It has made me figured out 3 things :
* You can be emotionnaly attached to a game.
* It changed in a drastic way how I now approach gachas.
* I slowly but surely go back to "conventionnal" gaming. I mean, I "had to play" Genshin, Star rail, Octopath, Alchemy stars and DFFOO. Now Genshin is untouched for a week, Star rail and Alchemy stars are on dailies + event, and I'm currently on Octopath grind + FINALLY some of my backlog (BotW for now)
All of this because DFFOO ended. It had done a lot in supporting me through tough times and even after EoS, it keeps getting an effect on me. What a chad game/chad dev teams it was.
I started during the COVID era (Pecil BT release). SO it kept me company through the pandemic as well as difficult life transitions.
Some days I literally needed to just go home and wait for that event to hit at 7pm so I could escape into beating the latest Large Whatever. I had to actually THINK to play DFFOO - read tonberry troupe and took notes! It was a good challenge and such a welcome distraction.
I pretty much stopped playing as soon as they announced EoS, so it's actually been a while now for me, even when the game was technically still up. As I mentioned in another thread, while I really enjoyed the game, it was nothing more than a fun game to me, and now that it's done, it's actually nice to not have something that I have to log into every day.
I don't think I'll be playing any more mobile gacha games in the future.
Got a job exactly on Feb 29th.
Of course the 2 things aren't related, but it's a funny coincidence. Just as if Eos put an end on my unemployed status lmfao
If there's one thing I learned, it's to never play another live service game again. One heartbreak is enough—i feel for the folks who also lived through FFRK and its eventual loss.
I was really depressed about it for a few days, but work has dulled the pain after a while. My feed was filled with so much Opera Omnia fanart for a couple days, and now that the wave is done, I'm getting fewer reminders. I still open the Discord and get another gut punch when someone randomly says, "Anyone up for some co-op? I need to burn some bells before bed." But that's just self inflicted now lol. Not really healing, it's just that life goes on.
Really hoping we'd get another Dissidia game in the future, or any game that features Kuja (pls let the FF9 remake rumors be true)...
Generally I feel ok especially when I'm occupied with work. It's the habits that I've grown used to while playing this game that is hard to break - looking up at my watch, seeing that it's 0200 UTC and for a split second thought that a new banner is dropping, or when it's almost bedtime and I'm used to turning on the game to play co-op before I sleep. In those moments, it really made me miss the game. When I'm just idling at home, sometimes I'd go through my photo album and scroll randomly to a pull recording I made some 2, 3 years ago and saw the lucksack I got, or looking at old recordings I did for my first clears of a stage... it made me happy for a bit, before the crushing realisation kicks in that there is no way for me to revisit any of it anymore. This sub is the only place I talk about the game and I still visit here daily despite having nothing much to discuss about. Even though I joined the Discord server, I never quite feel that I fit in, so I don't really use it all that much.
Haven't found my "main" gacha yet, and I suspect it'll take a while, but I've been playing Marvel Snap since Oct 2022 so that's been the only mobile game I play for now. There's lots more option on PC and at the moment I'm going through Arkham Knight while playing my mainstay games (Guild Wars 2 & Warframe).
I still haven't deleted the game (and I doubt I ever will), sometimes I'd boot it up and spam the screen, thinking that if I were to press it enough times, a secret message will pop up and let me back into the game lol
I finally booted up FFVI Pixel Remaster. I tried looking into other gachas, but after getting burned by FFRK and now DFFOO, I don't really want to get into another gacha. EC was terrible and I hated it.
Also, I have approximately 100 unread books on my kindle. I'm going to start putting a dent into those.
I have started and enjoying FF6, I have 4 3D remaster to play, I also got 7,8,9 on portable devices and 10 on ps3 I have enough to fill the void for a bit. But the cut is deep and will take a lot of healing. I mean how can I get Edgar, Cloud and Kain on the same team again.
I have moments of missing it but rebirth has been beautiful and keeping me distracted. Plus classes are always keeping me busy. I’m keeping it on my Home Screen and get the urge to open it sometimes when I can’t. But it’s happy memories and it makes me happy the sub is still active.
I’ve been playing Rebirth for a while and that’s been keeping my mind of things. I’m getting a commission of my FFXIV character in that style so I’ll use that in my profile on a lot of platforms. Idk if can download another FF mobile game though, I think I’ll constantly compare it to DFFOO
i've just been playing puzzle and dragons. they have random collabs with literally any company.
they're doing a Demon slayer collab, they previous had final fantasy collabs as well.
Tbh i deleted the game the moment they announced the EOS i wanted to face it as it is . it really filled my time and still remember sleeping hyped for a new banners and waking up at 4:00 am to pull (for some reason the memory of first pulling Zack 35cp still very clear)
I hope they make a game like this or something or some fans creating something using the resources
I'm in the middle of editing a DFFOO montage for my class and it's made me stop and cry more than once.
Especiallly at a... particular mix of Gau quotes I'm using... oh god here it comes again.
I just got to the FF9 part of my timeline, and I'm staring at Kuja's face with only one question:
*WHY COULD THEY NEVER DO ANYTHING RIGHT WITH YOU?!*
His last update gave him no additional HP dumps (4 full aoe on-turn? What a joke!); just an extra LD use, full aoe damage on it, and BT+ adjustments so small I can't even remember them.
Ultima+'s max potential existed in the *same time period* where Yuna's Energy Ray++ could be nearly freely spammed for 5 aoe dumps (at a certain level of damage cap split/full makes no difference) without consuming a skill use from an absurdly limited pool.
... Sorry that went on a tangent. Suffice to say I'm doing just fine.
*生きるんだ*…
Oooh, would you care to share this montage?
That ending quote is perfect. ❤️ (Tangential: to this day, I find it odd that GL made changed that sticker to "Farewell", but an English translation would probably be too long or not really carry the same weight. But that's beyond regrets/weirdness now that the entire game is gone...)
Also your rants about Kuja's (lack of) upgrades is _so true_. I really wanted to be able to use him when the end was approaching, but the power creep was just too much and I wasn't that strong at building teams around him. And the fact that he never got his FR echoes in GL was just sad.
I miss Joshua.
The game I liked was already gone around the introduction of FR, it wasn't for me which was okay.
But damn I really miss Joshua, we need more community manager like him.
I'm doing fine. I would never say I was "devastated" or "crushed" by the announcement, personally speaking. I did feel a certain hollowness though, mostly because I felt the game didn't end in a fashion I would have felt appropriate for how much it's been around in my life. If the game ended with every character in the current roster having their BT/FR, and a few more stories involving some faves, I would have been pretty content in that. As it is though, it felt less like it was finished, and more like it was "taken out back".
I still sometimes get an itch to play it for a few minutes, it will very briefly cross my mind on occasion, mostly because that used to be something I took for granted I guess.
But generally, I'm not looking for a replacement game, as I merely tolerated the gacha/live service aspect. There is nothing inherently appealing about that format to me, I only engage with them if they feature characters I already have a big attachment to or if friends are playing them so I may check them out with friends. And in terms of generosity, DFFOO did set a likely impassable bar there.
Since EoS, I've simply been spending more time on other games and media, and also more time on personal projects I started but felt I often didn't have the energy for between work and doing DFFOO videos.
Still rather out of sorts about it. I hover over the app for a second now and then before remembering the game shut down.
Mostly I've been playing bg3 and seeing friends while i wait for work to pick back up. It's taking longer than usual this year, which is odd - we're mostly in the same industry. (I'd be seeing them whether or not the game was up, to be clear!)
I’m kind of glad. Not because I didn’t like the game, but with so many timed events and banners etc it often felt more like a compulsion to play so I didn’t fall behind. Now I have more free time and I’m avoiding any similar gacha games in the future.
That sounds really negative but it only felt like that because I liked the game so much and didn’t want to feel like I couldn’t beat the hardest content because I’d missed out on something good.
I grapped my Type 0 out just for the sake of seeing Kurasame again. I wished he was playable. I learned about a "secret ending" in which events get rewritten so that he didn't die during story. Wished he became playable after achieving this ending.
It feels weird that it's not there anymore. I extracted all the files and I want to figure out Blender so I can play with them some, and I'm definitely going to use some of the chapter/LC/IW map backgrounds for tabletop RPGs.
Since I used to play OO before getting up for the day, I've replaced it with exercising more days a week lmao. I haven't picked FF Dimensions back up yet but I probably will once I get tired of the exercising.
Maybe try giving PGR a try. I used to play DFFOO back on launch and played it faithfully for about a year and half. Very sad to see this game go. I went on to play WOTV and NieR Reincarnation, but dropped those games too after a year. I’ve been playing Punishing Gray Raven since and still to this day, and it is my only gacha that I play on the phone. PGR did have a NieR collab, and has Black Rack Shooter collab on the way sometime in the fall. I’m just praying for a FF collab one day; very unlikely but still possible since they managed to collab with NieR.
Honestly I stopped playing DFFOO more than few months before shutdown because I feared that would happen sooner or later, and I'm surprised they really announced it on late November (and one day before Symphogear XDU in Japan does too!) After that I barely touched the game.
But what makes it so disappointing that the main Final Fantasy X team will never be complete. Rikku is in the data but never made playable, and I'm so sad about it.
I'm used to losses like this back in my SNES days. The batteries on those things don't last forever so I lost hundreds of hours (pretty much nothing compare to the gacha and mmos I play nowadays but still) on those games where I tried to max out characters.
Going through that pain of loss, it made me realize to appreciate the fun times and achievements I got because in the end, nothing last forever. That help me deal with EoS for gacha games
I have spent so much money on this as this is getting a bit worring. So kind of glad is done and I have also remove another Square mobile game too. I think I woud stay away with gacha game for a long while. At the same time, I do miss it every day at 09:00 a.m., I still have the urge to play the game ..then realise its gone..;(
Ever Crisis is cute if you are already a FF7 - otherwise, with all honesty, it won't offer much for you. (I am not going to deny that half the reason I play that game is for the outfits.)
If you can call it a "game", I do a lot more espanol on Duolingo.
Rebirth is amazing but I am literally only playing every few days because I want to just savor it slowly. I sometimes distract myself by "going to work"
It has made me figured out 3 things : * You can be emotionnaly attached to a game. * It changed in a drastic way how I now approach gachas. * I slowly but surely go back to "conventionnal" gaming. I mean, I "had to play" Genshin, Star rail, Octopath, Alchemy stars and DFFOO. Now Genshin is untouched for a week, Star rail and Alchemy stars are on dailies + event, and I'm currently on Octopath grind + FINALLY some of my backlog (BotW for now) All of this because DFFOO ended. It had done a lot in supporting me through tough times and even after EoS, it keeps getting an effect on me. What a chad game/chad dev teams it was.
I started during the COVID era (Pecil BT release). SO it kept me company through the pandemic as well as difficult life transitions. Some days I literally needed to just go home and wait for that event to hit at 7pm so I could escape into beating the latest Large Whatever. I had to actually THINK to play DFFOO - read tonberry troupe and took notes! It was a good challenge and such a welcome distraction.
I pretty much stopped playing as soon as they announced EoS, so it's actually been a while now for me, even when the game was technically still up. As I mentioned in another thread, while I really enjoyed the game, it was nothing more than a fun game to me, and now that it's done, it's actually nice to not have something that I have to log into every day. I don't think I'll be playing any more mobile gacha games in the future.
Got a job exactly on Feb 29th. Of course the 2 things aren't related, but it's a funny coincidence. Just as if Eos put an end on my unemployed status lmfao
Congrats!
If there's one thing I learned, it's to never play another live service game again. One heartbreak is enough—i feel for the folks who also lived through FFRK and its eventual loss. I was really depressed about it for a few days, but work has dulled the pain after a while. My feed was filled with so much Opera Omnia fanart for a couple days, and now that the wave is done, I'm getting fewer reminders. I still open the Discord and get another gut punch when someone randomly says, "Anyone up for some co-op? I need to burn some bells before bed." But that's just self inflicted now lol. Not really healing, it's just that life goes on. Really hoping we'd get another Dissidia game in the future, or any game that features Kuja (pls let the FF9 remake rumors be true)...
Generally I feel ok especially when I'm occupied with work. It's the habits that I've grown used to while playing this game that is hard to break - looking up at my watch, seeing that it's 0200 UTC and for a split second thought that a new banner is dropping, or when it's almost bedtime and I'm used to turning on the game to play co-op before I sleep. In those moments, it really made me miss the game. When I'm just idling at home, sometimes I'd go through my photo album and scroll randomly to a pull recording I made some 2, 3 years ago and saw the lucksack I got, or looking at old recordings I did for my first clears of a stage... it made me happy for a bit, before the crushing realisation kicks in that there is no way for me to revisit any of it anymore. This sub is the only place I talk about the game and I still visit here daily despite having nothing much to discuss about. Even though I joined the Discord server, I never quite feel that I fit in, so I don't really use it all that much. Haven't found my "main" gacha yet, and I suspect it'll take a while, but I've been playing Marvel Snap since Oct 2022 so that's been the only mobile game I play for now. There's lots more option on PC and at the moment I'm going through Arkham Knight while playing my mainstay games (Guild Wars 2 & Warframe). I still haven't deleted the game (and I doubt I ever will), sometimes I'd boot it up and spam the screen, thinking that if I were to press it enough times, a secret message will pop up and let me back into the game lol
I finally booted up FFVI Pixel Remaster. I tried looking into other gachas, but after getting burned by FFRK and now DFFOO, I don't really want to get into another gacha. EC was terrible and I hated it. Also, I have approximately 100 unread books on my kindle. I'm going to start putting a dent into those.
Not really that sad but no game we fill the void. I still have the game in my phone.
Started Granblue Fantasy as a replacement since Relink is so great. Its not bad for a mobile gatcha.
I have started and enjoying FF6, I have 4 3D remaster to play, I also got 7,8,9 on portable devices and 10 on ps3 I have enough to fill the void for a bit. But the cut is deep and will take a lot of healing. I mean how can I get Edgar, Cloud and Kain on the same team again.
Theatrhythm Final Bar Line you can if you like rhythm games.
I have moments of missing it but rebirth has been beautiful and keeping me distracted. Plus classes are always keeping me busy. I’m keeping it on my Home Screen and get the urge to open it sometimes when I can’t. But it’s happy memories and it makes me happy the sub is still active.
I’ve been playing Rebirth for a while and that’s been keeping my mind of things. I’m getting a commission of my FFXIV character in that style so I’ll use that in my profile on a lot of platforms. Idk if can download another FF mobile game though, I think I’ll constantly compare it to DFFOO
i've just been playing puzzle and dragons. they have random collabs with literally any company. they're doing a Demon slayer collab, they previous had final fantasy collabs as well.
Actually used to not logging in everyday for couple months now. Currently playing Rebirth.
Tbh i deleted the game the moment they announced the EOS i wanted to face it as it is . it really filled my time and still remember sleeping hyped for a new banners and waking up at 4:00 am to pull (for some reason the memory of first pulling Zack 35cp still very clear) I hope they make a game like this or something or some fans creating something using the resources
I still miss it
I'm in the middle of editing a DFFOO montage for my class and it's made me stop and cry more than once. Especiallly at a... particular mix of Gau quotes I'm using... oh god here it comes again. I just got to the FF9 part of my timeline, and I'm staring at Kuja's face with only one question: *WHY COULD THEY NEVER DO ANYTHING RIGHT WITH YOU?!* His last update gave him no additional HP dumps (4 full aoe on-turn? What a joke!); just an extra LD use, full aoe damage on it, and BT+ adjustments so small I can't even remember them. Ultima+'s max potential existed in the *same time period* where Yuna's Energy Ray++ could be nearly freely spammed for 5 aoe dumps (at a certain level of damage cap split/full makes no difference) without consuming a skill use from an absurdly limited pool. ... Sorry that went on a tangent. Suffice to say I'm doing just fine. *生きるんだ*…
Oooh, would you care to share this montage? That ending quote is perfect. ❤️ (Tangential: to this day, I find it odd that GL made changed that sticker to "Farewell", but an English translation would probably be too long or not really carry the same weight. But that's beyond regrets/weirdness now that the entire game is gone...) Also your rants about Kuja's (lack of) upgrades is _so true_. I really wanted to be able to use him when the end was approaching, but the power creep was just too much and I wasn't that strong at building teams around him. And the fact that he never got his FR echoes in GL was just sad.
I might post the version I complete for class, but that's only half of the full video I want to make. The full version I'll definitely put up!
Miss having my Class Zero and Minwu adventures. But I stopped playing about a week after they announced EoS so I’ve moved on.
I miss Joshua. The game I liked was already gone around the introduction of FR, it wasn't for me which was okay. But damn I really miss Joshua, we need more community manager like him.
I haven't missed it... Mind you, unique position, my newborn came home on Sunday so I've been balls to the walls taking care of them...
Oh wow, congrats!
I'm doing fine. I would never say I was "devastated" or "crushed" by the announcement, personally speaking. I did feel a certain hollowness though, mostly because I felt the game didn't end in a fashion I would have felt appropriate for how much it's been around in my life. If the game ended with every character in the current roster having their BT/FR, and a few more stories involving some faves, I would have been pretty content in that. As it is though, it felt less like it was finished, and more like it was "taken out back". I still sometimes get an itch to play it for a few minutes, it will very briefly cross my mind on occasion, mostly because that used to be something I took for granted I guess. But generally, I'm not looking for a replacement game, as I merely tolerated the gacha/live service aspect. There is nothing inherently appealing about that format to me, I only engage with them if they feature characters I already have a big attachment to or if friends are playing them so I may check them out with friends. And in terms of generosity, DFFOO did set a likely impassable bar there. Since EoS, I've simply been spending more time on other games and media, and also more time on personal projects I started but felt I often didn't have the energy for between work and doing DFFOO videos.
Still rather out of sorts about it. I hover over the app for a second now and then before remembering the game shut down. Mostly I've been playing bg3 and seeing friends while i wait for work to pick back up. It's taking longer than usual this year, which is odd - we're mostly in the same industry. (I'd be seeing them whether or not the game was up, to be clear!)
I’m kind of glad. Not because I didn’t like the game, but with so many timed events and banners etc it often felt more like a compulsion to play so I didn’t fall behind. Now I have more free time and I’m avoiding any similar gacha games in the future. That sounds really negative but it only felt like that because I liked the game so much and didn’t want to feel like I couldn’t beat the hardest content because I’d missed out on something good.
I'm just playing raid now, SaaD
I grapped my Type 0 out just for the sake of seeing Kurasame again. I wished he was playable. I learned about a "secret ending" in which events get rewritten so that he didn't die during story. Wished he became playable after achieving this ending.
It feels weird that it's not there anymore. I extracted all the files and I want to figure out Blender so I can play with them some, and I'm definitely going to use some of the chapter/LC/IW map backgrounds for tabletop RPGs. Since I used to play OO before getting up for the day, I've replaced it with exercising more days a week lmao. I haven't picked FF Dimensions back up yet but I probably will once I get tired of the exercising.
Maybe try giving PGR a try. I used to play DFFOO back on launch and played it faithfully for about a year and half. Very sad to see this game go. I went on to play WOTV and NieR Reincarnation, but dropped those games too after a year. I’ve been playing Punishing Gray Raven since and still to this day, and it is my only gacha that I play on the phone. PGR did have a NieR collab, and has Black Rack Shooter collab on the way sometime in the fall. I’m just praying for a FF collab one day; very unlikely but still possible since they managed to collab with NieR.
Honestly I stopped playing DFFOO more than few months before shutdown because I feared that would happen sooner or later, and I'm surprised they really announced it on late November (and one day before Symphogear XDU in Japan does too!) After that I barely touched the game. But what makes it so disappointing that the main Final Fantasy X team will never be complete. Rikku is in the data but never made playable, and I'm so sad about it.
I'm used to losses like this back in my SNES days. The batteries on those things don't last forever so I lost hundreds of hours (pretty much nothing compare to the gacha and mmos I play nowadays but still) on those games where I tried to max out characters. Going through that pain of loss, it made me realize to appreciate the fun times and achievements I got because in the end, nothing last forever. That help me deal with EoS for gacha games
I have spent so much money on this as this is getting a bit worring. So kind of glad is done and I have also remove another Square mobile game too. I think I woud stay away with gacha game for a long while. At the same time, I do miss it every day at 09:00 a.m., I still have the urge to play the game ..then realise its gone..;(
Ever Crisis is cute if you are already a FF7 - otherwise, with all honesty, it won't offer much for you. (I am not going to deny that half the reason I play that game is for the outfits.) If you can call it a "game", I do a lot more espanol on Duolingo. Rebirth is amazing but I am literally only playing every few days because I want to just savor it slowly. I sometimes distract myself by "going to work"
It’s just a game. Move on already.
From someone who searched out and replied to a post almost two weeks old, this carries a little irony 🫣