THANK YOU

[Rekin]

I enjoy the fact they increased accessibility, lowman and solo content, and generally lots of quality of life improvements but what killed this game for me is the soul sucking knowledge knowing that core issues between jobs will never, ever, ever be fixed in a meaningful way. Tanks will never have a true purpose in high end content that isn't essentially bait for trash to chew on. Jobs that aren't in SE's favor will never get the attention they deserve and in the case of DDs the difference in dmg is terrible even when a job is at its pinnacle when against an average to above avg dd who is in SE's graces. The SP2s more or less proved that when an ability like SAM's was okayed even though its basically invincible+5 when RDM gets a gimped ES and DNC/DRG get a gimped Meikyo.

I know the devs are working to retain what they can but for me the crushing despair of knowing that jobs will never be truly balanced and that ancient broken/useless/redundant unique items for jobs will never be addressed killed any desire I ever had to return.
I leveled many jobs, even those loved by SE like SAM but I find no joy, no accomplishment in knowing that even if I played the job terribly more often then not I'll be above the best of lesser dds no matter what. When the current director said he'd stop even bothering to making sure new content that could include all jobs it was large nail in the coffin.

For all its current faults what I praise SE for doing in FFXIV is that the job balance is extremely well done to the point where I am surprised. The kicker, the players told the DEVs how bad one tank was behind another in damage migration. The response was to essentially overhaul the job, a feat that will NEVER happen in FFXI. This is a sad truth.

If you still enjoy the game, great this is a good time to bask in the current content.