Quote Originally Posted by Gunspec View Post
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You just described FFXIV, and pretty much every other MMO that promises features that are too large and ends up downscaling them. Personal housing, removing a dungeon for airship exploration, lackluster PvP for the sake of PvE content, etc. They're not the driving force of the entire expansion either, so I don't know where you got that from. They're a major feature, sure, but claiming that's a bad thing is like claiming the additional Gold Saucer content is also a bad thing as it takes development time away from other things.

I don't like most things Blizzard has done with WoW recently, but that's no reason to be cynical towards everything they do. Their artifact system is a step up from FFXIV's relic, whether or not they copied it from FFXIV doesn't matter as FFXIV has copied literally almost everything from WoW.