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Sometimes Final Fantasy XIV can fuck off.

Quest said to go to Bloodshore and catch a fish that only comes near the shore at nighttime. FFXIV doesn’t tell you what kinds of fish are at what locations until you catch them, but it marks a ??? for fish that can only be caught at a certain time or with a certain weather condition. All the locations in Bloodshore have one ??? fish, so I figured they all had the fish I needed.

I caught fish after fish at North Bloodshore at night, none of them the one I needed. Then I gave up and looked at the wiki. The fish I needed are at a bunch of Bloodshore locations, but North Bloodshore has a completely different ??? fish with different requirements. Nothing in the game itself fucking told me I was wasting my time—all it said was to go to Bloodshore!

From a post about Scarlet Hollow

“The ghost hunt in Episode 3 was originally more of an active puzzle . . .

“Again it violated the no-wrong answers thing. Likewise, if there was no real consequence to getting things wrong, it would just be solvable via brute force.”

So they made something where you have no challenges and no chance of even brief, temporary failure? Does that even qualify as a game anymore?