>>545310083
>makes it seem that if you haven't done the current patch savage in the first 2-4 weeks of its release your just fucked and can never properly experience it.
This is, very unfortunately, the truth. Savages you basically have 8 weeks to prog, where every week they get easier numerically(but also the players in PF get worse), until you begin to reach functionally their 'easiest, but still-on-patch' difficulty level.
Ultimates you have basically their current release patch (4 months) to prog before power creep sets in, with a softer ceiling of the expansion they released in. After that the true original experience is basically out the window entirely.

It sucks ass, but it's the way it is. At least Unreals get rebalanced and brought back for some fun for players who want to revisit them at a proper difficulty.

When the game had developers who cared about FF14 and weren't just using it for cross promotion events to promote other games.
>10 years ago
>10...fucking...years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuELXU0OEs4

>>723192391
Also he lied to everyone when he said about increasing rewards by 50% for 7.3.

>Naoki Yoshida (Yoshi-P), producer and director of Final Fantasy XIV, made the statement about implementing "1.5x rewards" (equivalent to a 50% increase in rewards) starting around patch 7.3 during a Famitsu interview.
>This was part of a broader media tour to discuss upcoming patches in the Dawntrail expansion.Publication Date: July 31, 2025
>Place: Conducted with Famitsu (a prominent Japanese gaming magazine), likely in Japan as part of Yoshida's promotional cycle for patch 7.x content.

Here is that exact interview
https://www.famitsu.com/article/202507/48601

>>535891962
Sure. Here's a live stream of moogle and my sunnie hanging out.