I suppose the long-term goal is to minimize the amount of complainers as much as they can, without ruining the game, its player base, and its atmosphere.
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because the new team isnt really important, they were still building off the old product, there should be a lot of locations, gear skills etc that they can take peices of, you hire someone new to be more effecient. All their progress should be the total of the progress to date. FFXI changed teams and employees a couple times, but they still made the product fairly consistently. Same can be said for multiple games. Long life games change teams a number of times and they are still expected to show progress and synegize with whatever came before them.
I hope the team delivers with 1.18, for these forums, our community and this game, in general, need a healthy injection of content.
Something new is needed to wash away all the "bad blood" that has been circulating about the forums and game for the past few months. With nothing but speculation and broken promises, the community's responses and attitudes made sense, however.
Maybe, if we gamers are given enough of a "game" to enjoy, the debacle that is FFXIV will begin to right itself.
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1.18 will not change much. It will only have part of the battle system changes, it will probably be just the addition of auto-attack. We will see the quest hubs, which will probably give us a few quests similar to the sidequests we already have.
These above are nothing to be excited about as they won't make a big impact on gameplay nor will it bring back players who left.
The biggest part of patch 1.18 would be the dungeons IMO. It will probably keep us busy for a little bit and hopefully provide us with some nice gear as a reward but after running them a couple of times and getting all the reward they have to offer, we will be bored once again and then hopefully SE will have something more for us.
Now if SE messed up the content in 1.18(exp. Dungeons too short, boring or/and don't give interesting rewards) then 1.18 will hurt more then it will save the game as players will lose faith in SE, so they better deliver in June!