"The Downfall Of Final Fantasy XIV" Left Me Confused.. | Alninio Reacts

[@darksunDS]

Oh look. it's Lynx again. 2 years later, same old tired song. You'd think after 2 years he'd grow and develop new ideas but no. It's the same old same old. it's called reductionism. Lynx oversimplifies mechanics to the lowest common denominator. That's literally 90%+ of all mechanics in any game. And in the cases where it's not, it still is. Not to mention by his own logic. "jumping across platforms" IS just "stand and wait for things to resolve" so is "jumping in a spot to be pushed up'. It's just a spot you need to jump to and wait for the mechanic to resolve. I'm sure he would say "it's different" because that's what his arguments have boiled down to. If HE likes it, or he sees it for the first time, it's good, ignoring the obvious. And don't even get me f**ing started on cooldown homogenization. Lynx is ONE OF THE REAONS WE GOT HERE. His and his ilk's obsession with speedruns and numbers got us this stupid problem in the first place. The only reason he's b**ing about it is because others are, and because some of the jobs he likes maybe don't fit the mold anymore. On the point allotment thing, it never mattered. It was only 30 points which meant individual points didn't matter too much and the only impact was felt or relevant when you dumped all points into one/two stats. In almost every instance people would just dump it all in "insert job main stat here" in almost all cases. Sure the hardcore min-maxers would maybe split points, but really, it was almost always just "MNK put 30 in STR" and move on with your day. You'd be right 99% of the time doing that. Illusion of choice isn't meaningful choice especially whenever you wanted to switch jobs too, since you had to constantly re-stat. That's not fun, that's not meaningful, it's just stupid.

[@conradpierce8994]

"I don't want to insult anyone" *proceeds to insult and belittle certain types of players*

[@Elyakel]

Oh god stop being offended for little joke

[@ricijs2000]

jokes are supposed to be funny @@Elyakel

[@kS-ic4rf]

its not a joke jokes are funny @@Elyakel

[@darkuscarlet]

Exactly my thought on that lol. Like VERY clearly being condescending on every type of player he described, especially people who.... get invested in the story of the MMO that gets memed and hyped for having a good story?

[@superjoran2899]

@@Elyakel joke? lmfao

[@maxwell4322]

So basically he made a video to say he's an elitist and doesn't like that the game was spending resources on casuals.

[@mosley3485]

Endwalker doesn't really have anything for casual players to do either. The only people who have "things to do" in Endwalker are Limsa mains and RPers who don't play content.

[@Rhob81]

He's made some valid points, but he fucked it up entirely when: - He tried to speak on behalf of the whole playerbase. - He involved other streamers and tries to mock them. - He belittled people that play the game for other reasons than high end raiding (leveling, RP, glam, story, etc.) So just an entitled brat, if he wants more focus on high end he can raid mythic and do high M+ in WoW, I guess. FFXIV is a causal game with hardcore stuff sprinkled on top and not the other way around, and it's always been like that.

[@trial_with_an_error9687]

A broken clock is right twice a day. The only valid points he made were job homogenization and the 2 minute burst window, which are points he stole directly from Xenosys, the same dude he tried to frame as too afraid to critique the game. So two valid points, which are points he stole from another KZbinrs videos, out of like...30 other points that are just objectively wrong.

[@everyonethinksyoureadeathm5773]

​@@trial_with_an_error9687the 2 minute window is 100% communitu afflicted and Lynx is part of the reason it exists. The whole thing was to cater to the speed runners who were trying to hyper optimize everything. Then getting mad when certain classes didn't fit their dps windows. The class homogeneity existed before ShB, it was happening to tanks and healers in SB. Threat was never an issue because Warrior Unchained was a thing and Ninja Shadeshift was a thing. Managing threat was all on the healers and DPS. However I also argue that the reason the classes are suffering is in part the engine and for healers its Yoshidas constant push to pigeon hole them as pure healers, instead of healers being a support class with intended buffs.

[@lunadead]

@@trial_with_an_error9687 2 min burst window is literally a fix to the complaint from the "hardcore" raiders and now the same people complains about it being tight because it's now 2 mins or nothing. Like either you want a dynamic and flexible rotation or you want a rigid rotation with buff available at the same 2 min tempo...you just can't have both.

[@hiddenmaster6062]

@@trial_with_an_error9687 And even then, what homogenization? This is Final-Fucking-Fantasy. Jobs aren't so wholly different to the point nobody shares an action. White Mages, Red Mages and Paladins use white magic, meaning they share many spells. Same with Black Mage, Dark Knight, Ninja, Scholar, Summoner and red mage with black magic. Warriors, dragoons and other attackers do be attacking. Yet they all have their identities. And here in FF14? FF14 is the most unique from each other these jobs ever been, even though they do share things to not only function but also gut any incentive to take one job just because it can't do something another job can. Like Paladin in Heavensward being the worst damage dealer in the game. Even AST was more competent than them. That shit ain't coming back. Paladin got their circle slash back, flash is dead, they can block magic like they should have from the start, and is still the de-facto off tank in the game. Every one of these homogenizing complaining idiots can't tell you what is different about any jobs. Who cares if DRK is the only one who can summon a clone. Who cares that RPR can transform while the dragon KNIGHT can't. Who cares about MCH having next to no randomness to their abilities like any other range. They all got a 1-2-3 combo. WAAAAH! It's all just stupid ass crying from stupid ass baby brats is what it all is. Who the fuck honestly complains about basic combos!!!

[@ArborusVitae]

I feel like the dude who made the video hasn’t raided much in WoW? I quit WoW after clearing the two most recent Mythic tiers to play more FF because FF raids are just way more engaging. As you were saying- FF fights are all about solving the stuff. WoW doesn’t have that at all. Almost every fight this tier was just standing and hitting the boss while 4 people go soak something or spread out. Three fourths of the group isn’t even involved in the mechanics and just hits a target dummy basically.

[@markup6394]

Lynx has raided a lot during ShB and ST, apparently he and his group did blind proggs and he is an expert when it comes to tanking. He also made some tank guides, that were very well received. But thats more than two ago now. He left FF14 shortly after EW droped if I remember correctly. I dont think he finished the first tier.

[@everyonethinksyoureadeathm5773]

​@@markup6394the guy is only number 1 because he kept running speed kills to maintain it. We are also talking Warrior here and it's not a difficult class to optimize. So idk if I would take Lynx advice.

[@markup6394]

@@everyonethinksyoureadeathm5773 Its not just Warrior, he played all tanks - if I remember correctly.

[@ArmageddonEvil]

@@markup6394 Yeah, but speeding through the game on mach 80 isn't a fun way to experience the game. lol

[@markup6394]

@@ArmageddonEvil It was for him. I agree with you: story is a big win for the game and I will tell any Sprout to pay attention and enjoy the moment, but not every player is into stories. Lynx was there for the raids and used to love them. And he's not the only one. Also, I'm not defending his douchebag attitude, I'm just saying where he comes from.

[@FessyDKnight]

Me and my static now regularly makes fun of Lynx for his statement on "stand and let thing resolve" because it's such a stupid fucking remark. The kid even beat TEA. What about Stillness and Motion, one of those things is definitely not "stand and let thing resolve" because you know what happens when you "stand and let thing resolve"? You die lmao. I'd also like to see him try to "stand and let thing resolve" with Pantokrator.

[@Simmons101]

The part that makes me laugh about the encounter mechanics (group stack, prey marker, tether grab, etc) is that's equivalent to saying "language is stale because it always has the same elements! You've got consonents, vowels, verbs, adjectives, and nouns!" I agree, the fun is learning how to use the tools you're given and resolving the quirks of the fight. I am willing to bet that every other MMO has the same deals going on.

[@Taxmt]

That's what I've been saying, though to really drive the point home the analogy I use is it's like he's complaining JRPGs are just menu navigation simulators lmao

[@saladv3028]

Like saying FPS games are just point and click games

[@adognamedsally]

Seriously. The fun part about those mechanics is learning them, not repeating them once you've solved them. Learning to do meteors in DSR was a difficult process and it took a while and that was the fun part. It wasn't more or less fun because it had the meteors from T9, a puddle mechanic and a heavensfall tower+knockback mechanic.

[@adrevenue726]

well yea i memerized all the letters so now i know every word ever 😁👍

[@Lithenius]

Imagine walking into a restaurant and getting mad that they have some options on the menu that you dont like. Thats basically what he's doing.

[@Akinon93]

even better, what he's doing is he only likes 3/10 things on the menu, but those 3 things are the only thing he's eaten in 6 years, and now he's upset because when they added an 11th thing to the menu, it wasn't a thing he liked.

[@Rotomoo]

I see a fellow Asmon enjoyer.

[@twocatsgaming6628]

.... and mocking others for ordering it.

[@velvetra29]

@@twocatsgaming6628 And he said "i don't want to shit on people's favorite food" before. Lol, lmao even.

[@MrCarlWax]

That's not even close to what he said.

[@markup6394]

He deleted his character supposedly because he's afraid of stalkers. Make of that what you will, but the only other people who feel compelled to delete their character due to controversy are e.g. the japanese guys caught at cheating TOP, and (eRP) weirdos. Also, he (like so many others who think they are so brave) accuses the "toxic" community for stifeling his opinion... Yeah, never heard that one before -.- If you can base your critique on facts, sure there will be still people hating on you, but many will listen and think. But he didnt, instead he used the popular "community is brainwashed"-angle by which he invalidates any opinion against him. Big brain move, sir, I applaud thee -.- I used to really like Lynx's tank guides when I unlocked that role; his raiding tips and how to improve gameplay were also very good. But shortly before EW he did a weird move: he wanted to main DRG in the next raid, but then decided against it - supposedly because "people know me as the tank guy, so I cant switch because people would be mad at me :( ". And a few months later, he quit. I dont know if he finished the first tier, but he was already gone before the second dropped, so there is that. Is his opinion valid? Of course it is. You just have to check out the 3k comments under his video: many agree with his take. Problem is (imo at least), he has no leg to stand on. He just hates on the game, and though some points might be justified, most of it is shy of a brat's temper tantrum: "I want this", "I dont want that", "but I dont want to do those", "I'm annoyed by them", "they are just bad and I'm good", "systems are useless", "everything's boring" ... He drives a wedge into the community, invalidating the fun and opinions of anyone who isnt on his gameplay level (and he was a top player, make no mistake, with the numbers to prove it) or isnt at least a raider. He belittles players, who have fun in all the other content the game offers, and is offended that SE doesnt prioritize his baby. His major mistake here is that the game is for everyone. It may not have been always this way, but it is now, and has been for many years. History shows many hardcore games (or rather MMOs) cannot sustain themselves without catering to non-hardcore players, there simply is no money to be had. EW introduced many new systems to occupy our time; it didnt always went well, some stuff went down the gutter, but thats a good thing, no? After all, it shows the devs arent afraid to try something new and fail. The game will never be perfect for everyone, but at least they dont give up on it and try creating things everybody can love. "Downfall of FF14" ... click-bait, nothing more. If I want critical takes, I'll watch Xenos: he gives good examples, properly explains his position, and doesnt s*** on or invalidates others.

[@Lenny28393]

Of course he is afraid of being stalked, look at your own post. Fucking Toxic positivity SS police of FF. I fucking hate the downplay and oversemplification of the game, all to cater to YOU people

[@MrAngryMonkey100]

well you listen to the woke nutjobs (like you) and raiders and not the actual playerbase you get what is happening.

[@OhSunchips]

Some things came to light and apparently his group was involved in RMT and potentially some other stuff and disbanded after people started leaking things. After the big fallout he had with his raid friends where he made a YT video breaking down in tears saying he was gonna quit FF because they weren't playing together anymore it's not surprising that he'd do this as one last chance to get some views and shit on the game that he feels like he's not allowed to play anymore. I think he's bitter about the game for other reasons, not that he actually thinks the game is getting worse or easier. Dude never even tried DSR or TOP. Didn't touch this raid series at all.

[@everyonethinksyoureadeathm5773]

​@OhSunchips I figured that was the case. Makes sense as to why he has 12k hours now. Also Lynx is not a 6 year veteran, his how to sell FF to wow players he admits he bought a skip to the current expansion. Eden was his only raid tier he had numbers on. Yet I'm not surprised 12k hours and rmt selling fights for 800 bucks is a lot of mone per fight. (We are talking ultimates and savage clears). The savage fights have gotten mechanically harder, shifting the fault from player(combat rotation) to fight design. People forget there needs to be trade offs because imagine doing P10S with Heavensward class design. Raiding in 14 would easily go extinct, people who didn't live through the near anhillation of raiding that was Alexander really have no understanding.

[@markup6394]

@@OhSunchips Wow, I only heard there "might've" been a fall out with his static...

[@Yokai_Yuri]

This trend of why FF14 is dying( or why I quit FF14) is not having success bro. You need to try a little but harder. Even people have ignored Zepla and she is a somewhat big ff14 streamer/ player.

[@cyanmage1]

I wish it was dying this log in queue sucks lol ..... jk of course the game is fine and will be fine regardless of what bored streamers with no content to make say

[@rfygband]

That dude’s got some small points here and there but he’s so mad like the devs personally hurt him. I’ve been playing since 2.0 and have over 13k playtime hours and I feel like the game is just fine. Sure EW is missing some content but that doesn’t mean it’s bad. Also, the only ultimate I’ve cleared so far is UWU and even in that his “stand and let it resolve” logic is completely wrong. Bro is so mad. I think he’s also forgetting that there’s people that create accounts for this game literally to do just housing or just play mahjong. No matter how easy some content is made, they won’t even consider playing it. You think that someone who only focuses on glamour or night clubs will even consider stepping into savage even if they made it brain dead easy and you are unable to die? That guy needs to queue up for Therapy (Ultimate).

[@jag764]

Something that kinda does annoy me is that people always say that they want the devs to take more risks and stray from the formula. In EW they actually did that, we didn't actually get '' less content '' we got different content, and some of it I think they will keep building on especially Criterion which hopefully will become more of a main content thing ( Yoshi P has acknowledged the rewards issue and said they're looking into it ). It's kinda sad too how people just ignore things like deep dungeons, to be fair I did too but recently I went super hard on PoTD and got Necromancer and deep dungeons clicked for me, if you give them a genuine chance and learn how things work they're A LOT of fun to solo imo ( and if you're casual/ midcore you can do them with a group ). It's annoying how people just don't ever even bring up Eureka Orthos even tho that's fantastic new content that is also long term content. Another thing is how people complain that the trials is tied to the MSQ, I know that Zepla complained about this. But again, they did things differently and strayed from the formula isn't that what people are asking for? It makes sense that it was part of the trial too I fail to see why it's a bad thing if it makes sense, and the notion that we got less story as a result isn't true the archfiends storyline was just separate from the MSQ ( it should've been part of the MSQ imho, it's great story content but then ppl would still have complained '' it's part of the MSQ we got less story content '' ). It feels like because they didn't follow the same formula as in previous expansions people think that we got less content when we didn't because people keep pointing to what we didn't get as evidence of '' less '' but then ignore the new stuff that we got instead. Probably my biggest criticism this expansion is that a lot of content has been undertuned, which I think may have been because afaik the combat designer went to work on FF16. It's an issue with a lot of synced content that I wish they'd fix too, if you do Heavensward today your fight with Thordan is really lame because he just falls over in seconds lol a lot of bosses don't even get to do their mechanics in synced content. And we're already kinda there in Alliance Raids too, the health bars of bosses are just too low. Dungeons like Troia too are ridiculously undertuned I dunno what happened with that.

[@crimsonpotemkin]

@@jag764 people complaining about trials being tied to msq is just bizarre. Literally how it's always been. The fuck kind of drugs are they smoking?

[@keshxiv]

@@crimsonpotemkin four lords? warring triad ? weapons? were msq....?

[@chobitsotaku5613]

Think he did make that point, that the devs are making some optional content and classes too easy, when the fact is that people that don't want to do hard content won't even do that optional even if it's easier.

[@crimsonpotemkin]

@@keshxiv you think that negates that there have always been trials tied to the msq? Yes, side content trials also exist. Well done.

[@darksunDS]

I'm just going to say it. Lynx and people like him are the reason I hate playing multiplayer/competitive games/modes. The thought of joining a dungeon or a match being yelled at for not being a pro at the game or at a job in a mode/dungeon that doesn't even require it makes me boil. So if people can't be terrible in a dungeon/non-ranked mode, WHERE THE F***K CAN THEY BE? How the hell do you want me to get better at the game if there is not place where I can practice and learn? What am I supposed to do? Sit and hit a goddamn target dummy for 5 hours? Is that how you optimize and get better at the game? By not interacting with anyone ever until you have a PHD in "X job at level YY"? And then doing that again for any new job you want to play? "Oh you want to play Apex/Valorant/Insert shooter here? Go play Aimlabs for 600 hours first. Not in my lobby you scrub." Who exactly thinks this is valuable or productive? A lot of people apparently. SMH

[@kroganlauncher]

"Stand and let resolve" is the culmination of almost every mechanic in the game, but saying they are only that takes away all the figuring out, learning, planning, practicing and executing that is _also_ part of the mechanic. Saying that is trying to reduce it to its most basic element, and if you have to do that in order for your argument to be solid, then you probably didn't have an argument to begin with. A severe case of oversimplification. I too can say every single job is utterly boring because every single one, from dps to healers to crafters, is just pressing buttons, and thats not quite true now is it? I think the dude is just resentful. I've heard about his falling off with his static leading to him quitting, and now he is back seething about the state of the game when he hasnt even played it, taking what others have said and giving it his own twist, unable to see any other piece of information that might be contrary to his own opinion. It's a shame really. He could sit down, stop raging and actually make fair points after playing EW, but instead he is missing out on all the great things we did get while making a fool of himself on the internet. He took the worst way out on this one. Anyways good react! Liked it

[@Jacqli-Rivoli]

"Does he speak for everyone when he says 'everyone'?" No, he speaks for himself (and the handful of people with the mindset of difficulty/tedious grinds = enjoyment). This is purely his subjective opinion on why he doesn't like the game anymore/doesn't like the direction it's gone and why he THINKS the game is failing (opinions that are completely valid and he's within his right to have). He made this video because he saw the string of videos from content creators saying negative things about the game and felt emboldened to repeat why he stopped playing with the assumption and belief that now more people will agree with him and attack him less for it. He felt vindicated at having his opinions from 3 years ago validated by a few people unsatisfied with the current expansion. The title is clickbait. The real title should have been "Why I Stopped Playing FF14 Part 2: FF14 Community Still Sucks And I Still Hate It 3 Years Later". He's presenting his subjective opinions and takes as established facts and common sentiments when he's actually very much part of a vocal minority. His pot shots against the community are entirely personal, he's mad that people got angry at him the last time he decided to publicly barf his opinions onto youtube and instead of letting things roll off his shoulders, he let bad actors get to him and made it a mission to have a personal grudge against the community and by extension, have a grudge against the game just to spite them further which is a shame really, because if he managed to sound less bitter in this video, he may have been able to reach more people and present his opinions more cleanly instead of attacking everyone else who enjoys the game in ways that he doesn't think they should enjoy it. The moment you start attacking and invalidating other peoples' experiences to try and enforce your own points, the more you work against yourself in these types of situations. It doesn't help that he has points in this video where he behaves contradictory to what he says. "Who's this game for, crybaby cat moms who boo hoo at pixels on a screen??? *But I'm not trying to shit on them!*" The act of calling them cat moms when you know nothing about these people and go out of your way to invalidate their experience is at the base form, belittling them in itself. Just because you say you're not trying to, doesn't erase that you did just that. If you're gonna go out of your way to be a dick, at least own it. If he's going with the narrative that everyone hates him already and he's saying all of this because he's a brave free thinker, why bother telling people he's not trying to do something. I dunno, it doesn't make much sense to me, but whatevs, it's not super important. He also states that the game is more popular than ever, yet speaks as if the game is already in a dying state. Poor thing can't seem to make up his mind about whether or not the game is actually doing good or if it is in fact, failing like he also claimed it is. Lastly as a crafting and gathering enjoyer, Island Sanctuary itself wasn't about crafting or gathering and shouldn't be compared to content that was exclusively made for crafters and gatherers. Anyone could have picked it up without ever touching a DoH/DoL job. If he wants to name an example for crafting or gathering content replacements, he should maybe use an example that involved actual crafting and gathering like maybe the tool questlines or expert recipes or the fact that there was no zone content at all like Ishgard Restoration in EW for us. He's comparing an apple and an orange there. He brings up some valid points here and there, it's just a real shame that most of it is buried under heaps of bitterness.

[@Sleeptastic]

He shows a mechanic of moving from a safe spot to a new safe spot, talking about how lame it is. Then he says jumping on moving platforms is cool and interesting. It's basically the same mechanic, except one has a space bar press in addition to pressing w

[@cyanmage1]

i think he kinda just skips past the whole having to learn where to stand or move to to resolve mechanics ... yeah once you have a fight on farm its just stand here and win but that is not the experience most people have

[@darksunDS]

@@cyanmage1 It also ignores completely the fact that many abilities resolve around specific targets. So it's not just avoiding things. It's building patterns USING the boss and AROUND the boss. If you don't position the boss correctly in some fights, that alone can F**k up your whole fight.

[@cyanmage1]

@darksunDS this is kinda why I stopped tanking I hated knowing I put the boss at a slightly wrong angle and now everything is messed up till either we wipe or the boss moves on his own

[@Zantetsudex]

Lynx: "Stand and let thing resolve!" Pandaemonium: "WEBS LIKE UNTO CHAINS!"

[@theotherstar7040]

Lynx has fallen a lot. As someone who thinks that ffxiv has taken a darker turn, lynx is a massive hypocrite. First off the same thing he applauded 14 for he later came out and shunned it as soon as other content creators started criticizing it. Second he gives a lot of criticism without pointing out any solutions that would work under the 14 algorithm. Lynx used to be a bit more respectable but like he said about himself in his own video he’s literally become a bitter old man or a kid throwing a tantrum cause hes not getting everything he wants. Once the game got bigger they had to adapt to different difficulties but there is still hard content and more advanced things involved in classes. Lynx lost alot of credibility and has been constantly going downhill. Not to mention he lumps the community as an entire entity rather then a loud minority

[@mugen3603]

He belittles other players for enjoying the content he chooses to ignore, calling them cat moms and daily roulette mains because they spend time socializing with one another at in-game venues and leveling multiple classes, which he thinks is a waste of time. He's a clown.

[@chibikya_selch4699]

Guy hasn't even played Endwalker or the recent patches yet gives his opinion based on what he read, saw or people tell him. He's angry there is not more hardcore content since to him only that matters everything else he insults its just so sad.

[@Alninio]

This was my issue with it to be honest, he hasn't played for 3 years I was told. He missed out on so much current content that I feel he wasn't qualified enough to talk about it.

[@Rotomoo]

Amen. Honestly if you don't play the game currently, I don't believe you should have an opinion on the current state of the game. That's like saying I hate pasta after having one bad bowl of mac n cheese and the thing you're giving your opinion about is spaghetti and meatballs.

[@chibikya_selch4699]

@@Alninio It's not so much the qualified part but generally when we look at development. We got 2 ultimates they were behind in SHB we didn't get bozja like content because they made island sanctuary and criterion. Then when we look at dawn trail we get everything we didn't get as they were catching up. This post patch was weaker yes but generally speaking I don't see endwalker as the worst it set out to do something massive and was more.focused on the story aspect but it's fine

[@twocatsgaming6628]

@@Alninio If he truly hasn't played for 3 years, and he's still that angry... Wow.

[@hortehighwind8651]

@@chibikya_selch4699don’t forget about the gathering and crafting relic tools 😊 Edit: Hasn’t that fight encounter designer postion been open forever at SE? I think they’re trying to hire people but cant find them. Or just working on an mmo is impopulair as jap dev.

[@TheNewThrone]

I agree on a couple specific things but overall this dude has no objectivity. How are you going to go out of your way to shit on people who just enjoy the story or just like hanging out and not much else and in the next breath say you werent shitting on them lmao wtf. He is mad that the game isnt catered to HIM and his tastes. An mmo is supposed to be an everything type game like an alternate reality. Some people craft, some raid, some hang out with their friends and play music. I dont understand where all the bitterness comes from. I think he lost credibility with that even though he raised some good points like healing sucks (imo)

[@kottet09]

As someone who has played 14 from 2.0. I still enjoy the game, the fights in EW have been very enjoyable, I just wish I had the time to learn Extremes

[@crimsonpotemkin]

Devs: have a structure to how they produce content How dare they, such a massive problem. It's really hard to take it seriously when a man baby throws a temper tantrum like this. Man's complaining about the development cycle of all things. It doesn't get any more bottom of the barrel than this. Maybe he should try complaining that devs get days off from making content or something next. It'll be about as intelligent as this gibberish.

[@Zilong17]

I 100% think he's just flat-out wrong/ignorant since he hasn't attempted TOP or DSR, but most of his fight design complaints also ring hollow just in the Savage IMO. P3S, 4S, 5S, 8S, 10S and 12S are all stand-outs for various ratios of damage checks and fight creativity/design IMO. I don't feel a player who literally hasn't played in Endwalker is qualified to critique the current state of the game. Also him taking shots and dismissing people who get invested in the story or prefer to RP rather than raid is just him being a dick.

[@ArmageddonEvil]

I feel like he's bitter about that it didn't stay with Shadowbringers Fight Design. But the game has to evolve to become better even though many people *don't* like the two minute meta. Even though, people like him caused that meta in the first place.

[@thecinders]

honestly every time i see someone watch this vid, the original creator just gives me the same energy of someone hating someone else so much that theyd rage if that person was eating crackers in the same room as them. Just a bunch of raging nonsense

[@omegapanda9980]

Lynx's video reminds me of Lazy peons; Its so tone deaf and blatantly wrong at some points; opinions are fine but this is such a mischaracterization of the game. the sad thing is that people will see this without the context of Lynx's bias (and bitterness with his past) and not realize how hyperbolic hes being; and then taking some things as truth. large youtubers are looking at videos like this and its painting such a bad image for the game with the false narrative. FFXIV has some issues; but these.... this aint it man. Blown way out of proportion. Xeno had the best take on this Edit: Pyros take on this was great! Might be one of the best ones Ive seen

[@benoitrousseau4137]

Honestly I think the only real blunder of Endwalker was the relic situation, big shame to have a FFXIV expansion without anything like Eureka or Bozja, that was my favorite thing to do late in an expansion.

[@saladv3028]

The big mistake is not connecting the relic weapon farm to criterion dungeons

[@Irisfantasies]

i honestly love the relic grind its not tied to a shit like bozja... cuz i hated doing both eureka and bozja for relic grind

[@seboulol]

This guy forgot something with his "stand and let thing resolve". In FFXIV, you have a dps rotation to maintain (and other things to watch if you're tank or healer), you can't keep jumping on plateforms or whatever. You must have room to focus on your skills. He's also mad about the disappearance of things that were useless or very annoying, what's wrong with him? I agree the Endwalker 24 men raids are not very challenging, but the 8 men are good and the extremes solid. The only thing this expansion lack is some time consuming PvE content, aka relic grind.

[@adognamedsally]

"The game is getting too easy" Hasn't played DSR or TOP or P8S or P10S Soooo, he's just wrong. Cool. Moving on.

[@Namriel]

That's the problem when you let someone with no idea about game design get overconfident. Just because he knows the usual maxim about a game being rewarding if it's easy to access and hard to master, it doesn't mean he actually has any idea about the way it should bend the gameplay. His whole "let things resolve" proves he doesn't even understand the engine is made so there are "breaks" in between actions. Whether it be a spell or an enemy mechanic, the game is BUILT around the idea of a semi turn-by-turn RPG. Also, the dev cannot add in everything they want not only because of this logic, but also because of the game's limitation which, sure, is archaic indeed, but still lets room for difficulty (we could have some instances with a faster pace than ultimate, yet easier by design... Even the latest 24 alliance could be 4 times faster without still being challenging for most players after a few weeks) .

[@MichaelIbsenGuitar]

I now know I can stop doing callouts for my static, I can just say "stand and let thing resolve" 🙃

[@kentak5748]

Uuuups you stood at the wrong place ^^

[@AnbuShinobi9358]

Just because you're tired/bored with a game doesn't mean the game is dead......just play something else for a while SMH

[@F34RDSoldier805]

I think what people are misunderstanding is that we ARE getting more and more content every expansion. We got way more than last expansion. What people don't understand is that it FEELS like less, because the content went into the systems that you don't engage with. PVP got a shit ton, we got island that has more new systems than any other mode of the game, then there criterion that has some fights on par with some savage fights, as well as tower. Plus quality of all the content is also growing as well. And Dawntrail is also slated to get way more content than EW. The reason why it FEELS like we got little content, is because we are missing that one area where people can go and do group content, like Bozja. A lot of people don't play PVP, Island, tower, and Criterion very much. Criterion because of the reward structure of the mode, which doesn't incentivise people to farm. But that is the problem with the game right now and why it felt so bad in EW. They added no incentive to play/engage with that content outside a few things, so it feels like there nothing to do. THAT is the problem with EW. NOT that we got less or little content, because we just didn't, we got more. Plus again, people are ignoring the fact that the quality of the content we do get is increasing. There are fair criticisms that we can throw at FF14 right now, but people like to go over the top and their perspective of the issues become blurred, then they just start complaining about more and more, whether the criticism is fair or not, and in a lot of cases, like the video, it's just bitter rage baiting. Just a bunch of bitterness around the game. People also need to understand this. The main problem with the game right now, is that people WANT to play the game MORE, but feel like there's nothing to do. The game is not dying. I have no clue how this idea that the game is dying has blown up so much, when the biggest problem with the game is that PEOPLE WANT TO PLAY MORE......

[@chobitsotaku5613]

Most of his points is just him being mad that Yoshi isn't focusing on what he likes over what other players like. Watching him shit on other type of players and deleting a 12,000+ hours char out of spite says it all. Despite the few good points, sounds just like a kid throwing a tantrum tbh.

[@Rotomoo]

If he experienced p10s i feel like this video wouldnt have happened. Harrowing Hell is one of the coolest mechanics in the game, the fact that the damage can outlast tank invuln is insane. That mechanic alone has been the biggest wall of Anabaseios. I haven't done TOP but i absolutely loved DSR, such an amazing fight.

[@neobahumuth6]

eeh I dunno, I would argue for tanks and healers is fun for dps is meh. I find Bonds 3 more engaging. However I'm not a fan of p10s as a second boss in general

[@adognamedsally]

For real dude. It's like they put a multi-hitting cauterize into a savage fight. That move is cool as hell as a tank or healer.

[@everyonethinksyoureadeathm5773]

The perfect game doesn't exist because us gamers love to complain. There is no game out on the market that people can go this is perfect because there's always someone to say otherwise. 14 is not perfect, it's not going to please everyone. However it's going to please the majority and that's what you want.

[@aren_gee]

@Alininio As someone who also played this game since ARR, I may not have 12k hours of playtime, since I dip out and come back repeatedly... YOU DON'T WANT TO IMPLEMENT HEAVENSWARD JOB DESIGN IN THE CURRENT STATE OF THE GAME. I ASSURE YOU, THOUSANDS OF PLAYERS WOULD QUIT THE GAME BECAUSE OF HOW JANKY THAT WAS COMPARED TO JOBS NOW. IF YOU DO THAT, YOU'LL REPEAT WHAT HAPPENED WITH GORDIAS. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

[@ishirutaekakura308]

I've almost got 15000 hours into FFXIV I love this game and it's the only mmorpg that has kept me playing it, the longest mmorpg I've played besides FFXIV was probably a year, I originally started in 2014, but had to quit because my laptop couldn't handle it, then I returned in 2017, I know that's a long of not playing, I ended up making a new account because I forgot my old one, but yeah my new account has almost 15000 hours in, I still love this game. Yes I will admit I wish there was a Eureka or Bozja style content this time round! That would've been awesome, but the thing with Lynx is, I think it's more than just his issues with FFXIV, I think something happened and he's angry.

[@MonosEx]

This dude is mad other players are still enjoying the game more than him, is this the rise of the first Final Fantasy 14 classic andy?

[@Chibibushi]

Nah dawg i didnt see your video with you doing the Kuji In and droppin that epic one liner the trick is in... go back and do it again. 😂

[@Delicioushashbrowns]

Hey Alninio!! I watched a lot of your stuff before and I'm happy to have you in my recommended again 😊 great video and I agree with lots of what you said. The original video made me so mad with how trashy it was towards certain kinds of players. I ❤ the MSQ enjoyers and RP'ers and Gold Saucer peoples and anyone that plays the game and makes it feel like an MMO.

[@nicgara8781]

I don't think Lynx has ever played Destiny 2, the expansion and content cycle is just as structural as FF14 is. 1 expansion each year, 4 seasons a year, 3 months each season. 1st and 3rd seasons of each expansion introduces a new and a reprised raid from Destiny 1, 2nd and 4th seasons add new dungeons. Each season adds a new set of seasonal weapons (always 5 craftable) and gear for the seasonal content with 2 seasonal activities and a season quest line that usually last 7-8 weeks. Each season gives you a new seasonal artifact that enhances certain subclasses and weapons so each season the meta changes somewhat or at least have new ways of playing the game. The beginning and half way through each expansion has a major sandbox update while in between are usually just tweaks to hopefully bring things in line (though I'd admit for awhile their tweaks usually result in bugs for something else completely). I've played Destiny 2 since release and played Destiny 1 on and off. I love the franchise and play Destiny 2 every week and I know he is full of shit on that point he was trying to make. The only thing you can't predict is the quality of content. Forsaken and Witch Queen were great, Beyond Light was good though the brokenness of stasis in pvp made it unbearable to play pvp, Shadowkeep and Lightfall were trash but thats because the quality of the content didn't meet what the players expect from Bungie, a developer who were known for quality content for the most part in the past.

[@Link-kr2bc]

he is complaining about "moments of glory" my brother in christ you play warrior you can sustain a whole group on your own for very long thats a moment of glory no?

[@yuukizaki3163]

I liked your ninja guides especially for the pvp but after hearing your opinions about his takes, man you earned not only a sub but a huge huge respect. Yes, this is not a raider-only game and that is what he can not understand until now.

[@loser8032]

story skipper opinions are invalid

[@mugen3603]

Unless his criticisms are regarding the story, which it wasn't, then no, his opinions aren't invalid. They're just stupid.

[@A1Steaksauce58]

It’s okay to play this game for other reasons besides the story lol

[@ghozter1]

You mean people that play the game for the end-game content and not for the soy storylines?

[@loser8032]

@@ghozter1 imagine paying a subscription to do the same 10 fights 200 times in a row

[@Silvist]

This guy is probably one of those people who makes it seems like he played longer than he actually did. Those hours he listed could have been cut in half by sitting afk while logged in, or using the crafting exploit to remain logged in for 24h straight during new content drops or expac launches. I've played since 1.0, and I hard disagree that the "game" has gotten easier. Its just really that the difficulty has shuffled around due to them progressively removing legacy actions and mechanics. I'd say probably by Endwalker we actually have the game at the state as they always intended to have. Aka no TP, no stat distribution, and no cross class skills (since classes are a thing of the past). He also seemed to be one of those people who loved pulling the entire dungeon aka the OG wall to wall pulling, before they gated it all to 2 packs per wall. This is also back when not every class had good AOE skills, and or even an AOE rotation (aka BLM/BRD ARR dungeon meta). He basically wants it to be that type of game, which he "felt" was difficult. Again difficulty is completely subjective to a person. He's also probably one of the people who hated when they removed dps skills or stances from jobs that were not dps (aka tanks and healers). HW raids were probably the best half way point between ARR and the direction they were going with raid design. No longer were you fighting with huge long cooldowns that you had several of (see like pld tanking in ARR for example), and instead everything was being centered around the 60 second burst window. Its all about the dance doing your rotation, while you are solving mechanics. If you don't like that, not sure why someone would play an MMO with a gcd lol.... Probably one of the best parts about the current way the FF14 devs balance this game is reverse to how most games balance. They don't balance the jobs and then create the content based on that formula, or nerf to keep in line. They create content "first", then balance the jobs around the "content".

[@benkent862]

heavensward had 2 dungeons per patch. it also didnt have ultimates, the content this guy values...

[@cyanmage1]

and the raids were so overtuned it nearly killed raiding in this game

[@SPERanger]

Your thumbnail sums it up nicely

[@greencaptain2783]

Clickin 1 2 3 so much harder then clicking 1 1 1.

[@guitalex2005]

We all know Dragonsong was amazing and so was TOP, and Criterion's Another/Savage are good challenges. The problem is this guy made the video without doing any of them. He quit before Endwalker, then critizised Endwalker. He skipped the story, then shits on the people who enjoyed the story. This video tells me he quit, and many people asked him to come back, but instead of looking into things and see if they addressed his concerns, he assumed they did not and made a rage video.

[@Crusina]

Someone else said their was raid rama and thats the main reaaon he leftm

[@Astorhorns]

This man is so freaking funny. "They took away bozja and eureka!!!" Which was literally. Reskins and reutilization of mechanics up to the wazoo. But, no. Repetition bad!!!!

[@angieness]

I haven't watched the full video yet but want to say thanks for those stellar TEA guides. I cleared a few weeks ago and they were a life saver for studying my group's strats.

[@simply_pet]

Burnt-out high playtime players can't admit they're burnt out. It's cool to have criticisms, but a recurring theme among these people is "Endwalker has no content, we need something like Bozja". Like okay but as much as some people mightn't like them, EW has criterion and variant dungeons, it added island sanctuary. Not to mention that we still have the standard 12-tier raids and 3 alliance raids. It's okay to critique these things, but that's almost never what they do. It always comes back to this "EW has no content" argument when it arguably has MORE content than some previous expansions. You mightn't like the content that EW added, and that's okay, but let's not kid ourselves into pretending it has no content! xD

[@rodrigomoreira2629]

Only thing I agreed from this entire thing was the 2min meta (which I think sucks really bad but that's just my opinion). I've had SO MANY different instances where Shukuchi saved a P3/P5 pull in TOP prog, the whole moments of glory argument was just so wrong in so many different levels it's insane. The RDM rezes, the WAR self healing, the PLD covers, the GNB HoC moments, the DRG backflips, the SAM dash out dash back in, the WHM benediction, the SGE and SCH random crit shields that saves a tank last second... there's just SO MANY things that can happen that are literally glorious. This guy is just bitter that the game doesn't have 20 savage raids and 10 ultimates every expansion and is mad cause the casuals get their piece and fun too. Just go play something else and move on with your life dude.

[@grygaming5519]

Omega had a fight, no they had multiple fights where you were given an action you had to use. This action meant drifting a gcd. You had a gravity mechanic in Catastrophe in O2S, you had the paint mechanic in Chadarnook. Not to mention other of these mechanics like Vrill and the gimble in Omega normal. Its was a hit or miss...and most often people just want to solve the puzzle, dps and not have to take their hands off their combos to hit executable button. At this point Lynx is just a lolcow, easy means of milking content and thats fine. Even Zepla's arguments dont really solve anything either. I'm reminded of a DM friend of mine when we were talking D&D and I was running my first campaign, "Players will always complain about something, the reality is they are complaining about something that doesnt allow them to break the game for themselves. You have to balance what is good for the whole table vs what the individual wants. You have to be perfectly fine with that player quitting because they cannot bend the rules in their favor as well."

[@TimmyTheNerd]

What's crazy about this is that he says he hasn't play for the last three years. So he missed the last year of Shadowbringers and then all of Endwalker so far. He stopped playing when I started playing. Hell, I remember when so many people were coming over from WoW that it took forever to get into the game. Even now, I have to queue up to get in game (Crystal - Diabolos). I enjoy the game so much that I've kept my subscription up non-stop for the last three years. I've never done that for subscription-based MMOs before. Normally I'd sup for a month or two and then take a month or two long break. That hasn't happened in FFXIV.

[@WayneHSmithJr]

Dancer has so many procs. Ninja is so complex some people can't even play it. Also, what does it matter if your combo is one button? You have tons of OGCDs to weave. Not to mention all the button bloat. There are things in the game I don't play, but thats fine. There's so many things to do in this game if you don't like any of it then maybe the game isn't for you. And thats fine also.

[@lohrorda7230]

12k hours in 6years = 6h EVERY DAY + story skipper; which development team can keep up with that? answer: none!

[@cinnamonmink3736]

"there's no moments of glory on other jobs" Sir. have you? played a healer? or hell even a tank. Have you not popped an invuln when you would have died otherwise? I think I'd call any of that a "moment of glory"

[@Silvershadowfire]

I honestly think that the complaints about content being 'dumbed down' doesn't take into account that the game itself teaches you how to do more and more complicated fights as you progress through it. You start with 'avoid the AOE', then you have to learn to start watching the monsters, then they start doing towers, and then timed AOE's where you have to stand in the danger puddles in the right order or you get squished, ect ect. Unprepared groups still get squished in Orbonne Monastary if they don't know how the mechanics work. So of course when you run Sastasha after you've learned how to do level 90 content, it's going to feel super easy. Also, if you want a moment of glory, go into a group of newbies as a Red Mage, and save the entire run because you got the healers up/helped when they were too busy to get other people up.

[@SageTigerStar]

I've seen some people talk about his video where he plays clips of newer content/raids/etc and going "he must know what he's talking about because he's holding his own in this" but how could he do the current content if he hasn't been subbed for several years? Pretty sure he just used someone else's content that he himself hasn't done just to try and push his point. (with little effect)

[@weasel4201]

I don't understand, I have never seen a development and company as engaged with the game and Intune with its player base then Square Enix, thirteen years and they always give their best and always seem so happy. They don't hide behind corporates PR teams but actually live stream and even get into cosplay to link up and engage with their audience. Content, I understand a little bit with the post content for end walker was a little boring, and they added a bunch of solo aspects to the game recently, but didn't force it on anyone. its an option for people so they don't have to sit in queue for hours, or if they don't like social interaction. He also admits to skipping story... ya know the main feature of the game. The thing that every single player who actually plays admits is its selling point the in-depth and concise story telling. Also can explain a lot of in game things as well. He as well belittles other players, like it just seems like a brat crying. Stating that other player bases on the game, Glamour, housing, RP, and casual players should not be catered too is insane, and childish. And shows how very little he has actually played the game thousands of hours and has barely experienced the game. And for him being upset with the fact casuals want classes to be simpler. Summoner is a little simple rn, but before it was almost a 20 button rotation just to get decent damage.

[@user-Korpan]

Funny that i recently took a break from ff14 to try wow classic hardcore and season of discovery and damn wow rotations are very basic. I also had retain installed and went on my higher level characters and they were still not very complicated, (perhaps its because i have a level 90 black mage and monk on ff14) so idk whats hes talking about when he says the ff14 jobs are easy as if thats a bad thing, when wow jobs are also easy. Easier jobs means the devs can focus more on making the mechanics harder.

[@Nman222223]

The fact this this joker admits he skipped the story and is missing so much context to what you are doing while you are doing it. Also this game is for everyone, there will always be new ultimates and “impossible” content, but most content is for “mid core” players who like all the aspects of the game and don’t want to grind like a second job. Glad he is gone, his takes are bad and some are flat wrong, also if he wanted challenge do PvP, sometimes tougher then other content lol

[@Lenny28393]

I see your point, but IMO you shouldn't consider Ultimates into the equation because that's taking for granted that they should be the hardest they can be because otherwise, what's the point? Talking about the difficulty going backwards, let's take the lastest extreme trial in 6.5 as an example given that extremes are most likely the first piece of content people will try when getting into somewhat ""hard"" content : easiest extreme of the whole expansion, absolutely braindead. Now compare it to Barbariccia, sure you stomp her with current ILVL but back when she released she was much harder than the hot mess that is Zeromus. Oh well, his song slaps atleast

[@Alninio]

Ultimate content is very relevant here considering he brought the argument that the game is getting easier, including ultimates - DSR TOP are the hardest by far. I also see what you're saying with EX but EX and savage is midcore content. I also think barbaricia is a super good fight over zeromus, so you're right on that - but can't throw out ultimates in this topic since its very relevant here.

[@neobahumuth6]

@@Alninioeh I dunno I feel like Barbie was overall easier considering you didn't just blow up in 1 mechanic besides that they are honestly the same when you consider the min ilvl entry of both.

[@Alix_Farin]

Any points Lynx may have had go out the window with such petulant presentation. Being mad doesn't make you right, ya know?

[@gravitycat6862]

I don't understand the arguement of repeating mechanics are bad, it's not about the mechanic itself, but how it is implemented. Stacks are stacks, but we've gotten Light party stacks, tank stacks, group stacks, and Ahkmorn stacks. Tankbusters which sometimes require a swap. Figuring out how to not only solve the mechanic, but also finding out how to deal damage during the mechanic is fun. I no longer view fights now as a fight, but a timed puzzle that requires you to put in the damage and solve the puzzles before enrage which has been enjoyable. These fights would not be able the way they are if they kept adding new mechanincs that we need to keep track of and if job kits were back in SB or HW's era. I do wish jobs had more and were more different from one another but I understand why they are what they are now.

[@davidrivera433]

It feels like he’s talking about normal/casual content and it’s ease. However criterion dungeons, ultimates, savage and extremes still have its challenges or are very challenging.

[@greggreyes6869]

35:44 thats exactly what i think happened. this has been brewing in his mind for years and he thought its the perfect time cause he assumed there will be a ff hate or downfall bandwagon and wanted to ride it but it turns out most of his opinions were shit and he was appropriately shat on and he goes back to whatever hole he came. lmao

[@hiddenmaster6062]

29:12 People quit Sage because they couldn't handle two extra attacks and settled for White Mage because it is the easiest job. I don't want to hear that fake ass shit.

[@thrillhouse4151]

No wonder he’s burnt out, he sounds like he’s 15 so must’ve been playing since he was 10.

[@HezrouDhiaga]

that downfall video aged like spoiled milk the day it was posted 🤣I'll see everyone at Dawntrail!

[@honeydarlinggaming9156]

I also wanna note he showed his STEAM playtime. Not his actual in game /playtime time.

[@evdomos]

Hands down the worst part of this video is that he presents no examples of his complaints, just says "it's bad" and continues.

[@LostWallet]

people are more interested in the prestige of clearing a hard game than actually enjoying the game. they claim that the game is "easy" now and that take away their prestige of being able to clear a hard game. take away the only thing that make them feel special, being good at a "video game". which basically mean nothing in the real world

[@Extorion]

the thing i hate with this guy is that hes a msq skipper that hates on all players that arent only doing savages and ultimates and also he has never played endwalker so he is talking alot about stuff he hasnt even played witch makes all the things he says about endwalker and the game as it is null and void, even if some of the things he said has some truth to it it sounds alot like a giant baby crying that the world doesnt cater especially to him, he talks as if he wants inclusivity in one part of the video only to directly after shit on every other type of player so his "they used to cater to every playstyle" rant is destroyed by him calling out all other forms of playing the game as silly or idiotic.

[@DrakeRazgriz]

"This game is only let it resolve" You mean like every MMO right ?

[@4SkippyRoo]

excellent react 👍

[@ZanesZygot]

I play this game since the beta and I go the other way, I don't think the game has changed much at all. Yeah it might be missing some content here and there, and not always it was about the top tier endgame. But they do cater to these players a lot and I see that they are almost always the most entitled players that always want something. Look, it's not a bad thing to ask for content and they are paying customers as much as anyone else is, so they have the rights to want something from the game. That said Yoship always made it clear how difficult it is to make and test difficult content, that it's not something they will always keep adding and so on. In particular I don't even play as much anymore also, I think the game does have a great sense of community and I love a lot of the game aspects, but I agree with some of the points he made about how saying the game "respects your time" but it's actually a chore to come back everytime and having to look for gear... not even talking about alt jobs. People makes most comparisons to WoW, even more to how it was difficult to get the right gear but there are other mmos out there like GW2 that I think respects your time much more. And tbh while they do add other kinds of content like some said in the comments (Criterion, Island, etc) it almost always is something instanced or that could be so much more. I do wish I had more reasons to come back to play.

[@FutayuriShironeko]

Where is the reaction to Xeno's trilogy?

[@Carepackage2966]

I can't with Alninio everytime he say the game isn't getting any easier when Yoshi-p himself had said they have been maaking the game easier every expansion. Yoshi-p said the encounters haven dumb down in mechanics and in arena fights to remove variables from the fight and making the fight more apparent for more players. Ultimate are a fix for the type of content they used to make Alninio, back in the day we used to get 12fights with ultimate difficult mechanics....and they dumb it down...... again again.. Every expansion. The dev team had said they wish to make the fights more crazier but can't because of players feedback.

[@Zathurious]

Of course, they follow a formula. You know what happens when developers don't follow a formula? A disastrous launch is what happens. As someone who doesn't raid, it took me 12 attempts to beat the Mother Crystal msq as a trust the first time I encountered that. It was very challenging for me. Especially as a console player with a limited, unadjustable field of vision.

[@bronxshogun7089]

What makes this guy’s video even funnier is the fact that , despite deleting and quitting for years, he only made it after other people started complaining as if fan backlash was powerless now. Like dog, if you actually felt this would of made the video sooner regardless of said backlash.

[@jefflaxa4890]

God the effort one has to put into making a "why i hate this game now" video is outstanding. It's in good production but the message comes off as a whinny. What I take from it is that this dude couldn't find new and exciting ways to enjoy the game that doesn't involve boss raiding hardcore. I find the most fun I ever have is just goofing off friends. We do raid but most of the time we are just running around in cosplay messing with others.

[@TorchicEX]

There are a couple things I can agree on but there is a lot that...just no. I haven't messed around with the harder content in a long time because none of my friends are a big fan of the savage stuff but I always watch Nest go through the content and simply from looking at some of them my brain just hurts trying to figure out what is supposed to happen. But it is also the type of thing I like about it. I am okay with stand still and resolve because you have to figure out two things before that can even happen: Find the location you need to be and where you need to move to and all of that while also figuring out your timings with abilities and rotations while handling those mechanics at the same time. I personally tend to struggle to remember to use some OGCDs while paying attention to mechanics as a tank. I also personally think a bit more stuff to certain roles like the healers having more than two buttons for offensive GCD (three if you need AoE) and a bit more diversity to set one class more apart than they already are from another which is one of the reasons why I like Red Mage, a caster who can help with progging with their supportive utility to help push to the next mechanic a little easier in case the healers are pressured. More simple things like that across more jobs would make me content. They don't need anything super fancy offensively since I feel they handle themselves pretty well like that. As for content, there are some things I wish they would bring back and a bit more diverse content like getting a deep dungeon and open world content or a relic that isn't tomes only (makes handling it a lot easier at least, but I would like to feel as though I have worked more for it than simply having the tomes) but I am 'content' with what we have since they have been trying new things with Variant/Criterion (where my only complaint was more rewards initially) along with redoing old content to have NPC allies to have a solo journey through dungeons and changing layouts of the older older ones. Sure I would like change as new things happening would renew the enjoyment I have with the game but I am happy with what we have and wouldn't trade the place I have spent so long alongside my friends since we had to part when the servers for White Knight Chronicles 2 shut down.

[@dogwithsunglasses4051]

I mean besides the senseless rants, he has some points. For me, Endwalker was definitly the worst expansion as a whole, even tho i loved the Story.

[@mephiston7253]

No it's not standard for Wow since there are mods they cant copy paste their boss mechs its gotta be changed up in some way everytime

[@shadow78423]

I have a video up on my channel of me as a gunbreaker 32% soloing anima a week into actually playing the class with my armor near shattered because I forgot to repair, if I can do that a week into learning a class, I’m pretty sure a lot more other people can as well hell me and a friend of mine manage to solo the second boss of mt. Goulg and we just got into new classes of monk and paladin and let me tell you, he definitely kept me alive in that fight, people can definitely do great things even when just starting a class, considering that he quit three years ago and played for six beforehand me and him joined 14 around the same time since I’ve been around for eight years, so as someone who was around in the same period he was I can definitely say I do not share his sentiment about the game, I don’t do ultimate, savage, or EX cause I know for a fact that I would get destroyed, that stuff isn’t for me, when I did try EX it went just about how I expected it to go, there’s something in this game for everyone to enjoy, I do story, PvP, raids, lvling, and armor grinding and when I do get bored I take a break, play something else then come back to do what I enjoy.

[@cyanmage1]

and this is how the game is designed to be played and I love it for this reason

[@Balsley1105]

I think the major issue is giving people attention for showing their opinions about something like their opinion matters to the rest of the ff community.

[@Alninio]

I don't see how that's an issue, we all love to discuss about the game's direction going forward and I see no reason not to.

[@Balsley1105]

@@Alninio yeah but this guy is just hating on a game he's already quit, dude needs to just move on instead of post a video

[@ArchieGamez]

Its over, rip bozo :(

[@Sev3nn20]

To play Devil's Advocate, I'm going to agree with Lynx not on how his mentality on the game is but on the "Downfall" ideology. "People who like the exploration areas can do Bozja" Still no excuse for Stormblood to have an exploration zone, ShadowBringers to have one, but EndWalker doesn't, so people who did Bozja and Eureka along with long Relic quest chains didn't get anything new this entire expansion while all the other types of players did, that's not catering to everyone as we're one of the few who were 100% left out of consideration *"The devs usually make changes based on feedback" This is actually not true half the time, while yes they make job changes based on player feedback, they also have ignored half of the other issues we've talked about for years, for a few examples: No one asked for SAM to lose Kaiten, it was actually highly debated and protested that removing Kaiten just results in a nerf but SE nor Yoshi have made an attempt to re-intergrate the skill No one asked for AST to lose Sleeve Draw: the only skill that made AST become more consistent and reliable was removed with EndWalker's release, no one asked for that SCH has been talked about repeatedly with its overly simplified kit that has only 1 AoE, has a 60 Capstone ability no one really uses (no, you don't use it for DPS, that'san excuse), along with an 80 Capstone skill that has 0 interaction with SCH's kit Keep in mind, I love the game(8000+ hrs) and will be returning soon from a 6+ month break after I changes my mentality on how I'd be playing once I get back and I'm hyped to see what they do for Dawntrail

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@Pentzer Oh 100% there, but I'm referring to ShadowBringers where the change the % damage was already done, Sleeve Draw was a skill that would guarantee a seal you didn't have for the previous iteration of its use, which was for Divination. The idea was to draw and play for 2 different seals and use Sleeve Draw to confirm the last seal 100% of the time, however with Divination being its own skill and Astrodyne being the seals use, they removed Sleeve Draw,my point is that no one asked them to remove Sleeve Draw as AST at the end of ShadowBringers was the strongest healer and was in a good spot, now it's all just rng