Xenosys Vex explains how to save the game

[Raven2014]

Exactly what are you saying then? Why are you bringing up your experience of grinding alliance raids for months to get every piece of glamour and then concluding that you speak for a lot of players and that players don't want it to be grindier?

Yes?

Because Xenos keeps claiming in his vid (which is his habbit, often you can hear him said the samething over and over and over for 5min long) this is something people do one or twice or never even do. Which is not wrong ... if you're someone like him. But for people like me, because I want the reward, so I don't have the same yardstick as him. I actually like Xenos so I watched several of his vid over time, so I think I have a fairly good overall context of what he's getting at whether you seem to be looking at it in a vacuum.

- Xenos didn't like the fact the Relic raid dungeons (both Eureka and Borza) were lock behind the questline. Paraphased what he said: he should be able to unlock those raid dungeon without going through that BS.

- In this video he claim Stormblood is the best expansion (which I ironinically agree). But do you know that in the last cutsceens in Endwalker, Xenos didn't know Shinriyu and Zenos merged in Sb? What does that tell you about his opinion?

And I don't mention the above as a strike on Xenos's credibility, rather just context of the type of player he is. It's obvious where his content of focus is. Like ... around the 7:30 mark of this video you saw him try to acknowledge of the glam players but were too stubborn to go through with it, so he just tried to handwave it away (ok you may run it two time lol?). Grinding, longevity of content and whatever else he said in this video are really just window dressing, he does it for the camera. I imagine if you walk up to him and say:

"ok xenos stop beating around the bush and just tell us what you want in 20 seconds."

I think his response gonna be something like this:

"**** the story, **** the trial, **** the casual content, give me 8 floors per tier and 3 ultimate per expansion and FF14 will no longer need saving".


Which to be clear, I won't say it would be wrong of him to say something like that. People simp for their favorite content all the time. I'm just saying framing it as "my idea of saving the game" is a bit ... OH WAIT! That's also what people do all the time on this forum!. It just really goes to say a streamer is really no different than a forum posters. Their take neither more valid or invalid, their takes are neither hotter and colder. The only difference between you, me, and streamer like Xenos is we type a post and they made a video.


Edit: also if you can not acknowledge how big the glam community are ... I don't think you're grounded enough in reality to have a productive discussion. Self-example is I had never gone to a single nightclub/party even in this game in the 10 years I played, and I don't think I ever will. But it will be extremely foolish of me to deny their presence, scope and impact if I ever want to engage in a genuine discussion about the game community.