Combat system is beyond saving.

[Ephremjlm]

Hmm, after reading these comments, seeing who voted what, I actually think the feedback was spot on. You gotta remember the ultra casuals aren't represented here.

I saw a comment that said OP cares WAY more than the commenter and that OP would be here way after the commenter. It's true. It's almost parasitic how it works really. Game is made great for targeted audience, game uses audience to draw new audience, game starts tailoring to make new audience larger, game starts to disregard old audience because they're smaller and most will stay anyways via sunken cost fallacy and general addiction, and the larger audience can now be utilize to grow even larger and the cycle continues. Only difference is that original audience will stay invested emotionally while the secondary or third audiences leave without care when bored.

THAT SAID, I wonder how things will be treated now. Telling your audience to play other games when you are a live service and your goal is to maximize profits for a massive corporation that is now bleeding and will likely not get the same Sony funding means that for the first time in a while, OG audience might have some leverage. Its also known that FFXIV didn't retain the large WOW audience like they thought they would. Couple that with Trusts now almost being 100% implemented for all MSQ, button bloat iabout to be fixed via button stacking (meaning more room for varied abilities), and we are kind of set up for the exact opposite thing that happened with FFXI where trusts mostly finished off combat and social cooperation, whereas for FFXIV they might be revived. Yoshi P mentioned regrets about combat, and during live letter he said that 2 months prior his team was already discussing making jobs more unique again for 8.0. To end this point on player feedback, we are getting ANOTHER limited job, open world zones are coming back due to popular demand and disappointment in EW, and to everyone's surprise a dedicated FFXI raid series. All of these scream a return back to MMO normalcy, as opposed to FF Habbo Hotel where fashion and housing is the focus.

I have no clue what the future holds, however if in 8.0 we don't see major changes I'd personally say its a wrap for me. BUT, I think people can have fun however they want to because who am I to tell them otherwise. Though, if you don't support something then voting with your wallet is the only way to see change. If you really love it then it's the right thing to do otherwise you're just enabling something you don't support. They are a company and they need to EARN your sub, EVERY month. Again SE is bleeding right now so they might be incentivized to listen.