Live Letter Thoughts

[AwesomeJr44]

Applied generally, this is a great philosophy for being miserable your entire life.
And for coming off as an entitled ass, which is perhaps equivalent.

So, no thanks. I'll keep my ready smile and easy laugh, instead.

News flash, this game is a product. I expect a quality product if I'm expected to pay for it. If SE wants to drop the subscription, I'll start expecting lower quality. However, considering that I have to pay $15 a month to play the game, I demand that the game be a quality product.

In addition, having the opposite mentality is the key to a miserable life. When you settle for lesser things your entire life, you will end up being miserable and wishing you chose to have better. Try to have some standards sweety.

[BaconBits]

My reaction to this information.



Get excited SAM mains, it'll only get worse from here.

[TaleraRistain]

I was not that interested in Island Sanctuary before but now I'm very interested. This looks like it will be a lot of fun. I was already excited for Variant dungeons and this just made me more excited. I'm pretty sure I'll spend a significant amount of time there.

I did like the comment about Criterion dungeons about being careful with how you pull since overlapping mechanics could wipe you. Seeing a bit more strategy than just wall pull everything is rather appealing. I'm wiling to try those out at matching level, and maybe even see if friends want to throw ourselves at the challenge level. It's much easier to get 3 friends together than 7.

Really looking forward to the Omicrons. That mount is adorable.

Big Varshahn! It's been fun speculating on who the reaper is. Is that Zero? Is that our 13th shard? Is it both? Is she Azdaja? I want her outfit, especially her boots. Gridania starter here happy to see my Papalymo and Yda there with us in Steps of Faith. IIRC he's the first who speaks to you and he's always had a special place in my heart. I miss him. Curious how Haurchie will be used in The Vault. Meteor was there as a tank.

Per the argument about SAM earlier in the thread, one thing they mentioned is that they're going to start explaining the reasoning behind changes starting with the next set. So hopefully that will help give a clearer picture.

All in all, a really good live letter giving us a lot to look forward to.

[Padudu]

So I just have a question -- what the heck is the symbol on that jacket from? I know it's supposed to be a "PLD jacket" but I don't recall seeing that art anywhere..

[Deveryn]

News flash, this game is a product. I expect a quality product if I'm expected to pay for it. If SE wants to drop the subscription, I'll start expecting lower quality. However, considering that I have to pay $15 a month to play the game, I demand that the game be a quality product.

In addition, having the opposite mentality is the key to a miserable life. When you settle for lesser things your entire life, you will end up being miserable and wishing you chose to have better. Try to have some standards sweety.

There's settling and then there's understanding that comes from time spent playing the games and interacting with the teams.

There's a book you should check out "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff.... It's all small stuff"

[LittleImp]

So I just have a question -- what the heck is the symbol on that jacket from? I know it's supposed to be a "PLD jacket" but I don't recall seeing that art anywhere..

It appears on the Paladin AF gear in Endwalker. The downward pointing sword is a common motif with PLD.

[Silverbane]

News flash, this game is a product. I expect a quality product if I'm expected to pay for it. If SE wants to drop the subscription, I'll start expecting lower quality. However, considering that I have to pay $15 a month to play the game, I demand that the game be a quality product.

FFXIV is a quality product: it runs well on a wide variety of hardware, is realtively free of software bugs, and lots of people enjoy it. The quality of FFXIV is not your issue: it's that FXXIV isn't exactly what you want.

Well, cupcake, I have news for you: hardly anything ever is.
There's always some aspect of anything that you would change if you were in charge.
But you're not.

Whether it's a work of art, a video game, a car, a restaurant meal, a friend, or a spouse, happiness comes from appreciating the important things you value, and not getting your panties in a knot about the little things that aren't exactly as you'd like.

Stop thinking you're an omniscient and all-wise god, the final arbitor of good and bad.
Learn humility, and an appreciation for how hard creating a product as complex as an MMO game is, much less how hard it is to make a successful one.
Then maybe you'll find it easier to be happier with what you've bought.
Because the perfect game you want? No one sells it, and probably never will.

And realize that it's one thing to pine for, say, a straw hat that has opening for Viera ears to pass through, and wish for one on the forums, and another thing entirely to insult the devs (and anyone who doesn't think it matters) and/or get all salty because such a hat doesn't exist.

[Padudu]

It appears on the Paladin AF gear in Endwalker. The downward pointing sword is a common motif with PLD.

Ohh yeah I completely have forgotten that. Thanks

[Ransu]

The Kaiten removal was great, removed an unneeded button from the hotbars when Shinten uses kenki just fine. Next I'm hoping for the Shoha 2 removal.

Then why even have kenki? The whole point of having another ability to use kenki and to give a potency boost to your big hit skills was to force you to manage your resources. It wasn't an "uneeded button" on the hotbar. It actually forced you to pay attention, regardless of how minor it may have been. Spamming shinten is incredibly boring and its animation is so janky that it creates an awkward pause between iajutsu's. We have no real use for a kenki bar anymore. May as well just put shinten on a CD and give it charges.

The fact you even said what you did really tells that you didn't know how to play the job and barely played it at all.

The loops did change, for one. Also using kaiten 3 times in the opener tended to clip horribly.

And if I wanted busy I'd play ninja. I don't, which is why I liked Sam. I moved to DRG instead, less frustrating.

It really didn't though honestly. The only thing moved out of the 1 min loop is ishikoten. You just loop with meikyo now. Maintaining the two loops and preventing drift is a lot more interesting.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Then why even have kenki? The whole point of having another ability to use kenki and to give a potency boost to your big hit skills was to force you to manage your resources. It wasn't an "uneeded button" on the hotbar. It actually forced you to pay attention, regardless of how minor it may have been. Spamming shinten is incredibly boring and its animation is so janky that it creates an awkward pause between iajutsu's. We have no real use for a kenki bar anymore. May as well just put shinten on a CD and give it charges.

The fact you even said what you did really tells that you didn't know how to play the job and barely played it at all.



It really didn't though honestly. The only thing moved out of the 1 min loop is ishikoten. You just loop with meikyo now. Maintaining the two loops and preventing drift is a lot more interesting.

I disagree, personally I prefereed the 5.x rotation.