Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[SherlottaEryut]

Genderlocking isn’t the worst thing to happen in a game

[fantasiaaddict]

Genderlocking isn’t the worst thing to happen in a game

Seeing this is coming from a Viera I smell coping regarding hat restrictions

But in all serious yeah hard agree I feel like people should stop complaining about genderlocked items. I'm sure there's a male item that people want to wear on a female character, or a female item that people want to wear on a male character. It's all about taste. As someone who spends most of their time making their character look as good as possible it's something me and many other people have to face all the time, but the dev team either intended for these items to be originally genderlocked or didn't have the resources at the time to make certain items available to all genders.

I can't wait until people start complaining about how every race should be able to use each races unique starting gear.

[Canadane]

I can't wait until people start complaining about how every race should be able to use each races unique starting gear.

It's a sad day when the hot take is we should have more race specific equipment, and more genderlocked items.
I've only been saying it for years...

[fantasiaaddict]

This game doesn't have enough high heels.

[SieyaM]

Genderlocking isn’t the worst thing to happen in a game

It wasn't the worst thing to happen, but it was another one of the things that at the beginning was promised to never happen and then it did, like auto destruction of housing.

[Jirah]

Ff14 isn’t that good, story can only take a game so far and it’s only praised because of its very mild transparency with the player base and not being WOW.

I’d go as far as saying its very overrated, not helped by influencers

[fantasiaaddict]

I’d go as far as saying its very overrated, not helped by influencers

Louder for the people in the back. So glad someone brought this up.

FF14 is a very overrated game, but just because it's overrated doesn't mean it's a bad game, it does have some faults, but it relatively is a good game overall. I always found FF14 Youtubers and Influencers to be really cringe. They're always one of three things, a over-dramatic and try-hard raider who has nothing better to do in their life, a bootlicker who only talk about the good parts of the game, or they have nothing to do besides degrade the game to its absolute limits.

Adding on to this, I feel like a lot of parts that are meant to be emotional for the story are quickly ruined by how Youtubers will be so dramatic over them in my opinion. We get it, your favorite character died, you had your chance to cry, now please move on and don't make 5 videos dedicated to that character, thanks.

[Eraden]

This game doesn't have enough high heels.

I heartily agree. Aside from some of the race specific starting gear, there are precisely TWO and only TWO pieces that have high heels: the 2b boots and the Omega-F suit. Both of those badly distort the shape of the feet. Hmm, upon reflection, there might be a set of heels available from the Golden Saucer. Does anyone know if they are actually high heels and if so, do they avoid badly distorting the shape of the feet?

[fantasiaaddict]

I heartily agree. Aside from some of the race specific starting gear, there are precisely TWO and only TWO pieces that have high heels: the 2b boots and the Omega-F suit. Both of those badly distort the shape of the feet. Hmm, upon reflection, there might be a set of heels available from the Golden Saucer. Does anyone know if they are actually high heels and if so, do they avoid badly distorting the shape of the feet?

Agreed with your post, also, the Housemaid / Loyal Housemaid set and Bunny (+Chief) sets from Gold Saucer have heels, however, I wish we just had regular old high heels that are a solid black that we can dye any color. We almost had open-toed heels, but SE just had to screw them up with the ankle strap not connecting to the actual heel! (See Endless Summer Sandals. I don't even know how they messed that up.)

[Eraden]

Agreed with your post, also, the Housemaid / Loyal Housemaid set and Bunny (+Chief) sets from Gold Saucer have heels, however, I wish we just had regular old high heels that are a solid black that we can dye any color. We almost had open-toed heels, but SE just had to screw them up with the ankle strap not connecting to the actual heel! (See Endless Summer Sandals. I don't even know how they messed that up.)

Because of the unfortunate way in which the devs had decided to cut off feet at the ankles in terms of delineating apparel, I myself would prefer high heeled ankle boots that could be dyed. This way you could wear colored hosiery and not have to worry that it would only look like simple leggings. High heeled pumps would be nice too but they should come in two flavors. One that the shoe itself could be dyed and one with a "sock" that could be dyed to match the legs.