Yoshi-P lied

[Selsix]

I don't like saying this, I don't like even thinking this. I've been playing this game (with breaks) since 2.0 open beta and have always respected the man but I can no longer take him at his word. Yoshi claimed XVI development would not affect XIV in any way and it's very clear this was a lie or at the very least a false prediction on his part. The development for that game ramped up HARD after 6.0 dropped and every patch in the 6.X cycle has been completely devoid of lasting meaningful content. To make matters worse the patches now even take longer to make, being 4 months apart instead of 3 with the occasional delay. I don't mind the increased time between patches, but I do mind the small patches with barely anything to do.

Let's look at what's been added in the 6.X cycle:
-Ultimates only cater to an extreme minority of the population (something like sub-1% of players and we are all aware how much cheating is used in that subset anyway)
-Crystalline Conflict was a cool attempt to revive PvP, but their refusal to add a casual mode or ranked mode where you can queue with friends has already resulted in this being dead too.
-Criterion dungeons were a massive lazy flop with garbage rewards.
-They've done nothing with BLU nor added other limited jobs.
-The relics have been the laziest they've ever done. Whether you enjoy this step or not I'm sure you can agree on that. You can finish each step in a single day for MULTIPLE jobs and all you do is roulettes, nothing new.
-The new deep dungeon while appreciated isn't anything special. HoH changed the formula from PotD up a bit but EO is just a carbon copy of the two more or less. There's some new pomanders and new random enemies, that's it. No surprises. HoH added massive stadium rooms full of enemies and the special summon pomanders at least, what did EO add? Nothing.
-Island Sanctuary while cute has been really shallow in what it actually delivers in terms of content. It's just a lazy boring daily grind when you boil it down.
-The MSQ bits have all been incredibly short, padded by forcing the patch cycle trials into the MSQ when they were side quests in every other expansion after ARR.

It used to be it'd take me at least a solid day or two to finish all the content offered by a patch (including story) at minimum, potentially weeks if there was relic content added. But for 6.X? I'm usually finished with the entire patch in 1-4 hours and then I'm bored again and end up quitting until the next one. I know Yoshi has also said to take breaks and play other games and I do this VERY liberally, but it really isn't fun to come back to the game for a content patch expecting to have fun and I'm done with all I care to do after just a handful of hours.

[Vahlnir]

Yeah, I take everything that is said with a grain of salt. Always. I think it was obvious from the get-go that FF 16's development would have an effect on FF XIV in some capacity. This happens every single time SE has a major project in the works. FF 16 is probably an "all hands on decK" situation as well considering SE has had failure after failure recently. They probably know that FF 16 has to be good, otherwise the company will be in quite a pickle. They also know that FF XIV has an almost zealous fan base, so they probably aren't too worried about players unsubbing for now. So yeah, I saw this coming a mile away, and I hope it was worth the wait and the cost.

[R041]

The hood plays FFXVI now

[Commander_Justitia]

There is this new achievement for discovering 20.000 pieces of Accursed Hoard in the deep dungeons, maybe try that

[Connor]

The saddest part is, aside from the actual graphics FF16 looks extremely mid at best lol.

[Kaurhz]

I think it was obvious it was going to have an impact on the development. Probably just wasn't forecasted to this degree.

[R041]

There is this new achievement for discovering 20.000 pieces of Accursed Hoard in the deep dungeons, maybe try that

All the garbage Achievements we know I'll never do as 'content'. lol

[Vahlnir]

All the garbage Achievements we know I'll never do as 'content'. lol

Let's face it. Basically no one will be actively trying for this stuff.

[Atelier-Bagur]

- Yet, they were absent in the previous expansion and people been begging for them and we got 2 within 6.1-6.3
- Not really dead, I still can queue up for casual and ranked matches without waiting for longer queues. The series rewards system helps with the grind so you'll have people queuing for it
- The content itself from what I gathered was received favorably, but like we all say, its rewards are lacking and they have stated that this content is to be further added and expanded.
- They've already stated that new Blue Mage content will be coming in one of the later patches in post-EW
- Cant fully disagree on this, my only concern is the 2nd step being the literal exact same. Otherwise the tomestone grind has always been a part of previous relic steps.
- Disingenous take, while the core concept is the same because duh, they did added some new twists with the summonable NPCs and Dread Beats.
- Agree on it, but like I stated with Variant/Criterion, they've gone on record stating that this content is being continuously worked on and to be added in future patches.
- post-expansion MSQ story patches were always this short (well starting after post-HW at least), you say you've been playing since launch yet you never noticed till now?

[Chasingstars]

Let's face it. Basically no one will be actively trying for this stuff.

I wouldn't say that. If hardly anyone bothers to try and get the title <The Accursed>, then that person has a title more rare than <The Necromancer> title. Rarer than even <The Alpha Legend> title from TOP ultimate.