Quote Originally Posted by shao32 View Post
SHB has been praised by his story and his smooth release wich was the best by far on the history of the game but outside of that the game has been accumulating critics non stop.
The combat system simplification specially for healers and tanks SHB has been a poor expansion in terms of gameplay experience for them + a lack of combat content from casual to hardcore stuff with less dungeons, no deep duengeon, lack of pvp and just 1 ultimate we recive way less compared to other expansions.
Viera and roghtgar has suffer tons of crittics not only for his limited implementation but specially for the total lack of updates through the expansion patchs and in the end we didn't get anything that excuse the cuts they have been doing, so is not a joke when ppl has been calling this expansion Casualbringers, Budgetbringers, Crafterbingers ect ect ect, and covid just make everything more odvious by delaying everything 2 months.

From my perspective SHB promise much and fails in the process, smooth launch, acceptable story for me but outside of that has been a downhill in terms of gameplay experience and content delivery, i hope they learned and do better on Endwalker and its Devs doing and SE.
The expansion as a whole is cinematic, its pretty, very very pretty, but it lacks so much of the depth that we had prior. And its sad because a lot of people may not even feel or notice the changes made and why it feels bad or off, or wonky, why DRKs gameplay loops feels so similar to WARs or why BRD feels so dead and ruined. These are the things that keep people, especially since the story is only every 3 months.