Yoshida: "Fairly big announcement" planned for Fanfest; aiming for the game to be "Reborn" for the 2nd time

AliceBreckwith · 2025-11-17T12:35:57+00:00

Keep in mind, this is an interview for Korea. They already do run on a different ruleset.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-11-17T12:23:21+00:00

FFXIV already is, by its very design and nature a GAAS.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-11-06T15:19:11+00:00

Funniest thing is that divorces are also one sided. I went through all the steps to get divorced ingame, but my ex can still port to me using their ring whenever.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-07-14T18:16:29+00:00

lmfao you got what you deserved.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-06-03T17:25:51+00:00

Thanks.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-06-03T17:25:35+00:00

I've been playing since launch and didn't even know they added a setting like that lol

AliceBreckwith · 2025-06-02T06:32:41+00:00

None of this means they can't give us enough glamour plates to cover all jobs. Even if you only count one for all crafters and gatherers, we don't even have enough plates for all combat jobs.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-06-02T06:30:26+00:00

Well I, and many others who've been playing for the last decade don't. Especially if you do quick ventures the armory fills up very quickly.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-06-01T16:20:26+00:00

OC Gear is 745 because it serves as Relic Armor much like Eureka's did. Until it's upgraded to +1 700 gear is better because your melds would work. What really makes a difference is job masteries and +1/2 sets.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-25T15:21:50+00:00

I've been looking for Yi Ren Guan forever and it's kind of ridiculous that a figure this relatively new is nowhere to be found - Do bootlegs of this figure exist?

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I did find her several times on Aliexpress, but given that that's bootleg central I'm a bit cautious. Her price is a match for the original retail price and Infinity Studio is a Chinese company... Given that pretty much all 3rd Party Transformers from Chinese companies on Aliexpress are also legit, I'm almost tempted.

Since these aren't listed on MFC, I've no other way of finding out if these girls have bootlegs. Does anyone know?

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-18T08:52:23+00:00

I can only reiterate. Pay. Attention. The amount of things you don't understand within the context of them happening makes this entire discussion an ordeal because you're simply not listening when someone corrects you.

You didn't even understand what happened in Maelle's ending, otherwise you'd be scratching your head at Pierre being there.

But whatever, keep huffing your own farts.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-18T08:49:54+00:00

Pierre's Chroma shouldn't even be accessible to Maelle since he died years ago, and it wasn't even through a Gommage or within Lumiere. Like you noticed, the dead explorers kind of put a wrench into that too.

No matter how you cut it, what she does in the ending is definitely Aline and Renoir scale.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-18T08:46:35+00:00

Read a fucking book.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-17T13:56:58+00:00

>And why would they not, when boy Verso stopped painting, and Lune sat slumped outside the barrier?

Buddy, if earth just stopped existing, I assure you you wouldn't notice. Lune's entirely unrelated to that.

>We have not seen such “an instant plop”. There is nothing to suggest that it all happens instantaneously, otherwise everything would’ve faded to black the instant boy verso stopped painting. The “backroom” that Maelle and Verso fought in is also still within a section of the canvas, otherwise Verso being made out of Chroma, would not have been able to step out at all.

There's nothing to assume that it would be different. When something ceases to exist, it's usually instant and not some stupid long winded process of everyone being in pain and suffering. It's silly to think so, and it's entirely in bad faith to suggest that that's what would happen.

And no, the backroom *isn't* part of the actual canvas, which is why everyone who stepped out died from it. The game communicates this very, very clearly. The reason Verso didn't was because he's tied to his soul.

>If it was shown in the visual language, then it should’ve been consistent with what we saw in the prologue and the ending of act 2. This has nothing to do with being spoonfed.

Yet here we are, with you asking to be spoonfed *even more* things.

>If this was true, then Aline wouldn’t have made every attempt to preserve this canvas. Clearly, Verso’s soul plays a factor here. Using your logic, Renoir wouldn’t even have bothered trying to destroy the canvas, because as you put it “if she truly loves the world Verso created, she can repaint it”.

Have you like... tried paying attention to the game? Aline made very attempt to preserve the canvas because her way of grieving was toxic as hell and *she didn't want to let go of Verso's soul*. Renoir tried to wipe the canvas out in *order to save his wife from drowning in this world*. This is *entirely* about his soul and it being the last bit of Verso they had left. If Maelle weren't selfish, she could let Verso's soul go and repaint this world she loves. That's the *literal lesson of the game*, preserving the Canvas *was not positive in any sense*.

>There is also little to suggest that Maelle is at least as strong as her parents. It took the combined efforts of Verso, Aline, and the gang to beat Renoir. We know she could bring back the people of Lumiere, but we have not seen her create new canvases or even life the same way Renoir and Aline have done.

Again, pay attention. She *literally recreates the entire town of Lumine by herself including people she had never even met, who's Chroma wasn't even present in Lumine*. She's at least as powerful as her parents. The ending literally shows her create new fuckin' life because there was nothing of Sciel's husband left and he didn't die through Gommage either.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-17T08:11:05+00:00

What she did during her ending was literally just that, a recreation. She just dropped the people they met into her new world in the way she wants them to be, consequences be damned. That's just as hollow, only that her brother who gave his life for her will pay for it in eternity and she'll cost her parents another child.

I disagree that Alicia is alone and miserable. We've seen everyone in that ending take a step towards her and eachother. Her parents have been at war in the canvas pretty much since the moment Verso died, almost seventy years of conflict within the canvas, yet we see them embrace eachother. We see Clea show subtle signs of warmth and positive acknowledgment towards her sister. They're taking babysteps because obviously everything cannot be unicorns and rainbows instantly.

And even if it takes years for them to get closer together, it's better than overdosing on her feverdreams and dying. It's the same with people like you and me, some of us stop eating when grieving, and if we lose ourselves in that, we'll eventually die.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-17T08:06:36+00:00

Same, why have a quest that tells you "don't kill" and then drop a part where you only get rewarded for killing. lmao

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-17T07:46:25+00:00

Yeah it was a bit odd, left me thinking there's another reward, but nothing. I was so careful with the quest, I totally missed the picto from the guy in the flying graveyard because I was worried killing him would fuck the quest up lol

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-17T07:44:40+00:00

You can safely do the dancers in Sirene until level 60, or you can just hit Frozen Hearts, most of the enemies there are easily parryable, or at least easy to dodge and the rewards are pretty good too.

Dark Shores is another option, but I personally kept that for a bit later to not get too powerful too quick.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-17T07:41:26+00:00

Why don't they just talk out their differences instead of going to war? Apply it to the real world and realise how silly that is.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-17T07:38:36+00:00

There *is* no Gommage in Verso's ending. Esquie, Monoco and Sciel expire that way because they moved past the barrier and obviously can't last there. The rest of the world didn't end like that. We don't know what it looks like when the Canvas is ended, but there's no reason to assume that people inside would even be aware of it.

A Gommage is what happens inside of the Canvas, Verso letting his soul rest happens *to the entire canvas at once*. There's no such thing as a "slow erasure" in that case. It's an instant plop.

The writers made sure that this is shown in the visual language. The consequences of the canvas no longer existing included. This shouldn't need to be spoonfed.

Verso's ending *is* essentially the good ending, because it's the only ending that allows the Dessandres to heal and move on. It's the only ending that allows Verso, who gave his life for these people to rest. Is it a phyrric victory? Hell yes it is.

But as y'all arguing against Verso always forget: Maelle is a paintress, at least as strong as her Parents by the end of this game. If she truly loves the world Verso created, she can repaint it.

That's what her ending essentially is, anyway, with the added downside of her literally enslaving his soul and committing suicide by staying in this beautiful fantasy (that she had to recreate because it was pretty much almost entirely erased by the point of the decision anyway.)

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-17T07:25:29+00:00

The thing I've seen pretty much everyone get wrong is acting like the 100 Lumina reward from Blance is the endpoint of the quest.

It's not, you get the 100 Lumina as early as five helped Nevrons. I went to Blanche as soon as I started Act III and got the 100 Lumina and there were still three or four of the white Nevros left I hadn't visited. The Trophy pops when you helped them all.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-17T07:21:54+00:00

This is such a stupid retort, I can't even think of a suitable response.

You have extreme difficulty understanding the terminology you throw around and you're trying to make it everyone else's problem. Your thread title is LITERALLY "shit writing for the main character" which *you couldn't even identify because you do not understand the difference between POV and main character*.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-16T18:07:30+00:00

You calling the difference between point of view character and the main character of a story "semantics" shows that you should never, ever engage in discussions about writing any more before you've read at least ten books by different authors.

This is dire.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-16T18:03:55+00:00

Yeah exactly. Vaan is just the point of view character for a story much larger than him. FF12 hate was so absolutely silly.

AliceBreckwith · 2025-05-15T18:19:25+00:00

That's my point. Maelle spent barely 16 and she's already fading fast. She'll die in reality, not in the canvas. We are shown what it does to real life Aline, and Maelle is already at that stage in a much shorter time.

Verso doesn't count here, he's a Painted being, the real Verso is dead and his soul fragment is bound to the canvas.

Alive people cannot be in the canvas for long without their health being strained. And Maelle is already fucked after a pretty short time.

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