G-give it Back T---T; !!

[Shurrikhan]

And now imagine if there were 60 buttons.. oh wait you only have a limited set of button combinations you can hit We have now as many buttons stretched over 90 levels as we had in stormblood stretched over 70. We dont get more, we get stuff ripped out and replaced. All because they need to fit the controller button limit. In 10 years we will have the same amount of skills stretched over 150 levels.

So, we've got two possible rationales here:

1. The devs are trying to keep under ~35 buttons despite even controllers having access to 48. For this reason alone, they in roughly equal parts (A) recycle abilities, giving back near-identical skills at higher levels, and (B) put out uncreative bloat or unpolished clunk that is then, at best, removed and replaced with a newer, shinier recycled or equally half-assed ability.
   
   [I.e. controllers hold back job kit design.]
   
   
2. The devs recycle abilities even while having a quarter to third spare space for the same reason they so often put out uncreative bloat or unpolished clunk: because it apparently isn't worth their bother to invest so much time over more than a handful of jobs' quality of gameplay.
   
   [I.e., Creative bankruptcy / insufficient job developers / low perceived profitability of spending that much time on jobs' quality of gameplay / insufficient developer effort for whatever reason... holds back jobs' quality of gameplay.]

Given that the first has never come close to being the actual bottleneck, I'm having trouble believing it's the key factor here.

Also, claw-gripping

Claw-gripping has nothing to do with how many keys are available to you... It is only done to be able to move and look around while using those keys.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

So, we've got two possible rationales here:

1. The devs are trying to keep under ~35 buttons despite even controllers having access to 48. For this reason alone, they in roughly equal parts (A) recycle abilities, giving back near-identical skills at higher levels, and (B) put out uncreative bloat or unpolished clunk that is then, at best, removed and replaced with a newer, shinier recycled or equally half-assed ability.
   
   [I.e. controllers hold back job kit design.]
   
   
2. The devs recycle abilities even while having a quarter to third spare space for the same reason they so often put out uncreative bloat or unpolished clunk: because it apparently isn't worth their bother to invest so much time over more than a handful of jobs' quality of gameplay.
   
   [I.e., Creative bankruptcy / insufficient job developers / low perceived profitability of spending that much time on jobs' quality of gameplay / insufficient developer effort for whatever reason... holds back jobs' quality of gameplay.]

Given that the first has never come close to being the actual bottleneck, I'm having trouble believing it's the key factor here.



Claw-gripping has nothing to do with how many keys are available to you... It is only done to be able to move and look around while using those keys.

Yes, and it's uncomfortable as hell to me. I wasn't saying it had anything to do with the number of keys. But if you need to be uncomfortable to access all the combinations of keys, it's not a good design.

[Shurrikhan]

Yes, and it's uncomfortable as hell to me. I wasn't saying it had anything to do with the number of keys. But if you need to be uncomfortable to access all the combinations of keys, it's not a good design.

You literally don't need to use it to access all combinations of keys. I just said as much in what you quoted. Why respond to a quote you haven't read?

*I* use it because it's *more* comfortable for *me* (than moving my thumbs back and forth). You can do all that without claw-grip, just by moving your thumbs a bit more. That just happens to be more painful for me over time than claw-grip.

[Renalt]

[Vahlnir]

Easily my favorite Jim Carrey movie. Bruce Almighty is a close second though.

[Deceptus]

You can have your one button back that got removed in 6.1 when SCH get their seven buttons back that got removed in 5.0. (I fully expect them to attempt to remove Energy Drain again in 7.0)

[RitsukoSonoda]

Easily my favorite Jim Carrey movie. Bruce Almighty is a close second though.

Imagine a sequel where instead of just 1 person being unable to lie, the entire world was effected... >.>

[Vahlnir]

Imagine a sequel where instead of just 1 person being unable to lie, the entire world was effected... >.>

Liar Liar: World's On Fire

[BaconBits]

You can have your one button back that got removed in 6.1 when SCH get their seven buttons back that got removed in 5.0. (I fully expect them to attempt to remove Energy Drain again in 7.0)

The pain I felt after getting back from an 8 month long deployment at sea, separating from the Navy with an Honorable Discharge, driving back home and booting up my PS4 to see what new changes Shadowbringers brought to the game just to be immediately slapped in the face by this grotesque homunculus that took the place of my favorite class was immeasurable.

[Yuella]

Bring back cleric stance! DPSing as a healer should come with a risk!