History Funny / FinalFantasyXIV

** Another recipe shown is Chocobo Cake. The description from Mogria very quickly makes it clear, this is the same cake players use for their MotivationOnAStick method to convince Fat Chocobos to defy all logic and laws of physics and gravity and fly.

** The very first recipe in the breakfast section and the book entirely, is an Easy difficulty recipe for Almond Cream Croissants. Then apparently after that, Gyohan served them to a certain [[AuthorAvatar Wandering Minstrel]], who out of appreciation (or hunger), ''composed and sang a song about Croissants'' and had a certain familiar effect on Gyohan as the retelling of a certain hero's stories about battling epic foes. Cue the second recipe, '''The Minstrel's Ballad: Almond Cream Croissants'', with a recipe difficulty rating of ''Extreme'' and a total estimated time of completion equal to ''29 hours and 30 minutes''. And its written in the style of a 4 phase trial or raid boss guide. Listening to ''The Primals'' music in your kitchen while making this is optional, but recommended.

** The very first recipe in the breakfast section and the book entirely, is an Easy difficulty recipe for Almond Cream Croissants. Then apparently after that, Gyohan served them to a certain [[AuthorAvator Wandering Minstrel]], who out of appreciation (or hunger), ''composed and sang a song about Croissants'' and had a certain familiar effect on Gyohan as the retelling of a certain hero's stories about battling epic foes. Cue the second recipe, '''The Minstrel's Ballad: Almond Cream Croissants'', with a recipe difficulty rating of ''Extreme'' and a total estimated time of completion equal to ''29 hours and 30 minutes''. And its written in the style of a 4 phase trial or raid boss guide. Listening to ''The Primals'' music in your kitchen while making this is optional, but recommended.
** Another recipe shown is Chocobo Cake. The description from Mogria very quickly makes it clear, this is the same cake players use for their MotiviationOnAStick method to convince Fat Chocobos to defy all logic and laws of physics and gravity and fly.

-->'''Saint of Nymeia''': " 'Belts'...? Ah, yes! Those fabled objects that were said to have once help up many an [=adventurer's=] pantaloons! And yet, it is strange. When I try to recall what they looked like, I see them only in silhouette, as if they stood betwixt me and a blinding glare..."

** 2021 Starlight Celebration ([=Eorzea's=] stand-in for Christmas) arrived roughly with ''[=Endwalker's=]'' launch. So when you mentions belts while taking [[PaperThinDisguise Godber]].... [[InsistentTerminology Saint of Nymeia]] into Gridania[='s=] market during his trip for inspiration, the fourth wall gets [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall a bit strained under the weight]]:

** With belts now obsolete as of ''Endwalker'', the tooltips for the former armor pieces now have little stories proclaiming that tailoring had been advanced enough to make belts obsolete. Even more hilarious, the Belts of Early, Golden and Lost Antiquity say they were once sought after, but now worthless because of this.
* 2021 Starlight Celebration ([=Eorzea's=] stand-in for Christmas) arrived roughly with ''[=Endwalker's=]'' launch. So when you mentions belts while taking [[PaperThinDisguise Godber]].... [[InsistentTerminology Saint of Nymeia]] into Gridania[='s=] market during his trip for inspiration, the fourth wall gets [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall a bit strained under the weight]]:

* With belts now obsolete as of ''Endwalker'', the tooltips for the former armor pieces now have little stories proclaiming that tailoring had been advanced enough to make belts obsolete. Even more hilarious, the Belts of Early, Golden and Lost Antiquity say they were once sought after, but now worthless because of this.

* ''[[Funny/FinalFantasyXIVEndbringer Endwalker]]''

* ''[[Funny/FinalFantasyXIVEndbringer Endwalker]]

[[Funny/FinalFantasyXIVLegacyARealmReborn Legacy/A Realm Reborn]] - [[Funny/FinalFantasyXIVHeavensward Heavensward]] - [[Funny/FinalFantasyXIVStormblood Stormblood]] - [[Funny/FinalFantasyXIVShadowbringers Shadowbringers]] - [[Funny/FinalFantasyXIVGentlemanInspectorHildibrand Gentleman Inspector Hildibrand]]]]-]]]

* Also at the 2021 Fanfest was The Primals and Koji performing "A Long Fall", but with four members of the dev team doing a brief coordinated dance number and wearing shirts matching the colors of each role you'd see in a light party. A wholesale reference to [[https://youtu.be/v9QD25nakt8 a meme that saw more than a couple variants]] over the life of ''Shadowbringers''.

-->'''Cloud''': Nice shirt.
-->'''Tifa''': Eyes up here, Cloud.
** In fact, the majority of chat setting previews are in this same vein, making the player out to be a borderline MarySue, while making Cloud look like a grade-A ButtMonkey. For example, the "own/others' synthesis notifications":
--> You synthesize a '''suit of diamond armor'''.
--> Cloud Strife synthesizes a '''boiled egg'''.

--> You hit the Shadow Lord for 9999 damage.
--> Cloud Strife hits the little ladybug for 2 damage.

* During the 2021 Fanfest, Soken came out to sing "La-Hee" [[note]]a.k.a. "Civilizations", the background music for The Rak'tika Greatwood[[/note]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBt4zT_PBmw The result has absolutely no words to describe the outcome]], well, perhaps Keiko, the Pianist, and her [[https://i.redd.it/63oiayze2bz61.png expression]] can give you an idea.
** The fact that he calls it "La-Hee" instead of its actual name, the name he gave it, is quite hilarious.

* In China, one of the cross promotions involved [[https://www.pcgamer.com/chinese-ff14-players-are-eating-inhuman-piles-of-kfc-to-earn-chocobos/ receiving a code for a Fat Black Chocobo mount by eating at KFC]]. The catch? You need to finish a Family Deal for Four[[labelnote:*]]1 Double Chicken Burger, 1 Vegan Mushroom Burger, 1 5-piece Chicken Nuggets, 2 Original Recipe Chicken, 1 2-piece New Orland Chicken Wings, 1 Old Beijing Spicy Duck Roll, 2 Pepsi (Large), 2 Peach Oolong Tea (Large)[[/labelnote]], in the establishment, in one sitting, for one code. People going for the mount proceeded to treat it much like a raid instance in itself, and traded advice on how to best tackle the situation. Someone even alleged that when they went to the bathroom, the found the staff had emptied the table when they came back, and then brought out a fresh order to start all over.

* During the 2021 Fanfest, Soken came out to sing "La-Hee" [[note]]a.k.a. "Civilizations", the background music for The Rak'tika Greatwood[[/note]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBt4zT_PBmw The result has absolutely no words to describe the outcome]], well, perhaps Reiko, the Pianist, and her [[https://i.redd.it/63oiayze2bz61.png expression]] can give you an idea.

** During the 2021 Fanfest, Soken came out to sing "La-Hee" [[note]]The background music for The Rak'tika Greatwood[[/note]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBt4zT_PBmw The result has absolutely no words to describe the outcome]], well, perhaps Reiko, the Pianist, and her [[https://i.redd.it/63oiayze2bz61.png expression]] can give you an idea.

* [[Funny/FinalFantasyXIVFunnyLegacyARealmReborn Legacy/A Realm Reborn]]
* [[Funny/FinalFantasyXIVFunnyHeavensward Heavensward]]
* [[Funny/FinalFantasyXIVFunnyStormblood Stormblood]]
* [[Funny/FinalFantasyXIVFunnyShadowbringers Shadowbringers]]
* [[Funny/FinalFantasyXIVFunnyGentlemanInspectorHildibrand Gentleman Inspector Hildibrand]]

* [[https://youtu.be/gmffV4oKZu4 During an interview at E3 2019]], Yoshida was asked if there was a plan to bring 1.0 back via legacy servers, much like what Blizzard did with ''[[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft World of Warcraft Classic]]''. His response was a simple "NIGHTMARE!"

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* In retrospect, the entire debacle of 1.0 is quite funny. A great summary of all the issues and how badly it was initially handled is parodied [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWIrju3F6nU here]].

** The Stormblood Collector's editions goodies include a Windup [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Bartz]].
--> ''[[Music/SirMixALot I like]] [[IncrediblyLamePun small Bartz]] [[Music/SirMixALot and I cannot lie.]]
*** Also funny is how the ingame mail ends with the message "No ifs, ands, or [[IncrediblyLamePun butz]] about it" Butz being the [[DubNameChange original japanese name]] for the character.
** The Minion obtained from the Alphascape battle is the [[FunWithAcronyms OMG. Flavor text: Weird. Technological. Fascinating.]]

* The release of the 1.0 version of FFXIV had many issues as everyone knows, but one that was Japanese only was chocobos were called "horsebirds" because the outsourcee used it as placeholder and forgot to change it. This caused a massive outcry within the Japanese fandom and eventually they renamed them back to chocobos (the English translation went with "chocobo" from the start). References to the old name are littered throughout the game in goofy ways, even in the English translation, with moments such as the Doman refugees who had never seen a chocobo before referring to them as horsebirds, or one line the Warrior of Light can say during the Stormblood Hildibrand quest that they are broke due to a gambling addiction, betting on horsebirds specifically. Somewhat amusing if you don't know the history behind the term, even funnier if you do.

* A question that everyone had regarding the Regalia, the CoolCar mount from the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' crossover event, was how exactly Lalafells would be able to drive them, considering their diminutive statures. The answer? [[https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/002717.html They stand up in the driver's seat to see over the steering column]]!

* One of the mounts previewed in Live Letter LV was a ''Malboro mount'', with the player being held by one of its vines. It even comes with its signature Bad Breath move as a mount action, with the rider ''directly in the line of fire'' of the attack, causing them to cover their nose to protect themselves from the stench.

[[folder: Other]]
* After the introduction of flying, how does the Adamantoise mount fly? By [[Film/{{Gamera}} retracting into its shell, spouting flames out of where their head and limbs used to be and spinning in a circle]].
* The physics on cloth, capes, and similar fabrics aren't that good due to their frequent clipping and some poofy sleeves don't flutter or move at all. The wedding dress takes the cake where if said player wears the dress and lies down on a bed, the dress will poof out like a tent.
* Some quests actually require you to say something in the /say. The game will check for the key words... but not anything that will give actual ''context'' to the words! Cue players saying either absolute gibberish or something worse, just because the game accepts it. Or [[VideoGame/{{Facade}} Melon]] and watch as it accepts it as a valid 'use' of the phrase.
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