Babe wake up, new Famitsu Interview just dropped

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[LIST][*]The 6.x series focused on "being able to play alone" and set the goal of "widening the scope". From here on, we will focus on the original MMORPG of "it's more fun if you play with multiple people!"

I'm glad they're refocusing on what makes MMOs special. You can play solo in most games, what makes this genre unique is the massively multiplayer aspect. It's fine to have solo options but that should never be the main focus.

The upcoming occult crescent already sounds extremely grindy from the looks of it so far
Grind knowledge level, phantom job level, and I think it even mentioned weapons and armor? lol

People on this forum spent the entirety of Endwalker complaining nonstop about not having a grind to do.

It has to be some mindset issue where they feel it's not ready despite confirming they were "working on them" all the way back in October 2023, despite confirming they had "prototypes" in the media tour, despite what you see there from 6 months ago, and despite 6 additional months to "ponder" if it's good enough to release.

It's the sort of thing that players made work overnight.

Some dude farting out a mod in his free time is not the same thing as a software corporation developing a new feature among all the other tasks they're juggling and then rolling it out to multiple platforms. And before anyone says it I'm not "defending SE," I work in a very similar field and understand why these things take a while. I once had a task that was literally turning something from off to on that got caught up in approvals for two months.