pixie lovemail
[FFXIV] as i'm fleshing out my wol i'm curious, is there, like, a list of duties that the wol canonically accomplishes alone vs. with a party?
pixie lovemail
because it SEEMS like vs. ifrit was supposed to be a one-wol affair but i might be wrong
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offhand i wanto to say It's Unclear
Eko *:・゚✧
There are solo duties added later
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
it's definitely like
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Don't Worry About It
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as far as trials go the other seven are usually just sort of handwaved
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
they're intentionally vague so people can do their like, Own Backstory
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it's not a big deal--exactly
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
if you want it to be Canon that you did it alone then it is so
Awe
the trial description for Bowl of Embers says “you and your comrades”, so...
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
they're honestly very like... the game is willing to do a lot to accommodate player backstories
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
like- a lot of people have decided that their WoL is actually a garlean traitor
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
but garleans cannot use magic, and your wol can take magic jobs
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
so the ffxiv team wrote in a retcon of 'most garleans can't use magic but a few rare ones can'
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
so that you can have your headcanon WoL story and the game together
pixie lovemail
god that's genuinely really cool
pixie lovemail
it's honestly fucking wild to me how much the ffxiv devs are tapped into their playerbase
pixie lovemail
like they tend to know what the players ACTUALLY want
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
i want to smooch y'shtola but they still haven't given me that
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ff14 team good
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tbh
pixie lovemail
i think it's because, like, some part of the game taps into the primal part of peoples' brains that makes them want to make ocs
unbound
I think the only reason they haven’t added npc romances is because it’d be hard to animate the smooches
pixie lovemail
like i was not expecting to walk out of this game with a full blown wol oc and yet here i am booboo the fool thinking a Lot about tai
pixie lovemail
would y'all be interested in a wol oc rambling plurk at some point
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yeah fuckin rip that's how they get you
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I mean like. I think part of what makes it great is that unlike with other MMOs your character is the hero.
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it really gets people into a mindset to like, think about their character more like a single player RPG character than an MMO toon
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plus on top of that you can literally do every job with one character so like. canonically the WoL can be a grandmaster at literally every craft known to man
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sage nod
Friendpatine
I'd be down for a WoL plurk!
i stay silly :3
FF14 team came from a very humble place, I think, after the stumble that was 1.0. And the ethos of the team flows from Yoshi-P, which at least outwardly is essentially like, how can we make our players happy and make sure they have fun and less of the kinda thing you see form other MMO devs like ActiBLizz which seems to be
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"how do we skinner box people into playing the game constantly"
pixie lovemail
that's part of it, ha, tai started as an exercise of "...you know what kind of person would ACTUALLY take the time to painstakingly craft all of their own gear, even sourcing their own materials, and prioritize that over adventuring, what would that person be like" and rapidly spiraled out of control
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and obviously there's some of that going on with FF14, they're still a corporation but... there's a real feeling of passion and care and love both for the game and for the players
moontouched
hysterically yoshi p did actually address the dating thing
unbound
DID HE
moontouched
he was like "ok but if someone wanted to smooch this npc and we sent them like to space or something people would be all WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM"
unbound
hahaha. entirely fair.
pixie lovemail
you fool yoshi-p that's all the more reason why you should do it
moontouched
"and making a copy for you to date or something would be weird for everyone involved"
moontouched
ITS IN SOME INTERVIEW SOMEWHERE ITS EXTREMELY FUNNY
moontouched
BC HE DEFINITELY PUT THOUGHT INTO IT
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