20th Anniversary Reddit AMA

Original Horsemen was Tanaka.

Two part question:

Can we incorporate pankration into the acquisition of emperyom +3. And if so, could we use food effects to enhance our monsters, for example cheese sandwiches.

I want party setups to include crafting mid battle. In particular I want to include 2 carpenters and a blacksmith with synergy into ranged strats to build the Rangers Trebuchets.

They'll still deal less damage than Naegling Spam, though.

Who said I'm happy with it? I'm completely neutral. I got about what I was expecting. I'm just irritated by how much people cry here as you are irritated by lack of bigger announcement, so I'm only keeping it balanced :)



I don't tell him what to ask or to do. I simply commented his post. This is what forum is for. I respect that both ways and don't feel bad if people are commenting my posts.

"Only 30-40% profit? Pft. Please. Your days are numbered."

he's entered the denial stage of grief, one that you just recently exited and moved to acceptance

Your theory makes no sense at all. Denial of what and grief about what? I simply accepted the fact, that the game is in between maintenance and slow/low development modes. They see no potential in making drastic and expensive updates, so only things we will get is story expansions like TVR and new events that will mostly reuse some things and new gear. I also understand that they stll mostly make this game in big corpo style (slow, with full chain of development), even when they have few people working on it and changing it to indie approach could be much better, but it's not SE way of doing things.

So you are saying that being realistic and not having overhyped expectations is form of grief? :)

Where are our lvl 99 COP rings we were promised years ago

A new challenger approaches!

https://reddit.com/r/finalfantasy11/comments/us1imh/announcing_an_unofficial_ama_without_the_ffxi_dev/

*** cringe.

Nah, that's from the other AMA that might actually be worth reading.

Getting mad at someone for using something they own seems a bit petty, no? Besides the fact that the vast majority of visuals in the game are unique to XIV (especially as of late), assets "taken" from XI are usually done so for the nostalgia and from what I've seen, typically given higher polycounts, better texture resolution, and additional texture channels (bump, displacement, etc.).

I get that you're frustrated with the lack of commitment to the future of XI and you want something to be the target of your anger, but putting all the blame on XIV and Yoshida personally is pretty misplaced. The guy loses sleep (and sometimes weight) whenever a snafu happens in XIV, and accepts all of the responsibility for it in his communications to the community. If you've seen or heard him at all, it doesn't take long to realize that XIV is important to him personally. By that same token, he must hold XI with some level of esteem because, to my knowledge, he has only ever spoken of XI with respect, as something that should be preserved.

Square Enix as a company has been making a lot of bad decisions lately, ones that Yoshida would only be able to influence in part, and the only visibly successful large venture in recent years has been the relaunch and continuation of XIV with him and his team at the helm. If you want to use assumption to assign a specific target for your ire, at least go with someone who has a higher potential to be responsible for the bad decisions and a recent track record for saying questionable stuff.

Just don't bother his mind is set that XIV is the devil.

FFXIAH try not to complain about XIV for one page challenge (impossible).

I’d ask when we’re going to move to a true maintenance mode and how far they’d take it.

I think things like permanent EXP/capacity campaigns and the Abyssea/VW light events wouldn’t harm much.

Bro, Endwalker was so bad it's not funny. The most absurd and disappointing finale to any story ever. Literally The Last Jedi - The Expansion Pack.

Everything else you said about 14 is on point. The raids are fun and I like the earlier dungeons back when they were still trying but it gets old so fast.

That thought has crossed my mind several times since Monday. Most of the campaigns feel like QoL improvements to offset garbage RNG for old content that needs some catch-up TLC for new and returning players anyway.

The dev team is so socially awkward and weird. It feels like they are being forced to interact with us against their will lol. This won’t go well or alleviate any of the bitterness over the 20th anniversary. There is a real lack of foresight here they’ve demonstrated over and over.
It started with the wardrobes. It doesn’t matter if you think charging for them is fair or not, anyone with a speck of foresight would have foreseen the controversy they would cause and giving one or two of the six wardrobes away for free would have probably been enough to side-step the controversy entirely.
Then it was the 20th anniversary. How could they not see the disappointment a mile away? Literally all I hoped for was a freaking CP or EP ring. They should have tempered expectations and nipped rumors of an “expansion” or other large content drops in the bud early on. Is it dumb to expect a 20 year old game to get an HD remake or a new expansion almost 10 years after its last expansion? Yes. Yes, it is. But there were people who were expecting this and a smart PR team would know the importance of shutting these rumors down to avoid future backlash. But everything has to be a big secret with this game because the devs are such weirdos.
And now we have a Reddit AMA. I don’t need a crystal ball to know it’s going to be a cringey disaster that will only further the divide between devs and players because they won’t answer any of the questions people actually care about. Is the adaman hauberk blue or purple? Why did you let us believe the crafting compass was a thing for 15+ years?

It's like Godwin's Law: a matter of "when", not "if".

reductio ad Yoshidum

haha, joke's on you, I was able to overpower the Yakuza team that SE sent to my house, so I didn't have to watch!

At this point, the Abyssea proc system should just be abolished. Make everything 100%, KIs and pop items. Keep the 1-2 drop rate on the Empyrean items if you really must, but would it actually hurt that much to make them drop 3-4 at a time?

Give me a double ichor/nyzul token campaign you cowards

Should be a permanent thing too. Add both to copper vouchers while you’re at it.

So, you want XIV 1.0's Hamlet defense?

Dammit, did I just compliment XIV without ever having played it? Its ok, I'll wait patiently until the Shantotto Black Ops team gets here to take care of me, I knew the rules....

Could also want Final Fortnite XI Battle Royale content.