Zepla: Most Wanted Changes in FFXIV

[Swordsman]

Another good video from Zepla.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIEBL-T6gQk

I'm really glad she mentioned FFXIV's bad netcode/player position update rate and how it sucks when you see another player on your screen you're actually seeing them around a second behind where they actually are. PVP suffers a lot because of that.


Anyways, feel free to watch the video and discuss below.

[Oizen]

Its kinda embarrassing that she needs to open with a disclaimer, out of fear of this award winning community's backlash, for implying this game may have faults.

[Recon1o6]

tldr for those who cba to watch

Zepla mentions the following issues in no particular order

1. Netcode
2. Glamour dresser
3. Gearing taking forever
4. Menus/inventory system
5. Difficulty of installing/setting up your account
6. Level sync removing actions

while she's not wrong about these issues, she's completely missed the most important ones: jobs being crap and unrewarding to play (especially healers) and lack of repeatable content and midcore content
A game literally cant function without a good gameplay loop and the poor content and poorer jobs are whats causing this game's decline

[Swordsman]

Its kinda embarrassing that she needs to open with a disclaimer, out of fear of this award winning community's backlash, for implying this game may have faults.

Yeah, that made me laugh a bit. She's been around FFXIV players for a while now, and I think she knows how to handle them pretty well.

[Oizen]

Yeah, that made me laugh a bit. She's been around FFXIV players for a while now, and I think she knows how to handle them pretty well.

She sounds terrified of them.

[Avoidy]

Its kinda embarrassing that she needs to open with a disclaimer, out of fear of this award winning community's backlash, for implying this game may have faults.

Embarrassing but not unexpected. Just look at this forum and the xiv subreddit. If you even hint at the game not being perfect here, you're accused of being a troll's alt account (because all criticism must only come from 1 man) and reported lol
It actually says a lot that you can't post here unless you're subbed. Great way of creating an echo chamber. Even as the game gets worse and more people get fed up and quit, the only ones posting here will be folks who're either fine with it or are holding out for one last update before they head out, or maybe they're holding on for their house or something. It's why whenever that one dude makes a thread complaining about the game, he gets like a dozen people telling him to go outside, but when I "go play other games" and talk to former xiv players, they all just echo what zepla was talking about in her last video. The concerns are real, and they do cause people to quit, but their feedback will never be heard here because they're all gone already. As a medium for directing player feedback, these forums are honestly a joke. But it's not like the devs post here anyway, so

[VerdeLuck]

Level sync removing actions is a necessary evil.
The community of this game chases the path of least resistance, so getting a sprout with fewer spells is going to mean you go slower in all content. Really wouldn't want to see sprouts kicked so people can do their roulettes faster.
This is the community that would harass sprouts into skipping cutscenes in praetorium or just flat out speedrun it at the detriment of them, because they just wanted to clear asap.

[Saraide]

tldr for those who cba to watch

Zepla mentions the following issues in no particular order

1. Netcode
2. Glamour dresser
3. Gearing taking forever
4. Menus/inventory system
5. Difficulty of installing/setting up your account
6. Level sync removing actions

while she's not wrong about these issues, she's completely missed the most important ones: jobs being crap and unrewarding to play (especially healers) and lack of repeatable content and midcore content
A game literally cant function without a good gameplay loop and the poor content and poorer jobs are whats causing this game's decline

Wait she didnt mention wanting another bozja? I feel like that was a very big point in the big video about why endwalker is her least liked expansion.

[MisterNublet]

while she's not wrong about these issues, she's completely missed the most important ones: jobs being crap and unrewarding to play (especially healers) and lack of repeatable content and midcore content
A game literally cant function without a good gameplay loop and the poor content and poorer jobs are whats causing this game's decline

This is the biggest thing which I have no hope in them correcting with DawnTrail.

[Oizen]

Level sync removing actions is a necessary evil.
The community of this game chases the path of least resistance, so getting a sprout with fewer spells is going to mean you go slower in all content. Really wouldn't want to see sprouts kicked so people can do their roulettes faster.
This is the community that would harass sprouts into skipping cutscenes in praetorium or just flat out speedrun it at the detriment of them, because they just wanted to clear asap.

Then design the jobs to be played at all levels instead of the levels you unlock them. Its really that simple.

Why does WAR get small versions of Fell Cleave, Bloodwhetting, Inner Release, and so on while RPR is stuck pressing 123 until lv 70.