Now that the game is officially on its deathbed, what are your thoughts?

[Dhalya]

OC could have been great, but it launched with some issues that border on actual BUGS:
- Some coffers have an absurdly high drop rate – this has to be a bug. It completely devalues the 99-token mount and rare loot from previous expansions. We all know what happens to content when the rewards are worthless.
- FATE scaling is way off – there's no world where it's good design for FATEs to die in 5 seconds. It's annoying, frustrating, and just plain boring.
- The whole forked tower mess – no words. What a massive waste of potential for quality content.

It really shows how neglected the game's development has become. The worst part is that everything they release feels so formulaic—there's no excitement left, no sense of hype for what's coming. There are no surprises, no meaningful QoL updates (like a glamour catalog, better housing UI, increased limits, etc.). It's the same old dungeon, trial, raid with the same mechanics, just reskinned.

Also this expansion has yet the most stuff taken from older FF games. Sure, that’s nice for longtime fans—but let’s be honest, it's just another way for SE to cut costs in the creative/design department.

[Milea]

Bygone Serenity is a great song to listen to as you read threads like this. Evokes the correct emotions.

[Alice_Rivers]

Yeah I'm aware some people did, but my sense was that it annoyed one chunk of the player base because they were expecting a harder version of an actual alliance raid, and half the raiding community because they had to share the stage with people less adept than them.

To be fair, I was also envisioning a full alliance raid until the clarifications came down that it was just the cloud, I still think a full AR would have been way cooler but I'm happy with cloud. As far as having to "share the stage with people less adept", that just PF, if people want to eliminate competency variance then they should form a static. The only time I take issue with someone messing up my chaotic run is when they sign up beyond their prog point or join a farm party and fail basic stuff, I understand it more nowadays since prog PFs don't exist anymore but back then there were plenty of prog parties at plenty of prog points with plenty of players trying to get involved so if there wasn't a PF at your prog point you could make one and people were still joining PFs they weren't qualified for.

[Yushees]

Frontlines got better replayability than anything else we got in Dawntrail so far lmao

[Hallarem]

Looking forward to the P.R comments in the upcoming liveletter with no roadmap for the future.

[Stasya]

To be fair, I was also envisioning a full alliance raid until the clarifications came down that it was just the cloud, I still think a full AR would have been way cooler but I'm happy with cloud. As far as having to "share the stage with people less adept", that just PF, if people want to eliminate competency variance then they should form a static. The only time I take issue with someone messing up my chaotic run is when they sign up beyond their prog point or join a farm party and fail basic stuff, I understand it more nowadays since prog PFs don't exist anymore but back then there were plenty of prog parties at plenty of prog points with plenty of players trying to get involved so if there wasn't a PF at your prog point you could make one and people were still joining PFs they weren't qualified for.

I like cloud having clones from eden, but i still heavily dislike that this is just one boss. Considering they strip down second ultimate from 7.3 and probably dawntrail, this one boss chaotic is like HUGE alarm bell.

Where the hell their dev time going? What are they doing each working week? They had no resources to do deep dungeon (which is copy pasting everything from previous content), so they cut bosses in chaotic to one (which is copy pasting everything from previous content) and they cut second ultimate (which is copy pasting everything from previous content).

If someone thinks i am mad just because no ultimate, just have a thought: when they finally release their raidplan into the game, it will be useless since it's too late into expansion.

[Khryseis_Astra]

Imo Chaotic should’ve been a full Alliance raid instead of just one boss… like get the guy who made Forked Tower to do the CARs, and get the guy who did the Bozja instances to work on OC/FT. OC should’ve gotten spicy Normal plus separate Savage for FTB. It’s like they completely misread player feedback and gave the opposite of what people wanted/expected for both.

[Araxes]

My Wife and i have accepted that the Game is dying. We will play it every now and then till it gets shut down like many other FF Live Service Games (Brave Exvius, Mobius Final Fantasy just as a few examples) and then well play something else. If the Devs refuse to listen, its them who will get "restructured" out of the Company, not us.

[Zakuyia]

Frontlines got better replayability than anything else we got in Dawntrail so far lmao

To be fair pvp is fun. I think our wins on profile i have over 130+ first place wins. Its fun when team coordinated and ppl legit wanna try to win.

[Hallarem]

They are working overtime deleting threads that are critizising them huh