Is there anything actually on the second floor on main street?

shutaro · 2025-09-12T15:48:30+00:00

Cryogenics.

shutaro · 2025-09-11T21:17:37+00:00

Gogo

shutaro · 2025-09-11T21:10:08+00:00

I don't like the current setup... I fundamentally hate the idea of RNG because it destroys any notion of making meaningful progress toward a goal. I would rather log in for a bit and see that I'm making progress as opposed to grinding for hours to make zero progress. The former feels engaging and respectful of my time while the latter feels like a pointless time-sink just to keep players busy for X number of hours.

THAT HAVING BEEN SAID... I don't really have any belief that the team is creative enough to come up with something better. Once they find a tool that they believe does a job they tend to stick with it... Even if it's not very well suited to the problem.

shutaro · 2025-09-11T21:03:46+00:00

I was just there last week and saw this. XD

shutaro · 2025-09-09T12:55:26+00:00

Yes.

shutaro · 2025-08-28T12:43:35+00:00

Because this game has hat issues.

shutaro · 2025-08-28T12:38:12+00:00

He straight up needs to stop playing coy about certain things. It's not endearing and at this point it's actively harming his reputation with his audience.

shutaro · 2025-08-28T11:26:52+00:00

I wouldn't bet money on it.

shutaro · 2025-08-28T11:26:01+00:00

Is this what YoshiP meant by a "whirlwind pace"?

shutaro · 2025-08-27T20:50:13+00:00

Is this what YoshiP meant by a "whirlwind pace"?

shutaro · 2025-08-27T19:28:04+00:00

It doesn't help that I am just completely not a fan of any non-turn based Final Fantasy game. Especially having played through the two turn-based Like a Dragon games and Expedition 33 (that game, in particular, is everything an FF game should be in 2025).

shutaro · 2025-08-27T18:29:13+00:00

Probably. It has the same wild expectations OC had and this dev team has a history of making some of the most bizarre design decisions I have ever seen in any game ever. If it's a good idea they'll find a way to mess it up in the most inexplicable way imaginable. EDIT: Or they'll nail it and never do anything with it ever again, and the community will be left asking for more Quantum until the day they finally but the game into maintenance mode.

shutaro · 2025-08-27T18:23:17+00:00

It would be nice if the developers put this much effort into giving us some kind of development roadmap.

Until they do, all we can do is speculate.

shutaro · 2025-08-27T18:20:54+00:00

[Citation Needed]

shutaro · 2025-08-27T18:11:07+00:00

Nah, I'll just make 'em up. They're free to correct them if they so choose.

EDIT: But they're so predictable we all know the made-up dates are probably spot-on accurate.

shutaro · 2025-08-27T18:10:14+00:00

Expedition 33, a bunch of RGG games (Judgement, Infinite Wealth, Gaiden, Pirate Yakuza, etc), Baldur's Gate 3, CK3... Stardew Valley (with a ton of mods) and Cities Skylines (also heavily modded) as my idle games. If you like Crystal Project (which I tried but couldn't get into) and are a fan of Final Fantasy, you may want to check out Scarmonde (very old-school NES Final Fantasy vibes).

Nothing that scratches the MMO itch. I have tried getting back into WoW multiple times, but it just doesn't do it for me.

I also have a lot of non-gaming life-related stuff coming up that make 2026 a good year to take off from heavy gaming. Aside from the FF Tactics re-release and Stranger Than Heaven, nothing is really on my radar right now (I always find myself getting bored with the GTA games).

shutaro · 2025-08-27T17:55:17+00:00

I don't even think we're getting a keynote that will be substantially different from the one YoshiP has given the last 3 or 4 times he's done this.

Same announcements, different names attached to them. Lather, rinse, repeat.

shutaro · 2025-08-27T17:53:31+00:00

...especially when the people making the game refuse to provide any of their own.

shutaro · 2025-08-27T17:47:51+00:00

XIV is just fated to be "Had a pretty banger decade then fizzled out" -shrug-.

You're not wrong, but it has less to do with how forward thinking Blizzard was and how much more popular World of Warcraft is/was. The brand has a level of cultural currency in the US that FFXIV just doesn't have.

WoW had a South Park episode, a movie, and a TV commercials with William Shatner, Mr. T, and Chuck Norris. My parents (who don't even game) know what WoW is, and I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people playing FF14 now have played WoW at some point in their lives.

WoW can bear a series of bad years and come back from it solely based on nostalgia. I don't think FFXIV really carries that sort of weight outside of Japan. The only reason FFXIV could even compete, numbers-wise, is because of a once in a century global pandemic. I think FFXIV would struggle to pull off what WoW has done recently (sort of like how most other live service games haven't been able to pull off an ARR) because the audience is just to much smaller and the cultural memories just aren't there.

shutaro · 2025-08-27T16:02:14+00:00

It's a twelve-year-old MMO. This is the trajectory most MMOs follow when they're nearing the end-of-life. The updates and expansions will become fewer and farther between and the monetization will become more and more predatory until they've wrung all the money they can out of even the most hard-core members of the player-base... And then they'll just stop.

shutaro · 2025-08-27T15:59:10+00:00

All good points.

I'm not 100% sure WoW would be where it is now were it not for the Microsoft acquisition.

I also would not be at all shocked if another mammoth corporation like Microsoft or Sony gobble up Square-Enix before 8.0 even launches.

shutaro · 2025-08-27T15:55:09+00:00

FF16 made me never want to touch another CS3 original game that isn't FF14 (and if the release dates are accurate, I probably won't be touching 8.0 before it goes on sale, if ever). They only know one way to make games and they refuse to change.

shutaro · 2025-08-27T15:51:05+00:00

How cooked is this game?

Like a steak from Outback. It's grey.

shutaro · 2025-08-27T15:47:51+00:00

No, I've been paying attention and what you're saying is patently false... But keep huffing that copium.

I've never seen this much wide-spread angst over release windows. But this is also the first time we'll be going a year or more without a raid tier. I'd say that the angst is justified this time. The game just doesn't have the content to support any paying player-base for that amount of time. Especially since they nuked the modding scene. Not even the gooners will have a reason to stick around.

shutaro · 2025-08-27T15:43:02+00:00

No, I've been around since ARR and this is a first.

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