Letter From the Producer Live Part LXXIX - 24 September 2023 - Summary and Discussion

[Oizen]

So are they still in denial that Criterion Normal is Savage Difficulty, and Criterion Savage is just taking an already savage piece of content and adding even more wonderful endwalker "do it perfectly or else" design to it?

[Eisi]

So are they still in denial that Criterion Normal is Savage Difficulty, and Criterion Savage is just taking an already savage piece of content and adding even more wonderful endwalker "do it perfectly or else" design to it?

No, have you read the interviews this week? Yoshi-P knows that Criterion normal is Savage difficulty. He explicitly stated it in one of them.

[Oizen]

No, have you read the interviews this week? Yoshi-P knows that Criterion normal is Savage difficulty. He explicitly stated it in one of them.

Then why lock the rewards to the uninspired Criterion Savage Savage as if players are actually clearing the Criterion Savage Normal?

[Eisi]

Then why lock the rewards to the uninspired Criterion Savage Savage as if players are actually clearing the Criterion Savage Normal?

Because you're cute!!

[OgruMogru]

I'm still crying I've hated almost every single piece of caster gear this whole expac. Weeping and sobbing and snotting!

[NekoMataMata]

Thank you.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

Then why lock the rewards to the uninspired Criterion Savage Savage as if players are actually clearing the Criterion Savage Normal?

Same reason they released this hot mess of content in the first place: they never wanted to but there was no other way to shut people up. They're using the same logic for gear now. DOESN'T THAT SOUND GREAT?????????

I'm still crying I've hated almost every single piece of caster gear this whole expac. Weeping and sobbing and snotting!

At this point the game really is becoming like Paper Mario Sticker Star: it seems like a lot if not all is being made purely to spite those who came before literally this post. That game was not fun in any capacity and it looks like XIV is heading towards that as well. You can't even jump on clearly reachable objects in many parts of the game. It makes no sense other than to annoy people the devs don't like. I actually went and logged out just to see if Thaliak was the deity I chose at the start. He was, and I'm wondering if I should even continue at this point.

[Eisi]

You can't even jump on clearly reachable objects in many parts of the game. It makes no sense other than to annoy people the devs don't like.

C'mon Egil, this is couples therapy talk.

[Minarisweet]

Because you're cute!!

Im jealous nobody's called me cute in the official forums before

[SannaR]

This is pretty bad, I gotta say I wasn't a fan of Nophica because 1) her shoulder/neck area is weirdly unshapely and stiff 2) her face is childish 3) her curves are plastic, not natural, she could have used some chub on her arms as well. So I don't think Nophica was a great success either, in fact she was a disappointment, Nymeia is the clear winner design-wise in Euphrosyne.

Maybe Thaliak will drop his clothes during the encounter? Or maybe they wanted to dress Oschon more skimpy and thus gave Thaliak some more to put on?

There's more than one statue of Thalik. The others that you can see atop of a few buildings in Labyrinthos has him in a cloak/robe with the staff that he's described as looking as. There were people in the chat shocked that he wasn't in a skirt or a robe and was as they put it a femboy. It's funny that no one is up in arms about Llymlean. She doesn't look anything like a person who's spent their life out on the open sea or as someone who can carry that fishing spear/harpoon. Where's the tall and burley or short and muscular lady that would fit in as part of the crew on a whaling ship? With salty sea windswept hair that's slightly unkempt? Skin that's been aged slightly and roughed by that same air? At least she summons two sea snakes in what looks like her ultimate attack.