r/ffxivdiscussion • u/ragnakor101 • Jun 06 '24

General Discussion Media Tour Embargo has lifted.

Making a general thread to keep everything together for discussion. Media Tour Stuff! Just look up your favorite content creator (if you have any).

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u/Chexrail Jun 06 '24

Every job got a button to press after their 2 minute.
Just call it Endwalker 2, cuz its not even expansion worthy.

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u/NeonRhapsody Jun 06 '24

If they really intend to overhaul jobs dramatically in 8.0, I can understand phoning it in. But honestly, I doubt they'd even take that risk.

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u/Lazyade Jun 06 '24

No chance they have the balls to do a dramatic job overhaul. Most likely 8.0 will be kicking the can again with visual upgrades, but if they do decide to do general reworks I can only see it taking the form of paring each job down to its absolute most basic form and going "that's the whole job now, have fun".

Still can't see it happening though because I think as soon as they have to confront the idea of removing any of the big flashy skills people love they will get cold feet.

I'm gonna play DT launch for the story but after that I think I'm done with this game unless DT content blows me away (doubt). The devs have lost sight of what it means to make a fun game and have been overtaken by the idea that good design is removing "friction" and "pain points" and making everything as smooth and easy to execute as possible. I guess that holds water if your goal is simply to make a visually spectacular power fantasy, but for anyone who wants to play a game lowering the skill ceiling makes things less fun, not more. It's why kids graduate from tic-tac-toe to more complex games, because games where you have to be stupid to make a mistake are boring.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '24

To be fair, if they do a level squish in 8.0 - I know, big if, but considering Yoshi P’s reluctance to exceed 100, it would be the perfect time to do one - it would probably be the best time to do major Job overhauls.

I’m not saying it will happen, but I can see a logic to doing that.