FFXIV and SqEnix vs WoW and Blizzard - My Perspective

[Allegor]

And you can't say that "Blizz does nothing" when you look at patch notes and see entire sheets of buffs and nerfs changing classes overnight. If anything, IMHO, Blizz listens to pressure too much. They definitely have their favorite specs they want to play.

Ironically, that's actually one of their flaws. Sure the XIV devs are stubborn in certain aspects *cough* "pure healers" in a game practically designed to be a green dps that happens to heal *cough*, but at least they mostly give their reasonings to why not, whereas in WoW it's either straight up silence or they go up to 11 in what ends feeling like a "careful to what you wish for" situation.

Nobody is ever happy because many of their decision making ends up looking like this:

[Deceptus]

Ironically, that's actually one of their flaws. Sure the XIV devs are stubborn in certain aspects *cough* "pure healers" in a game practically designed to be a green dps that happens to heal *cough*, but at least they mostly give their reasonings to why not, whereas in WoW it's either straight up silence or they go up to 11 in what ends feeling like a "careful to what you wish for" situation.

Nobody is ever happy because many of their decision making ends up looking like this:

It just frustrates me so damn much because you know where the FFXIV devs want to go but they almost always choose the most convoluted way of going about it possible.