How to Restore Confidence in FFXIV

[CelestiCer]

If Square stops hollowing out Job designs... Who am I kidding they won't stop doing that. How else are they going to obtain the unobtainable perfect balance?

I set the Bar exceptionally Low... Give back Kaiten. That's all it takes to restore my confidence. Not a new Beast-tribe/Race/Hairline/Glamour/Raid/Mounts/Ultimate/Mogstation-Item/Emotes -> to restore my confidence? is just 1 button, give it back and that's it. Unfortunately? they won't ever do that so my confidence is probably never going to be restored. They can't even improve the housing interface beyond that of a " House that's Burning Down ". So yeah...

[hunkygladiator]

For one, nobody wanted to see yet more hideous allagan textures copypasted everywhere.

The mount is yet another recycled mob and another with more ugly allagan textures painted on it.

From what I understand new enemies roam around the levelling floors that can one-shot and then wipe whole parties, making this content useless as a less painful way of levelling alt classes.

How are these even real issues?

It's all just your aesthetic preferences. 81-100 has some of the best deep dungeon visuals we've seen in a long time.

And seriously there's nothing in 21-30 that can one shot and wipe entire parties if you're remotely paying attention. The one-shots only begin at 41+ and was a great way to make hardcore DD more fun (but they also made it much less fun at the same time by nerfing autos to the point where even DPS don't need to kite anything).

[TaleraRistain]

And seriously there's nothing in 21-30 that can one shot and wipe entire parties if you're remotely paying attention. The one-shots only begin at 41+ and was a great way to make hardcore DD more fun (but they also made it much less fun at the same time by nerfing autos to the point where even DPS don't need to kite anything).

I'm pretty sure he's talking about dread beasts which can wipe the party on that level at low aetherpool levels. But they're also easy to sneak past.

[hunkygladiator]

I didn't find Hermes horrible -- I liked the story of him and Meteion.
The idea that having too much hope that some solution will bring rose-colored results ends up in total disaster is pretty good.
(that and I don't expect superb story-telling from MMOs when there are so many factors that can derail consistency)

Hermes is fine but Amon-Hermes-Fandaniel as a whole is a seriously asinine character. I see it as nothing but a desperate attempt to salvage the horrible Fandaniel arc in 5.x and try to pull another Emet-Selch.

[aveyond-dreams]

Excellent news! Zepla has returned from her long hiatus in the world of Genshin Impact to comment on the state of FFXIV. Hopefully if not us the people SE has hired for its "Influencer Relations" can take in her feedback.

[Themarvin]

Excellent news! Zepla has returned from her long hiatus in the world of Genshin Impact to comment on the state of FFXIV. Hopefully if not us the people SE has hired for its "Influencer Relations" can take in her feedback.

Who gives a damn about that person? It is just another person with a mic.. and often caught data mining like that Meow whatever guy is named, when telling news of FFXIV....

To restore confidence in the game, try and find some other MMO that you might like playing and come back here again.

I don't think Streamers is there for any good, you should rather be playing the game than giving them ANY views at all.

That alone will make you know if you want to actually play the game or not no matter what positive or negative things a clown with a mic tells you to do, and often only influenced by own degraded views rather as of the games as in whole.

[hunkygladiator]

Who gives a damn about that person? It is just another person with a mic.. and often caught data mining like that Meow whatever guy is named, when telling news of FFXIV....

To restore confidence in the game, try and find some other MMO that you might like playing and come back here again.

I don't think Streamers is there for any good, you should rather be playing the game than giving them ANY views at all.

That alone will make you know if you want to actually play the game or not no matter what positive or negative things a clown with a mic tells you to do, and often only influenced by own degraded views rather as of the games as in whole.

oh no! data mining! the horrors

[Deo14]

Excellent news! Zepla has returned from her long hiatus in the world of Genshin Impact to comment on the state of FFXIV. Hopefully if not us the people SE has hired for its "Influencer Relations" can take in her feedback.

Expected more lukewarm take from her. I was pleasantly surprised that she admits that tome dump isn't very exciting and that "just take a break" isn't solution.

What sticked out from me was the comment from chatter: "this expansion been very safe while being experimental"

V&C was great new thing - but it didn't even provide savage equivalent rewards, new reward system or any meaningful rewards for that matter. This single problem caused whole content to die in a week.
Savage loot got some small book nerfs - but it's still locked until .18/.38 without any core changes, even though we have 19 jobs at this point.
No changes in AR, dungeon, or trial formulas
IS is something brand new - but it's nearly completely disconnected from the rest of the game, alongside other problems with it's design
EO is, well, a DD, nothing new or experimental here
But the best experiment was lack of exploratory zone. Hopefully result of this experiment will be that every single expansion from now on will have strong focus on them.

[Liam_Harper]

The game needs a rehaul. As far as I'm concerned, it's done. I've been giving feedback for years, spent years waiting for healers to be interesting, crafting to be worthwhile, rewarding content with replay value, real dungeons. There comes a time where you have to realize the developers are not interested in making that sort of game and to do what many posters have advised, "If you don't like it, quit", instead of living on hopium and burning free time you could be spending on something fun.

In a few days I'll lose forum access and my voice will fade. Many others have too. If you're a long time forum user and think about it, you might realize a lot of the names you saw posting regularly long term aren't here anymore. Meanwhile the same few will parrot about how the people who are happy with the game are playing the game. Well, the people who are unhappy with the game are gone. You can't see them or count them, but for every complainer there are far more silent leavers.

I'm gone gone. I've handed an entire gil cap to my FC and my house is demolished.
I moved to WoW and as much of a mess that game is, as buggy and flawed ...I'm having fun again. I think people live so stuck in their bubble of "WoW's toxic and sucks, FF's great" that they really only hinder themselves. It's not really toxic, it's filled with normal down to earth human beings, some grumpy, some no-lifers, lots friendly and helpful. It's nice having real dungeons, proper raids and being able to load an addon or discuss normal gamer topics like dps, gear or stats without a dev slapping you on the wrist, trying to wrap you in bubblewrap and playing parent.

It's honestly sort of sad looking back at these forums from time to time and seeing how low expectations have dropped. People who are fine with Island Sanctuary or grind 1500 tomes for a relic or think Criterion is actually a dungeon, or "they'll fix AST in 7.0 ...maybe!". Or watching them add outfit after poorly made outfit to the cash shop and people lap it up like a cheap F2P. Or being excited for 4 bosses in an arena as a full raid tier. Or the best healers getting is one SCH fairy skin. Or the fact no one even cares about the MSQ anymore but just defend it as "it's ok" even though their excitement for it barely exists. It's like mild depression in here and players are in coping mode and plodding along.

Anyway, grumble aside, I've had some great memories here and met some wonderful people too. There's a reason I've tried to give feedback for so long. FFXIV really had potential and I don't regret my time playing. But it's time to move on. If you're clinging to hope, ask yourself how long you've been hoping for without seeing a change or any sign you'll get one.

[hunkygladiator]

The game needs a rehaul. As far as I'm concerned, it's done. I've been giving feedback for years, spent years waiting for healers to be interesting, crafting to be worthwhile, rewarding content with replay value, real dungeons. There comes a time where you have to realize the developers are not interested in making that sort of game and to do what many posters have advised, "If you don't like it, quit", instead of living on hopium and burning free time you could be spending on something fun.

In a few days I'll lose forum access and my voice will fade. Many others have too. If you're a long time forum user and think about it, you might realize a lot of the names you saw posting regularly long term aren't here anymore. Meanwhile the same few will parrot about how the people who are happy with the game are playing the game. Well, the people who are unhappy with the game are gone. You can't see them or count them, but for every complainer there are far more silent leavers.

I'm gone gone. I've handed an entire gil cap to my FC and my house is demolished.
I moved to WoW and as much of a mess that game is, as buggy and flawed ...I'm having fun again. I think people live so stuck in their bubble of "WoW's toxic and sucks, FF's great" that they really only hinder themselves. It's not really toxic, it's filled with normal down to earth human beings, some grumpy, some no-lifers, lots friendly and helpful. It's nice having real dungeons, proper raids and being able to load an addon or discuss normal gamer topics like dps, gear or stats without a dev slapping you on the wrist, trying to wrap you in bubblewrap and playing parent.

It's honestly sort of sad looking back at these forums from time to time and seeing how low expectations have dropped. People who are fine with Island Sanctuary or grind 1500 tomes for a relic or think Criterion is actually a dungeon, or "they'll fix AST in 7.0 ...maybe!". Or watching them add outfit after poorly made outfit to the cash shop and people lap it up like a cheap F2P. Or being excited for 4 bosses in an arena as a full raid tier. Or the best healers getting is one SCH fairy skin. Or the fact no one even cares about the MSQ anymore but just defend it as "it's ok" even though their excitement for it barely exists. It's like mild depression in here and players are in coping mode and plodding along.

Anyway, grumble aside, I've had some great memories here and met some wonderful people too. There's a reason I've tried to give feedback for so long. FFXIV really had potential and I don't regret my time playing. But it's time to move on. If you're clinging to hope, ask yourself how long you've been hoping for without seeing a change or any sign you'll get one.

Have fun in WoW!

And yeah, it's funny the FF14 community will keep complaining about a vocal minority complaining about the game... when they are the minority. Because the majority already moved on to other games lol