We covered hopes for 5.0, but what are your fears?

[WellFooled]

The same old treadmill.

This is it for me. If big overhauls in the formula are going to happen, expansions are the best time. My greatest fear is just...more of the same: "Here's the new 8 man raid, here's the new 24 man raid, here's the new tomestone (Its a different color!) here are the new zones that look pretty but don't have anything happening in them, here's the new race that's a human with animal ears, here's the new beast tribe, here's the new FC vehicle (that only one person in the FC actually makes, but drags 3 others into the workshop to be warm bodies), etc".

I wanna hear something like, "In addition to our usual additions, every patch in the 5.x cycle will have a totally different focus!

5.1 will be Open World themed with an overhaul to the FATE, Hunt, and Treasure Map systems to make them more varied, engaging, and rewarding. In addition to totally new content in the open world, such as a variation of FFXI's Besieged! Beast tribe armies will gather and then assault capital cities. Work to slow down their war machine ahead of time with new daily quests and objectives in the zones of Eorzea and join with hundreds of other adventurers to defend the Eorzean Alliance capitals when they do launch their invasion!

5.2 will be Gold Saucer themed, with huge updates to the Saucer including new GATEs, new mini-games, new Chocobo Racing tracks and abilities, new TT rules and card de-syncing similar to FFVIII, Blitzball with recruitable npcs/equipment/abilities/PvP and PvE matches, the Battle Square (with everything from casual to hardcore difficulty levels and rewards!), and a slew of new MGP rewards!

Other patch themes to be announced in future live letters, stay tuned!"

And gosh darn that isn't what this thread is all about, but I got caught up in my hopes again ><

[Heliantheae]

Some kind of dues ex machina ass-pull that makes everyone survive. I'm okay if everyone lives, just make it feel earned or whatever.

And for that matter, a really bad DRK story. People say the Lv50-60 arc is bad, but that's just in comparison. It's still really good for a class story. If something does happen in the next couple of patches and it's not capitalized on, I don't know.

And for gameplay, it's been said over and over again. But more Eureka. I'm still in Anemos. Even putting Makoto hair isn't going to get me back in there. The Anemos SCH book looks really good, but again not enough to get me in there.

And not a break it for me, but it taking seven weeks to get one weapon. There's 15 jobs. Up to maybe 18 in 5.0. Gearing up just one class is slow and/or tied behind RNG. It's been five years of the same thing.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

diadem/eureka type content
locking hairstyles behind RNG

Honestly, I'm worried for more RNG in general. It feels exceptionally obnoxious lately.

[AppleJinx]

Server limitations.

[Taebok]

Threads like this one where everyone asks for all the same type of things that ruined World Of Warcraft

[Soge01]

No updates for glamour plate system. Why is it so hard to up the amount of both plates and glamour items you can store every few patches?

[Belgianbeer]

These things are connected if not partly similar.
· Things being overly telegraphed with the same patterns...again....and again... and again... and... oh you fell asleep and your team wiped.

· Dungeons were every single run is in essence identical.

· Map design which is practically just squares connected by corridors.

· All in all I want to see some content where you have to do more than spam your rotations. Interweave traditional dungeon mechanics with jump and run sequences, bullet hell moments, puzzle solving, some inspiration from mini games a la Mario Party and so on.

I guess the last one is more of a hope than a f... oh wait my fear is that my hope gets unanswered.

[TwistedTea]

1. More garbage content like Eureka, where devs lock as many cool rewards as possible, behind such content, to incentivize players rather than creating content which is actually enjoyable.
   
   Also, players who'll grit their teeth and endure through garbage content because of rewards thus contributing to 'positive numbers' for trash content.
   
   
2. Mobile p2w/pay for convenience elements being incorporated into the game,like premium kupo nuts/additional retainers etc
   
   More Mog Station only items when they could have easily been put in/earned in the game.

[MintnHoney]

1) I fear that Squeen will continue to find reasons to work less on improving their content rather, in favor of slowly releasing new content over time, rather than trying to find a way to do both in a timely manner (as was promised).

2) I fear that Squeen will continue to view this as a traditional Korean MMORPG like Granado Espada (but without the great fashion and sense of exploration) and add in more grinding unnecessarily.

3) I fear that Squeen will continue to produce content that dissatisfies many of its customers.

4) I fear that Squeen will slay.

[dotsforlife]

That they'll keep reusing existing mechanics for fights and release less content per patch.

I fear they'll listen to comments like this one and keep the game bad. Having gear that is entirely obsolete every 6 months is a bad idea. Why keep playing if I can just buy better crafted gear every other patch?

I'd quit playing entirely until I had something meaningful and lasting to work on.

MMORPGs with the typical holy trinity roles might not be the genre for you then.