On a scale of 1 - 10, how disappointed are you so far with Stormblood news?

[Astyrah]

**rants**

i can see how disappointed you are, but from your previous posts in your thread you seem to want everyone to be as disappointed as you are. not everyone will share the same view

that said i'll give it a 4/10. there are some things i find meh but i will stay positive that what they've shown us so far isn't everything that SB would offer

[Xlantaa]

You had been in the future and already played the expasion. Ok. I want your time machine too.

We barely know anything about expasion. They didn't show anything to make conclusions.

[Reynhart]

It matters to me. I hope viera will be added in the future.

It would still be only cosmetics. You have gear with hooves or bunny ears already in the game, just mirage them

We have a whole 4 months to go before this thing, and they haven't even closed off the 3.0 story yet! We have PAX coming soon and I'm sure there's loads more after that.

You're right, we have plenty of time before Stormblood is released...and that's exactly why they didn't give us all the information. We have something to look for for the end of 3.x, we have something to look for at PAX...and I'd hardly call what we get "scraps". Two jobs, the names of the new raids and a whole new continent is a lot.

[Automedius]

**rants**

Um, no.

People are free to voice their opinions, that's what a forum is for, lol. Also, if you mean 4.x and beyond, then the patience within myself and others is just not there. We'll be sitting here at 2019 with no improvements in either regard. So, no.

[RaizeGraymalkin]

Everything I've seen of Stormblood blows away Heavensward, at this point. Heavensward gave us Dark Knight (should've been a DPS), Machinist (least fun class in the game), and Astro (can't really comment. Cards are neat, but eh). Stormblood gives us Red Mage and Samurai. For me that's a significant edge to Stormblood. Ishegard is icey, bleak, and dreary. Seeing Doma alone makes Stormblood look way more appealing. Omega potentially seems more exciting then Alexander. Ivalice could be pretty amazing (I love all the 24 man stuff though).

"They're disappointed in a stagnant design philosophy and a complete lack at any attempt at innovation. lolzz they're just salty hehe xd"

Please.

Newsflash. If you actually expected a complete overhaul of some kind that's completely on you. They have their formula and it obviously works.

Also the OP does indeed come off as salty. Let's not pretend otherwise here.

[xJimmehx]

How i see the expansion? mm.. Idk about 1-10 but in words..
"They'll come back. They always come back. Please look forward to it."

I guess im probably around a mid 4,5 or 6. I like the thought of sword dps, and we get 2. I wanted other features i didnt get though, so that sucked. Old combat bored me to death in 4 mans and im really looking forward to knowing the combat changes. I think the lack of "unique" content could be enjoyable if they at least fix the older content. Like the gates on everything possible(beast tribes, tomes, timed gathering nodes, hunts, leves, etc) and increase the speed of combat to anything other than a crawl. (When people can play and watch a movie at the same time, game speed is too slow imo - i have fallen asleep on accident playing 4 mans) I actually think doing the older raids and dungeons would be much more enjoyable if i didnt have to lose most of my skills and spend 10 years between each boss fighting monsters that arent even hard, but just huge hp sponges and better reward scaling for your unsynced level.(if you have to sync to a level 27 in totorak and be punished for being higher level for "balance," at least give better exp/gil rewards)

There are some things i do like though and im hopeful. but not expecting too much. Gathering without monsters bothering me sounds amazing. Cross class was stupid. New housing looks cool and is fresh.

Holy cow this thread is moving fast. :|

[MisterLucie]

What things that they've revealed? They've shown us two jobs, a new story setting which includes a whole other continent (legit did not see that coming), some new bosses, a travel mode, a raid theme, and??? That's only scraps, friend. They haven't even shown us the real meat of the deal which is the class changes. We have a whole 4 months to go before this thing, and they haven't even closed off the 3.0 story yet! We have PAX coming soon and I'm sure there's loads more after that.

You know not to judge a book by its cover right? If it gets here and it sucks, fine. Get your "I told you so"s and "BTFO"s in and go to WoW or cry about XI or something. But let's cross the bridge when we actually get there

A) Calm down, meme machine, I'm starting to see steam.

B) Cool, they've told us we're getting new gear, new areas, new bosses (specifically 2 primals, a tiered 8 man raid, and a LFR-esque 24 man to be added in between raid tiers. Sound familiar?), 10 more levels, and a change to how we get around in those areas. These aren't "features." They're a skeleton without meat. Without those things you wouldn't even have an expansion at all.

When your "hype" is the exact same "hype" you've previously had for an expansion which turned out to be exactly how they were hyping it, then how is your consumer supposed to expect anything different? 4.0 is being painted as 2.0 and 3.0 in a different shade.

The only indication that they're even trying to be innovative is the extremely vague "battle changes" which we've been given no information on. It's the only thing giving me any hope that SE actually cares about this game as anything more than a cash machine with which to invest in their other endeavors.

[Automedius]

@Telos

Well, you seem to be one of those people that like the same candy bar with a different wrapper. So, let's say that in 5.0, it focuses heavily on glamour, customization, and crafting; very little to do with battle content since you seem to enjoy that.

Let's not pretend you wouldn't be just as "salty."

[Lambdafish]

For people like me, the minority that only focuses on crafting content, playing the market board, glamour/character content, this doesn't exactly make a huge appeal, ya know? As you know, the expansion falls short in that, which is why I give it an 8.

Did you watch the live letter? Crafters are getting Zhloe content, which will branch out and expand into a major piece of content in 4.0. There is also Eureka, new underwater gathering, and more unique stuff that you have failed to acknowledge. We haven't even see half the information, and you are ignoring half of what we HAVE seen, and shooting it down while you are at it.

@Telos

Well, you seem to be one of those people that like the same candy bar with a different wrapper. So, let's say that in 5.0, it focuses heavily on glamour, customization, and crafting; very little to do with battle content since you seem to enjoy that.

Let's not pretend you wouldn't be just as "salty."

You seem to think that these things are equal on a fundamental design level, when they are not. You can't make an expansion out of glamour and customisation, because these things are rewards, and people already feel strongly that this IS the major reward system of the game, as gear does not hold value. As for crafting, I wouldn't mind seeing an expansion that focuses on crafting and gathering, it would be cool to see how they cater these things to the masses and make them relevant. The problem with this is metrics, in that a very low percentage of people actually dedicate themselves to crafting and gathering over battle content, and it is seen as a side profession to battling, and focusing on it would turn a large portion of the playerbase off.

Let me assure you that you will get new DoH content in SB, the dev team didn't focus too much on the collectable/scrip/aetherial reductions system, but these were brand new systems that changed the way that crafting and gathering worked (for better or worse) and I can see them having just as much if not more new content in SB.

[Senn]

It would still be only cosmetics.

Nothing wrong with that.