If you could ask 1 question to the Devs

What would you ask?

Try to keep it to 1 question per post, can be long rant, 1 word, whatever, just what would you ask them if you could directly?

Here is mine;

With regards to healer design do you think Shadowbringers design was successful or a failure with healers complaining more than they have ever done in the past expansions?

Why do you still refuse to fix monk after five years?

Why can't we have an aldgoat mount? Lookit how cute their wittle faces are... :<

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/06/01...e2866ddb01.jpg

How do you put up with this community?

When can we expect the next FF MMO?

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Originally Posted by Crushnight

What would you ask?

Try to keep it to 1 question per post, can be long rant, 1 word, whatever, just what would you ask them if you could directly?

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Why is housing still impossible to get? Seriously, What's with the limited slots. Millions play this game a few hundred can have houses.

Edit for honesty 5k per server. But still, Too few houses per server compared to the Server populations.

Can we please have the chocobo boots that NPCs have

When will flying mounts be available in Silvermoon?

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Originally Posted by Cyreil

How do you put up with this community?

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This! All of this!

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Originally Posted by Anienai

When will flying mounts be available in Silvermoon?

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lol, maybe someone should get on the WoW forum to ask for Male Viera.

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Originally Posted by Cyreil

How do you put up with this community?

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I'm sure the big paychecks helps.

Assuming it's a truthful, even blunt answer and not beating about the bush with responses we've heard/read many times already. Housing, healers, MNK, 'hybrid tax', glamours, Viera and Hroth, etc etc - we've been here before again and again.

My question would be "could you confirm a 4th healer in the next expansion? and if yes, please don't make it a "WHM but with..."

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Originally Posted by Coombah

When can we expect the next FF MMO?

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https://i1.wp.com/www.ungeek.ph/wp-c...80%2C669&ssl=1

I am no dev, but around 2022-ish for the anniversary is my guess.

Why do they allow players to continue to purchase and own multiple FC houses on the same world and service account despite the published housing guide on Lodestone (updated in February of this year) stating it is not allowed?

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes.../housing_land/

Why Gunbreaker sound effects were changed in 5.01, and why whole feedback is ignored. Obviously 5.0 slashes and trigger sounds were better than current blunt swooshing.

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Originally Posted by Cyreil

How do you put up with this community?

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They don't read the forum easy.

"Why is the story so moronic?"

I'm locked into being the blind, unquestioning worshiper of some glittering space rock. That's not compelling.

Why do you hate healers?

Do u guys ever go to Walmart and pour out the green soda all over the floor and walk real slow through it pretending you're at the slime on the ground part in thousand maws of toto rak dungeon ?

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

They don't read the forum easy.

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The forum has its own share of problems, though it's nowhere near as hostile as a portion of the FFXIV community that flocks to Twitter and reddit. At least here if people get too far out of line they're actually dealt with by the moderation team. The same can not be said of the other branches that I mentioned. I've seen numerous death threats and horrid accusations go utterly unpunished on other social media sites. So it always leaves me rather baffled when this forum is made out to be some awful place by comparison.

I was wondering if it would be possible to create the original Artifact Armor sets from Final Fantasy XI into Final Fantasy XIV either through a special Final Fantasy XI event like when FFXI R2 comes out or even as Cash Shop glamours?

I know I'd pay some good money for some nostalgic FFXI armor glam :) I figure if we get some FFXI gear from Eureka, why not add in the AF sets?

Mine would be... Necromancer when?

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Originally Posted by TeraRamis

"Why is the story so moronic?"

I'm locked into being the blind, unquestioning worshiper of some glittering space rock. That's not compelling.

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Sucks when you'd prefer to get a chance to pick sides. :(

Can I give you a hug?

I've so many questions lol. I love talking game ideas as a fun hobby, hence my silly post count and the majority of it centered around gameplay/feedback, and so I would probably attempt to peacefully steal as much time as I was allowed talking about things being created/getting excited talking about potentials- assuredly getting kicked out XD.

However... assuming the premise for this one question is it's public, and that they'll answer with as pure of clarity and honesty, I'd probably avoid certain types of negative questions like my salt topics about housing or blue mage (things I'd love to try and 'present my case' on even if it was futile for this game due to whatever reason and only maybe effective for the next FF mmo in 2 to 10 years lol). Since I'd probably really want to turn it into a conversation, politely of course.

So I don't know maybe something like:
"Can we potentially see a job that transforms as it's main gimmick in the future? How can I encourage this decision tree?" or "Is there or will there be any plan/intention to update classic FF elements like Airships, perhaps personal, or Chocobos, maybe with like hot and cold or chocobo paradise?" and look I've already cheated and asked two questions. O_O;;

Interesting thread but the premise is too hard lol.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

The forum has its own share of problems, though it's nowhere near as hostile as a portion of the FFXIV community that flocks to Twitter and reddit. At least here if people get too far out of line they're actually dealt with by the moderation team. The same can not be said of the other branches that I mentioned. I've seen numerous death threats and horrid accusations go utterly unpunished on other social media sites. So it always leaves me rather baffled when this forum is made out to be some awful place by comparison.

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Beyond that, that there are worse places to get your feedback, I do feel they actually read or at least 'hear of' the forums, I'm not sure if they get short quips, or if there are full on translations, or if someone on the team is able to read in English and does it occasionally (though they did hire a few people who are quite capable of translating too, so I doubt they 'never' translate forum goings- just not sure what the rules are for it lol). Since things take a while to get from spark to finish I think sometimes people might feel it doesn't happen, and we rarely get feedback from the devs on our posts themselves, but there are number of examples I can think of that I feel they certainly did listen and are aware. Also long ago Yoshida did say they spend quite a bit of time absorbing the feedback from their forum(s), though that was long enough ago their protocol may have changed but it was said.

The most important question of all...
WHERE ARE MY HEADGEARS? >.<

when can we glamour into other class equipment?


i want my healer clad in heavy armor, at least for the body part =/

Why do you guys never answer or address healer concerns and consistently exclude or give minor timeslots during liveletters? it's always either dead silence or a single line on a slide to the effect of "healer jobs have been adjusted", while generally DPS and tanks get dedicated sections explaining what is changed and why, or at least alluded to.

Can we replace the boring and tedious weekly tome grind with something fun?

I've been beaten to the healers, hope someone does character creator update for me >>

Why did you dumb down the tanks to being marauder clones and will DRK get its identity and playstyle from hw back?

What happened to egi glamour's? We were told that we would get new ones every few patches and yet we haven't gotten anything since the first release.

Why is there no auto pass function?

I’d love to know why the developers hate Bard so much

I would ask them if there is anything they are really excited about that they would like to disclose. I actually wouldn't even expect an answer to that. I just want to see the reaction. That will tell me everything.

That's just what came off the top of my head. If I only get to ask one question, I'm not going to waste it away on something negative, or pull something out of the echo chamber.

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Originally Posted by WrenElessedil

Why do you still refuse to fix monk after five years?

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As an extension to this, how come any time any job other than Monk has an issue with playstyle or functionality it typically is fixed within 1-2 patches, but with Monk pretty much any issue typically takes multiple years to see a fix?

Why you make DRK a copy of WAR with no gameplay identity instead of make it follow his own path killing gameplay diversity in the tank role?

Why does player feedback seemingly matter so little to you?

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Originally Posted by Cyreil

How do you put up with this community?

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This one is easy to answer lol.
They don't hear us. There's nothing to "put up with."

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Originally Posted by Tranquilmelody7

Why does player feedback seemingly matter so little to you?

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I think the developers are doing it in a better direction than other games on player feedback to be honest. With the limited resources and game limitations, I think they are still trying their best to work on some of our requests or feedback.

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Originally Posted by ern815

I think the developers are doing it in a better direction than other games on player feedback to be honest. With the limited resources and game limitations, I think they are still trying their best to work on some of our requests or feedback.

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They might be better about it than other games but they're still pretty hit or miss. Shadowbringers has been them at their historical best as far as taking job feedback goes following the expansion dropping, with them basically implementing the requested changes for Samurai's Shoha and returning Bard's auras (even if they ended up overnerfing Bard in the process), and the turn around time on overhauling Ninja and Summoner was pretty impressive. Historically though they'll pretty much ignore or dismiss feedback if they're married to a concept.

However they've basically been dead silent on Healer's complaints about their design this expansion. Similarly with Monk, they've not made a single statement about it since launch despite it being pretty much the most maligned single job in Shadowbringers. This was after there had been extremely negative feedback regarding it's Stormblood iteration in all forms and after its Heavensward iteration being plagued with basic functionality problems (that didn't get fixed in Heavensward mind you). Further while they did make changes to Monk's kit in 5.05 none of them addressed the new problems with the job. Every change made was to address complaints or requests made in Stormblood or Heavensward, and they still haven't fixed many of the problems with the job that people have with those iterations such as RNG Chakras or Tornado Kick basically being an execute skill.