Peter Solarz
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Mike Driver
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Kiana Khansmith
Show & Tell
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"

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noise dept.
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Jules of Nature
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@afflatusmiseryy
FINAL FANTASY XIV EVERCOLD (2027)
You guys, FFXIV is not dying. These video essays about how "the game is dead" are wrong. Just because you aren't enjoying the current content, does not mean the game is dying. FFXIV is doing fine. It has a set schedule that's been the same since StB (possibly HW) and always has low pop times and high pop times.
This whole "omg the game is dead it's bad abandon ship" trend is stupid.
I played WoW for 15 years. I started the game in 2005, shortly after release, and stayed with it. I had occasional breaks, but I would always feel the urge and come back to it. Until Shadowlands. I was logging in, doing my dailies and the game just annoyed me. I didn't feel invested in the story anymore, the stupid reputation farming was just upsetting and that the game just refused to give us flying and I spent more time walking to the world quests instead of doing the stupid things really broke my motivation. At the same time, the Blizzard scandal happened. This time it wasn't a break. This time it was over. I cancelled my subscription for good. I didn't plan to come back, and I never came back. And that is fine. I was angry back then, but now I look back at the game and I had 15 wonderful years with it. It gave me OCs, a lot of fun, I even think fondly of my once raid group waaay back from 2007.
But my time with it was over. I don't look down on people who enjoy the game nowadays, I simply am glad they have fun with it where I cannot anymore. I hope you WoW peeps continue to have fun. You deserve it. Now how ties this to FF14... Well, I was swearing MMOs off for good after I quit WoW, concentrating on single player or two player games (played with my husband). I was also big into Soulsborne during this time, so getting summoned to help with boss fights was a nice pasttime as well if I had the itch to play with others. But in 2023 I wanted to try out FF14. Several reasons led to it. First, my husband was hospitalized and he had started the game before he became ill. I wanted something to talk about with him. Second, I heard the music of the game and fell in love. And third, I felt the MMO itch. And well, FF14 has a free trial... I have to admit, I upgraded to full version before even ARR was over, but this free trial was a huge reason why I even started the game and fell so in love. And I notice in these essays, in the people who say the game is dead... I notice myself in them. The player who is just burned out from the game. Who doesn't enjoy logging in anymore. Who finally needs to pull the plug and do something else. It's burnout. They simply have burnout from the game, and it would be better for them if they just... stop playing. Look fondly at the times when the game was fun for you. Don't get roped into hating the game and telling everyone how much it sucks, especially the people who have fun in it. I see so many complaints about the patch cycles, and I am like "You guys, we have content every four months, we waited over a year in WoW back during WotL for the next raid tier!" And there is so much to do in the game? Like I am still leveling my jobs. And one issue I see is that people want to be QUICK QUICK QUICK with everything. Like why do you level up your job in three days and then complain about being bored in the game?! I levelled up five jobs, each for one role which I see as my mains and the rest are alts that I level up evenly, shortly, by doing levelling dungeons once a day and Khloe's stickers. My husband asked me why everyone was so hype about Occult Crescent, he went there and found it was nothing special. And I told him "It is because they already finished everything in the game and are bored." I plan to go slow at Occult Crescent. First, it is a grind anyway and second I am more interested in levelling gatherers, crafters and alt jobs at the moment. Long story short, these players, especially these content creators, have burnout and need to STOP. Oh, and if you want to follow a good FF14 Youtuber, Caetsu Chaiji is just there with many videos about tips and doing the maths and breaking myths. Favourite FF14 Youtube so far. I learned a lot watching his videos.
A lot (not all!!! I want to make it very clear that I'm talking about a specific very vocal group of people and not those who joined us in shb/ew specifically) who complain that the game is "dead" joined at the end of shb/endwalker when there was so much hype. They've basically consumed 10+ years of content in a couple of years and are for the first time finding themselves in the patch cycle.
It seems like a lot of people don't know or have forgotten the admonishment Yohi-P gives us that if you're bored, don't play. Spend your time doing something you enjoy. Come back when there is an update that intrigues you. Never play when you're not having a good time. That's what all the catch-up content is for.
This endless demand to consume, consume, consume is a disservice to the game and the amazing and hard work all the devs are doing.
the spine of this world.
Part 1/? of Teal and Orange.
"What if things were different? Where would your life end up?"
(aka AU where Ellie was born and raised in Ishgarde rather than Doma, aka the mun's excuse to do knight(ish)!au of their OC)
hold sacred, hold sacred.
sky above me earth below me fire with me.
Feeling !!! normal and fine actually !!!
"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
new hair + outfit eva debut.
hrothgal posing!
i am not immune to Erenville smiling
My version of the twins (once they are released from their purgatory of forever being teenagers). In my mind the story from ARR to now has taken some 8 years, so they are well into their twenties by now.
~ Electrocolors ~ Meyme Borlaaq
Music Theme
Shaaloani is everything I wanted and more... โ๏ธ๐ต๐
"I can't lose you again" is the trope of all time perhaps