Final Fantasy XIV - Kiwi Free Company

I'm going to have a more neutral take on this. The terms of service and conditioning is what you sign when you want to play FFXIV and by clicking agree, you read the terms of service, you understand what they mean and you understand what the consequences of your actions will occur against your account if you violate it. It is a signed liability saying that the company has the legal right to forbid you from playing their game if you sign it and you choose to play it. If these raiders and that bitch boy pyromancer don't like it, or if they disagree with the terms of conditioning, that's fine. But those are the terms and you agreed to them so any violations of the terms are completely on you and you don't get to make the argument that you either didn't know or the terms weren't clear, because by selecting agree, you implied you understood and internalized.
 
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What are the odds this person is a troon who still thinks we killed Byuu?
 
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after a dogshit barely-more-than-the-healer duo of a redmage and black mage got mad that I would wander forward during the new AR after about thirty seconds of everyone standing there doing nothing, I decided to give blue DPS another go

warrior can straight up just ignore nald'thal's entire knockback mechanic because they get two knockback blockers. That is absolutely fantastic
 
After seeing some bannings go down, I got into seeing what kind of addons people used. Now I see beyond parsing. People have AOE counters and other stuff that I didn't know existed. From now on when I see someone with an Ultimate weapon, it'll seem like a sign of suspicion more so than a sign of skill.
 
After seeing some bannings go down, I got into seeing what kind of addons people used. Now I see beyond parsing. People have AOE counters and other stuff that I didn't know existed. From now on when I see someone with an Ultimate weapon, it'll seem like a sign of suspicion more so than a sign of skill.
Paypal legends have always existed, so probably like 80% of all ultimate legends are carried
 
After seeing some bannings go down, I got into seeing what kind of addons people used. Now I see beyond parsing. People have AOE counters and other stuff that I didn't know existed. From now on when I see someone with an Ultimate weapon, it'll seem like a sign of suspicion more so than a sign of skill.
I really thought ACT was the only raid plug-in, no one I have ever known that does savage prog knows of these add ons either. I'm not surprised they exist, but so many players these raiders would call casual function perfectly fine and clear with out them, quite embarrassing for those "hardcores" that will have a fit with out them.

And I certainly do think plugins make things way too easy, I used to love raiding Heroic 24-Man in WoW (WotLK, Cata, MoP), used Recount, DBM, WeakAuras, etc. Was super excited to jump into FFXIV raiding, found it too difficult, because guess what, I am not actually good at games and had just been relying on 3rd party addons to carry me through Warcraft end game for years. Was a bit of an eye opener.
 
I'm going to have a more neutral take on this. The terms of service and conditioning is what you sign when you want to play FFXIV and by clicking agree, you read the terms of service, you understand what they mean and you understand what the consequences of your actions will occur against your account if you violate it. It is a signed liability saying that the company has the legal right to forbid you from playing their game if you sign it and you choose to play it. If these raiders and that bitch boy pyromancer don't like it, or if they disagree with the terms of conditioning, that's fine. But those are the terms and you agreed to them so any violations of the terms are completely on you and you don't get to make the argument that you either didn't know or the terms weren't clear, because by selecting agree, you implied you understood and internalized.
There are mountains of retarded takes on both Twitter and Reddit. The latest take is that casuals are pissed at the elite raiders. The truth is that the experience most of these streamers have is not representative of the majority's game experience anyway. As Takodachi said, clearing harder content in this game is smashing your head against the wall. There is no shortage of awful players who feel entitled to clearing the content without putting in the effort. Putting together a group of 8 people that have their heads on straight and aren't major raidtrannies is hard.

There were multiple streamers earlier today putting Yoshida's face over their 3rd party overlays and tools.
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What are the odds this person is a troon who still thinks we killed Byuu?
I think Seradima is a retard who posts on the ffxivdiscussion reddit. I remember seeing that name around a few times. The subreddit has people talking about raiding on the clock, it's insufferable. What the fuck do the farms have to do with FFXIV? Are we going to kill XIV raiders?
 
Watching pyromancer meltdown over the bans for using third party programs.
Not that I watch him a ton, but the guy feels like he's constantly hovering just below crossing the line and getting himself a thread here. Seriously, watching some idiot who hit it big with FFXIV's overly positive community despite the fact that he was known before in the WoW community as a complete schizo when it comes to lore and who has a history of melting down over everything including people not kissing his ass in chat is weirdly entertaining.

Also, coming from playing WoW for years before I quit I really don't have too much against addons, but goddamn stuff like this reminds you just how much people overinvest in a video game being their identity. I didn't even know some addons went this far. Pretty big eye opener on how some people play the game, but then again I'm a filthy casual so what do I know.
 
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known before in the WoW community as a complete schizo when it comes to lore and who has a history of melting down over everything including people not kissing his ass in chat is weirdly entertaining.
I never caught any of his pre XIV content, is there any deep sperging there too? I know he cried like a bitch at graha and has 3 hour streams where he just writes lore down but lmfao didnt know he was known for being a retard
 
There are mountains of retarded takes on both Twitter and Reddit. The latest take is that casuals are pissed at the elite raiders. The truth is that the experience most of these streamers have is not representative of the majority's game experience anyway. As Takodachi said, clearing harder content in this game is smashing your head against the wall. There is no shortage of awful players who feel entitled to clearing the content without putting in the effort. Putting together a group of 8 people that have their heads on straight and aren't major raidtrannies is hard.

There were multiple streamers earlier today putting Yoshida's face over their 3rd party overlays and tools.

I think Seradima is a retard who posts on the ffxivdiscussion reddit. I remember seeing that name around a few times. The subreddit has people talking about raiding on the clock, it's insufferable. What the fuck do the farms have to do with FFXIV? Are we going to kill XIV raiders?
Full context is that someone pointed out that 5chan (who is doing the reporting) is Japanese 4chan but Seradima pops up to say they're more like Japanese Kiwifarms because we're super duper evil.
 
I never caught any of his pre XIV content, is there any deep sperging there too? I know he cried like a bitch at graha and has 3 hour streams where he just writes lore down but lmfao didnt know he was known for being a retard
The funniest thing he did about G'raha is get mad at chat during the big reveal that the exarch is G'raha because he thought they were bad people for telling him to second-guess who the exarch was. He really just doesn't get the basics of storytelling, because anyone can tell you that there's some basic reasons why the story wants you to be unsure of who the exarch is, whether you think they're effective or not. Plus, the note taking is baffling since the MSQ story is pretty straightforward and not too hard to remember the important details. Anything that might need notes is some of the more historical lore stuff buried in job quests about the distant past. And I'm pretty sure he deleted all of his WoW stuff out of sheer spergery about Blizz being evil and betraying him, but he was always like this about WoW: a weird sideshow where people were mostly aware of him as being autistic about the lore and wondering how you get to be like this and who would even enjoy something in this way. Gonna put the rest behind spoilers since it's mostly WoW autism most people here don't care about.

WoW for the most part wasn't too cosmic with its lore for a long time. The most there was is that the Titans are powerful beings that go around ordering and putting life on planets, including yours, Azeroth, and one of them went insane and decided to destroy everything. He rounded up some demons to help him and is eternally mad that his attempt to destroy Azeroth failed. Otherwise, you also have that an evil wizard opened a portal to another planet and let the orcs in. That's it for big cosmic stuff and pretty much sets up most everything in Warcraft to happen on Azeroth, give or take some religions that various people have that are more or less acknowledged to be true, but even then they're pretty confined to those people.

Over time as WoW declines to where it is now, the lore team (who isn't the original people for the most part) feels the need to go more cosmic and set up this huge system of opposing cosmic forces. For example, the Light, which was always good and the humans worshipped it as Totally Not Christianity complete with cathedral and bishops and priests, became some huge cosmic force that could be bad? Or maybe good? Or neutral? Who wants this shit? Who asked for it? Who enjoys this sort of thing? Pyro, of course, who loves this stuff and wants to churn out a bunch of theories about what these cosmic forces mean and where the lore is going. He didn't even like the era of WoW lore people enjoyed, he liked the parts everyone hated.

If you want to know who he was when he was doing WoW, there's a moment when he gets to Ardbert first explaining that light is flooding the First, and Pyro talks about how this is what he always wanted in WoW. Nobody wanted this in WoW. Everyone liked when the Light was a good thing that human paladins wielded as both weapon and shield because they were pious and righteous. Only someone who loves lore books and reading wikis more than enjoying a story likes this idea. So Pyro was the autistic guy you saw in your Youtube recommendations making videos about how WoW totally needs to show you how bad the Light can be, because a lore book they'll retcon in a year or two says it's a big cosmic force that can be good or evil. And then one day he shows up in your Youtube recs playing FFXIV and having a meltdown over how Blizz betrayed him and the rest is history.

Now give me every puzzle piece you have because I feel like a massive faggot for typing all this.
 
Okay what exactly happened that made SE care about this shit now and not...you know, several years ago when DPS checks and shit actually really really mattered and having a terrible parse was almost considered griefing your team in Gordias and Midas?

That's why I don't like this personally, as far as basic parsing and stuff like simple gshade stuff goes anyway so no one misunderstands me. If you want to ban cactpot fine, but why just basic ACT parsing? Although the streamers getting gaoled live is extremely funny.

Japan was probably just sperging out because gaijins beat them again to world first, they did that with Delebrum savage they tard raged with something to the effect of "Well we have lives so that's why we didn't win, those streamers got it first because they're streamers" over a fucking fictional race that most people don't give a fuck. You got out neet'd by gaijin pingus you fucking retards stop your bullshit.
 
This. Square only gives a rat's ass about something if Japan has a meltdown about it.
does jp even give a shit about world firsts? assume it's more likely a jp internal pc vs console thing after some of the nip mustards started using them and got caught with it.

Basically every MMO with a 'hard' endgame is either dead or in a content drought ATM. So the only place they can get their fix is on Yoshida's Wild Ride.
it's just a fact that the hardest content isn't for everybody, yet people still expect to clear it without effort or time investment - and that's just for the content itself and doesn't even consider the social aspect where you have to find the people good enough to do it AND you can get along with (or shut up to get it done). given how borderline antisocial most people in MMOs are these days, the higher up you go the more you have to deal with autistic sweatlords, which makes finding the right people (that also need to have an opening at the right time) basically a needle in a haystack. imagine telling anyone you have to build an ingame reputation for weeks or months without being a retard to leave a good enough impression to get invited.
there's also the fact that some people either aren't cut out for it and simply need to accept that, or admit to themselves that's simply not the content they enjoy (but still want to do because there's nothing else to do, or there's no proper challenge progression with a point where they can still feel challenged etc.). means the game either start catering to them as well or they need to get their fix somewhere else.

and in FF14's case especially, consoletards can clear it without it, so there's literally no excuse. doesn't matter if the "tools need to be better" (which is a retarded notion because that's highly subjective anyway) when people obviously can deal with it and beat it anyway. that shit gives me "dark souls needs an easymode" flashbacks.

WoW for the most part wasn't too cosmic with its lore for a long time.
problem with WoW's lore is that they wrote themselves into a corner where YOU and YOU ALONE defeat everything, so the shit writers have to go bigger every expansion to justify the stakes. I was joking back in BC in a few expansions we're gonna fight the universe itself or some shit. add the hack writers trying to be clever with MUH TWISTS and you get the recipe for truly atrocious stories.
 
does jp even give a shit about world firsts? assume it's more likely a jp internal pc vs console thing after some of the nip mustards started using them and got caught with it.
Regardless of how much weeb culture has bled into the west, you have to remember nips are incredibly xenophobic, and being beaten at their 'own game' hurts the ego of the hardcore shitters.
 
Okay what exactly happened that made SE care about this shit now and not...you know, several years ago when DPS checks and shit actually really really mattered and having a terrible parse was almost considered griefing your team in Gordias and Midas?
Basically too many streamers with addons. If they don't come out and nanking the streamer class every few years, precedents and expectations get set that make it harder to control down the line.

Literally every oldfag that isn't Xeno has been saying for years that everyone needs to knock it off with this shit in their streams because it's going to force SE to take action and that's exactly what happened.

Also the JP report brigading isn't about westerners winning the race. I mean, that may have contributed to it but now they're hitting everyone, including prominent JP streamers.
 
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Basically too many streamers with addons. If they don't come out and nanking the streamer class every few years, precedents and expectations get set that make it harder to control down the line.
Literally nothing the fuck has changed at all today then even 6 months ago, this shit didn't happen in ucob, uwu, or tea from what I recall at least not to this extent. Why the fuck does it happen with Dragonsong? Xeno has been through all of these races and no one did shit ever, now suddenly it "just makes sense" to target him when he's the same bald lumberjack sweat lord he's been since what Stormblood, or ARR/Heavensward if we ignore the bald part. I think Xeno got a ban once, but that was for actual harassment iirc.

The most you had was the dumb Arthas drama because he legit called someone out very directly on stream, which that at least falls under the "don't use ACT to harass people" silent rule we've had for multiple expansions in a row.
 
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