February 5th Announcement, Realistic Expectations Thread

[Shougun]

I've no expectations in general, but certainly what I would call high is not just a title announcement or some hyper vague details. If that's what they do I'll probably just snort and carry on with my day, but that'd not be "high" expectation reaching lol..

Moderate to high is that they release a lot of info, so we have a very strong idea of what to expect, and that it's at least of similar quality and breadth to the other expansions. HIGH for me would be announcement of features I've dearly wanted, and or at least announcement of a number of clearly "we went the extra mile" thoughts. Like personally I don't touch my character in creation that often so it's not something I'd OMAHGURD face for, but it would be clear they were going out of their way if that was announced. But like if they announced stuff I've put in other wish list threads, then I'd probably be like HyyypPPeeeEEeEEeEEEeEeEEeee (airship content that isn't ran off a limited system like housing, transformation based job (normal and or both limited and normal), dark theme'd job, role play concepts added (things that add to the element of something existing, like jobs having extra fluff to their theme, environments doing a little bit more to make that "aw that makes sense vibe", I've posted it on before but my most generic examples would be why the world does dragoon take fall damage or why does every monster have to be our level and or also aggro us), etc.

More of the same isn't them doing nothing, I'm sure they work hard to do just that, but we're just talking in the sense of what each person considers low medium high lol.

[Chie_M]

Realistic:
- Hrothgar don't need to use Fantasia to change hairstyles (lol who am I kidding?)

Unrealistic:
- Viera and Hrothgar can now wear hats

[MonsutaMan]

The only unrealistic thing from that list, imo.....Is PS4 support being dropped due to how much money SE lost to that crappy Avengers game.

[Gojin]

no male viera no buy.

[Vickii]

An announcement of the title which will likely be forespoken. An announcement of some of the features and the main story arc. A short trailer.

Then 5.5 show off Nier and final relics, Bozja zone etc.

[Rymi64]

An announcement of the title which will likely be forespoken. An announcement of some of the features and the main story arc. A short trailer.

Then 5.5 show off Nier and final relics, Bozja zone etc.

Why would that stuff when they are already gonna show that exact stuff in the live letter that comes 4 hours after the announcement stream (Unless people forgot that the announcement stream and the LL are separate events)

If i were to guess i would say

-New job/s
-6.0 trailer
-title of expansion
-The next limited job (If they do another one)
-Hint for next raid series
-Announcement that they are working on fixing ronso hair situation and the hat situation for both races

[Rasler_Heios]

Realistic expectations:
- Expansion announcement
- Yoshi wearing t shirt hint as usual

Unrealistic expectations:
- character creator improvement
- PS4 support dropped and moved to Ps5
- graphics engine upgrade
- Hempen Camise/Pantalette outfit’s race restrictions removed
- Blitzball
- Viera Male/Hrothgar Female
- Basically anything
- Male races get better beards

I don’t know, maybe I’m being too pessimistic, but I’m just so used to dissatisfaction from the dev team that it doesn’t even faze me anymore...and I just expect it. So when yoshida says “feel free to have high expectations” for February 5, I can’t help but see that as a troll statement.

I still wish for Encyclopedia Eorzea III, I think this is more realistic

For the rest of unrealistic:
Viera Male, yeah
an instanced housing, especially granted via the MSQ
number of glamour plates matching the number of jobs
PS4 will probably be dropped down the road, but not during this expansion. Players need to move first and with the scarcity of PS5 that's just not doable aotm.
Limited jobs becoming full jobs
Another companion, non-chocobo (like what was just announced for ESO)

[Hycinthus]

This is the first time Yoshida explicitly said “have high expectation”. So I think mine is quite high and I will expect one or two of the unrealistic ones from the OP’s bucket.

[StriderShinryu]

While I do think that a complete overhaul of the character creation/character models is unlikely (sadly) I don't think it's really all that unrealistic to expect more/new options in character creation. Particularly given that it's very unlikely we'll be seeing new races, and probably not even new gendered body types for existing races, I do think a reasonable trade off would be to see at least a few more options for the races we do already have.

[Vickii]

Oh they might announce ishgard housing at last.