For WoW refugees. What was not announced?

[Puremallace]

Regarding the WoW subject, please don't behave like an disgruntled ex. Its just silly and leaves a bad impression.
I hop between WoW and FFXIV, like me and my friends we are doing Castle Nathria raid, we are about to be done with the content. They asked me and other friend that played FFXIV back in ARR about it, we didn't go X elements is better than WoW and just spoke about the features and the level of commitment required to play contents.Now we have an army of sprouts that maybe next week I will be able to put then to do FF raids, hope they enjoy it.

And? I think it is helpful for people who are new to Final Fantasy to understand the difference in development styles. It is extremely important for people to get a fundamental overview of how Square Enix is different. That is why I titled this post the way that I did because I PROMISE you anyone who played WoW knows that Blizzard will try and reinvent the wheel since the Ion HazExcuses era started.

They will take the hundreds of hours of work you have put into a system and throw it in the trash or in the case of their last expansion into a literal gear grinder. When Blizzard announced Shadowlands they focused the entire expansion announcement on 5 different systems verses actual content and the results are seriously showing in how many people have unsubbed since launch.

I kept waiting myself to see if Square Enix had learned from Blizzard and they continue to prove they are paying attention. When you have something that works you do not need to throw it in the trash and this allows you to focus on content which has been a major issue over there for multiple years. Here is a difference:

If Blizzard had announced "Island Sanctuaries" they would be locked behind reputation grinds, arbitrary time limits on when new features unlock and all of the Islands would look identical. I do not even need to see the announcement of Island Sanctuaries to know that Square is not going to do that because of the development philosophy of you should be having fun when you log verses feeling like this MMO is a second job.

Also you have to pay attention because Blizzard is on a path they can never get off of without blowing up the MMO and starting over again. So yeah I am watching Square Enix to see if they ever start down that path because I know where it ends no matter how you tweak it.