AT THIS POINT in World of Warcraft

[Lieri]

What happened with Warlords of Draenor vs Endwalker is incomparable. I posted a lot on Blizz forum back then. In WoD players had no say in whichever direction the game was heading, at all. Thats why they kept adding stuffs to Garrison, their biggest investment in the game due to servers cost despite of it being a disaster for a game like WoW where the main cities are always crowded with players and interactions, cities are their preferred places to hang out, not Garrison.

In comparison XIV has always listened but of course they need to take the middle ground and didn't implement everything the players want. Devs also have a life, there's also budget so it's understandable if sometimes they take the easy way to solve problems (like the current fix for PLD, not adding instanced housing but instead just copy paste wards, etc). But during WoD I would say not even 5% of the community's input get implemented into the game. The jobs design was good during WoD though. The only time they almost got the balance right but they screwed it up with other systems.