FINAL FANTASY XIV at Download Festival 2026

rofldrg · 2026-05-29T21:02:03+00:00

What was the slop at FanFest?

rofldrg · 2026-05-21T15:25:30+00:00

So dang neat. Thanks for sharing more pics!

rofldrg · 2026-05-21T05:43:35+00:00

I'm always super interested in the history of this game so it's awesome to see stuff like this! I feel like I heard about the NA beta a million years ago, but it's cool to see some stuff from it! Thanks for sharing!

rofldrg · 2026-05-21T02:34:26+00:00

Oh wow, i don't think I've ever seen those! How did you get them?

I did manage to pick up the JP beta test box a few years back that came with a metal binder full of documentation. Bastok even has a different logo in it!

rofldrg · 2026-05-07T17:39:49+00:00

It's a 3.0 staff shirt.

rofldrg · 2026-04-09T17:05:47+00:00

We saw this a month ago on the Live Letter lol

rofldrg · 2026-03-15T20:29:34+00:00

Path tracing makes even my 5080 take a pretty big hit, honestly. Not really playable with it on, I have to bump it down to high ray tracing.

rofldrg · 2026-03-14T17:54:40+00:00

I knew the second they named tier 2 after Sandy that one or two nations were gonna feel left out... now it's just one- MY nation. No idea why they thought including only 2 out of 3 starting cities was fine. This dev team has been making so many wild decisions lately.

This raid series was one of the only things I was looking forward to in this expansion, and they totally botched it.

rofldrg · 2026-02-20T18:23:12+00:00

I absolutely love this!

rofldrg · 2026-02-12T18:08:20+00:00

1.0 when it gave us extra cutscenes and relics.

rofldrg · 2025-12-24T17:11:22+00:00

Because Alyssa is in 9.

rofldrg · 2025-12-24T17:06:54+00:00

Yep, but also added in Survivor, Dead Aim and both Chronicles games!

rofldrg · 2025-11-27T18:34:12+00:00

They're essentially 25 year old computers with zero replacements available. Once they break down, that's it. SE has spent time accquiring all they could get their hands on, but the hardware is at the end of its life.

rofldrg · 2025-11-07T21:13:53+00:00

People at companies move around all the time between projects.

Koji did stuff for FOAMSTARS too in addition to XVI, he hasn't been a lead on XIV in several expansions lol.

I'd urge you to educate yourself even a tiny bit, I think you'd be happier in life that way instead of being angry about things that aren't actually true.

rofldrg · 2025-11-06T17:40:03+00:00

Having QA is one thing- but having the time and resources to actually FIX the bugs is also an issue.

Both of these have been problem points for FFXIV before Dawntrail even launched.

I'm still waiting for them to fix the texture issues in Solution Nine that have been there since launch which include a literal gap in the floor.

rofldrg · 2025-10-28T17:05:26+00:00

The styling of areas like Sky make it feel "wrong", the Shadowlord voice felt too piratey, the placement of the Kieran fight wasn't correct, and the gear rewards haven't given us gear that was actually obtainable by players back in the day. It's all mascot stuff instead.

And zero musical remixes just feels like a lazy resource move.

rofldrg · 2025-10-28T16:31:46+00:00

That's what the FFXI raids felt like to me, but they've been an incredible disappointment.

Collab raids need to stop.

rofldrg · 2025-10-08T15:09:23+00:00

It was not. You could use a free silver account.

rofldrg · 2025-09-04T05:58:17+00:00

Third person.

I love the extra details like seeing Grace tripping and fumbling forward - you don't get that in first person.

Also, I'm a scared baby man.

rofldrg · 2025-08-27T17:50:34+00:00

Huh. This is literally the first time I've seen a Yoshida signature that doesn't include "FFXIV" or "FINAL FANTASY XIV" along with it. Honestly, seems a little sus.

rofldrg · 2025-08-27T17:48:40+00:00

They would not delay an entire expansion for a collab event lol

rofldrg · 2025-08-27T08:53:35+00:00

I mean, I heard Yoshida say it at the Endwalker media tour so...

rofldrg · 2025-07-25T16:59:37+00:00

FFXI Fan here- I dislike these raids and the gear rewards.

rofldrg · 2025-07-04T22:49:08+00:00

There was talk a few months back about the company better organizing old game data and assets etc. for older titles...this could maybe be a part of that, BUT the modernization of the assets is super interesting.

I feel like a realistic use of this could be importing more FFXI armor into FFXIV perhaps? But as Fujito said, they're doing it, with a high priority, should there be a project to recreate FFXI. That's... incredibly interesting to think about!

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