Mandeville Weapons will likely remain the same come 6.45 (Yoshida interview)

[Heavenchild]

Honestly, 6.4 is their last chance for me. If they don't knock my socks off somehow, I'm going to take an extended vacation, even if it means losing my house. That isn't a decision I will (preferably not) make lightly. It's not like I've actually been playing in any capacity for over a month now anyway. It would just save me the hassle and allow my sub to be free from its hostage situation.

But what if that's what they want? Didn't Yoshida say, that his wish is to make one more good MMORGP from the scratch? What if, when they WANT to let die FFXIV? :/
I sometimes wonder about that, thb.

[ASkellington]

Yep. I've tried to be patient while hoping that things would improve, but my patience has its limits. There are some things I simply won't put up with, and wasting money is one of those things.

Eh I'm sticking around for the AST rework to see if SE can screw up 3/3.

[SturmChurro]

I love the extremes we do. ShB, the relics were annoying, but AT LEAST we had something to do, now they are just handed to you. Way to work with feedback.

[Vahlnir]

What if, when they WANT to let die FFXIV? :/
I sometimes wonder about that, thb.

If that's what they want, then it's a shame, but I won't stick around to watch things happen regardless of their agenda.

[Yeol]

Eh I'm sticking around for the AST rework to see if SE can screw up 3/3.

Please no.. I’m looking forward to playing 7.0 MSQ with AST.

[Aexnidaral]

We're told that the Developers (etc) read the Official Forums and subreddit and stuff, so I do try to pop up here occasionally to add my thoughts to topics that are important to me. This is definitely one of them.

This is so wildly disappointing to me. The current design decisions seem to be focused on making the game as hyper casual as possible (outside of like, Ultimates?), and while that's generally fine, when it comes to content like Relics it just makes the expansion feel so empty? Objectively of course, it isn't -- we've gotten Orthos, Criterion, Island Sanctuary, quality of life adjustments, so on and so forth; but for the most part much of the playable content added has been one and done. I understand -- and don't even necessarily disagree with -- the idea to make the Relic be achieved in an alternate easier way like what's happening now, but it shouldn't be the only way; it should be a supplementary way for largely casual players to tome dump. It truly and genuinely feels like the Developers got so tired of being criticized for any type of Relic Grind that they just kind of threw their hands in the air and spitefully said "okay fine, we'll make it easier -- we'll basically make it free" because they were out of ideas and did not know what to do.

I always see in threads like these some folks who immediately come to the defense of the developers and the game by saying "well, they've said you should take a break and go play other games", and it's frustrating. They say that, but then if I do, my House gets demolished, and if you live on a highly populated server or have a M or L plot -- good luck getting that back. Even outside of the House thing I want to play the game, but this expansion isn't giving me many reasons to actually play the game. There's not much content to do at level 90 that is around mid-core that you can easily drop in play some of, leave, and pick back up later.

I'm hoping (see: coping) things change in 7.0 but I'm concerned they won't because we'll be told that so many resources were spent on the graphical updates, so to wait to 8.0; but regardless I wanted to add my voice to the chorus of others who have also been expressing their discontent by this decision in this thread and the other one.

[4clubbedace]

Genuine question, what would you guys even want to do for relic anyways?

If its just running dungeons then i really doubt why the hell you prefer that over [your choice here you find fun] instead

i can do pvp or frontlines and get the stuff i need that way, i i have to do old expac alliance raids id scream.

[Absimiliard]

Please no.. I’m looking forward to playing 7.0 MSQ with AST.

Good luck to you, then. You're going to need it.

[Yushees]

Good guy YoshiP catering to people that plays 1h per week . Disappointing news as always, this is post 6.0 in a nutshell I suppose.

[SassyAssassin]

But what if that's what they want? Didn't Yoshida say, that his wish is to make one more good MMORGP from the scratch? What if, when they WANT to let die FFXIV? :/
I sometimes wonder about that, thb.

Yup thought I heard that too once before endwalker iirc but now they said they have ten years worth of gaming planned and are improving the graphics in the next expansion so doubt they want to let the game die.