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The game is about six years old. Relative to the game's life, yeah, it is a long time. Also, we're talking about a video game here. It should not, EVER take YEARS to defeat ONE monster. As moronic as getting things like Relic weapons is, it is still a working progress. Where is the progress here? Again, are you going to sit there and say, without a shadow of doubt, that it is the PLAYER'S fault here?
Progress here comes in the form of finding things that don't work. As the adage goes, once you rule out the impossible, whatever's left has to be the truth. Sure, it's a long winding road, and many of you probably think that you'd have to be stupid to try to travel it. The obvious solution? Don't travel it. Just don't go trying to claim the glory for yourself the day that someone else finally figures it out.
As for you saying it shouldn't take years to figure out a mob, well... that is what we call an opinion. Everyone has one, yadda yadda etc
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I'm skipping the Utsu part, because it really is irrelevant and just padding. Okay, going by that line, why wasn't Bahamut given protection a week after it was done so there wouldn't be an uproar? How about Kirin? Why wasn't it nipped when the strategy first started? More importantly: Why does it still work on the ACP boss? Only AV is singled out. Its been months since PW was beaten. If they're both supposed to be ultimate challenges, how come PW hasn't been changed as well?
Because even if you did make Souleater not work on Bahamut/Kirin, they can still be zerged down fast even without it because they lack the ability to kill your frontline in the blink of an eye or restore itself with infinite Benedictions. That, or SE just doesn't care so much about those guys. Take your pick. I still think it's embarrassing for Bahamut to be taken down in 30 seconds no matter what the method, but whatever.
And I thought the Seed Crystal did resist Souleater?
After the whole PW "whoamg 16 hours" uproar or whatever it was, they felt they needed to strip its Puzzle Boss status to avoid any more bad publicity, most likely.
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First, about the video: What do you call something that was replicated in game and resulted in nothing?
The video time warped all over the place and clearly didn't show the entire fight. How exactly do you replicate something like that perfectly?
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Seriously, if this wasn't Square, or Final Fantasy, would this kind of thing happen?
Well, yes, considering that this is far from being the only game with a challenge boss that people have difficulty with. I'm pretty sure even WoW has had some similar boss, but don't quote me on that.
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You tell me, you brought them up. What made telling us about the drinks and avengers, relatively minor aspects of the game, important enough to reveal? Why not give a real tip that nudge us in the right direction? No, the video was not a nudge. Like I said, we did that. Exactly.
Because they are trivial. It's clear that SE likes to keep us guessing on as much stuff as they possibly can, and AV is pretty much their culmination on that. Also, no, you didn't copy the video exactly. Nobody can do that because the video timewarps and leaves too many gaps.
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There is a difference between wanting easymode and wanting proof something is possible. We have TONS of testing to show that, so far, it isn't possible.
You cannot prove something like that. You can only say that what you've tried so far hasn't worked, which is not the same thing.
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At the other end, all we have a fractured video created by the programmers who are in charge of the game's coding, saying otherwise.
Uh huh, and you believe that they would have gone through the trouble to make that if it was a joke mob and wasn't supposed to be beatable at all? That's something I could see a company like Blizzard doing for the lulz, but not SE.
People writing off the video as "fake" to me are just conspiracy theorists. Call it vague if you wish, because it certainly is.
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Yes, there is text for when AV dies. Yes, there is a drop pool. You know what else is in FFXI? Gear for level 80s. An animation for when you reach Rank 15 in all three nations. By your logic, that stuff proves they are obtainable in game as well.
The means for obtaining any of those things are (to our knowledge) not in the game. AV is in the game, he has been beaten (even though he was patched), I know people with the title and the drops. Just because you aren't good enough to figure out how to win does not mean they are as nonexistant as level 80 and rank 15.
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Not nearly as ludicrous as people who insist the playerbase is just too dumb and refuse to come up with their own strategies to help to prove that it is beatable. We have done the tests, we have eaten more dirt than an earthworm. You read some text, and offered no theories of your own ...
Mainly because my whole point here is
1) I don't care about beating AV
2) I believe that making beating AV your (apparent) life goal is pretty pathetic
I'm not really calling people "dumb" for not being able to figure AV out, because it IS quite an enigma. I'm calling them dumb for blaming SE for their apparent inability to do it. It's meant to be a challenge, period. Don't be ashamed to admit that YOU weren't good enough to figure it out, that's all I'm saying. It's not like you won't be in good company.
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We can already throw out the text and drop table: There are a ton of things in the .dats that aren't obtainable in game.
They are only unobtainable because they are not on the drop tables of any existing mob. Not quite the same thing.
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Here: You come up with an untested, and feasible theory, to defeat Absolute Virtue.
If I cared about being an AV "pioneer", maybe I would. Only I don't. All I care about is putting "WAHHH I'M NOT GOOD ENOUGH THEREFORE SE SUCKS" whiners in their place.
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Pissing off your customers is not good business sense.
Keeping them playing is good business sense, period. Their "feelings" are honestly rather irrelevant to them. We see people complain about things like NM drop rates all the time, but how often do you see them quit over it? Most of them continue to camp the thing like sheep until they get their precious NM drop.
