Thread: 8.0 Selling points

What will happen in 8.0 likely? 2 New jobs, New Msq (50/50 on being good or bad sometimes they do make good stories) 8 new dungeons where you grab two packs meet a wall, repeat, boss do that 2 more times, 3 new trials, 2 Extremes, content that comes throughout the expansion similar to 7.0, good music (praise goes to the music theirs usually always good songs)

What happens in my ideal dream land

• All Jobs get heavily overhauled + combat, we focus on actual fun instead of bland watered down jobs that are bassically animation/weapon packs for the same generic job of "tank" "dps" "healer that doesn't actually really heal"

• Either moving away from the bad trinity system that is outdated, or fix it. The current system isn't working especially for tank and healer roles that feel like glorified boring dps who push out a utility button sometimes.

• Story is really good and moves away from the scions and the main cast is interesting, theirs risks involved, we all know the scions, they're also never going to put any of them in danger because they're too well known, they've already faked us out on that a million times.

• Combat that isn't as predictable and bosses can do more then just one set scripted thing (this is really wishful thinking here)

Originally Posted by Darkshade

The real goal with 8.0 will be to show up anyone who thought 7.0 was bad. It will be XIV's "you thought that was bad? I'll show you bad." moment.

I'd really rather not have our own Shadowlands, we already had BfA.

I think it's important to note that adage to lower our expectations so that we may not get disappointed. As much as I have faith with the team that brought Heavensward with the battle team that developed DSR into one of its most iconic ultimate we are reaching to a point where they have a difficulty to bring that bar up again. That aside, I would love to really see them shape things up where they really make it accessible more than the story to where we could experience what the next expansion would be. I dislike borrowing from the other side of the fence but having an incursion event of what the next expansion will hook us, like something profound. Aside from: taken characters, assassination plots, along with some supernatural phenomena, I think we are in need of a meaningful choice of leaving one behind to save the other moment, (scion related maybe or not) we need a good change in the story.

Though if anything they really need to

Change the tome system. Get rid of the cap and increase it to 4k at least (having 21 jobs maybe 23 jobs next expansion with just 900 tomes every week has become atrocious to bear)

Overhaul the inventory management. (Make it like cosmic exploration, instead of saving it in our backpack. Put it in a log of its own like a cloud storage!)

Make it alt friendly (Yes fantasias exist, but having an alt to where we can just be able to play it without a hassle of redoing the entire MSQ to keep the current expansion is unfriendly)

Put the relic weapon at its earliest stage at 8.05 and reallocate the timing of the tome weapon restrictions to be lifted at .05, .25, and .45 of each 8 wing is released, respectively.

As much as I condone it, but if anything else, have AI fix the spaghetti code completely if the team will reference it again as to why they will not forego any kind of new plan.

Originally Posted by Kanehana

Get Ishikawa back in that writer's seat, and get Mr. Ozma back on punishing us daily! Or at least make content more puzzling, because in true Final Fantasy sense, we're hitting the level cap - less gloves on is an understandable demand at the very least, if Ishikawa isn't going to grace us with her beautiful and meaningful narrative pacing.



And... technically, this isn't a 8.0 selling point, but the repeated "restructure" of the company makes hopes for 8.0 more bleak than bright. AI keeps breaking Microsoft code, AI is a front for scams, AI makes more problems to solve than actually solving, AI is too indicative of a cheap product - I wish they'd retain beautiful talent onboard and foster promising people who can understand what makes FFXIV appealing. Anything AI touches is purely slop for the sake of fulfilling a goal, and not putting meaning in the journey that was taken.

Amen, could not have said this better methinks.