If the developers announced they would stop adding jobs, would you keep playing?

Yes. I am so so so sick of levelling and sick of it being the content that everything is geared towards. All rewards= exp. ENOUGH gives us more interesting rewards please, and if that means less jobs, good.

“I don’t think we’ll ever get to the point where we want to stop adding jobs,” director Naoki Yoshida told Polygon. “For future expansions, adding jobs is really important. We couldn’t imagine not having new jobs. It’s part of the Final Fantasy series, and everybody loves jobs.”

https://www.polygon.com/2017/6/2/157...hida-interview

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Originally Posted by lolicon09

“I don’t think we’ll ever get to the point where we want to stop adding jobs,” director Naoki Yoshida told Polygon. “For future expansions, adding jobs is really important. We couldn’t imagine not having new jobs. It’s part of the Final Fantasy series, and everybody loves jobs.”

https://www.polygon.com/2017/6/2/157...hida-interview

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Though the interview is three years old now I agree.

The reality of a MMO is that FFXIV 7 years old now and starting on it's final leg of the journey. I wouldn't be surprised if SE is already thinking and developing it's successor. I'm pretty sure the devs would love a new game engine and netcode to work with and fix the short falls that FFXIV has.

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Yes, I am optimistic. I also don't try to claim how much work force allocation are there for each section of the development team. Finally, it's also your opinion that they are not currently handling it well. I think they're just doing fine.

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Well, I think they are doing an absolutely terrible job. I've been an AST main since 3.0 and I never felt more discouraged to heal. And tanking is boring. In FATEs or dungeon trash pulls I literally just use AoE #1 followed by AoE #2. That is not good design. And I'm not optimistic. The last few changes have seen to that.

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Well, I think they are doing an absolutely terrible job. I've been an AST main since 3.0 and I never felt more discouraged to heal. And tanking is boring. In FATEs or dungeon trash pulls I literally just use AoE #1 followed by AoE #2. That is not good design. And I'm not optimistic. The last few changes have seen to that.

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or DRK's aoe 1 untill level 74

As long as they continued to put out awesome story like they have this expansion not only yes but heck yes.

A new Job / Race is a lot of work. And it's works every patch because of new gear sets and balancing. I would gladly take more content IE 2 EX dungeons a patch vs 1, or something to drive people to open world content.

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Well, I think they are doing an absolutely terrible job. I've been an AST main since 3.0 and I never felt more discouraged to heal. And tanking is boring. In FATEs or dungeon trash pulls I literally just use AoE #1 followed by AoE #2. That is not good design. And I'm not optimistic. The last few changes have seen to that.

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I'm sorry to hear that. I do main a DRG and I am currently happy with it. I was also OK with the AST when I was levelling it up. I do hope you get the changes you want. I think the changes you want can still come with new jobs being brought in.

I'm in a weird position where I don't play much due to lack of overall enjoyment with the game right now. I actually enjoy leveling up a lot and I feel like getting all jobs from 70-80 went by a LOT faster than 60-70 did - even with the addition of 2 new jobs. So my answer is probably still yes, if they don't make the parts of the game I like even more scarce.

But, I have to admit if they don't add a full nature themed job and then announce no new jobs... I'll probably stop. It's the one theme I want to play most of all and it's been discouraging to not have anything happen in that department - and to have what little elements existed stripped from WHM.

I've been a WHM main since 2014. New Jobs are fun to play around with but I don't need them.