Quote Originally Posted by Miziliti View Post
Ah yes, funny you brought up these things and call them innovation. Yes, they are different from what the core game is, but isn't it obvious that these innovations are not good. Are they popular? No. Do people bother with them? Not that many. If that is literally the sole reason FFXIV is afraid of change things around, instead, they just continue to copy paste the same old formula patch by patch until (7.0?) to be safe; then that means these innovation lacks enough thoughts, plannings, and efforts to begin with. Bad innovation chase your customers away and so do zero innovation. I'm not going to be protective and let SE put FFXIV in a greenhouse because so far what they've come up all failed. If they don't keep trying, the customers will have to move on.
He's not wrong tho. They won't change anything until they find something that actually works, none of that is changing the core mind you. But you can't expect them to keep throwing things into the wall and their suits -bosses and investors- will be happy about it. At some point if not already you can bet those bosses are like " Do what works and bring us those checks" You can only fail so many times before you're told to stop completely.