Quick Question about the new field operations?

[Nero-Voidstails]

Isn't deep at all. Content creators don't read the forums properly or understand them like those of us posting here regularly. They are just finding some content to make a video about because they are, well, content creators.

When you post here you're publishing and that makes the content of your post open to reactions like how they react to news articles. No point taking it personally since they don't really understand you, they're just fishing for things to make content about as I said.

Content creators are never actually upset, by the way. They are channeling glints of emotion and overhyping them, because doing this is more entertaining. Being entertaining is their job. I'm sure they'd be super chill if you met them off camera.

so true words of a master here

[Gurgeh]

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When you post here you're publishing and that makes the content of your post open to reactions like how they react to news articles. No point taking it personally since they don't really understand you, they're just fishing for things to make content about as I said....

Oh yeh for sure. Don't post on a public forum like I did then get ass ache over it.
Try not to be salty, show vulnerability, then be surprised if there are people who can't resist attacking a soft target (not a dig at Cider who's just 'reacting', or at least I'm happier trusting thats the case.)
That said for me if you are able to delete a comment then personally 'only', exported comments should be anonymised but... meh, like I say don't post in a public read forum.
Id call that just laziness. I'll give benefit of the doubt its that and its not to 'influence' with some agenda, because that would be an abuse in my book. (I don't give a F about anyone else's book on that last matter)

(I just don't get it though. He definitely found something really irritating. I was surprised. And found it kind of funny enough chat about, like with your take Jeequbit)

I am a bit more pissed now though...
Because comments here and in the video (to a lesser extent, because it just failed to understand my badly worded OP) did make me feel 'wrong' to have my opinion. (Its just an opinion it should go without saying, it should almost be impossible for an 'opinion' to be wrong, it reserves the option to change, it should self acknowledge one might be wrong.)
But this (Zeplas vid) made me realise I wasn't completely 'wrong', and now I was pissed again, because I had already subconsciously devalued my own opinion and hadn't realised. WTF.

https://youtu.be/UnY7PMsV8QI

(I can't lay claim to everything in Zeplas video, I'm not in her class of nuanced analysis or level of invested love for the game.)

I tried in my OP to forestall people thinking I was trolling, because I just wanted to know "am I going 'have' to do brain dead fate sprints in Uldah, am I going have to do ARR alliances?" because "I" don't want to pay for that, and I've been 'quietly' looking forward to the new field zone. I want to stop looking forward to it if thats going to be the case.
I'm allowed to say I've had enough disappointment. I've paid enough for my optimism and sunny disposition already. < irony alert!
Or if I have to wait until after I've subbed to find that out... yeah I want my sub money back on the 29 days of sub I'm not going to use. Which isn't an option.

P.S. Blackmage has not been dubmed down because of casuals struggling through Arcadia while being carried or endlessly ressed. I wonder for who's benefit in what content BLMs have been dumbed down for?...... < full blown sarcasm alert!
For a couple of years now, BLMs have gotten my commendation by default just for 'trying' it, with XIVs endless position and resolve formula which is now the only gameplay pretty much.

...like I say I'm about to lose my right to reply, 2 week no login forum lockout be up any time now...

@ CVXIV ... nice! Yeah I've never been under the illusion XIVs attracting profoundly superior humans. It was XIV fostering the right behaviour, which they've been failing badly recently. 1,000 cuts. (another thread completely)

P.P.S. ... to really win players back is now going to cost SQX more than if they had just kept up investment in the first place.
That ought be obvious from all the feedback by now.
Tansmog style glamour.
Cross DC PF 'with' chat.
Dungeon shake up.
Housing XYZ coordinates.
Housing for All.
Housing not tied to sub.
Healing that means something! (good luck rebalancing to make the old content still be challenging and clearable)
Hair for all races that mods devs apparently have no trouble achieving (just do it how they do it even if its not the proper way)
Challenging content for midcore (we all do know what that means by now) and at the same volume as savage.
Rewards for that content.
Chat bubbles
Great script and effort in side quests.
Fully fleshed holiday events.
Release cadence in line with old 3month or whatever it was that predated me.
'netcode' fxies (if not already?)
craft gather QoL improvements for people not using mods.
And you probably going to have to drop it all within '1' expansion, becuase you are going to have to make a WoW level impact like dragon flight has. It got its shoot together and has just kept up slamming it home since like with 'housing!'

Nothing less than 80% of that will be greeted with anything but "meh, I'll keep playing this other game thanks."

...ohh and the MSQ is gonna have to rival ShB/EW.. good luck with that now! we've had our 'chill holiday in the sun'.

Its gonna cost more now. Is SQX gonna step up? Or pack it in and roll off into sunset.

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Are you really bumping it so that Cider Spider can react or something? Lmao

Just put it in his chat or something lol

[Gurgeh]

Are you really bumping it so that Cider Spider can react or something? Lmao

Just put it in his chat or something lol

nah... its because you have to enter 10 chars, and you can put a long post in only as an re-edit.

that and .... ehhh... I'm probably bored.
Like the cider vid did say, I'm definitely a case of "dear diary".
If anyone wants me to stop... get Yoshi to start spending more of our sub on our game to keep my busy in game, and I don't mean more 'press X' content. or content I have to scheduled into to my diary with 3 to 7 other people around their grandma's gerbil's funeral. (I do enough scheduling 9-5.)

[CVXIV]

You're free to have your own opinions, and you're not wrong for asking questions like this
but given the track record of the game and how they have handled this type of content in the past, it's not very surprising what they are going to do with these new weapons

In a previous thread you had talked about wanting Eureka to be harder, to be extreme-level difficulty
So if you have done Eureka, then you should be familiar with how field operations work to begin with

It's like asking a rhetorical question just to complain and say you're not going to participate in the new content that's coming