So...about that white magitek mount

[Yasuhiro]

I used to love the franchise but it's these kind of people who made me quit this love.

Why would you let people shape your opinion on a game series? lol.
They have nothing to do with its development.

[Colorful]

Because WoW-players want to bring more things from there to FFXIV, when this games should be walking the path to be more of a FF. I see a lot of players saying they don't like certain things because "a MMORPG shouldn't be like this, look at WoW for example".

You know Brachiosaur? The one dino that casts meteor? I read a group of WoW players that migrated here saying it was bad design, that SE has "no imagination and create dinos that cause meteors". They didn't even know that the mob came from FFVI where he also casts meteor and is the most powerful normal encounter monster.

It sincerely disgusts me to see people who know nothing about this franchise try to change this game for the worst. All this hardcore raid mentality, elitist mentality, "don't add relics because it's gonna ruin the raids", "MSQ is too big, the game shouldn't require us to do it", all these things, they don't belong in a Final Fantasy game and every time I see them on the forums, they're coming from a WoW player.

Disgust is quite a strong word for something so minor. But many people I play with that started off with FFXIV as their first MMO think Brachiosaur is ridiculous, I'm willing to bet it's meant to be ridiculous. The idea of a dinosaur bringing down its own extinction, do you think the developers of FFVI sat down and thought "Yeah, this isn't a joke at all, people are going to take this super seriously", no, likely not. Final Fantasy is filled with silly things like the Cactuar, Moogles or Goobbues and that's why people love it. To say it disgusts you because people don't share the same taste in you is strange, you're just about the first Final Fantasy elitist I've met. Another thing, 99% of these suggestions are changing it for the worst. Implementing the Artifact system from Legion into the Anima weapons would be a great idea, and would only do to improve the system. Implementing a glamour log would only improve the game, implementing large scale raids would only improve the game, etc.

Regarding the MSQ, you do realize that the Warcraft has one of the most interesting and in depth lore in a video game franchise? It's leaps and bounds ahead of anything FFXIV could conjure up, which heavily on references and Allagan this Allagan that (although recently it's taken a poor turn), Void Ark has done to improve on non-Allagan lore, I can say that much. I've also seen plenty of complaints about the length of the MSQ from non-WoW players, I'm sorry but when you create a 50+ hour experience for 2.0 alone, and then have 80% of that be filler? Yeah, people are going to be peeved. Not only that, but then there's 2.1-2.55, which again, is 50% filler at the very least, then they have to through the entirety of Heavensward which at least is only 20-30% filler. You don't see why all of that might annoy me a new player?

PS. WoW has dinosaurs too, a lot of them actually. Far more than FFXIV has, and in places that make no sense similar to FFXIV too.