I feel like 7.0 will be quite the milestone

[Minthe]

These are all good points. I just really want them to fix up and improve the character creator and add new faces, makeup (also allow more than one makeup option to be applied), skin colors, hair colors, longer hairstyles, better beard options, letting us change our eyebrow color separate from hair color, eyebrows in general for our highlander men, tbh my list could go on and on lol.

HOWEVER, I do understand they're coming out with fem hroth soon and our F/M Viera and M hroth still need lots of attention, but I'm really hoping they fully focus on customization soon, even if we have to wait till 8.0 or whatever. That's something this game desperately needs to update. Even if they decided to do a little bit at a time, just somethingg

[AnnRam]

If they are going to repeat the same formula again for 6th time already but without the strength of the MSQ/Story which was 99% of this game had to offer ( from ARR - > EW to resolve the ascian thing) then they are going to struggle really hard keeping numbers high.

[Rufalus]

It all hinges on being profitable for SE. The 10 year promise or whatever it was for the next ff14 expansions is absolutely worthless from a company that has just shut down 3 (4?) games promised to be long lasting, multiyear experiences after around a year each. They will try to rework only what is absolutely necessary for the game to not fall apart on its own.

So far they have a different level of commitment for mainline numbered FF games. Still no end date for FF XI after 20 years of service. When Yoshida took over XIV he was like we cannot let this game be a failure at any cost, we have to rebuild customer trust.

They don't seem to think mobile spin-offs matter as much to their reputation, or maybe they acknowledge The First Soldier was a stupid idea that nobody asked for. I wish they'd stick with the genre they're good at. These brand extensions into other genres haven't been great.

[Naraka]

If 7.0 is as bad as 6.0 and they continue to water this game down to hell I think I'll finally be 100% done with this game.

This. It gets too casual.

[CStrife912]

If 7.0 is as bad as 6.0 and they continue to water this game down to hell I think I'll finally be 100% done with this game.
I've already been playing like once or twice a year and only for PvP these days lol. I can't be flipped to continue past 6.0 story.
I wish we didn't have to do the MSQ to do a lot of the content and just had a quest on the side and let the MSQ be MSQ.
And before anyone says "it's a storwee gaem!1! u have 2!" Yeah yeah, I know. I just don't care I want to play the game
not giggle :3 uwu at cute catmen all day for this lame characters I've been forced to be with for 10 years.

I also agree with the PvP sytem style combat integrated into PvE. That way us healers can actually have fun DPSing and supporting on the side.
I mean if you can't fix how your flipped up healers and all..

I mean your viewpoint of 6.0 is of course your opinion but sales and player retention and growth of player count shows the opposite. Granted some of this is the wow exodus but outside of patch luls it holds its player counts year on year and to be fair I deem Stormblood story wise way worse then Endwalker.... The other issue is if you have beef with story being first to unlock aspects now after all these years then I don't know what to say to you. If it was such an issue it would of changed by now but it clearly is a non issue for the wider audience. This forum and reddit are such a small pool of the playerbase...not even a vocal minority really.

If they are going to repeat the same formula again for 6th time already but without the strength of the MSQ/Story which was 99% of this game had to offer ( from ARR - > EW to resolve the ascian thing) then they are going to struggle really hard keeping numbers high.

As said above people wouldn't stick to the same formula just for the story...yeah its the core highlight but 10 years is a long time to hinge one one of the many core pillars...the game clearly has an audience for other aspects. Some just may not be for us.

[Conadrium]

It all hinges on being profitable for SE. The 10 year promise or whatever it was for the next ff14 expansions is absolutely worthless from a company that has just shut down 3 (4?) games promised to be long lasting, multiyear experiences after around a year each. They will try to rework only what is absolutely necessary for the game to not fall apart on its own.

What games are these?

[CStrife912]

What games are these?

I am going to assume FF7 first soldier and the bravely default game on mobile...both just poorly designed games that were banking on IP recognition and more so first soldier banking on the nostalgia to FF7.

[Saraide]

What games are these?

FF7 first soldier, the bravely default game and chocobo GP. The marvels avengers game is another one if you want to count that aswell but the circumstances of that one are weirder than the others.

[DezereDawn]

FF7 first soldier, the bravely default game and chocobo GP. The marvels avengers game is another one if you want to count that aswell but the circumstances of that one are weirder than the others.

Let's not forget Babylon's fall, another Squeenix Flop out the gate that was meant to be a live service

[CStrife912]

Let's not forget Babylon's fall, another Squeenix Flop out the gate that was meant to be a live service

Thing is thats more on the fault of Platinum games making a bad product.....and the mobile games being part of a different department. Not saying its not something to take into account...but its a very different scenario to say FF14 which is under one of their main creative business units. Same applies to Avengers...that was a crystal dynamics problem to a degree...doesn't help S-E wanted that game to be a monetised grind.