Originally Posted by
Palladiamors
I didn't really dive into the forums back then so I am curious about who 'You' was in relation to his quote and what exactly they asked for. The reason I ask is because the two minute meta doesn't feel organic, it feels like purposeful homogenization done to more easily facilitate balance changes in the future. I feel like the communities asked for buff windows to line up better and the devs response was to break the entire system to replace it with the current.
If I had to wager I'd say XIV is starting to enter maintenance mode. No, not that it's dying, just that they are starting to settle on more simple systems that are easier to adjust and are thus less time intensive. Every MMO I've seen that's lasted more than seven or eight years starts to do this and only WoW has gone back on it at a later date.
With that being said, both systems have been tried now so they should have some consensus on which the communities like or dislike more. If I had to wager then I'd say come Dawntrail XIV will have it's long term system in place and judging from Yoshidas comments it's probably not going to be the two minute. Then again he could be exaggerating the changes in Dawntrail or that particular system may just not be part of it. We'll find out.