Tech Over Tea - #87 I Think I'm Addicted To Final Fantasy XIV | Solo

Episode Date: October 27, 2021

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Good morning, good day, good evening. I am, as always, your host, Brodie Robertson, and today we are back for episode 87 of Tech of a T, and you might have noticed by the title, but today we're going to have a fairly topic-focused episode, not jumping all over the place like we normally do, actually just focusing on one core topic. And that core topic is my latest addiction. I've been talking about wanting to play this game for quite a while, probably like, I don't know, a month or so at least. And about two weeks back, I finally started playing. I've been playing a lot of Final Fantasy 14. It's really, really, really fun. Like, I, I went into this game thinking, okay, I'm gonna give it a shot. I don't know if I'll, like, stick around with it or anything like that. Um, yeah, I, I think we're gonna stick around with it. Right now, I don't...

So normally, I don't play that many games. Like in my spare time, I would like sit down and watch some anime or do something else. I've been playing this game for about two weeks now, and I've played about 30 hours, maybe three weeks. Anyway, that's a lot of time for me. I don't play games normally that much. Usually, like outside of streaming, I would have played, like, three or so hours a week, but, yeah, a lot of my, uh, a lot of my spare time sort of, sort of gone into, um, gone into Final Fantasy right now, and you know what? That's a good,

honestly, like, maybe it's not a good thing for, like, the other things that I want to do, Maybe it's not a good thing for the other things that I want to do, but the game itself is very fun. So I think a good place to start from is sort of my experience in the past with MMOs, because unlike a lot of people, especially a lot of the new people who have been coming over in the past couple of months, I wasn't an ex-WOW player. I haven't ever played WOW. There was one time back when I was like 16 or so, where I had a couple of mates, I wasn't an ex-WOW player. I haven't ever played WOW. There was one time back

when I was like 16 or so, where I had a couple of mates who were like, oh, you want to play WOW with us? And I spent probably like three weeks trying to decide on what race and what class I wanted to play, and then never actually went and played it. So yeah, I've never played WOW, it. So, yeah, I've never played WoW, but I have played MMOs before. I brought this up on earlier episodes of the podcast, but I used to be a really big RuneScape

player. Now, I started... I don't remember what the date was. Actually, you know what? I can find out, because I started playing on a very important date. I played in the update that the Grand Exchange was added. So, in the update that the Grand Exchange was added. So let's see when the Grand Exchange was added. I think it's around like, yeah, okay. So November

26th, 2007. That's when I started playing RuneScape. I played up until sometime during the beta of until sometime during the beta of RuneScape 3. There were periods in there where I did take like a couple months off, a year off, something like that, but for the most part I played, you know, for seven years. Six, seven years. Something like that. I stopped playing because I didn't give a shit about RuneScape 3, and at the time old-school RuneScape didn't exist. So if I wanted to continue playing RuneScape, actually I did continue playing it on private servers, but... and during the times when I wasn't playing like main RuneScape, I was playing private servers as well. So a lot of my childhood I spent playing RuneScape because I started when I was... what I would have been nine? Yeah, nine.

And I played most of my way through high school. So that's sort of what I know as an MMO. I also played a bit of Adventure Quest Worlds. I think I played like a year or so of that, like as the game launched, because I was also a big Adventure Quest fan. Not Adventure Quest, Adventure Quest, the original Flash game. Then when the MMO came out, I played that for a while.

I think that's... I also played a bit of Realm of the Mad God, but Realm of the Mad God is a weird one for an MMO. It's more like... I don't know. It's a roguelike battle royale. That's what what's more akin to as opposed to an MMO I guess you can put in like the category of like the the

hardcore MMO stuff but I when I played realm of the mad god I never really treated it like an MMO so yeah I consider that to be a different thing so my main experience with MMOs is rununeScape, and, like, I can see if you've played WoW, how going to FFXIV sort of makes sense, like, a lot of the systems that are there, it's a tab target system, like, the, you've, all your fucking bars everywhere, it makes sense as, like, a transition. If I went from FFXIV into A Realm Reborn when it first came out, I probably would have hated it because I didn't like the idea of like, when I was younger, I didn't like the idea of having all of these bars on my screen. That's why I didn't play RuneScape 3. I felt like even though I hadn't played it, I had this preconceived notion that it was going to be this incredibly complex system. But if you jump directly into endgame, sure,

it definitely would be. But a well-designed game like FFXIV is going to introduce the mechanics sort of as you level up. So I'm playing as a gladiator right now. I haven't hit the level to spec into a Paladin yet. So right now I'm a level 26 Gladiator. 26, 27. Around 26, 27 Gladiator. Almost a Paladin. But you start off by just having like your basic attack. Then as you level up, you get your AoE and your stun and your silence.

And like there's also like a mind and intelligence reduction. As the game sort of progresses, it slowly introduces these mechanics and you get used to them as you go. I didn't know how I would feel about this system when I first played it. I feel

like early on, when you don't have that many things to do, the combat can be... because you do have this 2.5 second GCD, the global cooldown between using your main abilities, there is... I don't know, it feels slow. Now that seems weird coming from RuneScape, but I did take like an eight year break from RuneScape and played like, you know,uneScape and played, like, you know, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, other, you know, single-player

RPGs. So, I sort of got used to a much more fast-paced style of combat, but once you get to around, like, level I think it's level 15, once you get to the level where you can finish all of your job trials, that is basically the, um, the built-in tutorial to learn how to play your job.

You get new abilities, new armor and stuff. But once you do that... Actually, no. Sorry, you train the abilities. You get your abilities from your job quests. But once you get to the level where you can finish the trials, I think that's at the point where the combat system really

has started to hook me. So, I... I didn't like it at the start, but it definitely has grown on me, and I definitely started to like it. One of the things that has helped me to start liking it is...

I'm going to jump around a bit, but... One of the things that helped me start to like it is I just got to the point in the main story quests where I can unlock my first raids. So, I can't remember what they're called, but I've done the raid in Gridania and Limsa those first two raids and I'm on my way to doing the

raid in Uldar the Uldar one is the Copperbell Mines I can't remember what the other two are called but if you've played the early sections of A Realm Reborn then you would hopefully remember what the hell the dungeons were called.

I hadn't played anything outside of solo content up until that point. So I'd done my job trials, I'd learned how to play my gladiator class, I learned how to be a tank. Holy shit, is it different when you go into a raid. So the first problem I had with going into the raid is because I had been doing solo content, there was a setting that I had not bothered to touch yet. That setting was the spell effects, the particle effects setting. So if you've watched any...

Actually, let's see if we can find some stuff about the Endwalker jobs. I know there's a couple of videos showing them off. If you've seen any FFXIV gameplay, you would realize the combat's very flashy. Like, very, very, very flashy. Here we go so it's very flashy and when it's very flashy it's fine by itself but you combine that flashiness with

4, 5 6 other people on your screen and yeah it's a bit much this is one of the new uh jobs the uh the sage um let's see if we can see it doing some combos yeah here we go just this by itself is already a flashy enough where if you just have more than one sage on the screen it's just insane what is happening if you're just listening basically the screen is full of particle effects.

And when you have everyone in your party also casting bunches of particle effects, hard to see what's going on. You can turn that off. I've right now got it on limited. So there's like some effects, but not the same extent there would be otherwise. Now I can actually play my job, um, because I haven't really done, like, when I played RuneScape, I hadn't really done any, really any of, like, the, because RuneScape, like, the, the party end, the party raid content's really mostly in endgame,

like, it's changed, uh, nowadays we have, um have Dungeoneering, but back when I was first playing, like, the raid content was like, um, what the fuck was it called? We would go farm for godswords. I don't know what it was called, but if you've played RuneScape, you know what I was talking about. I've never done

sort of raid stuff like that. I've never done tanking, anything like that. So, the first thing that was weird about tanking is because you're the tank and because you're supposed to be the one that, you know, attracts all of the enemy attention, everyone expects you to be at the front of the party. Now, this is probably fine if you know how the raids, how the dungeons are actually laid out. if you know how the raids, how the dungeons are actually laid out. I didn't. I went into the dungeon and I was like,

I have no idea what I'm doing here. Luckily, for the most part, they're fairly linear in what you do. There was one part in the first dungeon where there was a couple of doors to go to and you'd pick up a key and go to the door that matched the key. I didn't pay attention to what the key was called. So I went up to the wrong door and just stood there and couldn't open the door. In that same dungeon,

there was a bit where there was these three coral trees and you use one of the trees to activate a switch and you do that and then you can like go through the door. Didn't realize that either because I'm the tank they sort of assumed that I knew what I was going to be doing. This is a problem because it was my first dungeon. It should have like if I really struggled with what I was doing I'm sure someone would have said something, maybe offered some help or cursed me out. I don't know what the Final Fantasy community is like.

I hear it's fairly nice. I'll get into not talking in just a bit though. So the other people in my party were very clearly running second jobs. So actually one of them was at least. So one of them was at least so one of them was wearing the uh the class the the race armor for the cat girls uh another person had gear from one of the ultimates so that person clearly knew what they were doing uh and probably was just watching me and looking at me just be like i have no idea what you're doing, but we're not dead

So I think it's fine To be like the first raids are very easy to die. You would have to basically be a moron as Long as your healer is healing as long as your tank is roughly tanking You won't die there like it, it's pretty hard to die. I kind of like the first raid more than the second one. So the first one, I don't know if it's different depending on your starting system. I don't know if the order of the first raids is different depending on your starting city. But the first one that I did was the pirate one,

then after that it's the one with the magical orbs and all the goblins, the imps and the wizards and stuff, and then after that it's going to be the one with the giants in Ulda. I don't know if the order is different. I feel like the second one was way more tedious. Like, it felt like it took way, way longer than the first one did. The first one, it was basically just run forward, and you sort of make it to the end of the dungeon. In that one, you run forward, but there is a lot more running forward. I don't know if that was just, you know, me being bad at running the party, me being bad at leading us through the

dungeon, but it did certainly feel like it took a much, much longer time. Maybe it's fine the second time I go through, but I'm not entirely sure. So, one other thing I wasn't really sure about is, uh, because these raids are obviously, i could do them unsynced because my level is way above where i should be but i wanted to do it i actually wanted to do these raids as like as a party so i wasn't sure how well the uh how well the judy finder which is basically like the the dungeon party match thing is going to work for uh for this early game content because I know like in other games like WoW for example early game raids unless it's the start of a patch probably are not going to have anyone wanting to do them. Because this stuff is story stuff I didn't really find that much challenge

finding a party. The first time I ran that first dungeon, I got a party basically instantly. I've ran it again just because I wanted to get some... I wanted to see what the other gear was you can get from it. I guess after I went and raided the second dungeon, it seemed like the gear you get from those dungeons is exactly the same. Or at least most of it overlaps. I guess that makes sense because it is the early game raids. But I found a party basically instantly.

Second time it took a bit longer like six minutes. When I went and did that second dungeon, it took me about... I think it took me about nine minutes to find a party which... Considering that I was playing on a Tuesday at like 11 p.m. That's not that bad. I don't know what it would be like in more of the, uh, more of the primetime. I sort of have to work out where primetime really is for the, uh, the datacenter and the serve that I'm actually playing on. Um, but I, I totally understand the appeal of doing raids. I haven't gotten to the point where I can do PvP yet.

I've never really been a fan of, you know, PvP just generally. I don't really like the idea of PvP, especially in a game that's not fully designed around PvP. If I want to do PvP, I'm going to play anything else. Maybe I will try it out and see what it's like and get my ass completely handed to me oh that reminds me i've actually played another mmo i played uh blade and soul for like six months or so um that game it very much encourages you to spend money but that's a whole other whole another So, I like raiding content.

Raiding content is a lot of fun. Actually, one thing with the raid. With that second dungeon I did, when it took me so long to find it, I was like, okay, I'm going to quit this. And then just as I was about to quit this, I got this party and the party was a group of Lalafell all wearing slime hats and were just chanting about how great Lalafell were. It was kind of great actually. So, Lalafell. We need to talk about the Lalafell. So, I started in Uldar. Now, Uldar is a

special city because Uldar is the city with the largest population of Lalafell. And here we go. Let's see if we can find Here we go. Here You gonna show me the picture? Here we go. This is a Lalafellell they are basically children um

you know they are adorable you want to protect them i think i think the the the point in the story where you're like i think the lalafell need to be protected, is when you meet the when you meet Papa Shan in Uldar he is one of the Sultan's sworn, one of the guards of the Sultan and the

walking animation they have, I don't know how to explain the Lalafell walking animation. The only way you can explain it is by actually seeing a Lalafell walk. Here we go.

Like, they walk like they fucking own the place. Like, they're three foot tall, and they walk like they absolutely own the place. everyone respects them, everyone must bow down before them. No, I'm not playing a Lalafell, I am playing a, uh, I am playing a Catgirl. Do you know why I'm playing a Catgirl? Because there's Catgirls

available, and obviously I'm gonna play a Cat girl. But I totally see the appeal of playing the Lalafell. The other appeal is that because you're so short, your camera angle is also very low as well. And you know, there is another side of

Final Fantasy XIV outside of the, um, outside of, you know, the story and the raiding. There's the, there is the RPers. There's, there's the people who hang out in Limsa-Lamintha all the time and just stand there, just chatting, doing nothing from what I can see, showing off how they look, showing off their glamours. I guess if you are a glamour hunter, though, you are also doing raids a lot, but I don't know when they're doing raids, because it seems like they're always just hanging out in Limsa. On that note, actually, so because I started in Uldar, um on that note actually so because i started in uldar it it was a very weird okay uldar is a really weird city compared to limsa so uldar it's a fairly small city but it's also fairly quiet like not much really happens in uldar maybe if you're hanging out around one of the guilds, you're in the weaving guild or the goldsmithing guild,

you might see one or two people there, especially low levels, trying to grind out those early job quests. But outside of that, the only place you really see people is the adventurers guild and the market board. Of course you're going to see people at market board because they don't know how to go somewhere else that Guild and the Market Board. Of course, you're going to see people with a Market Board because they don't know how to go somewhere else that isn't the Market Board. The Market Board basically serves as, if you played RuneScape, serves as the Grand Exchange or serves as the place where you can sell your shit, basically.

Because I'm playing free trial, though, I don't actually have access to the marker board, which is sad. But I probably will stop playing the free trial at some point. So free trial, you've probably heard the meme, takes you up to end of Heaven's Ward. You know how it goes. I was considering just staying on the free trial until that point. There's a couple of things that are going to annoy me. Things like you don't have access to retainers.

They are basically the people that you can give shit to to be your bank. Or you can get them to sell shit on the market board so you don't have to stand around the market board like everybody else is doing. Because I guess they just forgot to unlock that quest. I guess they forgot to unlock the quest, or they just like standing around the market board

checking prices. As I said, you don't get market board. Actually, let's see what other stuff is on the free trial restriction. FF14 free trial restriction. I actually can't remember. Those were the main things that were

sort of tempting me to just jump off the free trial and actually pay for the game. Obviously, there is that level cap. There is a level cap. There is a gil cap of

wait, previously I'm sorry, there was a gil cap of 300,000? But it doesn't matter since you can't use the market board. If you get 300,000 gil without using the market board, man, you're you've just been raiding a lot, basically. No shout, yell, you're... You've just been raiding a lot, basically. No

shout, yell, or tell chat options. No market board. No trading. Oh yeah, no trading as well. No mobile delivery. Can't hire retainers. Can't create link shell. Link shells are basically... Basically private chats. Can't join free companies.

Or can't create or join free companies. Those are basically your guilds. Can't create a party or can't create or join free companies those are basically your guilds can't create a party but can join them you can do duty finder though so that's not as big a deal if you just care about the raids it's just general parties that

general parties you can't do also no microtransactions if you're playing the free trial, you're doing it because you don't want to spend money. I don't think this is really a limit. Also, 8 playable character limit, 1 per home world, but I don't really see the

point of making alt characters. So, in a game like RuneScape, in a game like WoW, so RuneScape, you make alt characters because, I guess they need to be alt accounts because RuneScape in a game like WoW. So RuneScape, you make alt characters because, I guess they need to be alt accounts because RuneScape doesn't have a multiple character system. Unless they do now, I don't know. At least when I played, that didn't exist.

So, RuneScape you make alt characters if you want to do PvP and have a character in a certain PvP range. So you want to have someone who, I don't know, is, I don't even know what the meta in RuneScape PvP is at this point, but

you might have someone with like 60 strength or something, whatever the level to have a dragon dagger is, and one defense. Like that was something you did back when I played. That was why you'd have alt characters on RuneScape. On WoW, you'd

have alt characters, my nose has been a mess. On WoW, you'd have old characters on RuneScape. On WoW, you'd have old characters... My nose has been a mess. On WoW, you'd have old characters because you would have your character being limited to a certain class. FFXIV doesn't have that problem, though. So, I actually really like this because when I play a game, I like to do all of the content. And in FFXIV, you can play every single job on the same character. So jobs are basically your classes. You can play everything

on one character. So you can start the game as a gladiator like I did. And then you can decide, I don't really like gladiator. I want to go and try out Lancer or Thaumaturge. Thaumaturge is the, um, they turn into a black mage. Uh, Lancer, you know, it makes sense. That doesn't make sense what it is. Or you can go and, like, play a healer. I don't remember what the, um,

the base class, or the base job for a healer is called, though. Um, I don't remember. Anyway, you can, like, you can do all of that. Or if you don't like combat, you can just literally say, I don't fucking care about combat because all of your levels are separate from each other.

You can just be like, okay, I get to level 15. That's when you can actually change your job. And just go and just go and play like a gathering job or go and play a crafting job. You will have to go through the main story quest to get to certain areas to get certain items you might want to get.

But when you play a gathering job or a crafting job... Actually, no. Crafting jobs don't get this. When you play a gathering job, you get this ability early on called Stealth. crafting jobs don't get this. When you play a gathering job, you get this ability early on called stealth. Stealth basically makes it so enemies that are, I think it's like five or six levels above you, just don't care you exist. So early on, when you're in the range of an enemy's level, some of them instantly are going to be aggressive. So like Yars on Feeders, for example, which these big like spiderlooking motherfuckers, it doesn't matter what level you are,

I think maybe they'll stop at some point, but when you're within a bunch of levels of their level, they'll just attack you. Doesn't matter if they're going to die instantly, they'll just attack you. Stealth basically makes it so that won't happen, and it's not a thing that has a time limit. So basically,

when you go into a gathering job like mining for example You just activate stealth and just go around the world and because I did play runescape I That unlocked like a whole new level of i am enjoying this game uh that i just didn't have before so i enjoyed the combat the combat was fun um but then i hit level 15 i was like okay i'm gonna try out mining 10 hours later i was still mining and then I was doing crafting, sorry, not crafting, um, weaving. Weaving is the

skill, because they, unlike RuneScape, it breaks all of its crafting jobs into, like, all of its individual parts. So there's blacksmithing, weaving, goldsmithing, um, um, there's one for, what's the word for working with wood? I don't remember. Not cutting down,

not, not wood cutting, the, the crafting version of that where you're making, like, um, beams and stuff. I don't remember. But, like, it splits all of this stuff down. And I just sat there. I just sat there grinding those out. And when it comes to the gathering and, and crafting jobs, it's not trying to waste your time. So there's a lot of stuff in FFXIV that sort of, I guess, it helps you speed up the leveling process. So that's one thing that was weird about coming from RuneScape. RuneScape, the entire game, game is spend six months getting a skill to level 99. It's not like that in FFXIV. So you get to, like, okay, so early on, it does take a little bit of time to level up, unlock the stuff to help your leveling. Around, I think it's around level like 15, 20-ish, that's when you start getting

things like, actually it's a bit earlier than that for some of it's when you start getting things like actually it's a bit earlier than for some of it but you start getting things like leave quests these are basically quests that are repeatable that will give you experience for you not just your combat jobs but your gathering and your crafting jobs as well um you get um you get a ring that will give you bonus EXP to your secondary classes when it's a combat class. So I think that's once you finish your job trials. You finish the job trials, you get this thing. So then all of your secondary jobs up until level 30 get bonus EXP. When you eat food, you get a 3% experience bonus for 30 minutes.

So basically, you want to keep% experience bonus for 30 minutes so basically you want to keep that experience bonus up. Job quests inherently just give a lot of experience. Crafting and gathering just give way more experience than doing combat does so it takes you about maybe 10-20 minutes to get to level 10, and that's just going through the crafting log. That's the other thing. So the way it handles combat, the way it handles crafting, it has this log, and the first time that you kill anything in that log, you make anything in that log, you gather anything in that log, you get bonus experience. It gives you a bit of bonus experience for it and in a lot of the early cases that's just enough to push you straight up to the next one.

You also get bonus experience when any of your jobs are a lower level than your highest level job. So in my case if I have a level 27 paladin, every other job is going to get bonus experience until it gets to the same level as my highest level job. It slows down as your level gets higher, but if there's like you know a 25 level difference because you're just starting a new job, or even more crazily you get to level 80 and there's a 79 level difference, that's going to be a much quicker process to level up. Which is weird. Like, RuneScape, the leveling is the game. FFXIV, though, the leveling is sort of a means to do the game, if that makes any sense. Like,

the game is more than just the leveling process, it's all of this other stuff around it, which is... I kind of like? I don't know how I'm gonna feel once I get to end game, but that's still quite a while away because I'm very much taking a very slow approach to this. So I could very well rush through the MSQ, the main story quests. I could do that. I absolutely could. But actually, here's one of the things that I didn't understand when I was first told it,

but I totally get it now. When I first heard about FFXIV, when I was watching told it, but I totally get it now. When I first heard about FFXIV, when I was watching Asmongold, what I heard is Final Fantasy XIV is basically a single-player RPG with an MMO attached to it, not a MMO with RPG elements, if that makes sense. So, when you play FFXIV, it feels like you're just playing a Final Fantasy game, but it also has other players around you. The other players, for the most part, aren't critical to the game being a good game. The only parts that, like, obviously require players is if you go and do raiding content But if you go through the main story, it's very easy to just ignore everyone else existing There is even an option in your your settings menu to just lower the number of players on your screen

I don't know if you can disable players on your screen, but you very well might be able to playable players on your screen, but you very well might be able to. So it's really, I don't know how to explain like what this is like without actually playing, like without you actually playing the game, but it doesn't feel like another MMO. Actually, I think a good way to put it, I think that also comes down to the... Or that also influences the way the world chat sort of feels. I think this is one of the big things actually. So obviously there's all that MSQ stuff where the story is actually really good. But the other thing that really sort of... Really sort of makes it feel like it's not an MMO...

Is... Nobody fucking talks... At all. So... Like... With the exception of being... In Limsa Laminza... Which is where everyone basically hangs out...

Basically nobody talks. So I went through my... My first... I think... 10 hours of the game until I saw the first person actually say something in the area chat. That's insane. I was like, in the first 10 hours, you're basically just going in and out of Uldar.

And even though Uldar isn't a super populated city, if you, like, take RuneScape, for example, you can go to, like, the most dead of dead areas. You can go to, like, fucking Goblin Village. And the only people that ever go to Goblin Village are people who go there to do the one quest in Goblin Village. And even there, if a player shows up, they will probably say hi. If you go and, you know, grind out a skill, like you're fishing for lobsters, you're cutting down yew trees, you're fletching in the Grand Exchange, anything like that, someone's going to be talking.

Not just someone, tons's going to be talking. Not just someone, tons of people will be talking because there's a lot of people around you. I was in Limsa Lominsa last night. It was around 9pm. There was

three. Three people talking. Limsa was fucking packed. There was probably at least 50, maybe close, maybe like 60 or 70 people just standing around the Aetheryte Plaza. It might've been even, like it could have even been a hundred.

I have no idea. But there was all of these people just standing around the Aetheryte Plaza, which is the center of the city where everyone hangs out. You had a bard playing... Actually, I'll get... You had a bard playing some music.

I'll get into the music in just a bit. You had a bard playing music. You had someone running a gambling ring in the center of the Aetheryte Plaza. You had some people chilling under a tree, watching some cat girls dance. You know, normal Final Fantasy stuff but the only people that were talking

were a couple of Sprouts in chat Sprouts are basically the new players nobody else was talking, at all it's bizarre so I didn't understand this initially, but from what I've read basically all of the chat that happens in this game

happens through link shells and through the FC chat, so through your private chat and your guild chat. And I don't know why it's like that. People have said early on there was a lot of people doing like gold selling and basically just spamming

the area chat, so it's sort of changed the way the culture sort of works around chatting in this game and a lot of people just don't chat in the public chat uh other people have said there's just not really that much to talk about but that that doesn't really make any sense from my perspective because in something like runescape there's not much to fucking talk about either. Like, when I was playing, unless you're at, like, the end game, you didn't really get any new content. Like, people would just

say things like, oh, what level is your fishing? Oh, my fishing is this level. Like, that's the sort of stuff that happened in RuneScape. It was meaningless chatter, but it was still something. Or someone would ask, like, oh, how long have you been playing this game for? I've been playing this long. It's a really weird sort of culture difference between the two games.

And it's one of the things I really... It's probably the only thing I don't like about Final Fantasy XIV so far. I don't like how you can go into one of these big, really populated cities, and it seems... Even though there's people there, it seems dead. Like, there's people everywhere around you, but nobody's saying anything. It just... It does certainly lead into, like, the...

This is basically a single-player MMO. I've seen one joke that sort of explains it very well. All of the other players you see around you aren't actually players basically they are just well programmed NPCs and that's how it sort of feels like half the time where yeah these people are around you but like

they're not acting like players would. I think that obviously that goes into like the role player aspect as well, but I don't know. It's one of the things that feels weird to me, and I certainly would like to see some shift in a different direction, and that might start to happen as you see more of these big player jumps into the game. big player jumps into the game.

Take, for example, both Hololive EN and Hololive JP have been given permission to actually play the game. So if someone like Fubuki, if just the entire EN crew plays, you're going to see a lot of new people just start playing the game. And maybe that will lead to a change again. I don't know.

I don't know. Maybe it's changed after the WoW players were joined. I don't know. I don't have a reference point for what it was like before that. But what I can say now is it feels very quiet. That's, I think, a good way to put it now on that bard music so um bards like to sit around town just playing random songs and um i i i stood there i was like hmm okay

I sort of recognise recognise this recognise what we're hearing hearing right here but surely it can't be that someone was just chilling in Limsa Lominsa playing the coffin dance music

I don't know why I don dance music. I don't know why. I don't know why. But it was great. Oh, my lord. I do like how Square Enix sort of takes this fairly standoffish approach. this fairly standoffish approach. Like, there's a lot of stuff that certainly, certainly would and could be bannable offenses if they really wanted, really wanted them to be, but unless you're doing something to give yourself like an actual advantage, it seems like for the most part they take a fairly

standoffish approach and like, know what it makes the game better like we could deal with people using custom shaders but it makes people enjoy the game more we could deal with people playing certain custom music but

you know maybe it's fine maybe it's fine and that sort of, that's sort of how it goes. I did mention, um, I mentioned the RPers before. So I haven't really, I haven't, I haven't done any of the RP stuff, but I haven't really run into that many, um, outside of Limsa, so I mentioned you had the bards there just holding a concert, you had the, uh, you had the, the dude in, like, he had a fucking yellow, uh, yellow suit on, a gold, sorry, gold suit, like you'd see in, um, Gold Saucer, and was just, like, running a dice game, I don't know what was going on there, it was doing, 100k bets as well. So it wasn't like it wasn't a cheap

cheap gamble or anything I I don't know how I don't know how I feel about the RP is I think I Think it certainly adds a nice appeal to the game I have no interest in getting involved in at least at this stage maybe at some point in the future that might change. But it adds this liveliness

to the game where you just, like, you honestly could just sit down in Limsa Lominsa and just do nothing for ages. Just chill there and just enjoy the atmosphere. And I think that's what a lot of people just do.

Maybe they'll chat with people in their private link shells. But besides that, it seems like a lot of people just like, just chill. It's weird. It's really weird. Like, we're going to keep going back to RuneScape. But like, everywhere you go in RuneScape, you go there keep going back to RuneScape but like everywhere you go in RuneScape you go there for like sort of a productive reason, like there are

these certain fun little side things, like there's a party room in Falador that gets used like once a year, but even the people that chill in the Grand Exchange are chilling in the Grand Exchange because they're training a skill or they are

trying to fucking watch the market and trade stuff like that or they're trading stuff outside of the grand exchange because the grand exchange rates don't really match up with the true value of the product for example with um with party hats or with any of the other, the rare unobtainable items, or no longer obtainable items, that's the sort of stuff that happens in RuneScape. Here, we just like chill in Limsa and just hang out. There's a concert that might happen. She'll be right. I think the first thing that got me, this was very early on when i was playing i was running around all dar this was the first thing that made me think okay i i like this atmosphere so even though people don't talk really the way they sort of get get emotion across is everyone loves the

emote system so someone's's playing fucking coffin dance music in Limsa. Everyone will start clapping. Someone or maybe you'll start dancing. Someone's like trying their hardest to play something or trying their hardest to fight something. You'll cheer them on.

Like the emote system gets so heavily used in this game. More than I ever saw in in in runescape or in adventure quest worlds or blade and soul like I Think that It does make it feel like NPCs is talking to you, but it is it is a It is a a nice thing that adds to the world right my story anyway So I was in the gladiator Guild, or it might have been a different guild.

I was in one of the guilds in Uldar, and this three group of cat girls just came into the guild. And they saw me working on a skill, so it probably was like weaving or something. They saw me working on a skill, and like, ah look, it's another cat girl. They saw me working on a skill. And like, ah, look, it's another cat girl. I'm sorry, no. Ah, look, it's another kitty. It's another kitty is the way she phrased it.

Like, mate. Mate. I don't understand. I don't understand why I'm liking this, but I really do. That was when I was like, I really like this. I don't know why. Like, something about the culture and the atmosphere is really, it's really starting to click with me. I really don't, I don't know what it is, but something is clicking with me. So, one thing I haven't even touched on yet is, or I've touched on a little bit, but the MSQ, the main story quest. So, here's another problem I actually, sorry, I said I had one problem with the game. I actually have two problems with the game.

So, the second problem I have is with the very, very early MSQ. MSQ. So when you start in the game, your starting city is dependent on what class or what job you decide to pick at the start of the game. So if you pick a Paladin, a

Pugilist, or a Thaumaturge, you'll be in Uldar. If you pick a Warrior, some other things, you'll be in Limsa. And if you pick a Archer, a Lancer and I think there might be something else you'll be in Gridania so when you start the game obviously you're going to have a slightly different story. And the stories converge around level 15. So roughly where I'm at in the MSQ.

So they converge around that point. But up until that point, you're not really going over the A Realm Reborn story. It's more like going over... There's like hints in it, but it's more like going over the story of the city-state you're in. So I'm in Uld but it's more like going over the story of the city-state you're in. So I'm in Uda. This is like, it's a fairly, it seems like a fairly wealthy nation,

but there is this really, really big divide between the rich and the poor. Like, you will go from the Sapphire Avenue Exchange, which is basically the main market area, one street over, and it is just nothing but people in these, like, torn up clothes trying to sell, like, fucking rocks or something. I don't know, they're trying to sell whatever they can to make even the slightest bit of gil. There's also, like, food problems in this area, and you sort of get to learn, like, what this city-state is really like. And the exact same is going to be true over in Gridania and Limsa. They all have their own problems. I know Limsa has, like, a pirate problem or something.

I don't know the problem in Gridania is, but it's in, like, a forest area, so I imagine there's probably's probably like conflicts with the beast tribes or something like that. But here is the problem. When you play the first 15 levels, these are the only part of the MSQ that you cannot experience on one character. So I can only experience the Uldar City State quest on my character. If I wanted to go and play the Gridania stuff and the

Limsa stuff, I would have to go and play on a second or a third character. I might actually do it just to play through that section. But it is slightly annoying that I would have to go and do that.

That's my only problem I have with the MSQ so far, because I do want to learn what's going on in Limsa and what's going on in Gridania, but that sort of gets skipped over if you're picking a different city. And from what I've read, you can't go back and New Game plus into a different section. If you new game plus, it will just take you back to where you started, which is

slightly annoying. I know that all of this stuff is like documented online. I could go and watch someone else's playthrough of it, and I might do that, or I might play it myself. I don't know. But as I said, it slightly bothers me, but I've gotten to the point now where the city-state you started in doesn't matter

so after level 15 or 16 or so, the story converges and you go through the main Aroma Reborn storyline Right, actually that's one thing I didn't mention earlier so I'm level 27 but the MSQ is level 16, so a lot of the game's content is locked behind

the MSQ level, not the character level. And this was sort of confusing early on. It's not a big deal right at the start because usually they're going to be fairly similar but once you start going and doing side content, side quests, all that sort of stuff, then the divide will definitely start to be there. And that means I've got a lot of MSQ stuff to go through to sort of

get it up to my level. Now I'm not going to rush through MSQ but there's a couple of things that I do want to get to. So one of those obviously is retainer for when I stop the free trial. The other one I believe is at level 20, and that is where you finally get your first mount. You finally get a choker bow. I... God, okay. So as I said, coming from RuneScape, gold, gil, whatever you want to call your money system, it's very valuable.

And the main way to get around the city, or get around the city, get around the world... Actually, no, city transfers are free. But getting around the world, if you don't want to run between places, is either hiring a chocobo, which is a certain amount of gold per minute, or you can run,

or if you've been there before, you can attune to the aetheryte crystal, and when you've done that, then you can teleport between different areas. Early on, I didn't want to teleport anywhere, so I just ran between places.

So if I was going from, like, let's say... Actually, I was going from like, let's say, I was going to say to Silver Bazaar, but there's, wait, is there an Aetheryte Crystal in Silver Bazaar? Silver Bazaar. But I would go between places that have Aetheryte Crystals

and just run there because I didn't want to spend my gil. No, there's not one. I didn't want to spend my gil. I, there's not one. I didn't want to spend my gil. I just wanted to save as much as I possibly could. I really should have just spent it because you honestly get enough gil from doing, especially if you're doing side quests,

to just cover all of those teleport costs. But one thing that is nice is it really lets you experience what the areas really like because there's some side stuff that I probably wouldn't have ever checked out at least checked out at this point if I just teleported everywhere so for example there is a dungeon in central central tunnel on yes central tunnel on that I presume you go to later. And out the front

of it, there's like a bunch of these big soldier ants. And I didn't even realise that I was there until maybe like 20 hours in. I went and had a look down there. Obviously, I can't go there because I haven't unlocked the dungeon. But I just

got to experience what this area was like. And it's a really cool place One of the one of the things I do like about just traveling around the world is even though it is a ps3 game This is one of the problems that some people have brought up. It's a ps3 game. It looks like a ps3 game. I Honestly don't have a problem with the graphics. I think it looks beautiful 3 game. I honestly don't have a problem with the graphics. I think it looks beautiful.

But one of the things I like is the weather system. It's a very rudimentary weather system and it changes very quickly. But the weather system is kind of nice. So, I don't know how long a day in Final Fantasy 14 is. Day

length. But there's a day and night cycle as well. So day is 70 minutes long. Anyway, as you just travel around the world, it might just start raining or there might be strong winds. If you're in Western Thunland, for example, there might be a sandstorm. Or if you're in Western Thunnelon, for example, there might be a sandstorm. Or if you're in

Eastern Thunnelon, there might be extreme fog there. Or there might be a thunderstorm. All of this stuff adds to the atmosphere of the world. It's not a major thing. It doesn't, outside of

I think for fishing, depending on the weather condition, certain fish will appear doesn't outside of, I think for fishing, like depending on the weather condition, like certain fish will appear. But outside of that, it doesn't really affect the gameplay from what I can tell. But it's a nice little addition to the world. It's not like you go from you know, one area where it's the middle of the day

to another area where it's the middle of the night. Dark Souls 2. God, the way that game sort of handled its transition between areas was a mess. But, like, you will go from... Let's say you get on the... Actually, here's one nice thing. So when I got on the airship from... I think it was from Uldar to Limsa.

It was the middle of the day. And obviously, when you get to Limsa, it's still going to be the middle of the day. Because there's a server time. But then when I went from Limsa to Gridania, it was the middle of the night. And seeing Gridania in the middle of the night. And seeing Gridania. In the middle of the night. Honestly the city looks pretty cool. It honestly does look really cool.

Words. I completely lost my train of thought there. So I was having a look at the length of the day-night cycle. Apparently it is 70 minutes long. It is a very specific choice. Not only are players likely to experience change from day to night during a single session, but the rhythm

of that change is slightly displaced from our circadian clock. I don't know why it's 70... Wait, is it 60 minutes? Oh, sorry, no, it's Final Fantasy XI. It's 70 minutes. I actually didn't realize how long it was.

I usually play for like three plus hours at a time, so I didn't even notice because I'll go through multiple day-night cycles. But the world's cool. Day-night cycle is cool, what else do we have, um, let's see, uh, oh yeah, so right now, I actually didn't talk about the data center I'm playing on, did I, so right now, I am playing, I don't, what the fuck is the data center? I'm playing on the Kujata server. It is on one of the JP data centers.

Now, you might think playing on one of the Japanese data centers is elemental. You might think playing on one of the Japanese data centers is going to be a problem, because there would be a lot of Japanese

speakers. No, actually not. So, Because, you know, there would be a lot of Japanese speakers. No. No, actually not. So there aren't Oceanic servers right now. So any Australians, any New Zealanders, even any, like, Southeast Asians outside of, like, outside of Japan, everyone just plays on the JP server. Should I just say Southeast?

Outside of Japan. Of Southeast? Outside of Japan. Of course, outside of Japan. Whatever. Anyone in the oceanic region that isn't Japan just plays on the Japanese servers because they're just the closest servers. Now, some people play on North America, but from what I've seen,

the ping is slightly worse. Here's the problem with playing on North America, but from what I've seen, the ping is slightly worse. Here's the problem with playing on North America, actually, and why I went to JP. So there's like maybe a 10 millisecond ping difference between JP and North America for me. The problem with doing North America, though, is server load times. Like, not like the time to load the server, but when the server actually has a player load on it. So if you want to do raid content, if you want to do any group content,

you want to do RP stuff, whatever you want to do, you want to do it when, you know, the most people are online, so you have the best experience. If you're trying to find, if you're trying to use the duty finder, you'll find a party in the quickest amount of time, all that sort of fun stuff. But if you play North America and you are an Australian, well, peak time is around midday, and that might be fine if you're someone who plays games during the middle of the day. I, on the other hand, like to play them at night.

And that's where peak time is for most areas. And at night, the only place that's going to line up for me is obviously playing JP. Because I'm about like an hour and a half difference from JP. So everything sort of works out fairly well on that data center. Because I'm in Day savings right now, though, I'm actually further away. It's an hour and a half. Normally, it'd only be half an hour.

So that means... Actually, when I said it was 11 o'clock, it was probably a bit after midnight, actually, for JP, which makes sense why there was trouble trying to find a party now that I think about it. Yeah, actually that makes a lot of sense because people have probably gone to bed because it's past midnight on a Tuesday.

And unless you're like a kid who just, you know, gets four hours of sleep before they go to school or just no sleep before they go to school, you're probably not playing at that time. you're probably not playing at that time. So a lot of the JP servers sort of have Australians on them. But from my research, it seems like the best choices to go with are either Tonbury or Kujata. I am currently playing on Kujata,

only because when I wanted to play, Tonbury wasn't accepting new characters. So when you actually start up and make a new character, like there's going to be times where the servers are sort of loaded and you won't be able to make a character, but people will actually be able to play on them. Right now, you can do everything perfectly fine on Elemental.

And I might move over to Tonbury, but Tonbury's usually got more people on it. But because you can do Judy Finder across worlds, it's not as big of a deal. Like, if they're on the same datacenter, you can, like,

Judy Finder with anyone in the same same data center, which is fairly convenient. It's just that if I was on Tombery, like during peak times, I'm sure Limsa would be... I'm sure Limsa would be even more packed. And peak times, obviously being on a bigger server will last longer, basically. peak times, obviously, being on a bigger server will last longer, basically. So you go into these servers, and the duty finder is... Not the duty finder, the party finder, the fellowship search, it's basically just all English. And I've looked at some of the Final Fantasy forums, and sometimes you'll see someone show up there and be like,

I thought I was playing on JP. Why are there so many English speakers? Like, what's going on? Basically, yeah, these servers have been co-opted by the English speakers. But that might change at some point. So, as of next year, because Final Fantasy XIV has gotten so popular, as of next year, there are going to be Oceanic servers

that are going to be started. We don't know when, but we've been told they are going to happen next year. And that's exciting, because as fine as it is playing on, you know, 180 ping,

I would like less. I would certainly like less ping. That would be nice. Actually, ping in this game is not that big of a deal. As long as you don't have like, you know, like 300, 400 ping. Ping is not that big of a deal as long as you don't have like You know like 300 400 ping. Ping's not that big of a deal So as long as your connection is stable your character isn't jittering around nothing like that The game doesn't do rubber banding which is fucking good The only thing that lags is basically your damage

So your abilities will play out perfectly fine But when you use the ability, the time that the damage is taken, like the time that you notice the damage is taken, it's quite a while. Or if you're getting healed, or you're trying to heal someone, all of this sort of stuff, there's delay there. But as long as you're playing your job properly, it doesn't actually matter. Like, at least early game stuff, maybe doing ultimates would be a problem, but or maybe even extremes, but

doing this early game stuff, it doesn't matter. As long as you're doing your rotation exactly as you should be, everything works out. But Oceanic will be nice, because then I can... Then it's going to be just Australians, which means nice ping. It's going to be much

easier to actually set up parties, find friends, do all that sort of stuff. I'm excited. I'm probably going to be moving over. I don't see any reason why I wouldn't. I know there are some FCs

that are saying they won't move over when Oceanic happens. But I think what's going to be important is working out how busy the servers and what the best data center is going to be. Because if there's Oceanic data centers, but there's hardly anyone actually playing them. I don't think it really makes any sense to do so. Like, if there's, like, that's the whole thing. If there's no one playing them, it doesn't really matter if they have better ping because you're not going to be able to do the content that matters if you have better ping. If there's hardly anyone there and

the only content that's worth doing is like RP stuff, then it doesn't matter what your ping is, just play where the RP stuff is happening, basically. That's pretty much how that goes. much, that's pretty much how that goes. Uh, but I am excited. It's supposed to be coming, apparently, with 6.1. That's what we, that's what is being said right now.

So that would be the first major Endwalker patch. Will they be there? I don't know. Maybe. Hopefully. I'm excited. Um, I'll be moving over, as said. I don't know what I'm going to play because we don't know what server is going to be there.

It's actually very possible. Apparently, in earlier data center additions, when there were people playing on different regions, the most popular servers from that region were actually moved over to the other data center. So it's possible that Kujada and Tonbury just actually moved over to the other data center. So it's possible that Kujata and Tonbury just get moved over to Oceanic because they basically

just have Oceanic players anyway. So maybe it'll happen. Maybe it won't. I don't know. Hmm. So what else did I talk about? Let's see. So job training, actually.

Not just, not the job, actually, no, not job training, the job quests. So job quests, I think, are an interesting way to sort of, first, obviously, get yourself some extra experience to sort of, you know, get extra experience. But it's a good way to sort of, you know, get extra experience, but it's a good way to sort of, I guess, introduce the way your job sort of works outside of just the job training, and I'm actually really liking the Gladiator story. So, I haven't played the level 25 quest yet, because I did some raids, and I got past the level requirement for it, so I've done the level 20 and that was the last one.

Every five levels, you get a new job quest. And sometimes you get like new abilities. Sometimes you get armor. The armor doesn't matter right now because I've got the job armor. And at least at this point, job armor is just objectively better than anything you'll get. Maybe at some point... Okay, maybe at some point. At some point, that's going

to change, but for now, everything I've been getting has been worse than my job armor. So... Also, it looks worse, but that can be dealt with with the glamours. So... Yeah, I don't really have much to say about that. I don't actually have much to say about that.

I just like the idea of job quests. I think... I don't actually have much to say about it. I just like the idea of job quests. I think... Out of all the storylines I've been playing, I can't think of one that I don't like. So I'm playing through the mining job quests, the weaving job quests, goldsmithing, obviously MSQ the

Gladiator Job Quests and also Thaumaturge I kind of like Thaumaturge actually so the Thaumaturge guild is run by these four Lala Fell brothers so there's three of them that have

like, what were their names? Their names are stupid. FF14 Thaumaturge Guild. Let's see. Guild. Can you tell me what they were names? Why are you not telling me what their names are they basically all have the exact

same name, there's sort of like a joke with, when you first sign up for the Thaumaturge guild there's a joke with the receptionist where she can't remember the name of the guild leader. Because they basically... It's like Coco something, Coco something, Coco something, and Coco something.

And they're all basically the same. But like... Actually, can we find a picture of the Thaumaturge guild leader? Because FFXIV Thaumaturge guild leader. Kokobuki is the leader of the guild. Here we go. Here's a picture of the brothers. Show me the image.

It's a low quality image, but it'll work. Here you go. Here's the brothers. So the only way you can tell them apart is by their face tattoos and the kokobuki also wears a um slightly different hood i guess it's a black hood yeah that's the gear actually looks really awesome i kind of want to find out where you get it um but yeah all of the the guilds have their own sort of quirks like the um

the the goldsmithing guild for example, the guild leader has this like, I don't remember what it's called it's like this little robot thingy that like helps her out with stuff and it also likes to just like insult every new member of the guild, so

when you first start there, basically the robot tells you you're just fucking useless and you should quit right now. Everything you make is just not worth my time looking at. There's a point where it starts commenting about the guildmaster's ass.

Telling her that she has a flat ass. It's like, what is going on here? The fishing guild... Actually, the fishing guild is fun. So... The fishing guild, you don't actually meet the guild leader when you first start there. Because the guild leader decided to just fuck off.

So, the guild leader leaves all of the guild work to the second in charge of the guild. And just lets them do it and they just piss off and just go fishing all the time. So there's all these fun little side stories and even if you don't care about doing the crafting and gathering stuff, I think it's still worth going through that content

just to see the fun interactions and the fun storyline that sort of evolves as you go through that guild. I think it's fun. I do think it's fun. I think a lot of the side quest content isn't as good. Maybe this is just to do with A Realm Reborn.

I do hear A Realm Reborn is sort of like the worst part of the entirety of FFXIV. here at Realm Reborn, it's sort of like the worst part of the entirety of FFXIV, but a lot of the side content stuff is very much just okay, hey, can you pick up these things that I left two meters away from me?

Can you go plant some traps just outside the city? Like, very basic MMO sort of questing. A lot of them do get away with it by having more fun interactions, but in those cases where there's not, it very much does come off as like,

hey, just do the thing. That's cool. You get some bonus experience and that's basically it. I have sort of like a completionist mindset. So when I went through Uldar and Thanalan. I've been doing all of the side quests. I haven't gone into northern Thanalan yet.

But that will happen at some point. I do all of the side quests. Now that's actually a slight problem for me. Because now there's no reason to do the side quests. Now, that's actually a slight problem for me because now there's no reason to do the side quests because I've gone to Gridania and Limsa Liminsa. And when you go over to those cities, because those are starting cities, all of the quests are level 1, level 3, level 2.

It's like, okay, well, I could do these on my level 27, but there's no reason to do so, so it makes far more sense to, um, far more sense to leave that and then do it on an alt job, let's say I go and play, like, a healer or something like that, like, that, I think, makes considerably more sense than, um, than just wasting the experience on experience on what I'm on now. Because if I do it on an alt job, it'll also be bonus experience and just throw me up through the levels. So I think that's a much better idea. Actually one thing I didn't talk about is why I went Paladin, or why I went... Sorry, why I went Gladiator. So, I was considering doing a DPS job at the start. I still want to sort of...

I still want to try more out of DPS. I've been doing some Thaumaturge stuff on the side. And I actually really like Thaumaturge. It's very fun. Maybe I just like the big numbers.. Maybe I just like the big numbers. I think I just like the big numbers. But I didn't pick it because I think

the Gladiator was going to be like the most fun thing available. I picked it because it seemed like the easiest way to do MSQ. So one of the problems with playing especially a magic DPS is you take a lot of damage. Like a lot of damage. So I avoided that. So I picked my tank and then we just basically

just sweep everything. At some point, I want to go and play a Red Mage. But Red Mage is a Stormblood thing and obviously you can't do that from the start of MSQ. But that's probably

where I'm going to end up. I don't know. I'm going to play every single one of the jobs. That's going to happen. I will play all of the jobs. I'll probably play Blue Mage as well, just for the meme. I'm going to get every single job to max

level, and decide which one I like. I haven't played a healer yet. So I've done some DPS. And I've done some tank. I want to go and play a healer. And just see what it's like. But I know that.

I want to see how. How like. Sage works in Endwalker. But that's still a while away. I'll probably end up going and playing... I don't know if I want to go White Mage or Scholar. They both seem like good options. Actually, I'm really not sure.

I know White Mage, obviously, more of a healer than the Scholar, but also... Actually, Sch actually scholars have some cool stuff though plus they fight with a book which is kind of dumb but i like dumb things i don't know um honestly like everything i've played so far seems fun and i presume the other jobs will seem fun as well um actually there was one job I didn't pick intentionally because I just didn't like the job armor. That was the

Pugilist. I didn't like the job armor of the Pugilist. I felt it looked really, really ugly. But, hey, maybe Monk is fun. Monk seems like a fun thing to do. I know you can dye it, but by

default, it's yellow. It didn't look very good. But I'll get back to you guys on which job I actually ultimately settle on at some point in the future. But for

now, I'm going to be... My But for now, I'm gonna be... My goal right now is I'm going to play MSQ until we get to level 20, so I have my chocobo, and then from there I will dick around doing other stuff. I think that seems like the best way to handle it right now. Just so I don't have to run around as much. Because even if I'm teleporting between cities, one thing I still need to run around and actually do is doing my hunting log and stuff. Because even though hunting log at some point maybe won't be the best experience,

it still has... It still makes me want to finish it, because... Completionist, basically. So, right, Paladin, right, as I said. Gladiator is good defense, but also Paladins have a heal, which makes them very good for solo content.

Red Mage, I also hear, is fairly good for solo content as well. Because they also have a heal. And heals are very useful if you are doing solo. Because not having a heal basically... Yeah. Basically screws you. You can do it. Like, you can do... You can do stuff without having a heal basically uh yeah basically screws you can do it like you can do you can do stuff without having a heal because uh you can take potions with you but potions are a limited resource and

at some point they will run out uh so what what level do you get... Can you do Palace of the Dead? Palace of the Dead is like a... It's a very big dungeon. It is level 17... You need level 17 in New Gridania. And you need... Okay, so you first need to beat the quest that I am currently doing. And then you can do it. Okay.

I know that theoretically you can solo this, and people do solo this, but I think the best way to solo it is Paladin or Red Mage. Red Mage seems like the way that a lot of people tend to suggest. Apparently it's doable by every job now. That being said, just because it is doable doesn't mean you should try it for your first clear on any job. That sounds like a challenge.

That sounds like you are challenging me to do Palace of the Dead solo. I'm going to, because apparently there's an achievement or something, and I want the achievement because completionist... I'm not a completionist in most games, but when a game, like...

When a game doesn't... Okay, the problem I have with being a completionist in most games is a lot of games put the completionist status behind bullshit arbitrary stuff, like, oh, travel completionist in most games. A lot of games put the completionist status behind bullshit arbitrary stuff like, travel 200,000 kilometers on foot or fucking defeat the secret boss with your hands tied behind your back and a blindfold on. Like stupid shit like that.

But when it's like, hey do this very hard dungeon. I'm like Is that a challenge? You're saying I should do it? Um, okay, I'll do it. And the problem with Palace of the Dead, because it's so long, you need to find an actual party outside of just the regular party, find someone who you can actually commit to.

That's sort of why you would go with an FC party, rather than something you build up through a link shell rather than just like randos because randos might drop out after the first like 30 floors because it's gonna take a while. I actually don't know how long Palace of the

Dead is. Palace of the Dead completion time. completion time um how much how long to finish palace of the dead under two hours maybe this is not a realistic expectation

if you have friends that will carry you through palaces there, then maybe less than two hours to finish the first 50 floors, which, if I remember, is all you need to clear palaces of the dead. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh, uh-huh. I'm going to do it anyway.

Oh, oh, I'll make it happen. As I said, I'm probably gonna pay for the, um, pay for the sub fee, buy the game, um, and then doing Palace of the Dead should be much easier, and I'll be able to, like, do all of that sort of fun, fun, fun stuff.

Yes. Uh, there's some other stuff I did want to hit on, but every time I go to say what I was going to say, I completely forgot it. I don't remember what it was now. Do we have something on here? Actually, here we go. One thing about character creation that I didn't like.

So, the character creator is fun. I made my cat girl as short as possible. I think she's like 4'9". I don't know. She's as short as the game would let me make her. Because short is cute. Anyway. When you play a cat girl,

you can't change the ears. I get that they're probably all going to have very similar ears, but come on. I want different ears. Let me have different ears. Maybe you can get different ears. I know there's different hairstyles you can get later in the game from certain dungeons, so maybe it's different ears.

I don't know. Not to say the cat girl ears are bad, but like, hmm, there's, there's so much range you can have with cat girl ears, and they, they limit you to just this, this, this one, this one cat girl ear, and it's kind of sad, but it's not a, it's not a major difficult, it's not a major, major flaw, I guess. I'm happy with it. Actually, one thing that is kind of nice. There is a toggle inside of your armor screen. Everyone hits this toggle, except people who have fancy hats.

There is a toggle in your armor screen to disable displaying your helmet. And honestly, every single game should have this because i spend you know 30 minutes maybe an hour designing the face of my character and then in the first five minutes of most games you get a helmet and i get it like helmets they protect your head but i don't care about protecting my head maybe i'll protect my head with the defense but don't make me look at it, so you can just turn off your helmet, and you don't need to look at it, and it's great, so, like, you'll see people with, like, these insane, like, if you look at their gear screen, they'll have this insane

helmet, like, actually on, but they just don't show it, as I said, there are some exceptions, like, if someone's, you know, they've got a top hat on or they're playing like a caster class, maybe they'll have some sort of like fancy big wizard hat on, things like that. But if you're playing a warrior, unless you've got like the armor that goes over your head slot as well, no one plays with that. There is one exception actually that might be kind of cute.

So you can get a cowl. FF 14 Let's see. I think hempen? Yeah, hempen cowl is one of them. Hempen cowl.

Here we go. And it, like, has a hood on it case it's kind of it's kind of great now i think that reminds me so because the cat girls obviously have the cat ears i presume this would happen with the bunny girls as well and also the bunny boys and the cat boys as well but whatever anyway um when you're a cat, you actually get a cat hood. Like, you have cat ears on the hood so your ears can sit in them. And it's really, really adorable. That right there is one of the few reasons why I might actually wear a hood.

Because, man, that's really cute. It's really cute. He's really cute. I cannot explain how adorable it is to see someone running around with a cat hood on. Right, the thing I was going to talk about is the thing that everyone sort of complains about with Final Fantasy XIV. So if I go out of the free trial, I'm going to have to deal with this fucking process again. At least it should be easier this time because I already have an account. Why is it so fucking difficult to make an account in this game? Initially, I was going to play the game on Steam.

Now, at this point, I'm not. I'm actually playing it through the... I'm playing it through Lootris with the official standalone launcher. But, holy shit! Making that account was such a fucking process. So, I loaded up the game in Steam through Proton. Now, it's supposed to show you a screen to actually set up an account. I didn't see that screen. I didn't know that screen was supposed to exist. So, I thought, okay, there's no way to make an account on the launcher. I guess we go to the website and make an account there. Well, this is Final Fantasy XIV.

No, you fucking don't. Because if you make an account there, what it's going to do is make you a Square Enix account or it's going to make you an account that is not a Steam account. So Final Fantasy XIV is one of the few games that has the dumbest description of what its different systems are. So the game runs on PS3, PS4.

Actually, the PS3 server's even up. I don't know. It runs on PS4, PS5, Windows, and Steam. So Windows and Steam. Yeah, that basically sums up how I feel about this. Windows and Steam are two different platforms and have two different accounts. And they are not interchangeable. And there's no way to migrate them.

So if you make a Windows account, you don't have a Steam account. And if you try to log into the Steam version, it's going to say, Oh, this account is not valid for this product. It's like, what do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? What are you talking about? Why? Why?

What? It's a valid account. You go to the fucking Mog Station, which is like the thing where you can like view your like account settings. The account's real. It says it's a free trial. It says it's on Windows. This is everything I expected to be there.

But I didn't realize until like three hours later that Windows does not mean Steam so if you make a Steam account you have to buy the game through Steam if you make a Windows account you have to buy the game through Windows and you have to also play the launcher that comes from those stores as well so if you have a Windows account you have to play the Windows launcher, Steam account, Steam launcher. So I scrapped that project and decided to go and run the Windows version because I already had the account, I already used my username that I like and I used Lutris. Now some people have said that using the official launcher through Lutris has issues. Now, I have run into issues due to something I tried later on, but my experience so far has been perfect. There's been no problem whatsoever. Now, because we are doing this through Lutris,

I am using the legacy launcher. Now, I don't know when the Legacy Launcher is going to be removed. Because the new launcher doesn't actually work. Let's see if we can find... It's been there for a while, apparently. Apparently. Yeah, apparently it's been there for a while. People are actually asking about Steam Deck support. Just play through Lutris. Anyway.

If you go through the new launcher, the game basically just freezes, and you can't do anything about it. Legacy launcher works fine. I don't know what people have been complaining about. Maybe some updates, it stops working, but my experience, it's been completely perfect. There is another option if you are on Linux though. So there is a program called FFXIV,

I think it's called XIV Launcher. So is it FFXIV Quick? Yeah, it's this one here. The XIV Launcher, which basically is a custom launcher that will go and like launch up the game without going through the regular one now as I said earlier

Square Enix is very lax on what you do this does support extra plugins that you may not be able to run with the main launcher so I wouldn't do like don't do anything that's going to get you banned but no one has reported they've had issues running this launcher anyway i'm not going to recommend it um but that is a thing that does exist and that's the way that a lot of people on linux have been running it and i feel like anyone who's going to play 14 on the steam deck is probably

going to use that or try to do Lutris. Actually, they might do it through Steam. There's going to be a lot of people who do it through Steam. And they're going to realize that it's going to stop working when that legacy launcher is removed. Which is annoying. Because otherwise, XIV runs perfectly under Linux. I thought, oh, okay, maybe there'll be some lag in Limsa,

or maybe there'll be this or that. Nope, it runs perfectly. Absolutely perfectly. There's been maybe, I think when I was in the center of Limsa, there was like a couple of frame drops, but nothing major. It was like I dropped from 60 to like 55 and that's, that's fine. There's, I'm in Limsa with a hundred other people around. Um, maybe in an ultimate, it would be a problem in which case I could drop it down right now. I've actually got everything completely

maxed out. I think I've turned down the shadow resolution from 4k to 2k. For no reason in particular, I just don't have it maxed. I just forgot to max it out. But yeah, apart from that it runs perfectly. Absolutely perfectly. Now, there is one problem I have with the Linux version, which is slightly tempting me to try the Windows version. I might try it with the 14 launcher, but I recently found out about GShade. GShade is basically a tool to basically inject custom shaders into 14. And it seems like Square Enix doesn't really care, especially because they've already got official support for doing this inside of NVIDIA's shader thing that I don't remember the name of.

But NVIDIA has like a proprietary shading tool to do the same thing. So I tried this morning to run GShade. And there is a Linux script to set it up. This is designed to set it up with doing it through Wine. Whether you're on the Steam version or you're on the regular Wine version. Or doing it through Lutris, whatever you're doing. I tried to run it.

I tried to run it with the regular boot version that you're supposed to switch over to 64-bit. I did that. It actually booted into the launcher. Now, it seems like for whatever reason, the 64-bit launcher isn't working on my system. I don't know if that's a wind configuration issue or what it is. But, yeah, I can't get the 64-bit launcher to actually work.

So, I can't run G-Shade. I want to. Because there is some cool stuff you can do with G-Shade. Not just, like, you know, cool screenshots. Like, this is the thing that a lot of people use G-Shade for. But just generally improving the way the colors look in the game. It's like, you know, Skyrim or something. You apply like a filter that looks relatively like the game normally does.

Let's see if we can find a... G-Shade preset. Comparison. Here we go. I was watching Belial, Belula's video earlier, like, here's actually a good example of this, she knows that, that's not a, that's a screenshot filter, not a gameplay filter, right, there's also a difference between gameplay and screenshot filters, so the, the, um, the screenshot filters will look just absolutely insane. But are also just not designed to be run while you're playing the game.

Because they are insane. They add like massive ambient occlusion. Massive blur. All that sort of crazy stuff. So here's one example. It's not the way I would like to play the game. But you can do shit like this. You can make yourself fucking shiny.

Because the game doesn't look bad out of the box, by no means. But I guess you could say, especially once you compare it to messing with stuff with G-Shade. It does look, I guess, fairly neutral. I guess a good way to put it. And here we go. Here's the Nenneko one. This is Nenneko Wonderland with a Lalafell. Nenneko Wonderland with a Lalafell. This is... I think that would be... Wait. Which side? Yeah, that side's stock, isn't it? Yeah. And that side

is with Nenneko. So it sort of adds a higher level of contrast. Actually, I might have got that back. Ignore it. It adds a higher level of contrast to the game. That's one of the things.

You can completely change the color preset if you want. You can make it seem like you're in the pits of hell if you want to. But I like the idea of keeping the colors fairly faithful. And playing it like that. So I was trying to mess around with G-Shade and I just... Yeah, I just couldn't get it working. Actually, here's another example of G-Shade. A fairly good example that does keep it fairly faithful.

So here's default. Here is G-Shade. It makes the colors pop way, way more. I don't know what preset this is using, but it lets you do fancy stuff. So if you ever see like these fancy Final Fantasy screenshots, either they are being done in Photoshop, screenshots, either they're being done in Photoshop, or they're being done with crazy G-Shade filters

that just fucking look insane. Like, what is this insane cinematic shot? Like, that's ridiculous. Like, this is ridiculous.

But, because of the RPs, because of the glamours, tools like this exist. And they, yeah, they just exist. And people spend a lot of time configuring the exact same one, the perfect one for what they want to do. one of the exact, yeah, the perfect one for what they want to do. So I will, I will hopefully get that working. If I can't, honestly, if I can't get it working on Linux, I'm probably just going to go and play on the Windows. It's not a big deal. I've got my

Windows boot here. I can very easily swap over to it. I would like to be able to get this working under Linux, but if it can't be done, I'm not going to struggle with it, because... Look, at the end of the day, I just want to play the game. I could just give up and not deal with GShade altogether, but now I know how good GShadeade can look, um, I think I sort of, I sort of have to at least, at least try it out and see if I like it. From the videos I've seen, I do, but it will depend on, um, depend on sort of how it feels actually playing the game. I guess, I guess that makes sense, like, playing the game and watching someone else play the game is a little bit different. So, hmm.

Oh, actually, on that note. I have considered streaming Final Fantasy XIV. Now, unlike a lot of the big streamers who are doing FF or XIV, whatever you want to call it. I'm not going to do MSQ stuff, at least anytime soon. Maybe I'll do post-Endwalker or something like that. That's a possibility. But at least now,

I want to enjoy MSQ by myself. The problem with streaming a story game is it really takes away from the story of the game. You can enjoy the story while you are streaming. But it's a different kind of enjoying it. And I don't know.

I'm really liking what 14 is doing. And I sort of want to just chill by myself. And just have fun like that. So if I do stream it. What I'm going to do is either stream raids or streaming alt jobs. Like it's not as big of a deal if I'm like streaming leveling up like Thaumaturge or Black Mage or Red Mage or anything like that. Like sure, there's certainly the job quests that might be interesting, but it's not as fundamental to understanding as what is there with the MSQ.

I don't know when I'll do that. Maybe if I want to take a break between my current games I'm playing, I will do FF then. I don't have any plans to do so at this stage, but I'm certainly thinking about it and sort of deciding how I want to do it. My assumption is I'm probably going to like start, I don't know, I'll probably do an old job quest. Like maybe I'll, I don't know, what would be fun?

Like warrior? Warrior could be fun. Maybe I'd keep going through Thaumaturge or something like that. Or I could just sit there for three hours mining rocks. That's an option. Actually, I didn't talk about the the differences between the crafting and the gathering jobs, didn't I? When you have a crafting system or a gathering system in an MMO, a lot of MMOs make a pretty big mistake and make them all feel exactly the same. Like, okay, so how do we how do we fucking, how do we make

a potion? Okay, we go to the potion menu, we click the potion. How do we make a ring? We go to the ring menu, we make a ring. Now, Final Fantasy does have some of that. But even so, it does very much differentiate the it does very much differentiate the way it handles it. So, I would say that Weavers and Goldsmithers basically feel like the exact same job.

There's no reason, like, if you just merge those jobs together, nothing would change. Alchemist, on the other hand, does, actually that's the other job I'm playing, I forgot to mention that one. Alchemist, on the other hand, does feel slightly different. So, it uses the exact same, um, exact same crafting menu, but

I guess it's due to the complexity of the recipes. So even just early potions do require you going through a bunch of extra steps that aren't as complex on the other ones. So making a ring, for example, you make the ingot and then you make the ring. With a potion, you make the distilled water, you make the thing that's going to go in the distilled water, and then you make the potion.

It's not like a big difference, but it does sort of change it up just that slight little bit. Now, mining feels like as mining should. Actually, it feels weird, but as it should. So, you know in RuneScape where if you want to mine some Mithril, you'll go to the Mithril Rock. RuneScape where if you want to mine some Mithril, you'll go to the Mithril rock. If you want to mine some Iron, you'll go to the Iron rock. FF14 is a little bit... I don't know why I keep saying FF14. 14 is a little bit different there. So the way it handles its rocks is the rocks are assigned a level. So let's say you're just outside of Thanalan and you see a level 5 rock. Now, level 5 rock doesn't mean you need to be level 5 to mine it. That just means that is the difficulty of the rock.

If you're below that level, it's going to increase the difficulty. Maybe you won't get any rare drops. Maybe you actually won't get the items. So when you're a lower level, there will be a percentage chance of you actually getting the drop. So maybe it'll be like, let's say, 70% chance of every time you mine this, you actually get it. So that's sort of how that works. Now, each of these rocks don't have a single ore in them. So for example, you might go to a rock that has some tin in it.

And it'll have tin, it'll have fire shards, it'll have something else. Or maybe like distilled water. That's the other thing. Not distilled water, muddy water. So, the way that you get fucking muddy water, which is a alchemist item, is by mining it. Now, I don't know about you, but I feel like hitting some fucking rock with a pickaxe isn't going to collect water. It's a sort of, it's an MMO shortcut to have a system there. But it's kind of a funny shortcut the first time I saw it.

But it's kind of a funny shortcut the first time I saw it. Now some of the rocks do actually get gated behind a job quest. I don't know if there's stuff later in the game, but the early job quest is you need to get a sledgehammer to deal with the level 15 rocks. Then you can mine things like a cinnabar and other items like that. But for the most part, mining basically feels like mining with the exception of rocks will have tons of shit in them that doesn't make any sense. One thing to help out with mining is

there is actually an enable auto mining button. Auto mining is great because auto mining lets you click on the thing and then it will just finish. And that's good because I don't want to click again, again, again. I like the RuneScape method, where I will mine it until it depletes. Oh, that's actually the other good thing. So,

14 does not have the bot problem that RuneScape has, where it might have bots, but it doesn't have bots that can get in your way. So, unless they're doing like, your way. So, unless they're doing, like, enemy killing. So, when you're doing mining, for example, the rocks spawn for you.

The rocks are only for you. All of the rocks. All of the rocks. They could be standing at the same rock you're at, but it's your own rock. They can't see your rock. So, you might have someone mining, and you have, like, the same mining you're at, but it's your own rock. They can't see your rock. So you might have someone mining, and you look and you have the same mining job equipped, and it seems like they're mining on a rock that doesn't actually have

any ore in it. So the way it handles the rocks is, like, there'll be just regular rocks around the world, and some of those rocks will have ore in them, and then you can mine them. So they'll be on that rock, and you look at your map, and there's no rock there. But on their map, there is. And that's good, because

then you don't have to deal with bullshit. Like, outside of, say, I don't know if this is still a thing, but when I was playing 24-7, there were bots mining outside of a rock. It was always fun to troll them by... The way you would troll bots in

any spot in Maroon's Game, actually, is you break the order that they are mining with, they are cutting with, and then they just stand there, not knowing what to do. So if you can cut the trees or mine the wood quicker than they can work out what to do, they will literally

just stay there until they DC because they haven't moved, and that's a great way to troll bots, but you don't have to deal with here, and it's great. Now, when I started the, um, the fishing job, I sort of expected fishing to feel the same way that mining does, but it doesn't, at all. So, unlike mining, where you can decide what thing you want to mine for, fishing you don't. Because when you fish in real life,

you don't get to decide what fish you're going to catch. It just, that's the fish that's in the area, that's the fish you're going to catch. It does make it annoying for collecting items for a quest. But outside of that, it's not that big of a deal it does make completing your your um gathering log annoying though so also i'm not sure how to get some of the other fish i guess i need like better bait or better lures or something um i'm still very early in the fishing job so it hasn't really fully explained the way the mechanic works,

because right now, I've fished in Limsa Laminza, and I've probably caught like 30 things, and only got four different fish, but I look at my gathering log, and there's like nine fish in the area, so my assumption is that the basic bait they gave me isn't going to be enough to get those bigger fish. That's what I'm understanding, but I don't know, I may be getting it wrong. I don't know if cooking is going to feel different to the other crafting jobs, but that is an option I do have.

I guess it's called culinary, culinarian or something. I don't know. I feel like that's going to feel the same way as the other crafting jobs. Wood cutting, my assumption is it's going to be basically mining. I hope it doesn't do the bull...

Actually, no, I kind of hope it does. That'd be kind of funny. If you cut down a tree and it gives you all of these different types of wood from just one tree, it would be funny, but it wouldn't make any sense, lore-wise. Unless these are just some fucking magic trees. There's a bunch of other... A bunch of these jobs I just haven't tried out yet, because as I said, I I'm gonna go through MSQ

just to get my mount so I don't waste as much time running around doing shit especially in the cases of those gathering jobs where you do have to like obviously you can teleport out into the world but you still have to run around to the different areas that actually have the things you might want to get. Somehow we've gone almost fucking two hours talking about Final Fantasy XIV. I was thinking, oh, this might be a shorter episode today. I might

like, take it easy, but then I spoke for Final Fantasy, or spoke to Final, blah blah blah, spoke about Final Fantasy XIV for almost two hours. Actually, on that note, since we're on the topic of MMOs. Sorry, what is it? Region? Yeah, here we go.

So I didn't talk about this the other week. But I want to talk about this the other week, but... I want to talk about something with New World. So before the game came out, New World was... New World was assumed that you could transfer between regions. But unless something has changed... This was the original tweet that came out before the game came out. And a lot of people made their characters on the EU servers

Because the EU servers were the first ones that were open and the game had The game had world names. So if you made a username, that name would be you could only use that name on one server. Anyway. So people assumed because of this tweet that you could move between regions

because that's something you can do in an MMO because it's not difficult to set up region moving because if you can move between a server, you can inherently move between regions because there's functionally no difference between them. The only time where you can have regions actually being different from each other

is when you actually have different builds of the game running in different regions. So, unless Amazon is doing that, there is actually no reason why it should be like that. So, okay, let's just, how would I explain this? So, when you have a server in a data center, that server is, should be no different from servers in the other data centers. So, when you want to move, say, I don't know, you want to move a character from a server in one data center to another server in the same data center, all you're doing is transferring that data to the other server. So you're doing a data transfer. So all you need to do to move data between data centers is do the same thing, but between data centers. It'll take longer, but that's all you need to do. And from

what I know, you can just do it in Final Fantasy, you can do it in WoW, you can do it in every other MMO. But New World, they decide you can't. I don't know why. It's weird. I genuinely don't know why...

Oh! Wait, maybe it's changed. Day ago? Day ago, wow. Okay, so as of a day ago, is this region transfer or... Oh, okay, here we go. But cross-region transfer is something the team is looking into in the future. So, yeah, you'll be able to transfer between servers in the same region,

but you still can't do between regions. Honestly, like, if I had made an account in EU, I probably would have asked for a refund. And I think that's why they're doing it, because there was, like, a sort of a massive backlash about this. Okay, here's the biggest thing with it. The biggest funny thing. So it would be one thing to say,

oh, you can't transfer between EU and US. But you couldn't transfer between EU East and EU, sorry, US East and US West. So you couldn't transfer from the East Coast To the West Coast So if you literally lived in the same country You couldn't region transfer Like that was in Like how?

How do you? RuneScape is a great example of this RuneScape doesn't even fucking care You can just pick any world you want Because all you need to do to transfer a character is transfer data. So my assumption is they just assumed that no one would care.

Or they assumed that they assumed, or maybe they like, made some like weird fucking design decision, I guess. Because if they have to look into it, that means they have designed the server in a way where region transfers cannot easily happen. That's the only way that can happen.

I don't understand. I genuinely don't. Oh. But the thing that would make it hard is the fact that names were server specific but they're not they're world specific so like names are unique

so there's not even that problem that's a problem that occurs in some games I don't get it I genuinely don't get how like they thought how they thought that was going to be a good idea oh my lord but they're actually I don't get how they thought that was going to be a good idea. Oh my lord. Here's the dumbest thing about this though.

There are actually some people defending this. Saying, oh you should just pick the right region when you first started playing the game. As if this is just not a feature that every other game has. This is just a problem with New World. It's just a problem with this game. Every other MMO lets you read and transfer. I don't think Amazon needs you to simp for them. Amazon has their... They have their lawyers.

They can do that for them. They have their employees. They can pay people off. You don't need to do it on Reddit for free. I don't... I guess people just simp for the game that they are... they have some simp for the game they have this sunk cost into.

As an aside, and while I understand the reactions, how and why are people putting 100 hours in the first week? Almost all the people complaining seem to have an unhealthy attitude to gaming. Yes, I'm being judgmental, but I worry for them. Well, it doesn't matter how many hours they put in the first week. Almost all the people complaining seem to have an unhealthy attitude to gaming. Uh, yes, I'm being judgmental, but I worry for them. Well, it doesn't matter how lo- how many hours they put in the first week. Um, but... Yeah, it's- it's- New World, old borders. Uh, crap move, obviously. Um, yeah, it doesn't matter how many hours you put in- into the game. Like, it's- it's a problem nonetheless. I would be pissed off

if I put, like, 10 hours into the game, because that's's a problem nonetheless. I would be pissed off if I put like 10 hours into the game. Because that's just 10 hours that I've wasted. Wait. I just wasted 100 hours in 5 days. That's some fucking next level... That is some next level fucking MMO playing. Jesus Christ.

How do you play 20 hours a day? That's insane. Like, do you play 20 hours a day? That's insane. Like, do you not sleep? Like, four hours of sleep? That's ridiculous. I don't get it. I genuinely don't.

Fuck it, that's insane. Anyway, this was fun. I've got videos to record today, um, after this, and somehow we talked for two hours about Final Fantasy, so that, I'm, I'm, I'm now Final Fantasy'd out on the podcast, no more Final Fantasy for the foreseeable future on here, unless I bring on someone who, um, plays Final Fantasy as well, in which case we'll talk about it then, But outside of that, we won't be talking about Final Fantasy. Um, so anyone who doesn't like the game, who doesn't care about it, then you don't have to hear any more unless you do like it, in which case we'll talk about it more. And actually, no, I'm not going to promise

this. You know what? Um, I'm probably going to talk about it at some point, but I'm not going to do two hours on it, so you can at least have that. So treat this as my first impression of the first 30 hours of the game. Somehow I managed to get two hours

of stuff to talk about from 30 hours of playing, but maybe that's just how much I'm invested in this game right now. So yeah, if you want to play this game right now. So, yeah. If you want to play the game, the free trial, it's a thing. Meme, something. You know the meme.

Heaven's Ward, level 60. No caps. Oh, I guess no time cap. You can play as long as you want. You can get every job to level 60 if you want. You can literally just play like a thousand hours on the free trial. It's an option. You can do it. I'm not going to do it, but you can if you want. You can literally just play like a thousand hours on the free trial. It's an option. You can do it.

I'm not going to do it, but you can if you want to. Anyway, this podcast is available as an audio release, as a video release. The audio release is everywhere. The video release on YouTube and Odyssey.

I have a gaming channel. That is Broderick Robertson Plays, where I live stream twice a week, upload five of his YouTube shorts, and I might play Final Fantasy there. And I also have a main channel. That is BrodyRoberton, where I do Linux stuff and don't talk about Final Fantasy. But

if I can find an excuse to talk about it, let's say, running Final Fantasy XIV on the Steam Deck. I don't have a Steam Deck on pre-order, but if I did, I might... I would absolutely clickbait that video. I would clickbait it to hell. Because I've got some other Steam Deck clickbait I want to work on as well. Yeah.

If you want a... Actually, no. I have not shouted out a channel in a while. So if you want a channel that talks about Final Fantasy more than I do, go check out Zeppela. Zeppela is great. She makes really bad jokes that she laughs at herself and no one else laughs at.

But then you laugh along with her because how can you not laugh while someone is laughing at their own shitty jokes? But her entire channel is Final Fantasy XIV, so you can find out a lot of stuff about the game, and she's a, you know, I would say she's a fairly good, fairly good,

fairly positive face and representative of the Final Fantasy community as a whole. Yeah, so that's going to be pretty much it for me. I am hungry. I'm going to make some lunch and... I'm out.

I was going to press the wrong button there. I was going to press the button to go to my overlay on the main channel. Anyway, that's the end now. You can go now.