Yoshi-P lied

[CStrife912]

Cool story.

Apparently someone showing emotion publicly is shameful.. I swear with these people. It didn’t make me think damn we must protect it etc he is just clearly passionate about what he does and this is a man who for the most part has been consistent with his schedule for years so to him it felt like a betrayal of his portrayed visage. I’d rather have Yoshi P cry on stream then see Kitase and Nomura try and tell me it would be impossible to do XYZ in regards to 7 remake with a straight face haha

[Kaurhz]

Apparently someone showing emotion publicly is shameful.. I swear with these people. It didn’t make me think damn we must protect it etc he is just clearly passionate about what he does and this is a man who for the most part has been consistent with his schedule for years so to him it felt like a betrayal of his portrayed visage. I’d rather have Yoshi P cry on stream then see Kitase and Nomura try and tell me it would be impossible to do XYZ in regards to 7 remake with a straight face haha

Honestly, I don't mind it - But to try and make a connection between the two is a bit of a pointless stunt, then again, I hardly expect much better.

People defend something because they still enjoy it even with its many flaws, just as some people continue to critique the game because it just doesn't quite scratch their itch, or for whatever reason - But some people seem to be so obsessive in trying to construe these as something else.

[Byron-Blackfyre]

I'm not going to get into...whatever...the current topic is in the last few pages.

I wanted to go back to something I saw mentioned earlier. I saw some comments about not knowing what is being built up to in the story. But consider this for a moment. Isn't this a good thing? We aren't sure where they're going to take things. We don't know how they might shake things up. Instead of having things run on a fairly predictable path, anything could happen. I find that intriguing at the very least.

I just hope that we get to visit the "new world" across the Indigo Blue like Emet-Selch foreshadowed and get a chance to expand on Blue Mage lore + skills.

[Kranel_San]

Lies of YoshiP

[Havenchild]

My issue is that patches used to provide days, potentially a week or two of content. In the 6.X cycle I'm lucky to get ~4 hours of content.

This is a lie. Post patch content never really took "a week or two" especially in patches that didn't include the raid tier. At best you might get a day or two worth of content, and that's very gracious. If you took any longer than that, you just weren't playing the game as often, period.
Been playing since ARR and this has pretty much been the consistent content feed since at least SB in a similar time table.

[Escence]

I mean the changes they made are minor changes nothing for the trust system where for 16 has taken a lot of the key staff that has work on 14 in order for it to get out the door. Thus why we need a extra mont so that way they can time to put something together for 14. I mean 6.XX patch cycle has been mid feel like the game could use more content to have the community engage with each other a lot more or other avenues in order for get "endgame" armour pieces.

[Escence]

They're also working on the graphics upgrade. It feels odd that everyone blames XVI or wants to blame XVI. They have to go through the entire game to give us better lighting and shadows a better resolution for the older and non unique face models. That is a bunch of assets they need to look at and update. Then people try to use the we get less content when it's the same amount just some of it got repackaged as other things. Yet because it's not things some like or didn't come out in a way some wanted or expected it to that must mean it's bad somehow.

Yeah but does this game really need a graphic update? Because I feel that it should not be on the top of their priority list of things that need to be completed where there other systems in the game that either need a revamp or just need gutted and redesign for the modern day.

[Raoabolic]

Lies of YoshiP

Woah, is this the Dark Souls™ of PR?!

[Aexnidaral]

Quite a bit to digest in this thread.

Yoshi-P is a good man, and he definitely cares about the game; but he's also an employee of a company and part of their board. That has to come with the expectation that he's going to be double-talking sometimes. I don't think this necessarily comes from a place of malice, but I also think it's naive to think he's always putting the players best interest at heart.

It's very wild to read some of the whiplash from folks. I think it's disingenuous to assume anyone who either defends of criticizes the game is doing it from a place of bad faith. Though I do understand the knee-jerk to do so, as there are absolutely folks who are die-hard bad actors from both ends of the spectrum that can go unnamed. Personally, I've become a lot more vocal in my criticism of the game during this expansion's patch cycles. I've played FFXIV for a long time, and I love so much about the same; but this expansion's patch cycle has seemed comparatively boring and less able to hold my attention. I don't want to be on this game every waking hour of every day, but I do want to feel like there's something for me to do and look forward to doing when I log in. Right now, for me, that's really only the Loporrit tribe. Frankly, if I didn't have my House and wasn't doing some of the old Ultimates with friends I'd have unsubbed.

I understand that content like Bozja and Eureka, specifically, is not for everyone. I hated Pagos with my whole heart and still do to this day when I help friends out with them. And I understand that content like Bozja and Eureka is particularly hard to future proof for people who want to "collect" relic weapons (/armor) and their shinies after the content is less relevant. But for the time at which it comes out it is fun and engaging, to me. Unfortunately due to the nature of how the game is structured there's a plethora of lower level stuff to do, but not a lot of current level things to do. I can only clear Savage so many times before I don't want to do it anymore. In my opinion, stuff like Eureka and Bozja filled out that nice midcore gap of being able to jump into an instance, do a little grinding, have some fun doing FATEs, an instance, whatever; and then hop out. But in this expansion there's really not a lot. The Deep Dungeon/Orthos is fine -- there's really only so many ways you can iterate upon the system we have, and I think this one is neat, but saving it until the tail end of the patch for 3.5 made it feel somewhat empty. I very much enjoyed Variant Dungeons and Criterion, but the reward structure was so lacking and anemic that it provides no incentive to really do much other than getting the clear and never touching it. Island Sanctuary was interesting but now that I'm maxed out I set my agenda for the week and don't touch it until the day before it resets to collect everything and set the agenda again.

I don't think it's fair for some folks to immediately fire back with quotes like "just go do Coils synced", "go do TOP", or "go grind out the Accursed Hoarde achievement" when people bring up the issues that they have because it's not helpful, and it's not really addressing most of the issues that are genuinely being raised; same with "just take a break" I don't think anyone who is legitimately criticizing things in this thread is saying they want to be plugged into the game terminally without being able to play or do anything else, they're just lamenting the fact that this expansion has exposed the cracks in the game's content ecosystem; and just flippantly replying that is disingenuous.

I love this game -- FFXIV is one of my favorite games, and definitely my favorite Final Fantasy; but this expansion's patch cycle has left me a little disillusioned, and I'm very much hoping that whatever the current issues are now, whatever the cause of them is, will be ironed out in 7.0. Maybe that's copium, but I think when you're disappointed in something it's important to be honest in your critiques; and if the community for this game hadn't been as vocal in its critiques as it was, we wouldn't have made it out of 1.0 (not that I think the situations are directly analogous)

[Rolder50]

If we have to apply RL stuff for « immersion » in the game, I want to be forced to sleep at least 7 eorzean hours per day, eat 3 meals a day, and take dumps on lalafells.

Woah woah hold up here. How is taking dumps on lalafells similar to something IRL? Got something you want to tell us?