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some images i saved when i still used reddit

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Lore-Friendly Travel Gear Companions part 1. i think the other three will actually be a bit more challenging but i will figure it out. wrt arcade's holster i do believe that is the gayest way to do it

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Can you please elaborate on the original FFXIV getting blown up?

yeah so, in summary, when FF14 was first released it was helmed by an entirely different team of producers who were very much not interested in learning from developments in the MMO genre up to that point and kinda created a mess of a game. it wasn’t really due to one thing in particular that the game failed though, the entire production was highly mismanaged. people knew in beta that it was going to be a mess but they pushed it out anyway and it was a major flop critically and a big hit to square’s reputation. the producers were then removed from the project and another producer named Naoki Yoshida who had a lot of experience working on the Dragon Quest MMO was brought on to replace them and hopefully improve the state of the game.

when realizing just how fucked FF14 1.0 was at the time, yoshida gave square a bit of a hail mary option and was like “we can improve this game, but it will never be great in this form. let me continue making updates to the game… while also in the background secretly rebuild the entire game almost from scratch”. fucking miraculously square was like “yeah sure” and actually gave that idea the greenlight, with a 2-year window to release.

so that became the plan. improve the game in incremental amounts for players currently sticking with it, and then wipe the whole slate clean and release a FF14 2.0 that was a fundamentally remade experience, actually taking more design inspiration from other successful MMOs and other final fantasy games. they didn’t just decide to wipe the original game on a meta level though, they actually worked the destruction of FF14 1.0 into the plot of both games. and so, famously, the day that the servers for 1.0 were shut down was a day where IN GAME players fought a horde of deadly monsters spawning around the world until inevitably a giant moon crashed into the world and took the servers offline for good. and then when you play 2.0, they frequently reference this calamity in the early MSQ and players who stuck with 1.0 until the end actually got their entire character transferred over with a special tattoo, opening cutscenes, and special dialogue throughout the MSQ that connects them to the game that was deleted.

there’s a 3-part noclip documentary that goes into more detail, it is FASCINATING stuff.

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saul’s list of people you can sue

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English added by me :)

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and i’d like to give a special shoutout to bisexuals who are losers

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hooray for blue charmander!

somehow I've done another Chartodile family moment

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Oh yeah, she deserved that Oscar bad

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ever wanted to own most trusted advisors but $15 was too pricey for you? well now you can get it for only $10 alongside ~600 other games or whatever in the TTRPGs for Palestine bundle. all money goes to medical aid for palestinians and there are in fact some really great games in there, some of my favourites are wanderhome and eidolon: become your best self 1e. please consider checking it out!

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I see the price of groceries and my leitmotif changes to minor key

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"I reported her because she was posting NSFW without mature labels which is against TOS!!!" you'd narc on someone for having their tits out at a gay bar because it's illegal you simply are not trustworthy

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JRR Tolkien, The Return of the King