Lokidum is quitting FFXIV, and this actually lead into a very interesting discussion on the topic of content creation.
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I am so tired of all these people who watched Game of thrones once and suddenly think killing important characters left and right makes a story good. It doesn't, when you start doing that each death has less weight and value to it making you dull to it, deaths in expansions like Heavensward feel not as stand out when you just murder people left and right. Endwalker was amazing and honestly was pretty near perfect for an expansion story. People are hating on it for no real reasons and they need to cut it out.
I didn't even start playing video games as my main hobby until college/post-college. Thank god, because if I had gotten into it in high school, I wouldn't have gotten anything done.
I too quit FFXIV. Because I am a busy person and can afford to take breaks from FFXIV instead of mindlessly log in to everyday. But I'm coming back for the Pumpkin Cookie emote.
I feel like all you tubers try to tell us that this job is more mentally taxing than any job that's "normal" my job stops technically speaking. However it doesn't stop in my brain. I think about it, how I did, how tomorrow's gonna be. Don't dimish people with normal jobs, they're tough, too.
Why do you think I came here, to begin with xd? To listen to you guys talk shit on Blizzard kek. I enjoy most of your content now though.
Most people are still thinking about work when they get home though. What happened today, what needs to be done tomorrow or during the week. Some poor folks end up still taking calls & writing emails off the clock at home. No matter what you do it’s not a simple thing to just 100% forget about it.
I also agree that when YouTube is your job it's different for sure but ultimately that's a choice that was made & like everything it has it's own pros & cons.
Ah, how it feels to be young again. I've played FF14 for 9 years now. I went from a college student balancing shit ton of assignments/projects while also raiding in ff14 to now a 32yrs old salaryman while also taking night classes. This isn't about the game, it's about him sucking at balancing his life. But I don't blame him, it's what all teenagers have to go through eventually.
Yep, we all go thru it. I did with FF11 online back in 2006. The only gripe I have his click bait title. He could have titled it with any MMORPG or gaming in general. Personally, my title would have been "Adulthood"
This kid is trying hard to be funny and witty and it’s failing hard. It almost comes off as resentful tbh. Kinda just sounds like he’s bitter FF14 didn’t blow up his channel the way he wanted and he had to accept reality.
If he was getting the viewership and numbers he wanted, he probably wouldn’t have quit. He’s trying hard to hide how bitter he is but it’s there.
So many people mad at someone not playing FF anymore lmao.
How dare he not toe the line with FFIV best game ever smh
It is 11/10 for story. Endwalker is the best thing I ever played story wise.
Here’s my thoughts in the whole SB and EW comparisons.
Putting aside the subjective biases people have for one or the other, but I see a lot of people who compare SB to EW they take the entirety of SB plus the subsequent SB patches and compare it to just EW who as of right now only has had one story patch.
So the way I see it they are comparing and entire expansion and it’s patches to just the base EW expansion.
Comparing a full and complete expansion (SB) to an expansion in progress (EW) and declaring the complete one overall better is not exactly a one to one comparison.
A better comparison would be SB 5.0 to EW 6.0, and for me EW pulls ahead. It’s the culmination of the Hydalin/Zodiarc saga that takes the previous expansions and wraps it up well, even better if you e done everything in the previous expansions and that effort is reflected at the end of EW with I guess you could call Easter eggs or cameos.
Not to mention that EW takes some inspiration from Berserk and that alone for me makes it no contest which of the two expansion is better.
But that’s just me and my opinion on the two. You really can’t go wrong with either one, but EW is my winner.
Lol sounded wahwahwah and end up with not really quitting the game 😂kids this days 😵💫🥱
Who?
Tbh I’ve sunk in over 2000 hours into FFXIV and I still don’t really enjoy the combat as much as I do in like WoW or GW2. That and the open-world content. If I were to quit FFXIV for another game, it would be a game that’s very strong in those two areas.
I think Yoshi-P would honestly applaud the kid. He made a choice with his health in mind first.
You can no-life any game, including FFXIV. It sounds like he's making a smart choice to play it more casually.
Honestly whither you loved Endwalker's story or hate it is really up to your personal preference. I personally prefer the outcome we got at least when compared to what some people(Lokidum included) have suggested would have made the story better. Not gonna say it here in the comments to avoid spoilers but I just feel an ending like that would have just been a cheap way for a writer to get a huge emotional response out of their audience but that's just how I feel about it personally. I've read a couple book series that have gone that route and just soured it immensely for me and ended up never finishing those series to this day. Maybe Ishikawa could have pulled it off gracefully but I have my doubts.
Pandemic hit right at the end of my college schooling. Manage to graduate remotely successfully – and haven't found a job in my field since. It's royally screwed my life for the past 2-3 years
41 minutes… Can we get a TLDR?
Atleast he didn’t lost a lot of money into Gacha Genshin Impact like many others
I'm all in for the idea of taking a break. I was playing untill i hit early endwalker content, but ended up stoping for a while. But i look forward to come back to see what endwalker is all about later when my game backlog softens up a bit
For me shadowbringers was great cause it was good almost on its own
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endwalker is best because of everything that has come before ew is basically seasoning
I said the same thing on Brian's reaction video.
I disagree with large swaths of this video for numerous reasons, the biggest one being this: he’s a kid. I don’t take too much of what he says as serious because he’s extremely young and clearly doesn’t know how life works. For example, in the beginning segment, he talks a lot about how COVID, and school being canceled was a huge determining factor in driving him to FFXIV and consuming a lot of his time, money, and attention. My question is, where were his parents in all of this? I get he is 17, but for 2 years it sounds like they had 0 impact on his life. I am NOT saying they needed to control him, I am saying they should have been guiding him. Look, COVID and the lockdowns threw everyone through a loop, but family is family and his folks should have been a lifeline and continued to offer advice, mentorship, and community to him. If he spent all this time being a content creator and on FFXIV, they should have taken an interest. If he burned all his savings doing this, they should have taken notice, he is a minor.
Next, his burn out on FFXIV seems more akin to external factors more than FFXIV itself and his first two points highlight this. His point that the “Nothingness of Endwalker” seems to come from he was experiencing burnout from being too unrealistic about his content creation, and the toll of COVID lockdowns. Again, the fact that he’s a kid and doesn’t have a lot of life experience and self-awareness (and this is NOT a dig by the way, it’s just a fact, he is young, youth lacks self awareness no matter how mature they are). He meandered through the post-Endwalker content because he was too concerned with content creation, he was so absorbed with FFXIV because of COVID and not doing anything else, it’s not a fault of FFXIV (I heartily disagree with his OPINION about the Ultima Thule story content btw, he can have his opinions and feelings, that’s fine, but they aren’t factual).
What I largely get from this video is this kid leaving FFXIV is it’s all on him, NOT FFXIV. And I admit I have issues with content in FFXIV. I am currently on break myself. I am NOT part of the FFXIV defense force. I personally think FFXIV needs to address the addon issue better. But in regards to what I am hearing from this kid, his leaving FFXIV is all about his issues with not handling COVID well (which I attribute more to his parents because he is a minor and his guardians didn’t do their parental duty better to handle the situation in a better way) and diving way too hard into content creation and all in all not recognizing these burn out issues. Instead, I hear him deflecting these issues back onto content issues with FFXIV. I do think criticism against FFXIV is fair, but this video is from a kid who doesn’t understand life yet. I hope he eventually learns and reflects on these things more though.
What's the point of playing ffxiv when most of my friends became distant because of statics?
What's that? life is hard no matter which direction you take? color me shocked!
But in all seriousness, there's a reason why I refuse to do content creation as a primary, or even a secondary job. You ARE better off doing whatever the fuck you want, but it wont make you successful unless what your doing becomes lightening. There is more than enough games on this planet to last you more than a life time. So choose the games that interest you the most. Sticking to one main game just sounds pretty dull and stale of a life to live. Even if you're going into speed running and Esports Territory. However, it is up to you to decide when chapters of you life end, and when a new one begins. Life is a journey after all.
I have no idea who this kid is.
Endwalker was pretty good. I liked the last battle, and there were points in the beginning and middle that I thought were great. But for me, about half of the expansion story was a miss. I enjoyed it more than HW or SB as a whole, but it doesn't even hold a candle to Shadowbringers for me. And that's fine. When you experience a 10/10 story (which in my opinion the 5.0 and 5.3 stories were) then you have to be prepared to follow it up with a 7-8/10 and be OK with that. Every sequel and expansion can't be as good as the best thing a series ever did. And just because the ideas they were playing around with didn't resonate with me doesn't mean they were good for other people, or stories worth telling.
I think Endwalker wrapped up the story well enough, and I'm enjoying the post patch stories. I don't expect 7.0 to be as good as Shadowbringers either, but as long as it's another solid experience, then it can lay the groundwork for 8.0 or 9.0 to try and reach those heights again.
What surprises me is how no one figured out that covid was just one big con for govts to get more power and in my country the US' case print over 3 trillion dollars in 3 months during the peak of c0n19.
zenos end fight should have been harder. Other than that, i like the whole 6.0 ending chapter.
yeah dood been playing ffxiv since 2015 (7years) the ending of endwalker knowing its the ending of the saga of the OG based story is freaking sad man… gonna be real too i put tears in my eyes as well… FFXIV is that special.
i make videos whenever and whatever and i dont care if its get much views.. i do it to just release my thoughts out and its there if others want to watch it.. it's that simple.
Lord I left after getting to 30 at the launch of arr and getting to 30 again back to storm blood. I came back during the wow exodus. This is a game you can do that and not feel cheated or behind.
I don't know what it is but I had a very difficult time taking this kid terribly seriously. Maybe I'm just getting old but I was constantly in my own head thinking how the things he was talking weren't terribly serious or even aberrant for children period albeit I acknowledge the pandemic likely made these things more serious and detrimental but I have a nephew that is younger than he was and was super addicted to Fort Nite but was still doing school and honestly it didn't even feel like most places ACTUALLY shut schools down for any lengthy period of time beyond the bounds of Summer Break. I don't know, maybe that's anectodal and I'm just being an old bastard but I struggled to take this all as seriously, not in that it wasn't stuff that is worthy of discussion and acknowledging the negative impacts but paired with the highly melodramatic theme of this I felt it was played up. But then again he's a kid so something like this could very well seem like a life changing ordeal so yeah, especially if he is from a more sheltered middle class upbringing like I was where you don't really experience the breadth of the world so much as little snap shots. I don't know, I'm curious if anyone else felt like this was made a little more dramatic than was warranted or I'm off base with this.
That said… as someone with autism I kinda resent the 'oh I got it better because when you get home you can kick off your boots and forget work' because that is very much not how it happens. The first thing that goes through my head when I get home is, "How much time do I have before I have to go back to work?" "What do I do with my time to make the most of it and do the things I want before I have to go back?" "Should I take a shower now, that will take me about a half hour, or wait until later?" I obsess about trying to manage my time the most effectively that I can to be able to make the most of my time before I have to go back in to work. I constantly analyze my performance at work and anything that happened there. Anxiety about a new boss coming in and worrying if he's going to change my schedule to something that is going to work worse for me, whether by cutting my hours, shifting them and jumbling them around so I never know what days I am going to work the next week generating further anxiety and discomfort with me, being more critical and demanding of me, whether they will take my condition seriously or treat it as excuse, etc. And not just with a new boss but I get paranoid about all these with even my regular boss or other co-workers around me.
I don't believe the, 'pop in the front door and forget about work' statement translates to reality for most workers otherwise burnout would not be such a massive issue in the workforce and we'd never have had the 'Great Resignation' during the pandemic that shook up many industries, particularly retail. And as someone with a neurological disorder like mine it is often very difficult for me to keep work out of my head, my only escape being video games where I can immerse myself in a world outside of my own. People are not infants that have yet to establish object permanence and instantly forget work the second they cross the threshold. And sometimes you don't get to get off at 5, sometimes you have to stay until 10. When I worked night crew I regularly had to work past my hours and I'd get called in too. This was a very disingenuous painting of physical employment and while I understand Youtube has its own unique challenges and causes some of these problems ALL WORKERS have to be more pronounced it also lacks the problems of being forcibly dragged to work, dragged to work overtime for 5 days a week with back breaking labor and dealing with asshole bosses or shitty, lazy co-workers that put all their work off on to you and you have to do it regardless because your crew gets punished as a whole, not on an individual basis. So please don't downplay how mentally exhausting and damaging physical employment can be even on an entry level, especially for those of us with disabilities because this shit isn't easy.
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