Quote Originally Posted by Rae88 View Post
They've been constantly working on data center visit since that point. Diving was an incredibly superficial system that didn't add almost anything to the game TBH and I wish was never introduced. Ocean fishing is still very popular, I don't see how you can say it was abandoned. Mahjong hasn't been dropped and last I heard was INCREDIBLY popular in Japan (there's an annual mahjong tournament).

I'm not into making excuses for the devs, but I've played a game where the devs DO drop ALL the endgame system every expansion and introduce new ones each time and FFXIV is nothing like that. Squadrons were abandoned presumably to keep the incentive of playing with other people and that's fair enough

EDIT: Also Island sanctuary was originally supposed to come in Shadowbringers I think, which would have fleshed out content a bit but oh well. Things got delayed
Squadrons were abandoned to make room for trusts which....just function way worse lol. A downgrade in a sense. Instead of expanding on squadrons they dropped them for something worse. Ocean fishing has arguably no use once you’ve hit cap on fisher unless you want achievements. Mahjong sees almost little to no play in the West and is only popular in like you said JP, which makes sense. It was content designed mainly due to the popularity of one group. Diving was at least something new and gave new ways to explore which is more than can be said for ShB which introduced nothing of the sort. None of this really addresses the other downgrades though like the missing voice acting in the weapons series. The missing primal weapons for gnb and dnc and the missing unique Ultimate Models for them as well. The loss of hildibrand quests or allied beast tribe quests. The missing pvp set, missing end of expansion set....