I feel like there'll be a lot more people moving on, unfortunately. Not saying the exploration zone won't do some good, but expecting it to be THE saving grace it's being hyped up to be will lead to way more disappointment.
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Lets not forget they also had to do an emergency maintenance, because people were dc'ing out of the instanced scenario.
Too little, too late indeed. We're basically going to see this content when 2025 is wrapping up LOL.
That said (and sorry random rant), my problem with it is... Exploratory whilst I see value to the game, is their 1-hit-wonder, most of their other content just falls flat, and beyond a certain point, that 1-hit-wonder will be used so much and so repetitively that what was once excitement is just going to be apathy. Same issue that Deep Dungeons had to a degree.. At a certain point it's the same piece of content today, what it was 5 years ago with a fresh set of paint.
This is my biggest fear with the next exploratory zone, to where I don't know if I should be excited for it, or if I should be dreading it.
Speaking of the exploratory zone, did they ever explicitly state that the first zone is in 7.25? Bozja technically started in 5.25 with a solo duty and EX trial, but the Southern Front didn't actually come out until 5.35.
Honestly are they even trying at this point? Did Square Enix fire their QA team? Completely pathetic that they can't even get a mini-patch done right anymore.
I'm sure they did somewhere in Endwalker actually, quality control took a nose dive. For me the deal breaker was the ungodly amount of repeating textures in Labyrinthos and a whole cave with literally nothing but repeating textures. I saw some islands in ultima thule flickering in the background...
In DT I just see texture stretching, things not lining up that would be obvious had ONE person did a quick walk through the area. I wouldn't be surprised if alot of AI might be integrated into their work.
They're just too overworked with making viera and hroth hats guys, give them some slack come on, we need to be understanding, it's been 6 years now they're working hard on it.
You guys better stay and keep playing this slop so I can milk more money out of the playerbase while I'm playing better games like Metaphor