Thread: JP interviews [pre-6.5]

Originally Posted by Vahlnir

They tried to copy parts of Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons/Rune Factory/etc, and decided to put their own MMO spin on it, which kinda resulted in it not resembling any of these things. It's a shame, really. It could have been so much better. Not the first time they've taken a good idea and complicated it for no good reason. Looking at you, Lord of Verminion.

Which seems to be a negative trend they've been falling into over the past few years. There have been a fair amount of things that when announced sounded very solid, however they end up fumbling the execution of those ideas horribly. This something pointed at SE in general and not just CBU3 with FF14.

Originally Posted by Nebelheim

I would enjoy having arr and hw type grinds back where the grind lasted for almost the entire patch.

Yeah, same. I don't want relics tied to exploratory zones back because leveling in those zones was godawfully boring. I'm not looking for an MMO where I just camp and grind and meme in shout chat. Been there, done that, need something that's more active. I don't mind if that content exists. Just don't want the relic tied to it. Also would like to see them step away from relics as tied to just adventure and have options utilizing DoH and DoL again like in ARR and HW. Or minigames. It would be fun to be able to get a relic drop by doing a Triple Triad match.

Originally Posted by Nebelheim

It was fun when they implemented materia melding and crafting and combat related stuff it felt like it had variety compared to what we have now.

And levequests. Kind of a shame those got left behind.