm going to decide to be a contrarian.

I dislike Eureka as much as the next person, but as long as the Animus books for the ARR relic exist I'd hesitate on calling it the worst thing that's happened to the game, even after nerfs.