Some Food For Thought (While you wait for the game to improve.)

[Azurymber]

Im sure this has been said already but we paid for this game therefore giving us the right to complain.
Just like your restaurant gives out free stuff to entice people to go to your restaurant and not the competition's.
This game's job is to entice people to stay and not go to another MMO.
So complaining is capitalistically valid and -SHOULD- be done. I run a business. If one of my customers have a problem I want to know what it is so i:
1. keep that customer
2. prevent my competition from getting a customer
3. can fix the problem in order to avoid a repeat with another customer in the future.

If no one complained businesses doing poorly could not figure out how to fix their business and would go out of business fast.

[Alastor]

Eh strange. Must just be my town then, none of them carried it.

Yeah. It wasn't easy to find, mind you. Best Buy was out of stock until further notice. Walmart recalled all of theirs a few days before I went in. It still said they had them in stock online, but it wasn't updated for the store's inventory. I went to 3-4 of them until someone told me that. I was worried that the game had died already. From what I understand, they just want the old copies off of the shelves for when they (and hopefully they will get the chance to) re-release the game with the new files.

[Kam]

It's high in protein, nucleic acids, and fructose.

last i heard a macdonalds near me got closed for a smililar thing that SE pulled.

people dont like "jizz in their chips" if we gonna keep using it as an anlogy for bad game mechanics. :3

[Bled]

Yeah. It wasn't easy to find, mind you. Best Buy was out of stock until further notice. Walmart recalled all of theirs a few days before I went in. It still said they had them in stock online, but it wasn't updated for the store's inventory. I went to 3-4 of them until someone told me that. I was worried that the game had died already. From what I understand, they just want the old copies off of the shelves for when they (and hopefully they will get the chance to) re-release the game with the new files.

A friend took a picture of a pallet of FF XIV copies pre release at Best Buy, probably 4 months ago my buddy sent me another picture... FF XIV on mass display at Best Buy selling for $20.

[Mikita]

Im sure this has been said already but we paid for this game therefore giving us the right to complain.

Back to the restaurant analogy.

Everyone has their free chips and salsa, but while the restaurant staff are trying to figure out what happened and fix the problem all the customers are insulting each other and hurling tortilla chips at each other like throwing stars.

Make sure you don't poke your eye out with that chip! ^^



Okay. Time to sort through all the screenshots I took during the R34 main quest just now.

[Mack]

Also, you ordered a steak, and it takes a while to cook. Please enjoy these complimentary chips while it cooks. If that doesn't suit you, you certainly are here by choice, and can make the decision to leave just as surely as you came. It's your choice.

Ok..refund me please.

[Nabiri]

When you are being given something for free, perhaps you should not be so picky.

If I had a dollar for every time this went through my head.. I'd be rich.

Alastor, you speak so much sense, but many will not see it I fear.

[Mack]

If I had a dollar for every time this went through my head.. I'd be rich.

Alastor, you speak so much sense, but many will not see it I fear.

Well its not like people are rioting on the streets for change. The forums were made for us to complain, that was the entire point, because if we had no complaints there would be no reason for the forum.

[twinkles]

I will chime my two cents in for what its worth.

First off i think it is important to note that complaining or voicing concerns (however you want to view them) doesn't mean that I(We) hate the game or even the DEV's. So many times i have voiced concern or resentment towards some aspect of FF14 and the most common retort i get from peeps is well if you hate it leave??? Who said i hated the game.... mostly it is love for the series that gets my blood flowing(blood pressure up) when they release things or present Q/A's like the deplorable "Gathering" (part1)

That being said my real concern/complaint/problem with SE DEV at this point is how they are handling the rebuild. So many things are handled so vague or cryptic, the non answers really get me. I had a few people that have no vested interest in SE, FF14, or gaming in general read over the Q & A from Gathering and they agree these were some of the most shady things they had read (magic 8 ball anyone). I want to love this game and do the rest of the people in my LS , hell the rest of the people on my server. We are sticking it out cause we have faith (although dwindling) SE will make this game fun for the long haul.

Nothing would make me happier then having FF14 get to the point that they can charge money for subs, but I really don't get the protective secrecy thing they have going. This silent treatment ain't working.

[KumaAkuma]

The whole analogy is flawed. If your restaurant made a new dish and offered it for free at first, but is planning to charge for later once people are hooked on it, then it would make more sense. And ofcourse you want feedback, because if people don't like it you can't start selling it!

In your example you don't give a damn about the quality of your chips btw, you only want them to be salty so people, who eat them, order more expensive drinks.