SE Needs to do Another Player Poll

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

SE won`t do it cause its scared of what it will find out. Probably a lot of work to do and they of course, are very happy with what they have now, so that won`t happen unless the subscriptions begin to sink and bad reviews begin to roll out, sadly is the only way to make developers to work these days.

[NovaLevossida]

At this point, if the third dungeon in each patch cycle was sacrificed for the development of "new systems" such as diadem, verminion, and PotD, I'd really like those new systems to be fun, interesting, complete, and fulfilling at launch. Diadem launched last November and died very quickly; the apologists for it tell us that it was just the framework for something amazing that will come out a year later. PotD has similarly been defended with its barebones box-room design (it really is as basic as one can get when it comes to designing random dungeon content) with the promise that it will be amazing when it is patched, whenever that might be. I don't think those arguments excuse underwhelming content being released. And even if they did, we had Nyzul Isle ten years ago, so why exactly is PotD so lackluster?

[Jynx]

it would be a great way for SE to see if players are happy or not with the current state of the game.

In all reality such polls are more for us than it is for them. They have access to all the metrics to really gauge how people feel about the content, they don't do polls regularly because they have the analytics in front of them despite what people may say.

Would I love to see data from a FFXIV useerbase poll? Man I'd love to see it hell I'd love to see quarterly polls or something pushed to players who log in just to see how we react to new content as a community and other such metrics. The Vanadiel Census (XI Census) was always really interesting to read and could tell allot about the community as a whole.

[AnaviAnael]

At this point, if the third dungeon in each patch cycle was sacrificed for the development of "new systems" such as diadem, verminion, and PotD, I'd really like those new systems to be fun, interesting, complete, and fulfilling at launch. Diadem launched last November and died very quickly; the apologists for it tell us that it was just the framework for something amazing that will come out a year later. PotD has similarly been defended with its barebones box-room design and stupid post length issues.

See this is one reason why I think a poll would be useful. People on the boards here say PotD underwhelming while a lot of people ingame enjoy it. It'd be nice to see where the majority opinions lie. Are more people like you and hate it, or like me and enjoy it? (Though we can both agree Diadem was just baaaaaaaaaaaad.)

[Kio]

It would be really nice to have again. A lot of what made 2.0 so great was the direct feedback from fans before things were implemented. I feel like some of the direction while not bad, is lacking these days. Things that are extremely important to the NA/EU population Yoshi seems shocked to learn years later despite numerous large threads about it here. I just don't feel like our side of the community is getting through anymore.

[Laerune]

I can only see good things comming out the player polls. If SE gets alot of positive feedback, then they know that what they are giving to the players is something good, but if they get alot of negative feedback, then SE knows that something has to change. Feedback is a good thing.

[RyuSaarva]

yeah, let's make FF XIV a turn based rpg.

[DPZ2]

They did this back in 1.0 to determine if the players would be willing to see changes in gameplay in 2.0.

Can you provide a bit of context to this "back in 1.0" reference? Was this after they decided to stop development (and the game itself) while they refit to version 2.0? Was it at the height of popularity for the game? Was it after every single forum (there was a forum, right?) topic went toxic?

I don't see how the needs to focus on "what could we do to fix this train wreck?" currently applies. [I assume here that the answer to my questions are Yes, No, No. But I wasn't around then. Too busy playing another major MMO.]

I can tell you one thing that would have to get asked if an in-game poll was asked: "Would you like to see more items for sale in the store? What kind of items?"

[AnaviAnael]

@DPZ2

They asked questions like "Would you be willing to see drastic changes in gameplay" and "what jobs would you like to see." It was a few months before 1.0 shut down and they were getting feedback for how to make 2.0. They basically did the poll when they realized 1.0's entire structure wasn't going to work and needed to be bulldozed and rebuilt entirely.

With more and more people seemingly unhappy with the different kinds of content being produced, it may be a good idea for SE to get feedback from a wider base than these forums.

[Pheryx]

I would love to have a poll. I want to show them where they could use some work to improve the content.