Last night in some game award thing (totally don't do award shows) Final Fantasy XIV won the Best Community award. Watch this video to see Yoshi's acceptance.
Kudos. They deserve it. I've held, since my first hour in Eorzea, that the game had the nicest people playing any game I'd ever witnessed. Most players (because there's always some motherfucker trying to ice skate uphill according to Blade) have been very helpful, even at the top levels.
You know my complaints about their job/role system. To me, they are still seriously wrong, but, I have hopes that someday soon, Sages will have to start at level one and really learn how to heal.
Yoshi appears to be a very humble man who lives in his head. A lot. If you're familiar with any sort of non-verbal communication you can spot it a mile away just by looking at his eyes while he talks.
FFXIV is the ONLY game I've witnessed that has regular info dumps for their players, and they also EXPLAIN why they do certain things. They know that face rolling retards aren't the only ones playing. Yes, Wizards of EQ, we could have used that back in the day.
Their Lodestone site has a wealth of information and they really do encourage you to explore their world by pointing in the general direction and pointing out that you only really know information if you find it yourself. You can be told, but you never really know that you know it. I really like that, despite my current grumbling about crafting.
I've run into so many people who just started their Eorzean adventure who want to be led by the hand through the game. The better to blame your decisions on the influence on someone else that is so popular in today's society.
By design, the game forces you to do things on your own (job quests) and in others they force you to play with others (duties). There is something for everyone. You can have the best gear and still be a casual player. You can be the top Machinist in top tier raiding content and still look like you need a hair cut and a sandwich. It runs the gamut.
I am incredibly lucky in that, in the Free Company (guild) I belong to, we have several Mentors. Asra and Valtiel especially are two of the most helpful people I've run into in the game. They will stop what they are doing to help you through a problem (and get you killed when they drag you to a zone 40 levels above your own) then listen to you bitch, whine and moan when you just aren't seeing what they see. They are climbing the Savage Ladder and they will still help anyone who asks.
I like the mentor system in the game, even though a few assholes slip through because they want that crown and sword like a journalist with their Twatter blue check, but they've been few and far between.
Congrats to everyone on the FFSIV team! You all have created something quite special in this universe.
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