Urgently Change your Approach SE

[Tashigi]

Rushing out content? I think they are at a good speed with that. Not to fast and not to slow. If you want slower new content... then play WoW... do the same thing (no new stuff) for 2-4 months.

You still wait 2-4 months for note-worthy content with FFXIV as well. Except when it finally hits, it's usually a mess in one way or another. Which I believe is what the OP is noting here.

In WoW's case, at least there has been some degree of QA in place via PTR and via feedback. But for FFXIV, there is none other than Yoshi's word.
The only time something was done based on feedback that I can recall, was when WAR was adjusted to be on par with PLD (They still aren't there, not quite, still). And that was after Yoshi had the nerve to say WAR was fine (Lol). If it hadn't been for the several dozens of threads, consisting of hundreds of responses across the NA/EU and JP forums and the flat out alienation of the class, nothing would have been done.
When the dev. team leader is that blind to such simple/basic mechanics/issues, we have a major problem.

People don't test on PTR, they play PTR to see content before everyone else.

Even if they don't, that allows the devs to monitor.
However, I recall in my vanilla WOW days, we had entire guilds dedicated to testing on the PTR.

[Parz3val]

^this person gets it.

Out of touch is a good description of Yoshi & his team I think.

[reality_check]

Out of touch is a good description of Yoshi & his team I think.

Not really. He's not out of touch at all. Yoshi answers to investors, not to players. Despite all the "I'm not happy with FFXIV" talk going around the forums, the game is doing beyond great. So, if you're upset with the current status of FFXIV updates, cancel your subscription. Throwing wild accusations at the development team is going to get you no where.

[Shougun]

Not really. He's not out of touch at all. Yoshi answers to investors, not to players. Despite all the "I'm not happy with FFXIV" talk going around the forums, the game is doing beyond great. So, if you're upset with the current status of FFXIV updates, cancel your subscription. Throwing wild accusations at the development team is going to get you no where.

Money comes from players, Investors desire money, Yoshi answers to players. Unless SE's business plan is flopping, then yeah sure Yoshi doesn't answer to players.

I'd say a lot of his responses to the housing stuff has been out of touch, like fighting RMT by making higher prices- lol just lol ("low prices would have been lower than FC prices, the price set for multiple people to pool together to).

However, just because someone is missing on one avenue doesn't mean they've missed all.. Its our nature to pick out what we dont like, I'm sure there are a number of things OP and others could pick out that they did like if asked to- but likely won't do it unless asked. Probably another reason why SE should start up their polls again, and other questions.

[SarcasmMisser]

and this is why the forums is a joke. someones so mad that make childish jokes and antics at anything someone says.

At least it is better than someone so mad they have spent a full week posting complaint thread after complaint thread (the OP), unable or unwilling to believe that the majority of the player base will just let this go and continue playing. Everyone likes to think they're a majority when they are so invested in an issue.

[Roris]

They stretch their resources as thin as they can to maximize profits, it's honestly a basic business tactic. That's why the relic quest hasn't really had anything unique battle wise like Hydra created for it since the very first quest, it's all just currently existing content artificially extended with long grinds, kinda sad the relic questline was relegated to that one quest that will try to keep older content in circulation and somewhat relevant maybe even after the expansion, which is admittedly also kinda clever. That's why most of the other systems introduced are just click on thing and watch a cutscene. That's why even in Coil most enemies are just recolors or slight modifications, even if Final Fantasy has always had that since the very first one, but still. That's why most gear is full of recolors, even current top tier gear.

Lowest amount of effort for the highest amount of gains, or rather they allocate most of their efforts and resources into very specific major content, dungeons/raids and the primal battle of the patch always being their top priority, there's nothing wrong with that but ends up making the rest of the content being less than it could be or just plain badly implemented.

[tOnni3]

I don't want vanity things, nor is housing stuffs.
I want to have nice and creative dungoens and boss fights.

I am now at the point that cancel auto-sub and log in a few day per week to just clear T9.

[Errors]

There are a lot of delusional people, I've learned play FFXIV.

[SDaemon]

I don't want vanity things, nor is housing stuffs.
I want to have nice and creative dungoens and boss fights.

I am now at the point that cancel auto-sub and log in a few day per week to just clear T9.

Must be nice to ignore all other content while still being one of the few that enjoy being able to clear T9 :/

[tOnni3]

Must be nice to ignore all other content while still being one of the few that enjoy being able to clear T9 :/

Why I have to care because at this state of the game, SE only focus on those things in each patch.
They should balance new contents in each patch, see what we have so far ? Chocobo, House, Creepy slime hat, seasonal event thingy...