I feel like 7.0 will be quite the milestone

[Jeeqbit]

There was also world visit, ocean fishing, ishgard restoration and now things like island sanctuary. If people aren't interested in these things, it doesn't mean there is a lack of content, just a lack of content they are interested in. There was also covid during 5.x.

stick to the same safe tired formulas or reinforce them. More tomes, roulettes, bland 3-boss-corridor dungeons, shared fates, 2 min burst meta, trimmed down jobs, 5 minute a day beast tribes, cheap crafted gear, same old treasure maps and so on.

We'll get another set of shared fates, the same old dungeons and tribes, the same old tomes to farm, the same jobs with maybe a new button or two and some complexity trimmed away and a few new pieces of niche content that most people don't run.

That's fine with me. I know what to expect and what I'm getting for my money and I know that I'll enjoy it then.

[Erinellza]

PvP combo system in PvE content

Only if it's optional at the control settings because I like pressing many different buttons. PvP makes me fall asleep because of the lack of buttons and long cooldowns. If we had the same boring crap in PvE I would rage quit.

[Vahlnir]

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.

Lately they can't seem to get any sort of win, with Forspoken being their most recent blunder. I'm getting flashbacks from before FF XIV's ARR, when they were just pushing out games to no avail. Another reckoning is on the horizon. They've grown too comfortable in their complacency, and they are paying dearly for it. We've seen this before, and it didn't end well for them then. FF XIV is the only reason their company survived the first time.

[CStrife912]

I believe the goal of the visual upgrade is to provide an official Gshade/Reshade to the players (Especially console players who don't have access to mods, addons, plugins, and such) and also make the game look more beautiful for marketing purposes.

Well even the 1 month testing screenshots go beyond what gshade can do to like characters for example... not seen any screenshots of the new lightning combined with their new material shaders and hi res textures but purely for characters so far its more impressive. Some peoples gshade looks really off...just looks over vibrant. Don't get me wrong I know the game could use an injection of colour but they go overboard on some presets.

[Payadopa]

Can't wait to see what else they'll cut out in order to make it more brain dead and easier to balance. Maybe remove all buffs and turn bosses into target dummies for maximum uptime.

[Payadopa]

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.

It's funny to me since they sat on a goldmine of IPs only to sell them off because of unrealistic projections and because they really, really, really want that live service money without putting in even a modicum of effort. Babylon's Fail already used gear assets from XIV. lol

[DezereDawn]

Only if it's optional at the control settings because I like pressing many different buttons. PvP makes me fall asleep because of the lack of buttons and long cooldowns. If we had the same boring crap in PvE I would rage quit.

See, i want them to add it, but also add in more unique and interesting buttons to replace the 1-2-3, make use of that extra space with fun stuff that jobs can do and try to break up the monotony and homogenization

[Takamorisan]

Actually I hope its more a technical milestone instead of visual or even content wise. If they wanna keep going with this service they need to deal with spaghetti code engine, many features they wanna implement but on hold due to how difficult is to work with it.

[LianaThorne]

I believe the goal of the visual upgrade is to provide an official Gshade/Reshade to the players (Especially console players who don't have access to mods, addons, plugins, and such) and also make the game look more beautiful for marketing purposes.

I thought we were just getting updated textures/better CC but I might be wrong.

[CStrife912]

I thought we were just getting updated textures/better CC but I might be wrong.

It goes further, upgraded textures, shaders, shadows, foilage, materials for metals and gold, lighting and more lighting points, more memory allocated to allowing more objects and layering of overworld assets to make it more lived in etc that was just after the 1 month testing and they aim to go higher with other aspects like ambient occlusion and fog effects. The only negative is not all npcs and armour/glam will be done for launch but over the 7.X series to 8.0