Unpopular Opinion: SE Is Not Obligated To Add New Jobs Every Expansion

Basically what the title says. While new jobs are cool, if 7.x expansion adds no new jobs that wouldn't be the end of FF14.

They aren't obligated, but they have set a precedent for it. For that reason alone it wouldn't be surprising at all to see some disappointed players should new jobs not be added with an expansion.

They have already warned us that while they'd like to, they can't keep adding new jobs forever.
And iirc they implied that in 7.0 or 8.0 they might move to 1 new job per expac.

I'm fine with them not adding jobs after 6.0. At a point, it simply becomes too annoying to balance everything, plus, theres only so many themes.

I'll go even further: SE doesn't have to add new buttons to every class every expansion.

New skills, sure, but the total number of buttons doesn't need to keep increasing.

I've recently made the decision to minimize the number of jobs that I play (ideally to one, but I'll play two if I feel that it'll work better for me that way). So I'm not concerned if they ever stop adding a new job, and might even prefer it since that's less of a chance of being tempted to try out a new job.

That said, a new job is an easy way to gain interest for a new expansion, but if they do it right, they can also thrive without adding more jobs.

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Originally Posted by Equitable_Remedy

I'll go even further: SE doesn't have to add new buttons to every class every expansion.

New skills, sure, but the total number of buttons doesn't need to keep increasing.

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And some current abilities need to be combined with each other (like Blizzard II being changed to a long range spell and evolving into Freeze)

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Originally Posted by Equitable_Remedy

I'll go even further: SE doesn't have to add new buttons to every class every expansion.

New skills, sure, but the total number of buttons doesn't need to keep increasing.

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Has the number of buttons really been increasing? They tend to prune out old skills and then add new ones, as well as started having upgrade skills replace older/weaker versions on the hotbar. I haven't felt that the number of buttons pressed have really been increasing with each expansion. But maybe I haven't really notice.

i feel like this is a none issue//.... Like i have not seen one person say it was an obligation.....

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Originally Posted by Delis

Has the number of buttons really been increasing? They tend to prune out old skills and then add new ones, as well as started having upgrade skills replace older/weaker versions on the hotbar. I haven't felt that the number of buttons pressed have really been increasing with each expansion. But maybe I haven't really notice.

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I haven't really noticed much of a difference from Stormblood to Shadowbringers, but from Heavensward to Stormblood there was...a lot to process with some jobs.