This game is on a terrible state right now.

[GaiusDrakon]

And SE created their own demise. When the boss has to be middle for every mech (or is a wall boss), when the hitbox has to be big, and when the boss needs to be "barse-able" in any group, you run out of ideas pretty quickly. The unique ideas will be few and far between.

Gotta cater to JP players who scream every time a fight can't be done by just following a three line macro after all.

[Kaliesto]

I hope I don't regret it by sharing this, but from what I was told (if its true) that the current state of endwalker goes back to the launching of it.

Apparently stuff happened in the background between the developers we don't know of (one thing I can share that apparently Endwalker was launched too soon, this caused some background problems), and that is all I'm going to say.

If you all noticed there was a shift how this expansion played out in some ways, not as clean as previous ones.

[IkaraGreydancer]

I hope I don't regret it by sharing this, but from what I was told (if its true) that the current state of endwalker goes back to the launching of it.

Apparently stuff happened in the background between the developers we don't know of (one thing I can share that apparently Endwalker was launched too soon), and that is all I'm going to say.

If you all noticed there was a shift how this expansion played out in some ways, not as clean as previous ones.

Without solid proof this is white noise.
Just saying. But a certain camp will latch on to this like it's gospel

[Deo14]

I hope I don't regret it by sharing this, but from what I was told (if its true) that the current state of endwalker goes back to the launching of it.

Apparently stuff happened in the background between the developers we don't know of (one thing I can share that apparently Endwalker was launched too soon, this caused some background problems), and that is all I'm going to say.

If you all noticed there was a shift how this expansion played out in some ways, not as clean as previous ones.

[ChrisRedfield2]

I hope I don't regret it by sharing this, but from what I was told (if its true) that the current state of endwalker goes back to the launching of it.

Apparently stuff happened in the background between the developers we don't know of (one thing I can share that apparently Endwalker was launched too soon, this caused some background problems), and that is all I'm going to say.

If you all noticed there was a shift how this expansion played out in some ways, not as clean as previous ones.

Don't give me hopium...

[Nav_Fae]

Without solid proof this is white noise.
Just saying. But a certain camp will latch on to this like it's gospel

I personally don't need a source for this one. It makes logical sense. The game was delayed not once but twice. Their dungeon crawl video was released in an incomplete state compared to previous expansion dungeon crawl videos. They had the massive WoW shift that distracted them into to getting new servers which are no longer going as planned with people leaving the game. Covid happened during that period and ruined everything around the entire world. (Not making an excuse but pointing out a fact). And Yoshi P even said before that we were supposed to have another expansion before Endwalker but that got scrapped so they could just get it over with. It's evident that Endwalker was rushed and needed more development than it had.

[Rhysati]

I personally don't need a source for this one. It makes logical sense. The game was delayed not once but twice. Their dungeon crawl video was released in an incomplete state compared to previous expansion dungeon crawl videos. They had the massive WoW shift that distracted them into to getting new servers which are no longer going as planned with people leaving the game. Covid happened during that period and ruined everything around the entire world. (Not making an excuse but pointing out a fact). And Yoshi P even said before that we were supposed to have another expansion before Endwalker but that got scrapped so they could just get it over with. It's evident that Endwalker was rushed and needed more development than it had.

I would add what should also be obvious: Yoshi and others from the FFXIV team have been busy working on FFXVI and have been angling to have it revitalizing the FF mainline series. There's no way that you pull the game's director, major composer, artists, and story writers off of FFXIV and have it continue chugging along like usual without seeing major lessening in quality.

[Nav_Fae]

I would add what should also be obvious: Yoshi and others from the FFXIV team have been busy working on FFXVI and have been angling to have it revitalizing the FF mainline series. There's no way that you pull the game's director, major composer, artists, and story writers off of FFXIV and have it continue chugging along like usual without seeing major lessening in quality.

That too. Also, with them increasing the time between patch releases. SE probably has more on their plate than they can handle. Just on the surface there is plenty of reason to suspect that the internal workings of the development team are probably a chaotic mess right now.

[Ivtrix]

That too. Also, with them increasing the time between patch releases. SE probably has more on their plate than they can handle. Just on the surface there is plenty of reason to suspect that the internal workings of the development team are probably a chaotic mess right now.

The fact that they finally wrapped up the story in 6.0 probably gave them the time to polish up XVI since 6.1 and on has mostly been boring filler content across the majority of the game.

Each patch we go further into it’s clear more and more just how much they pulled from XIV and CBU3 and put the resources into XVI

Ayo but them ultimates been good tho

[Marooned_Pilot]

No it wasn't like this in HW and SB. It's like you guys don't even remember doing content anymore.

This. I joined post-SB and the fact it wasn't a dead game full of energy after everyone did everything already kept me invested. Expansion just feels somewhat bland without soul across the playerbase compared to the other ones - regardless if the Sqex team needs a break.