This is getting ridiculous. (Endwalker MSQ and post MSQ spoilers)

[FrogDog]

This is not why we play this game, maybe you found the wrong game to play.

Is this a joke? Do you maybe mean the royal "We" here, because you're not speaking for a lot of people.

People find different interests in this game. It's an MMO and it's designed to cater to as many people as it can. For me, the game is glams and housing primarily.

[Kaurhz]

I literally said at least anti tower isn’t the same patch, meaning idk about the other one. You need to fully read my full post as well, do what you preach please. As far as doing my research adequately enough, it’s the fact that that was the first expansion of the game. This is the 4th. We should be seeing improvements in regards to things like this. Less reusing and more unique sets. Yes perhaps budgeting is the problem but then we need transparency on this. The fact they’ve stayed silent whilst literally giving us less when the game is making more is ridiculous. We should be seeing upgrades of content not downgrades especially 4 expansions in. The devs need to actually speak to their playerbase about budgeting issues if that is the case. Like, they literally reused a dungeon theme for an expert dungeon this expansion. I don’t recall them ever doing that before, and to do it in this expansion, the expansion after the one that broke record sales, is beyond insane.

Oh Jesus Christ, no you haven't

HW reused the Level 136 as Dravanian i195 (Aery > Anti Tower). Similarly and more appropriately they also reused the gear from Dusk Vigil as the i145 crafted gear.

I've taken the liberty of highlighting the key point. The point here was they've reused gear extensively in the same expansion, as well as the same patch.

Uhm you do realise that the latter part of my argument both are the self-same patch. Ishgardian Monastic Cyclas and Chimerical Felt Cyclas were both released with 3.0. Either read my full post or do the research before you reply.

I've once again emboldened the keypoint here. Do note that Monastic Cyclas is Dusk Vigil (LEVEL 51), and Chimerical Felt Cyclas is 145 crafted. Both in the self-same patch.

Openly talking about budgeting issues is essentially criticizing the company/organisation you work for. If stuff like that is routinely done then you won't remain in employment very long in the vast majority of places. Many themes within this game also appear within previous Final Fantasy titles. if you didn't know that.

You need to understand that whether you like it or not asset reuse is just a normal thing, no matter how extensive of not. It's a means of keeping development costs down, in addition to ensuring projects adhere to strict deadlines, which in the case might not necessarily be a possibility if they aim to never reuse assets. It's just a natural thing. Ultimately Square Enix is a business, if they can cut costs without a severe detriment to quality (I know melodramatic people on the forums think it is severe), then they will do so.

Besides, whether you want to admit it or not COVID-19 still remains an excuse. The game was being developed in an unforeseen time. If you don't think COVID still impacts peoples ability to work then you're living under a rock (Perhaps not to the same detriment, but if people catch it, or are in contact then that's a detriment to productivity or a complete temporary stoppage to the work carried out by that employee.

Call it a weak mans excuse all you like - My response to anyone with that mentality is to stop living under a rock, to be honest.

[KizuyaKatogami]

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Oh jesus christ, yes i have learn to read. I didn’t denounce your other claims, i literally only said the anti tower one wasn’t in the same patch, your other claims are correct yes. The devs themselves stated before the 7 month delay they were working at 95% efficiency. They then took the 7 month delay, to account for any covid setbacks so no there is no excuse, you stop living under a rock and trying to defend shitty practices with horrible excuses lmao. Covid this covid that. Content was missing in Shadowbringers before covid was even a thing. What are you gonna blame that on? I understand reuse is a natural thing, i’m not saying don’t reuse at all, but i’m saying as we get deeper in expansions and the game gets more popular and rakes in more money, we should be seeing an increase in quality and quantity of content. We’ve seen a downgrade in both over the last couple of years. Even before covid existed. So please, stop using it as an excuse.It really isn’t one at this point especially in this day and age where we have wonderful TECHNOLOGY.

[Katie_Kitty]

This is the one major, major problem I have with Endwalker. The glam is garbage honestly everything is just recolors of recolors. Nothing new or interesting here at all, for a game like FFXIV to release an expansion with zero glamours like this is kind of ridiculous.

[Fredco191]

That doesn't really bother me too much.
What does bother me is the fact that we still can't use (non-artifact) DoH and DoL gear for glamour (on DoW and DoM gear) like we can with HW and ARR gear.

[Floortank]

Funny to see a person who raced to fantasia into male viera complaining that we got reused gear models in dungeons.

It's been spelled out to you a million times. Development is not a money issue, it is a time issue. Throwing more money at the studio will not make them magically able to produce all the content you think should be there the moment you think it should.

[pyxls]

There's so many dungeon and raid(looking at you mostly, ivalice) equipment I would love to dye. Having them undyeable is a massive crying shame and limits glamour options. Come on squeenix, support fashion wars!

Also... I'm not surprised a lot of the crafted 81- 90 non-bis EW stuff is just recycled gear from SB/ShB.

It's terribly disappointing.

[Kaurhz]

Oh jesus christ, yes i have learn to read. I didn’t denounce your other claims, i literally only said the anti tower one wasn’t in the same patch, your other claims are correct yes. The devs themselves stated before the 7 month delay they were working at 95% efficiency. They then took the 7 month delay, to account for any covid setbacks so no there is no excuse, you stop living under a rock and trying to defend shitty practices with horrible excuses lmao. Covid this covid that. Content was missing in Shadowbringers before covid was even a thing. What are you gonna blame that on? I understand reuse is a natural thing, i’m not saying don’t reuse at all, but i’m saying as we get deeper in expansions and the game gets more popular and rakes in more money, we should be seeing an increase in quality and quantity of content. We’ve seen a downgrade in both over the last couple of years. Even before covid existed. So please, stop using it as an excuse.It really isn’t one at this point especially in this day and age where we have wonderful TECHNOLOGY.

You do realise that content 'missing' is because those development resources are poured elsewhere. Firmament and Ocean Fishing are prime examples. Those aren't just pulled out of a tinfoil hat and magically produced. This argument just comes down to preference largely (Oh well I like Deep Dungeon, but I don't like Bozja, or vice versa), and if they were to continue release the content just because "was there last expansion" - Then that's just a recipe for stagnation. If they released another Deep Dungeon and it failed to innovate on previous iterations beyond renaming pomanders, or adding in new magicite then it would just be for the sake of routine. - It's like, do you feel they're just pulling Island Sanctuary out of a hat? No that's just content being introduced at the expense to content elsewhere in the game. I feel like if they just released another deep dungeon just cuz, or kept to the same routine of dungeons and didn't introduce the large scale delubrum raid with savage difficulty, nor the 2 other raids we got alongside of it then this argument would very quickly turn the table of going from:

Well they're cutting content > Well it's the same old expansion and no innovation. This development team in the past has been criticised for their lack of risk factor, or for their stale routines, it is an argument that I agreed with, and to be frank they innovated content a little more with Shadowbringers.

I'm not going to blame that on anything, I'm just going to tell you to stop selecting content areas that have been cut whilst subsequently ignoring areas where content was added, or new. It's a disingenuous outlook to have, whilst removing many of the merits that came from it. I guarantee you if they just maintained their standard format/routine, then this thread would not be created by you. But in it's place a new thread would have been established criticising developers for their lack of innovation/risk. They took a massive risk by trading off content from previous expansions to develop relatively entirely new experiences, and something they can innovate on going forward, as they did learning from Eureka to produce Bozjan Southern Front / Zadnor. They've already openly admitted that not producing a Deep Dungeon didn't produce their expected outcome, and would you look at that, they're producing one for Endwalker.

[KizuyaKatogami]

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I’m not even talking about things like deep dungeon or bozja. Even things as simple as voice acting in the alli raids and trial series was missing. Primal weapons for Gnb and Dnc were missing. A second pvp set. An end of expansion set.

Funny to see a person who raced to fantasia into male viera complaining that we got reused gear models in dungeons.

It's been spelled out to you a million times. Development is not a money issue, it is a time issue. Throwing more money at the studio will not make them magically able to produce all the content you think should be there the moment you think it should.

What does me using a fantasia have to do with anything? Also yes its a time issue, which can be alleviated by using money to hire more people. Theyve had years to do it. You act like im asking for more content when literally, im just asking for at the very least, us to get the same amount of content we got in previous expansions, aka actual left side gear for the 89 dungeon, an actual unique song for both expert dungeons etc.

[FrogDog]

Funny to see a person who raced to fantasia into male viera complaining that we got reused gear models in dungeons.

It's been spelled out to you a million times. Development is not a money issue, it is a time issue. Throwing more money at the studio will not make them magically able to produce all the content you think should be there the moment you think it should.

Time is money friend.

They extended the release and they're making bank. They can hire more people maybe.