FFXI Players views

[FrankReynolds]

You mean something like this?

That survey says that about half of the population only wants to do group activities on the weekends if at all (15% said "I'm a soloer).

About 80% said they don't want large group activities. Most said they wanted group activities like 6 man content or exp parties.

Meanwhile over on FFXI they just added all the best gear to an alliance only event that requires high end gear to excel at and can be spammed all day and day.

[Absinthe]

I am all for anything that improves communication between SE and their players. Polls/surveys, community representatives, smoke signals... I dunno what would work best? XD

You mean something like this?

The problem with polls is that they put out statistics that can be misconstrued...

At first glance, Question 3's results look to be an overwhelming desire for party-based play, but looking closely at the regional breakdown, Japan in particular has a strong showing of players who prefer rolling solo.

This is not necessarily true... I believe that people were smart enough to know what option they were voting for, but Yoshi P. used his crystal ball to scry a different answer. Even in Japan, 40% chose the option saying they would prefer to play with parties for 1-3 hours everyday... compared to 20% saying they prefer to play solo. (Also, these are disparate questions that should not have been glommed together... but the past is history.)

The challenge is that no two players want the same thing - we all have different goals when we sit down to play the game. That being said, SE could do a LOT more to make communications into a two-way street.

[Apie]

You mean something like this?

That kind of customer service will never exist in FFXI until the game is in serious danger of being shutdown due to everyone leaving (which isn't happening anytime soon.) The only reason FFXIV switched over to "kiss customer ass" mode was because most bailed on it, it didn't maintain the amount of people that FFXI is able to and was failing harder than their worse nightmares. They had no choice but to start caring about what the players wanted or have a numbered FF game flop. FFXI isn't that desperate yet (kinda makes me wish they would get a little desperate so they can start listening to our feedback at some point.)

I mean come on Square, tons of people are taking the time to tell you what you can do to keep customers happy and make the game better, yet you continue to force feed us new content with tons of broken content ignored. I could not care less about the newest expansion, what I do care about playing campaign in the Throne Room again, getting some use out of my countless beastmen seals (make BCNM capless & soloable already, we worked hard for our levels, stop capping them in special battles) and tons of other complaints (like promised summons, making garrisons soloable plus capless, and etc...)

[Anjou]

The problem is that there are polls, but they are in the Japanese section of the forums.

[Spectreman]

We already have the game being cattered to elitists already, no need to elect one of them to choose what they want to keep ruining the game.

[Anjou]

We already have the game being cattered to elitists already, no need to elect one of them to choose what they want to keep ruining the game.

I know right? Personally I don't think we need to get a council going (Because that can just be ignored just as easily) if you want change -that- bad, organize a petition and put it in front of SE. They can't say no to a large majority of their player base wanting something to change.

[Glamdring]

They can't say no to a large majority of their player base wanting something to change.

When did this happen? ok, maybe they don't say "no", but ignoring you amounts to the same thing

[Lotto]

They can't say no to a large majority of their player base wanting something to change.

Of course they can and that's what they did since the release of this forum. They're not saying no to everything but unless you're JP they'll just ignore their player base.

[pretre]

this would work, if you gave each representative a gun and a plane ticket to SE HQ .

[Anjou]

this would work, if you gave each representative a gun and a plane ticket to SE HQ .

dude that was...a little much don't you think?