What is Square Enix's master plan?

[Xenor]

The reworking of this game surely begins with groundwork, while I confess, I agree with Square in saying the battle system is flawed, very flawed. However.. There are more basic and fundamental systems that don't exist, are unstable or are "being considered" that should be addressed first.

Why? Because you say so?

To name a couple of examples:

A Delivery Box? We can't exchange character to character.. How did this happen? More so nearly a year on.

While I don't disagree we need one, you can indeed exchange character to character via trade. This instantly lowers its priority.

Auction House? The retainer wards crash daily, the navigation and overall usability of the wards is fractionally as user friendly or accessible as the Final Fantasy XI Auction House was.

Case and point.

If you don't even play then you've no right to cry and demand certain things be fixed in the order you say. Why I say you don't play? The wards haven't crashed daily for months, in fact I can't remember the last time they did crash. Additionally retainers are now saved so even if they do crash the retainers aren't wiped. Navigating them hasn't been an issue since the search feature was added, you'd still have to navigate an AH.

An auction house would be nice, yes I agree, but the wards function and this means the priority of an AH is lower than more fundamental changes. As it should be.

[geniusprime]

The detriment of this game is the current players. Most blindly bash anyone who make suggestions that would make this game better. I have seen comments telling folks that they don't know what they are talking about etc but at the end of the day it is a fact that the majority of the people who bought this game hated it. Whats worse is that the few that are playing don't really know why this game does not appeal to the masses and they would be the first to say that it shouldn't when in reality it should.

There is a lot of critical things wrong with the game such as the horrendous timesink of a battle system, the timesink of traveling, the lack of direction, the lack of interesting things to do, the long loading tjmes, the sluggish interface and couple these things with the pelothra of minor bugs and annoyances then you have a game that is truly useless.

This game is not going to improve to the point where it would attract people. I have read many times that they are aiming for the casual gamer but no casual gamer is going to play this timesink obstacle course. Fun and ease of use is not the primary objective of this game and it continues to lack this critical element. Anyone who plays games would immediately see the overly glaring flaws yet the devs can't fixed the game after 9 months. Other games have undergone significant changes in far less time. Excuses and request for more time is nothing short of absurd. But again, the current gamers that play it are part of the problem, for some of these folks want this game to remain "unique", a unique time consuming, unrewarding, annoying, cumbersome and unfun game. But i am just a rambling idiot that don't know what i am talking about. Luckily the thousands that don't play agree with me to some degree.

[BloodMage]

Did they even had a concrete plan for this game in the first place?
In my opinion, SE sort of had an idea, tried to work on it, but ran short in the end and thus we have this incomplete FF game.
SE needs to fix things up with this game or just shut it down and start from scratch with a much better planned FF online game. The way this game is now, SE is just losing tons of money that they could be using on a much better game.
Also from the looks of things with the producer letters and such, It's just a collection of random things being worked on without the view of a much larger picture for the game.

[Volsung]

Fix core aspects to make the game playable then release content.

[Abraxai]

My fundamental point isn't to whine or complain, it's simple saying one thing...

This game has potential. But it has a development team, i feel (and yes, this is just my opinion, but what is the point of these forums if not to share opinion), that lack direction. So many little things are creeping into the game that need expansion... And they're coming such an alarmingly slow rate that by the time the next bit comes around people have already lost interest.

It's a back and forth "play for a few days then stop" for a LOT of people, the population SPIKES at the start of an update, then it's gone a week later.

And.. To answer the trolls of the thread... Nothing is a "threat" to me, I believe the game will succeed.. I just feel like the way they're going about it doesn't really help the situation at all. You can't build a house on a bad foundation, etcetera.

[Adol]

The detriment of this game is the current players. Most blindly bash anyone who make suggestions that would make this game better. I have seen comments telling folks that they don't know what they are talking about etc but at the end of the day it is a fact that the majority of the people who bought this game hated it. Whats worse is that the few that are playing don't really know why this game does not appeal to the masses and they would be the first to say that it shouldn't when in reality it should.

There is a lot of critical things wrong with the game such as the horrendous timesink of a battle system, the timesink of traveling, the lack of direction, the lack of interesting things to do, the long loading tjmes, the sluggish interface and couple these things with the pelothra of minor bugs and annoyances then you have a game that is truly useless.

This game is not going to improve to the point where it would attract people. I have read many times that they are aiming for the casual gamer but no casual gamer is going to play this timesink obstacle course. Fun and ease of use is not the primary objective of this game and it continues to lack this critical element. Anyone who plays games would immediately see the overly glaring flaws yet the devs can't fixed the game after 9 months. Other games have undergone significant changes in far less time. Excuses and request for more time is nothing short of absurd. But again, the current gamers that play it are part of the problem, for some of these folks want this game to remain "unique", a unique time consuming, unrewarding, annoying, cumbersome and unfun game. But i am just a rambling idiot that don't know what i am talking about. Luckily the thousands that don't play agree with me to some degree.

As a person who has taken many long breaks from this game, I can definitely see where you are coming from.

[_C-a-e-r-i-t-h_]

The detriment of this game is the current players. Most blindly bash anyone who make suggestions that would make this game better. I have seen comments telling folks that they don't know what they are talking about etc but at the end of the day it is a fact that the majority of the people who bought this game hated it. Whats worse is that the few that are playing don't really know why this game does not appeal to the masses and they would be the first to say that it shouldn't when in reality it should.

There is a lot of critical things wrong with the game such as the horrendous timesink of a battle system, the timesink of traveling, the lack of direction, the lack of interesting things to do, the long loading tjmes, the sluggish interface and couple these things with the pelothra of minor bugs and annoyances then you have a game that is truly useless.

This game is not going to improve to the point where it would attract people. I have read many times that they are aiming for the casual gamer but no casual gamer is going to play this timesink obstacle course. Fun and ease of use is not the primary objective of this game and it continues to lack this critical element. Anyone who plays games would immediately see the overly glaring flaws yet the devs can't fixed the game after 9 months. Other games have undergone significant changes in far less time. Excuses and request for more time is nothing short of absurd. But again, the current gamers that play it are part of the problem, for some of these folks want this game to remain "unique", a unique time consuming, unrewarding, annoying, cumbersome and unfun game. But i am just a rambling idiot that don't know what i am talking about. Luckily the thousands that don't play agree with me to some degree.

First line is why I really hope they add new character servers when or if the game ever gets good. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think anyone would want to play on a server whose community is full of people who yell at you if you liked any other game in the history of gaming.

[Abraxai]

I think (me included AT TIMES), the current players.. The people that have held on and stuck at the game sort of feel like we have more rights than other, newer players. Well, not necessarily rights, but more that we have a bigger right to an opinion and deserve to know more. I think that's probably why we're all annoyed at the lack of information and communication, partially because as a game FFXIV is lacking and flopping, but partially because we've stuck through the biggest fail of a game launch in years and we deserve a little respect!

[Renshi]

Hello players,

look at your character, now back to mine, now back at your character, now back to mine.
Sadly, yours isn’t mine, but if you stopped doing the same assumption and switched to waiting until the end of Summer, your character could be happy like it’s mine. Look down, log in, where are you? You’re in a city-state with the character your character could be like. What’s in your head, back at me. I have it, it’s patience which will be worth for the things of this game that you love. Look again, the patience is now diamonds. Anything is possible when your character is like mine and not an impatient rager. I’m on a chair.

[Felis]

First line is why I really hope they add new character servers when or if the game ever gets good. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think anyone would want to play on a server whose community is full of people who yell at you if you liked any other game in the history of gaming.

Forum community is not the same as the ingame community. And is there a new server for a new ingame community, the forum community is still the same.