Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[ty_taurus]

With discussions from Friends/Raiding-Discords/The Balance to just go play Ultimate with being open to seeing any simplifications as a good thing to give Dev's breathing room to create new better mechanics. A load of horse(beep) as I said is an empty promise. Select few Parsers being loud against anything RNG is nothing new either nor anything that gets in the way of their precious parse is a good thing to remove, though I never said " All ", but plenty enough in discussions I had. The 2 min meta has been egregiously shoved down our throats which has been noted numerous times, but there's no sign of Square moving away from this direction either.

Moving away from the 2 minute meta seems to me like something that would occur during the transition to a new expansion, and also something that is probably too time intensive to try and balance both the current job balance and encounter design around during one of these midpoint patches, at least based on the types of combat changes we've seen during patches vs entire expansions. So if that is a change we end up seeing for 7.0, it wouldn't surprise me that we wouldn't really know anything until probably the 7.0 media tour, or the job actions trailer.

Now, I'm not going to make promises or tell you wait and see because it'll all be better in 8 months because I have no idea, but I have a pretty strong feeling that 7.0 is going to be a big make it or break it moment for this game. EW has not been terrible per say, but it has been probably the weakest expansion to date in terms of content and gameplay relatively speaking. There is a lot of criticism not just on the forums, but in a lot of other places--places SE cares more about, like streamer content. Not every streamer is unanimous, but I've seen quite a few who feel that EW has not lived up to its predecessors. SE knows this. Nothing is being said because nothing is set in stone yet on their end, cause SE doesn't like being transparent about anything until there's no going back anyway.

There are some things that I am cautiously optimistic about, and other things that I'm more pessimistic about, but my point is, I don't think we're going to see anything even if there will be sweeping changes until at least September if not longer. By that time, if nothing will change, we will probably hear about "staying the course" as we did with EW not changing much from ShB.