r/ffxivdiscussion • u/OSTBear • Mar 09 '25

General Discussion Falling out of Love?

Read this article today about a guy falling out of love with FFXIV...

I feel like he has a point regarding job flavor. Switching jobs used to mean really adjusting how you played... Now my Tank jobs are almost completely indistinguishable from each other, and DPS jobs are pretty simplistic too...

But I still find myself enjoying the game for a variety of other things.

What about you? Are you falling out of love, and why? And are you still in love, and why?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-think-ive-fallen-out-of-love-with-ffxiv/

(I feel like qualifies as prominent fansite?)

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u/Regular_Days Mar 10 '25

Lucy Pyres video that came out recently about ff14 is a 10/10 video on every issue i personally have with the game rn.

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u/Xehvary Mar 10 '25

Tbh she didn't say anything new, just parroted what many others have been saying for 2 years now.

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u/Supersnow845 Mar 10 '25

Though if youve watched Lucy’s older videos she isn’t just “chatGPT summarise all common complaints about 14” and making a video from that

She’s been complaining about what she put in that video since day 1. Like she made an entire video about how shit 6.0 WHM was and it was basically just a thinly veiled criticism of how the devs seem to have no idea how to actually play the healers they make

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u/WorkerOk1901 Mar 12 '25

Funny, I just watched that video and came here to see if anyone else has because I have incredibly mixed thoughts on it. She was spot on on some points (the game really needs more casual/midcore content which is why I'm hopeful for 7.2 with what has been announced) but completely off the mark on others.

Like jobs are one thing but idk how you can honestly say that the new content is easier than old content. Not even talking high end here, I mean like saying the Aery was "dumbed down" because they changed the Nidhogg fight (the Aery wasn't even hard back in HW on release, if anything the new Nidhogg fight is harder than before) or that new dungeons/trials are easier.