Quote Originally Posted by FizzleofHyperion View Post
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That is just a lazy way for developers to get players in and only works in the short term. The developers are right when they say that FFXIV needs to be it's own thing and any nostalgic factors from other games has to make sense and written well into the story. Things like Crystal Tower and Cloud of Darkness work because they are still part of the FFXIV world and CoD is more of an entity than an actual person.

All developers need to do to make their three points work is to fix raid structure that I have gone over plenty of times in here, make Diadem have a variety of reasons for wanting to go in without creating an imbalance with raids, and attempt to put fun in between grinds in the relic. In concept, all three are easy to improve, but I am very sure the developers are going to make ways for them to be worse and no one is happy at the end of the day. Raids we know are already going to be worse in design, can check that off. Maybe they can fix Diadem. We know they are going to keep anima weapons absolutely awful, can check that off also.