Quote Originally Posted by Absurdity View Post
It's only the main XIV subreddit where everyone is acting like this game is the 2nd coming of Christ, but it's also the first thing people find when they look for the game on reddit.
That sub didn't used to be like that.
That sub changed it's flavour after the massive WoW exodus happened at the last year of SHB expansion, Asmon "leading" the WoW streamer jump ship didn't help either.

At first, that sub turned into "CBU3 good, Blizzard bad" echo chamber, then at the middle of Endwalker expansion where the honey moon period of "former WoW Streamer" ended and return being WoW Streamer after WoW Dragonflight expansion dropped.

And now that sub is full of fan-art galore (Yes, this is coming from an artist),
#1938473 post about GNB's Superbolide and WHM's Benediction meme,
#2948595 post about BLM as well as DPS's "healer adjust" meme,
#8374753 post about Scion's meme, #9274849 post about Zenos's meme,
#3648482 post being sad about some character's death
#9283939 post being sad and fall in love with Emet

I could list on and on, but that will derail the topic.

Here the things, it is painfully obvious that CBU3 prioritize accessibility over gameplay engagement, and that is not the worst thing about FFXIV.

The worst thing about this design philosophy as well direction is that, it's generate a TON of money to SQEX, at the cost of player experience. How do I know this? Let's say I used to be part of R18 game doujin circle on dlsite, but that would require me open a new thread to discuss, which I don't feel like do it, for now.

CBU3 will only consider going for Unique Job Gameplay design, if the current job design don't generate a TON of money to SQEX.