Finally tried WoW

[Xelanar]

I'm just waiting for housing to drop or be in sight, before doing the same.

Recently I saw a video on YouTube where someone commented on a talk the lead developer of WoW gave. That dev? He talked about lots of things they did wrong with WoW. How the team always tried to build the same WoW-experience over and over again, streamlining and optimizing that experience, because it worked in the past so it will work in the future too. Well? That's not how it goes, and the only thing that leads to is staleness, players being treated as numbers on a spread sheet, and systems becoming what designers want instead of what players want.
Once they realized that, their game and design philisophy began to change. And it shows. The game is much much better now, and showing no signs of getting worse.


FFXIV is currently in that staleness phase, and I'll be looking forward to seeing how long it will take them to figure it out.

[Jeeqbit]

Recently I saw a video on YouTube where someone commented on a talk the lead developer of WoW gave. That dev? He talked about lots of things they did wrong with WoW. How the team always tried to build the same WoW-experience over and over again, streamlining and optimizing that experience, because it worked in the past so it will work in the future too. Well? That's not how it goes, and the only thing that leads to is staleness, players being treated as numbers on a spread sheet, and systems becoming what designers want instead of what players want.
Once they realized that, their game and design philisophy began to change. And it shows. The game is much much better now, and showing no signs of getting worse.

A lot of that talk was relevant to FFXIV. Whenever he talks about things, you can actually compare it to a similar (current or past) issue in FFXIV. Even down to things like inventory or spaghetti code issues. Internally, they've had pretty much all the same problems at one point or another.

It's almost like they swap problems and the problems inevitably come back over time like a boomerang.