FFXIV

Why is Final Fantasy XIV pandering to perverts? I thought that this series was better than this.

Every game panders to perverts, dumbass. Those are the only people they don't feel bad about taking money from, for what's essentially a really long binary number that makes your toaster do kewl things when you run it through the CPU.

2017 - year of the XIV saltmine

because weebs

PROTO ULTIMA SUCKS
DIADEM IS GONNA FLOP TOO
$7 FOR SHITTY EMOTES THAT SHOULD BE UNLOCKABLE IN-GAME
HEAVENSWARD HAS LESS THAN HALF THE SUBS OF ARR

FUCK THIS DYING STALE MMO
I'M UNSUBBING
WHO'S WITH ME?

I liked the proto ultima fight.
Could use higher defenses though.

What do I have to do to earn this emote?

pay the price of a big mac meal on the cash shop

I only want to show my desire to die.

Pay up, bubele!

:O

I'm not resubbing simply because HW content has killed my desire to play the game. So it's just best to cut my losses now instead of wasting time on slogging through crap.

SEVEN UNITED STATES DOLLARS

What was so much better about ARR that it had double the sub numbers? It was the same as HW is now.

>cashshopfags to retarded they can't wait for holiday sale
What a sad, sad world.

I came back from a 1h break and can't continue, fuck those fetch quests

B-bakana!

YOSHI PROMISED US A HARD TRIAL FIGHT
ALL WE GOT A TRASH MOB
IT'S HEAVENSWARD ALL OVER AGAIN
NOTHING BUT A REHASH OF 2.X

>tfw fought ultima ballad in its prime and got a good fight.
Just enjoying the hw babby salt tbqh

WAAAAAH THE GAME IS ALREADY GETTING BY FAR THE MOST CONTENT OF ALL MMOS, INCLUDING COMPLETELY NEW GAME MODES AND MINI GAMES MID-EXPANSION BUT HOW DO THEY DARE TO CHARGE FOR SOME OF THEIR EXTRA WORK

Where exactly do I fight Proto Ultima?

>what was so much better

Nothing much, it's just that their marketing and progression strategy was fresh at the time. No one expected them to carbon copy progression for Heavensward, which they did, and no one expected them to literally repeat the relic questline. I mean, when those relics got released even the JP crowd screamed about it, and the community was met with "it's optional content" and still people flooded back to the game because cute catgirls and glamour gear. Shit, if anyone thinks Stormblood isn't going to be the same cycle of patches and content droughts like HW was ya'll fucked in the head.

HW environment and setting weren't and aren't interesting in any way. And plot stuff such as how the hell can a party of few people get into the heart of the dragons' dominion when supposedly there's a horde of dragons that can straight up eat Ishgard itself. The archbishop of Ishgard flies away and there's no turmoil in the city. I was so excited to start HW but it sucks balls, sorry.

>most content
>new game modes
>minigames

Are you fucking high, or just hate other MMOs so much you pretend they don't exist?

I thought we agreed that we wouldn't have daily FFXIV threads anymore. We would reserve them for the weekends only. General threads are unhealthy.

it's (technically) a fucking patch day m8

>More content and the content that we had was better
>the story wasn't so hilariously bloated
>people still had hopes and wasn't burned out by SE's laziness yet

Rule 34 mother fucker.

If it exists someone is jerking off to it. Some people might find mosaic tiles to be a turn on. There are those that find aircraft erotic. You, for instance, seem to find the child-like falafel to be more than a bit erotic.

>implying they don't make money off the sub costs and it doesn't just all go to maintaining the game

get a load of this jew apologist

It's an MMO

Tile fucker?

How is that perverted?

They are just laying on the ground like cute little children.

Hugs, no fugs

>People who pay for things are hurting my world!
>I shouldn't have to pay for things.

You, sir, are a double nigger with a side of welfare.

DET
PARRY
FENDING
RING

the fendin ultima 270 ring is bad?, who gives a shit, a9s is easy as fuck and the shire upgrade items are easy as fuck to get too

Keep in mind that this is just a mini patch and that we would have gotten Diadem 2.0.
Also Zhloe starts on thursday.

That being said, it does not excuse how poor the quality of the current and previous patch is.

The augmented Shire ring is also fucking trash with 59 parry.

Besides 3 dungeons per patch, in what way did ARR have more content?

I think the patches are fine. The problem is that people that spend too much time in this game put way too much expectations into everything. Like how an expansion is supposed to change literally EVERYTHING or how 1 patch is supposed to give them months worth of content without ever getting burned out doing it everyday.

>Samurai was not fun in FFXI
triggered.

Coil was god tier and relevant to the story so people liked doing it

>What was so much better about ARR
It's a combination of larger quantity of content, better sense of balance to encounter design and the game simply being fresh. Now they're just delivering the same shit, but worse and barely working.

>pay a sub specifically to avoid cash shop jew shit
>some how I'M the nigger

yeah ok kiddo

They frankly should've just delayed 3.55 as a whole until they fixed the Diadem rather than splitting it up.

Trials.

Nah, now the shitters can pay sub money to farm their animas

FFXIV cash shop isn't even close to jew territory. Nothing is pay 2 win.

Jew territory is this one korean MMO I play where they sell endgame equipment in the cash shop and you can buy in-game currency from the shop too.

should i resub to this or WoW

>pay a sub specifically to avoid cash shop jew shit

Lol where did you get this idea?

Cash shops have been common in MMOs for like 10 years now

Soon. It starts with jumping potion.

what's the FASTEST way to get crystal sand? besides crafting/gathering things

>having to fork over money for the death emote

Uninstalled.

it's either diablo grind or die
or
do nothing no content simulator

>next patch is going to shit out diadem right after the joke that proto ultima was

But hey we got 2 new cash shop emotes to make shitty meme screenshots with

level boost to skip 200 boring fetch quests to catch up with the main story isn't pay to win either. all you're doing is paying to skip a tutorial.

if i resub to ffxiv wouldn't i be doing alot because i would need to catch up?

leves

More like pay to skip the only part of the game that will keep you occupied for more than a few hours a week.

Leves.

What is the objectively best composition for 100+ Palace of the Dead? You'd obviously take a WAR and a SCH, but what DPS would you bring along?

Tell me about Diadem, I was unsubbed while it was implemented. I heard it was lucrative for gear, but the gear quality varied wildly - melee dps with spellspeed, parry, shit like that.

Was it active? Was it pug friendly? Was it fun? Hard? What did you do while you were in it?

2 single target dps.

There's a decent amount of content but it all has no longevity.
If you've been around long enough to reach the level cap you can blow through two year's worth of patch content in about 20-30 hours. That's really just not good enough when we're paying a monthly subscription.

PLDs are bretty gud on potd

thanks anons

oh yeah good point i guess i'll just wait a month before stormblood

I prefer paladins in POTD to tank due to being able to interrupt whenever they want. It's totally different 150+ where you are fighting large mobs only with attacks that can 1 shot

I've cleared floor 200 and I'd probably take bard and summoner simply for paean, extra rez and both being ranged.

monk sucks in potd
mch sucks in potd
drg and blm are alright but don't really bring utility
nin doesn't have elbow room to do rotation properly even on lower floors but can work overall

you have alex savage, PVP, lvling other clases, crafting, bird farming, relic weapon farming, etc etc, the game is pretty content heavy, granted, not everything is fun to do, but its unfair to say "lel nothing to do" just because you dont like it

>monk sucks in potd
>mch sucks in potd
Guess you only cleared it once or something.

It's not like there's any reason to go in again

when you consider that you pay $13 for 30 days of gametime and 1 hour of playtime = 1 dollar, it's a great deal.

most modern games today can be finished in under 8 hours

>MCH sucks
Are you retarded? Their CDs are so short, they can have them up almost every mob to burst them down.
>shitloads of CC, can choose stun/silence
>damage reducing actions
>more mobile in PotD which is 80% walking

MNK and DRG are both good. Only issue with MNK is that it can get pretty painful to play if your tank is really fucking slow.

HW was just ARR rehashed, only worse in almost every way.

>Reach 270 on my DRG
>Don't have 700 Accuracy
Hello darkness my old friend

I'm so sick of ARR designer and his butt capes fetish, it ruined enough outfits.

Proto sucks but the BRD ring was very much appreciated.

>Dungeon bosses are harder than Proto-Ultima

yes pay to skip to the boring end game instead of enjoying the story.
what you don't care about the story? then why aren't you playing WoW?

like half the point of playing XIV is because you like final fantasy and more than likely also enjoy their storylines.

people who only want to get to the end game where it's repetitive grind for gear are the reason mmos are so awful these days.

700 is for front, you only need something like 682 for flank iirc, that should be easy with food

Are you this mad someone insulted your precious video game?

I thought the DRG BiS was fucked for SkS not Acc?

I don't even give a shit about XIV's story or Final Fantasy at all. I play because their endgame raids are fun and I can play dress up. When I run out of shit to do, I unsub. That's that. I don't get people that have to stay committed to MMOs like it's some sort of job.

If I pull Alex all the way back to the wall in A12S puddle phase, will that put the puddles in the safe zone for Sacrament?

What the fuck is that hat?

nigga aurum vale a level 48 leveling dungeon is harder than these level 60 "expert" dungeons

even ravana story mode is harder than his extreme mode now.

Why am I not surprised that only absolute degenerates would be using this emote.

Those games are handcrafted experiences with extremely high novelty.
This is an MMO, so the cost:entertainment quality ratio is godawful despite how cheap it is.

No one teaches Alex/Ex primals because of lockouts, difficulty and the general stupidity of most players, and those other things do nothing besides earn you worthless money or glamour- nothing that strengthens your character in any meaningful or longterm fashion.

Nigga the content in this game is so diluted you can burn through everything that isn't a new raid tier in a week.

Also the last FF MMO that was made had huge changes that came along with it's expansions, so don't act like being at least on par with the previous games is asking for too much, which it clearly is for this incompetent company.

>pay 7 dollarydoos to get the full DRG experience!

>Those games are handcrafted experiences with extremely high novelty.
this is highly subjective

>Say there's a battle system revamp coming
>It's actually a dumbing down
>It's still 2.5s GCD

Unsubbed the moment I heard that.

MCH and DRG probably, so the MCH gets piercing and the DRG gets hypercharge.

MORE PARRY GEAR FOR TANKS

Fuck you Yoshi, I'm going to cut your dick off.

>2.1 adds 4 trials
>2.2 adds 3 trials
>3.5 adds 1 trial

I wonder why FFXIV is bleeding subs

The armor design in HW has been truly awful.

Some standout sets sure, but mostly total shit.

Maybe this week you'll be lucky with your lines!

>comparing fresh out of the gate against towards the end of an expansion

Really activates the almonds

Plus ARR had nothing like Diadem so the trial count meme only goes so far as far as development time.

I finally got dress-up Alisaie, now for Estinien.

How big of a cuck am I right now?