Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
what some players are looking for now is direct assurance that things won't continue the way they have this expansion.
They will. They plan an expansion's patches before the expansion even releases. They showed us concept art for Island Sanctuary before Endwalker even released. They told us the whole (obviously vague) plan at the very beginning of the expansion. That is why it won't change. To change an expansion's patches, you need to be asking before the .4 or .3 patch of the previous expansion. After the .3 patch is when they begin working on the next expansion, after all.

Soon we will begin getting details of the next expansion, so now we are reaching the point where the plan for the next expansion is decided and feedback is realistically going to need to pertain to that or it's a wasted effort.

The time has come to admit that somewhere down the line, some wrong turns were taken. But as before, this isn't to say that things are beyond any hope of salvation. The promise of the return to exploratory zones for next expansion for instance, restoration content, or similar systems if spoken now would at least give those who lost trust the impression that someone out there is listening and seriously considering peoples' concerns.
Perhaps, but I think this is more likely to occur at a fan fest live letter, where they actually discuss the next expansion.

short term solutions could include revamping the reward structure for Variant/Criterion dungeon in a massive way, the immediate shift for 6.45 and 6.55 relics to specific content such as those dungeons or other battle content, and adding more appealing rewards to Eureka Orthos such as alternate weapons, gearsets, or even gil rewards.
Those things we could see in the next live letter, I suppose, because they are minor changes.