Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Johners]

Square Enix's hands off approach to third party tools is going to cost them and FFXIV ultimately needs an anti-cheat like any other online game. The ability to model/texture swap your character is fine on paper but it ultimately gives you the ability to change anything. Just because nobody has seemingly done it, there's nothing stopping you from making a third party tool that could end up trivialising high-end raid content such as ultimates. Likewise you could probably find ways to make ranked PvP unfair via the use of third party tools also.

I appreciate that large parts of the modding community self-moderate but at the end of the day, if you can do something in an MMO then people will do it. There's enough areas of optimisations that can be made with third party tools, the game should really have proper mechanisms to detect this and actually moderate this with warnings and suspensions. You'd catch some of the "innocent" modding in the crossfire but it's entirely fair to do so as it's already against the terms of services.

More so, the game should actually generate exportable combat logs to upload onto FFLogs by the default. While parsing is also a third party tool, the implications are entirely an opt in experience. Players that don't care just don't have to look. Players that do care just look at their logs to see how well they're executing their rotation or comparing to the performance of other players that also care. In the circumstances that people are being harassed for parsing badly, you just report them because it's already against the terms of service to do that.

I guess there's multiple hot takes here, an anti-cheat is needed to ensure the integrity of the online environment with "innocent" modders not being victims of the bans they could end up with afterwards and logging/parsing is actually fine because any negative implications are harassment and can be reported as such already.

[Esmoire]

Dark Knight quests are some of the most cringe-inducing quests I've had to sit through. I actually think the core lore part of them being kind of a force of justice where the institution of justice itself fails is actually cool, though the way your character is portrayed doesn't sit well with me.

I don't feel that way about my WoL at all. Yeah she puts herself into danger a lot, yeah she has almost died a lot, yeah she is doing chores a lot... Something like PTSD from combat scenario I don't think any of us can really fully appreciate unless you actively find yourself in life-and-death situations every day. That said as someone who seems pretty comfortable going to a foreign land to become an adventurer (an extremely dangerous job), who from the start of the game is remarkably gleeful and relaxed, up until now, I really don't think that weighs on her. Tedium of being everyone's errand girl? I mean you are getting paid pretty well, have Tataru to wipe your arse for you and take care of your accounting, get to travel more than almost anyone in the world. I really don't see any of what the DRK quests presents as being merited.

Won't say it's the worst; it at least had the gall to try to say something. Some job quests couldn't do even that much, and in the context of how much story there is in FFXIV I rather have something that didn't sit well with me but is interesting than something that is boring.

[Jirah]

The game has atrocious game design in terms of content and the only reason why the community tolerates it is because of two reasons: their irrational attachment to the game and yoship as a patron saint & playing a game where it’s flawed is better than addressing said flaws as it destroys the immersive experience of playing a “good game”

Content is stagnate and they literally haven’t done anything new with trials/dungeons/raids in a very long time and in some cases like dungeons they've regressed. And their highly lucrative position of accessibility will destroy the games staying power in the future as these enormous waste of creativity poured into each instance is moot when the content itself barely tickles you

[BaconBits]

Sometimes, it is okay to gatekeep.

[Shurrikhan]

Sometimes, it is okay to gatekeep.

Wait, how's that a hot take in this game?

[MememaiXIV]

It isn't weird to play a character of the opposite sex.
(I have a male Lala & a female Viera).

edit- seeing as a couple of people liked the post, & I'm learning how to use the tools here, have a picture of said Viera:

[ElysiumDragon]

I think there should be a way to reset cooldowns/resources on striking dummies, so high-end raiders can practice their rotations/openers without having to wait around for cooldowns to reset, or change jobs to clear current job resources.

[BaconBits]

Wait, how's that a hot take in this game?

Anything's a hot take if you heat it in a microwave long enough.

[AmpelioB]

I think it's ok that the first tier of savage is "easy" principally since there are a lot of newcomers and returners but maybe the new ultimate could come a little earlier, something like 2-3 months after launch when most raiders are already geared up.

[Anienai]

I like to eat cold day old french fries.