SAMURAI SHOWDOWN

[Nalien]

it requires the least amount of extra development work and the least amount of issues disrupting balance.

While this is true, it's exactly why I don't want something like that... Ideally, if I'm getting a new expansion with new Jobs, I want those things to actually be new... Another physical slashing tank wearing Fending is the easiest thing to produce, but it's also something I've already got three of, so I have very little interest in having a forth... A mage based tank would be new, we currently have nothing like that in the game, the fact that it would require more work from the developers means little to me considering I'm a paying consumer... I'm paying for their product, and if they're not going to offer variety, instead opting to cookie cutter their way through future content, I'll start reconsidering that... The state of dungeons is bad enough...

I mean, after what the developers did with Bard and Machinist I'm fully aware that new Jobs are probably going to be handled in the cheapest way possible, rather than anything that offers true variety. Various new content gives some hope that the developers aren't just planning to use the same template for the rest of the games life, but I'm still fully expecting new Jobs to be fairly lackluster. Ideally though? Ideally I'd like all the money from subscriptions and the cash shop to stop going into FFXV/FFVII and to start being put back into XIV to give us some decent variety of content... Looking at Jobs like Bard and Summoner, I have no expectations that they'll deliver what I want from future Jobs, but I'm allowed to voice hopes for such things, no?