Quote Originally Posted by TheRealMadruck View Post
Now, let me address the comments I made regarding how FFXIV is emulating Dark Souls or Elden Ring. This article, from June 2024, shows Yoshi-P himself directly stating that the influence for Dawntrail was heavily inspired by his crew playing both Dark Souls and Elden Ring. Even if the game is not 100% as hard as those titles, they factually influenced many of the fight designs in this expansion, and to say they did not is disingenuous.

The article is here: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/ff...brutally-hard/
So your proof is a game journalist sloppy article about something Yoshi P said about the game that has been translated out of his native language? Hmmm...

Even then the article clearly states that Yoshi P thought the game was too stress free and that the development team wanted to add a sense of accomplishment after a hard earned victory into casual content and compared it to the feeling you get when beating a minor Elden Ring boss. To say he made the game souls like is disingenuous and just factually wrong.

Someone asked what point people are trying to make here? Yes player numbers are down and DT wasn't the best but everyone knows that. The thing is every MMO has a bad expension or two its a fact of life. WoW had Warlords, BFA and Shadowlands that all weren't great. Nothing is perfect forever and long term games will stumble. But its very annoying to people who still love the game when people come here to complain about absoutley nothing (such as leveling in OC and Beastmaster) and harp on about how the game is sooo bad. If you don't like it fine. But I'm sick of hearing these bizarre complaints. If you don't like it no one is making you be here.