Thread: Please Share Updates on 8.0 Job Design

Originally Posted by Volgia

You're fighting a losing battle there, the game is never gonna be like it used to be. There are Shadowbringer, Endwalker and Dawntrail generation of players who are used to everything being dumbed down. You bring it back to HW/SB levels and then the massive FFXIV decline will really start happening.

They crossed the south bank of the Rubicon on Shadowbringers when they decided to butcher everything down the way they did.

Your conclusion is faulty i find, for a couple of simple reasons:

1. Todays class gameplay is something even the producer of the game considers a mistake as per his public statements
2. some people playing the game back then did not care for not playing optimally anyhow, they may not even notice anything changing
3. raiders will survive, I heard they like the challenge
4. There are also people that joined in ShB, EW and DT that are criticizing the boring class gameplay as well

and most importantly:

5. fun and engaging (do not read as: complex or difficult) jobs can elevate even the most boring fights, because they are the lens through which we experience battle content. Yoshi-P claims he falls asleep running normal dungeons, and that is not an experience you want your customers to have.


Also, who says I am fighting a battle? This is the official feedback channel for the game, I am a paying customer, this is the voice I have. Whether CS3 listens to me or not, or whether people agree with me or not is no skin off my back.