Quote Originally Posted by Ixon View Post
When Yoshi-P took control of FFXIV in 2010 he did so under one condition; that he would be given complete control over FFXIV to do whatever he thought was necessary to turn it around. Square Enix agreed with one stipulation, that they would retain control over the Mogstation and Mogstation items. In fact, Yoshi-P himself had mentioned a few times about the "scary woman/Empress/Baroness" in charge of the Mogstation on multiple occasions. You can look all this up yourself. So, at the end of the day FFXIV is under the direction of Yoshi-P, and while I am sure he gets paid fairly well, I don't think he is as tyrannical as others point him out to be and isn't out to nickel and dime us all.

How are we getting less than normal? Pretty sure we got exactly the same amount of dungeons and trials we got last expansion on release. In fact, this expansion had hours of more MSQ I believe? More of it being cinematic and voiced over than before? Not to mention the addition of two new jobs that they have to introduce and balance throughout the game in addition to the other 17 jobs that have to be balanced, and adding trusts to every dungeon and some of the trial bosses. The game isn't perfect, the game can be better, but when you complain about a coat, or that the devs aren't doing enough despite what they have to work through, everything else falls on deaf ears.
Regarding all the talk about gear re-use, I've taken the time to compile the data across all four expansions.

This is looking at gear from a WAR point of view.
Explanation below the image.



Link if images doesn't load: https://imgur.com/gallery/8JVr3JK

Purple: First time the gear model was used, never used since
Green: First time the gear model was used, later re-used
Blue: Re-used gear, but role-swapped
Yellow: Gear re-used on same role
For the re-used and swapped gear, I've listed the name of the original item.

Not including AF, tome or raiding gear as they even out across the expansions. While HW AF gear was tome2, the expansion did have the crafted Chivalric Coat set that was unique at the time (re-used in 3.05).

This does not look at dye, only gear models.

Based on this, we can see that the amount of new gear models is lowering from expansion to expansion.