8.0?

[thereal_aliceanders]

My interest in the game flatlined, so I took a break and detoxed my YouTube from the 'polish-a-turd' influencer squad. Imagine my surprise when a story surfaced claiming the developers will finally get it right with version 8.0. Seriously, is this an out-of-season April Fool's joke? I get it that the team has moved on to other patches, but when you have a public paying for a service that keeps your company afloat the least you could do is try to make things right.

[Altina_Orion]

My interest in the game flatlined, so I took a break and detoxed my YouTube from the 'polish-a-turd' influencer squad. Imagine my surprise when a story surfaced claiming the developers will finally get it right with version 8.0. Seriously, is this an out-of-season April Fool's joke? I get it that the team has moved on to other patches, but when you have a public paying for a service that keeps your company afloat the least you could do is try to make things right.

Nobody actually knows. Supposedly there is a massive job rework coming, but everything is unconfirmed.

[Raikai]

The job rework is coming. Their words.

Now we know nothing beyond that. Not even the scale of the rework. The only information is about giving more identity to them.

The whole 'costs' fiasco worries me on this front, because apparently if we are to get something of substance, maybe we'll get just one new job in 8.0, or zero. I'd personally be fine with that, but I know the community loves new jobs every expansion and they acknowledged that they find this important, so I'm not quite sure how it will go.

[Jeeqbit]

I think they will respond to some feedback (they always do this at expansion release for marketing), like how the Dawntrail media announced battles being done differently and acknowledged lots of things suddenly. Let's focus on the battles for a moment - has that satisfied everyone? Depends who you ask. Some don't like it, while others are saying the Savage tier is the best ever and you've got things like the tank swap in Valigarmanda.

I think they will focus on jobs as they've said lots and lots of times, in 8.0. All I know about it is they specifically mentioned Skill Trees, Talents and Ability Points as ideas being floated. They've acknowledged about people wanting jobs to be unique as well but whether they go that route we're just not going to know for a while. Will this satisfy everyone? I think there's no chance of that; if you're unhappy with jobs now, you'll probably find something to be unhappy about with the changes they make as well.

I'm doubtful that somehow all the issues people have will be magically solved by 8.0 though. People will make videos, but remember the truth is always gonna be somewhere in the middle of the positive and negative takes.

[Raikai]

while others are saying the Savage tier is the best ever and you've got things like the tank swap in Valigarmanda.

Well, if we remain in their design paradigm, that is absolutely right. The fights in Dawntrail are better than Endwalker's, but I feel that they really over-hyped the encounter design changes on the FanFests - the improvements we had were only a natural cycle to doing what you do, but better. I expected, based on how they sold it, to be way more out of the box than what we're having.

[Gokki]

I would temper your expectations. The job rework might be something as simple as what they did with BLM last patch: streamline the job, remove some timers, adjust numbers. No actual rework but they translated as such.

[Carin-Eri]

Considering how the release schedule has been of late, I suspect 8.0 is quite some way off yet anyway.

[XtremePrime]

Point 3 is becoming more and more relevant by the day

[BedtimeBear]

An engaging 8.0 Story I can get lost into. It can be grounded or go full on high fantasy shard hopping. As long as I can get lost into the story.

[Gwenkatsu]

An engaging 8.0 Story I can get lost into. It can be grounded or go full on high fantasy shard hopping. As long as I can get lost into the story.

This. And for the love of god - no more cheap copy/paste scifi garbage.
Before DT all the scifi stuff in the game had some special look to it. The polychrome Allagan technology was ugly as hell, but it was unique. Magitek machinery always looks like it is powered by a steam engine. But Solution 9? The moon base? Robot soldiers, flying motorcycles, lasers and starbucks? There was nothing special about that garbage, it looked like in every other scifi game. Be creative, be unique - and don't reuse graphic sets you download for a buck from some website.