Quote Originally Posted by lotlizard View Post
This game is so dumbed down feels like Habbo Hotel with GCDs now.

I reeaaaaaaallyyyy don't like how sqenix pandered to the casual playerbase for this expansion. It's like they had a boardroom meeting and asked themselves the question, "who are the biggest whales?" and one higher up said "oh! It's the fantasia addict miqotes and lalas clogging up every player hub. You know, the ones with the worst adventurer plates known to mankind". So on they went using Fisher-Price design philosophy to update all the classes for dawntrail. You wanted to play dark knight? Too bad! Living Shadow is now recommended for ages 3 and up, and Blood Weapon was intended only for mature audiences. Viewer discretion advised, so we baked that into delirium. Now use that keybind you just freed up to /bread!!! Someone needs to do a case study on how MMOs went from the type of rewarding, cutting-edge challenging content that was in Heavensward and Stormblood, to the monthly subscription to social media we have today.
Honestly it was a great marketing move for Squeenix to get rid of Blood Weapon and put it into Delirium instead. They gotta keep the game rated T somehow so that they can market it to as wide an audience as possible, and having 'blood' in the name of an ability isn't doing them any favors. Maybe getting rid of little things like that is going to change the game eventually into something that it didn't use to be, but personally I'm happy as long as I get to simp over elezens.