lmk the next time the free login period happens and i can give you 2m LOL

It's mostly down to pacing, his conflict is resolved waaaay too fast. I'm grabbing the writers and shaking them and saying NOT YOU TOO

Devastated to report that I think Arator's storyline in Midnight is........ bad

Ultimately, ideally, the game would improve. That's why my doc wraps up w/changes that could endear me to it once again. It's in a really bad spot right now, and I hope it does change for the better and regain more of a playerbase.

im not sure i would call it being a hater. i obviously care a lot about FF and I spent a lot of time in FFXIV and I like game dev. People who are attached to XIV to the point of finding critique upsetting may want to dismiss me as a hater, but truly I think it's very sad that FF has become this.

If you've ever wondered wtf my problem with FFXIV even is, here's a 6 page google doc explaining that lol

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

i forgot alt text lol

4 panel Anakin and Padme meme with them sitting in a field together. PANEL 1: Anakin saying "This is inspired by 'Game of Thrones!'" PANEL 2: Padme smiling and saying "You mean it's full of political intrigue and ripple effect consequences for actions and not just sex and violence, right?" PANEL 3: Anakin silently looks at her with an inscrutable half-smile. PANEL 4: Padme, smile fading, says "...right?"

every time

the idea of Bloober team remaking Rule of Rose has me feeling some kind of way... Please be something else.

(Bad. It's bad. They will handle it with all the subtlety of a brick to the head.)

unfortunately it is all real (that i have seen)

It is, it's a legit datamine that's happened to them multiple times before in the exact same way lol

wow!! for me?!

"you can be every class on one character, so don't ask for your mounts, achievements, or glamour to be account-wide"

one of the meanest tricks FFXIV has pulled is convincing its playerbase that being able to level every class on 1 character is a GOOD thing, and not in fact an excuse for them to make leveling alts into a soul sucking trial that either costs you hundreds of hours or $50 + the current expac playtime

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

People are so bad at seeing anyone express a negative opinion about something they like, Jesus Christ. Like damn it’s not a personal attack just scroll on lmao

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

This explains a lot about the largely stagnant state of FFXIV tbh.

I'll be honest, with FFXIV Mobile existing, I would not be shocked to see FFXIV pivot to F2P entirely if sub numbers continue to dwindle.

From the ffxivdiscussion community on Reddit: Patch 7.4 Yoshi-P Media Interviews Explore this post and more from the ffxivdiscussion community

Far from the only concerning thing he said in this interview tbh www.reddit.com/r/ffxivdiscu...

It makes me very sad to see people still absolutely going to bat for FFXIV (and SQEX in general) when they have so clearly proven that they value money over EVERYTHING. Plus Yoshi-P is so creatively bankrupt that he's floating adding auto-travel to FFXIV. A freemium MMO/gacha staple in a paid MMO.

u get it

it's bc i played it for 6 friggin years and have now moved on to better games that have made me realize just HOW whack a state ffxiv is in 😩

It is, frankly, hard to be happy about the well paid devs being giddy about collabing with a celebrity musician when their responses to the (graphical and otherwise) issues people are dealing with have been so lackluster.

Yes, it does come off a bit as "leave the corporation alone" since I was more expressing irritation that FFXIV continues to be "Yoshi-P and his buddies do whatever strikes their fancy" even as it bleeds subs and those that ARE still subbed plead for indications that the devs hear them.

I... did not say anything about no one being excited now that it has been announced, nor did I say anything about this particular incident taking away from the visual updates. I said no one WANTED this, e.g. there were no posts from people asking for this collab, lmao. Unless there were! Maybe?!

TBH it still doesn't change this vibe of a boy's club that indulges in stuff like this while barely acknowledging the things that the community have been vocal about. It's a bit tone deaf, like... no one except the devs wanted this. It's cool! But also, lmao.

i love Rage, mind you. It's just weird that this (which definitely cost them a lot of money) is their focus when they've been bleeding subs for the past year. Maybe they arranged for and paid for the collab when they were still in Endwalker lol idk

it's just so interesting to see their priorities in this game. People are literally begging for any sort of acknowledgement of their issues and the dev team is like lmao nah we're indulging ourselves w/celebrity musicians

btw in the FFXIV forums of every language there is at least 1 multiple hundreds of pages thread of people upset bc the graphical "update" fundamentally changed how their characters look and they no longer enjoy their own character's appearance