February 5th Announcement, Realistic Expectations Thread

[MachaYum]

Realistic expectations:
- Expansion announcement
- Yoshi wearing t shirt hint as usual

Unrealistic expectations:
- character creator improvement
- PS4 support dropped and moved to Ps5
- graphics engine upgrade
- Hempen Camise/Pantalette outfit’s race restrictions removed
- Blitzball
- Viera Male/Hrothgar Female
- Basically anything
- Male races get better beards

I don’t know, maybe I’m being too pessimistic, but I’m just so used to dissatisfaction from the dev team that it doesn’t even faze me anymore...and I just expect it. So when yoshida says “feel free to have high expectations” for February 5, I can’t help but see that as a troll statement.

[Infindox]

No to ps4 support drop. You do realize a significant amount of people not only play on ps4, but have not been able to get a ps5 because of how difficult it is to even get one? I could see it down the line when/if they ever are readly available, but as of now that would cut a huge chunk of players out.

[Wrestlefire769]

No to ps4 support drop. You do realize a significant amount of people not only play on ps4, but have not been able to get a ps5 because of how difficult it is to even get one? I could see it down the line when/if they ever are readly available, but as of now that would cut a huge chunk of players out.

Would not be shocked, would not be shocked if the playerbase cheers it like they did the end of the PS3 support.

[Ranhansha]

I hope "high expectations" means high expectations for Yoshida and not just "Expansion Announcement", cause that would just be late news.
I am really excited about the next expansion, but I want to be hyped about something else. And male Viera plus finishing the unfinished races would be a nice start too.

[Doki]

If it's like the previous expansion announcements, we're just getting a name, and a few starting area photos, before being told to look forward to the digital fan fest for more info.

[Genz]

Blitzball is totally realistic.

But it doesn't mean we'll actually play blitzball ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe we won't even see the match playing ; like airship exploration. They've been able to sell this kind of sh*t for 7 years, they're not stopping now.

and even if by some miracle we actually play, we need another miracle for it to play better than chocobo races.

[Lauront]

I hope "high expectations" means high expectations for Yoshida and not just "Expansion Announcement", cause that would just be late news.
I am really excited about the next expansion, but I want to be hyped about something else. And male Viera plus finishing the unfinished races would be a nice start too.

High expectations = the expansion is being released at all.

But I agree. For "high expectations", I don't just want something like "the expansion will be out a bit earlier", "more glam slots", "2 new jobs" etc. Some of the stuff the OP put under unrealistic, like CC enhancements or graphics upgrades, is what I'd class as "high".

[Shougun]

I've no expectations in general, but certainly what I would call high is not just a title announcement or some hyper vague details. If that's what they do I'll probably just snort and carry on with my day, but that'd not be "high" expectation reaching lol..

Moderate to high is that they release a lot of info, so we have a very strong idea of what to expect, and that it's at least of similar quality and breadth to the other expansions. HIGH for me would be announcement of features I've dearly wanted, and or at least announcement of a number of clearly "we went the extra mile" thoughts. Like personally I don't touch my character in creation that often so it's not something I'd OMAHGURD face for, but it would be clear they were going out of their way if that was announced. But like if they announced stuff I've put in other wish list threads, then I'd probably be like HyyypPPeeeEEeEEeEEEeEeEEeee (airship content that isn't ran off a limited system like housing, transformation based job (normal and or both limited and normal), dark theme'd job, role play concepts added (things that add to the element of something existing, like jobs having extra fluff to their theme, environments doing a little bit more to make that "aw that makes sense vibe", I've posted it on before but my most generic examples would be why the world does dragoon take fall damage or why does every monster have to be our level and or also aggro us), etc.

More of the same isn't them doing nothing, I'm sure they work hard to do just that, but we're just talking in the sense of what each person considers low medium high lol.

[Chie_M]

Realistic:
- Hrothgar don't need to use Fantasia to change hairstyles (lol who am I kidding?)

Unrealistic:
- Viera and Hrothgar can now wear hats

[MonsutaMan]

The only unrealistic thing from that list, imo.....Is PS4 support being dropped due to how much money SE lost to that crappy Avengers game.