Thoughts about the LL?

[AvoSturmfaust]

Yea give me your thoughts about the LL

Me for my part, i actually enjoy some of the QoL Changes especially the one with the Phoenix Dawns.

The DD looks quit promising too, and i think the change with the additional boss at the end is really cool, you can deceided the difficulity on your own, now gotta see how the rewards are in the hoards.

The fact that there are more "safe checks" is really good too, maybe they really bringing out a good DD this time

[Zackneifein]

The only thing that I remember now, after seeing the trailer, is that the WoL is doing things during a cutscene.

My mind is blown.

[Supersnow845]

The deep dungeon changes represent an attempt at breaking the formula that I’m genuinly surprised at the scope of. I can’t really fault their dedication to pushing that as far as possible though for me personally it feels a bit bad it has to be on the content I care least about

Functionally zero changes to OC in light of such a departure on DD’s part feels worse considering I genuinely care for OC but I am walking away from this live letter more positive than I expected

[Jeeqbit]

I thought it was too long. It "was" so long that it's still half way through after 4 hours. Kinda dragged on with a lot of obvious stuff and repetition on the deep dungeon slides, even accounting for explaining all the differences.

But they explained the deep dungeon change is actually a philosophy change in general where they want to make the content doable by both hardcore and casual players alike, so they will be able to scale the difficulty, the mechanics and the amount of participanting players, with the rewards scaling in line with that and all these factors will make the content different each time, and thus replayable. It'll also be easier to queue for them by having more checkpoints throughout, since doing 100 floors was effectively asking you to take a day or few off along with up to 3 others and hope not to get killed.

I think it should help with people wanting replayable content that works for different types of players but it will also be interesting to see if this philosophy change does actually extend anywhere beyond this.

Being able to use phoenix downs in battle in dungeons is really cool because I liked that in the FF games I used to play. But from a mechanical perspective, it trivializes dungeons yet more (as much more as they can be when tanks can solo bosses and RDM/SMN can rez) unless they make the fights harder to compensate, which could be their plan but it will likely only be their plan for new ones.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Mirage Housing delayed again

I'm getting frustrated with these QoL promises.

[Valence]

If phoenix downs are usable in dungeons now, they have literally zero excuses to keep tanks overpowered.

[yesnt]

No housing update makes the whole patch obsolete for me. Yes, sounds petty, but it's been too long. I have no more patience. I don't give a damn about the chat bubbles (two lines, really?) and the Mahjong voices are so irrelevant...

[Alahard]

I mean the LL actually addresses concerns on the forms, and provided a plan on how they tackled it for once. Compared to last time when they just blamed it on cost.

They still have a lot of work to do ( they brought up the lack of certain types of content for certain players each patch, but the plans only extended to this patch), but if every LL is approached from this angle, then atleast we know what feedback they are specifically targeting and why.

[Batbrat]

Too long and drawn out, he needs a handler.
He wastes like an hour talking about a pixel on a lalas forehead. Wastes like an hour the previous LL on how speech bubbles work. Wastes like an hour in this LL telling us how deep dungeons work-what is he doing. What is he doing.

And I don't appreciate how he lied for attention and views.
He knew a month ago that there weren't any updates for coming for housing. So what did he say, at the end of that last LL?
"We'll talk more about housing in the next LL"
I sat through 3 hours of him talking last month just to get told to tune in today.
So I tune in today for another 4 hours just to be told once again right at the very end, "Actually, there's no news, and its absolutely NOT because I went to a concert to re-live whats left of my youth" Are you insane????????? "a-and tomorrow, I get on a plane to go to taiwan and" Has he lost his mind?????? If he's too busy being a global aging rockstar then fine, do that, but he needs to say that upfront so people don't waste their time watching, waiting on something that he already knows we're not going to hear. That man is devious. Anything for attention!! Anyway the rest was fine though. but there's no chance I'm watching future LL's, I cannot stand a liar.

[Darkstride]

No housing update makes the whole patch obsolete for me. Yes, sounds petty, but it's been too long. I have no more patience. I don't give a damn about the chat bubbles (two lines, really?) and the Mahjong voices are so irrelevant...

I am equally disappointed.