Viewers of my stream asked me to watch and give my thoughts on ZeplaHQ’s video about how FFXIV Endwalker is the worst FFXIV Expansion to date. Having been excommunicated from the FF14 community myself, I know she walks on dangerous ground saying anything negative about this game. Anyway, here is what I thought… not that it matters.
OG Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3fwXgcZvjQ
My MMO Video I reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdljXQOFESk&
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I've got crystal rank on crystal conflict. The tickrate is ass, which is a shame because I do enjoy the game mode. It also sucks that if you wait too long when a new season starts that queueing into a match basically becomes impossible. I love getting unique rewards for getting a higher rank, it feels somewhat worthwhile in the content draught that the game is experiencing right now. The new glam for the raids that are out right now suck, there is no ultimate coming out so there's no need to get it if you just need the stats, and there's nothing worthwhile to grind. It sucks man, it sucks.
Its a bit tinfoil hat to say it but part of me wonders if they know they've got people keeping their subs active because they don't want to lose their houses for when the game actually gets good again, so people actually logging in doesn't matter anymore. They're making money off subs either way.
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Edit; you are the only gil-poor player I know of in ffxiv so I only agree with 99.7% of what you had to say 😄
great video, i've listened to the zepla vid like 5 times because it's so funny and gratifying to hear the diehard ff14ers finally complaining about what you and others have for years
also is this you skateboarding: https://youtu.be/K_LDeZrH6u0?t=7m9s
are your sunglasses expensive they look cool
How to save FF14
Put Blitzball and a Red District to ERP
I think you nailed it at the 5:20 mark when you said the endgame entirely needs redesigned. I've felt the same way for years (probably as far back as the Stormblood era as that's when I started raiding in earnest) even though I still enjoyed it through Shadowbringers, but I attribute a lot of that to having a good group to run with.
People are growing tired of the endgame process as a whole. Both with encounter design becoming very samey and with the gearing process itself.
There's only so many ways you can organize variations of stack, spread, mitigate, heal into a new raid encounter and we've been doing the same gear treadmill since ARR. That's an entire decade of the exact same gearing process every 8 or so months and we get 4 new fights filled with mechanincs we've already seen dozens of times elsewhere.
The average player is starting to feel fatigue and the average user comments presented in the and they also lack a degree of self-awareness (that I assume the average person who frequents your channel would have) to be able to formulate a solid explanation for the unease they are feeling.
An annecdotal observation I've made over the last few weeks is that while leaving my game on in the background during work I am almost always the only person in my FC online throughout the entirity of the day. People are not logging in for fun anymore and it's a more severe case than a post patch content lull. I wouldn't call it a crisis yet but Squeenix needs to do more than just release a new expansion next year or player retention will plummit once people have finished MSQ.
Have u played warframe?
Bro I went back and started playing on the HorizonXI server for Final Fantasy XI and jesus tap dancing christ its like such a noticeable difference. FFXIV has been in this bad of shape in a while and the fact that they are just giving us shit after Yoshi P and SE saying that they "will spare no expense" is fuckin dog shit.