Was I RIGHT about Endwalker? YoshiP BRUTALLY HONEST about FFXIV
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Constructive criticism is the catalyst to growth and improvement. Being a blind fanboy doesn't help anyone.
Agreed, but the comments on this very video also have haters genuinely calling for YoshiP to be fired. That definitely isn't helpful either. Both sides need to be shut down as they both will try to ruin the game for their own delusions.
@@whisperingshadowXI Bruh
1) That's *Counterproductive*
2) You just *Contradicted* Yourself.
Says the Zepla fanboys 😂😂😂
if you really love something, your relationship can survive honesty
@@adam.maqavoy @adam.maqavoy How is telling people that blindly love/hate the game to shut the fuck up so we can have constructive dialogue counterproductive?
You do know you can enjoy a game without being a fanboy and criticize a game without being a hater, right? People are more complex than just being one extreme or another. And trying to impose otherwise is why we're in this mess in the first place (ironic because it was exactly this type of bullshit that the FFXIV story is always warning about lmao).
"How do you have fun without holes?" 😂
Based. Truth.
I don't get the joke, also I'm an incel
Competitive spirit and being passionate is not the same as being toxic :)
Hehehehehe :- P
I felt that
I just hope people don't mistake grindy for hard. Especially when it comes to the relics, I think bozja level of engagement is fine. Just don't go back to "light" grind.
I just wish, that for relics grind you did 1 time for your main weapon that is hard and after that is just super easy and not time consuming to get the other ones. Just my opinion.
I also don't want to mistake grindy for engaging - grinds can be engaging (bozja). I also do not want to go back to the light grind, whether in Eureka, HW or ARR. Imho if there is a piece of content I can just turn up to and work on multiple different things at once that isn't so hard that I need a dedicated group and a schedule to prog.
If you think "wow, you're describing bozja"
Yes
Yes I am.
@@juan-ij6xj thats just what shb did with the 'one time grind' which was a terrible idea
Lmfao apologies to healers... I don't even remember any stress in the vault healing cause of what happened right after. 😂
Imagine being a sprout healer back then having to go through healing that dungeon only to get hit with the emotional nuke in the following cutscene immediately after 😭
There should have been a part where, if you were a healer, you tried to heal him but the wound was too deep and your magic wasn't strong enough for it at the time.
I healed the vault in stormblood and I remember that being a VERY stressful experience, we wiped multiple times to the wizard asshole (forget his name).
I was a healer main, who did the original Vault. It was hard, and stressful. I loved every fucking minute of it. I really hope we get experiences like that again.
:o What happened to the vault? nerfed?
I also loved every hard dungeon. It was.. hard.. as a healer..
It was the time where tank will pull one batch first to test the healer skills, before deciding to wall to wall pull.
@@VentusLionheart definitely seemed like it when I played it recently. Seemed they had changed some of the mechanics to make it easier.
I also remembered liking the Vault for the same reason. Seeing my tank suddenly die when I'd gotten used to only half paying attention in a few of the previous dungeons gave me a bit of a jolt that made me want to be better at healing. I generally don't need half my buttons in some of the current dungeon content. Not saying we have to make things hard again just ways they can be more engaging.
The vault was the first healer gear and skill check. But, it was also a tank gear check.
It was easy if gear was up to date. It was a mess if the healer didn't have good gear or, universe forbid, didn't do their job quests.
The devs know what the community is talking about. They might not be responding to every hot topic on Twitter, but I think it's clear they are very aware of the perceived problems with the game. That's why it's important to keep pushing your honest opinions out there.
I've seen cases of games omitting certain mechanics and the like in their sequels because they didn't get much feedback on them even though people liked them. Then they're baffled when fans ask them to do something similar again. Yeah, it's good to criticize the bad but definitely highlight what you like as well so devs know when they're on the right track.
They seem to not the thing they add will not benefit casuals and solo players
they generally only look at the JP side, EU/NA gets usually ignored completely.
unfortunately no the developers only learn about things from interviews which are screened in advanced by the shitty suits who run things behind scenes which is why its so important to have player surveys and player interviews not sponsored by Square F*ing Enix cause their PR is going to nuke any such constructive or critical feedback to make the game better in the long run for everyone involved
what we are seeing now is that FINALLY our voices are starting to pierce thru the bullshit but honestly its probably too late they've lost alot of people already some might come back but they wont stay long if the developers can't prove to them they are capable of actually listening an pushing for improvements in the way they handle gameplay, story telling, quality control and rewards.
i know alot of people who are bitter an resentful towards Square Enix for allowing things to drag out this long it really feels like a slap in the face for all those who stuck out with ffxiv this entire time and some even say "WHY NOW?!" and why not 5 even 8 years ago!?" either way i think those with betrayed expectations are due an explanation and maybe even a bit of an public apology or at least acknowledgement that their extremely long service of support toward the game has not gone unnoticed similar to how the 1.x players(legacy) where personally acknowledged by all of the staff at CBU 3 an even the company president apologized for the disaster it caused.
and for alot of these players they look at Dawntrail as being the last straw as well so this expansion could be the most important one of all as this is going to set a precedent going forward.
Honestly rn, playing healer is like listening to tape that says press the damage button on repeat for 8 minutes straight. Like there's so many aoes that don't do enough to beat the passive hps.
some of the most fun ive had in game is watching everyone wipe in bozja and zadnor. seeing everyone die to red chocobo always brings a smile to my face
thats how I felt when eureka first came out, everyone was getting oneshotted just from walking past the mobs and it was hilarious 😂 So chaotically fun
8:00 Truest statement there's ever been about game dev. You're gonna lose some fans depending on whatever direction you take, easier, harder, keep it the same, folks are gonna be madge. The key is to make sure you are making the game _you_ want to make so that your passion can carry you to good execution.
Sounds to me like YoshiP wants it to be a bit harder and, I have to think, a lot of fans are gonna go along with him. Further, it'll prolly bring more fans to the game. It'll prolly lose some folks as well but...what exactly are you supposed to do? Just staying the same will lose people as well so....
There's no winning, just do what you want YoshiP, make the best game you can to your satisfaction 😊
This is probably the most mature response in these comments.
True!! I think another good thing to point out that while he did say the content was too easy and they're going to make it where players have to think and strategize more, he also said they are going to keep developing the solo content and with their current new goals for large scale, more strategized content, they are still going to be updating and working on the solo content (like the variant dungeons) for more of the solo/casual players as well.
I really admire YoshiP and have immense respect for him as a game designer, you really can't make a game for everyone, but it is clear that he sees every type of player in his game - casuals, hardcore, midcore, crafters, people who're just there for the story, levelers, etc etc. What makes him so great is that he not only sees, but acknowledges, the different players that play FFXIV and he wants to make content that engages everybody but in their own different ways. Watching him explain the timeline of development and their different focuses they had for each expansion just really shows how much he listens to his player audience and cares for not only the game, but for them, for us.
All in all, I think its so cool that YoshiP is constantly driving and pushing himself and his team to try different things, to find what works, what doesn't, and if they make mistakes along the way then they'll learn from that and know what to do right. Seeing you talk about that made me so excited and I just had to rant about this for a sec cause seeing YoshiP actually care about his players, and all of his players, is really incredible and admirable to me
Two developer who put their heart into game YoshiP and Murray(NMS).
I'll be honest, with games like Elden Ring, Cyberpunk, etc, it won't matter how good the game is without extensive visual overhauls. Gameplay is number 1 but I don't have a 4090 to play pong. MMOs are notorious for being YEARS behind visually and there isn't anything that can bring some of us back to extremely visually dated games.
There's so many things to do that unless you get tunnel vision into "no, no, I MUST pass this step or my life is ruined!!!", the existence of harder parts isn't a game stopper.
It's interesting you mention the Vault. That one killed me the first several times and I remember it being the first dungeon that gave me a real sense of satisfaction when I figured it out. I loved it so much that, when I got to the next expansion, I used the Vault as the dungeon I'd go back to to farm (unsynced, to be clear). Just love it now, I doubt I'd feel that way if it'd been easy.
god it was worse back in the day, tanks that didnt use tank stance took more damage and even good healers could have a rough time with that.
i NEED more stress as healer. I just dont feel any challenge of that my helas are even needed most of the time
Agreed. If I'm being honest, I'd prefer to just be healing and remove the DPS requirement. I'm not saying take away damaging abilities. Just that the #1 thing a healer should be doing is healing and healing because it's actually needed. In a good group a healer is so dull to play because you're mostly spamming the 1-2 damage spells you have and sometimes tossing out a heal.
I do my expert roulette as a healer for fast queues and I think 90% of my time is spent glaring at the enemy really hard. At least 5% of the rest is running from point to point. The rest is hitting Dia every 30 secs, Holy spam for packs and maybe 1% is OCGD heals?
if you're actually geared as a healer it's even worse. Not only do you never have a reason during fights to ever use a GCD. You don't even have to use half of your oGcd's. And in casual content cuz of this you often endup in top 3 in dps lol
Mentor roulette is stressful as Healer. Gotta do all the mechanics while raising three sprouts who stand in every mechanic.
You'll be managing 100 things at a time, carrying 3 corpses to victory.
Nowadays even if the healer k.o.ed during a boss fight in a dungeon, seldom we get a reset because the tank and the dps can just heal themselves up no problem lol... I hope healers are actually needed again in DT
Aurum Vale vanilla, back in the days, no AOE markers, the fruits, dots ticking and me as a noob sprout white mage…that was something I will never forget.
yesss
And it was better that way
Never forget
Git gud!
You also got extra experience if you cleared everything.
Now you only get the punishment, no extra experience.
"How do you have fun without holes?" - Zepla, 3/26/2024
I've been playing 14 since 1.0. Watched "Dad of Light" in the past week with my girlfriend and really enjoyed it, and explained to her how it felt to fight Twintania for the first time. I'm realizing that besides a few savages from deltascape, I haven't been super invested in a fight like that in quite a long time.
The problem is the fact that these duties get done repeatedly.
Any duty or battle in XIV will be exciting the first or maybe even first couple of times you do it, but when you do it repeatedly for things like roulettes, high-end prog, or farming for mounts or glams, any duty no matter how exciting, is going to get boring and mundane at some point or another. That threshold may differ by the person and by the duty, but it exists at some point for every person and every piece of content in the game.
Yoshi-P could craft the most exciting, thrilling fight anyone's seen in any game ever, but once you've done it 100 times, no matter what it is, it's not going to be as exciting the 100th time.
On top of this they've imposed the challenge of finding a way to make new duties more fun, not boring, but also not more difficult. This narrows down even further the possibilities of what they could possibly come up with.
I look forward to seeing how they could possibly imagine remedying this when it seems conceptually not feasible.
I agree with this but tbf let’s take Alliance raids for example. The old Stormblood and Shadowbringers to this day at least hold up well. Compare this to the new Thaleia one where it was mundane and boring on the 2nd attempt for many, hell the first for me. Fact is most new duties (EW) are just that boring compared to their old counterparts.
The problem is the queue constantly puts us in the same dungeons.. I've done the alexander raid more times than I can count. the one time every month I get something thats not from ARR or HS I get super excited.
I often don't like to engage in extreme content because of my anxiety, but I do love challenges! The most fun I've had in the game has been trying to figure out a new fight and dying a lot with everyone else 😂😂 Baldesion Arsenal, Castrum lacus litore, etc were amazing memories because of this.
I genuinely believe Yoshi P really does want to provide a game for all gamers. regardless of how you play. and even if you aren't originally a fan of Final Fantasy in the first place. and that is no simple task.
I think he's done a great job so far as well!
As any logical gamer would think: "Level 100 content should feel like level 100 content." Not level 60, 70, 80, or even 90. Leveling up means you are progressing to bigger challenges, and not the opposite.
maybe improving challenges would be helped if they actually added some modern practice modes instead of always expecting players to learn in the actual duty. give sprouts/etc actual rewords for doing well in practice sessions and everyone gets better at the game.
Or at least equal challenges. There are times where an inverse difficulty curve can work but an MMO isn't one of them.
Not really, no. In RPGs, levels are a storytelling device more often than a difficulty device. Generally, the intro to the game is easier, but then it reaches a plateau and the rest is more for story telling of your character "getting stronger". Encounter difficulty tends to remain mostly static outside of the intro levels of the game.
Surprised they didn’t also drop the benchmark
I have trouble believing people attacked you for your criticism. It makes a lot of sense that if you aren't doing savages, then you aren't real happy with the amount of gameplay content. I was waiting for this video for a while now. I'm glad you made it :)
lost my reddit account with minus 100 karma because i said i dislike shadowbringers -> endwalker changes for monk, and explained why i think so. It didn't matter, what mattered was fact i dislike something about the game. So yeah, can confirm this convoluted hate and toxicity is real in ff...
Lmao all the Positively Toxic people are finally shutted down. Yoshi P and the rest of SquareEnix needs feedback not mindless praise.
YEP. Game needs better content and game interactions.
As a developer myself (not game developer, but as a web developer), constructive negative feedback are the most useful feedback for us, this type of feedback always leads us to fix issues our clients have (because they clearly express that something is missing or something could be better).
Extremely positive feedback is awesome for our ego most of the time, but it does not leads to build a better product, since there is not a need to archive.
U love to see it
this honestly drives me nuts about the xiv community. you aren't allowed to criticize their game or you face the wrath of the so called "positivity" people. the game has a lot of issues that need to be addressed
@@kevvymetall749 the toxic casuals and the toxic positivity people are far worse than the toxic raiders in this game. It is honestly really grating sometimes.
The most memorable experience you will ever have in any game is trying SO hard to clear something, sometimes over and over and FINALLY doing it. Getting that Al-Iklil Bozja field note mount, the TT Card mount and soloing Rathalos Ex were some of mine.
The bozja mount for sure for me too. And eureka as a whole was a great time for me. Not just completing the maps but also getting some extra marks for some of the weapon and gear skins. And I got super lucky and won a speed belt and sold it for $15 million.
I'll never forget running down to the podium on my Necromancer clear. Just in sheer disbelief that I had finally accomplished it
Like DSR and aloalo savage
For you maybe. The majority of players find that annoying and end up quitting. This isn’t a job.
Why do you think they gained so many millions of players and only a tiny minuscule percentage play the hardcore parts? No one likes it!
@@thomaspetersen3220 I'm not only talking about FFXIV (I've been gaming for 37 years). I myself have never done any hardcore content on FFXIV (Never done the fox things). Also never raided professionally.
4:40 Basically make it so content is not braindead. I hope the jobs get this same treatment. Majority of jobs were WAYYYYY too streamlined with each other starting since Shadowbringers and got worse in Endwalker. This is the exact reason why I quit. No thinking was required anymore thus making the game not engaging or fun due to each job basically doing the exact same thing as the others just reskinned. Also 12:06 I honestly LOVED The Vault and was a healer main.
Yeah, it's especially bad for tanks and healers. At least a fair amount of DPS jobs feel unique enough. I'm a noob with DPS though so I might be wrong.
@@erasablefallen7223 No you are right, that the DPS are a bit more differentiated vs Tanks/Healers. But not as much as they were pre-shadowbringers.
Nail on the head... The vault clearly wasn't that much of an issue, Heavensward endgame was as busy as any other time lol. Players weren't getting by on a fluke, they just engaged with the game... And why shouldn't you be, playing for that long and being a few levels from max?
I think with the structure of FF14 necessitating progressing linearly through the story to access new content works well with gradually ramping up complexity or difficulty in later content. This is only bad for returning players who had progressed that far, but are rusty on mechanics.
Yeah but as a returning player myself, I would prefer that over what we have now. It's so easy and braindead that I stopped typing out that I'm rusty when I come back and play healer or tank and can handle everything almost as easily as before I took a break even if I forget what some of my skills do.
Malenia ultimate raid... Oh my god.
I can’t wait to hear who is the blade of Mikala?
Prepare to cry!
Best content is enjoying obstacles with your friends hard or easy, arguing and laughing at the same time. The memories
I might have to end my two years long hiatus in order to play Dawntrail. I was very pessimistic after Endwalker, but this gives me some hope that the game will become enjoyable for me again
bro straight up did the doze off emote
This totally renews my trust in Yoshi. I was a little worried he had gotten overconfident in his direction but he continues to be humble and recognizes critique. Looking forward to the future.
Preordering as soon as i get paid. I'm excited for a new start, new things, new places, and more challenging things to do.
Criticism is great for developing the best possible results. Just be careful on how you deliver that criticism, if you come off too aggressive then you can make people get defensive and shut down from listening to what you are saying. Then they won’t be able to take away anything from the criticisms. I look forward to what they will do to make the game more engaging.
Even when delivery is in the best way possible, some people's lives revolve around the game and the slightest criticism becomes a criticism to themselves. - and they just attack the person voicing out their concern.
Nevertheless, the feedback is feedback. Stop preventing your own game from getting better.
@@ReyRey277 True, some people just don’t understand that just because someone has issues with a product; doesn’t mean they hate it.
I very much agree. Having criticisms is fine, but framing it as "my opinion is more valid than your opinion" is only going to serve to divide people. I get that she received abusive responses for her opinions, but smugly saying "Yoshi-P agrees with me, I told you so" is not going to change anyone's mind. If anything, it's only lead to further abusive and unconstructive discussion. She's essentially giving the dickheads recognition by engaging with them, while also alienating people who don't agree with her views but want to engage in constructive discussions about it.
if you watch her original video criticizing the endwalker patch content, she delivered in the nicest way possible. and people reacted as if she was xQc
@@BriGuy77711 very much this. personally I find the game as it exists in Endwalker to be exactly what I was looking for in a game. even without trying to prog in extreme/savage/ultimate content, there was enough content for me to maintain my sub the whole of the expansion. with that said, I may not have agreed with everything she said in the previous video on the topic, but it was a fair opinion. this video on the other hand, seems like it was made more as a "I told you so, haha I'm right and you're wrong."
the problem with critisism as a whole, is that the ones giving it are often (not always) a vocal minority. positive feedback is less common because the people who would give it are enjoying the game and don't find a need for anything to change.
it's fair to say that a decent chunk of development time has gone to updating past content to be compatible with the duty support system this expansion, I highly advise going back through many of the older duties that are part of the MSQ to see the changes for yourself, I still get duties in leveling roulette that I haven't gone back to every once in a while and get suprised like "that's not how I remember this." I can hope that the time they save not having to go back and change the old cotent going forward is used to create a balance between how the game is now in a place where I am very happy with what I am getting out of it, and the more challenging experience that what I suspect has been a vocal minority has been asking for.
Dear zepla you are out of focus as your Camara seems to focus more on your mic.
This legit was kind of making me nuts 🤣🤣🤣
Not the first video with mic focus.
So I guess that makes her a ...
*sunglasses on*
fuzzy bunny.
she needs to be careful, or youtube might not recognize her again
The mic is Zepla. What are you talking about?
I'm glad they listened to the critiques and are working on improving. That's always great to see!
Time will tell.
I would be happy if fates experience was revamped. As an alternative to doing the same dungeons over and over and over.
I super super miss the old way Astro played... the whole card game on the side WAS difficult but when you got it THAT feeling was epic. I believed in the heart of the cards...
I just want them to STOP time gating our gearing up phase. Let me gear ALL MY ROLES to be raid ready. Because i love gearing up and i hate raiding.
So let us enjoy the game pls.
Eh? You can jump into raid with crafted gear no problem. Do you mean gearing for Ultimates and 4,8,12 savages? Because I agree that BiS should require grind and time.
@@magikonkuiz Nha, we should be able to drop those raid gear for all our jobs. Not just one. That would keep me busy. Whats the point of having all those jobs if i can play just 1 per week? For the whole raid season? That doesnt achieve anything. We should be dropping 1 per JOB per week. And, dude, have you seen the p4ice of the. Rafted gear? Cost a fortune to put that on every job. I hate crafting and i am cheap. I want TO PLAY for my gear. Not work. I work in my week days. I play when i play a game.
"try your best to not put your love of a game before your care of a person" - Josh Strife Hayes
When viewers gave you hate and failed at this simple goal, it makes me sad. I love FFXIV, I want it to be better, and I do not understand people giving you or anyone else a hard time for having a different opinion than they do.
unfortunately that's just the nature of discourse and reach of the internet. some people are just born that way quite literally.
People disagreed with her opinion is why, she didn't give it in a constructive way, something that has been thoroughly explained.
Plenty of other people critiqued EW and got zero hate. That says it all.
Different opinion arent " hate " ppl simple disagreed with her that all
a lot of people conflate things they like with their sense of self, and when someone criticizes the things they like, they take it as a personal attack because they lack the emotional intelligence or self-esteem to tell the difference. it's a maturity thing, imo. but i agree!
@@candykit5382 this
this was the best part of any dawntrail news so far. really looking forward to see how this turns out!
I am thrilled with this news! Constructive feedback has reached their ears and the fact that they are realizing it and implementing changes gives me hope.
on one side, we have the "old ff14 fans" who wants the game to be back and better like the old days.
on the other side, we have the "newer ff14 fans" that wish for it to stay that way.
on another side, we got those that just want to enjoy the game and does or does not have gripes, but are fine with it (at least for now)
on YET another side, we got ppl that simply wants to stay away from that subject because the other sides are mostly draining to themselves (usually, they don't look at videos like these or follow reddit).
no matter what happens, the game will never satisfy everyone. It was like this for elden ring, BG3, and other recent good games. The devs can at most please the most amount of gamers as possible, but there will always be some that will stay insatisfied.
This is the realy of every games.
I just want the game to stop being so boring and easy. It's ridiculous how mind numbingly safe the game feels at times. Like what they did to AST, instead of adjusting the card effects so people would stop using only Balance, they made ALL of the cards damage boosts. Easy, safe and braindead to use. -_-
live service games are always updating though this is what people need to understand its not something you can compare to a single player or mobile.
and for ffxiv in particular you pay a sub monthly or quarterly so its a time committed investment you are deciding to make so therefore because of that you as a customer/consumer should have a say in how the game operates because you are literally paying for its continued development.
where as in solo games the best you can do is just not play, not buy, or right a critique to hope your message is put across to developers and publishers.
I would argue currently and for nigh half a decade, they're pleasing anyone *but* "gamers" because gamers would be happy to grapple with new mechanics and dare I say, some depth in an online RPG they're subscribed to. Why subscribe and commit, just to headbutt keyboard and afk limsa and text chat
I agree, and truthfully, the elite hard-core players who complain about the game constantly are in the minority, most people love FF14 and the content Yoshi-P has made, and they provide constructive criticism about things they dislike rather than complaining
Not going to lie I miss this game and think about it pretty often but I haven't enjoyed the complexity of combat/rotations since wayy back in Heavensword days when healers had a dps stance and tanks still had to stance dance which were way more engaging and rewarding to pull off a proper rotation soo much so that I'd actually go to a private server to scratch this itch but there are none that I'm aware of.
10:00 I think what he means here is that there was only a set amount of rewards slotted per expansion (Insert spaghetti code here), And since they would add various new content in every expansion that SPREAD of rewards would look really "small" to us.
So in Dawntrail there will be more rewards (or more slots) overall spread throughout compared to previous expansions.
.In his live letters even before Endwalker ,he had said going forward there would be would be changes coming .In the interview which was reviewed by a tuber who speaks the lang, what he said was'carefully move forward to make the game less stress free." He did not say that the previous content was easy as some have posted. This game has been ongoing for 10 years. it is sensible to change things.
Aside from the expansion being more challenging, I wish they would set some of the older dungeons back to normal challenge lvl.
As long as there's something for everyone. I didn't care for Eureka or Bozja, but a lot of people did.
Well it seem dawntrail will give zero casual and solo post msq unlike ew all to cater to midcore player who want long grind midcore content .
@@anteprs7908 They never said that. Duty support is still there, there will be new Variant dungeons, MSQ isn't expected to get any harder either, there's no purpose in that.
Everything that made it into the game for EW to catter to solo players will still be expanded in DT.
What's different is they'll, allegedly, bring back the excitement of engaging with content. Dungeons probably won't change because of Duty Support existing, but they can try new things with trials and alliance raids without actually make them impossible to clear for casual players.
@@avrax3497 that fine i hope as it should be i just fear we wont get any solo /causal content after msq at least in ew we had island santuary (in dawntrail they add firment like content that for crafter not really solo/casuals) and i hope we get optional tomes on relics i dont wanna run midcore content as casual to get relics.trails like extreme trail is fine alliance sure but not normal trail they need to be msq lv .
@@anteprs7908 Yeah I get you. As far as relics are concerned, they made it sound like there will still be tome steps, or something similarily easy to get, on top of offering a grindier alternative, so I would not worry too much for now.
I couldn't find it, but I'm 99% certain they said in an interview at some point they would keep working on Island Sanctuary, so if I'm not misremembering, there would also be that to look forward too.
Eureka and Bozja are fun to at least add some new goal and content to work on. Plus doing those raids on release are pretty fun
I wouldn't object to more "normal" content that's at least on the level of Eden Iconoclasm normal. The bird portals are something that everyone always has to pay attention to, and it's not just a simple braindead "don't stand in the obviously telegraphed bad" mechanic. Healing that with newbies is always a fun time.
I didn't experience the Vault on release since I started mid-Shadowbringers, but I did have the pleasure of my more experienced friends taking me through it undersized min-ilvl. We timed out on Charibert twice, before *finally* managing a win. A lot of it was absolutely because I sucked at healing at the time, but I can confidently say that once we got that win, I sucked less. It was definitely one of my more memorable moments in the game.
12:57 Looking at this I think "Come one we are level 90, I think the n00b stage is long behind us by now"
then you haven't ever done a fucking duty finder/party finder/played with other people. lol
@@zeening Yeahhhh did the lvl 50 dungeon with Midgardsoemr and had a group of noobs that didn't know what to do at all. The tank wasn't even using aoes to get aggro from mobs properly. Was playing SCH and had to explain all of the mechanics to them and how to play better. Carried them and kept reviving on the final fight while dodging bosses AOES was stressful asf but one of my more proud moments for myself.
You know that many level skip.
@@zeening Specially dead ends. Where I still find "healers" that didn't bother to add esuna to their toolbar.
I loved The Vault. Still one of my favorite dungeons even as a white mage main at the time.
I appreciate how you aren't just a fangirl no matter what. If you're bored, you go play something else. If you don't like something, you say so. This is so refreshingly unlike most streamers/content creators of most games. Yes, be the fan, all of that. I love FFXIV also. I don't have all the same opinions, but that's fine. Not everyone is going to agree on everything, and trying to pander to people is just insulting.
Agree, loving it means wanting it the best it can be
The most fun part of the game for me was running the story duty's with friends newly joining the game, and my friends with me when I come back from breaks. End game content never interested me, but I would stick around after to finish off my sub to enjoy some end game content with friends. Now ever since the introduction of Duty Support, I don't get to play the story at all with friends anymore. Everyone expects you to solo the whole game and join them for end game content. Grinding and competing. I don't know if I will be back for Dawntrail.
I don't know about other criticisms to your video, but mine was that they were clearly busy with 16 and Dawntrail at the time (which you did mention tbf). The fact that they are talking about it, means they were already aware and were working on it for a while. To me the doomer tone of the video was the issue rather than your valid points. Especially when we know the big changes are coming
Fun without holes? Impossible! 🙂🦊
Bow chicka bow wow
As for me, I long for a bit more mechanical customization in my character. I do acknowledge, however, that such customization will present balancing challenges and disruptions.
But that is supposed to be an RPG's bread and butter. Meaningful choices, or spec'ing out for a certain battle, stuff like that. But they really took "role playing game" literally for this one. You play one role, and there's one way to play it.
When I was a new Sprout Healer we wiped at the Vault final boss a few times. Then our French DRG left and we 1 shot it with their replacement. I did NOT mind that difficulty spike, instead it is now a core memory.
I would like to see Crystal TOwer and Laby become ACTUAL hard, where people need to DO mechanics or get killed.
Where they show up in WoD and are like "mechanics are for CARS!" and then promptly get killed by Garm and then Doom, and by poison slimes, get eaten when not smol, and stand there when they get marked.
Yes yes and yes. I am so fed up of crystal tower being 20 minutes of my brain melting as I tap 3 buttons. The difficulty needs a huge increase. Not just to make it actually worth doing alliance raid roulette, but to make the other raids actually viable to do. I haven't seen nier for half a year. The newest alliance raids don't happen. It's just crystal tower, infinitely occurring brain liquification
@@muhc2931 i REFUSE to run alliance roulette and haven't in like 3 yrs now, i specifically que for the lvl 90 ones because i would genuinely rather unsub than ever ever run ANY of the CT raids again after the absolute brain rot i've seen in there and being reported for getting so frustrated i swore at someone intentionally trying to wipe the raid on last boss of WoD. it is NOTHING but CT raids and people ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to follow BASIC directions or mechanics. plus you can cap on tomestones super early tuesday mornings from hunt trains but even that is getting insanely fking boring after months and months of it....
Being a solo player, I had no problem with how Endwalker was set up but I also have no problem with any of these changes
I love it when he said devs are incentivized to take risks when designing battle content for Dawntrail. The game needs that breath of fresh air to keep the momentum going. Also, I wish "more rewards" were not just a quantitative thing but also qualitative. For example, making dungeon gear and extreme gear more relevant would be nice. It would be great if the week 1 bis for savage became a mix of crafted, extreme, dungeon, and normal raid gear, instead of being almost entirely crafted gear as it has been.
hard disagree asides from maybe dungeon gear, i don't want to have to run weeks and weeks of raids to gear up fuckin alt jobs i just want to buy decent baseline gear and not worry about it, also extreme gear has NEVER really been a bis thing it's pretty consistently been for glamour same as ultimates o.O
I can't help but feel hyped....especially with this being the first time I get to level along with my fellow WOLs after playing the game for 2 years!! :D
(and honestly even I, find most of the content to be easy as my sage....Oooooh I can't wait)
I miss yoshi-p's "learn to play" response
I just really dislike that there is so much anger at casuals especially over the last relic weapon. It is not easy for all of us to "Find a group" for Savage, EX and ultimate content to get it done and there for left out of huge chunks of that gaming experience. I hope they help fix or balance that out to make it easier to get into should people want to try those.
Agreed. Sometimes people just wanna play and chill, not be stressed in game. It's especually true when you play after work\study, there's just little mental juices left, but these people are still valid players. In the end you can't please all anyways, and I'm happy they are doing something to freshen things up.
Hard disagree, as a raider I'll feel upset if someone that barely knows what a rotation is, has the same weapon as me because he like to play on Island Sanctuary. Different rewards, for different type of contents. Is it that hard to understand?
@@7RicolmE7 Meanwhile someone with an Ultimate title rolls in to Expert Dungeon Roulette and you wonder how they find their way out of bed in the morning.
@@clintmatthews3500 oh boy, don't Even get me started with the Tank mentors that don't use mitigations
this.... people crying about the current method and screeching about how "REEEEE NO I WANT TO HAVE TO RUN 480 FUCKING SYNCED RAIDS AGAIN!!!!!" can genuinely piss RIGHT off.
I want them to bring back uniqueness to different jobs. Every job feels like every other job in its role now, it's so stale, I hope the new abilities add more depth and individuality to each job.
As primarily a raider in the game, I'm hoping for one thing that FF14 is severely lacking compared to other MMOs: Gear customization. Right now as it stands it's basically set to 2 different choices each tier for gear pieces (tomestone gear or raid gear being BiS) and lacks build diversity that a lot of other MMOs have. This is probably easier said than done, but being able to theorycraft a new build or create your own build that is viable and isn't hard stuck to "this is BiS, nothing else even comes close in comparison" kinda sucks. Also, I would love to see the open world be more utilized for potential gear pieces (could be like pieces of a gear and after collecting X amount of said drop, you can exchange it for said gear piece). Other than that I'm glad to hear things are moving in a better direction, as I liked Endwalker but see the potential for the game to me so much more.
You know what game never made me fall asleep? Helldivers 2. Blink and you're dead.
Completely different game type and genre.
The same people that criticized you, are the same people that killed all of asmons hype for the game too, can’t take any criticism or even accept anyone else pov but “FFXIV SO GOOD” and I LOVE this game. These people genuinely were holding the game back and attacked people who had an opinion. I completely agreed with all your points even before this video and have always said the same things about the game. Doesn’t feel like an mmo. It’s my novella and I love it but man I wish it were more
I just want healing to be more intense. I used to run with Selene for the faster spell speed, and quicker mp consumption. Ever since the merge, I’ve been begging for Selene back. As much as I love being busy healing, I don’t like dealing damage as a healer
Also absolutely gonna preorder. I don’t rip, but my character is a child of Zidane and Garnet, so this expansion is a must
were in gods green earth did yoshi p said he will make the fights sooo god damn hard that hellers will CONSTANTLY heal??? WERE?!?!?!
A lot of people mistake a grind for a challenge. Hopefully the dev team understands the difference and brings us some genuine challenges.
9:55 they CHOSE not to give us more rewards. There have been plenty of events and content that have no mounts, or even cosmetic rewards to them. Why doesn't the new Hildibrand trial have a Barding, Minion, or Cosmetic? Why does the current seasonal event (that is a 2-in-1 btw) only have ONE event reward? They really couldn't take the time to slap the Event Art on a canvas and give it to us as a Housing item? Nah I don't buy it. This game feels like it's running with a Skeleton Crew 99% of the time, barely anything has been added in terms of earnable rewards. EW was a pale imitation of past xpacks.
Here's a thought: Not everyone defines a "reasonable challenge" identically. I have never cleared savage, or even extreme content before, and not for a lack of trying. Having a high challenge ceiling is great. Having a high challenge floor, less so.
I think the problem is a large chunk of the player base feel like the bar has gotten crazy low for more casual content in regards to difficulty with nothing in between that and Savage.
main issue I see is the gap between savage/ultimate content, and Story/extreme content. There's nothing in between. Story content is so easy it actually turns players away from the game, extreme content only requires you to know what every AOE marker means. Then the next jump in difficulty is savage where it would take a new player hours just to understand what they are supposed to do, let alone execute it.
Plus not everyone has the time to practice for a savage.
At the same time people being critical of the game also CAUSED the issues new people were critical about now. Its like listening too much to the community was the issue.
It got easier all around due to player feedback over time. It just went from one extreme to the other over the expansions.
I'm really stoked that they are reducing button bloat in the game by introducing combo buttons from PvP into PvE. I have been using a plugin for this for ages, and it makes doing my rotations so much smoother. I feel like with that reduced cognitive load from button bloat, they can focus more on making mechanics more difficult.
I think he worded everything really well it makes me very excited about what's to come. I wasnt sure about DT at first but the more details we get, the more hyped I am!
Had a sprout tank yesterday who was gloating the game was too easy, they were doing pack for pack.
So I decided to do what some ppl would call getting a lil evil and pull every single mob as a melee DPS.
Dungeon in question was Halatali, They got humbled quick.
I like your pfp, it's really cute!
Yeah I’m so sick of the three bosses in a hallway of ads, and every trial being spam attack button until boss decides to raid wide and I have to press the heal all buttons
Some suggestions to make content more challenging/interesting (just throwing them out there not a be all end all list lol): Bring back untelegraphed mechanics, soft enrage dps checks (like the boss crit shield from HW), cleansable debuffs especially doom/poison/blind/paralysis/damage down, make tank busters kill tanks or hit tanks so frequently it will kill them unless properly mitigated/shielded, instant death attacks and of course mechs/adds that will wipe the raid if not dealt with as a team (but not to the point one troll can sabotage the whole raid)
@@whisperingshadowXIGod I felt that last point 😂
So much Aglaia trauma from trolls deliberately killing the raid during the balance mechanic.
That called having casual content it not mean to be challanging but simple and easy to make it more difficult you ruin it for casual players .
The reason dungeons are the way they are is because they tried to add more paths and the like- and most people hated it. They'd always find the most efficient route, get their tomes and get out.
I think adding some randomness to the dungeons would gelp immensely to keep them fresh- just leave it on the players to choose as they will always go for what's optimal.
@@KLGChaos they adeed variant dungs for those who want that
I think what's important to me is being able to clear content with friends, and it's those memories that stay with me I get joy from playing FFXIV.
But a game requires being able to lose. Otherwise you won't remember overcomming a challenge.
I think time investment, including wipes, are part of the reason why it is so hard to balance the desirable difficulty of content, most of the time on roulettes most people are expecting a no wipe run, so it becomes harder and harder for the team to balance the challenges. I think Alliance Raids are interesting gauges of how they reacted to community feedback regarding this, Ivalice was considered hard, so then NieR has somewhat easy mechanics but the bosses are ultra sponges and it took so long to complete, and then on Myths of the Realm they overcorrected and the bosses are ultra squishy. It clearly shows they care about feedback but the results are not always ideal, so hopefully they find the sweet spot of difficult and time investment for each type of content.
God i loved the plot of Nier but dread getting them, the sponge bosses suck...
I can only speak for me so take this with that understanding. I am all for things being challenging, but the thing that makes me, and I would hazard a lot more, not want to go into harder content (savages etc) is not the content itself, but the asshole elitists who comprise most of the player base who is doing that content. The ones who day 1 want you to watch a guide (are you shitting me…it’s three hours old jack ass) or who bitch if you fail a mechanic more than once. For me, I have a disability that makes fine motor skills difficult so sometimes I over correct etc. I’ve also had a stroke so sometimes the old brain just shits out in small ways that cause me to fuck a mechanic. Also some of us are rocking old musky boys internet so we deal with lag spikes etc. Also I feel like the most recent set of high end content is super busy in terms of flashy shit on the screen that makes it hard to follow what all is going on. So I don’t know where the stress free is coming from because honey I’ve been stressing balls for some time
It's why I won't raid. I have issues with trying to get mechanics down [5th grade comprehension] and seeing raids filled with 80% team wide deaths, 10% instant single person deaths and 10% normal mechanics, as a healer main I wonder why I'm even there. I don't mind mechanics but the AMOUNT of them you have to remember and NOT fk up or how most make healer obsolete drives me up the wall...
literally noone does that, if anything it's the literal exact opposite of people constantly joining and FKING REFUSING to follow basic directions or instructions or mechanics and getting snippy and pissy when even asked if they know the fight/have seen a guide, MONTHS AND MONTHS AFTER RELEASE... NOONE expects people to "know the fights and have guides watched 3 days after content comes out", and even if they did TBH guides are more than out after 3 days so why wouldn't you? AND generally if people ARE EXPECTING THAT, they SAY SO in the PF listing..... whereas when people who join/make a PF just so they can not be kicked when they sit there and press 3 fking buttons while everyone else tries their ass off, there's no heads up for that and half the time you can't even tell unless you're using 3rd party tools because the game FULL THROATED protects people who refuse to put in the bare minimum of effort.
srsly read the TOS you CAN be reported for politely asking a tank to put their tank stance up, you HAVE to phrase it as a suggestion and if they say no then you have to deal with it or leave, you CANNOT demand or say they have to put tank stance up.... EVEN THOUGH THAT IS LITERALLY WHAT THEY QUE'D FOR!!!!! that is LITERALLY IN THE TOS....
@@zeening Yeah no, I encountered that myself, tried some raids and savage content and people were getting angry enough to rage quit after literally one wipe sometimes, more often 2. I've had good experiences with people actually being helpful and patient with people new to the content but I've seen mostly negative which is why I don't want to get involved with that content in the first place.
Mhmm, while this seems brutally honest, I only will believe anything Yoshi P said when I see it happen. We shall see. I am looking forward to it.
lolwut? he's not fucking bobby kotick... the guy's known for delivering on his word WTF are you on about?
Yes, he sometimes overpromises then blame it in the translation.
He would have made a good politician.
@@zeening he's just one man and not just that his language skills are limited to japanese(his native language) and basic English(because its a business requirement in order for him to travel and do what he does for publicity) so unless you met face to face with the man an can confirm his own thoughts, you literally have no clue whether he's telling the truth or just thinking aloud to himself but 8 times out of 10 he does agree with the playerbase but it doesnt mean by any stretch of the imagination that the company for which he works will listen much less care about what opinions he or his players have.
It's been going down the homogenous jobs/roles route heavily since Shadowbringers... 2019. That's where some jobs got noticeably gutted of the few unique things they even had. So that boat steers real slow.
They've been scared to rock said boat since very early on, and decided to cater to people that for some reason would commit to subscribing to a game, but not to learning a game with, god forbid, some depth.
So now there's literally shooting games with more meaningful choices and depth than a supposed online RPG. And yet it's succeeding and possibly the most popular MMO currently? Talk about a stagnant genre, in that case.
The Vault was actually a great place to train to get decent at the game. I remember I used to pride myself in being able to heal it properly because of how many times I ran that place lol I do feel like most dungeons have been too simple for my taste, like the mechanics are creative, but they happen only one at a time, so it becomes too streamlined once you know what to do. If you're playing a class that's been streamlined as well, such as SMN or WHM, then you essentially press one single button and move around from time to time. I understand simplifyin the game to make it more accessible, but I also think they overdid it in some aspects. There is a special feeling you get when you can show you play your class well, or when somebody comes to you for advice. I also understand the toxicity that comes with it, because when things get past a certain difficulty threshold, people get super elitist, but there's different ways of dealing with the problem. But if there's one thing I trust, from being in this game since closed beta, is that they listen to feedback, and if it's reasonable, they will work on it. That is something Yoshi-P has shown time after time, so I know we're gonna have these fluctuations in quality, but they're always gonna be working to make the game better.
7:00 ive felt that way about alot of things in game. as a example. more buttons in a rotation doesnt magically make the game more fun to play. fun fights make the game more fun, engaging mechanics in the rotation make it fun. tank n spank bosses with generic mechanics +rotations with more buttons then a piano =/= fun.
It will be interesting to see if the vast majority of people who just played and enjoyed Endwalker will stick with dawntrail it it does become more difficult to satisfy the vocal minority to whom the game is their life - elitists as we called them in wow. Hopefully commen sense will prevail
This is the easiest mmorpg by a landslide. I am not an elitist. (:
i genuinly thought the content has been getting harder.. thought theyd make it easier lol but what they need to do is make it more engaging and with more teamwork
I'm just curious from your PoV. What has gotten harder? Outside of Ultimates what has actually gotten more difficult over the expansions for you? Personally speaking this game has been extremely easy when it comes to alot of things.
@@Temptest09 What funny is that Endwalker, the END of the story had the easier content. And Dawntrail, which is the better starting off point for new players, will have harder content. I realize that covid and the WoW exodus was a unique situation, so they wanted to cater to all of the new players, while also working on ff16, but i hope they revisit Endwalker and re-tool some of those fights.
Most players pay the game linearly any way. So I don't think the newest content has to be easier. If they have played from ARR-EW they should have a grasp of the basics by the time they get to EW.
I've played xiv since beta and to this day the vault is still one of my top 5 favorite dungeons in the game
Hmm, this is going to be a tough challenge because it probably involves trade-offs unfortunately. This game is largely accessible to players of ALL types. Be it, hearing impaired, vision impaired, players with mobility difficulties. This game has done more for players of all sorts including within its storyline for those that may not have physical difficulties. While I agree, it’d be fun to bring back a lot of that excitement of the learning to fail - I sort of have a mental personal chart which is where I like to base things off of the Nier raids. Nier 1-2 were tough but manageable, third Nier is just a throw you under the bus then the bus backs up over you and then pulls forward again but at least gives the common courtesy to look out the window and ask if you’re good. So much of the endwalker post content is, terrible, recalling places you’ve just visited to save space I can get from a dev standpoint but for gameplay it felt like I was following the carrot on the stick. I’m more afraid of this expansion than any other as this is sort of the new beginning on the oldest of code, graphical update though. Just not sure how long it’ll tick from here on out but I hope for the best. The dungeons and trials later game felt like boring, boring, boring, sweet spot - where it’s difficult enough to be fun- then oh god why? There wasn’t a bell curve it just jumped off the cliff like a lemming. Easy easy easy, moderate, oh gawd. Once you get it though, you get it but that was my personal initial reaction. Anyway, cheers, looking forward to dawntrail with you all sorry for the long post take care, travel well, hug your buns.
Humble Brag: The Video.
By the way, no one said Endwalker was perfect or the game was perfect. Its just a lot of us werent saying "FFXIV ded".
Edit: Watched the rest of the video, the smug levels were worse then i thought. Yeah Zep, like you were the only one with these critiscms.
yeah it was hard to make to the end
Nah it's deserved. The toxic positive player base are the most annoying people on the planet. They are so unlikeable and pick me's
Not humble whatsoever lol she's acting like she has single-handedly changed the entire future of the game. Never watching a video of hers again lol unbearable.
the thing is, adding difficulty to new content is great, but it doesn't change the fact that the majority of the game is replaying old content, and old content strips us of our entire kit
if you want to improve the general feeling of this game, ESPECIALLY if you want to avoid it putting people to sleep, you have to change how the level sync works. Weaken us overall, make us work 10x harder to deal the same amount of damage as that level 24 player on their first run through Toto-Rak, but PLEASE AT LEAST GIVE US OUR BUTTONS
Summoner, for example, feels garbage to play below lv 86, (when they get the primal abilities), until then it's basically just a healer rotation: green 1111, yellow 1111, red 11, rinse and repeat.
They need to address the rewards issue, it was so frustrating seeing new content (personal island) with old rewards, In addition to the fact that the game doesn't encourage multiplayer, I took a break after the end of Endwalker and didn't even start the alliance raids.
The vault was difficult enough for me to get into gamer posture
I hate this dungeon design:
double pull > double pull > boss > double pull > double pull > boss > double pull > double pull > boss.
I just summed up last 3 expansion with 1 sentense. How f*ckimg boring is that.
FF XIV has the most boring dungeons design in the history of gaming.
I dont see this game becoming less boring any time soon. I really wish they prove me wrong though.
Idk. I feel like that's just normal level dungeon content in general. I mean outside of M0 and M+, wow has many similar problems with dungeon design and content like that being the same feeling.
@@NeoPancake_ Yea but wow has M+ which is endless difficult content, FFXIV needs something similar, criterion doesn't cut it
@@celestielsigh Naw WoW just needs money and plugins and the game becomes piss easy. It's actually really sad how the meta has become there. Legit only the wealthiest full-time gamers clear world firsts and it's the same fucking people every fucking time because they just have the wealth to get the needed plugins programmed before anyone else. Skill is increasingly irrelevant because the top gamers memorized their mechs eons ago and now just have to blindly follow the plugins to win (y'know, the same thing people like to bitch about in FFXIV lol).
I'd rather the game have world clear be off skill alone than encouraging people to pay some sweaty coders to make plugins to make ultimates/savages piss easy.
You know, you don't really have to even do dungeons, right?
After the first clear, you can gear and max your tomes without ever running a dungeon.
@@BaithNa What's the point of your comment? Why bring up ignoring the content as if its any solution in your snarky, pretending to be informative, retort? There's no reason dungeons should be as stale as they are and saying "Just don't do them" is retarded.
I can 100% guarantee this harder content will be nerfed. People have been so comfortable with Endwalker, they've forgotten how often players quit instances and had to wait 20 minutes for replacements. Remember when Steps of Fairh, Dun Scaith, and Orbonne were released? Remember when people quit the moment the instance began? Even recently, there were calls to nerf "In from the cold" from Endwalker because it was "too hard." Yoshi P never wanted the game to be easier. It's easier because people kept bitching at him to make it that way
Easy fix for that is to nerf echo. I don't really remember dun scaith and orbonne being more difficult than any of the other instances, just echo allows you to skip MASSIVE parts of a lot of older instances. Remove echo and lower ilvl cap for ARR 24 mans and people will remember those runs weren't supposed to be easy either. People dealt with more difficult content in ARR/HW, they can do it again in DT.
Every Single Day, I see ppl quit as soon as they instance into CT so what exactly is your point?
@shawnbarino880 I've NEVER seen people quit CT. Ever. Why would they when it's easy and quick? All I see is players changing gear. But they'll absolutely quit World of Darkness whenever there's mass death from the first adds
What else can you expect from a game that is being treated like a fashion chat room with hyper casual middle-aged people playing that don't have the same reactions that they used to.
The preorder servers were a mess for NA but I got though and my conformation for the collectors edition! I’m super excited for Dawntrail!
It's really not about who was right or wrong, it's about what a large amount of players felt and Yoshi-P decided to listen. I was so hyped about that presentation. Finally field operations again! Hopefully a healthy amount of challenge too!
People weren't upset with what you were asking for in your video, they were upset with your unhinged rant that shit on the devs and the players that enjoyed Endwalker because it wasn't what you wanted.
I find it rather off-putting when you seem to be laughing and really milking the "I told you so" as if your opinion and 'criticism' was 100% right over thousands of others, just rude.. I mean, you don't see me or others really 'criticizing' GI. I found the more solo/small group content for FF14 was more to deliver the solo impactful storytelling aspects of your character the WoL. While I do feel the repetitiveness in some, there should be different versions of instances for us solo/small casual players just enjoying the story and the game, and separate that from the hardcore button masher players, im not there to stress myself out when its an escape from my crappy life. FF14 isnt a elden ring MMO...
I really personally like what theyre doing outside of some of the dungeons being too much of a breeze as well as the rewards not being worth it half the time. And my major/biggest complaint has always been the jobs and how most jobs dont feel different and the ones that do have one big mechanic that changes them up and then you just got back to a 1 2 3 rotation and wait two minutes to switch it up again. I always felt that was the most infuriating part where astrologian was maybe the most unique job next to either red mage and sage. Thats why i have switched from white mage to sage because theres more to do than just heal and spam one button. Even if the mechanic of the link (kardia?) is no different than scholars fairy and does the same thing but in a different way. And even with all that said they even streamlined astro and turned it into a much easier job with even less diversity.
I also dont really feel like im playing certain jobs. While i enjoy seeing different developers takes on different jobs- i do enjoy a lot of their streamlined roles and playstyles in other final fantasy games. Like ff4 cecil paladin where he automatically takes damage for low health teammates. I know you still have cover but unlike ff4 its not single target until you switch targets and there is no automatic use of it when allies are low. Plus it has a tether which is really short.
Dark knight doesnt really even feel like dark knights of previous games. Outside of its invulnerable spell theres no place that you damage yourself to deal extra damage. And keeping in mind that it is a tank- i know its not meant to do crazy amounts of damage but it would be cool to be able to risk your health to hit harder.
With berserker i do like the auto crit mechanic but it just doesnt really feel like i went berserk. I can literally activate it and just stand there. And while i get its an active game and having an ability that lovks your movement isnt good- that would still be fun because you can start making strategies around it and figure out good times to use it to maximize dps rather than just having to do every mechanic without messing up your combo once.
As someone who unfortunately cant find time ir people to play harder content with- ive only just recently learned and started using the 2 minute meta semi-correctly. There is so much casual content and for some reason none of it presents a challenge that has forced me to play my job better. It has never forced me to coordinate my attacks and buffs with others. Ive legitimately just wildly attacked and used abilities as soon as theyve come off cooldown and still managed to sweep content.
They definitely need to move extreme content down a notch and put something inbetween savage and extreme to take its place. I also would love it if they brought back hard content. While not much different than just the base trials and dungeons it does feel a lot more stressful than the base dungeons are in arr for example.
Im not getting my hopes up but i might go find a shooting star and wish that he really does a good job changing up the content and the game mechanics.
This is what we like to HEAR. Now let's SEE what we GET.
It’s almost like they’ve done a load of job homogenisation, produced a load of cut and paste content, then told people to “go play other games” and have suddenly realised there’s been an impact. Maybe relying on crafters, housing and ERP to keep your game alive isn’t sustainable long term.
Yoship: Oh we don't want to make the game much HARDER, just less stress free and more engaging.
Path of Exile 2: YOU ARE GOING TO DIE SCREAMING AND THANK US FOR IT
Elden Ring expac: "You will not survive the winter"
Honestly Endwalker was a great expansion for player onboarding - Endwalker was my first expansion I experienced in real time and go to learn how the patch cycles work. I'm wrapping up on getting all my jobs to 90 and I'm going to be diving into Eureka and learning the harder extremes/savages next. By the time Dawntrail comes out I'll be able to rip right into it.
1.5x more materia/fireworks inside chests, yay!
I mean you dared to say FFXIV wasn't perfect. There will always be those that will be critical of you for that. Highly worth ignoring the zealots.
However, while I have always agreed throughout Endwalker that there isn't enough meaningful stuff to do and no challenge (particularly no midcore), it was the way you said it in your videos that put me off and was kinda cringe. To be clear, I never commented or got mad at you for that but I just quietly stopped watching. It felt like you were dumping your emotional damage from TOP all over the community and the game. I don't know if that was a factor or a build up of factors, but it doesn't matter. The end result was what it was. Sometimes how you say something is more important than what you say.
That being said I also feel somewhat vindicated by what Yoshi P said. I've been saying to my FF friends and in Discords for a long time that this was a problem. I never liked the idea of IS over Adventure Zones, I hated the lack luster relic "grind" from day one, there was no reason to do criterion, I was concerned with the new focus on solo play, and basically each patch was over in a day.
Here's to hoping things turn out for the better going forward.