What does Heavensward actually bring to the table as an expansion?

[Souljacker]

Seeing as how I had a 15 day trial.. and a 30 day free subscription.. and I'm 16 days into my current subscription, it's more than a month. Did I say a month. Perhaps. It's still 'new' to me. But I've played enough content to see a lot of people enjoying it at all levels.

Like I said, go look at your post history. You only have positive things to say about XI and this game seems your desperate attempt to get some of that magic back. You clearly don't like it or enjoy it, you are rude to your fellow players, you are elitist, you belittle others experiences and those who disagree with you and most importantly, doesn't look like you're having all that much fun. Maybe you should take a break. But yeah, good luck with your life, i'm done with you.

If you have only been here ~2 months, then you never even experienced the content we are talking about when it was relevant. Some of us have been here since actual launch, and I don't mean ARR launch. I mean all of it right down to buying Ps3's in anticipation of a game that never came (well, eventually it did but most of us were already settled on PC by then). Once you have played for a year or two and experienced the endgame at different stages, you might have a different opinion. I wish I could go back to being a starry-eyed two month old adventurer instead of the cynical creature the lifetime of this game has made me.

It's better than 1.0 was, in many ways worse than 2.0 was, and overall not living up to what XI was. Sometimes I feel like they just underestimate us as players, running the gamut from calling Firaga Fire II because they didn't think Americans would understand Firaga was an AOE, to dumbing down summons because they didn't believe players could handle complex and dynamic levels of play. This game feels like it was designed for very casual with very short attention span, else very hardcore with OCD tunnel vision that doesn't care about the experience and only the win\bragging rights.

There's very little in between and what IS in between, is just copy pasta. It's copy pasta from other games. It's copy pasta from earlier encounters, and there's so little of it that it's impossible NOT to notice that it's just copy pasta.

Again, all of us are here because we genuinely like aspects of this game and want to keep playing. We are FF fans. But that's all the more reason for SE to listen to our grievances, because we are the ones who kept XI running for over a decade. We are the ones who will keep this game running as well. If they don't address the grievances, eventually we'll just move on and that will be absolute tragedy for the continuing development of this game. They need subscriptions to keep designing content. If they aren't putting real effort into designing that content, the subscriptions will die out and you and those other two month old people will inherit a F2P game with a P2W cash shop and an even more overwhelming army of RMT and bots than we already have.

Think about it before telling people who are having a rational discussion about what they'd like to see changed to quit.