I'm seeking assistance in finding an email whereby I may send feedback for file a complaint if the FFXIV team has such a thing (many MMOs I know do, so I figured it would be the same here).
If anyone is able to provide me with this information, I would appreciate it.
In short, and with a distinct lack of eloquence and ample articulation, I am inexorably frustrated and irritated over the lack of information pertaining to a group from which my friends and I hail.
It was naught but two months ago when we were told that information was to be given to us so that we would be able to plan out our congregation to a specific and destined server location. Yet, the 15th of July came and passed with no revelations being presenting even thenceforth. To be more frank, I'm speaking of the Role Playing community and the information we have been fed for the past two years regarding the official proliferation of our own server.
So as to provide context as to why in fact I am so miffed and feel as chastised as I do will paraphrase (or otherwise quote) with appropriate accuracy some of the messages we've received in the past:
Quote from Yoshi-P:
"Yoshida: We do recognize a need to set up a designated roleplaying world. We will look into this in a proactive manner!"
Quote Originally Posted by Bayohne
Greetings,
Apologies for the delay, I know you've all been waiting on a response to this topic.
There aren't any plans to designate a roleplay server for the upcoming World Merge. However, Yoshida did tell us "I also like roleplaying, so with the launch of version 2.0 we'll prepare a roleplay server."
Quote Originally Posted by Hvinire View Post
While we understand you guys are eager to hear about an official role-playing server (especially before you choose where you and your friends want to play), the team doesn't have any new progress on this idea just yet. We're continuing to look into it, and hope to have something to report later.
"<We are stilling conducting research for how we are going about implementing an official RP server. We will inform you when we have new information on the subject>" -Square Moderator
With Open beta looming -- and the ability to keep your characters you work on during said beta -- the window is rapidly closing on any hope for us (my friends and I, though I'm sure many of my colleagues will agree) to assure each other that we will be located on the Official RP Server. Sadly, a great deal have already gave up hope in both the ideal and in Square Enix itself, thinking they have just been hoodwinking us with what we wanted to hear.
While I may soon count myself among them, the silence is near infuriating for me, and I typically find myself to be a man of great patience and understanding. While I'm sure the near completion (or release, that is) of the game is one of great trials and tribulations, one must also contemplate on the idea that a group of people can only take so much silent treatment both as customers and as human beings especially when it's related to picking a permanent home that may not be the same as them (We have back up plans, but an Official Server is a big deal for both the future growth of a community <also needs to be nurtured in it's own way with events that may have a greater chance to succeed with a higher amount of people> and requires additional coordination since no word has been given and we've been forced to split our community a dozen ways with the current servers... not to mention that we have no idea if it's even a reality anymore, thus our frustration).
Many are fearful that by missing the July 15th deadline we are deadlocked where ever we are. The community has been split with people picking new unofficial servers left and right (I think there are 5 now, which has severely split the RP community up and made some shun the game and the community entirely). The damage that has been done is almost irreparable upon a community that is usually well know for being organized, simply because simple words were not given by our benefactors (Square Enix).
How lurid and unreasonable I must seem for writing my feelings, but after years of patience and little more than sentence or two every four months or so I've become slightly pessimistic to the whole ordeal. "They will probably answer this in the next Live letter", I thought with the last remnants of my optimism. "I've seen multiple questions regarding it." But alas it was not so, and it was possibly foolish of my to think it would be.
Many of my friends and colleagues are also quite patience and easy going people. They take words as sacred things; promises are believed with almost no worries becoming external. Though at times some individuals -- as abrasive or perhaps daft as they may be -- must break that silence and write a message such as this to calm their own ignorance and provide for others information if such a message is truly recognized.
I am unhappy. Many of my friends are unhappy. When will this information be presented? Will we have enough time to mingle amongst each other before the Open Beta servers are established? Will the Official RP server -- assuming that words are kept -- be in this collection of worlds? Or will we have to start over yet again when the game is released or -- Twelve Forbid -- sometime after the game is released (which, sadly, nine times out of ten, in the past, means that it will never happen in supposed MMO Dev talk)?
For the past two months I have been looking on the forums, FFXIV social and fan sites, and the beta forums for answers before I go to bed. Every day I get just a little bit more disappointed.
Please alleviate our worries with any sort of information regarding this!
P.S. Keep up the otherwise great work on the game!