Hildibrand for relic? Really?

[hagare]

And i can honestly say that short stream of innuendos was more funny than any anime trash jokes Hildibrand could ever muster throughout its entirety.

As i side note (and maybe this is conspiracy theory stuff), i'm not going to do, or even skip through the quests simply to avoid increasing the numbers of people who've completed them, since that would just let Yoshida show the shareholders that they should focus more on this kind of garbage story telling, because it's "suddenly popular". Not like it matters, but you do what you gotta do.

*looks at name*
Your marbles are definitely misplaced

[Jettinson]

And i can honestly say that short stream of innuendos was more funny than any anime trash jokes Hildibrand could ever muster throughout its entirety.

Moogle delivery quests were nice because it fed a decent chunk of world building, minimal or no but i guess it is either too much work or many people just do not care to have more of those.
The quest chain also made me legit appreciate the ex garlean soldier in the shack near Wineport after having to bear the annoying wine (ARR and Ivalice) because we got to know a little more about him as an example, ARR obviously gets the most work with npcs\quests no matter how you look.

But seriously though, i love Hildi and it is a shame we can't get another side content like moogle delivery quests but probably because it didn't get enough attention and also because they trimmed a lot of text with dialogues and journals.

[TaleraRistain]

As i side note (and maybe this is conspiracy theory stuff), i'm not going to do, or even skip through the quests simply to avoid increasing the numbers of people who've completed them, since that would just let Yoshida show the shareholders that they should focus more on this kind of garbage story telling, because it's "suddenly popular". Not like it matters, but you do what you gotta do.

And this is perfectly fair. I did the same with Eureka and Bozja. I've since gone back mostly through Bozja or at least enough for the relics but I mostly avoided it when it was current. And Eureka I haven't stepped foot back into since Pagos was current. I don't think the shareholders care, but the developers do keep their finger on who is doing what in the game. So people can choose to avoid the Hildibrand line entirely and not contribute to the completion numbers. Those who want the weapon no matter what, they can speed through the storyline skipping cutscenes as necessary. We all have the choice on what content we want to do. I decided I liked the look of some later Bozja weapons, so I bored myself to death in that zone enough to get through the relic steps. If someone finds what we get from these relics worth it, then they'll do what they need to do to get them.

[FoxyAreku]

Not like relics are useful for anything. I'm just not going to do it.

[Reap00]

Not sure whether they were being actually serious about this or not, but either way it's bad form to require such an absurdly long questline to be completed before we can do this expansion’s relic. I don’t even think Ivalice is as time consuming, and at least acts as a skill check on the playerbase.

Just why?

Absurdly long? Toughen up for gods sake.

[Lustre]

People in this thread be like "guys stop complaining hildibrand is great" and also "yeah I'm just gonna skip through them" lmao

[Saraide]

People in this thread be like "guys stop complaining hildibrand is great" and also "yeah I'm just gonna skip through them" lmao

Very strange yea. I mean we all know that everyone on the forum is part of a single hivemind and there cannot exist groups of people with different opinions. /s

[Kaurhz]

Very strange yea. I mean we all know that everyone on the forum is part of a single hivemind and there cannot exist groups of people with different opinions. /s

We don't practice heterogeneity around these parts, sorry. We only accept homogeneity here. "One, therefore all must..."

[LisSquid]

ince that would just let Yoshida show the shareholders that they should focus more on this kind of garbage story telling, because it's "suddenly popular". Not like it matters, but you do what you gotta do.

While I respect your opinion not to do something, that's not how things work. Shareholders do not care about what content people are playing in the game, they care about how much revenue SE (and specifically the FFXIV team here) made for them.

No one in any board meeting with investors went, "So you see, the Engagement Metrics for the Gold Saucer are through the roof! We will be making more of it!" It's more like, "Box sales hit record profits, and we will see that double the next time or they'll cut our budget in half."

[Glandire]

Looking back how grindy some of the ARR relics used to be (the drop rates of everything and fates spawning times were not as generous as they are now) I don't think this is the worst which could happen honestly.

Considering that the main reason this questline takes so long are cutscenes, which you can skip, it does not sound half bad for people who are not so fond of Hildibrand. I imagine there might be way worse steps introduced to the whole relic grind on top of it yet as they are supposed to be not super easy to get anyway.

Either way I am just really curious to see how it will all tie together.