Please stop destroying the playerbase + fix blacklist

[NoFaceNobody]

People used mare, and use mods, because game fully lacks of any good modern character customization. We have old faces and all characters looks the same.
Maybe try to focus on reasons?

It's not even modern customizations we're lacking... it's almost all customization.
Nothing feels unique between player characters.
Hell we don't even have good beard options in 2025

[MaikoRaines]

While I understand that the TOS was technically broken

Not technical. WAS broken. But go on...

But this issue will persist until player IDs are properly protected from within the game itself.

So... fix one illegal service so we can go back to using the other illegal service. Got it.

It feels like the joy is being chipped away piece by piece, and this latest decision was the final straw for many. I'm not going to repeat every complaint that has been voiced countless times here, but it adds to the recent events. It's painful watching a community I love fall apart like this.

Idling in Limsa, Ul'dah or some ERP Debauchery Sex Dungeon isn't worth the subscription. Take it to VR or that other game if this is the case.

Please, stop driving away the very players who have kept this world alive for so long and fix the issues that have been addressed multiple times before.

Factual incorrect statement. Perhaps the vast majority of "vanilla" players that were openly marginalized by this not-so protected class of end-users who were using a function against the TOS finally just had enough. It's one thing that there were people who were using it for the sake of just for themselves, but you have the creator to blame for taking donations (and don't argue with me it was upkeeping a server - money was involved for whatever it was intended for - you're not gonna win that argument in any court) and you have the morons who couldn't keep it in their pants, off the /shout in main cities and off the /tell - and now y'all are in the "find out" stage - not Square Enix.

Enough of this "I'm being persecuted for who I aaaaaaaam" nonsense.


I will agree the blacklist sucks. That I'm 100% onboard here.

[Saraide]

I am SO curious how that works with the stat nerf and missing so many skills from the quests. I'm sure it's totally possible, but you must have some weird tricks to do it.

It works because normal mode content is a joke and other people are picking up their slack. There is nothing interesting about jobless content, you can just do less. This is not a challenge, it's simply lowering the ceiling. There are no tricks, this person is just griefing.

[Mana_Azir]

We hypothetically will get one dungeon with flex difficulty like WoW. More people will clear it in like week-two-three and then there is nothing to do, unless you want to reclear old content.

Going by how the usual patch cycles work, it will be in the tail end of the patch so their aim was already around the last 45days-ish for the average voracious player. After that you get ready for the next major patch which comes in a few days later. We still dont know how the reception for the Deep dungeon revamp is gonna be so gotta wait to see if that also becomes long term main stay after the initial rush.

Weekly alliance raid aleeady feel like a chore, you do the same stuff over and over with no variety. Once again other MMOs usually avoid this stuff with how different may one walkthrough be from another just necause different classes solve mechs differently. Also mechs could be more randomized, making you think on the go.
FF homogenized all the jobs, you press the same buttons, more classes have one button more, pr one button less. You will work on 2 min windows for burst.
Its usually more interesting when we get additional skills like in eureka, but the content with it is so scarce...

Dont get me wrong, i wasn't expecting it on first patch. My complaint is mostly that when Endwalker came out I was so hyped about everything, the story, dungeons, bosses, I farmes extremes to get gear, i tried couple of savage even.

And now it's all reduced to me losing my hype over beastmaster and being hyped for crossover. Ehich are both not coming any time soon and I have absolutely no reason to keep logging in, other than to check my house and log off. It's depressing.

Ngl im having a hard time gauging stuff here cos at one hand you want variation, mech randomization (which TONS of folk complain about and their newest attempt at trying to break it was with Kirin), job difficulty etc
and at the other hand you like EW levels of hype when aside from the story in msq and panda raids everything else was super snooze which complimented the one button lifestyle (aside from criterion savage, the only place you got kicked around in the nuts)

Separately for the Eureka thing, in case of OC its scarce cos you know the updates dont come till like 7.4 and 7.5 same with how it was for bozja. (Eureka itself being an outlier due to multiple zones AND WE STILL DIDNT GET THE 4TH ZONE OR THE LOGOS GETTING TRICKLED DOWN TO ANEMOS but i digress)

[Mana_Azir]

no tricks, u just use mouse + keyboard, instead of limiting urself with a controller, use mouseover macros to assist, use mana potions, gather piety stat, learn how to slidecast, and press buttons.
most content designed around Cutscene Watching Andies, so there is no big deal about it.

Anyway its offtop now. I just made my point about Blacklist function.

insert confused cat gif

I agree that the blacklist is horrid and still waiting on the friends list update
But what in the actual-

[Remolia]

then make a PF? the tools are there, instead of not doing what is expected and the bare minimum of courtesy and etiquette. The concept of a Social Contract also applies and translates to when using the DF.

I don't have problems with other players by default and I do bare minimum. If I will want to play a duty and avoid to get a PLD as a tank, I will make one.

[Remolia]

There is nothing interesting about jobless content, you can just do less. This is not a challenge, it's simply lowering the ceiling. There are no tricks, this person is just griefing.

Exactly! I dont want people to tell me which content is boring and which is not. So I would like to use BL to filter them out.

[Remolia]

Consider this alternative: Make a party finder making it loud and clear you have no desire to ever use job crystals in any content, and if people don't like it, they can blacklist you. (Which is doable from the PF.) And if someone joins the PF or sends a tell to heckle you, blacklist them (and then kick from party) like the baited fool they are.

As your intent is to blacklist people who might give you grief but the 200 cap isn't viable for that/you want them filtered beforehand, you'd have to goad people into blacklisting you instead, making THEM use up a precious slot instead of yourself while reserving yours for only the most troublesome players.

it does not solve the problem, of stop having them in my DF.

[RedLolly]

Lots of players will see a high level character insisting on not using a job stone and think that player is griefing even if it's a sincere thing and the content runs smoothly. It's just not the intended design.

There is a rare phenomenon with Black Mages known as "Ice Mages" where in a player will only use the Ice based magic. You still do damage, can attack in both single target and AOE, and mana management just disappears since you just don't use it in Umbral Ice. Cryo mage is a gimmick you can play in many RPGs and is a common favorite for elemental RP. It's one you can easily try from early levels, too. But you're still a very crappy Black Mage if you choose to play that way.

[Nero-Voidstails]

I made a alt one day and well I was making a test about how high I could reach before doing msq on dynamis. let's say I was stoneless for well actually a short time took me 5 hours to become a gun breaker at that point I haven't entered sastasha yet was doing LVL roulette 0.0.


like the game doesn't even remotely stop someone from reaching insane LV before forcing them into the msq. LVL roulette is locked until you unlock two dungeon and it was qarn and cutter cry 0.0