Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[van_arn]

Modern day FFXI is easier to power through than the state of Eureka when it launched. All you need to do is talk to a few people to unlock open-world trusts, and just like that 90% of the headache of that game is resolved. You are then free to level wherever you wish, with an abundance of options for making money and getting new gear easily with Records of Eminence.

I've regularly gone back and forth to FFXI and even prior to the addition of trusts I had played it for several years as a solo RDM -> SMN player, but I only dedicated a half-hour's worth of time to Eureka when it launched. I could not stand how atrocious it was, and this is coming from someone who somehow managed to single-handedly grind out Carbuncle's Ruby and made the worldwide treck to unlock SMN/level it/fight and defeat my summons prior to all of FFXI's many player-friendly updates.

I’d also extend this hot take to “modern ffxi is way more fun to play than Eureka.”

Seriously, if you haven’t revisited ffxi since the 75 era you need to check it out again. It feels like they took a lot of inspiration from FFXIV (with things such as the armory system and teleportation) and managed to cram it into FFXI.

[aveyond-dreams]

Oh believe me, I still hop on there from time to time. Prior to the SMN rework in XIV the most fun I've had as a Summoner was in XI. While we wait for additional gem summons to be added here, when I log into XI I can instantly summon Shiva/Ramuh/Leviathan and just destroy things with them. Unfortunately I don't have Siren yet, but I do have most of the trusts I want so I can play through the game with the party of my choice plus any of the other summons.

[Reinha]

I guess this is more of a hot take on gaming in general. I don't understand the overconsumption of new games. Buying the newest game every month and hyping it up only for everyone to forget it when the next thing comes out. Or buying packet deals and games on sale at a higher rate than you have time to complete them, just to have them in your library. I wonder if people get satisfaction from the act of hoarding or if they are easily influenced by their favourite streamers.

I got years of entertainment from the handful of games I've bought in the past. Even better, I've gotten years more entertainment from the Mog Store cosmetics I've bought compared to the new throwaway games people pay a fivefold price for. It's amusing there is so much pushback for paid cosmetics but people flock to spend their money on the next thing they know will be dead on arrival or soon thereafter.

[MidnightEquinox]

I guess this is more of a hot take on gaming in general. I don't understand the overconsumption of new games. Buying the newest game every month and hyping it up only for everyone to forget it when the next thing comes out.

Oh god me too. I can sometimes get excited about a new game or other, but it almost seems a lot of people literally put themselves on the same timetable as publishers. "Well this game will fail because this other game will come out and obviously we'll all play that". I can sort of understand wanting to be on the time table with live service games... but Elden Ring? You know it's not going anywhere, right, regardless of when you're gonna sit down to play it?

But then in the same vein they complain about how games are either not releasing fast enough or releasing too early. What do you expect when you self-admit you're chasing the latest shiny? Why are you not embarrassed with yourself? Blah. We made consumerist culture of this style too normal...

Oh well, more Steam sales for me, I guess.

And, yeah, I am still of the belief that games currently cost too little due to inflation which is why most games rely on MTs and DLCs on some level or another. You're paying the proper price indirectly because paying more than $60 is inconceivable to many, but games (especially MMORPGs) are very very very expensive to make, even with those huge profits they're often not making that much money in the end. Best money makers are low quality gacha mobile games relying on predatory tactics to catch whales...

[Soma_Farkreath]

relic weapons are honestly pretty lackluster, many other weapons that i feel look a lot better than most relics

[Vortuna]

You should be able to get at least one loot from savage chest before lockout applies.

The number of players who has chest lockout for the week shouldn't reduce the chests spawned for the player who hasn't received their loot.

[Payadopa]

META slaving and homogenisation makes the game more boring one stat/job/role at a time.

[JamieRose]

I took a picture, it was hot.

[Beytran70]

I don't know how hot this is, but here's a take.

The gear design in this game is mostly superb, but when they make something bad its BAD.