SE, no effort anywhere lately.

[CStrife912]

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I will give you some points in that if it weren't called Final Fantasy it may well be dead by now or already long into a maintenance mode, you see here on these forums that not everyone agrees with Yoshi P...I don't agree with everything he's done (Healers being abandoned, job homogenisation and too easy to level crafter and gatherers to name a few) I wouldn't say its mediocre because it wouldn't survive on those merits of namesake even if it was mediocre its already been proven with other games they've made like FF7 first soldier on mobile...surely the name would keep it a float but alas it did not. Name doesn't always carry the sails of success you still need to create a good product for it to enhance. PVP I feel in terms of the CC mode is almost there it needs some more balance and some minor changes to be in a good place...frontlines needs a rework on how its structured. There have been bugs more so in this one...but they have been quick to fix or hold their hands up and admit fault for the most part. Try getting that out of the WoW devs.

If the game has become stale over the years how did each expansion after stormblood continue with a consistent rise of player count and that's before the wow exodus. If something was wrong and the numbers showed decline we would of seen them steer course by now but clearly that is not the case. The engine isn't outdated as proven with FF16 looking quite the looker, so hopefully some of that tech transfers in some capacity to FF14. Character customisation I will agree needs a complete rework or a drastic increase in features for the player to pick from, beards, eyebrows, tails, ear types, eye types you name it, it could use them. Try playing WoW or ESO of GW2 they all recycle gearsets or recolour them along with mounts....its just something that happens and heck you could say FF14 has done it since day 1 with their extreme mount being colour variants.

To say nothing innovated has come out is an outright lie, sadly it wont be a matter of time before something comes out to overshadow.. the only real ones coming out that visually look nice and have flashy gameplay are Korean centric MMOs which hey we know how they end up.. then you have Ashes of creation which looks ok and sounds great on paper but will only cater to a small percentile of players. Regarding shaders...I don't mind how the game looks, its peoples taste but you are right they are addressing it with the visual update from what we can see so far. I personally think some shaders make it look like ass but its peoples tastes at the end of the day.

What in your opinion is better content? Ive asked this already and they just respond with well not what they're doing...give me an example of something you'd want to do in the game that would keep you invested.