Quote Originally Posted by Floortank View Post
I'd rather not derail the thread with an argument. It seems to be a much less substantial expansion to me. YMMV.
While I'm incline to agree, I also think they just simply haven't shown us a lot... Doesn't help that they decided to derail JP Fanfest to promote a fricken' movie...

Really depends what you're comparing though; 4.0 to 5.0? Or including the patches that added things like Heaven-on-High? Just the expansions themselves, they're the same. New zones, new story, new lackluster FFXIII style linear dungeons (I mean that as the greatest insult possible), 2 new Trials... Actually, assuming Rebuilding Ishgard is there at launch as it's labeled as a selling point, 5.0 has slightly more content... Problem is they just haven't shown us anything of it... New races too, even if the community is upset over them, 4.0 had nothing in that regard though... I see that as non-content though, same with New Game+, and probably Trusts if they haven't substantially improved NPC AI from Squadrons...

Then there's the stuff they have mentioned, that presumably comes in later patches. That, again, comes out to the same as 4.x, or even slightly more, and for the most part has only been mentioned, not shown. Though I see no reason to get my hopes up for new Raids, Eureka, Deep Dungeon, GC Ranks, Player Farms, Treasure Maps, more Limited Job content (L. O. L.), etc., when most of that's probably going to be exactly the same, with one slight adjustment... Compare Heaven-on-High to Palace of the Dead; The major addition was naught more than a big room...

As I said, I think this development team needs some new blood with some new ideas... At this point I view a lot of the content as stale, and when you see slides like "Challenging new dungeons!" at Fanfest, one can't help but role their eyes at it... Bring someone new in to work on dungeons, then maybe we can get challenging new ones, until then we have stale old ones, only new thing about them currently is the new coat of paint on the same old corridor...