Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[SieyaM]

A job doesn't have to have a high APM or have convoluted complexity to be fun.

[Mimilu]

I hope the next expansion has an actual antagonist/antagonistic group that isn't a personification of a metaphysical concept. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[Kazhar]

I hope next expansion the WOL (and to lesser extent, the Scions) is finally knocked down their pedestal. Show they're not a perfect messiah. Have characters who aren't just obvious strawmens who criticize their actions. Have non-villainous characters who hates them.

Enough with the ego stroking.

[Mimilu]

I hope next expansion the WOL (and to lesser extent, the Scions) is finally knocked down their pedestal. Show they're not a perfect messiah. Have characters who aren't just obvious strawmens who criticize their actions. Have non-villainous characters who hates them.

Enough with the ego stroking.

My hope for the next expansion is that Golbez somewhat succeeds in connecting the Thirteenth with the Source, creating a kind of "only one can survive the merging" situation were both world will have to fight for survival (I'm sure the Scions would try to find a peaceful resolution but ya'know...). Maybe being connected to the aether-rich source will cause the voidsent to revert/semi-revert to their previous forms/memories. With this, we will be the "villian" for an entire other world and there wouldn't be a clear good guy or bad guy, just people fighting for survival. (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[NekoMataMata]

I hope next expansion the WOL (and to lesser extent, the Scions) is finally knocked down their pedestal. Show they're not a perfect messiah. Have characters who aren't just obvious strawmens who criticize their actions. Have non-villainous characters who hates them.

Enough with the ego stroking.

That would actually be a really solid plot. Except it sort of happened already to a lesser extent with Garlemald.

The Garlean people never really stopped criticizing the Eorzean factions, and by EW the Garlean people weren't really the antagonists that they had been in the earlier expansions. They were suffering and struggling but they held firm to their beliefs and it was a massive fight to get them to accept any assistance.

Obviously it doesn't have the same impact because they were antagonists at one point, but still.

What you would really want in this situation is a new antagonist, and another separate faction(s), where either those factions like the antagonist or they group the scions + WoL with the antagonist. It just has to feel a bit more genuine than say the Sharlayan Forum disagreeing with the Scions who are supposedly some of the most well known talent to come out of Sharlaya.

[TheMightyMollusk]

I'm hoping the next expansion takes us to Meracydia or the New World or something. Someplace where we're not a storied hero who's saved the world a half-dozen times before lunch. I'm sure we'll have to bring a couple of people along since the WoL doesn't get voice acting, and they've already said Krile will have a bigger role, but we can leave most of the Scions behind for a while.

[Reimar]

I'm hoping the next expansion takes us to Meracydia or the New World or something.

I'm pretty sure it will, especially the New World. Both were mentioned by Emet-Selch at the end there, and the reward for grinding out 50,000 bicolor gemstones is a wivre, native to the New World and ridden by the mamool ja. That and they're expanding BLU, which is a New World magic.

[Ardeth]

Most people are selfish and unhelpful. They will claim that they are helpful and nice, but most of them will just ignore you or treat you like a burden. In my almost 10 years of playing this has never changed for me.

[NekoMataMata]

Most people are selfish and unhelpful. They will claim that they are helpful and nice, but most of them will just ignore you or treat you like a burden. In my almost 10 years of playing this has never changed for me.

This is true.

This game really advertises the whole "Wow, people are so nice and helpful," idea because you have a lot of people doing really small acts of kindness to sprouts. I don't want to call that nothing but it's really easy to sit there and hand out minions/potions or even gil to sprouts.

Then once you stop being a sprout all of that stops and people only really started being nice again once I became an omin full crown mentor. Then it became "Oh, there's an omni mentor without a FC. Join mine?" or "Can you craft something for me?" or "Hey have you ever tried current ex/sv? We'll pick your job and you can join us."

Or even with stuff like Eureka where I recently got to max level in Pagos. I can't run around in Anemos/Pagos anymore for my weekly challenges without being spammed with party invites. Where was all of that when I was levelling?

People only care when you benefit them :x

[Chie_M]

This is true.

This game really advertises the whole "Wow, people are so nice and helpful," idea because you have a lot of people doing really small acts of kindness to sprouts. I don't want to call that nothing but it's really easy to sit there and hand out minions/potions or even gil to sprouts.

Then once you stop being a sprout all of that stops and people only really started being nice again once I became an omin full crown mentor. Then it became "Oh, there's an omni mentor without a FC. Join mine?" or "Can you craft something for me?" or "Hey have you ever tried current ex/sv? We'll pick your job and you can join us."

Or even with stuff like Eureka where I recently got to max level in Pagos. I can't run around in Anemos/Pagos anymore for my weekly challenges without being spammed with party invites. Where was all of that when I was levelling?

People only care when you benefit them :x

That's why I keep my crown turned off.