FFIX remake is real guise

>>715066232 (OP)
>They wasted FFIX on Speak to Wuk Lamatrail.

>"i am not working on FF9 stuff"
>shows Alexandria two slides later
that was kinda funny

>>715067074
wuk derangement syndrome claims another victim

>>715067245
lol shut the fuck up

>>715067245
are you implying she's a good character?

>>715067614
Nobody said that, so, uh, no, I imagine.

>>715067074
It got what it deserved

>>715067669
>Nobody said that

claiming disliking this universally hated character is "derangement syndrome" implies otherwise - the character is despised for a reason and it's not just the tranny VA because even JP players hate her

>>715068124
pretty much

>>715066232 (OP)
>Unlost World
Yikes. Does nu Square really?

>>715068124
Wuk is a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself. Using words like derangement syndrome is just muddying the waters further

>>715068124
It's called derangement syndrome because it's being brought up unprompted, it isn't defending a character it's saying you're fucking annoying when you bring the character up unprompted. It's also fucking annoying when you're told you're annoying for bringing the character up unprompted and you believe it's a defense of the character
>despised for a reason
You're fucking annoying
>tranny VA
You're fucking annoying
>JP players
YOU are fucking annoying

>>715067074
Dawntrail was such a fucking monkey's paw. I was so excited for a IX themed expansion.

>>715068359
t. homosuck

>>715068359
lol why are you defending Wuk Lemat, Lamaty'i, Dawnservant(pbuh)

>>715068439
what the fuck is homestuck

>>715068359
>unprompted

this is a dawntrail thread

>>715068359
holy fucking retard

>>715068946
there's a point there
you ARE annoying if you rant about trannies and try to lean on the japanese to complain about a character. that shit glows in the dark

>>715069020
i think you need to take your meds

>>715069020
you're fucking annoying and most likely autistic

Quick, design a new piece of content that they should introduce in 8.X

>>715069056
sorry anon but i won't think a guy isn't annoying just because i agree with him that's dumb
>>715069146
i'm still suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper curious what that "large scale battle content" was supposed to be. the only thing in the code for it is a tiny scrap of content-handling trees from around 7.1

>>715068359
whatever number this post is best post
nobody is defending ack lmao you guys are just insufferable and can't stop mentioning the thing you keep seething about like a self-perpetuating seethe machine

>>715068359
Your post annoys me so you have to leave.

>>715069232
>the only thing in the code for it is a tiny scrap of content-handling trees from around 7.1
qrd?

>>715069020
No one has to "lean" on the japs lol, the character is universally reviled

>>715069232
why do you type like a faggot

>destroyed by lightning

just like how 13 killed the franchise
deep

>>715069412
old info from around january i had to dig around a little to drudge back up, "MassivePCContentHandler" is the only scrap in the code for what that new battle content they've been batting around since 2023 is supposed to be, as a "content director" game-type it handles FATEs and we don't know anything else about it. it's not chaotic alliance raids and it's not a foray like occult

>>715069712
mild keks

>>715069659
because he is one

>>715069712
kek

>>715069754
I assume it's scrapped for OC and the DD?

>>715070005
hard telling, could be on the backburner for another expansion or wto like minion farm was for ages where it became island sanctuary, could be a surprise for 7.4 or even as early as 7.3 since it got brought up at dawntrail's fanfest, though i'd guess some time this expansion because it reached dawntrail's codebase whatsoever

>>715069146
Dd but with roguelike elements

>>715070174
How would that work?
>>715070171
Might be 7.5, something to try and fill the gap between last patch and the expansion. Could also have to do with the new limited jobs. BLU/BST Battle Royal mode

>>715066232 (OP)

>>715070171
Well, if we get it on top of all the other stuff we're getting this expansion, it'd be nice. But I recall YoshiP saying something along the lines of them discussing whether they wanted to do a new DD and Foray, or try something new.
If it's both, that'd be good, but I'll believe it when I see it.

>>715070402
then why are you fuckwits working on other games which is literally leading to worsening content?
god damn koji really fucked up hiring this danger-haired fuckwit

>>715069146
Battle royale where you pick up random job crystals, gear and buff items

>>715070442
the sticking point for me on it is that it's in code AT ALL, they don't do that kinda stuff unless they're releasing it soon enough to be mentioned. last time i remember any kind of slip-up on when stuff was done vs. when it was added was endwalker putting the heavensturn samurai set in so early that dataminers caught it, removed it, then added it again for the following heavensturn a couple months later

>>715070748
Well, I hope you're right. I don't think anyone would really argue against more content. Especially if said content isn't a new iteration of a preexisting feature or a hard mode version of an old boss (and I'm not saying I mind getting new iterations of older features.)

>>715070402
You've released the exact same content for a decade. You can fucking predict the entire expansion patch release times and content just based on previous expansions and be 90% right

>>715070402
>wah my job is so hard

I hate women so much

>>715070402
What could you call XIV patches if not formulaic?

trancer is going to spend half the thread replying to his own image again isn't he

>>715071256
If it's like last thread closer to 75%.

>>715071256
That's literally never happened

>>715071256
>>715071301
>exactly 31 seconds apart

hmm

>>715071396
Don't @ me, I don't reward the mods for their hard work by paying GrapeApe and Hiro.

>pic related isn't in the MSQ any more
>no one asks how I am doing
>no one actually brings the plot forwards
>idiocracy is reigning supreme
Yeah, I retain that the MSQ is best when Y'shtola is around.

>>715068368
well it is not like I wanted or waited for ff9 expansion, but they sure could've do better.

besides, even "travelling with ukramat" first part of game was kinda more interesting than all that pseudo-alexandria, those hobos in zoomer clother walking between some shitted ruins. like, almost everything about ukramat was bad, and totally everything about alexandria was bad too.

>>715068359

I legitimately think that her english VA is absolute stellar and at least on par with the JP one.

>>715071529
Japposting now

>>715071639
this but unironically i find both of them pretty mediocre, not really bad enough to warrant mentioning but not good enough to really remember

>>715069754
Blue Mage Battle Royale finally happening? lol

>>715071639

I want to start a big happy family with the hagcat.

baiters are now defending the tranny VA lol

Captain's Log: First attempt to establish Wuk Lamat Defense Force (WLDF)'s existence failed. Beginning second attempt

>>715067669
They are too busy talking to her to post

>>715071917
lel

>>715071917
>hates her so much
>spends hours of their day sitting around her talking to her and getting mad
I can believe it.

>>715071986
retard

>>715071909
Lamatyi Defense Force (LDF) would be funnier and more closely to like IDF that are always on here spamming their degen jew shit.

>>715072032
:'^)

>>715070402
So why are the patch releases so slow and formulaic then? Then again, I don't really even care about the answer, just fix the problem

>>715072054
Lala defense force is already ldf

>>715069754
Why is Hullbreaker Isle Hard it's own Content Dungeon?

>get selfie emote
>it uses a wholly new loporrit phone model thing
>meanwhile /tomestone
>uses a tomestone
My autism is gonna freak.

>>715072210
plus the normal camera
wol is a vapid cunt lmao

>>715072156
Shit, good point. Make just Wuk Defense Force then, WDF?
>>715072210
It's the exotablet given to you for Cosmic, you can see other NPCs taking pics too.

>>715072210
The loporitt tablet is the thing in your collection

>>715072210
>selfie emote

god that shit is so stupid

>>715070174
it would work well with blue mage spells

>>715072363
>>715072403
>It's the exotablet given to you for Cosmic, you can see other NPCs taking pics too.
Yeah, but I just want there to be parity. Give me a scroll emote for the exotablet, or a selfie emote for the tomestone.
Why am I browsing the ethernet on one, and making selfies with the other RRRAAAHH.

>mobile phones and selfies

the ff7 compilation and ff15 were mistakes

>>715070402

>>715072454
u no rike?

>>715072604

>>715070174
here's my idea
>Meta progression with weapon and armor upgrades
>Every run is different because you have different floors and treasure chests give some different buffs that last for 6 minutes
>10-15 different buffs/debuffs, can carry 3 of each
>Rare buffs that can insta clear a floor
You rike?

>>715072604
The way these people speak is so phony, reptilians imitating human speech

>>715072670
Will we ever get that emote as well?

>>715072604
She still thinks she's making art and not a product.

>>715072604
>We're not lazy, we're genuinely just churning out slop and it's really difficult!
that's even worse

>>715072527
They should make it be a chat toggle imo, sorta like how you can use /cpose, they should release /ptype 1/2/3 to let you pick if you want all emotes to use the tomestone, the exotablet, or their original device

>>715073542
Well, it'd be a case of just switching out the models, yeah. It would be easy for them to do on the visual end.
I'd just expect them to add a dupe of the tomestone emote, but with the exotablet model instead. I've already seen NPCs in Sinus Ardorum do that.

hello
NIN ARR AF is sekkuso
that is all

>>715074134
the metal trim is a bit much for me but I do like the set's looks
heavensward has a simpler ninja outfit available from a vendor fyi

>>715074134
>ARR gear
>mogging DT gear in terms of texture quality
kekarooo. that "graphical update" shit was really a sham. can't believe yoshipee gaslit yall into buying it

>>715074350
>mogging DT gear in terms of texture quality
bwo they're they exact same materials, go look at ruthenium weapons and compare them to the relic weapons from ARR that got updated. the models themselves are still early PS3 quality, super noticeable on gae bolg in particular, but they have better materials

>>715071639
t. Sena Bryer

>>715074350
Anon.... ARR AFs got updated in 7.2...

>>715074557
still low poly in a few places but good god what an improvement, peep WAR's artifact too, still a bit jaggy on the fur trim in places but enormous improvement

>>715074678
The meshes don't change. Just the texture maps and shaders.
But on the WAR AF note. While it's overall a really good improvement (I'd like the fur shader to be stronger), I did also find a spot they missed.

>>715072604
Is gaming finally healing? Are these people finally going to get fed up, fuck off and seek a different hobby to ruin?

>>715075164
>Is gaming finally healing?
/v/'s idea of gaming healing seems to be shitty gacha swimsuit threads

>>715075238
true lmao

>>715075238
I'll take that over SPEEEEEEEEN any day of the week tbqafh

>>715066232 (OP)
We know

>>715075164
Hopefully

>>715067074
All of the good parts of IX were already repped in XIV, DT was just smearing the first two hours of the game onscreen for retards like a cheap slice of pizza because they couldn't figure out a cohesive way to write the piece of shit they were peddling

>>715076108
So far the biggest plot beats from FF9 are Sphene being a fish out of water while wearing a hood and the overall theme of tech advancement and weening off of an extremely prevalent fuel source that's dangerous to keep using, I don't think FF9 really has a "Midgar stretch" like that.

>>715076278
I'm talking about the shit in HW and EW

>>715076523
There's more to FF9 than just Vivi. Cute as a button though he is.

>>715076623
I'm not talking about Hildebrand quests you disingenuous retard

>>715076802
Ozma and one riff from FF9's battle song? This is actually way weirder than Vivi.

I am glad at least in DT things aren't 1:1 like in 6.x.

>>715066232 (OP)
let me guess, its unreal engine sloppa?
I’ll have to pass on it if it is.

>>715067074
Part of me is glad they did such a shocking job of trying to reference FF9 in FFXIV because it's so removed from the original game I don't have any conflicting memories or feelings towards FF9.
FF7 og and FF7remake/ Rebirth however...

>>715068359
>Your post
You're fucking annoying.

>>715072604
Holy fuck, I thought her original post was bad...but it got worse? HOW IS THIS BITCH STILL EMPLOYED?

>>715077961
that pic is final fantasy xiv

>>715075164
I hope dude, I truly fucking hope. She said a lot of billy bullshit but the key take-away is
>the last year or two has just felt... really rancid in general in the gaming sphere
Exactly when FF14 stopped being praised as amazing for the story and people really starting honing in on how much is wrong with the game after they shit the bed with the story.

>>715077562
All the FF9 stuff has a pretty similar amount of care to what went into stuff like the Crystal Tower for FF3 in ARR, it's nice to see. Hell I'd consider the Warring Triad to be more blatant on average.

wtf is with white women's obsession with tacos?
shit isn't even that good

>>715077991
FF7 deserves everything it gets to forever shatter the brains of the GameFAQs ride-or-die fanboys who were the Marvel Cinematic Universe fans of the mid 2000s.

>>715078489
You'll have to be specific to a nation because my country is white and the women here don't eat tacos. Do you mean White Americans, I'm guessing you are by inference of Kate, that she is American and obsessed with tacos.

your thread is doing gangbusters

>>715080930
It's autosaging thougheverbeit.

>>715080930
People have had enough of FFXIV, they're looking at what else to play. My own FC on discord started playing Runescape.

This thread cannot be skipped

>>715081313
may i suggest a runescape thread

I'm playing Uma, had more fun with it than Endwalker postgame and all of Dawntrail.

is dumpy just pulling random games out of his bag

odds of them showing up in cosmic exploration?

>>715081921
post her naked

>>715066232 (OP)
The last 1/4 of DT really cemented that it was a shit xpack. The writers leaned hard into a much better game, because they knew what they had made was ass. I still can't believe they used Beatrix's theme on a fight between two lalas.

>>715081921
would be a funny cameo

>>715081921
i still think that Ultima the High Seraph is a disfunctional Meteion that fell back to Etheyris and was turned into an eikon by the local populace

>>715082256
isn't ultima an ayyyyy

>>715082738
she came from off the star yes. but so did dragons. my theory works just fine within established mechanics of the world. iirc Ultima landed during the 2nd astral era. we have no idea how long the gap between the sundering and the 1st era began, or how long the 1st era was.

>>715083004
I just feel like a potential baddy just be Meteion again would be a little bit.. wasted?

>tfw I need to do island sanctuary just for a summer glam

>>715083057
we've fought more aliens than meteions

>>715083004
Dragons have nothing to do with the unsundered world, why bring them up?

>>715083409
endsinger was quite literally all of them besides one

>>715083413
dragons are aliens. ultima is an alien. both came from off the star. therefore precedence is established that aliens existed and can be antagonistic. the sundering has nothing to do with it

>>715083409
I'm replying to
>>715082256
>i still think that Ultima the High Seraph is a disfunctional Meteion that fell back to Etheyris and was turned into an eikon by the local populace

>>715083498
if they turn into despair goop and then into a floating goth head it only counts as one

>>715083057
well, what if we called Ultima an entelechy? auracite that gives you power to grant your most fervent desire by turning you into a monster feels like something a dysfunctional meteia would do

>>715068359
Gonna try out Pagos today bud?

>>715083640
they're a network, they just fused together
following this theory ultima being one wouldn't even matter because what made that happen would be the actual problem

>>715083803
it becomes a chicken and egg situation. what came first, auracite or ultima?

it is true, its of no consequence ultima's origin aside from she's not of this world. her being a meteion would just be a wink to previous content that the playerbase enjoys

>>715083749
Could be an entelechy, yeah.
Just not one made by Hermes.
They did say that dynamis is far more common than aether, with Etheirys (and the Dragon Star) being outliers for being so aether rich.

What does Femra milk taste like?

>>715084136
>the answer to >>715083987 is that auracite came first
>it turns especially powerful beings into ultima beings
>the main antagonist is a malevolent form of crystal that just wants to corrupt and spread

would 14 benefit from having a mindless alien (both in origin and in purpose) lifeform that just wants to consume and spread by harvesting dynamis from lifeforms. no sob story, just feed and multiply

>>715084342
bags of sand

>>715084501
>lavosfags
no thanks

>>715083004
>>715083550
Athena came into contact with Ultima before the Sundering.

>>715084690
lavos is actually intelligent though and manipulated evolution and such. i'm talking about something that has the same will to live as fire

>>715084775
she found a chunk of auracite and she ended up making her own auracite, the heart of sabik. no ultima involved

Ultima is a plot point from literally 6 years ago you're NOT allowed to talk about it anymore

>>715085263
well yoshi-p seems to have a fetish for malevolent crystal alien angels so it being in the game again wouldn't be surprising.

and at this point even a plot point from that long ago would be satisfying even for a filler arc

>>715068359
>>715069020

It's seeming more and more like you have Japanese derangement syndrome.

>>715084501
Pretty weak as far as motivations go, but it's fine. Not every character is Emet-Selch.

>>715085507
There's a reason they gave our character the plot dumbs so that we let Claudien walk off with black auracite despite the raid series we just finished being about what it can do to a person.

>>715085786
And the reason is because that storyline was written by Hiroi.

>>715085692
well yeah. was doing jeuno before my sub ran out and i was thinking about the shadow lord's motivations in ff11. just pure hate and rage and malice. the VA really sold it. he had a reason to be angry yes but no grey there. him or us.

>>715085845
they explicitly say that the heart of sabik has been cleansed of athena's essence and with it the knowledge of how to use Ultima the spell

>>715085949
>they explicitly say that the heart of sabik has been cleansed of athena's essence and with it the knowledge of how to use Ultima the spell
That's not the issue with auracite, it's that it manipulates the holder's emotions so they're tempted to use it. Claudien even notes a sudden resurgence in his desire to research after he takes it.

>>715086067
and claudien still seems to be fine when we check up on him and deliver the wind up themis to eric

It'll be Fine, I'm sure :)

>>715085545
Well you see, a little known fact is that this game was made in Japan.
Which, in Japan, they speak this language known as Japanese.
So when the devs who are working directly on the game want feedback, it'll be easier for them to get it from other people who speak Japanese. There is people whose jobs it is to take the English player's feedback and send it to the Japanese developers.
But between the no-show known as Foxclon - who is the official English community rep by the way - and Kate who is operating maliciously against the English speaking community, our last line in being able to get direct feedback to the devs is to go through the Japanese players.
Either by learning Japanese ourselves (hard!) or hoping that Japanese players sentiments align with our own.

Hope that helps!

so we need a minor plot to fill out 7.4 and .5 and possibly the first act of 8.0. what do you think it should be?

>>715087312
Going the fuck back to Eorzea and checking out some areas we've never seen like the ground level of the East Shroud, the Orn Wild, the Sagolii Desert, the West Shroud, the Coerthas Lowlands, southern Silvertear, the Pearl, Mazlaya, northern Vylbrand.

>>715087501
its been awhile. i'm actually interested in how Ishgard and Ala Mhigo are doing at this point. feel like we should drop in on Matoya too. we still have emet-selch's list. 'the treasure islands in Blindfrost, in Othard's north' might be a good excuse to drop in on the Domans or the Xaela. Merycidia is too big to be a mini arc imo.

we do check on the First a lot, might be time to go check in on them too. might be the opportunity to link the group there with Zero and Golbez. i'd also love to see how the hell Ryne is going to use a piece of zodiark to revitalize the empty.

i don't think we need to check in on the 3 city states. they're all in pretty good shape atm and i don't want to turn it into another 5.4, unless something major happens, like Kan-E Senna retiring as was hinted in the EW tank role quest

wasn't coerthas lowlands and west shroud destroyed by the fragment of dalamud?

>>715088136
>wasn't coerthas lowlands and west shroud destroyed by the fragment of dalamud?
The lowlands weren't destroyed, they just didn't reimplement the area in ARR so we just zone past it when we move from Mor Dhona into Coerthas now. The West Shroud got smashed up, but there's still stuff over there. There was even a frontline map there briefly, but I think it's been lost to the void.

>>715081921
Aren't they all dead?

>>715088986
>How did a random QA tester get hired right out of school?
I'm gonna guess an application process, you vagina.
>How did she immediately have enough sway on the team to make decisions like changing the pixies into nonbinary?
I'm gonna guess by being the most influential player on the team, you dumb nigger.
>How did she immediately get nominated for promotion over other localizers with seniority (in a Japanese setting no less)?
By beating them in the game, you chink racist. Do you know what office politics are?
>It's weird.
It's not weird. It's fucking life, you faggot.

>>715089637
>so mad he forgot what thread he's playing white knight in

>>715089925
i thought this was the forgotten thread

>>715089925
Shut the fuck up [Polemically accurate slur]. [Noun] is the reason for all the problems in [Game]. [Biting Insult].

>>715089541
all but 1

but since several meteia died or went missing on their missions its not out of left field for there to be stragglers

>>715089637
>you vagina
i wasn't expecting that as an insult and i got a good belly laugh out of it, i really needed that. based

>>715087312
The writing doesn't matter any more. You can't build anything worthwhile from a rotten foundation. I'll give a shit about the 7.4 and 7.5 MSQ as soon as they do a full retcon and rewrite of 7.0, and not a second sooner.

>>715090419
not gonna happen. costs too much time and resources. luckily it was written in such a way that the only thing that matters in all of Dawntrial is the azem cup. they left themselves with many paths to take as far as story with how noncommittal 7.0 was

>>715090709
Don't worry, I know full well that it's never going to happen

>>715090419
>>715090709
They've already been secretly redoing 7.0. It's not in the patch notes but they're removing cutscenes.

>>715090975
they are and thats both super interesting and funny. has anyone made a full list or is it still just the changes from that one forum post?

>>715066232 (OP)
ffxiv remake when?

>>715090975
That's not enough. It needs an actual rewrite from the ground up

>>715091037
it's a random assortment of fluff scenes as outlined in the forum post, mostly *clenches fist* type stuff not really worth getting worked up about

>>715066232 (OP)
>chilling in the inn in a gap between narrative moments
>Wuk invites you out to a scenic vista in Tulliyolal to tell you some shit that she makes out to be a big deal
>She only reiterates that she hecking loves peace just in case you missed the other thirty times she said she hecking loves peace
I don't hate her but I get why people do

>>715091179
the only thing i'd change is the ending of Interphos.

either have Wuk Lamat present in the entire fight or don't have her there at all

>>715068704
The anon always calling people homestuck and saying "little buddy"
I have no idea who that is either.

>>715091131
That's a big Tough Shit, Not Happening. Wait 'til 8.0 for the redemption arc, or join all the Youtube baiters vulture circling over 7.0 forever, those are pretty much the two choices on "what to do about 7.0."

did i miss anything by skipping all the mamool beast tribe cutscenes

>>715091326
>I have no idea who that is either.
It's this retard right here >>715091331

>>715091326
tl;dr if you tell that guy to piss up a rope too many times and he can ID how you type or believes he can ID how you type, you become homestuck in his mind

>>715085845
>And the reason is because that storyline was written by Hiroi.
yeah of course. it had the subtlety of a sledgehammer, but i mean they went that route because they probably have plans for black auracite later on

>>715091461
You missed the reveal that they had the ability to make sunlamps all along and they just didn't.

>>715091331
its very easy to avoid the missteps of 7.0 for 8.0. the two most egregious things are:

>the zones are toothless, in both in game cultures and the zones themselves. very pretty but thats it
>the expansion protag needs to experience some sort of hardship and come out over it with the player's assistance, just as we did in HW, SB and SHB

>>715091461
you ultimately succeed in growing other crops in the blue meteor forest. the mamool ja then try to do skibidi pibil again. wuk lamat's biological father says he's happy for them but doesn't trust them

i think the most interesting thing is that the glowing birds are actually plants

>>715091513
Gonna try Pagos out today bud?

>>715085949
>well yeah. was doing jeuno before my sub ran out and i was thinking about the shadow lord's motivations in ff11. just pure hate and rage and malice. the VA really sold it. he had a reason to be angry yes but no grey there. him or us.
I did Jeuno yesterday. It was really fun. I said it didn't feel all that difficult and it probably caught me less than Aglaia did back in Endwalker, but the mechanics felt more fair? I liked it, and I also liked the environments. Not a FF11 player or fan, but the Arkangel area looks amazing and I'm sad it's relegated to a railroaded Alliance Raid.
>>715087312
Depends on where we're going. If Meracydia, it'll need Meracydia plot hooks. If other reflections, well, ditto on that. If it's another reflection, though, I assume the setup for it will be in 7.3, as something Calyx will do will probably compel us to travel to other reflections. 7.4 and 7.5 itself, though, will probably take place in Eorzea. Maybe we need to find some knowledge about the Cum Chalice. Remember that the Milalla used it, and they were from the South Seas originally, so maybe those ruins or their surroundings have something to tell us.

>>715091303
If it was Jack Garland inviting you out to talk about how much he wants to kill chaos, people would be praising it.
And rightly so.

>>715091587
unironically, no bullshit, not kidding at all: wuk getting kidnapped because she's retarded and getting bullied for her lunch money is more personal struggle and hardship through her story than hien and aymeric faced through theirs.

>>715091840
Aymeric got stabbed in the streets

>>715091920
how he managed that through armor is still a mystery and he was already better by the next cutscene.

>>715091840
There he is.

>>715091920
part and parcel

>>715090419
And who made you the arbiter of the story, exactly? You don't think there's anything they can do with the story anymore. Good for you, but you don't speak for everyone.
>>715091317
>the only thing i'd change is the ending of Interphos.
Same. If they removed Wuk from the Interphos, I'd be much happier about that fight. It was unironically a kino story point, and then Wuk sharts in and just mucks it all up. Dawntrail's faults aren't solely because of The Interphos, but it was probably the one time I felt so hard blueballed it actually made me upset.

>>715091840
>wuk getting kidnapped because she's retarded and getting bullied for her lunch money is more personal struggle and hardship through her story than hien and aymeric faced through theirs.
There's no fucking way you actually believe this.

>>715091840
aymeric got put in jail for heresy and was stabbed by a hobo. he also accompained us to sohr khai to face hraesvelgr's trial.

hien was a bit easier but he had something to lose if he lost, ie his head. he blew up his own castle for an advantage in the siege. he also risked his legitimacy by not killing yotsuyu as a favor to his friend

>>715067074
nothing is safe from xiv aids

>>715091832
did Jack's game end up being any good?

>>715091331
>here is a giant gaping problem that would require a large effort to fix
>too bad eat shit instead, and if you aren't happy about it you must be a youtuber
you are seriously out of your mind dude

>>715091461
You could skip the entire expansion and miss absolutely nothing of value

>>715092157
>hien was a bit easier but he had something to lose if he lost,
Hien lost his entire country and his family, but you're talking to a dishonest retard who can't admit when he's wrong.

>>715091840
Aymeric got put in gay baby jail for opposing his father and was probably going to be punished.
Hien had to deal with his father's death and his homeland being conquered, his people being turned into third class citizens and he himself being execute on sight when he was a kid.

>>715092187
Yes, it's fucking incredible.

>>715091331
I choose to enjoy what I get now. I refuse to be stuck in 7.0 seethe. We're in 7.2, Sphene is fun, Calyx is at least alright as a villain, Wuk is barely relevant. I'm enjoying it. Unless 7.3 is back to 7.0 levels. I don't get the point in making myself miserable by constantly mentally returning to 7.0 just to be angry.

>>715092071
>And who made you the arbiter of the story, exactly? You don't think there's anything they can do with the story anymore. Good for you, but you don't speak for everyone.
What kind of shit are you on right now? I'm expressing an opinion on the poor quality of a product - one that I fucking paid for by the way - and how it would need to be fixed to a satisfactory degree. I'm not claiming to speak on anyone else's behalf. Where did you even get that from?

If Wuk had a relationship with her siblings that felt like more than "polite acquaintances" the story would probably land a lot better

>>715075238
lol it’s always funny when people say gaming healing and it’s just Korean softcore porn with the nod plastic of females. They legitimately don’t care about games in general and just want to jerk off, I myself think gaming is fine it’s just (((they))) are tricking retsrfs to be mad about stupid insignificant stuff

>>715068359
Based & True. Trancers and facetious WoW niggers seething.

>>715092454
>Calyx
has potential to be a great villain imho. imagine if we kill necron or whatever and we find him in his NEETcave and he isn't even aware of his defenses being breeched.

'oh, i already answered the question, i'm onto something else now' and just ascian teleports out

>>715092527
Do you have a degree that allows you to make this post?

>>715092653
>has potential to be a great villain imho.
Well, you're a lot more charitable there. I feel like I already know his shtick, and it's alright. It's better than a good chunk of FF villains (if I'm right), but of course it's not Emet so it's bad.
I think ultimately he was just a desperate dude on his death bed who was offered a solution to his woes by Ascians and now he wants everyone else to partake in the gift of immortality and flawlessness. And he doesn't understand why others would stop him and not want that.

>>715092547
Gulool Ja Ja is the most realistic character in dawntrail imo. he seems to be aware that he's a shitty father and that room and board is the bare minimum and tries to make up for it by being arguably the best ruler in the setting

>>715092667
yes guvna me loicense is roight here

>>715092870
I loved Gulool Ja Ja. Just such a cool dude. Loved getting to fight him. Probably one of the good parts of Dawntrail.

>>715091317
Seeing Wuk in Interphos was actually the only part of DT I enjoyed, since I was in a call with friends and we all did the fight for the first time together. I can't remember the last time I laughed that hard. It perfectly encapsulates the entire story.

>>715092195
Yeah nah eat shit retard they're not rewriting a fucking expansion because a retarded lioness makes your hair fall out. Eat me.

>>715093073
Gonna try Pagos today bud?

No expansion is ever getting totally rewritten. That's mental. If you want them to do that, that's tantamount to saying "leave 8.0 on the backburner, just spend the next 2 years overhauling 7.0"
If you actually want the game to die, by all means.

when they add romances to save the game do you think theyll let us romance tataru

>>715093073
Yes, I know they're not. That's why I'm not resubbing.

>>715093210
ARR got rewrites.

>>715092187
If you like Nioh it’s really good.

>>715092828
well we're coming up on Amaurot 5.0 and i'm worried that Calyx is gonna be another Hermes

oh god what if Calyx is another fragment of Hermes

>>715093213
IF (BIG IF) they added romance, I doubt it would be with the existing main cast. They would make new characters for that purpose

>>715093210
I paid for an MSQ and instead I got irredeemable dogshit. I am entitled to be unhappy with the dogshit that I got, and demand to get what I actually paid for, and if I won't, then I simply won't do business with the scammer who stole my money again.

>>715093269
they didn't add anything, they lopped sections off. pretty well i might add, as i've played both versions and the only time i really noticed was dealing with the sylphs in 2.3

>>715093269
Partial. We're talking complete.
>>715093393
ok retard. piss about it

>>715093361
Hermes was kino.

>>715093361
Fuck you don't do that to me. Please leave the Hermeses and Fandaniels away for a bit.
>>715093470
God I remember when everyone shat on Fandaniel for just being a shallow IM DA JOKER BAYBEE right after Emet-Selch and Elidibus.

>>715093542
Emet-Selch was 'le quirky darkness man' till 5.0 actually came out

Christ you used to be able to get Rival Wings queues 24 hours straight for at least 4 days when a mog event dropped. It's not quite peak hours only 2 days after the event dropped and queue time is more than 30 mins and same for CC. This game is dead as shit.

>>715093631
That's also true. In Stormblood, he was just Heath Ledger Joker.
Whereas Fandaniel in Shadowbringers was just Jared Leto Joker.

>>715069146
Rhythm minigame where you can play songs you've unlocked in your Orchestrion, like Splatoon has. Has a competitive PvP queue.

>>715093648
Sorry, you aren't allowed to have the opinion that the game is dying because a youtuber already said that once. You don't want to be a youtuber, do you?

>>715069146
Scaling dungeons that scale upwards endlessly and they give you increasingly better gear the higher level you do them at and they're an alternate gearing path to raiding.

>>715093437
same deal with dawntrail, a couple parts have gotten lopped off so now the leper colony thinks the whole arm is coming with it

>>715093707
Emet confronting you after Il Mheg and attempting to offer the olive branch is one of the top moments of the MSQ imo

>>715067669
Endless sex with Y'shtola

why didnt the ishgardians try giving nidhogg a sandwich? were they stupid?

>>715069146
Make Sphere Break into a multiplayer game.
Watch as everyone loses their shit because they still didn't add Blitzball

>>715093814
Boil for me in Pagos.

>>715093835
sphere break was great. but god help us if they add the 10-2 version of blitzball

>>715093832
Ishgardians don't season dey food so as an immigrant it would have only made him angrier.

God save our gracious Sphene,
Long live our noble Sphene,
God save the Sphene!

Happy and Glorious,
Long to reign over us;
God save the Sphene!

>>715069146
The NES versions of the first three Final Fantasies playable in your inn room. Completing them gives you a cool glamour relevant to each game. Completing the four white mage challenge in FF1 gives you a special title and hammer glamour for WHM with an ultimate level glow effect.

>>715093978
uhhh hello, based department?

>>715093832
Well, the Ishgardians killed one of Nidhogg's siblings and one of very few of his true kin for the sake of attaining her power and it drove him mad.
The stuff between the Xbr'aal and the Mamool Ja is mostly territorial conflict. The fact that one of them tried to drown Wookie (god if only they had succeeded) is one of the few personal things that is brought up, and Wookie's dad does not forgive nor trust them, even after they tried to make amends, but he doesn't want to keep his people embroiled in war just because he can't get over it. Like Quintus but less extreme.

>>715093832
Yes

>>715093978
The girl who singlehandedly redeemed Dawntrail.
Or might.
Unless some roastie over at SQEX gets envious and decides to kill her off.

>>715092187
It's the best final fantasy game.

>>715093832
Well, the Ishgardians gave Vidofnir a statue.

>>715094259
you mean maehiro? ishikawa puts them on a boss. maehiro kills women because he has a ryona fetish

>>715094415
why doesn't he just add in a scene where a woman ends up tied up in a basement and then the villain tortures and punches her gut for a bit like kojima to get it out of his system
instead of going for the kill

>>715094259
You can't blame women for everything chud

>>715094415
on a bus*

>>715093648
I’m getting really fast queues on primal

>>715094524
because maehiro is a grrmfag and needs suffering and death to finish

>>715094532
I was trying so hard to try and understand
>puts them on a boss
lol

>>715094525
kate le bad

>>715094743
True.

>>715094743
Yes, that's correct

>>715066232 (OP)
>dawntrail was so shit it killed the IX remake

>>715094647
I can't believe GRRM and Maehiro used the time jannies to plague Final Fantasy with their disgusting stakes.

>>715094782
>>715094890
While it was spun like a meme, I was being unironic.

>Hiroi fired
>They announce Motomu Toriyama (Bahamut Lagoon) has been hired to write the MSQ
How would you feel?

>>715092187
I would genuinely put it in my top 5 games of all time as a solid contender for #1, incredible doesn't even begin to describe it

>>715094896
from what i heard it was another FF7 remake where the outsource studio fucked up

>>715094940
I don't know who that is, but it couldn't possibly be worse than Hiroi

>>715082010
I missed that bit, I only heard it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JolH2HGGz-U

>>715094940
It's gonna be kino.
>>715095010
Lightning's husband. He directed X and the XIII series.

>>715094928
A character dying? Is this Game of Thrones?

>>715094940
>lightningfaggotry and cuckshit for an entire expansion
oh boy
>>715095010
The genius behind final fantasy's strongest heroine

>>715095010
Bahamut Lagoon infamously has an NTR plot

>>715094940
>Lightning is the strongest most beautiful heroine guy
No he would make another Wuk/Lightning

>>715095154
At least his wuk would be hot.

>>715095072
>>715095109
Doesn't sound like much of an upgrade unfortunately. At least the new mary sue who takes over the story wouldn't be an ugly furry

>>715095137
>>715095072
FFX and XIII-2 have NTR plots too.

>>715078152
Best blowjobs in San Francisco

>>715095154
>>715095221
>>715095224
Toriyama is devoted to Lightning, he wouldn't create a competitor. Lightning would actually save us here.

>>715094976
From what it sounds it's not so much fucked up but more square wanted to 'upgrade' it, current status fuck knows

>>715095224
you should try them out and see if the hiroi conviction holds

I dont get why they spend half the msq hearing wuk repeat she loves people and tacos and wants to make people smile.

>>715095231
>X
foiled NTR attempt plot, true love wins in the end, so doesn't really count
>XIII-2
qrd? I only played a bit of it, is it just serah going adventuring as a duo with a man that isn't snow?

>>715095326
The Lightning Returns collab FATE is back, baby!

>Jimmy wanted to do a funny and step on a landmine
>999999 unmitigable damage to everyone in a 50 malm radius
Explain to me how this is enjoyable.

>>715095378
Because she's so heckin valid.

>>715095443
Just don’t have a jimmy in the party next time

>>715095221
Lyse is hot but I hate her
>>715095326
Lightning emerges from one of the reflections and usurps the plot even harder. Imagine.

>>715095443
when you do cooperative content your outcome is reliant on the performance of others

>>715095415
>foiled NTR attempt plot
He still marries her and steals her first kiss in the process tho.
>qrd?
Noel is very obviously into Serah and Snow becomes a footnote in her whole story. Noel spends hours of the game seething about Snow and shitting on him to Serah's face while she just cheerfully laughs it off. And then she dies in his arms.

>>715095368
I did play XIII and XIII-2. They're both bad, but DT is far worse

>>715095443
It was pretty funny in BA, but it wasn't that wide so unless you were stacking indom you wouldn't get hit.

>>715095536
>Lyse is hot but I hate her
Yeah, but you can't tell me you wouldn't.

>>715095617
calling dawntrail worse is how i know you haven't, my boy

>>715084342
>Xaela
Nutty
>Raen
A little salty and briny

>>715095617
The XIII trilogy probably did more damage to FF's name than any bad expansion in XIV ever did.

>>715095769
Nah, eat shit and kill yourself you patronizing faggot

>>715095894
Recency bias at best, willful retardation at worst

>>715095894
>69 hours
why put yourself through that

>>715089637
>I'm gonna guess an....vagina.
Well, you kinda got one

>>715095769
Dawntrail is absolutely worse than either of those games. XIII really only falls apart at the final boss. XIII-2 is a bit of a hackjob because you can do the story out of the intended order which makes Noel and Serah not know about cutscenes that you just saw. Dawntrail is fundamentally awful in every way. There's not a single competent thing about Dawntrail's writing.

I need that picture of Lightning being so flat her butt is basically concave.

>>715095615
>He still marries her and steals her first kiss
in a rushed marriage that is immediately annulled, and yuna immediately wipes her mouth off and spits when kissed, then within minutes is back to tidus' side
it's a pretty drastic difference to BL which is just total inarguable NTR, FFX only really NTRbaits if anything but the NTRman gets absolutely btfo into oblivion

>>715095875
Notably it seems to have destroyed SE's brains to believing random battles and turn systems are the devil, FF13 has done actual damage to SE on a corporate and creative level while Dawntrail, at my most charitable, lives rent free in the minds of many people who only interact with FF through FF14

>>715095894
Get your last cheevo, bro!

lightning is flat and has a flat ass HAAHAHAHAHA

>>715096041
Lightning's whole body is awful. She has a giant head on her anorexia body.

lightning and xiii are both dogshit but i won't deny that her armor in xiii-2 is pretty damn good

>>715095969
How would one know how good or bad a game is unless they played it themselves? It still had fun things going for it even if the characters were boring. I would even venture to say that Caius Ballad was one of the better villains in the whole franchise

>>715095617
NTA but nah, 13 trilogy was worse for reputational damage but in a vacuum 13 and 13-2 are nowhere near as bad as dawntrail was
dawntrail is a legit 1/10 story and that 1 point is only by virtue of the setup for the .2 patch which is sort of taking it somewhere mediocre (massive upgrade from .0)

>>715068359
good lord I have never seen so much seethe in one post

>>715096281
Yes I agree with you, that's what I was saying in my post

>>715096361
shit i misreplied mb
>>715096281 was for >>715095769
i shouldnt post while half asleep

XIII-2's ending is fucking KINOOOOOOOOOO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nm0Y6Zai7E

THIS SCENE CANNOT BE SKIPPED.

>>715095615
>faggot we kill and the use his mom summon
>NTR’d anything
lol
Lmao

What writers for Final Fantasy even exist at this point? We got the dipshit Hiroi, we got whoever was fucking around with XIII, we got the two autismo retards handling VII still.

>>715096492
Reputational damage is way way worse, especially when it puts them off turn-based games in the "full" or "main" numbered series for fifteen years

>>715096281
>.2 patch which is sort of taking it somewhere mediocre (massive upgrade from .0)
so 5.4 and 5.5 have to be like... -1 or something then

>>715096678
I miss Ishikawa...

my wife lightning is the strongest and most beautiful

>>715096681
this is why i mention it "in a vacuum"
13 trilogy was worse for the series because they were high profile, and it had issues besides its story
dawntrail story is objectively worse by every metric but it's just an expansion for a comparatively niche multiplayer FF game rather than a major entry (though yoshida has also managed to make that exact fumble himself with 16, lmao)

>>715096943
What the hell is that pancake body?

>>715096943
that's not just flat that's fucking concave

>>715097018
16's fumble was getting a AAA budget and having to genericize it to recoup costs imo
Most or all money probably went to outsourcing other staff to make the dumbass eikon battles happen

>>715097215
I'd be here all day if I listed off all the ways 16 fumbled

>>715097110
>>715097145
SHE IS NUMBER ONE

>>715097215
How about the fact that no one wanted to buy a PS5 to play it?

how much of a difference does stuff like cactbot make?

>>715097018
I don't think the comparison holds enough water here on XIV's end because contextually speaking, this can be attributed to CBU3 as a whole, and they made XVI which is considered to be a flop and had some pretty retarded story once it moved on past its initial premises. When XIV is the game that is holding over a third of your entire company together, and is arguably the most prolific Final Fantasy entry of the entire franchise besides VII's effect on the industry? That one expansion being received so catastrophically is a rounding ripple effect outwards, hard.
Mix this with VII Remake/Rebirth having their own fumbles where there was initial strong sales thanks to COVID boost and the VII brand only to drop off a cliff for Rebirth in an identical manner to XVI, and I'd personally estimate that besides XIV, brand interest is at an all-time low despite the millions of sales. But I don't have good data to make an actual guess off of.

>>715097110
Japanese ideal body

>>715097351
Bro, your joking, right?
Her ass is literally nonexistent

>>715097351
those outfits to try and make her "sexy" are an absolute travesty
worst misread in history

>>715097353
Yes that too, though I suspect that was less a Yoshida decision and more some kind of SE contract. They pretty much permanently severed ties with Marvel publicly after that Avengers game flopped and they disavowed AAA budgets on tie-in or licensed games. Since then also they announced more multiplat and Switch 2 oriented development, including plans to port FF7 Rebirth to Switch 2 and release the last part on it.

Which scion should be the next all-rounder when G'raha Tia's VA gets too expensive?

>>715097685
you're going to get RealSphene, a person of great education and potential but absolutely no worldly experience who will probably be something of our "voice" in dimensional travails

>>715097685
Speen

>>715097374
It's worth a conversation on whether it actually was "received catastrophically," being that the loudest and longest lasting outcry came from Youtubers, Twitch streamers, and other "influencers" or "content creators" who are, by definition, shills. And many of whom are holdovers from WoW's immigrational wave, a game with a pretty storied history of mass migration to other games, begging or demanding it change into WoW, then going back to WoW because it's familiar whether the migrant game does or doesn't shift for them.

>>715097912
>>715097862
what tank class will she be?

>>715097685
If they know what's good for them, they'll cut the duty support's dependence on the Scions being around.

>>715097968
they will remove roles in 8.0

>>715097968
paladin cause Alexandrian knights

>>715097370
If you're running on purely free resources combat-wise then all you have to do is move your character. Mr. FSH isn't a gigachad either, there's a free fully fledged bot for that.

>>715097991
well story wise we are very rarely alone. it is a story driven FF game, would be strange for us to not have access to allies. and i don't want to keep whipping out the azem jellybean

>>715097461
Nah, that's real.

>>715097685
you already posted her!

>>715097991
>we have updated duty support going forwards, for quests that don't rely on the scions for plot purposes, your team will be filled out by AI copies of people on your friends list
>YagFuk the Male Hrothgar in a maid dress is now going to be in your cutscenes

>>715097968
Paladin.
And she will wear Beatrix's outfit.

>>715098517
negative. she will hearken back to her Garnet roots and show her butt off

>>715098280
They really pulled all the Scions out of their asses when it came to fighting Zoraal'Ja, it didn't really make sense

>>715098482
canonically bad at swordsmanship. probably why she's a red mage and not a paladin already

>FFIX gets an expansion
>it's the most dogshit expansion they ever made and nearly killed the entire company
FFIX didn't deserve this

>>715098647
yeah that was pretty bad. funny thing is you still get everkeep in trial roulette which means people are dying 3+ times in the trust version and need further carrying

>>715097942
I heard WoWfags are moving to OSRS now.
I will pray for them.

>>715098781
Quite the exaggeration

>>715098280
They should introduce some kind of magic stone that allows you to summon allies from afar. Then they wouldn't have to write stupid handwave reasons as to why the Scions are always around right before you go into a dungeon.

>>715095010
How the fuck did Hiroi get hired to begin with? I thought Square filtered hires pretty strongly. The man accidentally a whole theatre company.

>>715098827
Oh, God, my heart goes out to them.

>>715068359
you're a faggot

>>715098904
>I thought Square filtered hires pretty strongly
lol

>>715097685
Sphene
They almost made up for Wuk with Sphene.

>>715098827
I've played WoW and OSRS, and honestly WoW players would be an upgrade over the OSRS community, it really is that bad

>>715098863
well we only whip out the 'zem when we're alone. never done it with existing allies

also notable that the myths of the realm didn't use it either, we were using adventurer's guild members

>>715098904
The worst thing is that pre-Zero, some of his work wasn't even the worst shit, it was pretty average to meh and a handful of highlights. Then somehow he got a lead role and his theater kid bullshit took over.

>>715098964
Yeah, it's grim. I hope they're smart and boot them asap.

>>715099037
Pure cope

>>715099156
But we could, so there's really no reason to write stupid things like how Thancred and Urianger just happened to be stopping in Thavnair right before we were going into Alzadaal.

>>715068359
nigger

>>715099037
based

>>715097685
Alisaie would be my first guess, given that she's only one step from paladin anyway.

Depending on the expansion's new jobs I could see Yshtola or Urianger taking up a 'caster tank' job. Estinien is last on my list for job changes. Alphinaud has been a healer for his entire presence in the story except he can be a dps in the first DT dungeon. Krile just had a job change.

if they added a new character or promoted a B list scion it would likely be them

>>715098827
They can bond together in censored, alphabet soup harmony I suppose.

>>715068359
kys mr troon

>>715099180
This is what a furfag looks like...

I want Krile to sit on my face

>>715099180
I liked tataru's grand endeavour and most of pandaemonium, how did he write fucking wuk lamat

>>715099342
that wasn't dumb. they had actual business in town. the dumb one was Thancred and Urianger for 6.4's dungeon Aetherfont

>>715097942
>being that the loudest and longest lasting outcry came from Youtubers, Twitch streamers, and other "influencers" or "content creators"
How the fuck are you actually still trying to push this narrative?

>>715096943
if she had a slightly more plumpy dumpy she'd be perfect

>Y-you're going to play the remake, right Anon-kun? Just like you played FF12 The Zodiac Age?

>>715099776
The remake is dead, long live the remake.

>>715099538
qrd?

>>715099776
I'll wait and see and then maybe buy it on sale. WotL has more content so for now I'll stick with that if I want to replay.

>>715097370
Who the fuck uses Cactbot over Splatoon?

Thank god the Final Fantasy cards are good in Limited. I'm enjoying MTG for the first time in years, no stupid Star Trek planet sets, just clean honest gameplay that isn't over on turn 3.

>>715067074
feelsbadman

>>715099180
Everything here is just "ok". Should have never gotten an expac with this resume. I guess Yoshi felt that he gave Ishikawa a chance with ShB and she blew it out the water and was hoping for a repeat here, but then she wrote my favorite part of Stormblood and I think some other really good portions too prior to that.

>>715100258
i'm not convinced DT was 100% hiroi. there are certainly his elements with the themes of family and suffering, but he has written better characters than wuk in the past.

I thought what Wuk is basically Yoshi-p's pet character, it's why she gets all the attention, he insisted on it

>>715100427
It was a trio ensemble, but I can't for the life of me remember the other two writer's names since Hiroi took all the controversy spotlight. What I do know is that progressing through it all, the blue quests you got with progression unlock felt totally removed and separately written from the MSQ, and the MSQ itself had a lot of moments of characters going on to explain lore stuff that seems up Hiroi's alley- and then spontaneously abandoning every single lick of it to instantly flip into a different direction.

DT stinks of focus groups from 2020

>>715068359
Sunk cost fallacy in one game and fag worship is one hell of a drug.

>>715099852
Have you been living under a rock?

>>715100658
i don't even mean them. of course he didn't solo write it. i mean there was obviously yoshi-p influences and kate no doubt had her hands in it to to sanitize the characters and setting

as a non-storyfag i've really liked DT's content so far

>>715099776
It's funny and also a little sad that FF12 is forever considered a Matsuno game even though he left before it was completed, while Ito was there for the whole development but never gets any recognition for it.

>>715099776
wasn't zodiac age patched and playable like a decade before they actually released it on everything though

>>715098781
it didn't get an expansion, apart from using the names and the castle it barely resembles FFIX with all the futuristic shit

>>715100679
Not a focus group consulting agencies. Its been discussed here a lot but they were afraid of being offensive when it came to Tural's world building.

>>715088136
>>715088136
no one gives a shit about mhiggers or garleanniggers.

>>715101053
He barely gets recognition for even 9, despite him being main director on that it's always being called a Sakaguchi game.

>>715092454
calyx is more hiroi slop you dumb shit.

lets just show the cum chalice to yshtola already and get the fuck out of this shithole land.

>>715100835
what the fuck

>>715101812
i don't want more reflections. i want more eorzea

>>715100946
As a story fag I played up to 6.1, and smelling the shit from afar I never played again. I was waiting to see if 7.0 was any decent before jumping in back again, but thankfully the decision was easy to make. It feels a bit bad since I had fun playing the game, but since catching up would mean going through the travesty that are the 6.X patches, BUYING and playing an entire expansion that I don't want to play only to get to 7.3 or whenever things are fine again is something I don't want to do.
If they somehow make the entirety of 7.X optional I could see myself playing 8.0, if they put a competent writer in charge again (and only after seeing the general reaction after a couple of weeks after release), no way in hell they are doing that though. Suddenly there will never by any interest in the following expansions, even if they are a million times better than shadowbringers, since the price of entry (going through DT, or enduring rather) is something no one will do, regardless of word of mouth.

>>715091303
I FUCKING LOVE PEASE AN HAPENIS
FUK WUK TWD TWD TWD TWD

>>715101812
And Fandaniel in 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 was just a raving madman.

>>715101959
The worst problem with any arc, ANY arc like the Void shit, was not strictly playing through them, but living through the patch cycle of playing them. So you'd see this dumb stupid fuck shit, and now you have to wait a quarter of a year and beyond to progress it for more dumb stupid fuck shit.

>>715101959
Yeah. There is no moving on from this. This is going to be a black stain on the game forever, and everyone still playing it may as well unsub. It's only going to get worse from here.

>>715100835
Is this their humiliation ritual for not doing the pride month shit? Embarrassing.

>>715102041
Jesus Christ

>>715067074
why did this Wuk Lamat being even exist? I heard that Krile was going to have a massive arc in Dawn Trail only to be sidelined by some non binary furry?

>>715102440
>Krile was going to have a massive arc
Krile gets the shaft every time

>>715102303
That post was years ago

>>715102440
they were aiming to make wuk lamat a scion. which doesn't make sense since she's a queen

>>715102303
>just read OSRS got rid of male and female and added pronouns
I didn't know it got that bad.

>>715102440
White midget can't be the queen of the peaceful latinxs

why does a single MMORPG have to impact on a possible remake.

>>715102975
Krile is Hawaiian doe

>>715103063
But

>>715102565
Yeah, she gets my shaft.

>>715103063
>Krile is Hawaiian doe
will she be abandoned to a foster home or is family still WoL still family to her?

>>715099520
alishit sucks at fighting.

>>715103063
you're treading on water there anon....
(wipes forehead)

Lula Krile....yeah....so hot...

I can almost get diamonds....

>>715087312
You have to ask?

>>715103397
another one?

>>715103397
It's not happening.

>>715103454
>Sir, another Dalamud has hit Eorzea.

>7.4
>a Lalafell guy with red hair kept in a big slicked back spike in the front appears
>"Ey brudda, I'm Wakka Wakakka, captain of the Besaid Aurochs."
>"We're looking for an ace to help us beat those damn Whalaqee Westwolves in the big tournament coming up. You in?"
Your response?

>>715103546
Tural*

>>715102278
People that are subbed right now already got through the shit mountain, is new and returning players that I worry about. Like, a realm reborn is not that bad other than having a slow start, stormblood is shit but passable, but all of the zero shit and wuk lamat stuff is just diarrhea, fuck going through that. If it was included in the price I could just stomach it and skip cutscene I could, but having to pay 40 dollars or whatever JUST to skip through an entire expansion, fuck that.

>>715087312
ALISAIE HAS ANOTHER PET DADDY ISSUES QUEST WE HAVE TO DROP EVERYTHING FOR TO HELP THE DUMB CUNT WITH.

>>715103661
is that an adolescent boy with an aetherial imbalance?

>>715103586
ENOUGH FROM THE LALAFELL

I wonder if we'll go back to Aloalo Island or something in the same general area in 7.4 or 7.5.

>>715103586
WESTWOLVES

The Alexandria content was the worst part of Dawntrail. Worse than Wuk or anything else.

>>715103586
>*PUNCH HAND
>*NODS
>adventure music plays

>>715103624
>People that are subbed right now already got through the shit mountain
Now that the game is poison to newcomers and there's an unavoidable permanent hurdle in the form of Shittrail, there's no point in stragglers staying. It's going to hemorrhage to death. Old people will (and are) leave because of the tired old formula, and no new players will join. This is the death of FFXIV.

>>715103817
It had its moments

>>715103586
>kicks stupid lalafell piece of shit in the face with spiked steel-tied boots and stomps his lala cock into paste to end his bloodline

>>715103817
>So9 got attacked 3 times already

i bet it gets attacked again with the stupid neo regulator plot.

>>715103786
Please... bring us back to the good timeline...

>>715104007
We could have had it all

>>715103957
Lalafels reproduce by molesting children from other races though

>>715069146
Blue Mage Deep Dungeon with random spells from the chests instead of poms

>>715104007
That would have been so fun

>>715104007
Oh, how I wish I could return to those Halcyon days...

Okay anons. This expac was fucked for jobs, and the Viper and Pictomancer was pretty braindead.
What are they gonna make for a Ranged Job?

>>715104171
>Juggler
Gauge is an applause meter
Applause fills when using your three primary GCD combos, but using one combo for too long results in diminishing returns so you have to change combos regularly
Knife combo throws knives for heavy damage
Pots and Pans combo has an AoE range with fall off
Food combo inflicts debuffs, hitting the enemy with a pie lowers damage dealt
Filling the Applause meter enables Superball, you throw a big ball for big damage, the ball keeps bouncing around the arena walls and hitting the enemy for a while
HP Shout ability is a massive partywide shield
LB3: Toy Box

>>715104007
ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS HAVE KRILE TALK ABOUT RESEARCH SHIT, POINT ME IN THE DIRECTION TO KILL THINGS AND FIND HER GRANDPAS LEGACY AND OPEN A KEY.

THATS IT.
NOT THIS TACO SHIT, THIS PEACE SHIT, THIS ANTAGONIST DOESNT KNOW WHAT SEX IS SHIT.

>>715104171
Corsair

Krile and WoL

Krile is an orphan who lives on an island of Hawaii and befriends a lone warrior from afar. Krile enjoys swimming in the water to explore the coral reefs and study tropical life. other times she takes photos of strangers without consent. fuck i need to rewatch Lilo and Stitch.

>>715104241
Huh

>>715104171
they're gonna make a job with a 1-2-3 combo, and a job gauge that goes up to 100, and the job gauge has 5 resource pips that you can spend on attacks. it doesn't matter what it's called

>next expansion will have the Soldier or Turks job from FFVII.
>Maybe Buster Sword class.

>>715104296
You HAVE to let it go.

>>715104296
>>715104345
>>715104406
>Corsair
Hexagun with cutlass off-hand
Elemental shot filler GCDs
Primary kit is a series of Phantom Rolls that provide group buffs. Rolling a die gives a random number between 1 and 14 that determines the potency of the buff. You can reroll for a better number once a minute, for one die only.
Phantom Rolls last 20 seconds, playstyle is primarily about maintaining buffs.
No busting on your rolls because it's FFXIV.
LB3: Walk the Plank

>>715104406
Nope. Would have been better than VIPER

>>715104345
Behold your new tanking trust buddy.
Sphene is your new healing trust buddy.
Next expansion we'll get our dps trust buddy and then the Scions are gone.

>>715091461
The racism wasn't solved by tacos and the old guard still hate each other but hope their children move beyond the blood feud

>Cannoneer
Mix of AST and PCT, you start with three empty chambers and you can load ingredients in. You start guaranteed with two single target ingredients (Lightning Marble, Blue Fang), two AoE ingredients (Fish Scale, Bomb Arm), one support ingredient (Mega Potion)
Loading an ingredient is a long GCD but otherwise they're instant shots
Fetching new ingredients is an OGCD and somewhat random, you can combine new ingredients with your initial ingredients to mod your GCDs and upgrade throughout the fight.
Say you draw a Turtle Shell, you can load that into your Mega Potion to upgrade the heal into a regen + shield. Or load it into your Bomb Arm to make it leave a lingering fire puddle.
LB3: Leaden Salute

>>715104406
I shall not.

How would I go about doing Forked Tower? Do I just find a Discord about it? Do I need to have the OC gear? Does it have to be upgraded to +2? How many jobs do I need to have fully upgraded?

>Blitzer
Main GCD is a charged cast to throw the ball, hit damage based on how long you charge.
After the initial hit your job gauge activates, it's Tidus's overdrive minigame. If you hit the bar as it passes over the sweet spot the next GCD autocompletes and your character does a cool kickflip or something to shoot the ball back for max charge damage. You can maintain this indefinitely with proper rhythm.
Weave OGCDs and slick movement abilities while blitzing.
LB3: Ultimate Jecht Shot

>>715104602
Probably discord. I think it needs to be upgraded to +1 but idk if that's a requirement.
Whatever jobs you need depends on what the other people in the raid are carrying.

>Gunner
Fast paced GCDs to emulate shooting two pistols at once, Renzokuken mechanics like Viper has. The Viper of phys ranged.
Trigger Happy forces you to stand still and mash like the QTE in WoL's fight, the longer you can maintain the mashing the more damage each hit will do up to a max of 10 seconds.
Backflip movement ability.
Potshot is a long cast GCD with a long weave window for those times you just gotta weave something.
LB3: Gullwing Salvo (there aren't good gunner LBs in the series since Ungarmax is taken)

>>715104632
BLITZBALL!!!!!

Why are Blitzfags so fucking obsessed with a shitty minigame for a mid game? It's like saying they need to bring in the FF6 colosseum and bend the entire game to praise and acknowledge it.

>>715104497
If your point is a trust theme all from different reflections, then Ryne is the DPS buddy.

>>715104763
>It's like saying they need to bring in the FF6 colosseum
Name one reason they shouldn't.

>>715097862
>voice
>autist and queen

always kino to be the weapon of light while someone else does all the talking

>>715100835
grim

>>715104903
I'm playing VI PR now. I've spent so long trying to beat Seigfried for so long...

>>715100835
This is the game for redpilled boomer gigachads?
Is XIV really the least pozzed of all the MMOs at this point? Or SWToR?

>>715105113
XIV has a single VA and some random character or two the localizers have tried to out the binaries on. The amount of shit you see in other games, especially WoW, blows basically everything XIV does out of the water.

>>715104007
I honestly would have tolerated Wuk Lamat existing if the expansion was just fucking this. I wanted to go on an adventure, explore unseen lands. I wanted the same feeling that ARR and Shadowbringers gave me, I wanted to be an outsider to a strange new place and learn about the history of the setting while making a name for myself. I wanted a true reset, and Venat's nonexistence was an excellent chance to do that. I wanted to explore dense forests and jungles like ShB's jungle and the ARR Black Shroud and find my way into strange ruins and remnants of a culture that doesn't exist anymore. I wanted to solve mysteries and unearth ancient treasures.

And I am livid with what we got. The worst part is, I share the exact OPPOSITE opinion of most people in that I was almost okay with the first part of the expansion because if I squinted my eyes I could almost pretend it was at least the setup to the kind of story I wanted to explore. I could believe that once the succession rite was over and we had seen the New World on a surface level, we could have a comfy adventure where we leave Wuk Lamat behind on the throne to explore after learning some secret from Gulool Ja Ja or something. And then the Alexandria shit happens and it's all just boring high tech sci-fi slop and a complete wet fart of an endgame.

I wanted so badly for this to be adventurekino but it failed me harder than anything else. It was nothing like what I wanted, and there will never even be a game resembling what I wanted in general. It makes me sick to think about. We were so close, and yet we have never been further.

>>715105113
Its definitely one of the least
Idk about SWTOR

>>715104903
>leave off the part that makes Blitzfags the obnoxious unlikable cunts they are
least dishonest Blitzfag

>>715105471
Which part? The part where you imagined adding a minigame would rework the entire game somehow?

>>715105291
>>715105329
What is it about MMOs that just invite this kind of shit?

>>715105510
PirateSoftware if he Blitzfag

>>715104171
Yuffie-class
Quistis-class (would a whip work as a ranged dps class?)
Wakka-class

how about a real gun class instead of Edgar-class

>>715105591
>Yuffie-class
Ninja
>Quistis-class
Blue Mage

>>715105570
MMOs offer peak escapism with character creation and rp

>>715105570
You get successful and get a ton of players, you're going to try to appeal to large swaths of them. Broader appeal means trying for inclusivity for all. And then it starts the slippery slope towards accentuating the weirder and fucked up parts of the communities and people doing parades with crazy shit.

>>715105315
Surely they won't do the same mistake for Meracydia...Aaaaaand the first three zones will be about the culture and habits of the locals.
What's one of the most known Australian dish? The taco equivalent we will inevitably get.

>>715105742
Vegemite

>>715105650
>>715105734
That's horrid. As if MMOs weren't in a bad enough state as is.

>>715105648
i just want yuffie's outfit is why

>you get a dual gunner job even if it's not corsair
>they import the Dodge from the XVI/XIV Mobile functionality as an early test of the concept, and despite being a ranged class they do their most damage up close after building from afar like a red mage shooter

>>715105113
Pretty much. Crazy how the MMO with the LEAST amount of ingame trannyshit still managed to attract so many trannies.

>>715105113
Do any other mmos still have male/female in the character creation?

>>715105742
>Aaaaaand the first three zones will be about the culture and habits of the locals.
I am okay with this provided it brings interesting content. ShB had a very similar setup with regards to the culture of the world being focused on in the early game, but the difference is that ShB actually had interesting and almost alien cultures that made it cool to engage with the world. DT's cultures were barely different from what we had seen in Eorzea, just with different races.

I don't even know if I will come back for a new expansion. I've never been so disappointed. The peak of the entire expansion for me was fighting Gulool Ja Ja and just aimlessly wandering the cool glowing jungles of Mamook even if the story sucked. I wanted a whole expansion of the latter, something like the ruins of Ronka in ShB.

>>715106041
I feel like OSRS would have many. It's just the kind of classical autism that would invite GDQ AGP types.

>>715106173
Il Mheg was the only interesting zone in SHB and its the least important to the overall story

>>715099180
Panda is mostly average, but
>Oh Erichtonios, you really were a useless child to the end
>...and who made me that way?
was pure unadulterated kino.

A LOT of XIV's writing issues stem from side content not ever being allowed to influence the world or any main content at all, a beyond retarded restriction that ultimately teaches the player to ignore any story that isn't the MSQ because you know it won't ever have any relevance.

>>715105113
https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Pronouns
bro... wtf

>>715106310
Il Mheg sucks. Conceptually it is quite interesting and I think the fey trickster aspect could have so much potential but the vast majority of the zone is completely empty low res flower fields and one admittedly great cutscene with Ardbert's steed.

The dungeon was great though, whole zone should have been weirdo shit like that.

>>715106392
After they added a yearly official Pride event, nothing surprises me

>>715106310
>area about how malformed fragments of souls keep the memories of another civilization alive
Hmmmmmmmm yeah it's irrelevant I guess.....

>>715106173
I'm not against learning about the locals, but for me it's always have been an issue of pacing and relevancy. Like, you go outside of the zone, and in 99% of the times, the stuff you learnt doesn't matter anymore to the plot. Though, I didn't mind because the rest of the MSQ was good. For DT, I've just noticed it too quickly.
I'd like it if they shifted maybe this kind of quests to side content, and focused on something else you'd carry on through the expac.

>something like the ruins of Ronka in ShB.
Yeah, we got the Cenote which were kinda cool (dumping baby grounds). But the moment they showed Solution 9, I knew something was wrong. It's so big of a spoiler to show to a fanfest, and it's just... so boring. At least the Allagans kind of feel like alien technology to me. Solution 9 feels like modern era with a very slight touch of cyberpunk.

>>715106312
>was pure unadulterated kino.
This this this.

>>715106569
Is that what's awaiting us?

Thread end
Post lalabutt

>>715107116
I hope not

>>715106865
In the pit of my heart I knew that Dawntrail was going to suck from the moment they showed Solution 9. I might've been able to deal with it and it might have even been somewhat interesting if they never showed anything of the futuristic side of the expansion until it came out, but there is absolutely nothing interesting to me about that Cyberpunk 2077 Night City looking shit in my FF game. I know that scifi twists and magitek are staples of the franchise but never to that level. The cynical side of me just thinks that it exists only to get modern outfits into the game, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was true.

It's by far the least interesting advanced ancient civilization shown in the game, and there's nothing interesting to explore about it conceptually.

>>715107228
no

>>715107116
No, but only because CBU3 can't afford the dev time for it

Wild sneeds.
Chuck through the fuck.

>>715107228
hmmm... nyo

>>715107291
>and there's nothing interesting to explore about it conceptually.
I think my problem with the conceptual part is how fucking lazily they actually delivered on its core premise. Hey, here's this miracle matter tech we've got that came from another shard thanks to super genius midgets, and it can do ANYTHING! Massive towers, lightning rods, medical systems, flying cars, giant robots, mutation tech, soul tech, compact food storage, simulation arenas, you name it!

The thing about shit like Cyberpunk is that the tech goes two ways: either it's vague enough to be mysterious because of particular purposes, or it's mundanely enhanced enough on stuff we see in day to day living that it raises the brow rather than quirks the curiosity. When you base the entirety of a futuristic super society off of a miracle matter, and this miracle matter is basically "it does anything because we code program it with levin energy we have an infinite supply of thanks to how our world blew up", you can't actually do anything more in-depth with it because there is no depth. It's miracle matter!

>>715107581
You ruined it.

>>715107659
Much better

>>715107228
no

>>715107116
Even OSRS stopped bending the knee and cancelled their pride event this year.

>>715107291
>The cynical side of me just thinks that it exists only to get modern outfits into the game
I had exactly the same thought.

Oh well, I hope it's been a real wake up call for them, but I don't think they've fully realized.
Next expac, I'll just wait to see if it's really great, but I'll probably end up getting it as the last patch. At least, there will be tons of stuff to do.
There is no point playing the game before patch .5 if you don't do savage, that's something I've finally learnt.

>>715107769
>Implying this isn't them bending the knee and that they don't genuinely want this shit in the game

>>715107659
No, I made it better.

>>715107769
They'll have to do way more than just go "we won't do a special pride event this year" to clamber out of poz territory.
They still have body types, pronouns and pride events. They just didn't add something new this year.

>>715107228
was a good thread. got some good discussion in. making me wonder if my stance on 'don't make side content mandatory' is wrong and if the narrative quality would potentially go up

>>715107629
I can agree with this, it's also a problem I have with the Solution 9 tech. By and large, Magitek was relatively fleshed out and developed within the setting of the game thus far, with both Allag and Garlemald having the actual mechanics of their technology explored semi-often with regards to crystal power sources, how they interacted with magic, what they could do, etc. Like Dalamud being a giant aether battery powered by constant summoning, that kind of thing is super cool and makes sense within the logical confines of the setting. Electrope is just literally anything anyone wants it o be. It does everything better than aether powered Magitek in every single way and it's easier to use while being a now known quantity.

It's completely ruined any future development of technology in the setting or interest I have in the concept because the magical infinite sci-fi material exists and so any big Magitek weapon or development is going to look pathetic in comparison. Even the spaceship from EW looks like a joke now. They completely killed a core aspect of their setting in one stroke of the pen.

>>715107629
it's not miracle matter it only makes sense in places heavily saturated with lightning

>>715108197
Munch munch munch

Only a small handful of sharts in this thread, lovely people all of you (except you) (you know who you are)

>>715108346
Gonna try Pagos today bud?

>>715108229
electrope is really easy to tamp down as a plot element. its just not viable to use when there's not an apocalyptic amount of lightning around

>>715108197
I wish side content was mandatory. They need to stop pussing around already. At least normal raids need to be mandatory.

>>715108346
KYS

>>715108413
Also Alexandria has literally all of it known to exist and they would not give it up

>>715108346
>>715108498
*shaaaaaaaaart*

>>715108461
the issue is that the MSQ is already gargantuan. yes doing everything in release order will give you a better understanding of the story and such, but thats a LOT to tack on. i'm still not 100% on board with CT being mandatory

Will they really not redo Athena's TREMBUUUUUL line?