Well that's the reality of the situation. It's hard to believe things are so bad when reading these forums it seems everybody is in love with the game post 1.18.

SE's biggest difficulty is to market these changes to the people who have left because all changes by themselves are pretty minor that contribute to a bigger very slow change that we've hopefully seen the beginning of.

Airships and Chocobos are really nice but in a game that has a ( in my opinion a bad hacked in) system like anima the transportation was never a major gameplay issue to begin with for those players who were on the fence and haven't been playing non-stop to burn their massive anima pools.

I hope the are redesigns will be dramatic enough to be an effective marketing tool. If it's just more variety to trees then I'm afraid nobody will care.