Occult is awful, and I enjoyed both Eureka and Bozja greatly

[Daralii]

Look at FFXI. That game is getting extremely good again with Fujito in charge. They are in the process of revamping Besieged, Limbus is getting completely remade, we got new content with Sortie recently, and they are planning on revamping more and more old content to make it relevent and fun again. They are also talking with their players and taking our suggestions into consideration and then thinking about the best ways to make changes that keep the spirit of the game alive as well as keep their players happy and active. All while doing so with just a handful of devs.

It's not Square Enix at fault for what is wrong with FFXIV, it's the person in charge of FFXIV. That was made doubly apparent with FFXVI.

Square as a whole has had so many issues for so long that I think it's more than fair to say the company has a competence deficiency, especially when it comes to team leads. Based on what Yoshida himself has said, the problems with him specifically are that he's entirely content with XIV coasting into its grave while he does managerial work and chases the legacy he wants in an unnamed original IP, which makes DT's Japanese title(Golden Legacy) extremely ironic.

[MicahZerrshia]

I have no issue with the manic nature of the zone, including the CE fights. However, without a proper healer, DPS have issues. Unless they give up job exp and keep on a job like Knight or use Occult Potions on Chemist often, it is hard to keep DPS alive.

I dropped chemist the moment I saw potions were 10k. If we only need 1 its kind of silly to make phantom jobs buy additional items, but ok whatever. But if we need one for every heal, lol nope.

[MicahZerrshia]

Square as a whole has had so many issues for so long that I think it's more than fair to say the company has a competence deficiency, especially when it comes to team leads. Based on what Yoshida himself has said, the problems with him specifically are that he's entirely content with XIV coasting into its grave while he does managerial work and chases the legacy he wants in an unnamed original IP, which makes DT's Japanese title(Golden Legacy) extremely ironic.

Isn't this more an issue with Japan's corperate environment as a whole? They promote ppl who do something well once and then can't really fire or demote them due to labor laws which are stacked heavily in an employee's favor, which has the added bonus of ppl getting into high positions and then phoning it in? SE is not alone in this, but ultimately the state of XIV falls onto Yoshida's shrugging shoulders because others at SE are doing a bang up job.

[Fawkes]

I dropped chemist the moment I saw potions were 10k. If we only need 1 its kind of silly to make phantom jobs buy additional items, but ok whatever. But if we need one for every heal, lol nope.

I think you can also buy them for silver, so it'll probably be cheaper once you run out of things to spend silver on.

[MicahZerrshia]

I think you can also buy them for silver, so it'll probably be cheaper once you run out of things to spend silver on.

I have plenty of gil so I am not worried about breaking the bank, but I"ll still pass. It's extremely weird to have chemist, who should be able to concoct the potions on the fly, rely on potions but have an infinate amount of arrows magically appear for bards, have infinate bullets not only magically appear but also be charged with aether, infinate tomahawks pop out of no where for wars, and so on. Especially when the potions in question are 10,000 gil a pop. Whatever happened to no ranged tax or any other job tax Yoshida was so keen on during ARR?

10, meh ok, 100 hmm maaaybe, 1000 no thanks, 10,000 ....you have got to be kidding me, lol nope. At this point I don't see myself getting into Forked Tower so there is no reason to even level phantom jobs, much less spend hundreds of thousands of gil on a job limited to fate farming in a single zone.

[Hallarem]

I saw a horror scenario of this in a video on youtube, a guy who puts out videos on Japanese scandals and corruptions etc. THere was this one doctor, a SURGEON (allegedly) who got hired and promoted, he botched several surgeries, but still coasted along with the hospital protecting him TO THIS DAY if I'm not wrong.
While we can just speculate on the company culture at SE, I am a 100% sure based on the evidence that this is their "phoning it in" phase. This is the most 9 to 5 MMO I have ever played. With ridiculous difficulty spikes. Its either boring and tedious, cutscene watching and click questing or learning a dance fight or grinding FOREVER for an achievement. The story has gone to the dogs too, which was their saving grace for a long time. I just don't see them caring, they are just phoning in Yoshi-P's rigid formula and thats it. Pretty clear from that fact that we havent seen anykind of roadmap or them trying to tell us anything about the future. Just "Here's the patch notes and me giggling with my friendo here heheeeee"

[MicahZerrshia]

they are just phoning in Yoshi-P's rigid formula and thats it.

FFXIV ExcelWalker

[Daralii]

I saw a horror scenario of this in a video on youtube, a guy who puts out videos on Japanese scandals and corruptions etc. THere was this one doctor, a SURGEON (allegedly) who got hired and promoted, he botched several surgeries, but still coasted along with the hospital protecting him TO THIS DAY if I'm not wrong.
While we can just speculate on the company culture at SE, I am a 100% sure based on the evidence that this is their "phoning it in" phase. This is the most 9 to 5 MMO I have ever played. With ridiculous difficulty spikes. Its either boring and tedious, cutscene watching and click questing or learning a dance fight or grinding FOREVER for an achievement. The story has gone to the dogs too, which was their saving grace for a long time. I just don't see them caring, they are just phoning in Yoshi-P's rigid formula and thats it. Pretty clear from that fact that we havent seen anykind of roadmap or them trying to tell us anything about the future. Just "Here's the patch notes and me giggling with my friendo here heheeeee"

He said some things during the initial Dawntrail damage control tour, but it's all vague and obvious bullshit. Does anyone really believe that the supposed sweeping job redesigns in 8.0 will fix all the issues people have with the way things have been going since 5.0? What about 8.0 being the supposed real starting point of the next decade-long storyline that definitely won't be a boring mess of memberberries?

[brinn12]

100% agreed. We went from pressing fewer buttons due to job changes to pressing nothing at all, and things still die in 8 seconds. Meanwhile, optimal gold farming relies on a 4-button job doing 80% of the work. CEs pop constantly, but the second half of most of them is just a loop of mechanics, heavily favoring tanks (also true for gold farming, where most PFs are locked to 4~7 tanks). Getting into Forked Tower is a complete gamble, with solo players able to take a spot in a 48-player premade (which the game doesn't even support), while its difficulty asks for organized groups.

[Titor]

I'm struggling to do ces without a healet as a ninja. It doesn't have enough sustain to survive raid wides (bloodbath only triggers on phys damage and ninja is split phys and magical damage). Shade shift and second wind isn't enough. I take rezzes just to die to the next raid wides