yashtola

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I miss Ysayle.....

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cataclysmic job quest title / MSQ quest title conjunction

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You know what? Fuck you *nekos your scions*

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Your WoL is playing in the Eorzean Symphony Orchestra!

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[FFXIV RE: 02] recent "punk" characters i've drawn; hilda, lyse, y'shtola, and ysayle!

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I have a headcanon that yshtola exhibits extremely low levels of Cat Behavior. Barely even flicks her tail. Other miqo’te find it kinda offputting actually. This May or may not be a side effect of being raised in a cave by a reclusive (hyuran) witch

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Lyna

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you think if yshtola ever found out about matoya's "i actually love the hell out of that girl and could not bear to lose her" broomsticks she'd be like so i hear you're actually quite fond of my presence & matoya would be like So The Girl Wastes Her Lifeforce Gawking At The Incorporeal And Now Believes Herself To Be A Master On The Matters Of The Heart Does She

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video game abstractions are something else. i'm leveling Culinarian in FFXIV and i hit level 56. "hold on," i say to nobody in particular, and put my frying pan (hot, wet with freshly cooked sauce) back on my hip. "before I make any more hollandaise sauce, i need a better knife." there in my pocket, it awaits: a knife whose titanium edge is so keen that only a level 56 Culinarian can so much as grasp it. so i do that. and now i have no need for my old knife; it has served me well, but it physically cannot be used by any other. it is inextricably bound to my soul. i cooked with it before, you see. one cook per knife only. so i take it into my hands one last time and disintegrate it into various magical crystals. the concentrated fire essence extracted from within can be used to make more hollandaise sauce

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“Dad, is it true that the Earth used to only have one moon?” “Well, technically, the second one isn’t a moo—“ “Dear, we don’t talk about such things.”

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[FFXIV RE: 02] recent "punk" characters i've drawn; hilda, lyse, y'shtola, and ysayle!

https://twitter.com/koyoriin https://patreon.com/koyorin https://instagram.com/koyori_n https://bsky.app/profile/koyorin.bsky.social

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y'shtola

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Ysayle! 😊

A step by step process video of this will be available at my Patreon on july 1st

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I had to see Ysayle in this fit and woof--

(I don't know if anyone ever put her in it yet or not so if someone did I apologize)

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

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

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

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

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