Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Carin-Eri]

I don't enjoy how events with Zodiark played out, and having to fight Hydaelyn.

I've been of the mind that we would've been better served by Zodiark being a much bigger threat than he was in the end. In fact I'd have preferred it if Hydaeyln's 'test' was NOT us having to fight her, but her observing how we'd fare fighting the actual Zodiark.

[Absurdity]

I don't enjoy how events with Zodiark played out, and having to fight Hydaelyn.

I've been of the mind that we would've been better served by Zodiark being a much bigger threat than he was in the end. In fact I'd have preferred it if Hydaeyln's 'test' was NOT us having to fight her, but her observing how we'd fare fighting the actual Zodiark.

That didn't just bother you. Zodiark had been slowly built up for like 9 years only to get stomped in 10 minutes like he's some minor antagonist for a small zone story, to then be replaced by even bigger bad that gets pulled out of a magic hat. Sure it subverted my expectations, doesn't make it good though.

Stormblood gets overhated by people who only care about story, and most Heavensward/ARR jobs played like garbage, with MCH being the one major exception.

Ever since around the middle of Shadowbringers I've had the opinion that Stormblood was the best expansion we ever got and probably will get. The MSQ was pretty bad until around 4.3 but the MSQ took up maybe 5% of my playtime and the actual pve gameplay experience was great.

[SassyAssassin]

Did you just assume my gender!? Lol, I'm a man, good sir. xD

Nooooooooo??????? Sister????? No sister?????

[Katt_Felista]

A lot of the RMT community / pay to access and pay to social (based on faux relationship, or parasocial relationship based only in profit of any kind), is very intertwinned and "discreetly" diffused in several discord to have their hands in a lot of the aspects of the game. What is even sadder is that after a while, you notice they are very well in bed with a lot of discord's moderation if not admins, having a way too large dominance spectrum over the game.

It is even more disappointing to discover and realize that a lot of theses types of person that are the type of individuals that would even ask their ill bed ridden mom or dad well over 60, a buck every time they would ask to bring them a glass of water, are allowed to even run some of these things.

Not a lot want to discuss the reality of these things, when you do, you are isolated and harassed / stalked in game, in most of your activities, if you are not part of the "cool gang" of harassers and rmt trollers and the right discord places that only know to speak in twitch type langage, you are not "kewl" kek and a target.

[Soge01]

Nooooooooo??????? Sister????? No sister?????

*Bites your legs*

How DARE you! I shall be tweeting this to your manager and demanding an apology posthaste, REEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

[Lunaxia]

I don't enjoy how events with Zodiark played out, and having to fight Hydaelyn.

I've been of the mind that we would've been better served by Zodiark being a much bigger threat than he was in the end. In fact I'd have preferred it if Hydaeyln's 'test' was NOT us having to fight her, but her observing how we'd fare fighting the actual Zodiark.

Sometimes I have to remind myself that the most anticipated and long-awaited encounter in the game, with supposedly the most ancient and powerful being in-universe, wound up as the early game level X3 trial against a soulless puppet the sidekick villain introduced one (1) expansion ago put on as easily as you would a pair of socks before being obliterated and becoming irrelevant entirely, and I feel very tired.

[MontecristoSandwich]

After EW, FFXIV should have just rebranded to a Visual Romance Novel given how absolutely unwilling they are to threaten any of the main cast at all. Actually scratch that, even VNs do character threats better.

Remember when the Final Days begun and the only people threatened were nameless one-offs or NPCs we only knew for the expansion, and explicitly in a relatively tiny area of the star full of people we just met and have no attachment to? I sure did love watching generic father figure's nameless son die while we stood there doing nothing, allowing the Satrap Whats-his-name get eaten very very slowly. I sure did love all the main cast being whisked away in Ultima Thule as if they weren't being re-summoned in literally less than an hour more of gameplay. I love <same character> so much, guys.

Just kill Yshtola or something already. Graha should have died after Elidibus. There's no reason that Thancred shouldn't have been permadeaded going to Ultima Thule to save everyone else. I'm sick of this "we can solve everything without consequence while everyone else in the universe suffers consequences" approach. Shadowbringers was peak FFXIV, and it's falling downhill *fast.*

[Soge01]

I know that a tree can't really be blamed for not having any sense of empathy, but I felt that the Guardian Tree treated that former Pajal child way too harshly in the Endwalker Tank Quest and I don't blame that same kid, now an adult, for becoming a Blasphemy and trying to destroy the dang thing. If he was eventually forgiven and at least given a secons chance to serve the Twelveswood again as something else, then maybe his wife would have lived and he would never have given into despair.

All in all, The Guardian Tree is a dick and deserved the karma it almost received.

[Gwen_Lavellan]

I know that a tree can't really be blamed for not having any sense of empathy, but I felt that the Guardian Tree treated that former Pajal child way too harshly in the Endwalker Tank Quest and I don't blame that same kid, now an adult, for becoming a Blasphemy and trying to destroy the dang thing. If he was eventually forgiven and at least given a secons chance to serve the Twelveswood again as something else, then maybe his wife would have lived and he would never have given into despair.

All in all, The Guardian Tree is a dick and deserved the karma it almost received.

Speaking of this quest, the fact that they NEVER gave a name to the guard following Kann-E since the first expansion really bothers me. Come on, this guard has been there since forever !

[Jkap_Goat]

bump, I want to see more hot takes!