Originally Posted by
gw1fan
Yup. I remember it all.
I remember when OG Diadem was nuked into the abyss from feedback to get Eureka and how Eureka was panned into obscurity to get Bozja and so on. I remember when players complained about how ARR was too long so they cut out a bunch of side stuff. I remember when people complained about job buff/debuff synergies. I remember when people complained about TP and aggro. I remember when people complained about cross class skills.
Is there still a ways to go on "fixing" everything? Yes. Will the list ever truly end? No. There will always be something to have feedback on, and thus there will always be ebbs and flows to community frustration and hype. The main thing, I believe, that has held the wave back until now is that "honeymoon period" and the excitement of a true, modern MMO for Final Fantasy fans. Maybe also the novelty of the job shake-ups, new content experiments, etc in each expansion HW and through SHB. Now that the devs finally feel like they've found a groove, the frustration has set in and demands that the team not "rest on their laurels," whatever that means.