Quote Originally Posted by FlutterYuu View Post
reading everyones responses have gotten me thinking... but also worrying...
If it's any consolation, consider that most of the negative criticism is indication that there is a desire for improvement, rather than just a desire for a vindictive reckoning. There are a few people who would say that the negative criticism has to be worded to their own specifications to "count as criticism," but as long as the negativity is expressed in any way, the expression still remains as "this needs/could use improvement" regardless of whatever literary coherency there may or may not be.
So at least there's that.
It's just that there's more and newer voices with this expression of malcontent, so it's becoming more glaring that things have either been pushed back too much or backburners are getting way too crowded, if there's any actual desire to bring things up to really cook.

In my opinion, 7.0 will not bring any radical gameplay changes because they will just be focusing on the graphics update and engine updates related to graphics (which I can't bring myself to think will be some massively substantial upgrade if we're retaining PS4 compatibility, unless they're willing to make a system that allows minimal upgrades for the PS4 version while implementing bigger upgrades for other versions); so all this time waiting in hopes of improved gameplay is wasteful, for those who are. The latest I see any major gameplay changes happening is 8.0, unless they decide to really work harder on XIV and begin changing up the gameplay mid-expansion (which I doubt), and in the meantime I see them trying to increase the ease of play for jobs that they deem are too complicated (AST/DRG).