Thread: What are you hoping for/expecting from 7.0?

What i expect:

- more simplification on jobs due the accesibility agenda of Yoshi-p
- DRK ignored and gameplay left with the current awful state, i bet we get more living shadow traits and unmend too.
- Healers ignored again and keep the same trending.
- Bards ignored.
- If not fixed by the actual uproad SAM ignored too.
- Less combat content and make more easy for the sake of making everyhting easy.
- Even more content cut.
- More scions hang outs to save whatever thing its now the problem.
- Vieras and roghtgars Hair/Hats situations remaining the same.
- Somehow zenos have return ~ P.D
- Y'sthola looks like it's going to suffer a fatal wound or a situation she won't come back and plof she do it again.

What i hope:

- Yoshi-p stop this current agenda and turn back to make proper gameplay and content again.
- the Dev team start managing better they resourcers and manpower to deliver aprox the same amount of content they use to do in terms of cuantity and durability allowing players to invest mroe in the game again.
- Develop Jobs better, putting more effort and more personal to manage, develop and make the jobs have better skill ceiling with a proper skill floor.
- Reworking healers to offer a rewarding and a engaing gameplay in every kind of content, put more responsabilitys on tanks gameplay and help DRK, BRD, MCH, SAM, AST, SCH, WHM, SGE gameplays by making them as good as proper developed jobs like BLM or DRg.
- An story without the scions and less plot armour for the good guys, more consequences and more deaths without unrealistics comebacks if they wanna make a story with soem serious theme.
- Housing fixes, stop slaving players with fear to lose they house if they don't log in for more than a month.
- Less fomo.
- Improves on the U.I and tools to give less reasons to ppl use mods to compensate the lack of info in the game.
- Less useless Gauges (Darkside gauge as a example)
- An expansion of the Hall of the novice, proper explanation of jobs mechanics at max levels accesible to be consulted and tested in the hall of the novice, instances for players to test what they learn and stop lowering dificulty by allowing to players learn how to play inside the game.

I expect an enjoyable MSQ, fun raids with some amazing music... and that's about it.

Everything else will probably be the same. Same classes with one new button and a few traits. Same gearing. More of the same old Fates. Same old crafting, just easier. More forgettable Beast tribes with their usual 5 minute daily chore. More dungeons that are the same 3 corridors and 3 bosses. Another housing Ward with no instanced housing. Some gimmick content that doesn't work out.

It'll be fine, probably worth the sub if no new games come out, but doesn't exactly have me jumping about with excitement.

Zenos returns as our new Reaper Avatar/Stand. (Seriously, SE, do this! I will love you forever if this happens!)

I don't expect much of anything, but I want the devs to stop catering to people who don't play the game.

Just make MSQ gatekeep instead of doing nothing to teach people how to play, even if that requires a full rework of the entire MSQ, including job quest and solo instances.

Originally Posted by Johners

Discontinuing the PS4 client in favour of building of a modern baseline on PS5 and more recent PC hardware. The PS5 will have been on the market for a full three years by the time 7.0 is likely to drop on a two year expansion cycle. They've already got plans for various graphical improvements so it would be nice to actually see that alongside much newer hardware to build the best zones yet. You can see the difference in the game between PS3-era zones and those that came after PS3 support was dropped.

That seems incredibly unlikely. Sony just recently said PS5 supply is up a bit, from 11.2 to 18 million in this fiscal year, but that's still very low of a number in relation to demand. And this fiscal year doesn't end until March 2023, so we won't know what their projections for the next will be for a while.

What is it with the human condition that leads so many to incessantly complain? Whether they’re still engaging in the activity they’re simultaneously complaining about or admit they don’t play (as if their opinion should even be heard then).

I’ve been playing since beta on ps3, and honestly: it’s not THAT bad lol. The game hasn’t changed that goddam much. Sastasha was and is a lengthy corridor within which one fights 3 bosses.
I mean, you do have to “find a key,” but not really, no.
Healing was never very complicated. Throw out some DoTs, Bane, spam your aoe. In a boss fight, apply 2 DoTs, spam your single target haha.
Housing was always nigh unobtainable, and the glamour system was unassailably worse. I have nightmares about it.

All of you have rose-tinted glasses or you’ve lost objective reasoning because it’s simply more fun to bitch. I mean, heck, these days it’s somehow a compliment if someone calls you a bitch, so clearly we live in a society that really lauds complaining.

The game isn’t that bad. And it’s not near death lol. There’s a queue for me to get onto my server literally every day, at every time. At least 20. Without fail.

Don’t get me wrong: the game has faults. I said healing has always been boring — I didn’t say that’s not a problem. But you guys are acting like they’re “not listening” when you’ve continued to sub and play what is essentially an unchanging game for 10 years now. How is their fault? And why do you continue?

Because it’s FUN. Even tho something within you can’t admit it to yourself or on forums, the game is fun. And there are things that work well.

It doesn’t kill you to acknowledge that instead of spouting more incessant whining.

And before anyone says to me that the forum is about what changes should be made, there’s a difference between suggesting a change and saying, “I want this but I know we will just get more X, Y, Z because the devs don’t listen to us and the game is dying and they don’t care blah blah blah shut me up please.”

Learn how to say your “suggestions.”

My wish for 7.0 is simple:
Healing needs to be revamped. I LOVE healing, but I so often am not healing, bc I’m dpsing with my two buttons. Simple fix really: take away 3, 4 of our healing spells (honestly we have so many I can’t even find uses for them all in every dungeon) and give us 3 or 4 dps abilities.

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel, make healing harder etc.
Just maker healers like a dps-support role. A dps that throws out heals when needed.
Even in savage and extreme content healers get bored, bc once your learn the dance, so few heals are actually needed. Give us more dps abilities

I'm hoping for heavier commitment to "side" stuff that has longevity during the patch lulls like reworking old Gold Saucer games to more modern and enjoyable group content (ex. imagine Chocobo racing being closer to modern Mario Karts).
Also putting more work on PvP and Mahjong. Mahjong has fallen behind the free clients hard and only has a one and done title + jank as reward, they could use their own top 100 and quality of life fixes.
PvP needs RW roulette, more basic rewards for Ranked over Casual, removal of the star system for early ranks, a crossmode Relic and access to more useful stuff to buy with the currencies (such as Hunt currency items). Maybe even the Blue Mage battleroyale they were dreaming about.

If they can improve all the player centric engaging content, the game will have a lot better options to spend time during the slower parts of the patch. Having a variety of solo, co-op and PvP options would be great.

I haven't got much expectations of them touching the forementioned side of the game though, so I just expect things going on as usual.

one button game play.

I'd love to see HM Dungeons back as well as Job quests.