>Every step we take
>Echoes in our wake
>Winding 'round our fate
>To forge ahead
>Should we lose our way
>Tire of all this pain
>We won't be afraid
>To forge ahead
ENDWALKER BROS.....DAWNTRAIL KILLED FF14
>EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE
>EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE
>EVERY BOND YOU BREAK
>EVERY STEP YOU TAKE
>I'LL BE WATCHING YOU
Ill come back next expansion
XIV
Dawntrail
Yoshida
Yoshi P
Wuk
Barry
Homestuck
>liked endwalker. Didn't care about the "drought" because I literally enjoyed 6.0. sure i had some few issue with 6.3 and 6.4, but i was fine with 6.5 and 6.1, 6,2. Zero was also great
>dawntrail
>I want to kill myself
>hate the city even if it well design because of wuk lamat
>hate the citizens bc of wuk lamat
>hate the the zones because it reminds me of wuk lamat
lol
>>712726025 (OP)>randomly get an Endwalker trial in roulette>it's some sprout who is there for the first time and watching cutsceneI miss EW so much bros. That poor sprout has no idea how good they have it right at this moment.
Calling it now Wuk Lamat dies in 7.3, Koana and Gulool Ja are left in charge to pick up the pieces. A monarch for a monarch.
>according to wiki, doing overworld fates takes 2 hours per stone
>got 3 of the light blue stone in two hours
Are they retarded or did I get godrolls?
>>712730556Wuk Lamat is being completely written out of the plot. Her relevancy is dropping like a stone and her role is ironically being supplanted it seems by the presumed villain of Dawntrail in an ironic twist.
Pic related is already a better character without smothering the player in constant needs for attention or babysitting.
>>712726025 (OP)hdym? i'm having fun
>>712731657>Pic related is already a better character without smothering the player in constant needs for attention or babysitting.Because she's literally just a person.
She's the best written character in a while because she's a fucking person and not a shonen trope they're trying to force us to love.
She's probably dying, though. Or taking over as the leader of Alexandria again at the end.
You're leaving out a crucial detail.
SAGAFRA rules say that if you work during a strike, either as a scab or otherwise then you get blacklisted forever. SAGAFRA rules also say that if a company hires Union VAs then it can't hire anyone that's non-Union.
The reason so many non-union VAs are striking alongside them is because if they don't they're at a severe risk of being blackballed out of the industry forever. Most places are gonna be union places, and if you can't ever be hired in any Union places then your career is gone.
America has let this ridiculous situation happen.
>>712735191who the fuck cares about sagaftra again
>>712735770I had never felt more relief hearing majority British voices again. It was hilarious last patch too when Ryne's VA mogged the entirety of 7.0 with her few lines as Pandora. Anyway I hope Sphene sticks around. Ovens did a great job voicing her and Simulant.
>>712735965Yeah, she did a great job voicing two different versions of herself and making it work.
She would make a great mother to the WoL's children.
>>712726025 (OP)Here I lament the death of FF14. A tale as old as time, the hubris of a single man who destroyed the love of millions all for the sake of his bestiality fetish.
In Eorzea's realm, where heroes dwell,
A tale unfolds, a somber knell.
Final Fantasy's star, once shining bright,
Now dimmed by hubris, lost in night.
Naoki Yoshida, revered, once wise,
Steered the ship with gleaming eyes.
Yet pride did swell, a fatal flaw,
And Wuk Lamat became the law.
His cherished muse, this character new,
Wuk Lamat rose, her spotlight grew.
The Warrior of Light, once bold, now fades,
Outshone by her in narrative glades.
The Scions' tales, so rich, so grand,
Were cast aside by his command.
Players cried out, their voices shrill,
"Goodwill erodes, betrayed by will."
The forums blaze, the discord hums,
With tales of trust now turned to crumbs.
An out-of-touch decree, they claim,
Has tarnished deep this storied game.
Oh, Naoki, hear the plea,
Restore the heart of FF14's glee.
For hubris blinds, and pride misleads,
Rekindle love with humble deeds.
>>712735191We don't have Sagafra in Britain which is why I have no doubt over the next few years will be a renaissance in British VAs who took over the jobs of American VAs during the strike.
Also really funny how this situation SE found themselves in with their newly hired American VAs was a drama scandal that they didn't need to involve themselves in if they simply stuck to what they had done for years with hiring Brit VAs.
Ironic how the game doesn't change for years, it stays the same in content cadence in raid formula e.t.c. but the one time they do change something in the formula which is their VAs and it immediately bites them in the ass.
>>712736930You say that about every woman in XIV (except Wuk Lamat)
Aside from a few good scenes the story was already shit and bloated in Endwalker.
>>712737280>Also really funny how this situation SE found themselves in with their newly hired American VAs was a drama scandal The biggest funny is how SE said "fuck off and bye" to American VAs for similar reasons in ARR.
I guess they were kind of ready to give them another shot with Dawntrail, and they wanted the "authenticity" (of some 1/50th Mexican man LARPing as a South American chick.)
I wonder what they think now.
>>712737280>a renaissance in British VAs who took over the jobs of American VAs during the strike.I really hope so, anon.
American VAs are absolutely insufferable, and I say this as a lifelong American.
>>712737473I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the meetings they've had that covered the reaction to Wuk Lamat, this is Creative studio 3 and Square Enix where they had an 80 person meeting to discuss how they should frame a bed in FF16, they love their meetings, fuck it would be amazing to know what was said.
Can someone genuinely explain the downfall of ffxiv, without using like "wokeism" and stuff like that. I remember in 2022 people loved this game and it was famous saying that ffxiv would kill you if you insulted their game
>>712737624Taking the player community for granted and presenting the MVP for people who expected more.
>>712737624>the downfall of ffxivIt's just Stormblood all over again.
>>712737742No it's not, Stormblood post patches the game was in an amazing spot. Especially the story there was intrigue and mystery building.
Dawntrail post patches it's absolute fucking dire in how boring it is.
>>712737882tourist moment
>>712737620Iโm holding out hope, maybe in five years time if FFXIV has either fully crashed and burned or has risen back to ShB levels, we might just get some more frank discussion of what went wrong.
>>712737620>what we do? they arr hate ukramato-chan>moushikawe arimasen deshita yoshida-san we need to get rid of ukramato even nipponjin hate>how we get rid? >we wirr make disappear and in meantime you say "sumimasen hiroshi-kuns we are make mistake and now you no understand ukramato-chan's real charm!"
>>712737742Stormblood patches didn't exclusively cater to raiders. Shit, even OC is basically worthless to casuals since the big payoff, Forked Tower, is literally only savage raider content again. This is was is fucking the game over beyond believe, this complete unwillingness to consider anything but hardcore DDR shit as content by the devs.
>>712737624The dev team changed between EW and DT and the new dev team has no idea what to do outside of high end raiding. Writer also changed and both the 7.0 and 7.x MSQ has been incredibly lackluster.
>>712738121>Forked Tower, is literally only savage raider content againyou retard
it's literally baldesion arsenal
you know, like in eureka
which is a stormblood addition
>>712730556I don't want wuk dead I WANT HER TO TURN INTO A BLASPHEMY AND DISAPPEAR FROM THE LIFESTREAM
>>712726025 (OP)Stay strong. Keep the faith. At dutyโs end, we will meet again. We will. We willโฆ
>MSQ seeming good again
>OC is fun
>CE is whatever I don't care for crafting content but it looks to be basically just like ishgard restoration but in space and with less of the material clogging up your bags
Life is good.
xth reminder that this is best girl.
>>712735191This affects me ZERO since I play with JP voices
>>712738834>MSQ seeming good againas long as we are in tural the msq wont be able to recover, stop pushing this retarded narrative
>>712737624>ffxiv team keeps square afloat>square decides to take all profits from their only profitable game and spend them on the most retarded shit they can think of>make sure to also poach the most experienced staff from ffxiv for good measure>wtf our golden goose diedWhatโs worse, working for actiblizzard or EA and getting sacrificed to Moloch, or working for Squeenix and being an indentured servant to dribbling glue-addicted retards.
>>7127391757.2 was good thoughbeit?
op gonna try for another 100 post thread today
keep trying
yeah, woke lamat made me quit and go back to wow
>>712739291not it was not. Calyx is a shit villain and Sphene basically replaced Wuk as overbearring character in the MSQ. They introduced Beatrix 1 minute before "omg you wouldn't believe it, we now have to fight her!" and never mention her again. We have our third attack on S9 at this point, it is getting all so tiresome and retarded.
>>7127391757.2 isn't technically Tural
>>712739457now here's some actual narrative pushing
>>712739445>i left a 5% woke game for a 500% woke gamesure thing, buddy
>>712739457I seen someone say calyx is shale and I think he might be right
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>>712739445Ha ha... yeah...
I thought they fixed alliance roulette? All I ever get is still Crystal Tower. Just give me one Fun Scaith please...
>>712739648yeah, their inflection is weirdly similar, shale in 7.2 that is, in 7.0 she sounded fine idk i just don7t care for solution 9, i hate the aesthetics and everyone is so dumb and unrelatable, being spoiled faggots who sustain on snacking on other being souls
>>712737624>xiv releases two blockbuster expacs back to back, ff is on the uprise>attract increasing percentage of the "mmo audience" (whatever percentage of wow players that weren't already playing both games) in between them>those people realize that xiv's patch content fucking blows ass 80% of the time since half of them start playing before EW even comes out>people who got into the game because of story hype get ffxvi shilled to them>it's actually written by xiv's b-c team and has significantly less rpg elements than arr did on release while being produced by the same devs, meaning it has almost zero of the side content or flavor identity people would expect from the more popular parts of xiv>DT comes out, is clearly marred by toothless diversity hire rewriting, is bloated as bad as the 7R games while still being a fucking xiv expac and has the additional stink of blatantly trying to be an FFIX themepark ride despite not presenting anything actually interesting from that game that wasn't already in xiv to begin withXIV's "downfall" is just the hype train population boom from shadowbringers/endwalker realizing that the game has been the same shit every expansion combined with the recent expac being lackluster
>>712739681>Checkboxes: The CharacterWhat were they thinking?
I wish the people of Tural were more like modern Mexicans than old timey Mexicans. It would have been funny as shit meeting Hrothgar named Jose who spoke like a cholo.
>>712739175As long as the MSQ is related at all to Dawntrail it'll never recover. MSQ needs to cut off every connection to Dawntrail including locations, songs, and characters.
Pretend it was all a simulation and Calyx was simulating the world, the Wol and the Scions wake up in pods having been simulating Dawntrail and then wake up in Merycidia, Calyx doesn't exist the Scions and the Wol fell into an ancient trap and their powers and performances were being syphoned to power ancient or allagan devices.
They wake up having the Wol overcome the pod programming, they step outside and the land is being ravaged by what they see a war between the Dragons of Merycidia and a lost expeditionary legion of the Garleans who became empowered through their discovery of Allagan tech on Merycidia.
That is your 8.0
>>712739829I'm just surprised everyone gave that character a pass since she was irrelevant aside from one zone.
And then they decided to cram down the player's throats more and more.
>>712739829Trying too hard to own your chud playerbase will only result in bad things.
>>712739902>>712739946they're never gonna stop
the devs are so far left, you can't save worlo anymore
>>712739790>XIV's "downfall" is just the hype train population boom from shadowbringers/endwalker realizing that the game has been the same shit every expansion combined with the recent expac being lacklusterthis but none of this is actually any fault of xiv (other than dawntrail being lackluster at the start)
the content cadence and patch content are fine. just because it doesn't cater to wowies doesn't mean it's bad. that's why it grew just fine long before the covid/shadowlanders exodus
>>712739929I want to put a bunch of brave little "sparks" into her womb
>>712739865I would take that any day over what we have now.
>>712739570i-i-i-is that a CHAIR
AIIIIIIIIIE SAVE ME
>IGNORE THE:(MAIN CHARACTER IS VOICED BY A TRANNY)
(NONBINARY PIXIES)
LIST GOES ON
>>712740050No, but actually just imagine making one of the most quintessentially woke checkbox characters around and people find that gross but tolerate it because she's around for like an hour of quests at most, essentially giving you a get out of jail free card to just shuffle her out of the frame before people start to actually build up a case against her.
And then you get a patch in and decide to hard shill her after that. Including a janky cutscene where her conversation with a long time lore character leads to the lore character going "pride in your own heritage is le chud".
>>712740190>>IGNORE THE:gay centaurs
tranny afterlife god
tranny dragons
tranny chromie
non binary trees
gay frogs
miguel
shaw getting his ass fucked while anduin was getting kidnapped
yes, 5% vs 500%
>>712739865I want an xpac where the WoL gets sent back in time to the height of the Allagan empire. Maybe G'raha can come too given his heritige but nobody else. We could have a trial series where you assist the military in suppressing primals with your blessing. I was also gonna suggest an arena for the raid series but they've pretty much already done that.
>>712740219talk about janky, worlo died for me in this scene
the last drop of testosterone left the game when garrosh died died
I like 7.2 a lot and think it's a great improvement.
But I struggle to fathom how they could do one of their trademark big climax moments in 7.3. It feels like in 7.2, we're essentially in 7.1.
>>712740425Reminder that they intended for you to see this and think he was in the wrong.
>>712726025 (OP)I don't play the game, but that trailer was sick as fuck.
Even I could got that feeling of a story culminating into an epic finale or whatever.
The song is banging.
>>712726426lmao
>>712740425Based Garrosh removing himself from existence on his own terms.
>play OC as tank
>half asleep, can stand in everything, do great damage due to phantom job
>can ignore mechanics for uptime
>play OC as DPS
>have to play perfectly not to die
>since i absolutely have to disengage my dps tanks
>phantom jobs do nothing to make me more survivable
Who designed that shit? What is the fucking idea here?
>>712740524its literally the "this thing is so fucking lame, heheh"
>points to the coolest thing ever.
>>712740524The only thing that he did wrong was letting Thrall stop him for smashing Varian's skull in Dalaran
>>712740435are you a bot?
nobody feels this
>>712740524I find that hard to believe when everything from the way it was shot to the music used made it seem like a big triumphant moment for Garrosh.
>>712740313I agree when they lean into existing lore that is established for FF14 it's always more interesting than them trying to create something original by ripping off a previous FF game UNLESS they have an exceptional writer.
I think as well, all of this is moot unless they change the writer, they must absolutely change the MSQ writer I have seen on Famitsu interviews the most recent ones for the patches they're now refusing to name who the writers working on FF14 are but referring to them as "Scenario A writer, Scenario B writer" whereas when the game was held in higher regard they would always be named and in other departments like the music or raids they name the devs like Mr Ozma on the raids, or Soken on the music and they name Soken's team by name as well instead of saying "music team A music team B".
It's obviously to mitigate backlash against the writers.
>little buddy gets triggered whenever someone likes the 7.2 MSQ as if that's not the majority consensus
>>712740818they are painfully aware of the situation they are currently in, unlike actual western woke people, Japs know they are fucking up by meddling with these progressive leftists.
but they seem entangled, at least the FF14 dev team.
maybe they were under the delusion that western progressive leftism was popular.
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English VA for Alpinhaud is in Heavensward now.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2486794817
>>712740929I thought XIV's devs didn't give a good goddamn what the western playerbase thought and pandered solely to the JP playerbase.
>>712741000that's true till Dawntrail, they got really entangled with pandering to South America bullshit, and promoting the Troon Wuk Lamat VA and other shit.
it was an immediate fall from grace.
>>712740929prolly just kate and co whispering sweet nothings into their ears and acting as if that's what's popular now
at least they've seen now that it's not. they now get to decide if they're gonna double down or not
>>712740929I know anecdotally that the English speaking community managers are mostly American and very left leaning so it might have some relevance as they could be telling the Japs their own political alignments and perspectives is what is popular in the English speaking world.
>>712741086This is probably what happened.
I hope they got the message that it's not the case. I'd like Meracydia to not be tarnished by "muh aboriginals" shit.
>Sphene is cool
>Shale is cool
>Mooj's alright
>Bakool Ja Ja is fun
>Wuk Lamat is awful
>Koana is awful
>Calyx is whatever I don't know enough about him right now but I don't hate him and his theme song is neat at least
Who'd I miss?
>>712741162I miss him so fucking much its unreal.
>>712741529thats about right.
you forgot the WWE Tourney raid tier characters that are all fucking amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZiFAvFkNtk
>WHEN I>CLIMB>IN THE RING
>>712741668The latest raid tier story was so much more entertaining that I actually forgot what happened in the MSQ after I did it.
>>712741775yea, its way better story, sure its not quite serious enough to be an MSQ, but its certainly better than the MSQ of Dawntrail.
>>712741668Oh yeah, but they're not MSQ boys. I guess Bakool Ja Ja isn't anymore either, though.
I like Yaana, I like Eutrope. Nejuni's alright (though I'm not a fan of "the precocious girl" trope), and Howling Blade is alright so far. I kinda think he's a more likeable Zenos. And he actually has a good voice (sorry for the blasphemy. I generally hate American VAs).
>>712737624Story went to shit, and the main character of the story that went to shit happened to be a tranny, so it was like just a perfected mix of garbage writing + culture war and normies quitting that killed game
>>712741668https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_htiXfLqXxU
Arcadion has been great.
This should've been the actual MSQ
>>712741775>woke SJW garbage>MUH WRASSLANYep, sure is the American expansion.
>>712741668>the double sideways afterimage super speed actions.The Howling Blade is like everything a 12 year old boy thinks is cool.. and he's right.
so whatever happened to the ascian mask hanging over the solution 9 artwork
I will never recover from the fact that modern glam faggots won.
>>712741668>this is effectively the John Cena of this Universe.fuckin amazin.
>>712741974>woke SJW garbageHuh? I thought the story was about the long term perils of doing steroids or some shit.
>>712742039still very much in play for the Raid storyline, its Altima/Ultima, one of the few unknown Convocation members.
>DT story climax in 7.3
>Arcadion story climax in 7.4
Mite b good. Still wish they'd plucked away one of the Cosmic Exploration updates and had another zone for Occult Crescent between 7.25 and 7.55.
>>712742135i think he's caterwauling about the msq there
>>712741174>I'd like Meracydia to not be tarnished by "muh aboriginals" shit.I read an interview around the time of 7.1 that Yoshida had to give the outline for 8.0 to the cinematic team the deadline being December of last year so whatever the setting is, it's already been decided so it'll be interesting to see which direction he'll take it.
Now the two big hints he gave which I suspect one will be the path the game will go than the other, one was Shogun he was talking about taking 8.0 back to Hingashi due to saying there was a war waging there his words and having the Wol become a Shogunite type figure. Now I think that plot point is unlikely for reasons I won't delve here for brevity.
The second idea and the one which I think is more likely is the mulitverse that Yoshida spoke of last year and the reason why I think his words on making FF14 a multiverse is most likely is due to what FF did with Rebirth making it into a multiverse so they already have experience and it's already an idea floating around the office at Square Enix, they're also probably thinking back to the popularity of the Marvel movies and this is Square Enix they're always 5 years late to a trend. It'll also open the doors to bringing Emet and Venat back, or popular characters to have them always around, if I had to invest my pension fund on this being the direction of 8.0 or the Shogun idea I would bet on the multiverse will be the theme of 8.0.
>>712742135its all the perils of WWE and UFC and Professional football.
people "becoming" the mask and only living in the moment they get in the ring, doing performance enhancing drugs to stay on top, how they can never leave because the high of competition outranks everything else in their life forever..
>Found out today there is a ff14 porn game
Neat but also cringe
for some reason dawntrail was everybody's brand new first experience with a character serving their thematic and literary purpose and then sidelining or removing themselves in the larger continuing plot, heedless of the number of characters that have done that before them and will after them. wuk lamat didn't bow out similarly to aymeric after the events of 7.0, her own rise to prominence within her own culture, instead her relevance plummeted like a stone and she's being abandoned. wuk lamat most reminds me of vriska from homestuck in the sense of everyone who reads the story either liking her a great deal or completely loathing her with an enormous audience off to the side that couldn't give less of a fuck about her specifically, but vriska was also supposed to be a mary sue parody that andrew hussie ended up taking completely seriously in on-and-off waves while declining to joke about her the way he used to in earlier years ("fat vriska, we will be married at seaworld" etc) and wuk lamat both hasn't been in the story long enough and won't be in the story long enough to really warrant that kind of attention, so the fact she got that kind of attention is very strange to me
>>712726025 (OP)Shadowbringers killed FFXIV.
>>712742245I have to admit idgaf about anything Hingashi.
But at least they're not likely to poz up something that is part of their own culture. It's harder to pull a "they did a racism against their own".
As for the multiverse thing.. I don't see them doing much more with that than more reflection stuff and maybe delving into shit like G'raha's timeline. Unless they REALLY run out of things to do.
Fuck off back to your containment general
>>712742050Itโs beyond vile.
>>712741879Howling Blade is clearly one of the top 10 strongest swordsmans/warriors of the entire setting.
>>712742437Thank you
Please rape this thread
>>712742437i am not reading your dumb clickbait article, harvey
>>712742245Okay but seriously, why are they so opposed to Scion dating?
>>712742515Itโs three paragraphs
>>712742245>>712742430I'll give them some extra money if they allow me to go into G'raha's doomed timeline and abduct Hydaelyn and bring her back to the main timeline.
>>712742517Take a screenshot of the steam score going back to very negative it's funni
>>712726025 (OP)FF14 was shit before dawnfail
>>712742564that's three more paragraphs than harvey needs to say "please give me clicks so i can pretend i have a job"
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>>712742540Your guess is as good as mine.
>>712742701I like Dawntrail (now).
>>712742701you fucking prick. you disingenuous fucking asshole. fuck you
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>>712742703Lost Ark had an unbelievable hype spike when it launched in the west.
>>712742540If XVI is any indication, then that Yoshida can not comprehend role playing and players having different narrative experiences according to their choices.
>>712742929Hythlodaeus would like Dawntrail.
>>712742858XVI doesn't really indicate anything to me but that the game shouldn't have gotten its completely enormous budget, yoshida didn't know what to do with it and he ended up making an extremely bland game as a result
the dump started
the hash list is on discord, you know the drill
FUCK YOU COMPANY OF STONE
>>712743042share the 'cord sis?
i'm trans btw
>>712743042Don't need it. I have my own internal filter. My brain sees the thumbnail and glazes past it.
>>712743108sorry sis the 'cord only accepts memes that've been made within the past year
>>712743172>my dragoon floor tank memes are not welcome):<
>>712743146it also hides those you take the bait
>>712743108>i'm trans btwdenied
>>712726025 (OP)Its really unreal how we went from the massive hype of Shadowbringers-Endwalker to the current state. Back in Shadowbringers, if you told me that 6.1-7.0 would kill the game, I would have laughed at you down with a flurry of slurs.
>>712743173nyanners but even more boring
>>712743289>it also hides those you take the baitI like to think at this point most people are so bored of the same 10 pictures that they don't bite anymore. People seem to have less of an appetite for chomping stale bait now that the game is fun again.
>>712743426normal people? sure
but this guy also has samefagged his dump to instigate shitposting
i'm trying to cover all the possible bases
>>712743436sena is not trans
>>712743426>fun>the japs themselves have been shitting nonstop on OCkekaROOOOOOOOOO
>>712743561I mean they specifically fucking are.
>>712743516Yeah, but a dump is nothing without people helping a guy derail the thread. It's dead air.
It only works when people bite.
And people are less interested in that now that there's content and the story is looking up.
>>712743729yeah I gotchu, but I still like not seeing anything
>unironic DT defenders ITT
no wonder you niggers lost to gacha insects
>>712743992That's fair bro.
How's your OC adventures been so far? Got my relic, mastered 5 jobs and now taking a small break from OC to do some other stuff. Oracle turned out to be more fun than when I first used it.
>>712743815xiv-playing jeets are behind the cancel campaign targeting E33 devs
>>712743570holy shit can someone translate this video? lmfao
>>712744112Sorry, busy doing absolutely nothing haha
>>712744112I think OC is a waste on someone with all his jobs at max, like me.
I can do the storyline later once they drop an actual MSQ patch. For now, I'm just playing Stellar Blade and my waifu gachas
>>712744286yeah, i don't feel like being a slave
>>712744071no, its worse, its another half-life game.
it'll continuely slowly lose player base, and then also funding for the game till its getting 1/8 the input from the company it did in Shadowbringers.
>>712743992how do you know he's spamming if you aren't seeing anything?
>>712744596reply count goes up but new posts don't come through, probably
>>712744596>>712744685i'm not really tracking post count, but noticed the thread bumped without a new post
is a funny feeling of "look, he's still trying"
I wonder when they're doing the BLU updates and when the BSM job. Surely not the same patch.
And also when they're adding V&C.
>>712744906BST probably 7.4 or 7.5, they didn't even have any concept art for it yet when it was announced at fanfest. hopeful but not holding my breath for BLU during 7.3
kinda excited for variant dungeons because they gave some really good glamour sets, especially that shishu japanese dignitary set from mt. rokkon (goofy hat aside), great samurai glamour
Is anyone else buying magic boosters because the collaboration? I love them
>>712742050just don't buy them
if they show up as a pvp series reward, don't do them
i didn't even bother playing pvp cause the glam sucks ass.
>>712745030I imagine 7.3 will have the deep dungeon (of course), probably another ultimate, we know it's gonna have a new cosmic exploration zone.
I wonder if it'll have a variant/criterion.
And yeah, I don't hate V&C. I just think criterion is a bit too "serious" as content, and it made for poor replayable content to replace forays. In an expansion with a foray, they're fine.
>>712745163nope, tcgnigs deserve the rope for keeping magic alive after the we wuz wizzards n shiet acquisition
>>712745183I was level 20 in PvP and I had plenty of time left and I just didn't finish it. And I don't regret it either.
I was hoping for a cool S9/Vanguard themed glam that could be used across all roles, like the previous PvP sets were all heavy on the armor, just with a S9 vibe. And what we got was this weird baseball fan gear. Hopefully 7.3's is better.
I dont know if this has been fixed or I just have real bad RNG. I'm gonna ack myself.
>>712745345>Hopefully 7.3's is better.It's gonna be a mount, right? Cause they are alternating them. If they put another ass looking mount, I just won't bother again.
>>712745369The demiatma? Just RNG.
>>712745485We have a mount in 7.2. It's the Garlean mantis thing. 7.3 will have a set.
The only reason I still come back to the game.
If YoshiP fucks up her story, that might be it for me.
>>712745531panic mode hasn't really showed its face just yet, that means they are doing something to appeal the masses.
if they double down in the stupidity, i'll fuck off till the next xpac and judge from there
>>712745531let me marry Sphene
>>712745531>>712745739What do you think they could even do for 7.3?
We just met Sphene and got into this story. Yet they need to cap it off in 7.3 as well and I don't know how.
>>7127461017.3 might be the end for the Alexandria arc, but Sphene's role could extend beyond just Alexandria.
>>712745531Sphene (real) has been the best character of this expansion, followed by Yaana
>>712745163i've got some buddies that love the FF cards and they did clearly put a lot of effort into the whole collaboration
apparently most/all of the FF14 job cards or gear cards are from each artist's FF14 character
>>712726025 (OP)the new crafting/gathering shit sucks
oc sucks
relics still tomes
unofficial maintainence mode ran by skeleton crew
>>712746349Yeah, true. Mostly just thinking of a proper culmination for the whole Alexandria thing.
I assume Calyx will do something and we'll get XIV-Necron and that'll be the trial, but just pondering how they'll make it an appreciable finale.
>>712746515i'm gonna be real with you man if every relic required a demiatma step i would probably fucking kill myself
>>712746349>>712746101People think she might become a scion
that shit is useless, since you gotta be an actual archon. So, we might have her as a long term companion since lil mooj is already in charge.
We are going to dragonlands, or be hinted soon.
Honestly I didn't dislike Dawntrail "that" much. I just kinda found it boring, because it didn't really have any moments that I thought were super cool. Closest thing was Zoraal Ja turning into giga soul nigga, that was kinda neat. Otherwise it was just kinda... there. A lot of sad moments for/with characters I haven't spent much time with. Feeling kind of tagalong rather than a part of the story.
>>712746131Soken got a lifetime ban from japanese national tv for shilling 14 after explicitly promising not to
>>712746578>>712746639My speculation that Sphene might be an Azem shard and become embroiled in a cross-shard conflict
>>712746639I hope they don't squander her. I can really see them have her become leader of Alexandria again and be made irrelevant.
>>712746728I thought 7.0 was mostly pretty weak but I don't get stuck in the weeds. Content so far has been way more fun than Endwalker (and even SHB to be honest) and the story in 7.2 is better than 6.1-7.0
Zoraal Ja's music is cool though. The final battle of 7.0 might have been cool if not for Wuk Lamat.
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I can't see this guy going away forever in 7.3.
He just gives me these "villain who actually works for a bigger villain" vibes
>>712746625better that they all be worthless meaningless common trash like pratically everything in this game and yoshi barks at us to play something else (while holding our houses for ransom)
>>712747140He probably isn't.
He got his own fucking theme song.
>>712747058Yeah, Queen Eternal would've been cooler if it ended the way it does in the Extreme version. I don't like the RP bit, it feels weird. I think just seeing Sphene's Endless self tearing itself apart in mute desperation is way more impactful.
>>712747221>Queen Eternal would've been cooler if it ended the way it does in the Extreme version.Imagine what could have been....
>>712747140nobody cares about 7.0 plot
just stop
>>712747147the only argument i can really make for reproducible demiatma steps is to give you something to put overcapped items towards
>>712745183It is just so depressing looking in OC and half of the people look like this. It just has 0 visual cohesion any more, but that went out of the window with DT and its new zones anyways.
>>712747431Most people I see running around OC are running around in Berserker fursuits and Time Mage gnome hats (me included) (I've wanted a Berserker wolf hat for a decade now)
how do you remove the hidden posts?
>>712747220Emet Selch had his own theme song too, until they used it for other things too.
>>712747575Fair point.
I could see him avoiding death as the schemer he is, but then what next? Will he just keep Team Rocketing the entire time? Surely there's no redemption for him, so they can't take that angle.
>>712747550turn this off in 4chan X/XT
it's really fun actually to watch half a thread vanish if a bait post has 500 replies or somebody's been losing his mind for 300 posts
>>712747575>Emet Selch had his own theme song toowhich one? the one used in 4.3?
It is all so tiresome... I just wanted to have some cool adventures and spend some time with my Scion wife, but the MSQ just SUCKS now...
>>712747789I think so.
Everyone associates it with Emet Selch at the very least
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgIvgo9eVPI
>>712747140he is an ascian and probably the 8.0 antagonist
>>712747901Ah, good ol Bedlam's Brink.
FWIW I like Calyx's song as well. It's nice.
>>712747778that's actually really nice
threads might become comfy now
>>712747991I can see the latter. But I doubt he's an ascian. He probably got a lot of his info due to a meddling ascian "hey kid" ing him which blackpilled him.
>>712747872To be fair the outcry is justified and it is ridiculous Square doesn't want to fix it. Wasn't their fucking solution in 7.2 an 'encryption' of the player ID that was broken within 1 day of the patch releasing?
>>712747901Ah, that's just ascian's machinations for me lol
For a moment I thought you were refering to the Amauroth theme.
>>712748023You're not actually going to turn it on because then you won't be able to white knight.
>>712748171this one is new, filtered, bye bye
>>712748264It's not though.
>>712747140they compesed him his own theme
he is staying for a while
>>712748170NTA but I think it played for the first time when Emet was shown off.
https://youtu.be/EejgHWD6I7s?t=158
Calyx is an Ascian
The black regulators are going to turn people into neo-black mask Ascians
>>712747421if everyone can get them quickly and easily then there is no point
i mean that's just my point of view and it's cool people feel differntly i just strenously disagree is all
>>712748264he gets really fucking mad if you filter anything and talk about filtering things it's funny. but not funny enough to not keep filtering him
>>712748406Unless he got replaced by an Ascian skinwalker, I am getting the vibe that he was actually an alright guy once but he's getting Thordanned/Varised.
Hades/WoL ultimate is the next one?
>>712748329Yes. But I think they used it with Elidibus post ShB and then again with Funnydaniel.
I like the WoL being the (kinda) only one having an actual character theme. The rest share theirs with others. Yshtola/Matoya, Graha/Allagans, etc
>>712748738>Yes. But I think they used it with Elidibus post ShB and then again with Funnydaniel.They used it a few times since, yeah. It stopped being Emet's theme. The same could apply here.
>I like the WoL being the (kinda) only one having an actual character theme.Ahem ahem *omega stands in ur path*
>>712748689I hope it will be gauntlet where we fight the entire convocation at once, with Emet-Selch, Elidibus and Lahabrea as the highlights
>>712748618>be born sickly and bedridden>find out there's a whole group of bodyhopping liches that can grant immortality to others>start working on a way to make everyone immortal bodyhoppersIt's a natural conclusion, the endless were just part of his experiment to make everyone Ascians.
>>712748859Yeah, that's probably sort of the angle. With some added "I see how the world works and it breaks me" angst. I assume his illness is going to be a part of his motivations.
>>712748413it's still first step so i'm mostly waiting to see how the rest of the relic is handled, heavensward was particularly schizophrenic about making you swap between crafting, dungeon, daily and even savage grinds to get your relic done and demiatmas are the hardest the first step has been since, well, probably heavensward
>>712738904amen brother, fuk lameass is almost tolerable with japanese VAs
>>712748427Actually I wish you really would filter the things you claim you filter so I would never have to sit here and watch you bitch for months and months and months on end about how people don't like Wuk Lamat enough. Please filter those terms, I'm begging you. But I know you won't because then you can't get the euphoria of defending Kate and Sena.
>>712748824Ofc bosses are going to have their own character theme for their fights.
Are you refering to eScape? Cause that's basically Azys Lla
>>712748859>>712748943Right now, I figure the general outline is
>Calyx is born heavily debilitated, unable to do much and with a heavily truncated lifespan>Nobly resigns himself to it because there's no point in struggling against the inevitable>A little ascian comes by and whispers into his ears about the real origin of the world, what ancients could do back when the world was whole, and that physical limitations meant nothing back in the days of the world unsundered>Knows that there's now a way for him to alter his fate>Stops at nothing to do so>Sunk cost/crossed the moral and ethical line >Probably truly believes he's doing everyone a favor
>>712749049original relics had melding and fishing and desynthing and fates and overworld mobs and primals ect.. they took you through everything in the entire game
>>712749186https://youtu.be/EMhANHI9YhA
>>712749070Yeah, wuk sounds and acts really cute in JP, thanks to her VA. But, your mind is free to see the other problems that are related with the story itself.
Patches are really giving me hope, but OC came waaaay too late. We should be getting exploratories in x.1. Delay the fucking Alliance Raid, who gives a fuck. All my jobs were 100 in the first two months of the expansion.
>>712726025 (OP)Who the fuck is still wasting sub money on FF fucking 14?
>>712749470i dont really think there's much of a problem with patch cadence if the expansion has a foray
only when it doesn't
now with 7.55 adding the final bit, it's just 8.0 to 8.25 (presumably) for the next part. compared to 6.0, to 7.25
but i would like to see the overworld become sorta lite forays
>>712749341that's just a medley of Torn from the Heavens
Cid might be the only one who has his own theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yUgppaSmKk&list=RD2yUgppaSmKk&start_radio=1
>>712749169Boy you are horny for an argument about nothing. I get people champing at the bit less over race statistics in Mordhau lobbies. Take your own advice and filter out this defense force you think exists?
>>712749636For someone like me who cares the most about MSQ patches, it has been a complete torture.
But I have other games to play, so I can wait. Although I don't think it's good for the game's health to have such long content lulls.
>>712741668I wish xiv was just fantasy gundamwank all the time tbqh. We need more expansions with multiple char clones and more cyber echo bullshit
>>712749706I'm not a redditor nigger like you so I don't feel the need to filter my internet experience. You on the other hand keep making virtue signal displays about how you're bravely going to filter those terms, only to not do it at all. It's completely pathetic and I will never stop calling you out for it. Now please deny being a redditor so I can grab that screenshot next.
>>712749929No wonder you won't take your own advice, you're one of those freaks that equates getting mad with ego strength. On top of the shadowboxing, finger pointing and trying to fit in with Reddit accusations. Don't think I can't see the every-minute post flooding stops whenever you're "calling out."
>>712750073>and trying to fit in with Reddit accusationsIt's not an accusation. It's an admission from you. You're not only a furfag, you not only have a fat fetish, you're not only a self-admitted tranny, you are a fucking redditor.
>YOU'RE THE ONE PERSON TOO!!!Yep here we go.
dawntrail felt the same as stormblood to me
where it was 2xpacs SMASHED together
the ending gets so sloppy until it doesnt
and then the stuff with zero
blehh
sorry for reddit spacing im eatin a hashbrown
If I ever return to this game I'll just modbeast my character and whack my meat to it
>>712750210I already know what you are, let's quit the foreplay-- you're a "designated schizo," you've assigned yourself to this topic and this game. It's your mission to completely flip your shit whenever you see anything related to it. Every game has this on /v/ now. It would be interesting if it wasn't a guarantee. Talking about your mandate of heaven won't actually change anything, though, you've convinced yourself already that you're an entire mob and I'm one guy you've been warring against for who knows how long. Already my posts somehow are in celestial alignment with your tulpa. So let's cut the shit and get down to the real meat and potatoes of why you've assigned yourself to this game. It's not because you're fighting Redditors, it's not because you're fighting virtue signalers, I sincerely doubt you even really care that much about the tulpa you're fighting for as much as you're talking about it and seem to have reams of screencaps proving its existence. You may as well just type into a text document and write a story you could actually make money off of, if you're insistent on arguing with a figment of your imagination. And if you won't actually talk to me, then I'll stop replying after this, because there isn't any point in wrangling a conversation out of somebody that's running off of a pre-written script.
>>712750829This is what xiv is all about!!!
>>712750881bro
talk about the game instead of shitting this thread up with replies to a known shitstirrer
>>712750881You're delusional. Genuinely. Nice TF2 reaction image faggot, gonna jerk off to ponies or some other furry garbage next to the other autists like you? You're nothing. Literally.
Keep responding to me, I love your attention.
>>712750517>dawntrail felt the same as stormblood to meIt absolutely is just Stormblood 2.0.
>>712750905that's what the developers are obviously counting on that people just play infinite dress up and chat in limsa all day while they wait seven months for a new dungeon
maybe i'll believe one of you retards about getting banned for breathing in an unapproved space when you don't try to imply that you were banned swiftly and immediately because this game's moderation runs slow as fuck unless you bump into a GM out in the wild by accident and do something retarded in front of him
Yoshida doesn't even play his own game anymore.
>>712751247i was just minding my business when some modded tranny ran into me doing his tranny speak and i totally calmly admonished them in a productive and critical way and then this filthy vile tranny reported me while i just apologized for any offense i might have given and i got banned????? that totally happened btw!!!
>>712751451too late, wow already got there first
>>712751423Don't forget how I knew they were modded and knew they have a porn gpose account while also swearing up and down I've never modded anything in my life
>>712750881No matter how badly you want it to be true, I am not the spammer. I am not any designated schizo. I've been here longer than you and I love talking about this game, which is why I have a visceral hatred for arrogant tourist white knight niggers like you who do nothing but smugly try to shit on any and all topics of discussion you dislike, primarily any topics with a negative tone. I know exactly who you are because you write the same way about the same topics with the same reaction images for YEARS on end. And I have many collages of images showing just how fucking repetitive you are. Even outside these threads it isn't hard to track you, would you like me to post some meltdowns of yours from other threads? I hate you because you're the sort of psychotic little rat fuck who makes retarded claims and accusations and then starts screaming about /pol/ and kiwifarms or whatever the fuck is living in your head that week when anyone proves you're a moron. You're the sort of psychotic little rat fuck who will sit here and defend avatarfags who spam the thread with gibberish then whip your head around and cry about people being mean to Wuk LAmat. You're the sort of psychotic little rat fuck who makes the same posts for years straight, then whips around and cries about muh image spammer. You're the sort of psychotic little rat fuck who has total meltdowns when people criticize Dawntrail, then will sit here for hours criticizing Heavensward and Shadowbringers to deflect negativity toward them instead.
If I'm a dedicated schizo for anything, it's you. And I will find you, just so you know.
>>712751602i was just a harmless newbie trying to make my way around the game for the first time and i said "sorry sir and/or ma'am can you give me directions"
and then they called me a cis white piece of shit for not calling them a 'sa'am' and reported me. wtf i can't even ask questions?
>>712751746All these disgusting fucking trannies rolled up on me in a Lunar Whale mount and their FC's motto said "DOWN WITH CIS" and they beat me up and reported me all as one group.
>>712751854man, I'm sorry dude yeah these deranged troons run the show and you can't basically say anything or you get a gm breathing down your neck it's insane
>>712751983They won't even let me yell NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER in Limsa plaza. It's so joever. There isn't any game for straight white men anymore.
Why is this guy talking to himself?
>>712751983just like in real life, avoid the troons
you don't have to talk to them, you really don't have to talk to anyone outside your social circle
i've shat on pronouns in the past, nothing has happened to me
should i level painter or mch
>>712752151cause the image dump is useless
>>712752164Machinist takes more time, get that out of the way first
Dawntrail simply reinforces the theory that Tencent is injecting wokeslop into everything for cheap corpo takeovers. SE is next after ubisoft on the buyout chopping block
'ate ziv trannies
'ate wow trannies
shit on both
simple as
>>712752485and yet you're still subscribed
>>712752535>He thinks we're still subbed
ran out of steam?
your precious folder is useless
>>712752164I love the MCH concept, but fucking hate how it plays.
Painter is kinda boring, but it's more interesting than MCH.
PVP MCH is great, tho
>>712752485Suggestion: find something you enjoy for yourself and play that instead of relying on low-tier bait for "le epic shitposting keks".
You can still enjoy games, can't you?
>>712752164I havent played PCT but anything has to be better than MCH.
I don't shit on many XIV jobs even though a lot of other people do, but even I think MCH is dogshit. It has one cool ability and that's the scattergun (?) AoE. And only because it looks cool.
>>712752242>>712752832>>712752961gonna work on mch, i kind of like it. especially the animation for reassemble. its like im setting my gun to fucking wumbo
heat blast looks chuuni as fuck
>>712753118Well, I hope you enjoy it more than I do. Earnestly.
>>712753213i am drifting drills uncontrollably
>>712754803No, I wanna fight Necron in XIV.
pretty sure this Giant Takitaro does not exist
>>712755164That sounds like crazy euphemism.
pretty sure this Giant Takitaro does exist
Post cute lalas
not so fast cocoli
>>712755383I forgot what !!! looks like in game
>>712752883not her but i unironically can't. i feel so out of touch with this medium now. it's OVER
>>712755529Real niggas play male lalafell unironically
>>712737624>Explain why without using the term that explains itIt was wokeism, tranny. Woke minded retards infiltrated the dev team, then when left alone for LITERALLY ONE EXPANSION gave us this shit. Seethe all you want. I want you and your ilk dead
>Post cute lalas
Post cute lalas
>>712737742But worse lmao
>>712739291It was a nothing burger. Fuck off tranny
>>712755801nice muttonchops
>>712737624https://youtu.be/mcQfbShd4bM
>>712737624one msq people didn't like is le dead
(it really isn't, but embittered people will do anything to feed their preconceived notions)
>>712739865My headcanon is that the WoL is in a coma after his Zeno duel. The Twins went over to Tural and did all that shit and are now coming back to sit at your bedside to tell you a story. Hence why the WoL is always sitting in the fucking background with his finger up his arse
>>712755241You will get cyberpunk deathguise and be happy
>>712738734Every goddamn scene with Elidibus is pure S O U L and K I N O.
I still cannot believe they managed to both save this character through far better writing and make him as good as he was in his trial and appearances from Shadowbringers onwards.
>>712756348>You will get cyberpunk deathguiseProbably in the dungeon.
>>712756179I don't care how right she is, e-celeb posters belong in mass graves.
>>712756179the biohole that annihilated /xivg/ trannies
>>712726025 (OP)Endwalker fucking sucked and the game was already bleeding during Shadowbringers. Dawntrail is a disaster that shouldn't even exist. The whole game is an afk chatroom simulator for freaks. The sooner you let go the better
t. Quit playing mmos for the first time in 14 years and I've never felt better
>>712756468I love the part where she goes "Wuk Lamat defense squad". I know that one must have really stung them. I played DT on release and a bunch of people struck up a conversation in Heritage Found shout chat over how shitty plot had been up to this point and how tired everyone is of Wuk Lamat and we had some faggot threaten to report us for "spamming the chat".
>>712756467it's a bit insulting knowing the only reason she's posted is she has a vagina
>>712739790Rebirth was great, you fucking schizo.
>>712756782Zepla used to get spammed here during EW for the same reason, until she turned against the game and her dedicated simp decided she was a traitor and started having schizo freakouts about her every day instead. E-celeb posters are just fucking lunatics and more often than not they're either thirdies or brain damaged zoomutts. Just like twitter screenshots, e-celeb posts should result in a permanent ban.
>>712757524No? Why would he be?
>>712757546>both speak the same way>shale is a super hacker>talks about how people cared for the castle as though she was there herself>makes sure she's the first person in the room to check the throne terminal>immediately was able to track calyx's transmission>insisted meat-sphene take queen sphene's regulator crown>her transmission conveniently got jammed as soon as Calyx wanted to talk to you personally.
>>712757626Well, sure I guess. I don't really see it, but we'll see. We've had weirder things.
>>712756256>My headcanon is the Wol is in a coma after his Zeno duel.That was my line of thinking as well for the justification of Dawntrail and then you can delete by simply having the Wol wake up.
Cheap narrative device but, fuck it they did it before with Dalamud and nuking 1.0.
>>712757913This was my kino explanation for retconning yawnfail:
>Wuk has the 1.0 version of the Echo that allows for entering people's memories and rewriting them>Wuk used it to rewrite everyone's memories of DT to make it seem like she was a good guy hero who helped everyone save the day>have to figure out what actually happened during DT while trying to avoid getting memoryraped by Wuk again
>>712747140>Make a female>Call it a maleThis shit was weird. No matter how you look at it this fictional character exudes female physicality. There's nothing masculine about this thing. Not even a god damn adam's apple.
There is a primal underneath Tural slowly tempering everyone.
>variant/criterion flopped
>island sanctuary flopped
>eureka orthos flopped
>chaotic flopped
>cosmic exploration flopped
>occult crescent flopped
>>712758225yeah, here it is
*unzips escrotum*
>>712758664Is that painful for you?
>>712758643to get original crafter glowies you had to craft basically everything in the fucking game at the time
fuck this new shit they even give you the ingredients for fucking free now for your spam i hate this game
>>712726025 (OP)PAST THE FAR EDGE OF FATE
RING BLADES DARK AND LIGHT
TOLLING THE COMING OF THE END
The way that yoshitpiss killed SE's golden goose in favor of sena bryer simulator should be studied by nip business schools
Endwalker was worse than Dawntrail in terms of plot. Shadowbringers was good in a vaccuum but at the end of the day Shadowbringers is what killed the game, the plot was at its most interesting during the Stormblood patch content and Shadowbringers derailed everything and the game genuinely never recovered. Every interesting plot point was abandoned, every threat neutralized in a ridiculous neat and tidy way, every mystery handwaved away as an Ascian machination. We can't even fight a trial against a random monster anymore without using Azem's wack-ass crystal to call for backup.
>>712760248Endwalker sucked ass but it was definitely not worse than Dawntrail's plot. Endwalker's worst sin was killing constantly killing the tension and shitting on its own intended themes and morals by bringing the rabbits in to cuddle you any time something stressful happened. It wasn't the near-schizophrenic nonsense that Dawntrail was.
Wow, it's the two most uppity faggots having a conversation about being triggered by rabbits and using rock candy to summon people instead of "THEY WERE JUST THERE BRO"
Magical.
>>712760379Hard disagree. Elpis alone is literally the absolute nadir of XIV as a whole, the MSQ has literally never been worse. Dawntrail was boring but it never even came close to being as egregiously terrible as Endwalker. Dawntrail was just bad, Endwalker was outright damaging.
>>712760505The rabbits are completely at odds with the themes of Endwalker and Venat's own ideals. They are exactly what the Zodiark faction wanted, a way to ignore reality and dive into easy comforts to avoid facing the stress in front of them. Having a story about forging ahead through fear and suffering no matter how bleak it seems, then never letting you feel that bleakness, is just insane. Maybe one day you'll get it if you ever stop blindly worshiping EW just because Venat exists in it.
>>712760707Yes bro, talking rabbit people are going to provide ignorance to the realities of the world.
>thread up all day
>300 posts
really breaking the bank OP keep it going
The best part of Endwalker was the ending, pure kino.
>>712760808That's exactly how they're used in the story, yeah. Did you skip any cutscenes that didn't have Venat in them? The rabbits show up any time something tense happens in the story to make silly jokes so you don't get too stressed out watching people get slaughtered. It's literally what the Zodiarkfags wanted.
>>712760707>duhhh ur a trancer>duhhh ur a garleniggerYou basically can't criticize Endwalker without the cultists attacking you.
>>712760880yeah bro
i remember when the final days happened and everyone took a look at the loporrits, felt better and the final days ended
>>712726025 (OP)>ENDWALKER BROS.....DAWNTRAIL KILLED FF14True and real. PCT and VPR are the two worst ever added jobs as well. This is the worst expansion ever by a fucking mile.
>>712760961Do you think when I refer to 'you', as in you the person, the player, I'm referring to characters in the game? Are you fucking retarded dude?
>>712760841On a weekend during Summer as well, this game is fucked.
>>712726025 (OP)How long would it take to solo from scratch all the XIV content (solo meaning Iโll play with random parties when I need to but donโt have dedicated groups)
>>712761105and i remember when all the people who wanted to murder stopped wanting to murder
and the people who missed their loved ones who were murdered felt better and stopped grieving
because the rabbits exist
>>712761174Maybe you should stop jacking off to Venat cosplayers and learn to read, champ.
>>712761231urgghh the moogles being zany is draining all the stakes out of heavensward
and the namazu being cartoony??? are they trying to keep me from experiencing the horrors of warfare!??
So where did the real people who actually wanna discuss things move to? Discord or something? These bot reply infested threads are lame.
>>712761314>urgghh the moogles being zany is draining all the stakes out of heavenswardThe moogles were there for one zone early on, before the actual tension started building. If they showed up after Haurchefant died to do a skit about pudding, you'd have a point.
>and the namazu being cartoony??? are they trying to keep me from experiencing the horrors of warfare!??There's one scene with a Namazu immediately after you arrive in Kugane, and then never again.
Legitimately, are you retarded?
>>712761578no, i'm just taking the piss out of you because you got triggered by talking bunnies 3 years ago and have been gnashing your teeth about it ever since
it's honestly quite warranted
>>712760841I remember when you couldn't even do an expert roulette without missing a thread. Times have changed.
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>>712737742Stormblood had retarded writing, but it was still ENTERTAINING. Zenos being a fighting autist is entertaining. Seeing political conflicts in not-Japan is entertaining. Yotsuyu being a hot and excessively melodramatic villain is entertaining. Lyse being a hot bimbo who isn't qualified at all for her position is still entertaining. Almost all of it was stupid, but it was fun, like how an action movie is fun even though the plot makes little sense.
Having the entire main culture of your expansion boiled down to tacos and friendship is not entertaining. Seeing a gigantic cyberspace city and everyone, including the SCHOLAR SCIONS, not even batting an eye at it is not entertaining. Putting an extreme hyperfocus on an unlikeable, ugly character who doesn't deserve credit for anything is not entertaining. Actively sabotaging any sense of wonder and mystery in an expansion about the New World is not fucking entertaining. It's stupid AND it's not fun.
>>712761674I got triggered by the writers undermining their own themes and taking all the tension out of the story, yeah. I'm not mad at cutesy rabbits existing or levity in the story, I'm mad at the cutesy rabbits showing up to defuse the tension of the story any time it started to build even a little bit. It's shitty writing that doesn't respect the player or even the writers themselves, because it's completely at odds with what they were trying to present. You will never accept this because Venat exists in the story though and so you have to consider it a perfect story. Which is ironic because Venat's ideals are exactly the opposite of what the rabbits do in the story.
>>712761736yeah it was so entertaining that everyone said xiv was dead after stormblood because everything about it sucked, was low-effort and lyse was the worst mary sue nothing character ever and stormblood would mark the beginning of the end
but sure, i'll buy into it. this time, xiv is truly dead
>>712761726that's what happens when your game goes woke and a skeleton crew ushers it through years of unannounced maintainence mode while square enix sucks every penny they can from it until their playerbase realized it died years ago
>>712738514BA wasn't immediately monopolized by discord servers the way tower was. If you try to do tower as intended, youre accused of being a sniper and blacklisted by the community. Discord has destroyed this game in the west.
>>712761868I didn't say anything about the game being dead. I'm saying that the writing in Dawntrail is absolute dogshit and not in a fun way like it was with Stormblood. I don't care about your shitflinging, I'm here to discuss the video game properly.
>>712761868XIV isn't going to EoS any time soon but it is going to be stuck in the same rut WoW is in for the foreseeable future.
>>712761074>PCT and VPR are the two worst ever added jobs as wellHoly shit, this.
The new Jobs are garbage for vastly different reasons and frankly I'm not sure which one is more insulting. Probably PCT since the devs bent over backwards for them and still couldn't properly manage it.
>>712762104PCT is fun to play, you're only seething because of muh balance muh ultimate parse. VPR is shit though.
actually, DT is still better than Stormblood
>>712761989Then you'd be happy to acknowledge that Stormblood was in fact not considered entertaining by most, and the archives attest to people calling it the same shit Dawntrail is called now. Except in the interim we got some new buzzwords added to the mix due to the explosion of woke v anti woke whereas in Stormblood it was just "this mary sue blonde bitch that gets favorable treatment for nothing."
And I'm not even saying 7.0 was good at all.
>>712762104I'm still amazed they felt the need to remove the debuff management from VPR not even a month after it was added to the game when it was already the second most braindead job behind nu-SMN.
>>712761736The thing about people claiming Dawntrail is Stormblood, they're grasping hard at straws because they don't want to admit the game is in massive decline due to how much Dawntrail sucked the fat one.
Stormblood base expansion didn't grow the population of the game, but it didn't tank it either the numbers were flat and then began to rise through post patches.
Dawntrail has tanked from 7.0 at a character count of 1.4million to now 950,000 characters per lucky bancho and Player Scope scraping has the numbers even lower, with each each the numbers of people quitting has only increased.
Dawntrail per each patch is not growing the player base, it's not stable and holding the player base at a flat number, each patch has seen a decline which was not seen in Stormblood.
Plus, let's be brutally honest here Dawntrail has nuked 5-6 years worth of the player base, of reputation, of growth.
Stormblood did not do that even remotely.
Numbers do not lie, but the people who are defending Dawntrail do.
>>712762217You can bring up the archives and you'll see that every single complaint is specifically about Lyse and only Lyse, while in the same breath everyone is celebrating the Azim Steppe and Zenos.
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>>712762217People rightfully shitted on Lyse and Hien. However, I have never seen anyone shit on how the zones looked, or how the cultures made no sense, or how every single side character was devoid of personality, or how the game repeated the exact same story as the previous expansions beat for beat.
>>712762145No it isn't. It's not fun or cool to play. Caster dps is so fucked its not even funny.
>BLMraped 4? expansions in a row. devs do not understand what blm players want. Still considerably the best caster on all fronts
>RDMhas barely improved since release, boring as fuck lobotomized pre ARR style rotation.
>SMNBITCHMADE lego clicker, phys range tier dps.
>PCTLame as fuck depiction of a painter/artist/pictomancer. Entire job is cringe/gay/tranny coded, and I'm note even someone who gives a shit about that normally.
>>712762363Posting charts are we? I can do that too.
>>712762381>I have never seen anyone shit on how the zones looked,They should. Gyr Abania was fucking awful grey dreck.
Plenty of people complained about how boring the story was, though. And how interactions made no sense (because Lyse made people submit to her like ACK Lamat)
>>712726025 (OP)why does every thread start like this
>>712762381>I have never seen anyone shit on how the zones lookedThis is a lie. Gyr Abania looks terrible and nobody ever liked it while the appearance of Dawntrails zones are one of the few things this expansion actually does well.
>>712762426>Lame as fuck depiction of a painter/artist/pictomancer.It doesn't represent Pictomancer well, but it's fun to play. Honestly it's more of a Black Mage than BLM is.
>Entire job is cringe/gay/tranny codedThe rainbow belongs to God and I love Rainbow Drip.
>>712762452>because Lyse made people submit to her like ACK LamatOne of the biggest memes around Lyse is how she expects people to go die for her and they tell her to fuck off.
Turns out that when you make an expansion that is supposed to be about a relatively relaxed adventure on a foreign continent you should actually do something related to relaxation or exploration sometime.
If XIV is dead why are you guys still here?
>>712762513what exactly is fun to you about pct? the job is lame and leans more toward smn than blm you freak
>>712762426Are you a shadowbab? Blm wasn't raped until shadowbringers.
>>712762452>And how interactions made no sense (because Lyse made people submit to her like ACK Lamat)The literal opposite happens. People dislike Lyse because she expects ridiculous things from others, and they all tell her to fuck off repeatedly. Meanwhile in Dawntrail, there are multiple scenes where people literally grovel before Wuk Lamat.
>>712762621To shit on what it's turned into oh sorry are we supposed to wrap up the game in cottonballs and pretend everything is fine when Dawntrail is the absolute worst expansion to date. If you're looking for only toxic positivity you're better off going to ResetEra and Reddit.
You absolute fucking pussy.
>>712762693This is such revisionism. You (well, maybe not You since you weren't around) fuckers were bitching about how she was basically a nepotism princess. The mild bit of pushback in Ala Gannha is basically equivalent to Mamook disliking Ack Lamat (a nothingburger).
>>712762621I saw the thread on the catalog and I wanted to take a moment to shit on Square Enix for poorly handling this game.
>>712762625>what exactly is fun to you about pct?I like the multiple layers of resource management, and the feeling of slowly building up your stock and then exploding comets and moogle beams on the boss. It was more fun before hammer nerf though. There's a lot of room for optimizing downtime too.
>leans more toward smn than blm you freakIt is a better SMN than SMN too, but most of PCT's rotation is cycling through all the elements and blasting the boss with as many Comets and Thunders as possible. Especially now after the 7.2 changes.
>>712762734I feel sorry for you. I hope you can find something you enjoy, rather than stay stuck in your resentmnet for your ex.
>>712762767>fuckers were bitching about how she was basically a nepotism princessThere is no contradiction here. She gets shit on by her fellow countrymen for asking the impossible AND she gets a top spot out of nepotism later on. Both things were mocked by the fanbase.
>>712762426>Lame as fuck depiction of a painter/artist/pictomancerWasn't PCT just a roundabout BST?
Anyway, it says a lot that RDM has barely budged since implemented in SB and thanks to fucking over BLM recently, is one of the more harder casters.
>>712762621To laugh at you, specifically.
>>712762524>And? My chart is better
>>712726025 (OP)The Golbez shit and myths of the realm killed FF14 for me. Dawntrail just added more dirt on the grave.
>>712762870>She gets shit on by her fellow countrymenMore like
"Fuck off random blonde bint. We're not dying for your shitty war."
"Wait... those eyes... you're Curtis' kid? Sorry for being a meanie but we're just too tired of losing sister."
>>712762880>Wasn't PCT just a roundabout BST?Yeah, a more accurate PCT would play like Sugar Riot does where she draws morbols or succubi to use their attacks, since copying the boss wouldn't really be feasible in this game.
>>712762852The mere fact you equate a game to a relationship is such an insight into how you see FFXIV. What a sad individual you are that this is the life you've made for yourself.
>>712762909>be me>play game I enjoy>"HAHA YOU ARE PLAYING GAME!"Wow. I feel nothing.
>>712762989And in Dawntrail it's "Wait y-you're the Th-Third Promise? Oh my tacos, yes of course I will do this! Hey everyone, with the Third Promise by our side we can do anything! SO SMIIIIILE AND LET THE REFUGEES IIIIIIIN~"
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This 10ft tall giant armored magic knight walks up to you, slaps your EB's ass, twists a dragon into his sword and says
>"With abyssal dark and hero's blade, I bring my people liberation!"
What do you do?
>>712762989>"Wait... those eyes... you're Curtis' kid? Sorry for being a meanie but we're just too tired of losing sister."That never happens tho.
>>712763134Shit, almost like I wasn't disagreeing that it was bad in Dawntrail. :D
>>712763154I remind him and everyone in the room that I said the EW patches were a sign of things to come and that the next expansion will be just as awful as they are and nobody believed me at the time.
>>712763154>cool armor bro
>>712763154I call him Ardbert and do a 360 and walk away.
>>712763198You're retarded if you can't see the difference. Again, I don't want to defend Lyse too much since she's a bad character still, but she's not as absolutely awful as Wuk Lamat.
I still find the whole genocide the Endless bit of Dawntrail to be in such incredibly poor taste.
Like I get the explanations for why it must be done, but its still shit because the game tells you its fine they aren't truly alive, only for the sidequests there to disagree, and it spits on the whole message from ShB.
>>712763368if they didn't want to get genocided they should have squared the fuck up and stood their ground like >we did
>>712763368The moment I realized that they're trying to emulate ShB beat for beat I was mentally checking out of the expansion. The Emet fanboyism was already a bit too much in EW for me, and since they couldn't bring him back for the 5th time they chose to spiritually repeat the exact same shit.
>>712763154I basedpog because that fight is kino
>>712763368I like to imagine there could have been a way to save them but the WoL was just so fucking tired of this annoying fucking lion he quickly shut them all off so the expansion would end faster.
>>712763457They (the ones we met) wanted to get genocided because they were aware of their circumstances and were faltering to the ennui of living their lives out in the same creepy techno themepark cemetery every day.
Oh, and probably not wanting 435983454953495493 living people to die to feed them for [undetermined amount of time]
>>712763530Should you want to save them?
Dead people should be dead. They lived their lives and died. Some died prematurely and it's sad, but they should move on and return to the aetherial sea so they can be reborn, not stick around in a garish incandescent mausoleum.
>>712763620>Dead people should be dead.>>712763467
This thread used to have fun schizos who spewed the most retarded shit that the absurdity made it worth reading. Even that little comfort is not there anymore...
>>712763723Why would anyone still post in these threads when 1. 80% of the threads get pruned within 100 posts, meaning that any true discussion you get into will just get snuffed out for illegitimate reasons most of the time.
And 2. 4chan going down and the alternative /v/ becoming a temporary home to these threads showed how much deranged samefagging reigned in them.
This might get a little chuckle out of people.
I'm sitting in Xbalyav Ty'e, applying to some map parties when four "Heaven-Storm-Shadow-Walkers" walk in. They get their tacos and sit down behind me.
Que litany of Thordan, Varis, Emet-Selch mouth diarrhea. I ignore it. Gonna have to for the next four patches right?
Then they start shitting on Dawntrail as they take out their TOP weapons. This gives me an idea. No idea where it came from, but an idea.
I turn around and say, "Actually. Not a bad expansion. But I guess if you hate Naruto kind of stuff, it makes sense."
They all stop talking and stare at me. "What?"
"Well, yeah. I can understand that if you hate Naruto the idea of watching someone become hokage in fantasy armor while black gospel plays wouldn't be something you want to play."
I start to turn around when I get a "hold up!"
I explain the Third Promise to them, then start playing Smile on my orchestrion plugin and proceed to limit break+speen, etc moves.
You should have seen them leaning in.
Then one of them entered their Emet-Selch mind again.
"Yeah? What about all the plot holes?"
I shrugged as I put on my Solution 9 glamour. "I don't read any plotholes."
He pushed "What about all the Krile stuff that they pushed off screen?"
"Krile? Who? I missed all of it on my first playthrough. She's a Scion? I just remember her parents being annoying, but hey look at this..."
I glamourer to Wuk Lamat and let loose. "She's basically the perfect baby of Naruto and the girl lion from Lion King."
"Now who wants to see the dead baby storage?"
An hour more of increasingly less stupid questions? There where four more positive Dawntrail reviews.
I found the situation hysterical!
>>712761736>Seeing a gigantic cyberspace city and everyone, including the SCHOLAR SCIONS, not even batting an eye at itThis was the moment I completely checked out of the game. If even the story itself doesn't care about any sense of mystery or wonder, then why should I?
>>712763723Good. bozjafag was annoying as fuck
barry keeps trying, but all his shit gets filtered
>>712763809you mean the sharty threads? holy shit, IDs are a fucking godsend to deal with those tards
>>712763814I chuckled a little.
>>712763809>samefagging lmao I read that here a couple times but I didn't think it actually happened.
>>712763942All /v/ thread had poster IDs, which means you could see how many times someone had already responded in the thread.
So a lot of the usual shitposting ended up being tied to a handful of IDs, and when they got wise to that, they started IP hopping for new IDs, but a bunch of (1) post IDs randomly popping in to drop the same tired shitposts and "wow I agree with you that really is insightful you are entirely right" replies to those posts is obviously equally telling.
And then one of them got so triggered by being easily detectable he activated bot farms or something to spam the thread with.
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You know the game is bad when the only people left defending aren't even talking about the game but clutching their pearls at imaginary shitposters.
>>712764248Resub or he'll sue and copyright strike you, bigot
>>712764223You know the game is good and alive when shitposters have to spend every waking hour trying to attack anyone discussing it, rotating through their folder of charts and images that they've posted 42,000 times this year.
Your effort only proves the opposite of your argument.
I never quite got what the black abysses in Rak'tika were about. Isn't Rak'tika ground level-ish? Or is it highly elevated slabs of terrain held together by trees?
>>712763942People never believe me when I try to explain to them just how obsessed some samefags are.
>>712764223Folderspammer is the one who cares the most about this game out of anyone else in this thread. Everyone else is downright apathetic now.
>>712763096>mazed nigger paying a sub fee for this la creaturamany such cases
>>712764356The day folderdumpers and ritual shitposters stop entering these threads is the day I might actually start to worry for FFXIV.
>>712764373>Or is it highly elevated slabs of terrain held together by trees?This is what the Sylphlands in the Black Shroud are, so since Rak'tika is the same location on the First it might be the same thing. I've always wanted an added zone or dungeon showing what's below the canopy in the Sylphlands. I imagine there are some spooky ancient forest hellbeasts.
>>712764248wasn't this guy crying about people being mean to him
>>712764494Good point. I just always found it weird. I'm used to cliffs and gaps in between areas. Amh Araeng has them too, but they're not pitch black, and I was always under the impression that Rak'tika wasn't particularly high up compared to Lakeland.
Square Enix doesn't even want to me to resub to the game. It's honestly so over.
>>712764356>good and aliveAre all xivcucks this detached from objective reality?
>>712764494>Eorzea contentGod, I fucking wish. Too bad every expansion from here on out is going to be Shardslop.
>>712726025 (OP)I loved Sokens dumb butt rock being shoehorned into everything. I mean unironically I thought it made things even more fantastical and cool.
In the laundry list of things I've come to hate about 14, the soundtrack won't ever be on that list. The soundtrack is good and Soken has been a decent successor.
>>712764657If it were dead why would you have to prove to people it is?
>>712764705Well, they have to do something in between 7.3 and 7.55.
>>712764749Soken really fell off recently and I think that's because doing FF16 at the same time drained him. Daiki Ishikawa and Takafumi Imamura have been doing all the kino tracks for the past few expansions.
>every franchise is corrupted from within and enshittified, even the japs
>only the chinks are somewhat inoculated because they hate baizuo
This timeline sucks.
For fucks sake, 2 steps forward 3 steps back.
I hope 7.3 (and the rest of DT) can live up to 7.2. Best patch in a long while to be honest. The raid is great, Occult Crescent is fun, the MSQ is the best it's been in a while (at least since 6.2)
>>712764820It's annoying that he still gets credit for basically everything despite not doing anything
>>712764657lol do you really have to ask
>>712765056>>712764820I wish they'd let Mizuta do some tracks, give him the zone BGMs at the very least. It would be nice to get a remix or two done by him for the XI raids too.
>>712764749>โโโโsuccessorโโโโUematsufags still as insufferable as ever
>>712765268They should have had him do stuff for the XI raid since XI is pretty much done and he does like one track a year for it now.
>>712765350I'm surprised they didn't, it was nice of Soken to say he didn't want to tinker with the songs but Mizuta is literally right there and has been putting out some top tier stuff when he's given the chance.
>>712765642shadowlands was years ago bro
>>712765760He's doing a folder dump, the age of that image should tell you the depth of his mental illness.
>>712765651He could even just remaster the songs like he did for Tough Battle 2 in Jack's game.
>>712764494Or like a forest wildlife version of shit that lives on the abyssal plain of the ocean.
>garleniggers still coping about EW
truly a gift that keeps on giving
stormblood and dawntrail are dogshit.
>>712760867tranny poster.
FFXIV needed to end at EW and make XIV-2 or whatever mainline number they want it to be.
Any game, even an MMO, needs a refresh once a fucking decade and I don't think this is some wild or crazy god damn concept to throw out there. WoW needed a WoW 2 however many years ago, XIV needed an XIV-2 where DT is instead.
The coding problems, the "we can't really wring anything else out of this setting" problems, the absolute completely different gameplay between ARR/HW and the rest of the game, problems in the early game with player retention because it's quite literally a "It gets *slightly better* gameplay wise 20 hours from the start" type of issue where the only thing they could do to "fix" it was to make it fucking F2P.
A rank hunts have been broken for the greater portion of a decade or an outright decade now, old systems like command squadrons were remade with trusts then remade again for Duty Supports, high player count absolutely eviscerates the entire game by fucking with not only the gameplay but the literal graphical playability since the engine doesn't handle it for shit, it's in the phase of "post game" story wise for a FF where the "Attack" command is all 9999s and there's no real way to change that hence why there will never be another long term antagonist, this shit was on PS3 which ended compatibility with PS4 and now it's reaching the point where the PS4 version will end compatibility for PS5.
Holy fuck, just restart us on another reflection as their version of a WoL and move on or truly start over from scratch with only the overarching basic themes still being retained. Feel like I'm taking fucking crazy pills over here.
>>712742778now thats a throwback
>>712766284what an awful idea.
Never.
Is Krile JP's VA some super rich celebrity SE can't afford or what the fuck? Neither the JP or the good NA one deserved this absolute shit.
We have new updated imagery just for our girl, from the big man himself no less.
>>712766694i think its idol drama.
What's even more scarier is the story boost that lands you right into DT is the top 7th sold items on the mogstation. Meaning a majority of the people you'll be playing with for the future of the game's lifespan won't even know or care at how good the first few expansion's MSQ were. But let's be real most people "playing" this game now are mare modders who don't really "play" the game.
>>712766284The only good way to do an MMO sequel is to make all the achievements and cosmetics and such transferrable. That was actually a plan early in XIV's development. They wanted a portal that would let you move between XI and XIV with your same character, so you wouldn't lose anything. But that got scrapped and of course they naturally had a hell of a time getting anyone to leave XI behind.
>>712766694Krile's VA is actually the dev team's darling. She shows up on streams all the time and they promised she'd have a bigger role in DT specifically because they felt bad for her VA that she was left out of the EW expansion art. Which makes it even more baffling that she got the treatment she did.
>>712761726That'll happen when there's a big enough lull period that insane spammers can take up residence and make sure things are terrible when the previous existing community would start trudging back in, all the while blaming their own spam on external forces and generic /v/ boogeymen like avatarfags or Redditors
>>712766812You really like defending avatarfags, huh? Wonder what your stake in it is...
>write a whole ass post about how this rarely happens
>immediately replies with that exact situation
Also who the fuck swifties their Ruby? Like you have infinite mobility before you're forced to stand still for two casts, setup shop where you need to, pretend to be (old) BLM for like 5.5s.
man, I do not like moogle tribe quests
>>712766812Yeah, fuck spammers.
>N-NO NOT LIKE THAT THE AVATARFAGS ARE MY FRIENDS...!
>>712765642>>712765760>same exact sentiments were being posted during the supposed peak they now say the game fell fromnooticing
For the love of god I hope the crafting tribe is Yok Huy and not Moblins.
>>712767873It's gonna be shit either way.
>dude we could have made sunlamps and grown watermelons all along and we just didn't because.... LMAO!
nice thread despite the non existent moderation
>>712768253Yok Huy at least have some cool stuff going on with their lore and culture and whatever.
Moblins are just voids.
>>712768410janny's pet gets to cry about lalas and homestuck all day and only gets punished once a century
usually because he's been busy being a faggot elsewhere on the board and they finally had enough
>>712768496Why are you pretending that the janny hasn't spent years protecting the avatarfags? What makes you lie like this and think nobody will call you out on it?
>>712737624They release basically no content
Do you know what XIV is competing with? Hsr, zzz, genuine
They release 5x the content that XIV does
janny's pet weeps salty bitch tears directly into my open mouth
>>712768410Tears rejected, try putting in a janny application next time
I'm here to stay friend :)