Why is Square Enix so lazy with making weapons lately?

[Raenra]

They add crafted glam weapons during patch content, the last of which was 6.5 for emerald as you noted. So they haven't actually missed anything as yet.
3.3: Striking Tree & Limitless Blue.
3.4: of the Round & Hive
4.1: Fiend
4.4: Nidhogg
4.5: Sophia
5.2: Shinryu
5.3: Suzaku, Tsukuyomi & Seiryu
5.4: Zurvan
5.5: Byakko & Hades
6.1: Susano
6.2: Fae
6.3: Ruby
6.5: Emerald
7.1: ???

[IvoryHawk]

I won't comment much on Hildi, but I actually hated it. I also hated how it was shoved down my throat for the relic, which made me hate it even more. It should've stayed optional...

100% agree, it's something a lot of people complained about too because they'd left it out because there was nothing to gain from it, then all of a sudden made people go through it just for their BIS weapons, i didn't mind it myself but it was just a way for them to shoehorn in what me and many others think were solution 9/raid weapons.

I really hope an FF17 doesn't pop up with it being Yoshida, Koji and the gang again moved off of 14, because it will just put the nail in the coffin of what is actually happening over there, Koji Fox is already mysteriously missing when it comes to the translations/lore and replaced with Kate, at least from what one of the VA's said, who knows what's happening.

[Aldath]

100% agree, it's something a lot of people complained about too because they'd left it out because there was nothing to gain from it, then all of a sudden made people go through it just for their BIS weapons, i didn't mind it myself but it was just a way for them to shoehorn in what me and many others think were solution 9/raid weapons.

I really hope an FF17 doesn't pop up with it being Yoshida, Koji and the gang again moved off of 14, because it will just put the nail in the coffin of what is actually happening over there, Koji Fox is already mysteriously missing when it comes to the translations/lore and replaced with Kate, at least from what one of the VA's said, who knows what's happening.

Honestly, XVI just made me realize I don't want Yoshida leasing anything anymore. XVI isv full of the same problems XIV has in terms of narrative pacing and quest structure. XIV is full of long expository dumps that keep repeating what has been said already, and big maps with nothing to discover, whose only purpose is making you walk to talk to someone. XVI has long cutscenes with expository dumps that need you to consult an in game encyclopedia to understand, and big maps empty of things to discover whose only purpose, again, is to make you walk to talk to somebody.

[PercibelTheren]

Every job should have access to Nidhogg, Thordan, Moogle, and High Allagan weapons

Dreadwyrm ones, too, please. They look so cool in many instances.

[Rueby]

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It was awful and pretty cheap if you think of it, 90% of the bulk of the content was just old stuff made mandatory for a relic. They should've stuck with the alliance raid formula, it would've been more interesting to see something like idk NieR weapons or whatever they could've cooked, then maybe old alliance raids might have any semblance of life.

All Hildi relics had the same ugly VFX slapped on top of them, it was almost reminiscent of the RGB that is slapped on every weapon in Stormblood/Eureka. Somehow it's a trend to make the last stage look way worse than all else..

Well, after EW, I'm kinda boycotting anything that poaches resources/talent from this game while giving us garbage/nothing in return. EW was the expansion that made me genuinely drop the game and look elsewhere, if they keep doing that I'll likely seriously consider unsubbing. The disaster that is this graphical update and how it keeps going kame hame ha on my eyes, alot of areas look ugly, botched anti aliasing, flickering text/edges in the background....It all feels like work done by amateurs.

I refuse to support any other game they dish out, I was really excited and almost proud of FF16, being a drone and showing it to my friends...yeah. Not anymore. I stopped buying mogstation stuff as well. I'm being tethered simply by Zenos/Emet and the memories I have of this game.

Hope they get their shit together and not experiment or test the playerbase on that one thing that saved them from going bankrupt in 1.0

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[PercibelTheren]

It's sad really, and the fans have never held SE accountable EVER, like other mmo's, even runescape has a better community team when it comes to users not being happy with something, heck they even have a polling system for things people would like to see for the future, doesn't matter if it's a small game, it's community engagement and community involvement, it makes you feel a little wanted, Yoshida LITERALLY said he didn't think we wanted more hildibrand, and from who? WHO is he getting these comments from, when everyone wanted more, same with deep dungeons when they didn't do it in Shb, same excuse "we thought you wanted a break", they have their fingers in their ears.

Eh, I don't think Hildibrand is as popular is a lot of people seem to think. For every person I know who likes it, I know another who hates it and yet another still who is ambivalent. Personally, I despise Hildibrand for multiple reasons but I was happily ignoring it until I was forced into the quests by the relic. Even when skipping through them, it was painful.

[Kuroka]

but it was just a way for them to shoehorn in what me and many others think were solution 9/raid weapons.

Absolutely, going by design and colors and the effect... it looks so hard like Solution nine...

[TheRealQuah]

At least they bothered with making crafted primal weapons semi regularly, and that doesn't explain why there's a bunch of missing items from the benchmark

They have said multiple times in the past - Crafted primal weapons are made by staff when they are "off the clock". So we might get some in 7.1. Or we might not. But they are always a nice bonus. Don't expect them.

[Chasingstars]

I personally am just waiting for the crafted versions of the Windswept weapons like the battleaxe.

[CuteBucket]

Ever since I farmed Seat of Sacrifice during ShB for the mount, I've been hanging on to the the crafting material drops I got while doing it, since I was sure we'd get some crafted weapons at some point.

Yeah... Those have been gathering dust on a retainer for... almost four years now? I thought for sure we'd have all of the ShB EX crafted weapons by now.