Manderville Relic Criticism

[BaconBits]

Also glad to see people finally acknowledge that mainsub absolutely refuses to acknowledge any criticism and will either just insult you or deflect the criticism

I had someone on there who asked me for an example of a failed job system in 14, I answered with stormblood lilies, immediately I got downvoted to hell and everyone was replying with some combination of “blood for the blood lily” or “I just hate WHM”, when I tried to explain I meant stormblood lilies only (I’m indifferent to ShB lilies) everyone basically just said they were exactly the same and I was just a hater, I then got muted

[Supersnow845]

When you think the forums are dumb, just go look at Reddit it's actually filled with NPCs. It's become a thing in the game too sadly, people making the same unfunny Reddit joke for the 738742883th time. It almost feels like playing with Trusts but they added ChatGPT to it.

I legit feel like the mainsub has fallen off a cliff, almost every post has become some effort bait about “oh my god I just saw x thing this is the best game ever” or some played out joke/saying like “blood for the blood lily” and then all the comments are just functional yes men

Even shitpostxiv is dying because mainsub isn’t feeding them any remotely interesting content anymore and as much as I regularly doompost on discussion even I get tired of how depressing it is sometimes

[VentVanitas]

at this point the main sub has been nothing but reposted commission art and "hi I've played for 5 minutes and this is the best game EVER" posts since ShB, which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if- as others have already said, it didn't completely stomp out any sign of discontent. does anyone remember when the 6.2 megathread got mcthanos'd because too many people had pointed out how utterly lacking it was? it just fascinates me that you're more likely to find productive discussion of the game on the shitpost sub of all places.

say what you want about the forums, it sure as hell is a mess, but at least people aren't silenced for their opinion, be it positive or negative. unless you're mass reported ig

[Syln]

i don't see why you couldn't have both a eureka/bozja zone and an alternative with tomestone for those who don't want to bother or that get bored of said zone. Why does it have to be one or the other ?

[Jojoya]

i don't see why you couldn't have both a eureka/bozja zone and an alternative with tomestone for those who don't want to bother or that get bored of said zone. Why does it have to be one or the other ?

It doesn't have to be either/or. SE can set up the relic grind anyway they want.

But if one method is much more efficient at completing the stage of the relic, players are generally going to pick that method even if they don't like it. And then complain that the content they liked wasn't rewarding enough.

[Supersnow845]

Trying to figure out if this image is going “what the f are you talking about” or “what the f were those people on mainsub talking about”

[RyoXander]

Relics just end up being glam by the next expansion anyway so I’m ok with ‘em being this easy.

[BaconBits]

Trying to figure out if this image is going “what the f are you talking about” or “what the f were those people on mainsub talking about”

Mainsub goons thinking Stormblood lilies were the same as Shadowbringer Lilies.

I'm 110 percent certain they consume paint chips and huff jenkem in their spare time. Absolute lobotomite behavior.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Oh, that's a pretty cool minigun. Looks like I'm ready to whip it out and blast up a jungle trying to find the Predator.



......Aaaand the magic is gone. Or rather, I wish it was gone. Stupid particle effects.

[LittleImp]

But if one method is much more efficient at completing the stage of the relic, players are generally going to pick that method even if they don't like it. And then complain that the content they liked wasn't rewarding enough.

If people actually did what was efficient, they would have been in Bozja doing their SHB relics.

Instead, they opted to torture themselves by spamming Crystal Tower because unqualified people on Reddit managed to convince a large portion of the playerbase that it was the best way to do the relic.