FF14 community

[SaberMaxwell]

ITT: People arguing "why should I put the shopping cart away, someone else will do it for me."

Like man, you don't even gotta farm the stuff is cheap as heck on the market board just buy a stack of an essence and you'll be good.

Maybe Yoshi P is right to be dumbing the game down and making it more solo friendly. If people cba to buy a thing off a market board to make something substantially better for a community, why would we expect them to learn and understand combos, aoe situations, healing and mitigation strategies, and mechanical awareness?

[ReynTime]

ITT: People arguing "why should I put the shopping cart away, someone else will do it for me."

Like man, you don't even gotta farm the stuff is cheap as heck on the market board just buy a stack of an essence and you'll be good.

Maybe Yoshi P is right to be dumbing the game down and making it more solo friendly. If people cba to buy a thing off a market board to make something substantially better for a community, why would we expect them to learn and understand combos, aoe situations, healing and mitigation strategies, and mechanical awareness?

Yoshi-P is right in the sense it makes $$$ to appeal to those people.
He and his team are wrong in the sense they are the ones who put us in this situation. XIV doesn't pushes players into learning to do the basic. It pats them in the head instead. And the more they "dumb" it down, the more the "casual toxicitiy" will spread.

I swear ever since the Alexander incident they didn't just take a step back with punishing players. They jumped a 100 miles back and decided to never step forward.

[Nothv13]

I can count on one hand the number of DR runs where more than a couple were using essences (2 full relics plus a handful of extra runs). As someone who always uses them, it is ultimately meaningless that I do so as my contribution is so low it does not effect the clear time in a meaningful way.

[SaberMaxwell]

Yoshi-P is right in the sense it makes $$$ to appeal to those people.
He and his team are wrong in the sense they are the ones who put us in this situation. XIV doesn't pushes players into learning to do the basic. It pats them in the head instead. And the more they "dumb" it down, the more the "casual toxicitiy" will spread.

I swear ever since the Alexander incident they didn't just take a step back with punishing players. They jumped a 100 miles back and decided to never step forward.

Agreed completely. This effort to avoid toxicity by dumbing everything down and cushioning everything is leading to a toxic environment all on its own. Don't criticize, players might leave; I'm sure ForteNightshade still has that quote of Yoshi P saying it's his hope more skilled players will happily carry less skilled players somewhere.

[Vortuna]

Just stay in duty finder DR where no one really cares who uses essences and what not and do 50 minute runs for all we care. Leave our speedrun party finder DR alone.

[Darkmoonrise]

aaaaah bare minimum adventurer

[Infindox]

Be careful your lack of patience and ADHD is showing. MMO's who does speedruns in MMO's? What do you get out of speedrunning it's not like you are getting paid nor getting anything out of it correct? Isn't the game supposed to be fun not treated as a job these days?

So now you are harassing people for enjoying speedruns of content? When you've done something hundreds of times it's fun to see how fast you can push yourself.

[Nethereal]

The materia are literally like 10k on the market board, what is this argument even about

10k too much. Fuck essences I like my 1h DR runs. If I even by chance get essences I don't even use them because of the emotional value they have to me.

[Goji1639]

10k too much. Fuck essences I like my 1h DR runs. If I even by chance get essences I don't even use them because of the emotional value they have to me.

You don't buy essences, you buy fragments, which only have a chance of giving you a useful essence. Getting a comfortable amount of skirmisher essences would probably cost about 400k gil. Then after you buy them and use them your DR runs still take an hour, because 1 person having an essence doesn't change anything.

So yea, no thanks.