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Speaking of jobs... how's the current gameplay for all the existing ones so far? I remember not liking Ninja; first 30 levels were good, but it started falling off hard.
 
Not your Buddy Holly said:
Make it 100 bucks a pop and it'll fund Final Fantasy 17, 18, 19 and 20. or give XIV enough money to last for a couple more years.
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Its probably going to be more, although the thing thats nuts to me is that they apparently request screenshots, wouldn't they have the chargen and glam info on hand from the system? Modders can extract that in seconds
 
Sunflower Samurai said:
Its probably going to be more, although the thing thats nuts to me is that they apparently request screenshots, wouldn't they have the chargen and glam info on hand from the system? Modders can extract that in seconds
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probably emotes that people would want, custom make them as the filliment would be different with a Lalafell doing an emote vs a Hrothgar doing it.
 
Dropping in after catching the translation of the Live Letter (respecc to the two who live translate that shit on the Discord server, helps us non-Japs be in the loop).

I was a bit disappointed in the whole thing. I'm pretty much checked out of the game (haven't touched it since December really), and even the new Variant couldn't bring me back after I heard how they gimped the all paths reward. But 7.5 looks so mediocre it's not even sad to me anymore. The usual suspects are all here (Windurst AR is cool in my book because Shantotto is an awesome character and I fully expect the final boss of the raid to be Promathia from XI), and the QoL for dyes is actually kinda huge. Took them a decade but better late than never?

That "new" content for the Crystal Tower felt so limp dick when I read it. I'd say more but by doing so I'd put in more effort into it than Yoshi did in coming up with it. It won't "save" the game, it'll exist and be forgotten in much the same way other single player content is.

Edit: I don't know what the fuck I was smoking but this was actually BST related content. Ignore all that shit I said.

And lastly, Beastmaster felt so half-assed I couldn't believe my eyes. Locking the content to ARR zones essentially felt like a blatant admission that they had an idea but didn't flesh it out all the way. If I'm being honest I had wanted the content to be turn-based Pokemon shit, just to shake up the content a bit. But it likely just flowing the same way normal combat content does just... doesn't feel good to me. No excitement, no hype. I know I'm already a jaded fuck but *man*. Given the amount of fun this game brought me over two, almost three years, I feel genuinely bummed at times to see it disappoint consistently.

Since I remain in touch with friends who play or at least follow the game, I'll continue to monitor updates, but currently I'm waiting out 8.0 to see what happens. If it delivers a gameplay shake up on the same level of Stormblood to Shadowbringers, I'll be interested. But if this same Shadowbringers style gameplay persists for another two-three years... fuck that noise.
 
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BruhSheep said:
If it delivers a gameplay shake up on the same level of Stormblood to Shadowbringers, I'll be interested. But if this same Shadowbringers style gameplay persists for another two-three years... fuck that noise.
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Here's hoping the gameplay gets a major update, I agree.

I think... when I hop back in, I'm going to be spending some time to figure out some new jobs to run for Dawntrail - already ran Reaper from Stormblood all the way through Endwalker, I think a new playstyle is in order. In terms of Tanks, I had trouble with Gunbreaker and Dark Knight previously, but I'll give another look at all four anyways, see which one I like. For DPS... not sure on which ones to go for, had a fairly mixed experience with most of them so far. Healer, I found that I legitimately completely suck at it, though there's a chance that I'll give it another shot, at least.
 
Honestly at this point I just want the story to be good again. I don’t care what they write- just make it good. Make me care about the story and characters again. Even if it means the final zone of each expansion is Amaurot again and again. Or whatever.
 
So the next expansion is a make it or break it? Like i want the game to be fun again and have a reason to go back and play it consistently. I want classes to be actually different and not just the same shit with different skins.
 
SnowBall said:
Even if it means the final zone of each expansion is Amaurot again and again. Or whatever.
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Making every zone Amaurot again and again is partly why I hate Dawntrail's (very) late game story. Hell, they did it with Endwalker and the Dead Ends, but at least it showed us how different planets died, not just what happened on our planet and it's reflections. Trying to make the Villains sympathetic also starting to get on my nerves. Let Calyx be just an evil bastard of a stunted teenager inside a man's body, for God's sake. Makes me want Vallens, Athena, and Zenos again.
 
EW doing it makes sense since it continues off the plot threads ShB started and you can even see some callbacks and parallels between the two expansions. Though honestly DT rips every expansion off while forgetting what made them work in the first place. The Tural section feels like ARR and SB all over again and we help naive rulers take over counties like we do in every expansion.

Also irredeemably evil villains are the extreme exception rather than the norm and even then they are regulated to side stories like Athena and Valens. I really don’t know what they’re going to do with Calyx, he doesn’t seem to have any attachments to people (he doesn’t bother saying goodbye to anyone in 7.4) and it seems he’s doing what he’s doing for selfish reasons (Sphene even says he never cared about people in 7.3)
 
Not your Buddy Holly said:
Making every zone Amaurot again and again is partly why I hate Dawntrail's (very) late game story. Hell, they did it with Endwalker and the Dead Ends, but at least it showed us how different planets died, not just what happened on our planet and it's reflections. Trying to make the Villains sympathetic also starting to get on my nerves. Let Calyx be just an evil bastard of a stunted teenager inside a man's body, for God's sake. Makes me want Vallens, Athena, and Zenos again.
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There isn't really an issue with sympathetic villains, but there is an issue with the Disneyification of villains and conflict in general.

I get that diplomacy and talking things out is part and parcel of the Scions, but the stakes keep getting erased into a nub.

A minor example, but we went from Beast Tribe quests being about fighting against tempered individuals (with tempering now being completely toothless), establishing an Adventurer's Guild, to reclaiming an Imperial base/re-establishing diplomatic relations with various locals, to...

...running a food delivery service and being a wagie for XIV's version of Marine World.

It's a microcosm of the general attitude and approach they're taking to conflict, antagonists (there aren't any, really, in the EW/DT examples up above) and has wormed its way into other content.

The Arcadion, while it is appropriate for the world of professional wrestling it is taking inspiration from, has all the tension sucked out of it once the reveal comes that it is all fake. That might've been fine and fun for like one tier, but I know a lot of people were really fucking let down once the last tier came out.
 
Scream Aim Fire said:
Here's hoping the gameplay gets a major update, I agree.
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My take is without a shake up to the gameplay, it'll just be another two or three years of the same brain dead, super simplified and streamlined dance dance retardism and I can't do it anymore. I tolerated it for almost three years because of a lot of other things keeping the game engaging for me. But when the story went to shit, the friend list went dark, the repetition of relic grinding set in, and the release cadence of new (mindless) content slowed to a trickle... why would I continue to waste what precious little time I have on this earth pretending I'm having fun?

Fuck that, I'll go do something else, like Yoshi told us to all these years. Except I would rather not come back.
SnowBall said:
Honestly at this point I just want the story to be good again. I don’t care what they write- just make it good. Make me care about the story and characters again. Even if it means the final zone of each expansion is Amaurot again and again. Or whatever.
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I want this as well, but I don't trust the writing team. I don't trust them because they've already shown themselves to be idiot fuckbags, and even if they get a new decent writer, the powers that be will demand they shoehorn in all sorts of marketable nonsense (bring back the Scions so we can market them).

I was hopeful before Dawntrail that they'd work towards replacing the Scions with other characters (I was one of the few who was curious to adventure with the uber nigger bunny), but to have it all end with his part of the narrative being sidelined to a single quest at the very end (same as they did to Krile) so we can give more screen time to trooncat and the Scions... fuck these hacks. 7.3 and 7.4 was an improvement, but that's rather easy to achieve when DT plot was rock bottom. Can only go up from there.
 
Well Intentioned said:
The Arcadion, while it is appropriate for the world of professional wrestling it is taking inspiration from, has all the tension sucked out of it once the reveal comes that it is all fake. That might've been fine and fun for like one tier, but I know a lot of people were really fucking let down once the last tier came out.
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I remember in Pandaemonium where they straight up say Athena was always a crazy bitch even without the Heart of Sabik influencing her and she never loved her son. Shame we went from that to Arcadion’s ending
 
It was supposed to be fake but the president was a good guy all along so he pulled some 93404D chess foolproof plan to execute it, oh yeah the bomber guy is still alive was fucking retarded. Come on, maybe have Metem pulling the strings to get back at the president after being mistreated or some bullshit would be better, but this was really bad, like rich expensive car driving off the cliff bad.
 
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