Console Players don't need Addons

[SwingLifeAway]

High end content in this game is like driving a car without a speedometer but there are still speed limits

cope harder tbh

[Bsrking5]

Just "playing the game" can only teach you to the degree that not knowing how to play the game would punish you.

Which isnt very high seeing as theres plenty of content that can be solo-ed sycned. Just take any of the 83-89 dungeons. As a dps you could literally afk 100% of the time and get a clear.

[LittleImp]

If you've done any raiding at all, you would know that console players frequently ask people to upload ACT logs on their behalf when a run ends, so that they can do diagnostics through FFlogs or XivAnalysis.

But as with the rest of these threads, it's just weird people who don't do the content making unfounded generalizations and authoritative sounding statements about something they have essentially 0 personal experience with.

[YukikoKurosawa]

bruh the combat log.
im dying.

Imagine caring about parses in normal content. You assume I go into laughably easy content I've cleared numerous times over giving a remote fuck. Why don't you check how many times I died or failed mechanics, the only thing that actually matters in low end content.

And then after you do that, log off.

[Axxion]

somebody correct me if im wrong. Was it not during stormblood that some console players wanted some sort of parser. i know someone created this https://ffxiv.azizarar.com/ for stone sky sea to help console players determine there dps

As a person that was on console. i wouldnt have mind addons that could help me improve

[SaltyDaddy]

What if

What if

They don't want you to have that information and have designed encounters entirely around you not having said information?

No if. How exactly do you know that when you are not clearing any current content?

You bet console players would use all QoL PC gets. You just can't so console players gets salty. And that's the truth.

For example, you don't need to see chat bubbles to clear content. Players just want them. Etc.

[OM3GA-Z3RO]

So many coy and obtuse responses, jfc.

[MomomiMomi]

I guess I'll actually answer the question. Not for the OP's benefit, but just because this reminded me of something.

Now, first of all, I'm a console player here. I definitely don't feel I personally need addons, but I absolutely would like them. That said...

I used to play FFXI. Anyone familiar with that game knows about Windower, I'm sure. Well, I played that game for maybe 3 years without touching it, so it's safe to say I didn't need it.

Flash forward to my 6th year playing the game, and I came to a sudden realization one day. If I was to suddenly lose Windower, the game would become unplayable to me. It was such a giant QoL addition to my gameplay experience that if I was to lose access to it, the game would have become an unfun mess and I would have simply refused to play it and quit.

So did I need addons to play that game? No. But then yes. I needed them, otherwise I would not have had fun with how bad of an experience it is to play without it.

Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.

[Burmecia]

"Console players do not have access to addons, but surely some of them would like to have (whether 1st or 3rd party)."

fixed it. what do you all like? : )

[Padudu]

Imagine caring about parses in normal content. You assume I go into laughably easy content I've cleared numerous times over giving a remote fuck. Why don't you check how many times I died or failed mechanics, the only thing that actually matters in low end content.

And then after you do that, log off.