I can’t ignore this anymore! Something should be done about it!

[Kittra]

Did you ever stop to think that they're annoyed by the countless threads of this crap over the past few years?

Honestly I can see why the Japanese Developers don't stray far from their home country's forums. During Beta; those forums were horrendous. No one used the search function in the NA/EU section. Questions towards Live Letters were being repeated at an ungodly rate. All because people were too lazy to go over to the search box and search to see if the thread had already been made or their question already asked.

Elezen players gave up on trying to get their necks fixed because they did their research and found that nothing could be done to change it. It had already been set in stone.

Anyone with a problem with the ass on their character needs to move on. The Lead Designer has spoken.

The problem with this forum is people are persistent like cockroaches. Even when they've been told No, never going to happen. They still fight for it when the fights over.

Well lets look at it this way.

They scrapped their original vision for FFXIV and remade it completely. It was made "copying" a ton of material from "Western MMOs." Why then, in any sane capacity, would they completely choose to ignore the users that have more knowledge and experience on the game mechanics they seek to implement and instead take most of the feedback from those who speak their language? Why do we have Community Managers relaying the NA/EU wishes back to the Dev team if they're just going to say "Ok, we got the message, but we decided to stick with what we know instead."

Another thing, back when they were tossing around the idea to remake 1.0 or not, they polled the players and got our opinions on a number of matters.

One of those things was: "The PS3 version of the game. Are we going to see a repeat of FFXI's development where a number of things were listed as impossible due to PS2 limitations?" This question was asked by both JP, NA, and EU users prompting a response from our Director. Yoshi P promised us, PROMISED US, that we would never see a return to "We can't do that because <insert system limitations here>" because the PC and PS3 clients would be separate. We could still play together on the same servers, but pretty much the art direction of one would not be limited by the other.

Within the first month of testing the new client, what do we see? A Dev comment stating "We can't do <insert artistic direction here> because of PS3 memory limitations."

Now how do you think we feel after having our #1 promise broken in a short span of time and to have it repeatedly broken with an explanation 90% of the time containing either "Cutting costs" or "PS3 limitations?"

I'll just close with a partial quote:

...we would like to keep the specifications for character’s butts as they are.

Meaning, they would "like" to keep things as they are to keep costs down, not "Oh, we can't do this because of <insert limitation>." So why be quiet on it? If our voices mean anything to the Development of this game then they'll eventually change it because they "can."