Thread: No Hildibrand in 5.3?

Originally Posted by Gula

Resources spent on something someone doesn't like= waste of dev resources.

Crafting beast tribe, waste. Gathering beast tribe, waste. Umbrellas, waste.

Lets do just one crafting beast tribe per expansion and nothing more, but instead adding new type of harder 4 man content into the game, or maybe even actual raids for 8 people, not just 4 bosses.
That sounds fair.

I enjoyed the Hildebrand quests, even in HW and Stormblood. I can see why they're probably finding they have to force new ideas and feel it's getting stale, but they did a good job with it. Humor is something ff14 tends to lack, generally amounting to little half-hearted puns, digs at Alphinaud or Thancred, or word-play on items or achievements. Some are fairly good to be fair, but overall the game has a much more serious tone compared to something like WoW where the Devs love to poke fun at their players and themselves constantly and you can relate to the jokes as a gamer.

I mean I like ff14, it's why I'm here and not playing WoW, but it's like that one friend who's a nice person and can share a joke or two but just takes life a little too seriously and always wants things done the proper way.

ARR had plenty of humour that wasn't just slapstick with quite a few dirty jokes to be found as well as innuendo. For whatever reason that started to decline as of HW. There's still some of it to be found but not nearly as much.

I'd much prefer more crude pirate jokes and the like over more Hildibrand. It fits the setting better too.

Originally Posted by Deceptus

He's either

1) Going to be the end boss

2) Going to see the 1st version of him where he's either super smart and capable or the 1st's version of Nashu is the inspector and he is the assistant.

Vauthry's true identity is Hildibrand Manderville.

He's somewhere out there!

I still wanted to see Hildebrand + The Fae. Boo.

I don't know, I could easily see him getting into some mischief on the moon or something given there's a telepad, and tons of different nonsense that could get him there. Gotta remember, he launched himself into Dalamud before it erupted.