Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

[Dopey Cunt]

Good to have you back (even though I was also gone for a while there). Was wondering where you went when I wasn't seeing you pop up in recent replies.

Honestly the only things that are keeping me from moving to Dynamis are my private FC and housing, and the fact that I know some vapid cunt I previously associated with who also jumped ship to Dynamis and I wouldn't want to end up in the same queues as her.

Most likely they would have gone to Seraph which is the most populated server in Dynamis. I can at least confirm that no unwanteds are in Maduin. Well...besides me.

 

[RIPRhongoBongo]

I'll probably move DCs. Haven't decided on where yet, but I need to escape RP hell. Or let my alt out of whatever coma he's in

 

[ChromaQuack]

Honestly the only things that are keeping me from moving to Dynamis are my private FC and housing

Depending on what haus you got, getting a new one in Dynamis is piss easy.

The small plot right next to mine in goblet has been open and unclaimed for months, mediums can have some competition if you want *the spot* (I think there were a total of... 10 bidders on one of those right-next-to-the-beach mediums that everyone wants) otherwise you might get like two bidders, if that.

No clue about mansions, they suck, fuck those stairs and their general layout.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

Depending on what haus you got, getting a new one in Dynamis is piss easy.

The small plot right next to mine in goblet has been open and unclaimed for months, mediums can have some competition if you want *the spot* (I think there were a total of... 10 bidders on one of those right-next-to-the-beach mediums that everyone wants) otherwise you might get like two bidders, if that.

No clue about mansions, they suck, fuck those stairs and their general layout.

Yeah from what I could see, in Maduin, most if not all mediums and larges have been claimed but there's hundreds of smalls free if you want one.
Although most of the claimed plots are taken by people who do fuck all with them. Nearly all of the mediums and larges in my ward are fucking empty. They are just there, collecting dust which is infuriating considering that they are essentially keeping the plot from someone who would actually put it to use but no, it's just sitting there completely empty because you went to get a house only because you could and not because you wanted to do anything with it.

Like, clearly you do not care for housing because you're off fucking about while your medium/large sits in your ward bone fucking dry but you want to go out of your way to fuck someone out of a larger plot who does. It actually makes me MATI. I can't even enjoy house touring because there is either nothing to look at, or the inside is a modded hot mess of clipping and space squashing.

 

[Gravemind]

Yeah from what I could see, in Maduin, most if not all mediums and larges have been claimed but there's hundreds of smalls free if you want one.
Although most of the claimed plots are taken by people who do fuck all with them. Nearly all of the mediums and larges in my ward are fucking empty. They are just there, collecting dust which is infuriating considering that they are essentially keeping the plot from someone who would actually put it to use but no, it's just sitting there completely empty because you went to get a house only because you could and not because you wanted to do anything with it.

Like, clearly you do not care for housing because you're off fucking about while your medium/large sits in your ward bone fucking dry but you want to go out of your way to fuck someone out of a larger plot who does. It actually makes me MATI. I can't even enjoy house touring because there is either nothing to look at, or the inside is a modded hot mess of clipping and space squashing.

Are they considered owned by a Free Company? Because if so, chances are they're selling off the properties to other players by way of selling the Free Company.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

Are they considered owned by a Free Company? Because if so, chances are they're selling off the properties to other players by way of selling the Free Company.

Nah, they are all privately owned. I checked.

We still have all those extra wards that are unopened only because there is still so much space for housing left but who knows when they would open those. The extra wards were mainly added to other DCs because there was nothing left over there, but over here in Dynamis, we don't really need the extra wards so they've been sitting there unused. I can go inside them but interacting with any plot there will only just tell me that it's not available for purchase.

 

[00R-Gundam]

Can someone explain to me why theres this whole controversy of hating on Endwalker? i dont follow ff14 outside of looking for ways to optimize my class.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

Can someone explain to me why theres this whole controversy of hating on Endwalker? i dont follow ff14 outside of looking for ways to optimize my class.

From what i can gather, the fanbase got an influx of people with EW's release and clickbait/drama started happening sporadically

Iirc the ultimate race for DSR had the cheating drama, the SweetFX installer shit happend, the retarded irl billboard with the modbeasts on it happend etc

So it kinda became easy to milk whatever controversy appeared, so when EW pumped content that seemed sub par for many, it was easy karma or updoot content to make an effortpost calling the game or EW shit

 

[00R-Gundam]

From what i can gather, the fanbase got an influx of people with EW's release and clickbait/drama started happening sporadically

Iirc the ultimate race for DSR had the cheating drama, the SweetFX installer shit happend, the retarded irl billboard with the modbeasts on it happend etc

So it kinda became easy to milk whatever controversy appeared, so when EW pumped content that seemed sub par for many, it was easy karma or updoot content to make an effortpost calling the game or EW shit

wouldnt surprise me if said people havent played the game or they barely play it, that they dont know what the fuck they are talking about.

 

[Gravemind]

I wasn't aware there was any controversy circulating around hating Endwalker specifically.

Perhaps this is why you shouldn't pay attention to XIV "content creators" or its playerbase whatsoever.

 

[Tachibana]

I haven't played this game in forever and don't plan to again.

Content creators have nothing to talk about so they're farming content again?

 

[Gravemind]

I haven't played this game in forever and don't plan to again.

Content creators have nothing to talk about so they're farming content again?

Sounds like it.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

Yeah, there's a lot of barking going on by vocal minorities.
Most people just play, enjoy what they can and don't give enough of a shit to rant and perpetually chimp out on the internet about a game except, of course, the people who make playing the game their entire occupation in life. Because normal, stable people just stop playing and either go do something with their life or play something else out of the choices of good games out there.
Just once again, recycling the stereotype that everyone who plays FF14 are unhinged morons so far removed from reality that if you forced them away from the computer for more than an hour to touch a single piece of grass, they're like to pull out a knife and slit their own throats due to their inability to perceive any reality that doesn't involve this game. They think this game is real life, they live in this game, they live in the delusion, and streamers and content creators gatta pay their rent.

Personally, the game is fine. Yes, it was pretty mediocre content wise, but the obnoxiously loud doomers everywhere talking about how the game is dead or dying because the game is not as good as the GLORY DAYS are a bunch of retards. Similarly, everyone who white knights the game so much that they willfully ignore it's current flaws are equally as retarded and honestly I'm just sick of the dissonance and my youtube feed being shit up with these nutters desperately milking the teets of trendy, controversial topics about a game people feel disturbingly too strongly about.

On one side you've got the white knighting speds who feel a moral obligation to defend the game from anyone who ever utters any single negative thing about it, like environmental protestors, do nothing to actually alleviate the problem and just in fact exacerbate it even further. Then you have the top 9% hardcore players who do nothing but bitch and whine and complain about how easy the game is and that it's complete shit because not all the content in the game is ultimate level difficulty and all jobs don't have 20 bars worth of buttons to press so they won't shut the fuck up about how the filthy casual trash is ruining the game for them because Yoshi-P is CATERING to the filthy casual trash instead of listening to THEM.

Then there's that fag Lynx who shit himself because WAR's overpower was turning into a circle and he likes the vastly inferior and smaller cone because it meant he could move around more or actually saying he wanted stat allocation back despite the fact that he only fucking played WAR and didn't have to deal with the absolute garbage of having to click a few buttons to allocate stats into GUESS WHAT? THE MAIN FUCKING STAT. Sure, let's just put our points into VIT for melee jobs instead of strength because who needs the extra damage when you can get a few extra point in hp that'll still be instantly deleted if a boss hit you. Or better yet, if you wanted to play as both scholar and summoner, TOO FUCKING BAD. You can only pick one of them to allocate stats into the main. Yeah, enjoy your scholar with extra INT, you absolute downey. Even better, stat allocation was permanent unless you used a consumable item to reset it. Imagine a game where you could play all the jobs you wanted, but a shared stat allocation system was so fucked that it basically took that concept and threw it into the garbage. Yeah, IMAGINE.

 

[Gravemind]

I bet these fags also want elemental resistances back too.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

I bet these fags also want elemental resistances back too.

People have gotten so used to being spoiled with the game in it's current state, that they forget the game had to go through tons of trial and error to reach this point and it's how it's become so successful.
Most of the people whining about current 14 started playing during Stormblood and beyond, having never experienced ARR and HW on release.

For those of us who played since alpha, we know how bad it was. How bad it could get. We played the game when it was at it's worst. Heavensward, as lauded as it is for being the expansion that hooks people was not what it was in the way that it is today. It had a good story and that was literally it. The 3 new jobs were neat, but AST was a broken, overpowered mess to the point nearly all healers swapped over to it because it was just vastly superior to the other two healers and the raiding was so bad that it nearly completely died off altogether. MCH was also extremely clunky and not fun to play at all, on top of ranged physical dps getting a fucking cast bar. And who wanted to pick MCH when BRD not only gave buffs but did more damage too?

A lot of the jobs were shit to play which in turn made people not want to raid, you had that horrible triple failure with Diadem, the relic grind was still a tedious mess of bullshit "light farming" and collecting tokens in specific ways to trade it for more tokens to trade for MORE TOKENS to upgrade a part of your relic which you had to repeat 4 times and was also TIME GATED. Elemental resistances were literally useless and did not impact gameplay at all. Tanking was dogshit ESPECIALLY as a warrior because enmity generation was bricked to where players had to come up with these 5d, big brain strats to tank in raids by dropping their tank stances to do more damage because back then, tank stances LOWERED your damage output and minmaxing number huffers fucking hated it. Enochian for black mages was a OGCD with a fucking cooldown that you had to upkeep in order for your damage output to not completely tank to the ground and back then they had no tools to upkeep it during downtime so if you used it and some raid or phase had a boss that would fly away for a phase change, guess what? It was falling off, you were hitting like a wet noodle because all your most powerful spells were locked behind Enochian. It was so bad, black mages nearly became extinct because they all swapped to the only other "mage" job in the game, summoner, a DoT mage at the time which was just as boring to play back then as it is to play now. Dragoon jumps were a fuckton slower and the amount of them that died because they pressed jump at the wrong time and were animation locked, sat there and had to watch as they had to eat an attack for it and just generally be a drain on the healer's resources. Monk was utterly useless in comparison to Ninja and Dragoon which everyone just played Ninja because it did literally everything and Dragoon at least had the ability to buff party members whereas Monk did less damage and offered absolutely fuck all to the table. Monks became extinct because they all swapped to Ninja and if they didn't want to play Ninja they played Dragoon. Jobs were so bad, that you had a WoW situation where entire jobs would be excluded from parties because they were just insanely inferior to the meta. What's the point in having so many different jobs and being able to play them all if only a tiny smidge of them weren't complete donkeyshit?

Everything was just horrible. Job design and playability, patch content and optional dungeons were meh, their attempt to add a piece of content that was supposed to be done by having tons of players work together was such a failure that they had to remove it from the game 3 fucking times. The only GOOD things (imo) were the extreme fights. I farmed them all to get the Firebird and then I dipped and didn't touch the game again until Stormblood.

Not saying the game is perfect as it is now, I've got some gripes with it myself. But let's not sit here and pretend that the game was a fucking masterpiece back then because it sure as shit wasn't and conveniently ignore that the game is miles better now than how it was 9 fucking years ago.

 

[Troon Whisperer]

Diadem 1.0 was hilarious because that was when the developers finally realized what mmo players are now, where everything is optimized the second it's released and any deviation from that optimization is punished. Diadem was released with the intention of it being some fun content where a group of friends or FC could just go to a large zone and fuck around doing whatever, bit of gathering, bit of fate farming, bit of exploring with potential rewards.

The community quickly worked out that exploring and being social was boring, no you just camp dino island for 90 minutes and just mindlessly grind mobs and anyone doing anything else was to be kicked.

Diadem 2.0 was slightly better because it forced the exploration bit, but the RNG on that emergency mission raid sucked so the second it didn't spawn everyone bailed, and when it did spawn the difficulty was too much for the casual so most attempts ended in failure.

 

[00R-Gundam]

I can't speak for the changes that the game has gone through the years, but i can say that as all games, the devs improve it with time. I dont follow the drama in ff14 because the idea of following drama in a video game is retarded. Ill assume and based on what you gentleman or ladies have said, Its just no lifers or hardcore players complaining about lack of content when they have done everything in the game. Eventually those type of players have to accept the fact that the game will "end" that you have reach the end of the road and that theres nothing beyond and usually people will step away from it to do other things, instead these faggots decide to make YouTube videos or sperg about it on reddit about it. Meanwhile filthy casuals like me have a whole trove of content before me, gets fucked because the top 10% of the player base is complaining and thus they make changes to cater to them in some cases screwing the filthy casuals in the cross fire.

 

[Well Intentioned]

Can someone explain to me why theres this whole controversy of hating on Endwalker? i dont follow ff14 outside of looking for ways to optimize my class.

It's a couple of things. Dopey did a pretty good job of laying it out, but a couple of specific details:

EW was touted as the culmination of 10 years of storytelling and blahblahblah and for a lot of folks it was a very lackluster story.

You also had speds like Zepla making big videos about how EW was the worst experience ever (which led to Zepla quitting FFXIV and picking up....Genshin Impact...lmao) largely because she tried her hand at DSR and TOP and it broke her.

There's also the aforementioned retard Lynx (who also quit the game) filing similar complaints, but from the perspective of catering to casuals or whatever.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

EW was touted as the culmination of 10 years of storytelling and blahblahblah and for a lot of folks it was a very lackluster story.

It is a very "modern square enix moment" scenario, too. Everything was lined up for a grand crescendo, the shot was all tee'd up, and all they had to do was swing.

I don't aim to sperg on it again, but it's so bizarre that instead of just capping off 10 years of storytelling, they figured that rushing in an extra 5 years' worth of plotlines to abruptly introduce and conclude was the way to go. Then they did it, again, in the post-launch patches. I'm not a huge fan of vacations, but that was like, what, three fetch quests between save-da-world plots?

That said, I feel like the crazy people bitching about the story mostly just dislike the Venat twist. People like me, who simply figured Shadowbringers was a fluke and that the team decided to jettison whatever talent or strategy allowed for them to have coherent and focused storytelling, just quietly lost interest and went to enjoy the one of any other ten-thousand games out on the market that have better writing.

 

[Gravemind]

Heavensward, as lauded as it is for being the expansion that hooks people was not what it was in the way that it is today. It had a good story and that was literally it.

What do you mean? Making Warrior practically another DPS class was the best thing about that expansion.

But no, I remember how absolutely toothless Machinist was back during launch. I remember way too well how it was genuinely impossible to clear Bismarck Extreme with a party full of MCHs because they simply couldn't push enough damage at the beginning of 2.x to clear Bismarck's DPS checks.

And yet everyone and their fucking great grandmothers wanted to play MCH because it was the hip, new DPS class. Same as how every DPS jumped ship to Dark Knight and retardedly tried to play it like a DPS class for a year despite it being a Tank (and the fact that keeping Darkside ticking bled your MP dry and nobody having a clue that you're supposed to TURN OFF Darkside and replenish with Siphon Strikes instead of attempting to spam Siphon WITH Darkside up).

Oh God, I'm making myself mad all over again with things that haven't been things for years now. I'm pretty sure Heavensward turned me into a "toxic" gamer with how retarded everyone was during that expac.