Complete 7.0 patchnotes

[Taliriah]

If it comes at the cost of stale gameplay of course it would be.

I'm sure the artists would have been able to talk some sense into the systems designers if only they weren't so busy reworking textures

[Calysto]

I'm sure the artists would have been able to talk some sense into the systems designers if only they weren't so busy reworking textures

Yep, all that is art and no development was involved

[Daralii]

I'm sure the artists would have been able to talk some sense into the systems designers if only they weren't so busy reworking textures

They have a point when you look at the bigger picture of resource allocation, but it's been obvious for years that the PvE battle system devs and everyone that evaluates their work just don't care, so even infinite time and money wouldn't result in anything more than some more Bahamut reskins.

[Taliriah]

They have a point when you look at the bigger picture of resource allocation, but it's been obvious for years that the PvE battle system devs and everyone that evaluates their work just don't care, so even infinite time and money wouldn't result in anything more than some more Bahamut reskins.

It's not a matter of not enough resources, it's a matter of the game's design philosophy that is fundamentally broken. They could add as many bells and whistles they want to combat design and it'll never be fun as long as the fights are scripted and predictable.
Like many mediocre game designers nowadays their only tools are making things follow a script, or making things follow a RNG.