Fujito Ruined The Game!

Amazing foresight ability!

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Looks like this thread aged well.

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I'm still waiting for the side-by-side comparisons of Fujito and James Gunn.

James Gunn never said "Yes, The Flash is horrible and only gets worse after half the movie is done, but you don't have to stay for the whole thing".

I feel like by the time you get to page 3, it's not really a "placeholder" anymore.

No one wants tickets in the nose bleed section.

he did am out ***!

I am NOT getting this joke at all.

It's not a joke, have you logged in lately? He literally did ruin the game.

Really wasn't him, it was SE... We don't want to rehash the reasons why, but basically they cut the budget from the MMO division for... reasons.

Pretty sure it was a joke made by the trend going on at that time.

You lose the context, you lose the joke.

What content cycle do people think the game was 'ruined'?

Was it Sortie, Ody, Aeonic Weapons, Omen, Dyna-D?

January 22nd 2009

not a whole heck of a lot of context, Fujito was taking over ffxi. people were being people and saying the game is dead/dying.

Negan had a rare flash of brilliance to meme on it by making this thread title what it is with a post with no content but a [placeholder], people did the same until Xurion plays with the format and does [Placeholder for sale] then many hehe hahas were had and the thread really hits its stride when Rooks stickies it and posts [placeholder for the inevitable lock] after that the jokes got pretty meta and hilarious.

This should have been it's own thread.


I'm not sure if you can point at one piece of content and blame it for everything that's wrong now.

Bad design decisions that aren't popular with the community like sparse entry KIs, shared loot pool, bland zones for rehashed content, time gates, stretching content way past it's sweet spot in terms of effort/reward ratio and overall a way too large gap between what you can achieve solo and with a group.

Omen: didn't like the fodder part even if you went for a boss run, otherwise decent
Dyna-D: even without alliance gathering and loot distribution it takes too damn long, incredibly sluggish and laggy.
Geas fete: Almost as good as abyssea and among the better content. Liked the idea of aeonics even tho I would have wished for more lenience for job compositions on the Tier 4+ NMs.
Odyssey: Requiering 3 main jobs, the whole idea of farming points just to be able to farm more different points, moogle mastery level ups take way too long and should have been more efficiently aquiered solo than with a group, for example by chest opening with THF main.
Sortie: Zero hints - once you've finished about half a bachelor degree in order to know what they expect you to do it's kind of fun... for about 15-20 runs.

I think they also scratched a lot of solo players the wrong way when they announced job adjustments and then left a couple of jobs out of the update cycle or by ignoring the entire trust system.

"Balance" adjustments that couldn't have been more blunt and uninspired like the nuke wall, astral conduit or geo bubble nerfs.

All that adds up to where we are now.

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He really ruined the game...