Xenosys Vex explains how to save the game

[Aldath]

If anything, the story fights getting nerfed each time a new expansion hits is probably more an issue than the jobs themselves. Someone doesn't even need to throw a single mitigation up on Hades anymore.

It's not that they're nerfed, powercreep + high ilvl sync broke them. If you try to do any of those with synced minilvl they are still fun at the very least. Game progression when queueing feels worse than how it really should be because of this. You'll get paired with people with higher total ilvl than you and most instances aren't properly adjusted for it.

[Arkdra]

Job simplification is detrimental, I have seen several streams of players running endwalker content having zero idea how to play the job, zero care on actually wanting to learn it, clicking on abilities, seating in CDs, using OGcds like they are non OGCD... SE seems to want to lower the ceiling of jobs towards this players. Is disrespectful

This is like 80% of the playerbase they have 0 reason to balance towards anyone else. Frankly, it's working! I think I've only run into like, 1 tank since shb that couldn't hold threat. I run into a lot fewer honest healers. Feels like I run into fewer complete failures for healers, but nowadays even when I do, the tank and dps can kinda muddle through with their own sustains, fight dependent.

[Zakon]

I think the game could use some more optional grindy content. I didn't really know what a nice role Bozja filled until we didn't have a Bozja/Eureka equivalent in this expansion. The relic weapon series in Endwalker in particular was a disappointment. At first I liked being able to just get the relic with the lesser tomestones each patch cycle, but now by the end, I feel so little satisfaction towards the weapons. They almost feel like just a filler weapon to tide you over until you have the tomestone weapon for the patch cycle, as opposed to an end-of-expansion achievement that I worked for.

Zepla made a great video on this topic. There's a nice middle ground between too much grind and too little grind, as well as too many incentives to log in versus too little incentive to log in, and Endwalker was way too far into the "too little" category on both counts.

I feel like Stormblood and Shadowbringers found the nice happy middle ground between the two and I hope we'll return to that in Dawntrail.

I'm kind of hoping that Endwalker's lackluster content patch cycles was caused by them having to develop Final Fantasy 16 at the same time.

[DiaDeem]

[Turtledeluxe]

I'm starting to think this game is just old and SE has seen the writing on the wall, so they're doing their best to dress up the corpse and keep you all paying before sending it to pasture for FFXVIII.

People have been arguing a lot of these same issues for years and years, including Xenos. It seems obvious to me the core audience is mostly condoning the devs because they're locked into a trance of passive acceptance. It's like, "well I like the story or X other thing so I may as well defend the game". That's why when he criticizes it he is quick to say "oh but it's fine don't get rid of X thing I just insinuated is bad". Even when people criticize they have to sort of back away from the criticism bc the attack force will come to get them and also, in the back of our minds, don't we all know the team is making all the bad decisions they are making with some imaginary audience they have in mind that will sustain the game?

No one wants to believe Yoshi P and co are purposely turning the game into an autopilot Solo play disaster on purpose because not only does it mean that they are flawed but also it means even the most dedicated player is just a number.

[Zakon]

I'm starting to think this game is just old and SE has seen the writing on the wall, so they're doing their best to dress up the corpse and keep you all paying before sending it to pasture for FFXVIII.

People have been arguing a lot of these same issues for years and years, including Xenos. It seems obvious to me the core audience is mostly condoning the devs because they're locked into a trance of passive acceptance. It's like, "well I like the story or X other thing so I may as well defend the game". That's why when he criticizes it he is quick to say "oh but it's fine don't get rid of X thing I just insinuated is bad". Even when people criticize they have to sort of back away from the criticism bc the attack force will come to get them and also, in the back of our minds, don't we all know the team is making all the bad decisions they are making with some imaginary audience they have in mind that will sustain the game?

No one wants to believe Yoshi P and co are purposely turning the game into an autopilot Solo play disaster on purpose because not only does it mean that they are flawed but also it means even the most dedicated player is just a number.

I just came back to see if any other replies of substance were made since I posted and this got likes? lol

Yeah, sure, square-enix sees the writing on the wall for the 2nd most popular MMORPG on the market, which recently got a massive influx of players which caused them to run out of CD keys and necessitated more server space, and is now soon getting XBox support.

The major criticisms about the game from veteran players at the moment is that they want to be able to play it more than they already do.

All of these are signs of a dying game which will soon be put on life support, clearly

If this is the kind of nonsense which gets likes then clearly the forums are not a place for worthwhile discussions about this game.

[Arkdra]

If this is the kind of nonsense which gets likes then clearly the forums are not a place for worthwhile discussions about this game.

Well yes Zakon. It is an Official Game Forum. Those have never been valuable. Frankly it's the longest standing mmo tradition.