Thank You Thread for FFXIV Developers

I don't have as many posts as others, but I've noticed that there's been a lot of complaining about insignificant things lately, and I've always found a billion things I'm thankful for about this game before I find one "ehhh this could have been better".

So I figure, why not make a positive thread about the things we absolutely loved lately? We've all got to have at least one experience in this game that we can say "OH MY GOD PLEASE DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS AGAIN."

Positive reinforcement. Let's see what you got!

Some examples of my own:

- Crystal Tower was incredible
- Patch 2.55 story was breathtaking
- I love that the jobs are balanced and not changed every f%$@ing month like WoW did to us.
- The community team makes an effort to respond to concerns and questions, and I'm sure there's red tape behind it where they can't reveal a lot.
- All of the characters have believable voice acting. There's never been a point I wanted to turn of the voices like other games.
- Live Letters are something we look forward to every time and we love it when it's filled with video that reaches YouTube.

For me would be how the up coming New Raid will allow us to go back to prev cleared turns on the same week so we can help out FC members and friends! +Token system!

I think compliment threads are awesome and people should definitely make them! But understanding people, I'm always a little befuddled why people believe the forums would be anything but mostly complaining and how complaining about minor things is both a boon and a compliment*. When you want to get kudo points, fix some minor thing. When you want to see what the major issues of the day are, and it's 'not enough pixels on the grass' - heck you've done pretty good so far. It's when everything is a major issue that you probably should be concerned :P. Delivery could be more friendly, still bad english but I've tried to make sure more of my stuff comes across as intended and not like "this is dodo poop!!" (I've never intended it to be that way) when I do actually have a complaint.

Anyway lol, here are a few random things:

• Hildibrand story of course, it's really well polished.
• I love zones, make more zones - oh wait there is an expansion..? Yay~
• That they are consistently concerned about everyone having fun and don't forever box off harder content. I say that as a Souls/Rogue fan, but I also say that when I have limited time in the day and just want to have some semi-mindful button smashing fun.
• Main storyline, would've liked my character to have done more in that last scene but it was still very exciting - I like my city leader... ;).
• They've changed little things in the game over time, both polishing features and also the terrain (not only Revenant's Toll has had changes).
• Voice acting is great. I did have some minor issues with the pacing in the very beginning and generally would read faster and then skip (early ARR content), but the newer content it seems everyone has found their place and I'll wait for them to finish.
• Edda, Mor Dhona Carby.
• Boss music.

* A lot, not all, of happy gamers will just play until a game disrupting issue comes up.

mch being a dps, if i could sub for a year i would

Making a FC Airhsips that also allows your friends to be on with you as well

Just the game in general. Easily the best MMO I've ever played, and in my top five of RPGs overall......

I love threads like this and agree with OP. I think the stuff most people complain about in the forums are minor which is a good thing b/c that means most things are going so well that most people only can complain about minor things. I find most concerns will be addressed in HW and looking forward to a new era for the Warriors of light.

You know what, now that I think about it; we really don't give the devs the amount of appreciation they deserve.

So here's my piece:

Thank you Yoshida and everyone at Squeenix who managed to turn what was widely considered a flop into probably one of the best success stories/turn arounds ever seen in gaming. Thank you for the time, effort, sweat, tears and blood put into everything and while the game is celebrating its first expansion within 11 days, let us harken back to one of the biggest losses in 2.0, and I don't mean the death of one of the most beloved characters of Ul'dah; the 1.0 miqo'te booty.

RIP, booty. You will be missed.

Has any noticed the huge influx of new players lately? I do df and almost always get a soldiery bonus

I decided to try the game when I found out there would be male miqo'te, then I heard Answers.. Started looking for how to get in the beta.

Dark Knight: great sword + darkness. My FF job of choice ever. I can't wait!!

Gathering. My love for Eorzea deepened thanks to the BTN POV: walking into places, listening how the music merge with the views.. It's not just calming, it feels like my intimate relationship with Eorzea. It wasn't really remunerative but I bet it will change in the expansion as we'll get our endgame!

Friends: I love as FFXIV keeps me connected with my friends and even add new ones to the list I wouldn't even knew.

2.55/FCoB and some other parts were pretty good, I know it can't always be emotionally charged but keep up with keeping it interesting.

I'm sure there's a lot more but yeah you got the core: thanks devs!

Honestly I had totally dismissed the game until I saw a video of the Magitek mounts, and I knew I had to try it.

Now I'm a massive FFVI fan, and I've seen botched Squeenix games countless times (The Bouncer, every new mobile FF game except for Record Keeper, etc.) but what I remember most was the cutscene from Final Fantasy Anthology and when I saw the massive attention to detail in the pre-beta videos of the Magitek machines, I immediately knew that this development team believes in attention to detail. No corners were cut, the music was beautiful, the motions were beautiful, and a teenager who lost faith in his Squaresoft over the years suddenly came back. I have never felt otherwise in nearly two years since then.

I want to say thank you for the upcoming DX11 client in particular. The differences are minor, but for us screenshot addicts, those minor differences are the world.

SO EXCITED FOR HQ GROUND AND WATER

I'm always impressed by the community support and amount of live events that this game has.

Big thanks to based Tanaka.