Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

[Racial Slurs the Movie]

Tari is gonna be losing his tranny mind at this. Watch him sperg out on reddit or whatever shithole on the internet he frequents.

I was wondering why the thread was so much more readable.

I'm only back here because I was going to post this in the XIV Community thread, but Baguette Child beat me to it. I thought I was banned based on the message box not showing up correctly and a modmail of a janny being MATI.

It took you years to stop referencing Kiwi on reddit, I hope Null's anti bri'ish sperg out has given you time to stop being... well you.

 

[00R-Gundam]

I'm only back here because I was going to post this in the XIV Community thread, but Baguette Child beat me to it. I thought I was banned based on the message box not showing up correctly and a modmail of a janny being MATI.

Dont worry youre here forever, now carry on with your usual ff14 sperging and being a reddit faggot.

 

[Ravana]

I’m not sure what playerscope even is. I guess that’s some kind of sign that I haven’t fallen too far down the rabbit hole. Feels good

 

[Fringeless Pringles]

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The troonification of FFXIV continues apace.

agnostic of anything it would be at minimum mildly concerning to see any brand deciding to expend any effort no matter how small in maintaining a presence on a site that is well-known for a downward spiral of hemorrhaging its users. This is either the result of specialized market research, or it's personally motivated towards propping up a site that's friendly to someone's politics. I couldn't picture myself being able to make the convincing pitch to be allowed to set up an account on a dying site most people have never heard of.

 

[Brandy [◉'']]

Well, this was sobering. The Live Letter tackled some of the Feedback they received to OC.

-Apparently, forked tower has only been cleared 400 times as of this LL
-they will let you enter into a OC instance with 48 people to make it easier to join the tower
-there wasn't a normal version of FT because of cost reasons and there won't be one in the future
-a later raid in the next zone will have them (as planned of now)
-the droprates for atma are 20% in CE and 5% in FATE and they won't change it
-scaling for FATE is hard
-the mirrage weather (allowing entrance to FT) will not spawn if there are any active CE

I guess we will see more people bothering with FT, but I feel the cost reasoning tells us a lot about their priorities and understanding of the playerbase.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

-there wasn't a normal version of FT because of cost reasons and there won't be one in the future

I know FFXIV might've been fucked and written like shit even with a budget but Square really does use XIV as a money printer to make up for their shit decisions huh

 

[Armitage]

-there wasn't a normal version of FT because of cost reasons and there won't be one in the future
-a later raid in the next zone will have them (as planned of now)


I guess we will see more people bothering with FT, but I feel the cost reasoning tells us a lot about their priorities and understanding of the playerbase.

This makes absolutely no sense to me. If you can only make one of the two, why not do the normal mode (which more of the playerbase will enjoy) rather than only the hardcore more. This also shows that their design focus is more geared towards hardcore players rather than the more casual players, or at least the ones who would want to enjoy something a bit simpler. Especially for something like OC which is more for the non-hardcore raiders, this appears to be contrary to the idea of it. To me, someone who is not a hardcore raider but liked the grindy aspects, this makes it so that the OC is even less of a draw to get me back into the game.

 

[Troon Whisperer]

They tried to have their cake and eat it to. The zone is for the casuals to just farm FATEs in and FT was for the raiders, except they fucked it so badly that its just sad rather than funny.

 

[RussellTShackleford]

This makes absolutely no sense to me. If you can only make one of the two, why not do the normal mode (which more of the playerbase will enjoy) rather than only the hardcore more. This also shows that their design focus is more geared towards hardcore players rather than the more casual players, or at least the ones who would want to enjoy something a bit simpler. Especially for something like OC which is more for the non-hardcore raiders, this appears to be contrary to the idea of it. To me, someone who is not a hardcore raider but liked the grindy aspects, this makes it so that the OC is even less of a draw to get me back into the game.

Many of the designers start by making the harder/savage content first, then stripping out mechanics to make the normal version of a raid. I'd guess maybe they were doing that workflow and started running out of time to put the normal version together.

 

[Brandy [◉'']]

Other than the feedback to OC and CE, the LL was fairly bogstandard. The Deep Dungeon looks neat, hope its more PotD/HoH than Orthos.
Opening your LL with "We didn't make a normal version of FT due to dev costs" and closing it with "Oh, we will also release a savage version of the last DD boss!" (with a huge, red "NEW CONTENT" stamp across it) sure is tone-deaf to the extreme. Yes, you can't really compare it scope wise, but man its bad optics.

I like that they will implement duo queue for CC Casual, that might be fun with a bud.

 

[Agarathium1066]

Well, this was sobering. The Live Letter tackled some of the Feedback they received to OC.

-Apparently, forked tower has only been cleared 400 times as of this LL
-they will let you enter into a OC instance with 48 people to make it easier to join the tower
-there wasn't a normal version of FT because of cost reasons and there won't be one in the future

So it is confirmed they took the wrong lessons from the Save the Queen content. Only 400 clears is absolutely dire.

 

[Inconspicuous Poster]

I can feel myself slowly turning into an A-Log with every piece of news about FFXIV. Job design has reached levels of over not previously thought possible but the main problem for me is that 99% of the playerbase are freaks and modbeasts since DT (or even EW patches, really), making me automatically not want to associate with any of them. Not to mention you need to go on Discord to do anything and they have full power there. No funny words allowed! It's not good enough that you're not against us, you must also bend the knee and 100% agree with everything we say or get shut out of doing anything in game.
Also: please for the love of all that is holy fix healers. We've been completely retarded for 6+ years now.

 

[Baguette Child]

but hey you guys! At least the furries can finally wear hats, isn't that even better than a forked tower normal mode?!



CBU3 is so confusingly inept that it's really starting to bum me out.

 

[Inconspicuous Poster]

but hey you guys! At least the furries can finally wear hats, isn't that even better than a forked tower normal mode?!

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CBU3 is so confusingly inept that it's really starting to bum me out.

Don't get me wrong, this is a "win". But it's like congratulating your drunk uncle for staying sober over christmas. It was already expected that the new races would be compatible with all existing gear and their inability to fix it for 6+ years is astounding. This is a minor step towards doing the bare minimum expected of them (which is TECHNICALLY a win since they haven't been doing that)

 

[Fringeless Pringles]

but hey you guys! At least the furries can finally wear hats, isn't that even better than a forked tower normal mode?!

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CBU3 is so confusingly inept that it's really starting to bum me out.

Well I think it will prove to have been an effective distraction to pull out from their rainy day vault considering players have been begging for it for 6 years now.
Hats for Viera/Hroth are better late than never.

It's not good enough that you're not against us, you must also bend the knee and 100% agree with everything we say or get shut out of doing anything in game.

That shit attitude phenomenally pissed me off when it was adopted en-masse in 2020.

 

[Froggy Fresh Sextape]

I guess we will see more people bothering with FT, but I feel the cost reasoning tells us a lot about their priorities and understanding of the playerbase.

Yeah, I really just do not understand OC's design at all. The average, normal player can get to 100 and enjoy the cutscenes and the story without running into anything difficult and then they wander into FT and their face melts off.

Who was the Japanese dude at Square who was like yeah let's toss a Savage difficulty raid in the middle of this that'll be fun to watch

 

[Troon Whisperer]

I see Yoshi-p smashed the "break glass in case of falling subs" button in order to deliver the promised hats over 7 years later. Yes, this will surely bring everyone back.

 

[Well Intentioned]

I'm only back here because I was going to post this in the XIV Community thread, but Baguette Child beat me to it. I thought I was banned based on the message box not showing up correctly and a modmail of a janny being MATI.

Welcome back.

 

[Shieldman]

I ended up resubbing.

Besides the emotional terrorism letter, the determining factor was that I wanted to dick around with those automation plugins I was reading about.

It's basically a free bot, very efficient if my latest tests are anything to go by.

I'm dreading continuing the MSQ and chances are I'll get bored within a few days.

 

[Baguette Child]

I'm dreading continuing the MSQ and chances are I'll get bored within a few days.

Don't be afraid to tap out and start hitting skip. I never ever once used it from ARR through EW, always thought the MSQ was worth taking the time to watch properly, and that mindset made DT actual pain to get through. I promise you you will not miss anything of value.

By the end of DT husband and I had basically resorted to using MSQ as a drinking game just to come up with any kind of enthusiasm to finish. It took a lot of vodka.