Quote Originally Posted by Kohashi View Post
I know plenty of people who chose to skip on their own simply because hardly anyone is doing old content, unfortunately, and because most fun you have is at max level, like most MMOs. In addition, most classes are designed to work best at level 100 as well, and they feel very weird at lower levels.

For all the jankiness and weird design choices ARR and HW had, at least you had more buttons to press. Now at level 50 and 60, you have 2-3 buttons and half of a rotation. I wish they gave you a weaker version of the spells, which upgraded/transformed every X or so levels than having 3 buttons to press.

Maybe I remember wrong, but I believe he mentioned in the past that they wanted to appeal to a different age group/player base with DT. That's why you have Smile playing when you build a "bomb" lol. I hope they have learned not to alienate the vast majority of the playerbase next time.
I believe Smile was specifically requested by Ishikawa. And thus we have the "Gospel Train Bomb" and everyones jaws collectively dropped in disbelief.
SE chases trends far too much, it's even more visible from all the outside of FF references. It dillutes their own world most of the time.

Don't get me wrong "stealing" from other MMO is what made WoW so popular, not because they 1 for 1 copied things, but they copied something and made it better. While FFXIV struggles to even make an INITIAL VERSION of something let alone improve something on arrival.