It’s 2025 and the Speakers are back again to update you on all the latest news from the FFXIV community. We discuss the recent Lucky Bancho numbers, showing a worrying trend and indicating that FFXIV is experiencing negative growth in its player numbers. What gives? And how can it be remedied? We also discuss and review Heavensturn for 2025, and an interesting interview with FFXIV’s battle director. And of course, we read some MogMail! Welcome back everyone!
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00:00:00 – Intro
00:00:52 – Welcome
00:03:36 – RE: Yoshi-P New Year’s Message
00:11:07 – RE: Heavensturn Review
00:19:23 – RE: Dawntrail EP4
00:21:44 – RE: Interview With Battle Director
00:35:07 – MogMail: Ascian Involvement In MSQ?
00:49:14 – FFXIV Player Numbers Dwindling
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Its pretty insane that they back logged all of the casual content for raids so far. Like you guys said, releasing the relic early would go a long way to give players something to do every day.
I definitely feel the effects of the content release, i mean im still logging in to level jobs and maybe do something i hadn't for an hour but move on. Only thing for current content is if my fc wants to run something and im there, otherwise i do my dalies and go play ither stuff…
… just play other games… or go outside or whore out… there is so much content… what's the percentage of players complaining there isn't anything to do who completed everything?
Maela instantly honing on to that Chinese Mobile Game like a hawk.
If I didn't have a house I would cancel my sub until the next big patch
hMm, Do yOU gUyS pLAy thE gAmE?1?!
auracite was used to trap ascian souls before they escape. and then we used blade of light to crush white auracite with ascian soul inside.
Hades was different where we couldn't trap him but the sheer amount of light we gathered was enough to destroy his soul.
frankly as someone who's done damn near every piece of content i think more people should try stuff they haven't–Diadem is surprisingly relaxing and DoL/H relics aren't as hard as they seem
BUT it's entirely valid and reasonable to only like specific sections of content and be frustrated when the whole current content offering being raids, FATEs, and things that take about 10 minutes a day to do and none of the stuff you're interested in.
unsurprising that numbers are dropping, i hope the patches can right the ship, but it really fucking sucks that it's going to take that long. really, really hope they're able to take the criticism to heart for 8.0 and start the damn relic earlier, at the bare minimum.
Only two patches in 2025 is… unfortunate and disappointing. They apologetically went from 3.5 month intervals to 4 months when Endwalker came out. Then after Dawntrail they snuck in yet another two weeks to 4.5 months. Something is clearly going on behind the scenes and yet another project feels like it's devouring the team's time.
Dawntrail is a continuing disappointment. 9 months from release before even a chance at casual content and then only one additional patch for the entire calendar year? Unacceptable.
As far as the appearance of the new Sphene, I am leaning toward Ascian as well. They are souls without bodies by nature. It's entirely possible they are living inside the computer system of Solution 9/Living Memory and controlling things from within. The whole soul economy system, was probably keeping them alive and now that the system is offline, they've come out to try to get more souls for sustenance. They are a ghost in the machine, hence the static in the panel.
The Sphene is Living Memory that we saw in the end scene is likely the real Sphene who has in stasis and is severely aether sick.
It's insane to me that they didn't reevaluate their priorities as far as what to release when in the patch cycle when they extended the time between patches. I am positive if Cosmic Exploration or Not the Bermuda Triangle released in 7.1 people would … well, be whining about something else, I'm sure, but I think it wouldn't feel so empty as far as shit to do goes.
About that Sfffeeen theory. Here is my cook.
Azem key/cup extracted her soul bit during our msq fight and resurected her (using ancent magics) just like Emet managed to rez Ysthola in shadowbringers. (This explains the key/cups glow and sucking something out of the giant Sfffeeen robot)
The evil Sfffeeen in solution 9 is the "system" ai bit left or an attempt to reconstruct her from what date was left in solution 9.
The Ai bit is focused on her task of preservatio. While the soult bit had the kindness. Now that the soul bit is missing we got evil Ai Sffeeen
Square isn't developing the mobile game.
Some new things that the game might benefit from:
1. Final Fantasy XIV/ A Realm Reborn lines redubbed with the new VA's (Especially since it sounds like they've done this for the mobile port
2. Wuk Lamat as much of a character as the scions instead of having the game treat her as the MC. I mean, that's the same logic as if they gave Crystal Exarch/ G'raha the most lines in Shadowbringers or Lyse the most lines in Stormblood
3. More details on Beasttamer
4. Cheaper housing (It's hard working on both your character and raising the gil for an estate)
5. More inventory space (Thanks to having each class unlocked, it's hard to micromanage)
Maybe because they constantly make the gameplay worse expansion by expansion to the point even Warframe is more fun than FFXIV dungeons.
That's how far the bar has fallen.
If Teeshal Ja is still alive, why would she abandon Gulool Ja?
Baby mamool ja needs a big childrens font on his ipad, for the new years message
theres a retainer bell, glam dresser and armoire innevery inn.
anyway i had a bunch of fun completing the glam sets i had parts of, collecting the easy ones to get, crafting the easy ones to craft, and saved maybe about 50 slots in the end (and got a couple of sets i had none of before!). but if nothing else, please take your dozen or so emperor’s new gearpieces and combine a dozen items into one slot!
We definitely should have got the Space Exploration in 7.1, it's mind boggling that we didn't. Sure, Island Sanctuary didn't come until 6.2, but we got the Ishgard Restoration in 5.11…so it was feasible, it just didn't happen.