Game is looking bright in the future with the content that is being said but I have to see it first honestly to make a final determination. So I would say I am on the optimistic side but not at the OMG this game is going to the best mmo eva point.

All the future content sounds good, but we have to see how in-dept it is. Shallow game is a fail game. I want to know what kind of endgame will come out of XIV. Will it be all small instanced like dungeons like alot of western mmos (complete fail) or will it have complex events like XI where there was multiple tiers and paths which decided the results, events that took more then a day of work to complete (you had to do them in stages, like VNMs, ZNMs, Limbus, Einherjar..etc)?

All the content they said they are adding add could be good it sounds like it to me anyways. But the style of the event can be bad.. I mean the Dark Hold dungeon was good in my opinion (challenging, unique in the game atm, was hard until you figured out the strat) but for many there is literally no reason to reenter the dungeon ever again (Shallow, short lived content). SE needs to add long-lived content with a reason to keep doing it, or the cycle of not enough events will continue to happen. Atm SE is not releasing content fast enough to have short lived events. For some linkshells at 1.19 unless something is added to old content all the content prior to it will be meaningless to them... and that is a major problem which I am hesitant is even being noticed by devs atm.



If they mix up long events with short ones, large group more then 8, small group 3-8, and solo stuff the future is really bright. If they keep this 8 person cap, short term only western style content... well this game is in deep trouble in the future, unless they can crank out like a new dungeon every other week.