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Finally get to post my piece for a sine I did with some folks :) (idk if there’s a tumble, but they’re “daytoday ffxiv” on Twitter/bsky
Hehe Peppercakes on a fishing trip
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🏮 the reality of which is revealed
Source: twitter.com
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"i miss him" says girl about the fictional guy she thinks about every hour of every day
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witch hat atelier is great because in the first few chapters it looks like its really just going to be a cute magical girl story about hope and friendship but then you keep reading and its about how fascist societies fabricate a social structure to divide how power and information is disseminated and what life is like as a disabled person in that society. and then its also still about hope and friendship, but if hope and friendship could kill you.
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My own hot take is that the player community can do a lot to make the game engaging for new players, in ways that don't involve saying 'hey how can we have less story or make the story matter less?' Embrace the fact that a lot of people play FFXIV for the story and
- don't rush your sprout friends through MSQ.
- stop telling sprouts ARR is bad.
- stop telling sprouts Stormblood is bad.
- do some low-level activities (maps, hunt marks, roulettes, etc) with your sprout friends so they can feel included. yes even if the in-game rewards aren't hugely valuable to you. do things with your sprout friends. include them.
- stop telling sprouts the game only gets "good" after X thousand hours of gameplay.
- don't tell sprouts to skip side content just because you want them to catch up faster.
- let sprouts enjoy the journey.
- you BETTER be waiting for sprouts in cutscenes (most players are good about this).
- seriously don't rush your friends. I know you want to raid with them. I know you want to talk about Shadowbringers with them. be patient. let them enjoy the journey. enjoy it with them.
Having people around me (even in novice network) saying how good Shadowbringers was and to look forward to it and how they didn't like Stormblood and thought ARR was too long etc. - really made me rush through the game because I subconsciously thought "oh the game must not be good until Shadowbringers and these expansions must not be good i'll skip text"
it's made me so much more careful of what i say around people who aren't caught up yet because i don't want the same to happen to them
