7.0 copium has got to stop

[Atelier-Bagur]

I played wow and quit in WoD and here i am... I just feel like this expansion is the WoD of this game for me, i really hope i'm wrong but yeah...

Actually considering the favoritism of the previous expansion, I feel like we're in the Battle for Azeroth phase with Shb being Legion. That means 7.0 will the worst yet with Shadowlands and the game will finally start getting good again with 8.0 Dragonflight

[Ranaku]

Actually considering the favoritism of the previous expansion, I feel like we're in the Battle for Azeroth phase with Shb being Legion. That means 7.0 will the worst yet with Shadowlands and the game will finally start getting good again with 8.0 Dragonflight

That's your personal subjective opinion tho, you have every right to be not satisfied with the product you have access too. Heck i can't understand some of the design choices either and how they basically gave people no grind this expansion for whatever reason, something that always helped a lot with in between patch activity.

But if we look at the numbers, like the raw numbers. XIV is doing better on patchdays now than to release (RELEASE!) of previous expansions. We have now on patchdays more daily players than we had when ShB came out. The games state and activity is a highly subjective matter for most people obviously but that doesn't mean the game is doing bad. Just means you are getting older and the good times from back then hang in your mind and build a nostalgic memory that is far from what once was actually. Nobody really remembers how far the game has come and how much better we have it now compared to the "old days".

The problem i feel is that we old players know already what is to come basically, we know that our jobs will play in the future mostly the same. The games mechanics will stay the same. The fight mechanics might change but the overall design stays the same. It's something WoW did differently and had partially success with it before they overused the borrowed power system so much that it became a nuisance and chore to players. But XIV could learn from WoW mistakes, lost actions from Bozja and Eureka were a dip into this concept and many players had actually really fun with the really stupid and overpowered things you could do with it. So it kinda leaves me baffled that this time around in EW they didn't include it into the relic grind.

[TheOperator3712]

Actually considering the favoritism of the previous expansion, I feel like we're in the Battle for Azeroth phase with Shb being Legion. That means 7.0 will the worst yet with Shadowlands and the game will finally start getting good again with 8.0 Dragonflight

Or, hear me out here, ShB was XIV's WotLK expansion and we're now in the Cata equivalent and 7.0 will be like MoP. WotLK and ShB are almost 1:1 comparisons in my mind for the changes they made to their respective games, as well as being highly regarded for narrative. Cata and EW both came after with narratives that were relatively unpopular and the gameplay changes that the previous expansion had implemented were starting to age poorly. 7.0 hasn't been announced yet, but if we end up going somewhere that comes completely out of left field and seems like a joke... Well, we'll find out soonTM.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Or, hear me out here, ShB was XIV's WotLK expansion and we're now in the Cata equivalent and 7.0 will be like MoP. WotLK and ShB are almost 1:1 comparisons in my mind for the changes they made to their respective games, as well as being highly regarded for narrative. Cata and EW both came after with narratives that were relatively unpopular and the gameplay changes that the previous expansion had implemented were starting to age poorly. 7.0 hasn't been announced yet, but if we end up going somewhere that comes completely out of left field and seems like a joke... Well, we'll find out soonTM.

It would honestly be pretty funny if FFXIV did directly follow in the footsteps of Blizzard's WoW.
So....next expansion would be fun, but have a Horrific Narritive that blatantly steals from somebody else (Perhaps the Dragons return ala Dragonflight) and Fordola or Kryile are our Silvanas and Golbez is the Jailer.
Then 8.0 is XIVs Dragonflight where they mostly fix the issues, but the playerbase is smaller.

It would be an interesting 4-5 years Haha