FFXIV Criticisms

[Tomana]

The company stopped investing into blockchain and nft initiatives more than a year ago. It was a poor decision to begin with, but one they quickly aborted.

You will have to back up that affirmation, I am afraid. From the outside perspective, they are dead set on marketing that crap still.

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I mean, the previous CEO and current CEO are both NFT-obsessed cryptobros. It shouldn't be surprising that the company is poorly managed, given that.

Yes, I was flabbergasted when they removed the previous CEO to add more of the same. Same shite, different a...

[KrayZ33]

I honestly can't believe you think developing an XIV expansion is not an AAA budget thought. That is crazy. Thinking expansion = patch is absolutely bonkers. Every expansion is basically a full 40 hour main line FF game built into an MMO. Patches are just what a skeleton crew dev team can come up with while the main team is working on an expac for 2-3 years.

You talk about reusing assets, every damn game will reuse assets if they fit instead of making new ones. Certain assets in XVI are directly pulled from ShB and Endwalker and a lot of texture work and lighting made for XVI is being back ported into XIV with the graphics update coming. You thought Nier Automata was some expensive game to make when the game has 2 small areas, and about 30 textures in the entire game re-used over and over lol.

I believe you are always interpreting way more into my writing than I actually do mean.
First of all, I don't understand where the XIV expansion vs patch comparison came from
The MMO earning is in every fiscal year, in every quarter. Yet only once every 2 years a new expansion releases, which will sell for 40€.
In the meantime, they get 10€ for every sub even though the effort to maintain that game and the patches is minimalistic compared to an expansion or a whole new game.

You talk about reusing assets, every damn game will reuse assets if they fit instead of making new ones. Certain assets in XVI are directly pulled from ShB and Endwalker and a lot of texture work and lighting made for XVI is being back ported into XIV with the graphics update coming. You thought Nier Automata was some expensive game to make when the game has 2 small areas, and about 30 textures in the entire game re-used over and over lol.

Yet it's still different than using the same model with a different name for 90% of the expansion zones.
The dogs you fight in Shadowlands are the same dogs you fight in ARR with the same ability, just with a different name.

If you use that one in XVI it gets animation updates, a attack pattern and a lot of other stuff.

[Tomana]

That's cute if you think the MMO division is creating more liquid cash for the company than the mobile division. It's not even close.

Source? Also, Mobile Games are pretty much JP-only, and MMO market has a strong presence in US/EU. Long-term, SE is very exposed because how JPY has been in the toilet the past few years.

[Ghost of Cow]

It would be nice if once and a while, not even necessarily on a set timeframe, they continues doing hard mode revamps of dungeons and showing the progression of the plot of that dungeon or area like they did with some ARR and HW ones. Just now and then to continue making the world feel alive, which is one of its biggest selling points imo.

Something like, just pulling an example out of nowhere with no forethought, The Burn (Hard) where there's a little questline about trying to bring it back to life like how Ryne, Gaia & her two dads did on the First. Or like Ghimlyt Dark (Hard) having left over haywire magitek in it from the battlefield that are getting close to Garlemald or something.

Now that would be awesome.

Funny you bring that up now, too. I was just thinking about how there was "something" that was missing in dungeons compared to ARR but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. That's exactly what I was thinking of, though.

[Moralgy]

???

I have no issues doing dungeon roulettes on Dynamis, at any time of day. You should also note that queues aren't instant on other DCs, either. I had to wait several minutes for dungeon queues while visiting friends on Crystal last night, for example.

Dynamis primarily uses PF to organize things, rather than relying on DF. And that's frankly a better way to operate, anyway. Dynamis is fine.

Ques are instant on aether for casual stuff like dungeon finder for tanks and healers and 2-3 mins max for dps, and has 100-200 partys up during main hours for savages and ultimates. idk, thats what i consider healthy, not waiting 10mins for a tank que for casual content. if thats what you are into more power to you, but the number of sprouts ive had to help out with older content on dynamis because they waited 2 hours in a que for a heavensward trial in pf is more than i like to count. Ive tried to que expert on dynamis and got bored of waiting after 20mins before, just, that shit is dead man. Hit me up when dynamis gets a real PF situation going because the state of dynamis atm is not very convincing for any argument that "it is okay".

Crystal is pretty dead too but its not dynamis dead rofl, so really bad comparison. Basically there needs to be cross DC ques and party finder or else the slow death of everything but aether will continue, and like huffing on this copeium that "dynamis is fine" when in reality its just a symptom of the problem at hand is not going to help solve it for everyone. I hate having to go to aether to do top or dsr or basically anything that isnt casual content and rolling over thinking "its fine how it is right now" is just silly.

For anyone having que time issues or a lack of anything going on, just DC travel to Aether until SE actually tries to solve the issue at hand. Its where most everyone is these days to do any content, unfortunately.

[Grinning Serpent]

For anyone having que time issues or a lack of anything going on, just DC travel to Aether until SE actually tries to solve the issue at hand. Its where most everyone is these days to do any content, unfortunately.

Aether is a terrible point of comparison because that's where everyone travels to. It isn't remotely representative of the experience on Crystal or Primal. Crystal and Primal are much better for DF than Dynamis, but it's hardly instant.

[Moralgy]

Aether is a terrible point of comparison because that's where everyone travels to. It isn't remotely representative of the experience on Crystal or Primal. Crystal and Primal are much better for DF than Dynamis, but it's hardly instant.

It is good advise to just go to Aether if you want to actually play the game outside of solo content? I hate it, but it be that way. Unfortunately most of the NA population sits there these days but thats a problem with how the game works. Why sit on mildly dead to completely dead DCs struggling to get ques or fill PFs when you can join aether and speed things up significantly? Westhog won, i miss easthog but thats life I guess. It legit costs you absolutely nothing to DC travel lol.

[Grinning Serpent]

There's usually plenty of stuff to do while waiting on DF queues so it doesn't really matter to me. PF groups fill fast even on Dynamis.

[Moralgy]

There's usually plenty of stuff to do while waiting on DF queues so it doesn't really matter to me. PF groups fill fast even on Dynamis.

For what content, because I'll put all my gil on it I wouldn't fill an ulti, savage, or even an ex group in under 24 hours. I even tried to host blue mage spell farming when that was released for a bit and no one would join and thats the most casual of casual stuff out there.

[Grinning Serpent]

Blue mage actually isn't casual at all, because carnivale is required to progress and you can't be carried through carnivale by others. It's the primary reason casual players tend to despise BLU.

[Forsedar]

For what content, because I'll put all my gil on it I wouldn't fill an ulti, savage, or even an ex group in under 24 hours. I even tried to host blue mage spell farming when that was released for a bit and no one would join and thats the most casual of casual stuff out there.

BLU content is sometimes a pain to fill. There's usually dedicated "BLU" days on the weekends for certain DC's where they plan and aim to do specific content. You should look into joining a BLU discord server (I do not have any handy, at the moment) and see if there is a schedule that aligns with yours.

It's interesting, because while anyone can level (or get boosted) a BLU, getting to the point to be viable for certain achievements which generally requires doing a raid can take investment; especially if you need the Carnival. That's a major wall for the average player.

Other than that, filling PF for Savages or Ultimates has never been rough for me. I clear most raid tiers in PF, and it only gets slower if you push to the last boss week 1. For example, I pugged P1S-P3S and P5S-P7S week 1 in PF. Filling groups took maybe 10 minutes? Once I got to P4S/P8S, groups took several hours to fill since there weren't enough players to really fill groups.

I'm on Primal, but I've done this on both Primal and Aether.

[Moralgy]

BLU content is sometimes a pain to fill. There's usually dedicated "BLU" days on the weekends for certain DC's where they plan and aim to do specific content. You should look into joining a BLU discord server (I do not have any handy, at the moment) and see if there is a schedule that aligns with yours.

It's interesting, because while anyone can level (or get boosted) a BLU, getting to the point to be viable for certain achievements which generally requires doing a raid can take investment; especially if you need the Carnival. That's a major wall for the average player.

Other than that, filling PF for Savages or Ultimates has never been rough for me. I clear most raid tiers in PF, and it only gets slower if you push to the last boss week 1. For example, I pugged P1S-P3S and P5S-P7S week 1 in PF. Filling groups took maybe 10 minutes? Once I got to P4S/P8S, groups took several hours to fill since there weren't enough players to really fill groups.

I'm on Primal, but I've done this on both Primal and Aether.

Yea primal and Aether are fine generally, the conversation was about dynamis specifically.

Aether i was able to farm all the new blue spells in a few hours, dynamis I couldnt even fill a 4 person party for a spell :skull:

[Grinning Serpent]

Yea primal and Aether are fine generally, the conversation was about dynamis specifically.

Aether i was able to farm all the new blue spells in a few hours, dynamis I couldnt even fill a 4 person party for a spell :skull:

You don't need a party for any 4-man content. All dungeons are easily soloed, and even most trials and raids (though those can be 20+ mins to clear so it's usually better to group up unless you just want to say you did it.)

[Moralgy]

You don't need a party for any 4-man content. All dungeons are easily soloed, and even most trials and raids (though those can be 20+ mins to clear so it's usually better to group up unless you just want to say you did it.)

If you want 100% chance on the spell, you are going to want the group. Spend 7mins solo x10+(for lvl 80 dungeons) or get 3 people and be done in 5mins. Hard choice. Aether groups filled instantly on blue lvl 80 release, dynamis, as I said, couldnt even fill a 4 person party. That is entirely my point in all of this lol.

[Fasruhdah]

PVP queues are longer than 30 minutes. I had to quit. Aint nobody got time for that bish.

[Grinning Serpent]

If you want 100% chance on the spell, you are going to want the group. Spend 7mins solo x10+(for lvl 80 dungeons) or get 3 people and be done in 5mins. Hard choice. Aether groups filled instantly on blue lvl 80 release, dynamis, as I said, couldnt even fill a 4 person party. That is entirely my point in all of this lol.

You can solo every single dungeon and most trials and raids solo, synced. It doesn't even take very long.

[Moralgy]

You can solo every single dungeon and most trials and raids solo, synced. It doesn't even take very long.

Once again, not the point of this entire discussion.

The point is, just go to Aether or Primal if you are an Aether hater to do anything. Let me go toss up a top reclear party on dynamis real fast I'm sure its fine over there xdd

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PVP queues are longer than 30 minutes. I had to quit. Aint nobody got time for that bish.

Such as this person, go to aether, pvp que takes like 5mins at most.

[Fasruhdah]

Once again, not the point of this entire discussion.

The point is, just go to Aether or Primal if you are an Aether hater to do anything. Let me go toss up a top reclear party on dynamis real fast I'm sure its fine over there xdd

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Such as this person, go to aether, pvp que takes like 5mins at most.

Agree

They dropped the ball on implementing cross server party finder.

[Grinning Serpent]

Once again, not the point of this entire discussion.

The point is, just go to Aether or Primal if you are an Aether hater to do anything. Let me go toss up a top reclear party on dynamis real fast I'm sure its fine over there xdd

I dunno man, I don't have issues finding parties for most mundane things on Dynamis. Maybe it takes a little longer or it can only be done during prime time, but it's not a problem. You're reaching for excuses to claim Dynamis is dead and refusing to accept that it's not.

Moreover, Dynamis is going to see a population spike when Dawntrail hits. People on Dynamis will be playing the game while people on Crystal, Aether, and probably Primal are sitting in queues and losing hours-long waits to lobby server errors like they did during EW launch.

I don't really see what the problem is. Dynamis is fine.

[Fasruhdah]

All my north american friends come to raid on Aether. Current content raiding is dead on all other data centers.