Future direction of FFXIV

[Mapleine]

It was a great Final Fantasy game and I absolutely enjoyed my time with it over the past eight years.

That said the tale is over, everything has reset and we're still on Heavensward's rather plain end game so currently it all feels a bit empty... Thus we dwell on things! As much as I love this game my biggest pet peeve is the smoke screen a chunk of the community applies to the games issues.

As always the content is good, great even but the spread is just miserable. It is simply unreasonable to try and manage an end game group with four bosses, no dungeons and no other form of content or growth.

I'm also dreading if 7.0 is just another JRPG on the stack with no new starting point or ability reshuffle or other changes. Boom is over and I can't imagine further erosion from keeping both a poor early and late game experience. "Just play these five full length Final Fantasy games while spamming Unleash for 300 hours until Yoshi P says you can have a second button!" cannot be the future. The team is better than this and Square needs to loosen the purse strings.

So personally I am looking forward to new things but I do worry about the future without foundation repair and a hard look at end game. Also, before someone hits me with it: Yoshi P's "you can quit whenever!" has always been PR nonsense to anyone who actually plays. We have caps, we have lockouts, Ultimates need a large BiS grind, houses fall down, etc.

We've been running Cataclysm's end game reward structure since ARR launched and they've never taken a moment to account for the job system either. Eight years later and I still do anything for an alt job.