u/alabomb

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Guzran has a piece of world map dialogue that's something like "Night is the best time for me to come up with new stories about myself!"

Which I choose to interpret as he actually is full of shit, but then goes out and makes his bullshit true after the fact.

He's easily one of my favorite characters in the game.

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"id Software is happy, healthy, and alive."

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I was really hoping he'd make it to 300 wins before he retired, but still a legendary career nonetheless. I literally love Justin Verlander!

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No, you are the first person to express this opinion.

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To be a true Final Fantasy, the game must have the words "Final" and "Fantasy" in the title. Preferably in that order, but I'm open-minded.

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1.0 was also notorious for its poor performance though.

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Those resolution numbers are before DLSS up scaling. I believe Cyberpunk 2077 has similar internal resolutions on the Switch 2, for comparison.

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Will this be just for Fanfest, or is this a permanent change?

It's a permanent change, but we'll keep an eye on how things go and we can always make adjustments as needed later. You have fair concerns and those are things the mod team has discussed, but custom images and GIFs have become so ingrained in how people communicate online that I think the good will handily outweigh the bad.

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Hi!

Reddit did change the old modmail experience so that it now piggybacks off their chat feature instead. It's caused a bit of confusion for sure, but the old URL to send a modmail should still work as far as I know. This is the link in the "Message Mods" button in the sidebar: https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=r/ffxiv

That being said, I do see the most recent modmail you sent (about an hour ago). I don't see any previous modmails from you before that, so those likely never went through. Our team will review the mail and get back to you shortly. Despite modmails now running through chat, we don't actually monitor it like a live chat so you'll have to allow us a bit of time to review and respond.

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This feed is excellent! Thanks for sharing and kudos to the creator.

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If you're not vibing with the gameplay loop, you probably aren't going to get your money's worth. Combat is where you'll spend 95% of your time, even if you choose not to engage with any kind of grinding or endgame stuff.

Story-wise, the first 80% feels like it was intentionally made to be laughed at with how edgy and cheesy it is. It's kind of fun but also really stupid and borderline nonsensical at times. Only towards the end does it feel like they brought in a real writer to tie everything together, which to their credit they actually did a pretty good job there.

I personally loved the combat/job system and really enjoyed my time with the game, but it's not the kind of game I'd recommend to anybody whose main interest is story.

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Charmless + Bell Demon? Yeah, that looks normal to me.

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All of Andy Weir's books, basically: The Martian, Artemis, and Project Hail Mary.

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Heya! Looks like several of your comments (with or without a URL) got caught in Reddit's filters. Not sure what exactly triggered it but my guess is the initial comment chain with "Download here" and Github links may have been flagged as suspicious. I've re-approved all the removed comments in this thread, but let us know if you continue to have issues.

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You can combine them - you right-click the incomplete outfit in the dresser and it'll have an option that says "Add Missing Outfit Gear."

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Oh, you're absolutely right! I forgot about these sets. They are indeed storable as outfits, I'll get those added to the post as well. Great catch!

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The Artisan/Forager sets? They are not storable as outfits yet, unfortunately. I think this patch was aimed mostly at job-specific gear, so generic DoL or DoH gear wasn't included.

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Good call! Added it to the post, thanks

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Correct, that's why I have it listed here instead of the regular version. I just added the footnote for anybody who might be confused.

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Oh, good catch! It's only the weapon enhancement quest that's pushed to 7.41, I'll update the post.

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jail :(

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EDIT: Discussion seems to be slowing down and this thread has run its course. We'll be locking comments now but we appreciate all of you who took the time to contribute thoughtfully and without toxicity.

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Hi folks,

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We do our best to accommodate good faith discussions, whether it's to praise or criticize any part of the game and its development. However, we strongly urge everybody to remember that there are real people working to bring FFXIV to life and they are all deserving of basic decency and respect.

Not only in just this thread, we encourage everybody to be constructive with your criticisms, friendly in your disagreements, and to have the awareness to recognize when a conversation has run its course and it's time to step away.

Thank you!

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June 11th, 1967 for anybody who might be curious (I was).