Quote Originally Posted by KizuyaKatogami View Post
Here’s my thing though. SB gave us so much content. And it did so without having to cut other content. It gave us deep dungeon, we still had extra hard mode dungeons, we got 4 new relic zones etc. Compare that to ShB. Less dungeons. No deep dungeon. No hildibrand. No allied beast tribe quests etc. And everyone said “oh EW will be better that’s why shb is so low on content.” Meanwhile EW….they’ve now started shoving x.1 content into x.15 because the patch delay is longer now….all for less content?
The amount of gathering and crafting content has been increased a great deal over the last two expansions that StB did not have, ocean fishing and Ishgardian Restoration are the two things that come to mind immediately. Not to mention the addition of two races last expansion and one more this expansion which takes a considerable amount of time to complete. While it also may not seem like very much all new jobs have had to be balanced and new skills developed for which would be 4 more since the launch of StB. Although Bozja is not as large as Eureka it still had to be developed with all its new systems as well such as duels and the large scale CEs. While we haven't gotten them yet there is also Criterion dungeons coming up for us this round as well as a new deep dungeon sometime down the line. I would say that there is less battle oriented content sure, but other aspects of the game seem to be growing.