Quote Originally Posted by Aronys View Post
I am cautious. I was super hype for Stormblood, but that expansion ended up as a major disappointment. Got burned so hard that I quit the game for almost a year. I do like the potential theories of where the plot is heading this time, and I like the jungle zone they are introducing (something I wanted for a while), but I won't hype over it. The game stopped being as fun as it used to be, but I'm willing to give it a chance again and do want them to dazzle me. Do they have a chance? Sure. But I will still be cautious.
This sums up my feelings pretty well, tbh. I was hyped for Stormblood, it turned out to be a bit of a dud for me in quite a lot of ways; before that, I was so insanely hyped for Astrologian in HW it's a wonder I didn't get an embolism from being glued to my chair for 24 years speed-leveling it at launch, and it turned out to have a myriad of design issues and still continues to wreak havoc on the balance team wherever it goes. Even if/when the new healer job is revealed, I'm taking it with a truuuuuuuuuuuckload of salt (although admittedly, since I quit playing/raiding like 6 months ago, being casual does give me the freedom to main it even if it turns out to be undertuned or not meta).

Things like Diadem and Eureka have also promised big but failed to deliver, IMO. I'm not going to automatically dismiss new features as failures before they're even implemented, but so far IIRC only really PotD/HoH actually seemed to be a unique concept that worked out well in terms of fun, engagement, and reward factor.