I hope the XIV team feels the pressure

[Rymi64]

I really hope this "big announcement" for 2021 isnt just the expansion and nothing else big along side it.

After cutting out:
(SH=Shadowbringers.)

-Actual zone areas within raids, making them just a platform and a boss
-Numerous trials (16 for ARR, 7 for HW, 9 for SB, only 6 so far for SH)
-Numerous dungeons (18 for HW, 15 for SB, only 11 for SH so far)
-Reducing Map dungeons from 7 floors to 5 floors.
-Deleting/not expanding thief map dungeons for SH
-Not creating primal/trial weapons for GNB/DNC
-Not creating all headgear or hairstyles for Hrothgar/Viera
-Skipping All-Saints Wake Seasonal Event.

-I'm assuming you're refering to 8-man raids and they stopped doing that because people prefer it like this better than having small hallways with trash and then a boss.
-ARR is an outlier here since its the base game so they put a lot of trials from 1-50. And ShB has 7 trials rn not 6 (Memoria misera)
-They reduced dungeons because they originally put a lot of dungeons in to give people more things to do instead of having no content i.e padding but now they are putting those extra resources for dungeons into other areas like exploration zones (eureka, bozja)
-You want to contend with MORE luck having to go through seven floors?
-Covid really do be messing with their progress my guy. Everything got pushed back a bit because of the whole thing that everything is gonna take a bit more time to make (especially since they seem to be getting to their limit for weapon design timings at this point)

So, if the FFXI is capable of so much, it begs to question why the XIV constantly complains of server, system, coding and such reasons as to why they cant balance jobs, release content, or fix existing issues.

You said it yourself that they are different games so they take different server load, system stuff, and this game was built on a code that was pretty trash to begin with. Jobs in 14 are balanced people just don't like how some play vs others and some people don't care about balance and just want a job to be fun balance be damned. Plus 11 finished it story already while 14 is still going through its story and adding stuff constantly.

Most likely the big announcement in Feb is 6.0 and some info for it and then 5.5 info possibly