I have been playing this with my wife for eight years of our ten years together. We are sad to see it go. We watched Claic, Tek Maki, Howl, Evil Laugh, Guide for Gamers all come and go. We both cried together when Shaly passed away from Karoshi. She would have been disappointed with what happened with the game now. She was the soul of the game and a lot of the good in the game died with her.
I liked also meetmeonmars, and howlz was first favorite ! Degen tp and guide for gamers, I appreciate, but wasn't a regular... , everyone did a great job, I liked how each Creator had a thing going... Evil Laughter ha Claic infectious energy Shally monster, we are indebted beyond for your inspiration and kindness
@@huynhvuongviet2410 I have to admit, which i considered bringing it up the past few years but, over the course of her doing the streams i did actually think to myself that it would absolutely suck if something ever happened to her, and then something actually did.. Was quite depressing and sad at the time.. The guy that took her place was a bit too awkward or didnt really fit in like she did.. I pretty much skipped their streams and only watched the upcoming content portion of the streams then stopped watching.
This game definitely owes you a big token of appreciation. The fact that this was a game that basically didn't explain itself, we basically needed a wiki page to know what was happening was a huge issue for lots of players, and then comes these unsung heroes like you explaining what's going on and how do mechanics work. This was a big ride, me and many other players got their content cleared thanks to your guides It's gonna be weird to arrive home at tuesdays and not see the newsday video, even though there were barely any news lately but still... Wish you all the best, definitely gonna stick around if you post videos with the season 5, I hate that we won't ever get to see that, I love the story, it's the main reason why I stayed in the game (yes even season 3) and I can't wait to see what rain and the team will go to next. Thank you for your service, and all the best for your life.
The part about story units. The reason the story was good for those units was design philosophy. One of the biggest reasons you could pull at those times was for a units story. They made you love them so you would pull for them. With the introduction of dark visions they phased away with stories for those units because dv was now the reason someone would pull.
"Hey there guys..." is my new ringtone...thank you Sinzar for years of contribution to our FFBE community. We will meet someday, somewhere in another FFBE universe. 🎉🎉🎉🎉 ❤❤❤❤
SINZAR! We need a face reveal on the last day of the game!!! Also the most money I’ve spent on the game was on the kingdom hearts banner. 100 dollars real money I spent just to get sora. Anyways this game has been fun to play and I’ll miss the community. It’s been fun guys
Let's not forget the most insane day when a hacker sent everyone 10k lapis and the game needed basically a day to adjust this flaw hahahahha I've been playing this game since the begining (sep/2016) and it's my most played game so far.... Miss the days when Memel0rd used to write unit reviews on FFBE blog and when users used to upload their strategies on the Wiki (when the wiki was good) This game will be trully missed.....
Damn menel0rd is a name I have not heard forever I remember going through his review to figure out mastermind xon (butterfly knife carrying till mid neo vision content)
Big fan of both you and DBarry. 🖤🖤🖤 I’ll miss the “Hey there guys…” videos and want to give you a sincere THANK YOU Sinzar for all the help over the years. Much love dude and I’ll see you in the discord. 🫡
My first banner was Ifrit's raid back in the day. The game brought so many memories. I remember lucking out on Orlandeau as the chaining meta started and I didnt know his power at all and didnt level him. Eventually chaining became the meta and I remember trying out almost every 5star unit's skills together because getting frame data was not a thing and eventually discovered the most interesting combos that worked like Fohlen and Reberta. My most expensive unit was probably the original 2B back in the day as I gotten so many A2s it was insane and pity never existed. She became my mvp back in the Malboro trial and is my proudest moment back then. Eventually I began to participate in unit design competitions and was excited to be shortlisted in the fan festa (might have been the third one that year) and even booked a flight down to Korea (first time travelling overseas alone) and witnessed it in person. My unit didnt get picked (Ellesperis won that festa) and went home a little disappointed but overall it was a huge memory to see Hiroki and Dah Sol in person and gotten merch signed by them. Eventually I did manage to win a fan festa the next year and made Noppy who came out a few years later as a NV unit. (She was designed back in the 7star era). She was never meta and got powercrept on release which was a shame but I was proud to be part of the history of this game. Thank you Sinzar for doing what you do for the community it was an amazing run.
7* era was my favorite. I think I noticed game was really going off tracks when we missed NV Cater, and NVA Zile, and especially when we missed big content, like the enhancement point system for very old NVs. I'll miss this game. At least the last few months showed us it was dying, and EOS wasn't a surprise for most of us
These games always die cause the greed drunk corporation kills then - they keep trying to make more money for less effort till they drive all the players away. That’s what happened to me and many others. I stopped playing these types of games cause it’s always the same story.
Thank you for covering FFBE for so many years. I stopped actively playing about a year ago, but I still logged in from time to time and I kept in touch with the game thanks to your videos. I also took a chance with many other games like Slay the Spire and Across the Obelisk thanks to your videos, so thanks for that too!
I would like to log in everyday until the end, but I don’t think I have the desire. I loved the game, but it’s time to let go. But I genuinely appreciate all of your efforts, Sinzar. You were the community for most of us.
Yeah, once I was able to 3 star every unit I was working on for so long in the fragment dungeon after the last update, I kinda lost interest. Pulling didn’t mean anything because I had the meta units capped, and there was no new challenging content to use them on anyhow.. I just don’t know if there’s a point to playing even though I have an 7 year login streak that is going to feel weird breaking..
@@NuBFnDrthat’s exactly what did it for me. I’m glad they did it for all of those that desire completion. However, I just realized that most of this games fun (for me), was trying to find ways of doing content when I didn’t have every recommended piece.
I was planning to farm out the event hard but I just don't see a reason when there is nothing new coming to do and anything I haven't will give me nothing of use since there will be nothing more to use it on
Spent 5 hours auto farming to 900k for Esther two Saturdays ago. I want that time back. Deleted the game as soon as Scumi said they’re deleting all player data on Halloween.
Nice listening to this after 4 years of being gone. Being reminded of fun stuff that happened for the 3 years a I played and groaning at some of the bad things that happened. Good hearing your voice again and talk about FFBE. I didn't hear about Shaly's passing until yesterday so still shocked from that. It's a shame seeing the game end with such a whimper but just too many mistakes over too long of a period. Wish you the best of luck in future endeavors.
É muito triste pra mim, mais eu quero pensar que eu sou feliz por ter jogado desde o lançamento, as vitórias, as frustrações, sempre compartilhando com meus irmão que também vai jogar até o fim, vou sentir saudades de FFBE
I experienced the game and was questioned on how did I survived the game without using the boosted units & Rosa. (ff4 event) I did play the game like how I experienced Final Fantasy in gameboy and it was worth the pain. LOL Collecting story locked items was painful specially the summons because I can't get a grip on chain mechanic. The excitement I got when they reveal FF13 CG LBs is so so so overwhelming ! It was a short experience but thanks Sinzar for uploading amazing FFBE content. I watch it every chance I got and whenever you use ff13 unit is a blessing ! But so I think you'll still upload FFBE JP content so yeah, THANK YOU VERY MUCH
I havn't played since the leader skill was added to the game, but always loved your videos, and god I can relate to the never seeing a zidane in the first year lol. Also did the same thing with macro farming overnight. Things were brutal back then but god that first year or two were so much fun, really was a great game for several years.
Thank you Sinzar. I kept playing YEARS because of you and your videos. Appreciate everything you did. Will stick around to see where you are heading next
Been playing on & off since the OG 5* FFVII Cloud banner started. Thank you both for taking us down memory lane one final time, reflecting on the highs & lows of development behind our beloved game. One small annotation to the point @ 1:38:45 behind Esthers ninja-nerf scandal. While the hotfix was necessary for balance, the official response posted afterwards only further frustrated the playerbase. "Recommending people not to trust unofficial sources of information like datamining" while not EVER providing an "official sources" with similar granular levels of information. To this day, the community relies heavily on "unofficial" content creators and fan-made databases to learn about the game from basics on unit kits and potencies, to complex mechanics behind CoW encounters vital in team building and strategizing for the fight. However unofficial, still better than nothing official. Save for a vague description in game that wont help as to why a CoW boss keeps clapping your team because of a complete BS mechanic you have no premonition on. Future community managers take note: It's ill-advised to throw your games content creators under the bus to save face from development oversights.
I miss the days when gold stars were useable and using Illusionist Nicol to make any unit a cover tank for specific fights. Up till the end still use 2 grim lord Sakura with their barrage ability since it was rarely if ever a skill that fell under a restricted parameter from week to week
Thank you for all the help and videos and overall your opinions over all these years. I guess my only regret from the game is not making more friends or being more active in the Facebook group for example. Good luck to whatever you all decide to do from now on.
I get that it's a different operation but it's frustrating that JP is still continuing and they can't even justify a GL localization team to just translate that content over. I want to say all in all that the community would rather give up any GL exclusive units or upgrades and be transported over to JP than to be left out in the cold while they keep the game alive.
Yes and no, data transfers are not so simple, it would cost a LOT to carefully remove all GL custom content from the file sets in order to avoid db errors(items, characters, quest data, story entries, ect), and honestly its for the best that GL players just close the book. Yes I like my collection, but I also know I barely play the game, and the issues causing me not to enjoy it are just as prevalent on JP. If anything GL players are being spared the continued nostalgia milking, for the sub par experience ffbe today offers. Fact is there are a lot of games out there that are still in a better state, and cost way less to ~keep up with~
@@merphul I absolutely think they should’ve just stuck to translating JP. Gumi wanted to “leave its mark” on the ip instead of just porting it and that was a mistake.
I first played FFBE back in 2016 when Cloud of Darkness and Cecil were the chase units because good damage dealers and tanks were so rare! Then Hayate and Chizuru were added and players got a taste of power! Then Warrior of Light was the next banner and his tanking skills were impressive because he was the first physical tank to AoE cover! If you didnt have WoL or Cecil; you were stuck with Clyne who did have Cura which was nice for the time!
I remember playing FFBE in late 2017, but I properly started playing in mid 2018 when Deus Ex collab happened. I remember uaing often Viktor Marchenko. There was also UOC controversy with Livid Shantotto and Shadow Lord which people were peeved back then about how GL executed the uoc. I sfarted also playing JP on the same year where the units I was looking were Summer Folka and Citra and Summer Fina and Lid. 7* era was really the moment I thought this was the weird and balanced era. Then in 2020, NV happened; I got NV Cloud and it was defining to have an NV unit then next week I got NV Rain on a free pull. I cannot believe this was now FFBE than it was previously. I might edit this comment to continue my memories about the game
I remember when I quit this game, it was out of frustration of dealing with the various opaque mechanics. When I came back to it after Record Keeper shuttered, it was your videos that kept me playing. Otherwise doing CoW with a huge gear deficit or Dark Visions was a nightmare. I don’t think I can handle another gacha game, but if there’s a game where the gacha is a bit more optional and you can progress fine without it, I would play. Story is king! Thanks for all the fish 😅
39:00 I'm With DBarry, SO3 That was hands down my MOST played game on PS2, it had SO much end/post game content and different endings, fun gameplay. I never got Fate though. I played SOA and loved playing as a 3D Rain Lasswell and Fina before they EoS'ed after 2 years maybe? IMO if they made WoTV more tied into FFBE lore wise both games would have benefited, maybe collab wise too (I played WoTV for 4 years, just dropped it a couple months ago, I woulda dropped 2 years ago but I felt obligated to keep playing once I was appointed Guild leader plus it was a morning time killer daily chore. I won't be making that mistake again) In terms of financials CoWA was a big hit, but for player morality I think it was the cut content. If they didn't "Global is a different game" it they coulda synced with JP like many mobile games have been doing then make CoW on the synced version.
Honestly crazy looking back at all this. I’m a day one player but haven’t played regularly in 2-3 years. Sad to see it go honestly. Had a lot of great memories pulling for units with my brothers and getting hyped for new banners lol. Game was kinda dead for awhile though so it makes sense.
Guess it finally hit me after finishing your video Sinzar. Glad to have been watching your videos for all this time. Hoping to continue to watch in the future. But with FFBE shutting down so does my time with gachas... Thanks for the memories!
Should make a whole video where you and guest just spilling the beans. I believe Elytra mentioned during the Apple outage it wasn't SQEX/Gumi's fault. It's was entirely on Apple but the community was blaming Gumi because they believe Gumi was trying to skirt publishing rates
Sinzar. I am surprised you didn't state the Katy Perry collab as your most disliked banner. Where you had to listen to the music each time you did the quest. "Immortal Flame" was the song. It's permanently etched in my brain. Lol. You should release the video of you listening to the music over and over lol. It was the very first time and last that an actual song with lyrics was played in the game. Honestly it was cool.
I Literally cannot remember the reason why I quit ffbe. But i to this day remember most of content creators and Sinzar guides that helped me to clear hard fights. (Googled update schedule and I was playing from Nier banner Aug 2017 to around Dec 2019. I remember White Lily Dark Fina but some units around early Dec looks unknown to me)
I started within the frist couple weeks, I got the free Mech Terra. I was more into MMO's than Mobile games at the time, (FFBE made mobile games replace MMO's as my goto chill out game) so I stopped for a month then picked it back up and never missed a login since the October of the first year (minus a prolonged maintenance or crazy life) I remember using the 3 star Kain and a random team in the beginning. Running an emulator/marco (which got me into using an emu to play mobile games) to farm TMR's because they were so rare and hard to get. Finally getting double cast and making Refia the best healer before AOE cures/esuna. the Troll Rainbow 4 star Cecil when 3/4 stars would come pre-awakened. Tanking Aigaion with the 3 star Charlotte. Getting the OG Orlandeau from a single daily, same with Aileen. Getting carried by a friend Noctis or Luneth. Franticly trying to beat the boss for the free BF unit (which is what got me into watching Sinzar, Gert thanks to you, Claic going Super Saiyan while pulling, a little Holz before the Genshin phase, a little Gonzy) Setting up an Auto lose arena team before missions changed (I tried to do that after EoS but that team was unequipped and I couldn't find the accesory, I heard they changed it's effect anyway) Ramza's buffs being delayed like crazy (which I guess was a red flag all those years ago LOL)
I remember fighting the robot trial when it came out. At first I could not do it, but then I got the original Fryevia and got a friend Fryevia on the team for the fight. Tilith was my healer, I had the same curse so that I couldn´t get a top healer, Tilith was my main healer for a long time. I remember that I drove my wife to an appointment at the doctor and while I was waiting in the car for her, I fought that stupid trial that was way too hard for the time. And it would take me almost 2 hours to do it. The first Gilgamesh trial was another fight that I remember fondly. It was a sweet time, a shame that it couldn´t last a bit longer :(
Another thing that I remember just now is the timing when they released Sylvie. Everyone was waiting for Nicole when they released Sylvie and powercrept him so hard...
As someone who plays Sword of Convallaria, there are challenging weapon bosses that can be a trick to beat at a level deficit. And some of the 'events' play more like puzzles than straight up brawls.
found you during the storm seeker esther banner gotta say thank you for all the video guides. hopefully we get another game that fills the slot of ffbe
I will never forget back in March of 2022 when we lost Shaly... The way I found out about that was on "Twitter" from her younger brother. That was ironic to me becauseI lost my younger brother on November of 2021. In regards to gameplay, it was bound to become ore stagnated as time went on. The Neo-Vision + thing was the definitive sign of the end being confirmed because of how forced and lazy the whole PLUS gimmick is (FFBE was not the only game to do this, mind you...). But yeah, thanks for the commentary and help throughout the years. 'm going to miss the sprite work and potential collars that could of been (my favorites being Kingdom Hearts, Parasite Eve, and Nier).
I actually feel like after losing her is when the game started to slowly decline. I have played since launch and love the game and will be sad to see it go, but it feels like issues gradually snowballed more and more after she was gone.
Lol, you mentioned the Gilgamesh banner. That was a black Friday and was also my most expensive banner. I think it was 700 dollars total spent on Lapis packs 😅 Those Genji gloves are were some serious power back then. He's one of my favorite characters from the series.
Been with ffbe since the start somehow managed to stay ftp since I stopped around the time claic stopped making videos 😅 my most memorable banner was trying to get sora i think I was farming a event because I just wasn’t getting him and only missed out by 100 lapis 😅 good times the time when the games shutdown for a day also etc etc
I remember many people are criticizing/mocking DahSol for his english but at least with him, he knows the game and did not make a booboo. Alex, on the other hand, mistook Luneth as a girl in a livestream. I always liked FFBE, particularly in the 7* era as my fave units were in that era. Shifting to the NV era made me stop playing the game for a while but I did came back although not passionately playing unlike in the 7* era. Decided to do a firesale of my lapis in Clive's banner and once I got him to EX-3, I finally deleted the game for good. I'm already aware that the GL server is on the path to EoS when they are cutting content a lot so I wasn't surprised when EoS was finally announced. Anyways, it was fun while it lasted.
I have posted before about the loss of this game and I honestly did have some different memories compared to others. I originally got into this game thru FFRK and those emails they send out from SE. I actually did not have a phone nor have any knowledge on emulation to play so I played this game on an iPod, the last gen made before they were discontinued and man it was slow. Luckily the meta then was to simply use barrage, but I never managed to pull for one, and Lasswell the free unit was my best unit at the time. I guess ill just keep an eye out for any news to a new mobile FF game and see if im interested in playing, who knows .
I adored this game back in the day it’s sad to see it go I quit on the release of 7 stars. But I whaled a decent bit back in the day I got 2 Gilgamesh, 2 noctis, and 2 onion knight. The best era was 5 star and early 6 star from lightning to noctis.
My worst banner was Nier Automata (the 5 star version). I was living in Australia at the moment and spent 160 AUD I needed for living the first few weeks till I got a job (I was on a working visa). I'm pretty sure one of the worst guys in the arena was Prickster
I remember the first Reberta with her jump being able to auto chain and if you're lucky she would finish with her jump and i would loved self capping jumper
Private servers maybe, square will most likely just ~fresh start~ another clone title down the line, and it will suffer the same development cycle ffbe did.
I wish along with the final part of Season 4 being on the official YT they'd achieve the whole story (and maybe side stories too) on their YT. I mean an offline version from SquareEnix would be better but video achieve would be easier. I'm sure there are video online of it but on the official YT seems easier/cleaner. no commentary, good quality
Double pity Reberta banner. Zero Reberta’s pulled the entire time. The Rydia & Kane banner was the first time Scumi nerfed the $50 shard bundles. The very next week Scumi introduced the 9k lapis lap with a tiny amount of total pulls and 2 pity tickets. Everything was downhill from there.
For Arena my usual party is a Dispelga unit and a Sol with non-elemental CWA x3 and a Yunalesca non-elemental evoke CWA x3 to bypass any remaining cover
Yeah the DV disaster hurted me badly. Because of EX+3 Rikki and Ibara VC I was able to get rank 5 or 6 but then dropped because of the damage overflow thing to 500 in just a few hours. I was so upset and felt like I was robbed of my rewards at the end that I still think the right decision would have been to stop DV right there and kick everyone with perfect score rank 1 out and send rewards out properly. And a sinzar said some top players just dropped immediately so Global team did more hurting themselves as helping same with Addison rae. And I agree with DBarry about the counter nerf but want to add that it was probably even more that people left the game because it was announced after the Zack banner was closed. That means people probably used money on Zack to get his leader skill for Rikku only to get punched in the face after the banner is gone. Being cheated by such a thing to spend money would probably make me quit too if I would have done that.
I started playing during the Valkyrie Profile collab, it was actually how i found ffbe (VP is one of my fav games), and I've been watching you ever since. Without a doubt the most fun i had in the game was when they released Cloud AC, i was having a blast doing all the trials with the cool cg lb cloud. I remember almost crying when i finally got my second fusion sword lol. Im gonna miss your vids sinz, do you plan on doing content for any other game?
I started in May 2016, BEFORE the game officially launched! I quit years ago but came back a few months ago when it was pretty obvious the game was headed towards EOS. I actually really liked the story so I also wanted to see how the story ends. The game went downhill for me once they added Neo Vision rarity. I also had serious issues with the mechanics to many of the fights. Some of the random RNG as DBarry talked about was BS. I sucked at chaining too which made watching clear videos super frustrating when I just couldn't do as much damage. My hot take on Clash of Wills is that while I liked the idea of it, I hated how it became all about the global exclusive units. A lot of them were cool, but they were so busted it completely disincentivized going for any of the actual Final Fantasy units. I'm not a gacha fan, I'm a Final Fantasy fan. I wanted to play BE to pull Final Fantasy characters (including original BE units). The adding CoW effects on some FF units felt like too little too late. It ultimately felt like I was wasting resources pulling for my favorites. Once the gachas I play are all done, I'm done with gacha. I don't regret my time with it and I've always appreciated your videos. This brought back a lot of memories and interesting hearing even a little bit about the development of the game.
Hey Sinzar and all who loved and played this game......what do all of you think about petitioning to have a stand-alone game centered around The Fundamental Forces story arc??? It could be a new Final Fantasy game like let's see .....Final Fantasy Elemental Forces. The main characters of the game obviously would be: Esther (Obviously), Louise, Sylvie, Richt, Wylk and Yoshikiri. You start off with Esther and you end up jumping between worlds. Each contains a party member that joins your party as you save their universe from dark entity. For example Richt's arc amd relationship with Eithne which becomes a boss you fight. Wylk goes into origin of his dragon ancestry Louise and battle against technological evil influenced by darkness. Yoshikiri I don't know some fudalisric Era in past. I realt think the Fundamental Forces arc would make an amazing game! What you'll think? Expand on their skills and make them like a traditinal RPG. The final level all here's combine and become Elemental Forces for the final stage / battle.
Hey Sinzar, it's been a long ride and I thank you! That said, would you be up for doing one more video for people that would like to get dark matter? Dark Matter is one of the only things they forgot to make farmable. The only way to get it is to complete the Morgana unit challenges in the new CoV. Would you be able to do a video showing how to complete the newly NERFED Morgana fight? It's not for me, its for other people who keep asking in the Help Thread and in other threads on the FFBE reddit board.
two times I spent hard on units was KH Cloud I blew 800 bucks on him to get his STMR. the other was NV Elena right after NVs launched. I had over 250k Lapis banked. During the rush to get to NV units skipping over all the Story event units and their free lapis they never compensated us for. there wasn't a thing i wanted except CG AC FF7 Cloud got him on tickets and got like 8 of him with 40 tickets. that guy has haunted me for ages. but NV Elena pissed me off. I went another 50k on her after that 250k because i didn't get my first one until around 260k lapis in i kept getting Cloud the other NV unit with Elena and the other NV unit or no NV units was so mad. No forgiveness no nothing. the Rates for NV units were unforgiveable. as much as i may curse this game and i may still be bitter. but this is one game i am not upset in seeing die off. This game's global handling was one of the best examples of how not to handle a game. So many terrible decisions mad. Once i read the news the game is going into EoS i just removed it from my phone. Fuck this game. I fucking hate gumi. miss the talking to people in disc. actually met a player from WoW that we shared DMs with from 2020. but this game was terrible after NVs dropped and the Rush to NVs. PS the saddest moment of FFBE's Legacy was the day we found out Shaly passed. RIP Shaly.
Ill always miss the old days of 6* era and a bit into 7*. Healer units actually being needed instead of tank and support units doing it in their kit. Units having a much longer shelf life. TMR being long to get but once you did they were well worth it. When 1000 atk was just crazy to see. Orlandeau, veritas of the dark, marie. You three will always stick with me as always being on my team until content out leveled you. BTW how is WOTV going? they still fine over there or also showing signs of going downwards?
on the topic of Real Life Collabs, if they never did the Ariana Grande collab, I would have never given this game a chance. Not because I care about her, but because I thought it was so weird to have her in a FF game that I actually downloaded the game to see what it was about.... So yah, I guess it worked
Same. I saw the ads around 2016 and thought FFBE was a cheap knock off final fantasy brand until I was surprised with news of collaboration with Ariana Grande then decided to give it a chance and ended up playing it until now
Meanwhile I spent a total of 3 dollerinos on the game lifetime, first and only deus collab, and I was one step away from the guaranteed unit... and then the 3 dollars was refunded due to a app bug causing the bundles to list 0$ for most of my region at the time forcing them to refund all purchases because solid consumer protection laws. Wanted viktor, got adam, and adam carried me through all content for ages with that busted cooldown chain. Honestly the game stopped being ~good~ ages ago, but with a bit of source revisionism it could have gotten back there, but JP would never approve such drastic fixes. They simply made game changing mechanics too accessible, which forced them to effectively delete those mechanics. When everyone has 100% evasion, bosses MUST start ignoring evasion checks.... Now we just have a pure dps stat arms race, bigger numbers harder hitting LB's and nothing more. IF square were not square, I'd approach them through my team, and request a loose license to continue the GL server totally separate from JP, allowing the freedom to repair the source formulas while preserving player account progress. While not EASY, all that must be done to regain the golden age experience is to normalize mechanic shifting stats, like for example make evasion ONLY apply to normal attacks, introduce perfect dodge which can avoid all physical attacks, but make sources of this stat NON stackable outside character passives, so only certain characters can achieve 100%. Then create a new damage type for future bosses which ignores traditional mitigation, and keep future mitigation for that damage type in a tamer range 20-50%, with more potential layers of mitigation buffs, while also incorporating this new mitigation into existing buffs. This way enemy dispels will once again hurt, but not result in instant death/forced rebuffing... It would be a lot of busy work mostly not reinventing the wheel, just changing a flat, and so entirely doable as all the core tools are already there. But, fact is square today would rather go bankrupt than admit error. Even if they agreed to a contract, IF I were successful... they would almost certainly refuse to renew the license out of pure spite.
Clash of Wills was good until they lost whoever designed the difficulties of the fight and everything was basic lol. I honestly think things really took a turn downhill pretty apparent and heavily after the passing of Shaly
This video and topic just made me sad. Not going to JP because Global TRULY broke my heart. 300,000 lapis unspent on my account...and I have no desire to spend before I lose everything. What's the point to get that NV+ to max stats if they are ALL being erased? 😭😭😭
Unfortunately this is the territory of gacha games...EoS hits them all eventually...but hey 8 years is a pretty good run. Hope you all enjoy your last days to the fullest. Best wishes 👋
I installed JP to claim freebies on bluestacks with its built in translator but it doesn't always load and the text is SO damn small, maybe I'll try a phone translator. I've been tempted to get into JP fully but with translation and losing 8 years of progress I know I should just put FFBE to rest at the end of October. IF I were to I'd want to take a break first but with the 9th anni during all this now is the best time, which just continues the fomo cycle for gacha games. maybe I'll start during the 10th if things are still going strong, I'm sure some GLB player will make the move to help, play some of the FF games I've bought but never played on Steam
I always gonna Say play last cloudia, it's a great Game with very hard content that have very budget ways to do it But only budget using old unit But with a good build on strategy
I have been playing this with my wife for eight years of our ten years together. We are sad to see it go. We watched Claic, Tek Maki, Howl, Evil Laugh, Guide for Gamers all come and go. We both cried together when Shaly passed away from Karoshi. She would have been disappointed with what happened with the game now. She was the soul of the game and a lot of the good in the game died with her.
Ohhh I forgot about Evil Laugh!
I started off with Claic and Howl as well for a while until Sinzar started doing it better and they kinda disappeared
Her death really was the marking point for this game's decline.
I liked also meetmeonmars, and howlz was first favorite !
Degen tp and guide for gamers, I appreciate, but wasn't a regular...
, everyone did a great job, I liked how each Creator had a thing going...
Evil Laughter ha
Claic infectious energy
Shally monster, we are indebted beyond for your inspiration and kindness
@@huynhvuongviet2410 I have to admit, which i considered bringing it up the past few years but, over the course of her doing the streams i did actually think to myself that it would absolutely suck if something ever happened to her, and then something actually did.. Was quite depressing and sad at the time..
The guy that took her place was a bit too awkward or didnt really fit in like she did.. I pretty much skipped their streams and only watched the upcoming content portion of the streams then stopped watching.
I'm gonna miss opening youtube on tuesday just to see your news review Sinzar
“Hey there, guys..” 😢
This game definitely owes you a big token of appreciation. The fact that this was a game that basically didn't explain itself, we basically needed a wiki page to know what was happening was a huge issue for lots of players, and then comes these unsung heroes like you explaining what's going on and how do mechanics work.
This was a big ride, me and many other players got their content cleared thanks to your guides
It's gonna be weird to arrive home at tuesdays and not see the newsday video, even though there were barely any news lately but still... Wish you all the best, definitely gonna stick around if you post videos with the season 5, I hate that we won't ever get to see that, I love the story, it's the main reason why I stayed in the game (yes even season 3) and I can't wait to see what rain and the team will go to next.
Thank you for your service, and all the best for your life.
yup
The part about story units. The reason the story was good for those units was design philosophy. One of the biggest reasons you could pull at those times was for a units story. They made you love them so you would pull for them. With the introduction of dark visions they phased away with stories for those units because dv was now the reason someone would pull.
"Hey there guys..." is my new ringtone...thank you Sinzar for years of contribution to our FFBE community. We will meet someday, somewhere in another FFBE universe. 🎉🎉🎉🎉 ❤❤❤❤
SINZAR! We need a face reveal on the last day of the game!!! Also the most money I’ve spent on the game was on the kingdom hearts banner. 100 dollars real money I spent just to get sora. Anyways this game has been fun to play and I’ll miss the community. It’s been fun guys
Let's not forget the most insane day when a hacker sent everyone 10k lapis and the game needed basically a day to adjust this flaw hahahahha
I've been playing this game since the begining (sep/2016) and it's my most played game so far....
Miss the days when Memel0rd used to write unit reviews on FFBE blog and when users used to upload their strategies on the Wiki (when the wiki was good)
This game will be trully missed.....
Damn menel0rd is a name I have not heard forever I remember going through his review to figure out mastermind xon (butterfly knife carrying till mid neo vision content)
Big fan of both you and DBarry. 🖤🖤🖤
I’ll miss the “Hey there guys…” videos and want to give you a sincere THANK YOU Sinzar for all the help over the years. Much love dude and I’ll see you in the discord. 🫡
My first banner was Ifrit's raid back in the day. The game brought so many memories. I remember lucking out on Orlandeau as the chaining meta started and I didnt know his power at all and didnt level him. Eventually chaining became the meta and I remember trying out almost every 5star unit's skills together because getting frame data was not a thing and eventually discovered the most interesting combos that worked like Fohlen and Reberta. My most expensive unit was probably the original 2B back in the day as I gotten so many A2s it was insane and pity never existed. She became my mvp back in the Malboro trial and is my proudest moment back then.
Eventually I began to participate in unit design competitions and was excited to be shortlisted in the fan festa (might have been the third one that year) and even booked a flight down to Korea (first time travelling overseas alone) and witnessed it in person. My unit didnt get picked (Ellesperis won that festa) and went home a little disappointed but overall it was a huge memory to see Hiroki and Dah Sol in person and gotten merch signed by them. Eventually I did manage to win a fan festa the next year and made Noppy who came out a few years later as a NV unit. (She was designed back in the 7star era). She was never meta and got powercrept on release which was a shame but I was proud to be part of the history of this game. Thank you Sinzar for doing what you do for the community it was an amazing run.
@@inkcross879 Noppy was really memorable character, though. Great design!
@@dustinairola4301 Thank you:)
7* era was my favorite. I think I noticed game was really going off tracks when we missed NV Cater, and NVA Zile, and especially when we missed big content, like the enhancement point system for very old NVs. I'll miss this game. At least the last few months showed us it was dying, and EOS wasn't a surprise for most of us
These games always die cause the greed drunk corporation kills then - they keep trying to make more money for less effort till they drive all the players away. That’s what happened to me and many others. I stopped playing these types of games cause it’s always the same story.
Thank you for covering FFBE for so many years. I stopped actively playing about a year ago, but I still logged in from time to time and I kept in touch with the game thanks to your videos.
I also took a chance with many other games like Slay the Spire and Across the Obelisk thanks to your videos, so thanks for that too!
I loved the Fixed dice meta.
The units were cool at the time but the concept was awful with setzer. Chain meta was way better
I personally loved the whole 6 star period luneth was still showing up in my fights with tidus till the end
I would like to log in everyday until the end, but I don’t think I have the desire. I loved the game, but it’s time to let go. But I genuinely appreciate all of your efforts, Sinzar. You were the community for most of us.
I was going to but since they kinda sandboxed the game I lost interest.
Yeah, once I was able to 3 star every unit I was working on for so long in the fragment dungeon after the last update, I kinda lost interest. Pulling didn’t mean anything because I had the meta units capped, and there was no new challenging content to use them on anyhow.. I just don’t know if there’s a point to playing even though I have an 7 year login streak that is going to feel weird breaking..
@@NuBFnDrthat’s exactly what did it for me. I’m glad they did it for all of those that desire completion. However, I just realized that most of this games fun (for me), was trying to find ways of doing content when I didn’t have every recommended piece.
I was planning to farm out the event hard but I just don't see a reason when there is nothing new coming to do and anything I haven't will give me nothing of use since there will be nothing more to use it on
Spent 5 hours auto farming to 900k for Esther two Saturdays ago. I want that time back. Deleted the game as soon as Scumi said they’re deleting all player data on Halloween.
Nice listening to this after 4 years of being gone. Being reminded of fun stuff that happened for the 3 years a I played and groaning at some of the bad things that happened. Good hearing your voice again and talk about FFBE. I didn't hear about Shaly's passing until yesterday so still shocked from that. It's a shame seeing the game end with such a whimper but just too many mistakes over too long of a period. Wish you the best of luck in future endeavors.
praise to be yevon
remember bruddas
no machinas, no al bhed
É muito triste pra mim, mais eu quero pensar que eu sou feliz por ter jogado desde o lançamento, as vitórias, as frustrações, sempre compartilhando com meus irmão que também vai jogar até o fim, vou sentir saudades de FFBE
Legal encontrar mais BRs que jogaram o game! Tambem jogo desde o lancamento e é triste chegar ao fim.
A vida continua, as vezes veremos Rain e amigos em uma outra aventura.
Ah, não fique triste porque acabou, fique feliz porque aconteceu...vou terminar esse jogo feliz sabendo que eu consegui fazer um "Ring of Dominion"
Qual era o nick de vocês no Brave?
@@joaomarcoskizen3120 o meu era Vinicius mesmo, eu deletei minha conta quinta, sou Day 1 player.
I experienced the game and was questioned on how did I survived the game without using the boosted units & Rosa. (ff4 event)
I did play the game like how I experienced Final Fantasy in gameboy and it was worth the pain. LOL
Collecting story locked items was painful specially the summons because I can't get a grip on chain mechanic.
The excitement I got when they reveal FF13 CG LBs is so so so overwhelming !
It was a short experience but thanks Sinzar for uploading amazing FFBE content.
I watch it every chance I got and whenever you use ff13 unit is a blessing !
But so I think you'll still upload FFBE JP content so yeah, THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Thanks Sinzar and the communities. It was quiet a ride and thank you guys for the content you provide to make the experience much better~
I havn't played since the leader skill was added to the game, but always loved your videos, and god I can relate to the never seeing a zidane in the first year lol. Also did the same thing with macro farming overnight. Things were brutal back then but god that first year or two were so much fun, really was a great game for several years.
i am gonna miss you guys. good luck on your next adventure
Thank you Sinzar. I kept playing YEARS because of you and your videos. Appreciate everything you did. Will stick around to see where you are heading next
Been playing on & off since the OG 5* FFVII Cloud banner started.
Thank you both for taking us down memory lane one final time, reflecting on the highs & lows of development behind our beloved game.
One small annotation to the point @ 1:38:45 behind Esthers ninja-nerf scandal. While the hotfix was necessary for balance, the official response posted afterwards only further frustrated the playerbase. "Recommending people not to trust unofficial sources of information like datamining" while not EVER providing an "official sources" with similar granular levels of information.
To this day, the community relies heavily on "unofficial" content creators and fan-made databases to learn about the game from basics on unit kits and potencies, to complex mechanics behind CoW encounters vital in team building and strategizing for the fight. However unofficial, still better than nothing official. Save for a vague description in game that wont help as to why a CoW boss keeps clapping your team because of a complete BS mechanic you have no premonition on.
Future community managers take note: It's ill-advised to throw your games content creators under the bus to save face from development oversights.
I remembe😶🌫️
I miss the days when gold stars were useable and using Illusionist Nicol to make any unit a cover tank for specific fights. Up till the end still use 2 grim lord Sakura with their barrage ability since it was rarely if ever a skill that fell under a restricted parameter from week to week
Thank you for all the help and videos and overall your opinions over all these years. I guess my only regret from the game is not making more friends or being more active in the Facebook group for example. Good luck to whatever you all decide to do from now on.
I get that it's a different operation but it's frustrating that JP is still continuing and they can't even justify a GL localization team to just translate that content over.
I want to say all in all that the community would rather give up any GL exclusive units or upgrades and be transported over to JP than to be left out in the cold while they keep the game alive.
Yes and no, data transfers are not so simple, it would cost a LOT to carefully remove all GL custom content from the file sets in order to avoid db errors(items, characters, quest data, story entries, ect), and honestly its for the best that GL players just close the book. Yes I like my collection, but I also know I barely play the game, and the issues causing me not to enjoy it are just as prevalent on JP. If anything GL players are being spared the continued nostalgia milking, for the sub par experience ffbe today offers.
Fact is there are a lot of games out there that are still in a better state, and cost way less to ~keep up with~
@@merphul I absolutely think they should’ve just stuck to translating JP. Gumi wanted to “leave its mark” on the ip instead of just porting it and that was a mistake.
It took the Star Ocean collab to FINALLY give me a reraise option
I first played FFBE back in 2016 when Cloud of Darkness and Cecil were the chase units because good damage dealers and tanks were so rare! Then Hayate and Chizuru were added and players got a taste of power! Then Warrior of Light was the next banner and his tanking skills were impressive because he was the first physical tank to AoE cover! If you didnt have WoL or Cecil; you were stuck with Clyne who did have Cura which was nice for the time!
I remember playing FFBE in late 2017, but I properly started playing in mid 2018 when Deus Ex collab happened. I remember uaing often Viktor Marchenko. There was also UOC controversy with Livid Shantotto and Shadow Lord which people were peeved back then about how GL executed the uoc.
I sfarted also playing JP on the same year where the units I was looking were Summer Folka and Citra and Summer Fina and Lid.
7* era was really the moment I thought this was the weird and balanced era. Then in 2020, NV happened; I got NV Cloud and it was defining to have an NV unit then next week I got NV Rain on a free pull.
I cannot believe this was now FFBE than it was previously.
I might edit this comment to continue my memories about the game
I remember when I quit this game, it was out of frustration of dealing with the various opaque mechanics. When I came back to it after Record Keeper shuttered, it was your videos that kept me playing. Otherwise doing CoW with a huge gear deficit or Dark Visions was a nightmare. I don’t think I can handle another gacha game, but if there’s a game where the gacha is a bit more optional and you can progress fine without it, I would play. Story is king! Thanks for all the fish 😅
39:00 I'm With DBarry, SO3 That was hands down my MOST played game on PS2, it had SO much end/post game content and different endings, fun gameplay. I never got Fate though. I played SOA and loved playing as a 3D Rain Lasswell and Fina before they EoS'ed after 2 years maybe? IMO if they made WoTV more tied into FFBE lore wise both games would have benefited, maybe collab wise too (I played WoTV for 4 years, just dropped it a couple months ago, I woulda dropped 2 years ago but I felt obligated to keep playing once I was appointed Guild leader plus it was a morning time killer daily chore. I won't be making that mistake again)
In terms of financials CoWA was a big hit, but for player morality I think it was the cut content. If they didn't "Global is a different game" it they coulda synced with JP like many mobile games have been doing then make CoW on the synced version.
Honestly crazy looking back at all this. I’m a day one player but haven’t played regularly in 2-3 years. Sad to see it go honestly. Had a lot of great memories pulling for units with my brothers and getting hyped for new banners lol. Game was kinda dead for awhile though so it makes sense.
Guess it finally hit me after finishing your video Sinzar. Glad to have been watching your videos for all this time. Hoping to continue to watch in the future. But with FFBE shutting down so does my time with gachas... Thanks for the memories!
I havent played ffbe in years but i have to say mm xon was my favorite unit and i loved it when he was the meta unless by small chance he still is.
Thanks for all the videos! And sticking around till EoS. Appreciate you!!
Should make a whole video where you and guest just spilling the beans. I believe Elytra mentioned during the Apple outage it wasn't SQEX/Gumi's fault. It's was entirely on Apple but the community was blaming Gumi because they believe Gumi was trying to skirt publishing rates
Sinzar. I am surprised you didn't state the Katy Perry collab as your most disliked banner. Where you had to listen to the music each time you did the quest. "Immortal Flame" was the song. It's permanently etched in my brain. Lol. You should release the video of you listening to the music over and over lol. It was the very first time and last that an actual song with lyrics was played in the game. Honestly it was cool.
I Literally cannot remember the reason why I quit ffbe.
But i to this day remember most of content creators and Sinzar guides that helped me to clear hard fights.
(Googled update schedule and I was playing from Nier banner Aug 2017 to around Dec 2019. I remember White Lily Dark Fina but some units around early Dec looks unknown to me)
I started within the frist couple weeks, I got the free Mech Terra. I was more into MMO's than Mobile games at the time, (FFBE made mobile games replace MMO's as my goto chill out game) so I stopped for a month then picked it back up and never missed a login since the October of the first year (minus a prolonged maintenance or crazy life) I remember using the 3 star Kain and a random team in the beginning. Running an emulator/marco (which got me into using an emu to play mobile games) to farm TMR's because they were so rare and hard to get. Finally getting double cast and making Refia the best healer before AOE cures/esuna. the Troll Rainbow 4 star Cecil when 3/4 stars would come pre-awakened. Tanking Aigaion with the 3 star Charlotte. Getting the OG Orlandeau from a single daily, same with Aileen. Getting carried by a friend Noctis or Luneth. Franticly trying to beat the boss for the free BF unit (which is what got me into watching Sinzar, Gert thanks to you, Claic going Super Saiyan while pulling, a little Holz before the Genshin phase, a little Gonzy) Setting up an Auto lose arena team before missions changed (I tried to do that after EoS but that team was unequipped and I couldn't find the accesory, I heard they changed it's effect anyway) Ramza's buffs being delayed like crazy (which I guess was a red flag all those years ago LOL)
I remember fighting the robot trial when it came out. At first I could not do it, but then I got the original Fryevia and got a friend Fryevia on the team for the fight. Tilith was my healer, I had the same curse so that I couldn´t get a top healer, Tilith was my main healer for a long time. I remember that I drove my wife to an appointment at the doctor and while I was waiting in the car for her, I fought that stupid trial that was way too hard for the time. And it would take me almost 2 hours to do it. The first Gilgamesh trial was another fight that I remember fondly. It was a sweet time, a shame that it couldn´t last a bit longer :(
Another thing that I remember just now is the timing when they released Sylvie. Everyone was waiting for Nicole when they released Sylvie and powercrept him so hard...
Thanks for this video! Definitely fun to reminisce!
Thanks again for all you’ve done for us Sinzar. 🙏
As someone who plays Sword of Convallaria, there are challenging weapon bosses that can be a trick to beat at a level deficit. And some of the 'events' play more like puzzles than straight up brawls.
found you during the storm seeker esther banner gotta say thank you for all the video guides. hopefully we get another game that fills the slot of ffbe
I used to track every pull for the first 3 years, and I was at a 5* rate of 1/200. My very first 5* ever, was Olive
I will never forget back in March of 2022 when we lost Shaly... The way I found out about that was on "Twitter" from her younger brother. That was ironic to me becauseI lost my younger brother on November of 2021.
In regards to gameplay, it was bound to become ore stagnated as time went on. The Neo-Vision + thing was the definitive sign of the end being confirmed because of how forced and lazy the whole PLUS gimmick is (FFBE was not the only game to do this, mind you...).
But yeah, thanks for the commentary and help throughout the years. 'm going to miss the sprite work and potential collars that could of been (my favorites being Kingdom Hearts, Parasite Eve, and Nier).
I actually feel like after losing her is when the game started to slowly decline. I have played since launch and love the game and will be sad to see it go, but it feels like issues gradually snowballed more and more after she was gone.
Really gonna miss this game it was a part of my school life up until now and I'm gonna play until the very end
I hope you don't leave us too sinzar, kamikiro let an entire hole in my little colombian heart, if you leave its going break
Can feel and confirm the pain of not having an Ayaka back then...got lucky back then with LM Fina though, right on the 1st pull
Lol, you mentioned the Gilgamesh banner. That was a black Friday and was also my most expensive banner. I think it was 700 dollars total spent on Lapis packs 😅 Those Genji gloves are were some serious power back then. He's one of my favorite characters from the series.
Dear Sinzar, thanks a lot for all help... I don't know you in person, but i'm felling close to you like a friend. Thanks, thanks, thanks! ❤⚔️💎
Been with ffbe since the start somehow managed to stay ftp since I stopped around the time claic stopped making videos 😅 my most memorable banner was trying to get sora i think I was farming a event because I just wasn’t getting him and only missed out by 100 lapis 😅 good times the time when the games shutdown for a day also etc etc
Goodbye best gacha animation ever! That rainbow crystal feel still the best in all gacha in existence.
I remember many people are criticizing/mocking DahSol for his english but at least with him, he knows the game and did not make a booboo. Alex, on the other hand, mistook Luneth as a girl in a livestream. I always liked FFBE, particularly in the 7* era as my fave units were in that era. Shifting to the NV era made me stop playing the game for a while but I did came back although not passionately playing unlike in the 7* era. Decided to do a firesale of my lapis in Clive's banner and once I got him to EX-3, I finally deleted the game for good. I'm already aware that the GL server is on the path to EoS when they are cutting content a lot so I wasn't surprised when EoS was finally announced. Anyways, it was fun while it lasted.
Dah Sol and shall shall, FFBE odd couple, dynamite says I! I ignored those hurtful comments words because I know our duo was impeccable 😅🚂💪
Thanks for everything Sinzar!
I have posted before about the loss of this game and I honestly did have some different memories compared to others. I originally got into this game thru FFRK and those emails they send out from SE. I actually did not have a phone nor have any knowledge on emulation to play so I played this game on an iPod, the last gen made before they were discontinued and man it was slow. Luckily the meta then was to simply use barrage, but I never managed to pull for one, and Lasswell the free unit was my best unit at the time. I guess ill just keep an eye out for any news to a new mobile FF game and see if im interested in playing, who knows .
I adored this game back in the day it’s sad to see it go I quit on the release of 7 stars. But I whaled a decent bit back in the day I got 2 Gilgamesh, 2 noctis, and 2 onion knight. The best era was 5 star and early 6 star from lightning to noctis.
Thanks all! Super fun ride. And tomorrow we wake up as if from a dream and continue with our lives
7 years on this game. Its sad is gone...
It’s weird but the game really did die when Shaly passed away.
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@@pootispenserhere69ignorant
@@pootispenserhere69 ignorant take.
My worst banner was Nier Automata (the 5 star version). I was living in Australia at the moment and spent 160 AUD I needed for living the first few weeks till I got a job (I was on a working visa).
I'm pretty sure one of the worst guys in the arena was Prickster
I remember the first Reberta with her jump being able to auto chain and if you're lucky she would finish with her jump and i would loved self capping jumper
Hey there guy,thanks for doing it!! Love the dialogue!
All I wish is to somehow sometime, FFBE will rise again.
Private servers maybe, square will most likely just ~fresh start~ another clone title down the line, and it will suffer the same development cycle ffbe did.
I wish along with the final part of Season 4 being on the official YT they'd achieve the whole story (and maybe side stories too) on their YT. I mean an offline version from SquareEnix would be better but video achieve would be easier. I'm sure there are video online of it but on the official YT seems easier/cleaner. no commentary, good quality
I thought that's what they were going to do
Double pity Reberta banner.
Zero Reberta’s pulled the entire time.
The Rydia & Kane banner was the first time Scumi nerfed the $50 shard bundles. The very next week Scumi introduced the 9k lapis lap with a tiny amount of total pulls and 2 pity tickets. Everything was downhill from there.
For Arena my usual party is a Dispelga unit and a Sol with non-elemental CWA x3 and a Yunalesca non-elemental evoke CWA x3 to bypass any remaining cover
Yeah the DV disaster hurted me badly. Because of EX+3 Rikki and Ibara VC I was able to get rank 5 or 6 but then dropped because of the damage overflow thing to 500 in just a few hours. I was so upset and felt like I was robbed of my rewards at the end that I still think the right decision would have been to stop DV right there and kick everyone with perfect score rank 1 out and send rewards out properly. And a sinzar said some top players just dropped immediately so Global team did more hurting themselves as helping same with Addison rae. And I agree with DBarry about the counter nerf but want to add that it was probably even more that people left the game because it was announced after the Zack banner was closed. That means people probably used money on Zack to get his leader skill for Rikku only to get punched in the face after the banner is gone. Being cheated by such a thing to spend money would probably make me quit too if I would have done that.
台灣玩家崇拜你們❤
A.I. Katy Perry ftw! Upgrade package or bust!😂
It all started when they skipped 5* Gabranth
Can we get a face reveal before the game ends of sinzar?
I started playing during the Valkyrie Profile collab, it was actually how i found ffbe (VP is one of my fav games), and I've been watching you ever since. Without a doubt the most fun i had in the game was when they released Cloud AC, i was having a blast doing all the trials with the cool cg lb cloud. I remember almost crying when i finally got my second fusion sword lol.
Im gonna miss your vids sinz, do you plan on doing content for any other game?
I started in May 2016, BEFORE the game officially launched! I quit years ago but came back a few months ago when it was pretty obvious the game was headed towards EOS. I actually really liked the story so I also wanted to see how the story ends. The game went downhill for me once they added Neo Vision rarity. I also had serious issues with the mechanics to many of the fights. Some of the random RNG as DBarry talked about was BS. I sucked at chaining too which made watching clear videos super frustrating when I just couldn't do as much damage.
My hot take on Clash of Wills is that while I liked the idea of it, I hated how it became all about the global exclusive units. A lot of them were cool, but they were so busted it completely disincentivized going for any of the actual Final Fantasy units. I'm not a gacha fan, I'm a Final Fantasy fan. I wanted to play BE to pull Final Fantasy characters (including original BE units). The adding CoW effects on some FF units felt like too little too late. It ultimately felt like I was wasting resources pulling for my favorites.
Once the gachas I play are all done, I'm done with gacha. I don't regret my time with it and I've always appreciated your videos. This brought back a lot of memories and interesting hearing even a little bit about the development of the game.
I'd watch Sinzar do a Let's Play Nier: Automata
I love how the first question is about how predatory the game has been towards it's fans. RIP
The Dark Visions reward cheaters was probably where I lost my passion. I even edited my play store review sighting the fiasco.
To think that if the GOAT gilgamesh didn't pull up, we wouldn't have had sinzar
Hey Sinzar and all who loved and played this game......what do all of you think about petitioning to have a stand-alone game centered around The Fundamental Forces story arc???
It could be a new Final Fantasy game like let's see .....Final Fantasy Elemental Forces. The main characters of the game obviously would be: Esther (Obviously), Louise, Sylvie, Richt, Wylk and Yoshikiri.
You start off with Esther and you end up jumping between worlds. Each contains a party member that joins your party as you save their universe from dark entity.
For example Richt's arc amd relationship with Eithne which becomes a boss you fight.
Wylk goes into origin of his dragon ancestry
Louise and battle against technological evil influenced by darkness.
Yoshikiri I don't know some fudalisric Era in past.
I realt think the Fundamental Forces arc would make an amazing game!
What you'll think?
Expand on their skills and make them like a traditinal RPG.
The final level all here's combine and become Elemental Forces for the final stage / battle.
hurt the heart. i aint think i cared
i do
Hey Sinzar, it's been a long ride and I thank you! That said, would you be up for doing one more video for people that would like to get dark matter? Dark Matter is one of the only things they forgot to make farmable. The only way to get it is to complete the Morgana unit challenges in the new CoV. Would you be able to do a video showing how to complete the newly NERFED Morgana fight?
It's not for me, its for other people who keep asking in the Help Thread and in other threads on the FFBE reddit board.
two times I spent hard on units was KH Cloud I blew 800 bucks on him to get his STMR. the other was NV Elena right after NVs launched. I had over 250k Lapis banked. During the rush to get to NV units skipping over all the Story event units and their free lapis they never compensated us for. there wasn't a thing i wanted except CG AC FF7 Cloud got him on tickets and got like 8 of him with 40 tickets. that guy has haunted me for ages. but NV Elena pissed me off. I went another 50k on her after that 250k because i didn't get my first one until around 260k lapis in i kept getting Cloud the other NV unit with Elena and the other NV unit or no NV units was so mad. No forgiveness no nothing. the Rates for NV units were unforgiveable. as much as i may curse this game and i may still be bitter. but this is one game i am not upset in seeing die off. This game's global handling was one of the best examples of how not to handle a game. So many terrible decisions mad. Once i read the news the game is going into EoS i just removed it from my phone. Fuck this game. I fucking hate gumi. miss the talking to people in disc. actually met a player from WoW that we shared DMs with from 2020. but this game was terrible after NVs dropped and the Rush to NVs.
PS the saddest moment of FFBE's Legacy was the day we found out Shaly passed. RIP Shaly.
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Ill always miss the old days of 6* era and a bit into 7*.
Healer units actually being needed instead of tank and support units doing it in their kit.
Units having a much longer shelf life.
TMR being long to get but once you did they were well worth it.
When 1000 atk was just crazy to see.
Orlandeau, veritas of the dark, marie. You three will always stick with me as always being on my team until content out leveled you.
BTW how is WOTV going? they still fine over there or also showing signs of going downwards?
on the topic of Real Life Collabs, if they never did the Ariana Grande collab, I would have never given this game a chance. Not because I care about her, but because I thought it was so weird to have her in a FF game that I actually downloaded the game to see what it was about.... So yah, I guess it worked
Same. I saw the ads around 2016 and thought FFBE was a cheap knock off final fantasy brand until I was surprised with news of collaboration with Ariana Grande then decided to give it a chance and ended up playing it until now
I remember when sora broke the game for 5 hours straight.
Meanwhile I spent a total of 3 dollerinos on the game lifetime, first and only deus collab, and I was one step away from the guaranteed unit... and then the 3 dollars was refunded due to a app bug causing the bundles to list 0$ for most of my region at the time forcing them to refund all purchases because solid consumer protection laws. Wanted viktor, got adam, and adam carried me through all content for ages with that busted cooldown chain.
Honestly the game stopped being ~good~ ages ago, but with a bit of source revisionism it could have gotten back there, but JP would never approve such drastic fixes. They simply made game changing mechanics too accessible, which forced them to effectively delete those mechanics. When everyone has 100% evasion, bosses MUST start ignoring evasion checks.... Now we just have a pure dps stat arms race, bigger numbers harder hitting LB's and nothing more. IF square were not square, I'd approach them through my team, and request a loose license to continue the GL server totally separate from JP, allowing the freedom to repair the source formulas while preserving player account progress.
While not EASY, all that must be done to regain the golden age experience is to normalize mechanic shifting stats, like for example make evasion ONLY apply to normal attacks, introduce perfect dodge which can avoid all physical attacks, but make sources of this stat NON stackable outside character passives, so only certain characters can achieve 100%. Then create a new damage type for future bosses which ignores traditional mitigation, and keep future mitigation for that damage type in a tamer range 20-50%, with more potential layers of mitigation buffs, while also incorporating this new mitigation into existing buffs. This way enemy dispels will once again hurt, but not result in instant death/forced rebuffing... It would be a lot of busy work mostly not reinventing the wheel, just changing a flat, and so entirely doable as all the core tools are already there.
But, fact is square today would rather go bankrupt than admit error. Even if they agreed to a contract, IF I were successful... they would almost certainly refuse to renew the license out of pure spite.
Is anyone going to attempt to clear out all the shops? Sinzar?? Challenge accepted?😂
Clash of Wills was good until they lost whoever designed the difficulties of the fight and everything was basic lol. I honestly think things really took a turn downhill pretty apparent and heavily after the passing of Shaly
This video and topic just made me sad. Not going to JP because Global TRULY broke my heart. 300,000 lapis unspent on my account...and I have no desire to spend before I lose everything. What's the point to get that NV+ to max stats if they are ALL being erased?
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Unfortunately this is the territory of gacha games...EoS hits them all eventually...but hey 8 years is a pretty good run. Hope you all enjoy your last days to the fullest. Best wishes 👋
Isn’t that Ruggles who is peeking in during Equipment Enhancement?
So the Reddit poster needs tackled.
*insert what about me! here* XD
You doing a live steam tonight to do the official countdown to the end?
I installed JP to claim freebies on bluestacks with its built in translator but it doesn't always load and the text is SO damn small, maybe I'll try a phone translator. I've been tempted to get into JP fully but with translation and losing 8 years of progress I know I should just put FFBE to rest at the end of October. IF I were to I'd want to take a break first but with the 9th anni during all this now is the best time, which just continues the fomo cycle for gacha games. maybe I'll start during the 10th if things are still going strong, I'm sure some GLB player will make the move to help, play some of the FF games I've bought but never played on Steam
It’s fine to hang it up and free up your life. I’m personally relieved that it will soon be over.
im hoping that you find new games to cover because I enjoy your content
I'm just curious, Sinzar, do you have any info from what the JPN developers think of global shutting down?
bring back the FFBE podcast
Did you plan to make a rotation team for clear Morgana ?
I always gonna Say play last cloudia, it's a great Game with very hard content that have very budget ways to do it But only budget using old unit But with a good build on strategy