I hope Square doesn't keep deeming certain content unnecessary

[lezard21]

Show these charts then.

On a quick search this is the one I could find which only does a comparison between SB vs ShB.

* To that chart I would add that before we used to have a questline for each job, and now we only have a questline for each role, which is a very drastic reduction.
I remember a more popular one that compared all expansions, but right now couldn't find it. Will get back to this later.

The only thing that has consistently increased through time is cutscenes, with ARR only having 3 hours of voiced cutscenes, HW having 4 hours, SB having 6 hours, and ShB having 9! hours, and EW has been announced to have even more cutscenes. Forgive me for not being part of the "FFxiv story circlejerk", but I'm paying a videogame sub to play a videogame, not watch a movie.

[Lauront]

On a quick search this is the one I could find which only does a comparison between SB vs ShB.

* To that chart I would add that before we used to have a questline for each job, and now we only have a questline for each role, which is a very drastic reduction.
I remember a more popular one that compared all expansions, but right now couldn't find it. Will get back to this later.

The only thing that has consistently increased through time is cutscenes, with ARR only having 3 hours of voiced cutscenes, HW having 4 hours, SB having 6 hours, and ShB having 9! hours, and EW has been announced to have even more cutscenes. Forgive me for not being part of the "FFxiv story circlejerk", but I'm paying a videogame sub to play a videogame, not watch a movie.

And to add to that, the story quality is variable and is down also to subjective tastes. I liked most of 5.0 and portions of 5.3, as well as 5.5 part 1, but not to the point that it would suffice to hook me to the game. And it can also cut both ways on that basis; 6.0 will be a bellwether for how they're likely to handle future writing, even if the plot moves away from the H/Z arc, so if I dislike it and the PVE content is underwhelming, I'll find something else to play.

[KDSilver]

On a quick search this is the one I could find which only does a comparison between SB vs ShB.

"No limited job"
But... BLU got an update twice... both lvl 60 and 70. You can't ignore that.

DoL/DoH got ocean fishing as well, the rework of diadem (that probably took time they could have have spend elswhere) for Ishgard as well as the big readjustment of crating. We can't ignore that too. That's dev time.
They got some of the lvl 70 crafted primal weapon. Not every pieces from lvl 50 though indeed. But are we going to ignore as well that having 2 more jobs in the game mean more time spend on creating weapon in general ? Same goes for the new races that isn't even listed.

What really dislike with this is, it doesn't take into account everything that should be.
This chart alone doesn't cover every single QoL ShB brought as well that definitly took some dev time.
ARR overall for example isn't mentionnted either.

I would have gladly shared the general opinion if it was honest. This chart shows it's not.