New
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PVP set is what the Phoenix Risers wear when they're pretending to be normal teenagers just doing normal teenager things like practicing martial arts at the juice bar.
Vegas Loop Driver:
"You guys going to the Final Fantasy thing? What's that one play like?"
My Brain:
"Don't say it. Don't say it. Don't say it. Don't say it. Don't say it. Don't say it. Don't say it. Don't say it. Don't say it. Don't--"
My Mouth:
"SO IT HAS A FREE TRIAL..."
It's the little things that make me appreciate Yoshida-san so much as our fandom figurehead; seeing a game's producer / director sprint across the stage in full cosplay, chasing after a display table being wheeled away, because chat asked for a closer look at a pin.
From now on, please refer to this PowerPoint of Shadowbringers aetherology while I conserve the energy I would usually use to explain again so that I may instead just scream helplessly, but cathartically, into the void with the same results.
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Since I saw so many people comment on it in the replies...
I bring good news, gang:
The new
#FFXIV
PvP gear
- IS NOT role locked
- Has A and B variants of 3 sets
- Will be even cooler when two-channel dyeing arrives
For truly immersive authenticity you can only enter this raid with a pre-made alliance which must be formed by shouting in a town it took you two hours to walk to.
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Yoshida still out here declaring his side in the never-ending debate about how Thancred saw Minfilia, but not in the way that fanslation claimed... lol
Full Translation from scratch:
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If Naoki "Customer Satisfaction" Yoshida says Endwalker needs two more weeks, it needs two more weeks. I say that despite being kinda pissed about an adversely-affected work schedule. Yoshida-san has always been straight with us. It needs two weeks and it'll be worth it.
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And so Low-Poly Grapes return to the Lifestream whence they came, to rest in quiet eternity with Sky Bear and Smooth Rock. Thank you for your service to this realm, Meme of Light.
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While I imagine this was an incredibly difficult decision and represents an ongoing contemporary frustration for players...I'm kinda looking forward to adding "so popular they had to stop selling it" to our
#FFXIV
fan advertisement memes...
We'd like to share an update from
#FFXIV
Producer & Director Naoki Yoshida on the ongoing congestion, additional game time compensation, suspension of sales, error codes, and our upcoming plans.
Since leaks are back in vogue, I'd like to share this quote from Naoki Yoshida that changed the way I look at the privilege of having info you shouldn't have, and how what is (not) OK to do with it is about more than (and sometimes the opposite of) what The Rules say.
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So, given Sakaguchi's comments about Yoshida's outfit, we're all in agreement that it's Sakaguchi in cosplay in Tokyo or we riot, right? Let's get this one in the Square Enix history books!
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So far the most authentically-slow-life part of
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's Island Sanctuary is the part where everyone immediately abandons leisure and whimsy and starts stressing about how to optimize their stonks.
In the Heaven of Fire sprawls an endless city built by Nald'thal from golden bricks fired in the heat of Azeyma's sun
In the Heaven of Lightning, one will find a towering clockwork spire built by Byregot with metal forged from a comet and powered by Rhalgr's levin bolts
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Ishikawa-san: Endwalker is not only the finale, but a curtain call where you get to say goodbye to some characters. I hope you can greet them again, this final time, with all the love in your heart.
<thunderclap> <invasive flashback>
Spoiler-Free
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Endwalker Mini-Review:
That was the most Final Fantasy story to ever have Final Fantasied. It was all the polished facets and rough edges of the franchise's best and worst historical habits crystallized, vaporized, and inhaled directly.
What a RIDE, lmao.
The
#1
reason I'm stoked for the 7.0 trailer is that a ton of people joined
#FFXIV
over the pandemic, just in time to see the end of a 10-year saga. Whether you played from the start or joined for Endwalker, we're all in the same place about to start a brand new journey together.
I've joked a lot about "The Yoshida Code"; deliberate wiggle room in rule enforcement *when people act in good faith and respect boundaries*.
All the man asks is "don't ruin the experience for others". It's not that complicated.
And yet we're here.
I thought referring to Meracydia as "fantasy Australia" because it's a harsh wasteland full of things that want to kill you was a joke we started based on
#FFXIV
's rough-Earth-analogue approach to map-making, but if the devs are headed that way, too, I'm all for it.
Someone could have leaked the entire Endwalker script with cutscene storyboards and audio of Naoki Yoshida discussing the outline and I still don't think a single person would have thought it was real. (And I'm 84.)
Naoki Yoshida: "Happy New Year to everyone who wasn't unkind to a healthcare worker this year." ๐๐๐
(Incidentally, this is literally how Dark Knights are born.)
My favorite thing about Zenos is that his attitude is so aloof / impatient but his outfits are so intricate. I refuse to believe he dresses himself. Someone put this on him. Was it Fandaniel? Is he lint-rolling capes and fastening buckles between them MEANWHILE cutscenes?
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This man's brazen ability to make things look intended all along beguiled me - for 24 hours - into not remembering that crystals of that type originated, before Phoenix, in late 1.0, when Atomos was wreaking havoc. We stan a clever <mumble><mumble>ing lore king.
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Thinkin' about how it took ONE EXPANSION to take the Ascians from Saturday morning cartoon villains to the entire cast of a High School Alternate Universe anime that opens with Elidibus sprinting down the street with toast hanging out of his mouth.
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Lmao at the personalities on display here.
Yoshi-P
We used a subtle visual metaphor for Zenos "taking his last breath".
Oda
In retrospect we probably should have just been like, HE DEAD.
Ishikawa
<quietly> Ohhh I bet Twitter is gonna be mad...
We don't deserve this dev. team.
Famitsu has posted a longer FFXIV interview with Yoshida, Ishikawa, and Oda where they discuss scenes from the game!
They spell out plainly in the interview that Zenos did indeed meet his end at Ultima Thule, and they hope players aren't too sad. Here's the translation.
I am utterly incapable of seeing this image without cackling at the memory of the time we hyper-saturated the colors to prove it wasn't focused on "black-masked Azem" only to find the troll standing in the back. Typical Azem behavior.
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The real twist
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ending would be WoL going full quasi-Azem, blazing an impossible 3rd path between Zodiark's fury and Hydaelyn's defense to honor the loss of the Ancients by bringing their legacy, Hydaelyn, & Zodiark together with the sundered to stop The Sound send tweet
Thinking about that time the Moghome Moogles said the first calamity was "fire raining from the skies" instead of wind and SE was like "whoops sorry that's a typo lol" and patched it...and suddenly realized that maybe someone accidentally revealed the Final Days too early
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"Ishikawa-san, for example, explained that she didn't see any difference between an Ascian trapped WITHIN auracite or STAKED BY auracite; they'd be completely destroyed either way."
"BELIEVED to be completely destroyed."
[Moose fumbling through papers]
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[5.3 Spoilers]
I got a request to do Elidibus's finale and, while I'd been over them roughly before...to read each individual word, OH MY GODS, THEY ARE ALL SO UNIQUELY SAD. This is hard to capture.
EN vs. Consolidated Translation
(OG lines available for fact check on request)
"Why do you keep calling Zenos an existentialist?"
tl;dr an artifact of where my opinion last fell many moons ago in debates over whether there's a meaningful difference between active nihilism and existentialism in the small number of philosophy classes I took, lmao.
Conversation I'm going to be having all day:
- Hey, I just watched the 1.0 trailer. That's the First, right, because...
- We can debate evidence for fun, but I'm honor-bound to warn you that at the end I'm going to point out that his leve plate says LIMSA LOMINSA.
- Well fuck.
This answer spooks me to the core, though.
Many moons ago, I /thought/ these were connected and was (shocked to be) told one was the Archon mark and one was the Scions' brand, and any resemblance was coincidence.
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I'm not sure why nations keep offering to evacuate Zelenskyy when at this point it's abundantly clear that none of them even have a vehicle capable of accommodating his balls.๐๐
Just because I really like stirring pots...
When Elidibus struck Minfilia in 2.1, JP/EN/DE used vague language for his musing on Hydaelyn's protection, but FR did not.
"Je n'arrive pas ร prendre possession de son corps..."
"I could not take possession of her body..."
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With only a month to go until Endwalker, I find myself fully transitioning from being excited to speculate about everything to not wanting to speculate about anything and just being excited I'm so close to never having to think about this again.
Thinking about the
#FFXVI
/
#FF16
dev. team and the possibility of the mainline series finding its new groove.
And then back to December 10th, 2010.
You got this, Yoshi-P.
Man, there is so much going on here...
Trying to figure out if I'm MORE or LESS confident in my whole "Lahabrea has also fallen victim to whatever the whispers that unleash your unfiltered desires are, and this is all about resurrecting Athena" theory, lol.
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5.00 SPOILERS
I don't think I ever fully processed that Emet-Selch just straight-up admits that - if the tables were turned - HIM not remembering YOU is a GOAL.
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I keep thinking maybe I want to invest in the Cruise Chase mount, but then I go back on it.
And then forward.
And back.
And then forward and back.
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*brain cold-starts out of a dead sleep*
HEY DO YOU THINK THAT CRATER THING ON THE TURAL MAP IS A REFERENCE TO THAT METEOR THAT STRUCK THE YUCATAN AND MAYBE KILLED THE DINOSAURS?
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I thought I might be seeing Miqo'te facial features on the Solution IX signage, so I tried to recreate her, just to see if I could.
I dub her Solution Nyan.
To be clear, Yoshi-P has been *very* consistent/generous about this over the years: Are there circumstances where maybe it's not the worst thing in the world for people to enjoy FFXIV in technically-illicit ways? EHHH. Did he say it's allowed? NO! He said FAAFO. 2015โ
I'd pay good gil to see Yda's Archon-level defense. Image some pompous Sharlayan academic who spends his entire life cranking out journal articles on theoretical combat getting his ass beat for 45 minutes by a woman said hello to the decorative suit of armor on the way in.
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While we're all up in our feels, I just want to say to everyone who takes any moment out of their day to engage with this community and add something positive to it - thank you, and I love you, and we're gonna make the next Fan Fest go down in legend, you hear?
I wonder if
#FFXVI
's M rating was influenced by the juggling they had to do on
#FFXIV
. No bones for China, no penetrating arrows for Germany, no magitek vape for Cid.
"Just rate it Mature. Spray a child with blood in the trailer so they ALL know I'm not doing this shit again."
Headcanon: All the male Viera just live in a different, better-hidden city, like when a bunch of dudes build a secret man-cave beneath a mall security elevator.
We're talking about how the Ascians mostly sat out Stormblood to have their place in the story reworked and in retrospect it's so funny that the first thing you see when the curtain opens on them again is Emet-Selch sashaying out like TA-DAAA (and immediately getting shot)
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Let's remember to take teasers with a rock of salt.
Is it The Truth?
Is Solus lying?
Is it merely one interpretation?
Is it incidental in the big picture?
Let's make sure we ask ALL the questions.
Hype and Hydrate
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#FF14
Abandoning plans to do (Allagan) Eureka in 2.x only to loop back to it in 6.x after doing (mythical) Eureka through the destruction of Val is such a power move, lmao.
Known Issues:
โปAn issue in the Bozjan southern front wherein the drop rate for the item Field Notes on Sartauvoir can GO STRAIGHT TO THE SEVENTH HELL.
When
@LoreLinesFFXIV
first invited me on, I joked that I'd be a total buzzkill if it was a ใHydaelyn is Evilโขใepisode, and
@Cobheran
sent me this GORGEOUS Venat mask,SURELY to celebrate
#TeamHydaelyn
and not to hide behind when it turns out She's a baddieโฆ๐ญ๐๐
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"Omg, I just had the worst. idea. ever." (Oh no.) "Okay, you remember that cowboy meme like, AHHHHH!" (...Yes...) "Okay, and you remember when fourteen first came out they had that commercial with the live-action Louisoix?" (OH NO.)
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#FF14
Of all the
#FFXIV
podcasts I'm invited on to talk lore,
@AetheryteRadio
is the only one where we could end up having a passionate, 20-minute debate about the geopolitical implications of the Eorzean Alliance not preparing chairs for the representatives from the tribes.
Naoki Yoshida: "We need a little more time to revise and review story content to facilitate quality assurance so the climax of this 11-year-old story fits together right."
My DMs: "Wow, I can't believe Moose delayed Endwalker."
Inb4 triggering the Final Days gives the whole world the Echo and during the traditional "WoL on the brink of defeat" scene, instead of the Scions showing up it's just literally everyone they've ever met with improvised weapons just BAH GOD AND IT'S MOMODI WITH THE STEEL CHAIR
Part of the Thordan mess cleaned up! Oda-san has cleared out a middle-ground between the previously-stated lore posts of "Thordan holds tempering over the Ward's head" / "you can't summon without being tempered" by clarifying "he left them lightly tempered, for now" lmao.
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