raerae3682: Zane, I am a 66 year old mother, Grandmother and Great Grandmother i watch your channel constantly! i also play FFXIV as an escape. I feel you and care about you!We are all behind you!

MagicalNB2801: Personally, I do all the content at a very slow pace, so I don't feel like there's nothing to do. Maybe it's because I mostly play solo. I believe no one has to play if they don't want to. Also, I want you to know that you have a friend in this follower. Much love!

GarnetDust24: I’m certain after a few years people will appreciate the amount of content we received in dawntrail. The extreme, savage, chaotic and ultimates fights have been amazing thus far. Forked tower is fun too but annoying to get into. With that being said, the devs seem to have forgotten about the causal and mid core audience, which are the majority of players.

I really appreciated the graphics update and they are slowly adding QoL updates, that should have been done a long time ago.

I’m incredibly bias this expansion because I love FFIX and FFXI BUT I hope they continue the great battle content but improve content for casual players as well.

magicteen2003: Zane thank you for opening up and being honest about your FF14 journey and I can relate. The last few years have been very rough for me as well and without having this game to connect to people and escape the hell of reality life would be very hard than it already is. I have had issues with DT but overall I can say that I still enjoy it very much and am excited to see what comes next. Thank you for your content and I hope you will continue to be there for us! :)

Alkayde: Beautiful video Zane. Games are a beautiful connecting point for us all.

dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668: I didn't mind the crumbs they fed us in previous expansion because the main dish was always so filling. With Dawntrail, the main dish was picked from a gutter in the dirtiest streets around the world and fried in black grease from the worst rated restaurant you've ever had. And the crumbs leftover are completely undesirable after choking that mess down. I'll keep an eyeball on 8.0, but I'm good with not playing until the writers of Dawntrail get let go.

ohlawd6763: I've been arguing for years that the game desperately needs more midcore content that is fun to do over and over again, and its telling to see that a LOT of people are starting to say the same thing with both EW and now DT. CC is a good start, but even that falls short.

With DT I basically played it for the first month and then never reupped my sub because I just didnt feel like I had anything else I wanted to do. It really feels like im falling out of love with the game which sucks because I genuinely do enjoy the game.

rodimus580: I understand the emotional attachment to those that love and believe ffxiv can do no wrong but this whole expansion has been lackluster, i mean the fights were fun but almost everything else has been leaving more to be desired and this last live letter just snapped me outta playing and it's going to stay that way until i see they give a damn.

silverwill-x7v: I'm glad that FFXIV can still be a source of positivity in your life. I really hope that it can be that for me and others again soon. It's been my escapism for years as well and I don't want to leave.

ItsCatJam: W video, an W takes Zane. Soooooo well said. (Edit) The ending of the video was real emotional, again sorry for your losses, but I'm glad your still here with us all, an I to am glad to be a part of your FFxiv community, let alone the entirety of it all. Prefer the small bit of it honestly. <3

pessimistic_optimist8322: Love the phantom jobs over lost actions and logos actions, no more being completely useless because I ran out of actions, so now I need to spend my day grinding mobs or bunny fates, or dropping millions of gil on MB

MoonlitDianaSZ: Excellent video Zane! As a neurodivergent person with FFXIV as their special interest I can definitely relate. This game introduced me to my husband, my closest friends, made me feel incredibly intense emotions that no other story has made me feel. There will be ups and downs, like any other MMO; and looking all the way back at Heavensward's rocky launch, I think the game can recover from anything honestly.

IwanttobeKOSMOS: Thank you so much for this video! It was very refreshing to hear someone being more positive about DT and ffxiv in general.

andreluizxd2873: Imagine Blizzard saying:

We won't update Delves because we are developing another thing.

arkzulu: Honestly, I've enjoyed the Occult Crescent a lot. The Forked Tower is definitely one of my favorite pieces of content to do. I agree the rewards from chests and pots should be better and something has to be done in terms of the FATEs, because there aren't many at any point in time and die too quickly. I completely agree, there is a vast amount of content for those that are willing to seek it. I think as they expand the island, they and we learn more about it, the phantom jobs are going to evolve. Maybe instead of getting new ones, the ones we have are upgraded or 'evolved.' Plus Phantom Jobs are supposed to be vestiges of the old professions as they were in the 5th astral era. So to me it makes sense the jobs aren't fleshed out yet.

I've enjoyed and learned a lot about the game thanks to your videos. And I am also a huge fan of XIV. Thank you for sharing your story with us. Thank you for your dedication to this community. I sincerely hope this story and game keeps giving you the energy and strength to keep moving forward. Though not much, I hope my words convey not only gratitude but my sincere desire for you to keep the joy and even a sliver of extra happiness to forge ahead. May the Light of the Crystal shine on you always.

LillyRina-kn5bi: Can i give you a hug bro?

WizelBalan: I am fine with Dawntrail, not everything is going to be a mega hit, sometimes you get a bit of a lemon in there but I personally thought the expansion was good, I didn't hate or like it anymore than Stormblood or Realm Reborn. Its a new saga, things need to be established. I just wish Yoshi and the team would come up with some new flow for the game. Every expansion is the exact same formula of dungeons and content, just wish it would change up a bit.

kaelothsgaming8199: I''m an achievement hunter and still have a lot of things to do. I'm not a fan of the Dawntrail expansion, but I don't really complain about it. Except I'm tired of being the babysitter of light. The Warrior of Light has been a babysitter for several expansions now and this needs to change...

nucah7880: I vehemently disagree that just because we are starting a new story arc that it has to be "a rocky start". This team can tell a great story and there's a lot of talent out there that can craft and tell a great story. Just because it's a new story, doesn't mean it has to be bad, which is what I think a lot of us felt with DT.

londov1: I actually like dawntrail overall, its my 2nd favorite expansion so far. Fight design is the best its ever been. Class design is still very homogenous, but at least they gave us a bit of personal responsibility with their timings. We even got an alternate source for BIS gear with chaotic. Dawntrail story was better than expected; I think people just had the wrong expectation after EW and then gravitated towards the "everything sucks" bubble - especially after the anti trans bubble kidnapped the conversation about VA (because of wuk lamat VA), which then bled into the story discussion as well. Crafting and gathering is the best its ever been (if you don't want to have to omnicraft in order to craft like in cross action days); gathering has a lot more to it if you want to minmax the gathered amount (and let's be honest, HQ gathering always sucked anyways), and crafting is less homogenous because they gave us a ton of support for off meta rotations. The only thing really missing (and what I'm assuming most people latch onto) is the lack of replayability of (semi-) braindead content, like OC and CE - and maybe doubling down into the more alt gearing friendly nature of chaotic OC/FT.

TheCagedcanary: I think the biggest part of Cosmic Exploration is that the crafting itself is varied. It can mostly be macroed, but every single craft isn’t a rinse/repeat. That’s the biggest issue with the other crafting relics. It basically comes down to babysitting macros. The content is varied and will feel more enduring.

pyrotius: For housing, there's also gardening. That with apartments is the only way to get most of the crops for chocobo related things, like thavnarian onions to increase max level and the fruit to dye your chocobo. Its not a big

LarkyLuna: I think english XIV needs to overhaul how they pass lines to voice actors and record

Wuk Lamat's VA has done good work, even in xiv itself

That fight it feels like they didn't even tell the VA it was supposed to be a fight with physical straining, it sounds like she's talking across a table

This expansion we also got yshtola in the desert where it feels like they accidentally put in a wrong take for how off it sounded

And graha tia's mic/EQ/intonation sounds so different from everyone else it feels like he's ASMRing near my ear in comparison

Everyone of them can deliver incredible lines but it's so scuffed at times

It's not as bad but it reminds me of elder scrolls giving the lines to the VAs in alphabetical order and not telling them what they're supposed to go for

The JP version of xiv sounds slime they know when they are in a fight or emotional moment

rizzy9000: hey man i saw ur whole vid and wanted to say a few things: - i understand it feels terrible to suffer losses irl, however smoking the same cigarette for 10 years to escape from reality and feel the nostalgia isn't the way to go, gaming landscape has changed and ppl no longer have fun with how things are (a big reason why ppl prefer 3rd party plugins and addon these days), ppl arent being negative because the game is bad, its because yoshi p and square enix are being stubborn and not listening to the playerbase and on top of that u have white knights trying to actively dehumanize the ppl providing fair feedback...

what i m saying is, if u want the game to get better and stay afloat u gotta pressure yoshi p and square enix to make the game better not just for urself but for the other ppl who play the game, there are way too many things wrong in the game atm and playercount is decreasing to pre-stormblood levels, mmos work on large player ecosystems so if u keep sticking to ur oldschool ideas the game will definitely get isolated and eventually die

akibarea4044: I’m still loving the game! So much to do! Mostly players who quit are just bandwagons because they just heard from one person that the expansion is terrible

Jul 15 2025

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