Quote Originally Posted by NegativeS View Post
I wonder if the game having a WoD moment is a bad thing?
I mean, if WoW's Warlords of Draenor moment was bad for WoW, then... presumably XIV having the equivalent would, yes, be kinda bad for XIV.

That said, what we have right now feels less like a WoD moment...
  • that is, overpromising and then having a few fundamental errors atop reeling back in said promises that then cause people to be skeptical of future promises, reducing sub numbers such that it's no longer financially incentivized to provide as much content in that expansion, instead cutting losses and hoping to win people back next time

than a Shadowlands moment...
  • that is, doubling down on recent trends of how the devs have been doing things / content has been mapped out despite increasingly greater boredom, annoyance, and/or apathy from the playerbase, with a general "we know better than you" attitude towards any well-formed criticism...
...but with a sixth the content and no reconsideration in sight.