Valentione Day descends on Eorzea again and we give our honest review of this year’s Valentione’s Day. And the Xbox Open Beta seems not so open after all – and the more we read about the upcoming Xbox version of FFXIV, the worse it gets. We also discuss the grim future of relic weapons and more!
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00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:31 – Welcome
00:04:12 – RE: Maintenance
00:08:22 – RE: Xbox Beta Scandal
00:25:23 – Marker 5
00:32:46 – RE: Valentione Memories Sweepstakes
00:35:41 – MogMail: Dawntrail Split
00:43:37 – MogMail: The Future of Relic
01:01:48 – Valentione’s Day Review
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What gets me is that the Xbox Live sub requirement is what killed the Xbox version way back in like, 1.0/2.0 era. SE and Microsoft disagreed over this requirement because SE wanted the same deal as they had when FF11 came out on the 360 and Microsoft wouldn't allow it (their reasoning for 11 was that they wanted more users on Xbox Live at the time). It's still dumb though. We're not using MS servers, so just why beyond being greedy? I did want the Xbox version (no PS5 and allows me to use my laptop separately from the game itself), and I do have Game Pass already, but still. Just dumb.
I have exactly 1 friend who actually has an xbox in my main play group and he just sorta shrugged and went "my household already has the xbox live and uses it, if [person he wants to invite] plays they can just use the free trial version, i'm happy on my pc" and i feel like that's gonna be a lot of people's reactions as exiting players.
If nothing else it's a great advert for the trial version on its own, especially for players who might not have or be able to keep the xbox subscription long term.
Personally I'm appalled by the greed on display on Microsoft's end and feel like it should be causing a bigger stink than it is, but I've got no real stake here as a ps player.
I do think it's even funnier now that someone played the boss fight music when the Microsoft guy came out on stage at Vegas fanfest. Very on point, even if it was a coincidence.
I'm doing every single relic right now and Anima is still my favorite (for aesthetics and grind), after the first one it's very easy to just gather all the items you need over time and turn it all in but it's still broken up by dungeons and the light step so it's still an actual grind without being a hellish slog that makes me want to cry like Pagos and Zodiac's Atma step and the knowledge that I still have 90 Timeworn Artifacts I need to get.
Personally I'd love more real relics, I'm very much hoping we get something good in DT with the field operation zone but for the love of Hydaelyn and her bountiful bosom; *make. the raid(s). optional.*
Stop funneling a bunch of people who barely know what a stack marker is into content where they need to know right from left and how to read a big ass hot/cold marker above their head and be able to figure out the obtuse essence/action system.
And if they're not optional, make it more like Hydatos where the whole zone is rewarded somehow when the raid is run!
I remember late ShB instances refusing to run Dal because it wasn't a good enough investment for the mettle, anyone working on honors (esp for the title) had no reason to go in once they got what they needed out of it.
And absolutely fully agree that the first field operation relic needs to be entirely within the content with optional outside content afterwards, it's excellent future proofing because it should be faster to just be in the field operation content but if that content dies off/server is dead/etc. someone can just go hit some FATEs for a slightly lower drop chance.
Fingers crossed we get a ShB/EW fate step though. I want an excuse to also farm bicolors with a relic.
don't most people with xbox have xbox live? Aren't almost all their games requiring it? seems a moot point
Was thinking of getting a low-end Xbox when my PS4 craps out or when PS4 support ends, instead of a PS5 cause of the lower price point, but yeah, absolutely not…
Xbox, as a console in the US at least, seems to be an option for folks who want to play MS ecosystem games, and can't afford/don't want to shell out for a gaming PC. Which is a not insignificant market. I'm completely unaware of any XBX/S exclusives that are not also on PC on the MS Store at minimum.
Anyone who thought they wouldn’t need GamePass is a fool. Making a big deal out of this is just silly. Even games like CoD these days require GamePass even though they have to buy the game + season passes.
My brother doesn’t have a PC or PS5, already has an XboxX and GamePass and is planning to play the trial. He isn’t bothered by anything in the beta post.
"Another think coming" is very doctor seuss.
For some reason I decided to read the comments before even starting the video, and I feel like a lot of people don't understand the idea that needing Game Pass or whatever to play is such an unnecessary requirement, regardless if so many people already have it, especially since you don't need PS+ for PlayStation. It's just plain greedy on Microsoft's end. And then you don't need it for the free trial? I didn't remember that part, and that makes it even worse.
Something to consider, Square Enix has NOTHING to do with Game Pass, Microsoft requires Xbox players to have Game Pass/Live to access online features. Square Enix are not the 'bad guys' here
42:20 i wonder if there will be something about Eureka's origin in the New World, since i believe it predates the allagans and they just found it and used it for making shit like Ozma and Zantetsuken
Honestly wish House Valentione is a Gridanian house instead of Ishgard’s. Still think it’s strange that we have two whole holidays that come from Ishgard yet they don’t celebrate it in city themselves.