Boring design

[ThorneDynasty]

I agree. It's just so confusing why these terrible ideas are pushed into the game. Do they even play the game they make?!

Almost all the changes to the jobs from 6.0 onward aren't about making the game more fun to play, but to make the devs' jobs easier.

[Truen]

Almost all the changes to the jobs from 6.0 onward aren't about making the game more fun to play, but to make the devs' jobs easier.

Yeah ...6.0 was terrible, but it was 5.0 that broke my love for the game in a big way. I still play, but 4.0 healing was so fun it made me really believe this was the greatest mmo ever made. Now I barely remember it. 6.0 was just more of the same spread across more areas.

Homogenization is a term that I'll always hate thanks to FF14; it's just ruined so much!

[Absurdity]

Yeah ...6.0 was terrible, but it was 5.0 that broke my love for the game in a big way. I still play, but 4.0 healing was so fun it made me really believe this was the greatest mmo ever made. Now I barely remember it. 6.0 was just more of the same spread across more areas.

Homogenization is a term that I'll always hate thanks to FF14; it's just ruined so much!

I unfortunately saw the writing on the wall with the ShB media tour and it's job preview.
I stopped playing WoW back in Legion for that exact same reason, WoD already simplified all classes heavily and then they doubled down on it. Since Stormblood had just recently released I decided to make XIV my main MMO and had a blast for the entirety of 4.X.

So imagine my disappointment when the Shadowbringers preview showed the exact same red flags as WoW did.


Even worse is that Blizzard realized after Battle for Azeroth that the constant ability pruning and homogenization was a terrible idea, but XIV is instead doubling and trippling down.