Arthars reacts to "The Downfall of Final Fantasy XIV" by Lynx Kameli 

If I were to summarise my thoughts, I'd like to tell the dev team: "Take some more risks, and dare to challenge the players. The playerbase has *a lot* of goodwill towards XIV, even when some appear to criticise it. Don't let that goodwill go to waste because of playing it too safe."

i love 14 still after ten years but a dungeon's skill requirement needs to be higher than having a pulse lol!

I hate it when people boil things down to "EVERYTHING IS JUST..." If we want to be pedantic enough, all games are just "press right buttons at the right time". Other criticism is valid, that one is just a non-argument.

To be fair Gordias was also the point which practically destroyed community with how HARD raids were. I think we all remember Pepsi-man and how obnoxious he was.

I want to love the game again, "deletes character" idk sounds like he just wanted some E-clout man done nothing for 2 years than drops this vid that he didn't have the pair to drop when he quit

lynx is very reactionary. he does videos on trends. he quit wow mythic raids for ffxiv because quitting wow was a trend topic at that time. it's not a trend to quit ff14 now but he literally deleted his character to make this video lmao

"Every mechanic is stand, and let thing resolve" Well when you describe everything in the game at the most basic level, you can do that to every game to make it sound bad... Monster Hunter? Dodge, and attack when there's an opening. Soulsborne? Dodge, and attack when there's an opening. Makes it sound so much simpler than it is. Also on his consolidating the 1-2-3 combo into 1 button. If you think that makes the game easier, then you think pressing 1-2-3 actually takes *some* skill, which really doesn't. I'm all for consolidating 1-2-3 into 1 button because that frees up button bloat for more skills, because pressing 1-2-3 is a no-brain thing anyway, the hardcore players get more buttons to weave in, the brain-dead players don't mess up the combo, it's a win-win.

Question at 16:12 - Why do you quit Mythic raiding to do FFXIV (in BFA/SL)? Answer: because you need to do so much grinding before you can do mythic raiding! Doing both would be really really tough especially when at the time WoW likes to release content right after other MMOs do.

Considering how long ff11 has lasted I think its a long road for ff14 to fade out, could be wrong but I doubt it will be dying any time soon.

I think the normal dungeons were at their best during ARR and HW. Moderately challenging when doing them with the gear they're balanced for, and the devs wasn't afraid to try new mechanics.

The hardest part of any MMO is finding people that can do the hardest content that you ALSO enjoy the company of. The specific game is just a different flavor of the same thing. And whatever game that you've played that you have fun memories and made lasting friends with will be your favorite MMO, regardless of the coat of paint it has. When that MMO becomes stale, people will grow to resent it, because they can't always just move those memories and friends to a new game. And it's hard for those stars to align again in a new game, which can make people feel trapped or hopeless.

Every video regarding this topic addresses the challenging aspect of the game but i think most people forget something really important. Most of us been playing for a while and have grown accustomed to difficult/fast/complicated things. Sure they reuse a lot of stuff but even then, it just wont be as challenging anymore as your first time savage or even the 10th.

I remember he was very negative and I asked him "What about the story?" He said "I don't do the story". Then, yes, if I imagine playing this game for raids/PVP/misc content/ultimate that is once a ... year or two? Yeah......... I mean, it gets boring fast. Especially the amounts of dialogues you must skip even after story skip from an entire expansion that is current, it can be disappointing. No zone screams nostalgia, no zone has a meaning or NPC. You take the world for granted, you take the game for granted, this is why people's feedback was mixed, I remember him when he played and made videos. Then I knew he can appreciate the game without taking for granted, because I did not understand. What is a loss for me is because I know what he missed out for skipping. So an NPC or place that has much story nostalgia, or seeing a minion, it is just a place for another to explore. However, as somebody who love this game, the moment I'd say "Why do you not try this or that" after negative feedback, we get called "We are problem for not accepting criticism", in reality, I even spoke to him. He said he just want to do endgame contents, move on. So for me, it makes sense why the feedback only comes from what is experienced in the raids........ but because there is no story attached in his world, no connection, it is just as he says "Resolve gimmicks and be done". While it makes sense, he did choose to play this game at the most boring way. Adding to this: I saw his comment sections too, I never felt people were obsessively upset about him criticism, but I remember even myself was shocked he is story skipper. So then it makes more sense why the game can look bad. I think nowadays I am scared to protect aspects of this game because people then call me troublesome for not allowing criticism, but even I have criticism.

The worst mistake SE made was replacing the Bozja-style content by crtierion which are either brain-dead or savage level. Bozja fit that midcore niche and IMO the large-scale of it with so many players is really the essence of what a MMO should be. Now that it's gone though, if you're midcore like me well you grind the savage for a few days then come back next patch. But talking about "the downfall" of ffxiv is pretty hilarious tbh, the game literally goes through the same cycle every. single. xpac. Population will keep dropping for a few months, then as the marketing campaign kicks into high gear it will increase again. Dawntrail will be following the same formula, and the cycle will begin anew.

‘Zero skill, zero responsibility… Zeromus’ truly hits hard

He didn’t need to make fun of random players to make his point, also way too heavy handed on the doomer rhetoric. Dude hasn’t even played in two years

I understand the predictability part so much... it really shows that when they released the surprise trial with bozja making it an 8 trial expac, and now we also get an 8th trial in the end, that this is enough to excite me

I disagree about stories in MMOs, a lot of games I played in the past lacked stories and died off very quickly. The ones that I remember that had a stories, stayed around longer, games like dragon nest, when it was invested in its story it was and interesting game not only did it have good combat mech, but I was also fighting for a cause a purpose. The chaos needs order to funnel through the game, and while I do believe some games can pull off not having a story *black desert* but that slowly changing. I think more MMOs benefit from having a compelling story. Why should I care about doing this thing, fighting this thing, rescuing this person, or saving this country? Look at what compelling stories did for Honkai, Genshin, and these are "phone" games. Stories get us to connect with the characters, the world, and so on. I'm sure Arthars did enjoy doing Ultimates but knowing the stories behind them added extra weight.

Played WoW since 2005, still find things to do in that game both in retail and classic that I enjoy, been playing FF since 2013, still find things to do in FF that I enjoy, both games have plenty of communities and other community related content to engage with that could still be enjoyable. The idea of what an MMO anymore has changed so much in even the last 5 years, that the idea that an mmo needs to have some sort of constant deep content added patch over patch is just a bit goofy at this point. If the players that really wanted to keep playing because they love the game so much they don't want to step away wanted to actually keep playing, they will find things to do. FF has always marketed itself as an mmo you can step away from, which is a concept it has embraced whole heartedly.

Thinking of fight design, I think Barb Ex was their best. Relatively easy mechs but frenetic in execution. If they're adamant in making every rotation easy, fight mechanics should be faster with a bit more randomness.

Albert Wesker has a much better take on all this.

Dont think its "the downfall" at all, just a slower period between two major stories.

I don‘t necessarily disagree with everything Lynx said, but some of these takes are such bullshit that I just refuse to take him seriously. Motherfucker didn‘t even play Endwalker lol.

I remember when I played Blade & Soul, the mechanical design of many dungeons was very interesting, but that might be because it was an MMO that was more ARPG-oriented. In short, I have never seen those interesting non-formulaic mechanisms since playing FFXIV.

41:35 "I don't wanna play another game, I wanna play FF14" FUCKING PREACH IT.

All I want is for them to change their weekly tome formula which hasn’t changed from ARR when there were 10 less jobs. Also the savage page cost which makes it impossible to bis all 18 jobs. You should be able to bis all jobs between raid tiers. Even if it’s pointless you should be able to if you want to. Otherwise there’s not really a point to having all jobs on one character. Better off making 17 alts and clearing savage 18 times per week. That’s the only way to bis all jobs between tiers which is ludicrous. The tome/page formula NEEDS more altering.

Removing an extra dungeon a patch freed up resources for Eureka and Bozja, or so Yoshi-P stated. The issue with Endwalker (and some of Shadowbringers) is that a lot of the time was moved over to the FFXVI development team. Hence, less content than Stormblood. From what has been announced and talked about by Yoshi-P, it does seem that Dawntrail will have the most content since Stormblood (maybe even more).

Vindictus combat as an mmo is still fun to this day despite the age being eh...but it's one example that goes against stand and let resolve as most of the mechanics are very active. Some do exist but those bosses typically have other mechanics that make up for it. I feel as though the common enemy AI could use a fix to be a tad harder but that's not where it shines, at least I think.

tbh I just want some/more proc mechanic on a trial/raid that happens randomly or when you do something specific with specific comp. Sometimes I just feel sleepy when raiding because of how scripted everything is (even rotation).

This guy's whole video demonstrates the classic gamedev adage of "players are great at identifying problems and terrible at identifying solutions".

I always feel like the arguement: If we put all the combo buttons on just one button we can get more engaging combat by freeing up space for more GCDs/OGCDs/different combo strings, is just wishful thinking because let's be fair we all know if we get combos condensed into a single button we aren't getting more combos as a trade off.

They can't even make the game more difficult. The majority of the playerbase can't do simple mechanics and are bad at the game. If the game is made more difficult, unless you have a static or friends who are decent, good luck getting past story dungeons lmao

"First time in history" dude lost me in the first line haha. Game has had constant rocky parts and slow progression to greatness. Go out and touch some grass Lynx.

I went into the new Ex Trial with PF. It was a Prog from Start Group. First pull = Enrage Back then on Thordan Ex it took me nearly a month to clear it with PF.

Honestly, my only gripe with FF14 even as a Raid logger is that the patches are just wayyyyyy too predictable. I just hope they throw some occasional surprises at us. I would love more midcore content as well to play with some IRL friends who have less time to sink into the game, just like Xeno has recommended. I trust that Yoshi-P and the team will probably see many of these takes and hopefully listens to a few of them so that they can spice up the game just a little. I have a whole bunch of thoughts, but I’m too lazy to type them all out, and I’ll keep huffing Copium for Dawntrail as it seems like it could be a Stormblood 2.0 content wise.

damn Froddo Baggins failed dex check while throwing ring to lava, what an unlucky lad, should have played bard

The joke is on lynx because it doesn't take a full expansion to level every job. I tend to have my main and potentially a second character as well as all of my crafters and gathers completely maxed before the first raid tier comes out. By the end of the first raid tier, I tend to have all of my jobs completely maxed out while raiding. Leveling is incredibly easy and really fast in this game. It isn't like it was in ARR or even heavensward where it was possible to hit a ceiling to do story then needing to grind for hours just to do the next set of story.

I love the setting and crafting better on ffxiv than wow, for that I don't plan on ever going back to wow. However, i still want wow to succeed to help give ffxiv some good competition.

That time we took in our static a guy that was also raiding in wow, he logged off after we cleared 1 boss instead of staying for the whole raiding session to start the prog on the next one... That was kind of funny but we also ended up looking for someone else lol

The last boss in the new 24 man reusing mechs is kinda the point tho lol. You're fighting all of the twelve put together it makes sense that it's basically a montage of previous mechanics.

For the record, i level all jobs because im very finnicky and if i want to do high level content, or even just max level content, i like having the ability to choose any job i might be feeling.

We need more things which takes the players attention away from the boss during a bossfight - things like the nails from ifrit - tie them to buffs/debuffs - make things more mechanical - example 4 pillars , each different colour spawn, debuff on players that shifts state every 5 seconds, need to break pillars and be stood within the blast radius of the pillar while having the state of the debuff match the colour of the pillar - then you have a mechanic thats not just stand in X

Suffering from success is not just a meme. It's 100% what happens in reality to almost all game dev companies. Once you start printing money, what's the incentive to keep grinding and innovating? Yeah, you can hire new workers, but the original spark that created the success in the first place stagnates.

"Zero responsibility. Zero skill. ...Zeromus." destroyed my sides.

i really miss the samurai front conal damage instead of aoe self. I still play samurai as a conal

A random though just came to me. If you take mods away from the game. How many will still stick around for all the content?

This is about RANT YTubers I "think" that most RANT YTubers have no idea about the statistics... I am pretty sure that SQ can see what players are doing in FF14 - 24/7. SQ devs are aware of what's going on... Another point is long term changes... We don't know the long term TO-DO list of FF14. Most of the time, we only see coming features and changes for the next patch. (we don't see internal TODO plans ^^) They cannot change things NOW when they have them on a step-by-step TO-DO list, because if you change things, you can break a chain of things in this huge game. A huge game like FF14 is a mix of old school ARR 1-50 things, on the other hand, they have to move forward every day to make the next add-on possible. I hope after Dawntrail they will also change ARR 1-50 in the long run, and make it more enjoyable for newcomers - See, "the World Map and navigation is very ARR Old School, many newcomers have no clue what is where ... better take look at a FF14 Map Database ..." Well, most RANT YTters are just entertainers ...or it's just satirical bullshit ... The best thing is that SQ don't give a dime about this satirical YT entertainment! But when RANT YTubers like to RANT like a pro? Why these RANT YTubers don't write bug reports and suggestions to SQ, instead they just RANT about game mechanics like a crying child. The stupid thing is that some FF14 players don't know that those RANT YTuber have no idea how to "make" an MMORPG "and maintain it" for many years to come ^^. Most of the time RANT YTuber are selfish bullshit talkers - or at best just very good "satirical entertainers with humor" YoY. I play MMO since UO - RANT YTuber they come a go (a long MMO time before, it was FF14 Forum board RANT only), They RANT on every game they have played some hours :P Because only negativity wipes are good for entertainment and get more views, what a bad (gaming / media entertainment) world or? And did you ever think that roleplayers "just have fun" and "don't wait" for the next RAID mechanic or gear upgrade? They just play RP in FF14 "for fun" that's all, maybe they wait for the next Glam Thing ... but some RANT YTubers "know FF14 better and speak for everyone" because they are very LOUD entertainers for X k viewers or? ;P At the end of the day ... RANT YTubers don't make FF14 a better place, most of the time they make MMO places more toxic ... they cry for things "they have no clue about". How do you make these changes? In a running AAA MMO product like FF14, with millions of players! ^^ At the end of the day ... millions of FF14 players ... Don't see this FF14 RANT bullshit, at least I hope not! ;)

"I don't even know the story to Asheron's call" There was story!?

Lets not pretend like we didn't get here because of this community. People complained about any dungeon with mechanics that remotely required any thought and what did the devs spend their time on? They went all the way back to even ARR and made all of them the same floor aoe mechanics. Stormblood trials like 4 lords that were more experimental? People complained. Any sort of differences between class rotation, gameplay and damage-people complain. How did you think this would end? Everything about how the game is now makes sense to me looking at how the community behaves if the devs are trying to make it the most accessible. Its not that they are doing less-they made a decision on how and where to use their resources based on the players. I just hope they are willing to course correct. I'm one of those minority mid core players and god is it awful here.

it's really the dungeons that are a problem. There needs to be something more to them than just site seeing while pulling mobs down a single path. add doors, conditions that depend on the game world around you, interactive objects, interesting pathways and then the bosses. I would be fine with MSQ dungeons being fairly linear with mild challenges as long as optional dungeons had more risk and non-linear designs.

46:39 mark em folks

Interesting seeing the pov of xeno and arthars I thought they'd agree more on topics in this video.

"What is the point of his takes if he no longer plays the game" All the people who came over during the exodus and all the "WoW player tries" content creators would like to have a word with you.

Complaining how the story is not even important. The devs already mentioned that this is an rpg first then an mmo 😂 This is the only reason why I played this game

honestly at this point I feel the argument of "the ff14 community silences all negative takes of the game" or whatever is such a weak grab now, just grow a pair and say it

The nice thing with Ultimates is that they give a reason to grind Savage. I definitely just do the one clear of Savage in tiers without Ultimate following

Game IS currently baby mode sadly. In class design and dungeons/fights

They should make it so that you can get Savage gear every week for every class. I enjoy Savage, but there's only 1-2 hours of reclears per week, and it would be nice if I could grind reclears on several classes, gearing them all up simultaneously.

6:45 I respectfully disagree. If story doesn't matter for you, doesn't mean it doesn't for everyone else. There are players community calls "plot watchers". they are genuinely invested in a story. Those players play FF14 because it's a good story game and not because it's an MMO. Probably because they loved other Final Fantasy games in the past of other jRPGs. Everyone has their own reason to play games, and disrespecting their preferences is a narrow-minded and self-centered way of thinking.

Ok my biggest problem with this whole argument, as someone who does savage and doesn't understand how people have seen the mechanic 2-3 times and still don't get it, is that a lot of people don't want to engage with difficult content. I've been playing bulder's gate 3 with my partner, and we're on the final act, over 100 hours in. He still can't read the map and still doesn't understand some of the combat systems. You better believe he recognizes a merchant immediately though and knows exactly how to spend an hour dying his armor exactly the color he wants. I'm sorry all these players are getting exhausted with content. I'm still trying to find players who don't take 2 months to memorize a 9 min fight correctly

They should really focus on the veteran players, they are the ones that really care for the game. It's all just getting boring and predictable, and also there's no reward for doing high-end content, you just get a glamour, you won't do more damage in roulettes, or any sync content, you are just bound to AFK and show off your weapon in Limsa. This game has become the casual paradise, that's why I just went to Lost Ark.

The community thing I can agree on. The others point are uh, really half baked. 1. Knowing the amount of dungeons/trials/raids to come is good. Cause literally a majority of other games will tell you "Oh it's coming it's coming soon tm". They've delivered a consistent amount, every time. Not once in my 5 years, nor my other friends who've played, have told me "Yeah there was this one patch where shit got completely cut after they announced one dungeon one trial and the Raid". Also if the formula is so bad, then how come popularity is so damn high? Edit: Okay there was the Shb Ultimate, ya got me. 2. SE is a business, and FF14 is simply a money maker within the business. A huge issue I think is SE not funneling funds back into FF 14 so they can DO MORE WITH THEIR MONEY MAKER, which I can agree with. Calling the store "garbage" is subjective. Are there some bad items? Yeah Gaia outfit comes to mind. Otherwise it's part of the business. Mount certainly aren't reskins thank god. One man's trash is another man's treasure. An opinion can exist, and many can agree to it, but end of the day everyone has different likes and dislikes. 3. "Stand and let thing Resolve". The worse of the points Lynx makes. It discounts everything as Arthars says about fights. That is taking any game with combat and watering it down to the most basic understanding. "Lack of creativity" is immediately invalid when DSR and TOP exists. "Stand in safe spot and let thing resolve" is ANY MECHANIC in ANY GAME. Because Lynx himself is afraid to bring up any actual example for fear of exposing he doesn't understand what is actually "difficult". The man as my first point proves, literally disproves "The formula isn't working but the game is more popular than ever". 4. "Moment of Glory" is... Jesus christ. Healers, Rez Mage, or Summoner rezzing people and saving the run. Tanks who get to LB3 without consequence to mitigate the Big Bang Attack of the boss like Alexander, SoS, Endsinger. DPS too get to LB3 have a moment of glory in EVERY fight cause they are the only ones whose LB does damage. Wanting the old Stormblood system will always be a bad take. I shouldn't have to learn 4 other Jobs to make the ones I wanna main "good". Conal AoEs were bad, glad they're gone. 6. The line about Cat Moms is just, unnecessary. Didn't even need to post someone's face. Could have just said it instead of shaming someone for whatever reason. I was gonna move on but what's the problem with someone having a character they love? This guy could have made the entire point about how battle content is not as difficult as it used to be, but is injecting these weird jabs at women... Being emotional about things??? Starting to think that one comment about the guy quitting cause static kicked him out and he got rejected by a woman he had interest in is true. Funny how both things involve G'raha Tia at that! XD 7. To end it off, there's points I agree and disagree with. I want the game to improve so there's more to do however while a critic I criticize things with legitimate reasons that don't contradict each other, throw shade at communities within the game, or sum it up to "The dev team doesn't care about us". If anyone is still reading this, thank you and I look forward to any discussions had. Just don't fight about it lol.

To be fair there is quite alot of things to do in FF14 but it is an old game and many people have been playing this game a really long time so its bound to happen eventually if you play long enough you will probably eventually do everything the game currently has to offer. Pretty much every game has this problem. FF14 is still a fantastic game over all to me. Definitely one the best Final Fantasy games of them all.

I don't think the game is perfect, but I'd wager only paying a game for 6-8 hours daily for 5-10 years should be classified as a mental illness. The people who make the game cannot possibly be held to the standard to please someone so absolutely insane. They're making an entertainment product, not selling you glorified psychiatrist software to fill the bottomless void that is your life. That's a you problem dog. Ask a motherfucker if he's ever liked eating only 3 square meals of taco bell for a decade and come back to me.

27:50 so, this means that people that are talking about button bloat want a mechanic similar to aion, where you press a spell, and next spell pops up, next spell pops up and that's the combo? If that's so, then yes then i agree. For more buttons, yes. Aion did this well, and there were a few ps1 rpgs that did this, like legend of legaya and another one, legend of dragoon. If they give us combos like that? then yes, i accept 100%.

i think in regards to consolidating multiple bvutton combos into one button. i think it would be cool if you oculd like basically customise your own hotkey combos and and consolidate them yourself to a single button. adds maybe a little more customizeability and i htink the system would be more adaptable.

Endwalker made me stop playing FFXIV for good. Now I'm good playing on a private FFXI lv 75 era server

Lynx got a lot of shit back when he was active, and often times deserved, as his takes were always centered around hardcore stuff and nothing else. My personal biggest gripe with his takes is a simple one...he is a kid. His takes are based on his very limited experience and his constrained frame of reference, which makes them shallow and short sighted.

Lynx is just vile in general. Not all of his points are garbage but the way he presents them is. Ive been playing since arr and no one is fucking missing cross class garbage where if you wanted to play a white mage you had to level 2 other goddamn jobs. Nor do i miss leveling my lancer to lv 35 just to get bloodbath as a cross class action or whatever for my other dps. It was a nightmare to sit through. Attributes were good job designs? Lol in what world, are we all forgetting the sm/blm dilemma with having to respecc attributes? If there is one thing this community has shown me is that whenever they complain about shit and the devs take it away, 2 years later you see people moaning about the stuff that got taken away even though it was them that wanted it gone in the first place. Ast cards. Bard not doing dps lb, tank dps stances being annoying to switch, griefing healers never turning off their dps stance to heal for raid wide. Eureka being dogshit, bozja being loved or hated and what have you not, the list goes on. There are many flaws with the game but i find it funny how these old, terrible design choices are now being hailed as the pinnacle of ff14 game design when it certainly has never been.

I think the big gap is you eventually realize that the game does a lot of dripfeed content. Now, that can be fine if the content is actually meant to keep you busy, but the content in Endwalker doesn't give a shit if you do it or not. There is nothing there and what content there is doesn't have any meaningful rewards. So if as a player you don't have anything to do you do old expansion content. But eventually you run out of content and now the dripfeed can no longer be ignored. My opinion right now is the only good thing Endwalker added to the game is the PVP season pass. Criterion while fun you clear it once then there's no reason to give a shit about it. Variant you can do in a day. Alliance there's no reason to do it either. And the dungeon content is truly horrendous overall so it's just Savage, Ultimate, and EX for long term content. And if you're not into those or done with those wtf is there actually there to do in game?

30:00 counterargument, then why tf should I care about your takes, if you are not willing to speak about your reasoning at all?

last time he played was in january 2021, almost 3years ago

His last point was probably the better one, but for me the 2 min meta thing he brought up was what has really stung me this whole expansion. Like They already lined eventually in the fight so why take away 60's, 90's, 180's from the game? If I'm being honest, EW was probably their laziest expansion.

long time viewer 1st time comment :D I THINK HE CAN COMPLAIN ABOUT ANIYHING 24/7 JUST GIVE HIM VIDEO

Emotional daaaamage

seems like the diary has a new entry l

When I logged in with a queue of 24, I somehow doubt theres a downfall in ffxiv.

I feel like the arguement he makes at 25:00 about the game not being challenging is because I feel like Alexander raid is when people started actually getting better at their jobs and looking for improvement. There's a reason why so many statics disbanded on just Faust in the very first fight and it was just the door boss. Now we have all these guides to proper rotations and it's just a matter of people wanting to look for those guides and practicing them until they can do them

Guy who hasn't played endwalker or Heavensward telling people endwalker sucks and Heavensward was way better

I started feeling game was not for me, When max mp got put to just 10k, piety is some what useless and need to be change. healers ogcd are too powerful so never need to hard cast a healing spell beside few instance of high dmg output. It make me feel why even bother needing 2 healers.

This happens at the end of every expansion. This guy hasn't played in 2 years.

I can't say that overall ESO's encounter mechanics are better than XIV, but there are certainly some that are really are creative in ways that XIV just doesn't, and admittedly can't, have. One of the first ever raids, called Trials in ESO, has you fight the The Warrior, and the Veteran Hard Mode of this fight is a good example. You are in a large T-shaped room, and around the room are 12 Gargoyle statues that wake up one by one. You can't just dps them all because you won't make the boss's 50% enrage, so the OT takes them away from the group and kites them until the enrage when they will die at the start of the next phase. However, if the OT dies, they'll just rampage wipe the group, and there are too many, but the boss has an attack where he throws his shield in a line aoe at a random player and that can also destroy the statues. So the MT and group needs to line up the boss to hit as many of the statues as possible before they awaken, while dodging or blocking the shield to able to dps him enough. He also petrifies players periodically, which the shield will break them out of, but also players can "break out" of it though this lets off an aoe around them with massive damage. All the while there are dangerous adds that need to be interrupted and killed.

I just didn't really like how he shit on how people want to play the game. He obviously didn't like how he played the game any longer, longing for the bad old days of cross class actions (which, fine by me, I have all jobs at 90 -- even though I think it'll breed the same nasty bullshit WoW has) or stat attributes allocation (which legit makes other jobs kinda useless depending on the allocation). While there are a few points I do agree with that the cycle is predictable and the content is predictable -- I'd rather that than an unpredictable schedule with scattershot content. I would rather have MORE things on top of what we already have. Besides -- saying that "They got rid of our dungeons" is whatever. People only ever do a dungeon once, realistically, and will only repeat it if there's something in that dungeon they want (minion, glamour, orchestrion roll, etc) -- otherwise nobody wants to do that dungeon again. And TBH, I haven't done any of the Heavensward Hard Dungeons since I progressed out of Heavensward. And since I don't do 50/60/70/80 dungeon roulette, I never get it -- I actually don't even do that roulette BECAUSE of that. While he has every right to criticize the game, going out and shitting on the community -- especially those that watched his videos and put money into his pocket, is stupid. Taking the Work2Game approach as his FFXIV Swansong isn't just childish, it's alienating an entire group of people -- again, especially those that watched his videos, watched whatever ads he had on his videos and gave everyone that were his fans the middle finger.

Best reaction. Kept it real.

Levelled all the combat classes. Classes boring. I’m casual and lament doing roulettes as it is 2 mobs + boss = repeat.

Friendship ended with xeno,now arthar is my react andy

WoW is better for gameplay. FF14 is better for story. It is simple and everyone knows this.

Ultimate = Marathon.

great video athars i hope for the best for the game and i still play it, but i do see what you all are saying about the game.... dear squareenix the only thing i want in this game in the last 8 years of playing this game is strife hair please make it happen i want the hair in nov. 2023 thank you.

He makes some good points, but the whole “stand and let resolve” thing he says so many times really messes with his credibility for obvious reasons. Also defending attribute points was a questionable choice.

this lynx guy should try playing wow classic hardcore, if he isn't already.

His opinions on fight design reminds me of the people who throw shit at Dark Souls by saying things like “this game is so bad, all you do is dodge and hit.” And at that point I think you just need to take a break from video games and go find something else to enjoy. Cause he clearly doesn’t enjoy games right now. That’s also putting aside that the fun parts of raiding in XIV comes from optimizing uptime during mechanics, so him saying he just “waits for mechanics to resolve” tells me he probably sucks at the game too

It's funny how this game has no unique items outside of Eurkea. I liked the Kirins Osode, Cassie Earrings, Strider boots etc. Now I don't even play the game daily anymore i just wait for the end of expansion and come back and get everything when there's no waiting period and relic weapons quest are cut down. Months before Endwalker came out, i came back to the game and after a 1-2 year layoff and had better gear than people who played daily. There's really no reward for playing this daily.

No one is ever willing to minILVL an old fight anymore and would rather rofflestomp a boss with over lvl geared instead of taking a handicap.

the only good thing i can think of when it comes to the 2 minute burst, is that fights can be balanced around it, so the 2 minute burst doesnt happen when the boss becomes untargetable, but even then i'd rather have the 45s 90s 150s 180s cd buffs, cause if the boss becomes untargetable, then you play around it. Maybe you delay the first big burst window until 35 seconds in, cause it lets the 90s buff person use their buff a bit before the boss becomes untargetable and it lets you do your big burst, just as the boss becomes targetable again and everyone has their buffs ready and job gauges full, that would be more fun cause its not just "oh my buff skill is coming off cooldown, guess i'll use it instantly"

i havent played in liek a year. ive been playing since early release. im excited for the xpac but man. these videos lately make me really afraid to go back... and i always take breaks so i dont get burnt out. this game still ranks top 5 for me i kinda wanna keep it that way. should i go back to the game after the xpac?

me after playing for 8+ years (never having touched an unreal, savage or extreme) logging in everyday and still love the game to bits: 👁👄👁

This guy hasn't played the game in 3 years cuz he got kicked from his static for being a rager

Having ADHD and as a raider, really make me bored out of my mind with current EW stuff. At least old content just here giving options to do and currently Eureka got my attention to grind for my DRK weapon and armor.

I think the main problem with FFXIV is the approach they take to designing content. I get the impression that the narrative comes first in most cases, that is to say they have a plot layed out, and then fit content into place around that. It's not even that it makes things predictable, it's more that the gameplay element is essentially an afterthought. They didn't add Zeromus because they thought of a cool mechanic or gameplay element unique to them. They added a Zeromus fight because the plot demanded it. As a result the content can often become cookiecutter, if they don't get much inspiration for the scheduled story fight, we'll get something bland. Same thing with dungeons and zones. They're added because the plot demands a "scene" to play in. YoshiP has talked in the past about how he views expansions and patches as new seasons to a show, and yeah I think that's how the game is primarily designed. FFXIV is not a RPG first, MMO second, as some people like to say. It's a show first, RPG seconds, MMO distant third... Eureka was probably an exception to this, where they built around the idea of a zone for a Relic grind first and foremost, with a plot stuck on after, and honestly I think they need to do more of that. Doesn't even have to be Relic related, and if they really wanted to wow people, it would be part of the expansion from day one, not in a patch down the line. Doesn't even have to be a new idea, I mean really Eureka wasn't even new, it took heavy inspiration from FFXI content. Just do that again (or better yet, refine and improve) and throw something like Besieged in at the start of Dawntrail, or Wings of the Goddess' Campaign system. Heck, the Reclamation system from Seekers of Adoulin would just make so much sense in Dawntrail it's not even funny. We could have an entire gameplay element of clearing the land to expand and explore the map to find this golden city. Locking story progress to your servers progress on such a system doesn't seem so bad when server travel is a thing, and a race to be the first server to reach the Golden City is the sort of thing MMOs are made for... What? No? Five leveling zones and a sixth "endgame" zone yet again? Sigh...