February 5th Announcement, Realistic Expectations Thread

[Aniya_Estlihn]

I expect the standard stuff. They'll flaunt sub numbers, tease us about the story, etc. Though I think they won't delay with revealing a job; or two, and will generally just have more of the normal stuff we've come to expect from a keynote on show since there's only two events this time.

Also... Seeing a lot of comments about how this is "budgetbringers" or that content is being lost and nothing put in its place, and I feel like people are just drastically undervaluing the things we have gotten this expansion.

Content is being lost, make no mistake about that, but the resources aren't lost (which is what matters) and are being repurposed for things that simply take more time and effort as a whole.

The budget isn't lower, lets just get that language out of out vocabularies as its painfully inaccurate when you look at the expansion as a whole—I was listing everything "new" we've gotten, content or otherwise and exceeded 6,000 characters here listing it all out compared to what has truly be lost. Further, purportedly this budget is the highest the game has had so far, it's just being funneled into things that take too long to actually get out each patch, that aren't readily apparent to us while playing daily, or that we do once, think "wow that was cool" then forget it exists (G Warrior or the Bozja solo instance to name just a couple....)

Shadowbringers has added a lot of casual and roleplay things while ignoring battle content, but to say any of the resources freed up were lost is just foolish.
This is coming from someone who is bored as hell with what we have gotten, hates exploratory content like Eureka and Bozja, and would prefer it to be axed altogether in favor of more engaging, repeatable things.