Itemization in this Game is One-Dimensional

[KamikazeMan]

XIV is 3 years old. Gear and stats used to have much more variety and room for customization and they made the explicit design decision to dumb and simplify it all down. It's not something that will just get better in time. They remade the entire game and that was something they REMOVED on purpose.

Are you forgetting that a majority of that time was spent remaking XIV practically from the ground up? It's not like they were sitting around just working on content.

[Tupsi]

Are you forgetting that a majority of that time was spent remaking XIV practically from the ground up? It's not like they were sitting around just working on content.

Yet somehow in the process they had the time to remove quite a lot of stuff present in 1.23 or reallocated it.

[ApolloGenX]

Are you forgetting that a majority of that time was spent remaking XIV practically from the ground up? It's not like they were sitting around just working on content.

I respect that, and they did an amazing job. I am just noting that there are issues that I think are systemic. Some people have noted the removal of complexity as a design intent. I just wonder how simple they intend the design to be and if they consider the current situation to be a success. If so, I don't know what kind of long term character development opportunities there will be in the game.