Thanks for citing the source, Forte, you're the best, and I greatly appreciate it.

I don't care how FFXIV is monetized in other regions. The only thing I care about is how the combat and the encounters are designed. Everything else is superfluous to me. CN/KR clients have the exact same design as the rest of us, so if the CN producer talks about it, which he did, it's coming from a position that I can respect. And it is surprisingly to see him name drop streamers and content creators to say "Yeah, I agree with them." and "Yeah, the 2 minute meta is controversial, but we literally don't know what to do about it" and "YEAH, the game has been on this cycle for too long." Honestly makes me want to think that they're not as deaf as they claim, but I'm not naive or willing to take anything said by an SE employee as truth until I've seen actual changes.

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Now try The Dead Ends.
Why move the goalpost? He did what you asked.

Every trust enabled duty is going to have this, because you can't fail. As long as your patient, every dungeon pull and boss can be completed with nothing but you on a DPS job and minimal movements. You don't have to actually press a single job action if you don't want to, which really makes me feel like I'm fighting through the memories of dying civilizations. As an observer. Not an actual participant in anything important, since nothing compelling is ever asked of me in that environment. If you drag yourself into the death wall (if there is one), that's a different story, but I can see where they are going with this.