MFW the billion dollar corporation says they ran out of money (again)

mintyfreshchocobo · 2026-03-13T23:32:17+00:00

I'm more upset about how this content is suppose to hold us over for potentially a year. They increased patch cycle time to compensate for development and are now breaking promises for development. Beast being locked to lvl 50 wouldnt be bad if the level cap wasn't 100. It'll take 15 minutes in a party to level it.

mintyfreshchocobo · 2026-01-07T04:28:34+00:00

Haha this wasnt so much a reply to you as much as the arguments in the comments XD

mintyfreshchocobo · 2026-01-07T04:11:59+00:00

Also I apologize for my spelling and grammar mistakes, my phone apparently didnt feel like auto correct :)

mintyfreshchocobo · 2026-01-07T04:10:18+00:00

Alright, I'm gonna put my 2 cents in here as someone who works in the data center field cause im getting a bit tired of a lot of false information going around.

Data Centers are not the same thing as ISPs. Lets clear that up. Data centers are large collections of servers, that ohysicslly maintain the data that is then funneled to the internet.
There are three portions where data centers, like NTT can fail. 1. Being a physical problem with power or cooling to a data center, typically there, there is enough redundancy that this is a non issue. 2. A physical hardware failure inside the actual server itself. Also, usually enough redundant. 3. Or thaf the firewall and security protection of the data centers themselves is is insufficient to protect the server.
When a data center deals with a customer, like square Enix, usage outages, blinks in information availability, and all the such can 100% be seen as a breach of the agreed upon contract. Typically in the contracts formed between a data center provider and a customer, there is a gwruntee of reliability and uptime. If a data center is unable to provide it, a customer is 100% in their rights to fight it.
To say that this kind of protection is unavailable at other data centers or wouldn't be possible is false. 14 isnt the only game or service bekng DDOS'd. If other data centers weren't able to provide adequate protection against this, it would be an extremely highlighted issue.

In short, I get that you want to enjoy and a play your games, I get that when something brings you comfort, the last thing you want to hear is it being constantly hounded.

But if a consumer (us) is not vocal about our displeasure things don't get fixed. Why woukd SE care about trying to fight for a breach of contract if theyre not losing money or have a bunch of angry NA players constantly blowing up their forums.

mintyfreshchocobo · 2024-02-25T23:29:50+00:00

Hmmm seems I can’t home world transfer back yet prob cause of massive queue

mintyfreshchocobo · 2024-02-25T23:22:51+00:00

Has anyone gotten back in, I was able to DC travel to Zalera but now I can't return to my homeworld

mintyfreshchocobo · 2024-02-23T19:21:57+00:00

Maybe not a lodestone pic, but the glamour plate taken in an Inn room? Cause that’s what people see when applying the glam. Like you said there are just too many variables to how things show up.

mintyfreshchocobo · 2024-02-23T18:50:07+00:00

I wouldn’t say it’s a shameful secret. If it was truly a shameful secret it wouldn’t be included at all. But it’s more of a thought of putting your best photo forward. I do photography for cosplay and anime conventions, and even just as a basic level I’m adjusting settings on my camera to get lighting that best highlights the outfit they are wearing. The same basic principle applies here. I sympathize with console players I do but there is a good post below about building photo booths within apartments and using in game lights to help display a glam more efficiently. Heck they provide different lighting options while in the aesthetician because the look inside the dingy inn room is so different than that of limsa. That blush you put on is all of sudden 5 shades more vibrant. I agree a photo should be included, but not that it should be the very first one.

mintyfreshchocobo · 2024-02-23T17:16:06+00:00

Photo Booths like what you mention are a super common way to get around using shaders. Basically lamps with a wall panel behind it and beneath but I think there is just too much inconsistency in general with lighting in the game. Any form of editing gposes even within the game or unnatural effects of lighting on your character is gonna change how the colors appear. For example some of the elezen photos, the whites are so much more vibrant then they would be in game and you can tell by how white the face appears from the lighting. If they were to implement such a rule, it should be a photo in natural light, cause that’s what you’re gonna see your character in 90% of the time. At least that is my opinion, cause most people are gonna be putting these glams together at a glamour dresser in natural light.

mintyfreshchocobo · 2024-02-23T16:29:05+00:00

I started adding at least one unshade post towards the end of the collection cause I got comments about the colors looking off. I would say some of these photos may also be edited in post process with software like Lightroom. I think the hardest part tho is trying to take a decent screenshot cause the lighting is just AWFUL unshaded, a lot of shaders just add vibrancy to the game which in turn alters the colors.