Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

[Brandy [◉'']]

the Occult Crescent and Forked Tower were exactly what people were asking for

I don't think anyone was asking for the casual combat content to have a capstone raid with a less than 5% clear rate. Same for the sorry implementation of the "Hard Alliance Raid". Like yeah, for the crowd that enjoyed savage Dawntrail absolutely must be a direct upgrade in content, but for everyone else it has been a sorry affair. Combine that with the poor MSQ and I can see why people claim that the game is dying.

 

[Tanner Glass]

I dont keep up with the community but why is now everyone saying that the game is dying? Did somwthing happened that just made everyone think the same?

Dawntrail and the general shakiness in parts of Endwalker.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

I don't think anyone was asking for the casual combat content to have a capstone raid with a less than 5% clear rate. Same for the sorry implementation of the "Hard Alliance Raid". Like yeah, for the crowd that enjoyed savage Dawntrail absolutely must be a direct upgrade in content, but for everyone else it has been a sorry affair. Combine that with the poor MSQ and I can see why people claim that the game is dying.

sure, plenty of people just want to stay in their ERP dungeons and do leveling dungeons instead of actually learning to play so they can try out all the game's content. let them whine and unsub. the chaotic raid was an attempt to push the boundaries of the mold they've allowed themselves to fall into, and it was a good attempt at that. according to this site, only 17.4% of existing characters have cleared Baldesion Arsenal, which is now six and a half years old. was BA a failure? I have a blast running it with the BA Discord guys. they have a meme run they do occasionally where they intentionally call mechanics wrong to try and get people killed. it's a riot. what FFXIV desperately needs is to break out of its own paradigm and try new shit, not to cater to the brain-dead retards who struggle with normal trials. gaming is supposed to be a satisfying challenge, action games and RPGs especially.

 

[Brandy [◉'']]

plenty of people just want to stay in their ERP dungeons and do leveling dungeons instead of actually learning to play so they can try out all the game's content.. let them whine and unsub.

I mean, if you want to argue on that level, then:

I have a blast running it with the BA Discord guys.

why do i need to join some tranny grooming discord just to be allowed to see some content in the MMO I am paying monthly for? How is gatekeeping content behind groups that literally want me to slap this mark of the beast to my name even remotely acceptable?

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Polemics aside, I get you want more challenging content in XIV, and Square is really delivering in DT which is good. Completely eschewing the casual playerbase is not what is needed to actually keep the game going though, neither is dumbing the game absurdly down to the player who has trouble with In from the Cold. Quantum seems like a nice step into the right direction but alas its only one 4 man fight.

I wish the communication of the dev team didn't contribute to the feeling players have that Making content for X means Y will get less. Yoshida speaking about 'cost' was such a fantastically retarded thing jesus fuck.

 

[Well Intentioned]

I dont keep up with the community but why is now everyone saying that the game is dying? Did somwthing happened that just made everyone think the same?

1) There was anecdotal stuff like a massive exodus with housing districts being empty on popular servers, so unofficial doom and glooming.
2) There was a shareholder call where they explicitly stated that profits were down in their MMO division and specifically said that XIV was down YOY. There's also been quotes from people like Yoshi P and high level SE execs who are stating that they are 'aware' the game has problems. Or in other words, official doom and glooming.
3) There's been little things people are making mountains out of, like that 40% off graphic I posted a lil while back
4) Recent patches have been rife with some pretty fucking significant issues, some perceived and some real. The biggest one being the major content patch of Occult Crescent landing like a turd on a wedding cake -- loot tables were fucked so everyone got whatever they were looking for instantly, the raid content, Forked Tower, had an ass-backwards method of queuing up that made it so difficult that even the JP players, who typically take whatever UI silliness the devs cook up on the chin, were just as irate over it as NA players were, the remaining content is boring, dry, and too grindy.
5) Wuk Lamat's head remains attached to her body and not on a pike.
6) The most recent patch heavily implies that we're going back to Old Man Ascian(s) again which some people are taking as a sign they're creatively bankrupt.

I feel a lot of this is overblown, with the asterisk that if the next expansion is literally the exact same structure (6 zones, 2 of which are split in half and open up later, rigid MSQ, gameplay loop still being beholden to the 2 minute meta, [insert your own grievances here]) I'll be changing my tune quickly. There are some issues and Dawntrail was the drizzling shits, but based on some stuff that's been coming up, I'm optimistic that they're going to be able to somewhat fix things. It's just whether they're going to fix enough shit and continue to keep fixing things is the big question.

 

[RIPRhongoBongo]

All I've learned from this round of gear crafting is I really should have stocked up on Diatryma Felt

 

[Smug Chuckler]

Are you sure you have seen the last of Wuk Lmao?

 

[Not your Buddy Holly]

Are you sure you're have seen the last of Wuk Lmao?

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They removed the restrictions of putting MSQ characters into event art. That's why you see Haurchefant in the summer event art.

 

[Agarathium1066]

6) The most recent patch heavily implies that we're going back to Old Man Ascian(s) again which some people are taking as a sign they're creatively bankrupt.

I think this one is a reasonable criticism of the most recent story. They poked one toe out of their usual and immediately brought in the Ascians again. Won't see if its going to be bland until later.

 

[Well Intentioned]

Are you sure you're have seen the last of Wuk Lmao?

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Minions you get from that event usually signify that character is 'done.'

A Wuk minion would've been a great sign.

I think this one is a reasonable criticism of the most recent story. They poked one toe out of their usual and immediately brought in the Ascians again. Won't see if its going to be bland until later.

Yeah, I'm not saying all the things I listed were unreasonable or anything. Right now, there is a set up for a twist or surprise reveal or whatever, although I'm not holding my breath for it to happen as I think Occam's Razor applies here.

 

[King Of Braves]

Tranny faggot crashouts incoming.

 

[Pigeon Enthusiast]

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Tranny faggot crashouts incoming.

Good fucking riddance, the Mare gooner trannies and their ERP clubs are a fucking cancer on this game.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

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Tranny faggot crashouts incoming.

There's something deeply enjoyable about the fact that these retards think their monthly subs are even remotely comparable to the costs of a PR disaster (or even government censuring) if the wider world learns anything about the bizarre sexual mods being used by an enormous portion of this game's playerbase with zero effort to ensure they aren't employed by minors. Maybe their daily fantia binges do compare, though...

Sure, games like Skyrim have the same problem - neither Bethesda nor Nexus really vet whether a user is a minor - but there aren't quite the levels of community and opportunities for direct, aggressive grooming as exist in this game, just by virtue of it being multiplayer. With the Roblox lawsuit and the UK's aggressive internet-safety-law (even if that's going to be walked back), Square isn't so retarded as to leave themselves open to attack. Although I imagine this has actually been brewing for a good while, and I imagine that all those references to closing the patreon/ko-fi have to be related to the claim, since modwork is a legally muddy area as concerns IP.

 

[Brandy [◉'']]

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Tranny faggot crashouts incoming.

Good riddance. I assume they went after mare explicitly because the mod owner was directly profiting from it and it moved the whole "if you mod do it on your machine and be quite about it" part into a public event?

 

[Military Grade Jellybeans]

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Tranny faggot crashouts incoming.

while it was fun to see my FC mates use custom dances and some cool modded glams ingame its miserable to know that most used it for pornsick shit.

 

[Xerxes IX]

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Tranny faggot crashouts incoming.

Lol didnt modbeast faggots clog one of the La Noscea zones on Materia with their gooner modded catgirls and Au Ra's for weeks? I was surprised they didnt intervene and shut the event down since Mare has pushed modding culture far beyond "don't ask, don't tell", but sending a C&D to the Mare Dev would nip all of that in the bud.

 

[Baguette Child]

Maybe the community will be less retarded with all the ERP faggots gone now. A WoL can dream...

 

[Xerxes IX]

Maybe the community will be less retarded with all the ERP faggots gone now. A WoL can dream...

At this rate, the game might be worth coming back to for me after all once the Deep Dungeon is released. Bravo Squex perhaps I judged you a little too harshly.

 

[thisniggaTRASH]

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Tranny faggot crashouts incoming.

Jesus christ, I used to dream of days like this. Total mod beast annihilation. Wish someone would go and take some screenshots of their general chat to see their final malding before the server goes down, maybe archive the chat from the moment the announcement was made.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

Don't get your hopes up. They are going to set up shop again in some country where the lawyers can't get to them like Russia and the degeneracy will continue.