Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Recon1o6]

-Reaper and sage are nowehere near as awesome as people make them out to be
-The low end of the playerbase is too lazy and having certain duties be gatekeepers for skill/effort levels would be good for the game
-the job team,, battle design team and a lot of the savage/ultimate raiding parts of the playerbase has an unhealthy obsession with balance, scripted perfection and dps over everything else
-Dungeons suck and always have done bar a handful of exceptions
-Hrothgar should not have been designed until viera were completed
-SE needs some fresh blood in some of its teams focused on adding content, challenge and mechanics rather than trimming/simplifying/nerfing

and now for the big one

yoshida is not as good as people make him out to be

[OhNooo]

yoshida is not as good as people make him out to be

I’m worried about your safety now. You can’t criticize ffxiv Jesus around here lmfao

[Recon1o6]

I’m worried about your safety now. You can’t criticize ffxiv Jesus around here lmfao

tbf I've been expecting to wake up one night missing that piece of stone I apparently have instead of a heart for some considerable time.

another hot take


A lot of the criticism that this game gets is valid and with plenty of evidence in some cases.

[OhNooo]

tbf I've been expecting to wake up one night missing that piece of stone I apparently have instead of a heart for some considerable time.

another hot take


A lot of the criticism that this game gets is valid and with plenty of evidence in some cases.

Agreed. I’ve noticed quite a few people who have criticism preface their post with something like “I’m not saying I hate the game at all, I LOVE it, however…” Meanwhile I’ve gotten to the point where I’m just like I SAID WHAT I SAID lmao

[Saraide]

People who think that 'main character death = well made story' and 'no main character death = garbage story' (I am including the rest of the scions in this main character category) need to acknowledge that game of thrones is not the end all of story writing.

[einschwartz]

Droopy ears on Viera is the best type of ears!!!

[Remish]

Super-Hot Take: Mentor hate is over exaggerated, and the community makes mentors seem worse than they really are. They also put incredibly unrealistic expectations upon mentors in an unpaid volunteered role. I feel like a lot mentor hate is falsely bias opinions influencing each other and because we act like mentor hate is "The cool thing to do". I see it more as people wanting to take part in schadenfreude and insult people in any way they can think of solely because they do not like them as a person. Are there bad mentors? Absolutely. There are bad sprouts to but this is always overlooked, ignored, even excused and treated as a non-issue just because they aren't the one with a crown. I find new players are often conditioned to hate mentors' way before they know what a mentor is and taught that they aren't doing their "job" by their friends and peers because its a meme to hate.

PS: There is also always this weird mentality of people pointing out sprouts make better mentors than mentors do on occasion but fail to realize that it could be a mentor on an alt. If a sprout knows the game better than the mentor does, then I find it highly probable that they are infact a mentor on an alt. I can't imagine a genuine true sprout that is knowledgeable of the game's inner mechanisms and knowingly and willfully being in the Novice Network if they weren't there to be a mentor in the first place. Yet somehow nobody in the community ever seems to consider this possibility when they start to insult mentors.

[drtasteyummy]

Super-Hot Take: Mentor hate is over exaggerated, and the community makes mentors seem worse than they really are. They also put incredibly unrealistic expectations upon mentors in an unpaid volunteered role. I feel like a lot mentor hate is falsely bias opinions influencing each other and because we act like mentor hate is "The cool thing to do". I see it more as people wanting to take part in schadenfreude and insult people in any way they can think of solely because they do not like them as a person. Are there bad mentors? Absolutely. There are bad sprouts to but this is always overlooked, ignored, even excused and treated as a non-issue just because they aren't the one with a crown.

The design is flawed, first of all the fact that you get a crown and rewards just makes it so people farm it to feel cool about it, secondly you don't do anything you just play at a decent level or tank and people will upvote you it's not like you were really helpful or a MENTOR you could literally exchange it for the word "experienced".

[MilkieTea]

The design is flawed, first of all the fact that you get a crown and rewards just makes it so people farm it to feel cool about it, secondly you don't do anything you just play at a decent level or tank and people will upvote you it's not like you were really helpful or a MENTOR you could literally exchange it for the word "experienced".

But... that's not really the mentors fault, though, is it? Hate the game, not the player, and all that.

[Raoabolic]

But... that's not really the mentors fault, though, is it? Hate the game, not the player, and all that.

Let's be honest, if there wasn't a shiny mount (a two seater at that) attached to the crown would there really be that many mentors out there? Not saying all crowns are bad but a lot tend to only be there for the reward, not realizing that they actually have to explain things to new people who may or may not be familiar with MMOs.