@Merrydawg not surprised considering how easy it is to stalk people in ffxiv.
i skipped the 💩 story btw
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If you skip the story in FFXIV, I will personally show up to your house, sit you down, and read the entirety of A Realm Reborn for you, while doing voices for every character, over the course of 7 business days.
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@finalfantabee i can't wait to skip all the boring cutscenes so I can do the nier raids
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I don't wanna go to work or the gym. I want to play the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, with an expanded free trial, which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award-winning Shadowbringer's expansion up to level 80 for free with no res-
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@GekoGpose and thats fine, problem only are those who skip and then say the story is shit....
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Jonathan Bailey G'raha Tia enjoyers, we are SO BACK!!! They redid the lines for FFXIV 7.4 MSQ, he is the GOAT!!!
I cried rewatching the cutscene where he says "where there is life, there is hope" ugh, Jonathan Bailey the man that you are 😭😭
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@imitamimica "you have bad friends. you're just a tourist, don't bother coming back. go play something else." -FFXIV GCBTW
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my take as someone who hasn't played ff14 in awhile:
the story IS great but getting into an MMO and not being able to do much content with friends til max level/finishing story unless you ask them to do lots and lots of old content does NOT feel good imo.
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It’s 2026, we are gonna be 6 expansions deep into FFXIV soon. Can we stop with the weird gatekeepy behavior if someone doesn’t want to play through 250 hours of story to be able to play some of the best MMO raid encounters ever made? Heaven forbid someone asks you a small lore question if they start getting interested in the story after starting the game 10 years late. Are we really gonna keep driving people away with this weird NIMBY ritual? Just use your social skills (lol) and answer the small question, suggest they start a story alt on their downtime, or direct them to a synopsis video on YouTube. Crying about “story skippers” this deep into a game’s development cycle is peak cringe. If they set up a skip to Dawntrail for new characters to jump into the new story arc I and many others feel like it would be beneficial for the game’s long term health. While the Hydaelyn/Zodiark arc is great storytelling it’s also not a sacred cow for people to clutch pearls over. At the end of the day, it’s a game to be played. We’re all better than this and should start acting like it.
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@ZletanFFXIV Point to somebody saying that. The most I’ve heard is that if you skipped the story don’t ask people what’s going on just go play the story. Saying you like DT is a quick way to get people hating on you. You don’t have to make things up. Ain’t nobody out to get skippers.
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pls square enix can we pls make it to where if u delete someone off your friends list it removes YOU off THEIRS!!!!! this should have been done a long time ago tbh
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@annie_asimov i like to see what other people look like on my heavily modded game 😉
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I have something to admit. I was on my last ounce of faith with FFXIV. I couldn't stream it more than 2 hours without being bored out of my mind. There was nothing I wanted to do on it. I had so many complaints mainly about the fatigue of the same stuff over and over and I was just paying rent on my house.
This fanfest I wasn't expecting much, it was more of maybe this is the last time i'll see my friends if there was no longer a fanfest after this.
Let me tell you now that I have never felt so emotional and happy about a game that has changed my life multiple times. From streaming XIV turning into a full time job, meeting the love of my life for the last 4 years in game, and just meeting such wonderful friends online.
Seeing how much passion the developers and production poured into this Fanfest proves to me we have a great future going forward. I had so much fun during the whole of Fanfest. From the events, the meetups, the cosplays, the panels, Keiko and Amanda's piano concert, and Primals rocking it.
Finally hearing Yoshi P telling everyone at the very end that "He loves us all" just hit different. The heartfelt emotion pretty much left such a positive impression upon the whole community.
As I was walking around the convention hall, all I could hear were talks about getting home and playing the new content, how excited people were for 8.0, the amazing XIV community, and how people were reinstalling the game (Like me as I type this) LOL. Yoshi P, Soken, Koji, Foxclon and the rest gave us their hearts and soul for this Fanfest.
All I feel now are positive thoughts, hype, and excitement for 8.0. They pretty much addressed a huge list of things people wanted and we are getting it. For anyone who wasn't physically at fanfest to not experience it directly, let me convince you the hype is real, the positive stories you are reading are real. The people ripping farts in the pit were real.
I'm ready to dive back into XIV after 8 months away and I have never been more excited.
Install is done. NAMAZU LOGGING IN.
Happy Ending - Zalera
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@BambooEarpick @toritoigr @altiex define "watching". are you just reading what they say in fc chat while you're playing the game, or are you actually following them around everywhere doing nothing while they sit in cutscenes.
the latter is actually weird af if you did that
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@toritoigr @altiex Huh?
I don’t play anymore but it absolutely was a blast watching my friends enjoy and experience the game.
Seeing them learn and adjust to boss mechanics was really cool.
Do you just not like hanging out with your friends???
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people will see this and go "but I want to do stuff with my friends who are already at endgame", if your friends aren't playing older stuff with you as you go through the story then you need better friends
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people wanting to get into ffxiv by skipping to the newest expac really vindicates the idea that lots of people don’t get into games to experience them anymore, they do it to be part of the conversation and whatever lets them join that conversation the fastest takes priority
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@Keno_Kola @altiex until the moment said new player doesn't react the same as them, then they get upset, lol
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@altiex Thank you. Besides, any FFXIV player knows that one of the most common enjoyments of the community is to watch a new player experience the MSQ. It's the reason why things like "Welcome to Shadowbringers" is a meme
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describing the msq as a bottleneck for content is so funny
brother it IS the content, like straight up you are asking for a different game. You are asking for a game that doesn't appeal to you to entirely change what most people like about it and appeal to you instead
👑 Black King ⚔️@MrOwlstanding
Gonna keep bringing this back up till I die lmao x.com/MrOwlstanding/…
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@TheRealKitty019 "Because those lower-level dungeons and encounters teach you things."
I did sastasha on picto and had one button.
one.
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"Ugh why do you want people to actually PLAY THE GAME?!?!?!"
Because those lower-level dungeons and encounters teach you things. There's actually a progression in mechanical complexity. It's also very telling that the "best raids in MMO history" happen to be the ones that 50% of the playerbase didn't care enough to resub for. Maybe the best ones were actually several expansions ago, you fuckin tourist.
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It’s 2026, we are gonna be 6 expansions deep into FFXIV soon. Can we stop with the weird gatekeepy behavior if someone doesn’t want to play through 250 hours of story to be able to play some of the best MMO raid encounters ever made? Heaven forbid someone asks you a small lore question if they start getting interested in the story after starting the game 10 years late. Are we really gonna keep driving people away with this weird NIMBY ritual? Just use your social skills (lol) and answer the small question, suggest they start a story alt on their downtime, or direct them to a synopsis video on YouTube. Crying about “story skippers” this deep into a game’s development cycle is peak cringe. If they set up a skip to Dawntrail for new characters to jump into the new story arc I and many others feel like it would be beneficial for the game’s long term health. While the Hydaelyn/Zodiark arc is great storytelling it’s also not a sacred cow for people to clutch pearls over. At the end of the day, it’s a game to be played. We’re all better than this and should start acting like it.
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@mrs_galvus confirmed weirdo here. how about going outside and touching grass or find another hobby instead of living off of a single video game, lol
also, they story was ass and I'm glad I skipped it all
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I only complain about story skippers because:
1. The story is peak and why deprive yourself of something so amazing
2. I am an emotional vampire thats my food source you're fucking with there
Snark@snark_talks
It’s 2026, we are gonna be 6 expansions deep into FFXIV soon. Can we stop with the weird gatekeepy behavior if someone doesn’t want to play through 250 hours of story to be able to play some of the best MMO raid encounters ever made? Heaven forbid someone asks you a small lore question if they start getting interested in the story after starting the game 10 years late. Are we really gonna keep driving people away with this weird NIMBY ritual? Just use your social skills (lol) and answer the small question, suggest they start a story alt on their downtime, or direct them to a synopsis video on YouTube. Crying about “story skippers” this deep into a game’s development cycle is peak cringe. If they set up a skip to Dawntrail for new characters to jump into the new story arc I and many others feel like it would be beneficial for the game’s long term health. While the Hydaelyn/Zodiark arc is great storytelling it’s also not a sacred cow for people to clutch pearls over. At the end of the day, it’s a game to be played. We’re all better than this and should start acting like it.
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