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I'd really rather play through Omega or primals with them than do my thousandth toto-rak cause they're only that far. Like it's fun to hang out with friends but hanging out with them in Brayflox normal is probably worse than hanging out irl and not playing ffxiv with themquote:Compromising the experience of a new player you presumably want to stay with the game for your own benefit seems kind of lovely. I don't recommend jump potions. I just stop recommending the game at all
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weird to see verranicus chatting earnestly about something.
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Sep 15, 2018 22:38
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City of Heroes had that neat sidekick/exemplar system that gave out rewards and the like. Sidekick was especially good, since it artificially leveled the new player to one level below the mentor, but still gave them experience as if they were leveling normally. There was a leash range for the effect. So you could potentially just run out of range and get one shotted if you were overeager.
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Sep 15, 2018 22:41
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b_d posted:weird to see verranicus chatting earnestly about something. I like FFXIV and love introducing my friends to the game. Playing through it with my wife is awesome fun, and going through it again whenever a new friend picks it up to see their reactions to all the cool moments rules. It's the reason I have like 4-5 characters at the level cap along with my main dude with all the jobs maxed.
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Sep 15, 2018 22:42
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I would say the one thing, the idea of taking your time when a ton of content is ahead and you're paying a monthly fee is probably a bit daunting, I can see wanting to just be on the new stuff as fast as possible if you don't want to pay that much but also I don't know how much they charge for that skip potion, either.
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Sep 15, 2018 22:48
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Phantasium posted:I would say the one thing, the idea of taking your time when a ton of content is ahead and you're paying a monthly fee is probably a bit daunting, I can see wanting to just be on the new stuff as fast as possible if you don't want to pay that much but also I don't know how much they charge for that skip potion, either.
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Sep 15, 2018 22:53
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Phantasium posted:I would say the one thing, the idea of taking your time when a ton of content is ahead and you're paying a monthly fee is probably a bit daunting, I can see wanting to just be on the new stuff as fast as possible if you don't want to pay that much but also I don't know how much they charge for that skip potion, either. But how is the new stuff any more new than the old stuff if it's someones first time playing?
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Verranicus posted:I like FFXIV and love introducing my friends to the game. Playing through it with my wife is awesome fun, and going through it again whenever a new friend picks it up to see their reactions to all the cool moments rules. It's the reason I have like 4-5 characters at the level cap along with my main dude with all the jobs maxed. are you also the guy who likes wildstar because i’m beginning to build context for the type of games you like
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Sep 15, 2018 22:54
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Verranicus posted:But how is the new stuff any more new than the old stuff if it's someones first time playing? I just mean in the sense that people play up how good the later content is more than the beginning stuff, I don't actually know a drat thing about FFXIV outside of when people talk about it on these forums.
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Sep 15, 2018 22:56
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Cowcaster posted:are you also the guy who likes wildstar because i’m beginning to build context for the type of games you like I'm on record saying I don't care for Wildstar. I'm playing through it (2 zones left) to get some video footage before they pull the plug, is all. Phantasium posted:I just mean in the sense that people play up how good the later content is more than the beginning stuff, I don't actually know a drat thing about FFXIV outside of when people talk about it on these forums. I guess? I don't really see it that way, myself.
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Sep 15, 2018 22:59
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The content in ffxiv gets almost monotonically better and for a player who completely 100% does not care about story (and has infinite money) I would recommend buying the skip.
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Sep 15, 2018 22:59
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cheetah7071 posted:The content in ffxiv gets almost monotonically better and for a player who completely 100% does not care about story (and has infinite money) I would recommend buying the skip. Why would you pick FFXIV of all MMOs if you don't care about the story? There exist better options for both endgame raiding and PVP. The story and setting are what sells FFXIV.
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I mean I wouldn't. I was responding to a specific post with a specific response e: also, hypothetically, someone who wants to raid with friends, and knows that a few of us play ffxiv already
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Sep 15, 2018 23:03
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Phantasium posted:I just mean in the sense that people play up how good the later content is more than the beginning stuff, I don't actually know a drat thing about FFXIV outside of when people talk about it on these forums.
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Sep 15, 2018 23:05
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who needs context for what’s happening in an mmo
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Sep 15, 2018 23:09
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its a final fantasy game, the 14th one
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Sep 15, 2018 23:10
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My basic view of ffxiv is that it's way too drat long as a single-player game, and as a multiplayer game it fails to be fun for the veteran player when you pair up a veteran and a newbie. It's fun for two veterans to play together, or for two newbies to play together. As a veteran, I have my fun, but I make no effort to recruit because it's just not going to be an enjoyable experience for me to accompany a friend as they level--I'd rather just play a different video game with them altogether.
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who needs context for what’s happening in a final fantasy game
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Sep 15, 2018 23:11
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Cowcaster posted:who needs context for what’s happening in a final fantasy game the Empire's super soldier commander wants to kill and/or replace God and/or the Emperor
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Sep 15, 2018 23:13
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lol if you care about the story in a mmo The story in ff14 isn't even "good" 
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Cowcaster posted:who needs context for what’s happening in a final fantasy game contrary to popular belief, some final fantasy games are video games with narratives that build on existing context
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Sep 15, 2018 23:15
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Verranicus posted:But how is the new stuff any more new than the old stuff if it's someones first time playing? Its an MMO, so "new stuff" means there's other players around, while "old stuff" means a barren wasteland of ghosts.
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The Colonel posted:contrary to popular belief, some final fantasy games are video games with narratives that build on existing context who cares get the fancy teens the big sword and shove it up god’s rear end in a top hat and we’re good
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Zaphod42 posted:Its an MMO, so "new stuff" means there's other players around, while "old stuff" means a barren wasteland of ghosts. That's not how 14 works.
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Sep 15, 2018 23:17
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Saint Freak posted:That's not how 14 works. Yeah it still is. A few people are around leveling alt-jobs but its not the same as being on current content with the main majority of the server population. I had to do a long slog through vanilla to catch up to heavensward, and through the end of the patch content for heavensward to get to stormblood, and both of those experiences plus leveling alts is not super great. I usually use pvp to level alts until they get close to current level content.
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Sep 15, 2018 23:19
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Cowcaster posted:who needs context for what’s happening in a final fantasy game Me, I like big dumb video game stories, it is a vice
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Sep 15, 2018 23:22
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There are people who mash skip cutscenes in jrpgs and I don't get it. With few exceptions jrpg combat is not that special so like, why are you even playing if you're skipping the primary element of the game?
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wait, that's not right, I tried FFXIV, i stopped when i finally had to queue up for a dungeon and after an hour it had found nobody. then i tried it for three more nights that week and same thing.
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Sep 15, 2018 23:25
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah it still is. A few people are around leveling alt-jobs but its not the same as being on current content with the main majority of the server population. No, really, you're wrong. Maybe your server is low pop because that's not the experience I have had leveling half a dozen alts.
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Thanks for the advice. I bought Stormblood. I thought that I might wait until I got back to my desktop in a few weeks but the benchmark says my laptop can run it on low so I might just jump in
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if you play on excalibur post your name and let's do a dungeon sometimePhantasium posted:wait, that's not right, I tried FFXIV, i stopped when i finally had to queue up for a dungeon and after an hour it had found nobody. then i tried it for three more nights that week and same thing.
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Sep 15, 2018 23:33
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Skip all cutscenes, read a synopsis on your next bus ride or something
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Sep 15, 2018 23:34
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It takes about three seconds to watch your character smile and nod, and boy is there a lot of smiling and nodding in your average FFXIV dialogue cutscene, probably accounts for like 10% of my playtime tbh
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Jay Rust posted:Skip all cutscenes, read a synopsis on your next bus ride or something Terrible advice.
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Sep 15, 2018 23:39
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Verranicus how is your cat doing? I hope the cat is feeling better
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Sep 15, 2018 23:42
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FirstAidKite posted:Verranicus how is your cat doing? I hope the cat is feeling better He's much better. They basically had to operate and turn him into a girl, and he was in a cone for weeks. He's mostly all healed up now and we have the cone off and he's acting like his old self, just looking real dumb with his fluff ending around his butt so it looks like he forgot to put pants on. Still keeping an eye on him and we're slowly paying off the vet.
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Sep 15, 2018 23:44
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great now i can’t enjoy a big old pile of hot wings without thinking of that scene from existenz
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Sep 15, 2018 23:58
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Your cat get a urinary blockage or something? We went through that, very expensive. Didn't get the sex change option though.
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TOOT BOOT posted:Your cat get a urinary blockage or something? We went through that, very expensive. Didn't get the sex change option though. Yeah, over a period of a month or two he kept getting blocked and we visited the vet like 10 times. Tried everything, until eventually we basically had to beg them to put us on a payment plan for the surgery as a last resort (2000+ dollars for that alone). When they went in they discovered that in that last stretch where he'd gotten real bad and lethargic his urethra had basically ruptured and he would have died had we not brought him in, but they fixed him up and he seems a lot better now. Still get paranoid every now and then though. There's not really any other options after the surgery besides euthanasia or a life of being in and out of the vet to be flushed out.
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I watch all cutscenes in their entirety for every game regardless of if it's just pointless tutorial dialogue or how many times I've played it.
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