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Just keep playing NIN, everything else is a downgrade. The exp isnt worth it (:_(
I wanted to have NIN last through Stormblood.

Stormblood is the last place each and every individual class has a separate storyline. If I finish it, I can level all the classes with the EXP/Armoury/preferred realm bonuses, but the "path" through their class quests is open, no one will have to wait until a specific point to advance their classes.
 
Didn’t Primal get closed off and was given congestion status? I remember when patch 7.41 came out and you couldn’t get in and even now it’s tough to find an opening if you want to hop dcs. Not sure if that changed. Also since we’re speaking about classes/jobs I like WAR because not only of the unga bunga over powered braindead gameplay but because the action animations are so weighty and impactful even all the way up to the level 100 ones. Seeing the really cool animations of Fell Cleave/Decimate and their upgraded forms and Primal Wrath/Ruination/Rend and Upheaval/Orogeny slam enemies with power behind them gives off a huge dopamine hit that hits my happy receptors. Same with the basic weapon skill combos.

Also my apologies with changing topics but I remembered another thing that pisses me off about Dawntrail defenders and its fans.
They constantly cry about how it’s racist if you can’t pronounce the incomprehensible word vomit of the character names and locations of the expansion. I’ve seen them say “you people just don’t want to make any effort to pronounce the names of this PoC culture! If you can pronounce names of your precious white attractive faves like Hythlodaeus/the Greek names of the other ancients or the French names of the HW characters you can make the effort to attempt to do the same with Dawntrail’s locations and characters!” Has it ever occurred to them that names like Hythlodaeus and Haurchefant don’t look like someone rolled their knuckles on a keyboard when naming character and locations and called it a day? Not to mention plenty of people did struggle with pronouncing those HW and ShB/EW names too. (It also helps that characters Hyth and Haruchefant are more likeable, interesting and have more depth to their characters than the entire cast of Dawntrail.)

I swear Dawntrail is Stormblood 2.0 not only in repeating and rehashing certain story beat/character patterns and fandom reception but also in having a fanbase with a big, insufferable faction of Tumblr types that violently defends it and screams bigotry if you hate it. Not to mention screaming that people who hate both expansions lack media literacy and are too stupid/have a low attention span to appreciate their “depth.” Doesn’t help that the most toxic Dawntrail defenders are huge fans and defenders of Stormblood.
 
I'm going to be making a thread on it soonish. But the firing of the American localization team responsible for dawntrail has caused a shit storm with American investment bankers.

There hasn't been any firing of the American localization team. There was one person, Kate Cynwar, who was either reassigned or fired. The person who took over her role was an existing part of the team. Has there been new information that has come out?
 
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None of that mentions a single fucking thing about the "American" (English) localization team being fired.
I should have rephrased that as "American branch of the company that keeps encouraging gay shit."

Anyway give me a min and ill pull a Putin and walk you though the ice age of this shit happening.
 
I should have rephrased that as "American branch of the company that keeps encouraging gay shit."
Yeah, I figured some Grummz-tier shit was where this was going.

The problem is that Kate was very representative of this shit and would've, if anything, had job security.

And again, the rest of the English localization team are long serving and have either been promoted or shuffled around. Kate's the only anomaly.

Anyway give me a min and ill pull a Putin and walk you though the ice age of this shit happening.
I'm sure it will be illuminating.
 
Yeah, I figured some Grummz-tier shit was where this was going.

The problem is that Kate was very representative of this shit and would've, if anything, had job security.

And again, the rest of the English localization team are long serving and have either been promoted or shuffled around. Kate's the only anomaly.


I'm sure it will be illuminating.

Alright check it out. I may have gotten some details wrong. At the end of the day i just want more eyes on this issue.

It's a pretty big fucking deal.
 

Alright check it out. I may have gotten some details wrong. At the end of the day i just want more eyes on this issue.

It's a pretty big fucking deal.
Ahhh, that one. Here's their youtube channel. Here's their abandoned blog. Their bread and butter is interpreting mundane corporate nepotism as conspiracy.

Let me put it this way: you don't need the Epstein files for this kind of thing (and I'm not sure how they're related, beyond everyone interpreting everything as conspiracy now). You can find it right here. Oh, and here. We can find in the 2017 report, p.74, that Sweet JP already owned a big chunk of stock in the company, around 5%. In the course of the year, they effectively doubled their stake in the company. A glance at the 2018 report shows that they ballooned their revenue between 2014-2017, making them a generally attractive company to hold share in (in so far as holding shares of game companies makes any sense, anyways).

Maybe the reason that they now want Kiryu out is because of the stock's recent tumbling. October 2025 marked 4 months of decline (though it's still at a high looking back, obviously). The things this guy is claiming about this hedge fund border on libel, though obviously it's the internet and I don't really anticipate he's big enough for any of them to care to swat. I don't know why it's so hard to accept that ESG and DEI were actually corporately in-vogue for several years at the high-watermark of corporate extravagance and cheap capital.

Fink was not using his mind-control jew-magic shadow-tendrils to make people hire useless racketeering retards: he convinced them to do it, because business people are easily convinced of retarded things, because many of them are like Masayoshi Son. The interest hike in '22 hits, and within a year companies can no longer afford the largesse and discard those two corporate governance strategies. Then they start cutting positions because they can't afford their debt. Then their flagship product implodes because incompetent people worked their way into the system, were promoted, and used their position to bring more incompetent people into the process - the kind of thing you see happening, regularly, at every corporation under the damn sun. And this is Square Enix we're talking about - mismanagement is in their blood (and explains their name).

None of the tweets point at anything concrete, or even the hedge fund leaning on Kiryu for anything more than "maximizing corporate value." The idea that this is related directly to these firings and layoffs looks like complete conjecture. Here's even the 100-page on-blast slide thing the 3d partners shot at Kiryu. Maybe it's in there, I ain't gonna read it all now, but skimming I don't see it. This guy is basically suggesting that all of the shit in these slides regarding revenue, burning development cash, chaotic mismanagement, and an overreliance on stupidly-expensive reboots... is not a real concern, and actually they're asshurt that they fired some cocksuckers who want to make Y'shtola have a penis or something idk
 
Real "I'll believe it when I see it" energy.

No, Yoshit, level squishing it all down to 50 and number trimming does not count as "change".
Does homogenizing tanks further count as change? What if he made healers more irrelevant? Maybe the mid-fight cutscenes need to be longer? What if it's as simple as finding more excuses to make people run Praetorium?
 
OC should have had at least another zone by now, or if they released a Normal mode for Forked Tower, I would have forgiven them for that. This patch has been meh, All is left is the variant dungeon coming early next month which looks like a canned dungeon for some failed mobile game.
 
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