Why is Yoshi P turning his back on the playerbase that loves this game the most?

[Coratanni]

It's impossible to please everyone.

This very much.

impossible to please everyone? its possible to please everyone just its not probable..... but i will say the devs could easily change up the formula and do something that is completely "out of the box"

Its possible but is highly unlikely to please everyone... The biggest issue with FFXIV is that it has no real identity ... FFXIV is all over the place yet its going no where which is a riddle in of itself....

FFXIV really needs to step out of the box and start making real content and decide on what it wants to be when it grows up.

There will ALWAYS be a group of people who are never happy. For whatever reason. You simply cannot design something, that will please everyone. We are too different. To think otherwise, is to be extremely naive about the diversity in humanity, and in gamers. Whether it is due to culture, up-bringing, gaming experience, life experience, social tolerance, ability to learn mechanics, etc. No two people will ever agree about every single thing.

I love FFXIV. The only real thing I would want to change, is the global cooldowns. I love the music, I love the graphics, I love the story, I love the voice acting, I love the dungeons and raids, and I love the community. I have spent hundreds of dollars on glamours and have created several alts that are also level 60's and caught up with the story content. I won't be leaving anytime soon.

[Astral145]

Coratanni,

FFXIV is all over the place and cant seem to find an equilibrium. Gear progression in this game is a bit ridiculous and it loses its value way to often. Don't get me wrong i like it when i see new gear but i would prefer to see it less often as we do in this game. The devs need to mix it up a bit so there is some horizontal progression. meaning we get more out of gear for longer periods of time. By the time I can get 2 or 3 classes geared for raids the next set of gear is being released. This is a shame because in a game that allows you to have it all on one character it sure is a pain to play them all in a raid setting.

The battle system in FFXIV is very dated. Its very slow and way to generic. There is no real customization for loadouts, which is a shame. This game needs multiple trees to allow multiple load outs... as it stands now everyone who is trying to maximize there job's potential really only has one way of doing it. Granted there may be 1 or 2 minor differences especially in a DD class but thats as far as it goes with customization.

Content wise FFXIV has some amazing dungeons with beautiful graphics. I wish these dungeons had multiple difficulties but that's for another conversation. It feels like the dev team is spending way to much time on things that players really could care less about... like Minion battles which was way over the top. Players requested something like a pokemon style minion fight or some kind of open world duel. Instead we got something that very few players even bother playing... I for one never made it past the tutorial before disconnecting from the game.

Diadem was another let down. Don't get me wrong the idea sounds awesome but it was poorly implemented into the game. I think i ran Diadem 5 times total and have never stepped foot into it again. It's extremely boring.... There is no real mechanics, puzzles to solve or even some kind of strategy. Its just an open world zergefest... They spent all that time and effort into something that could have easily been a pick up quest in the real open world that once you start all mobs get a HP, DEF, Dam out increase for 45 mins and its only for your group.

PoTD has a lot of potential. Even though it had poor release time it still peaked my interest. I hope they gathered a lot of info from players and are making some changes in the 3.45 update.

I can keep going with other stuff but the point is FFXIV is going into multiple directions and is spreading their teams thin... They really need to slow down and really draw out plan for the future of the game.... to me this is a theme park mmo which provides multiple types of content but half of the content is released very poorly.

I love the game and have all battle jobs at 60. However, I would really love to see the devs slow down and try to figure out what they really want out of this game.

[kaptainpancake69]

The inability of FFXIV to keep the attention of any of my WoW friends is a huge issue. The main quest has to many brainless fetch quests, and I can't get them to see through this to get to the better parts of the game.

[Xiao_]

Zhanex: Are you beeing naive now? Would you truly be playing this game today if it was called something else? I doubt that

I don't even like the Final Fantasy series in general, but I play this. So uh, I may not be him but yes, yes I would still be playing it. In fact I'd probably have picked it up earlier if it was called something else.

[Derio]

Ffxiv is not WoW, if you want WoW then go play it. Also Potd was a success compared to Diadem

[Elkanah]

It feels like the dev team is spending way to much time on things that players really could care less about. Players requested something like a pokemon style minion fight or some kind of open world duel. Instead we got something that very few players even bother playing

Players are stupid. That's why.

1) Why did dev team decide on something so incredibly stupid and thoughtless as content that nobody does, instead of giving us DF for the crystal tower series or coil?

2) WHY DOES SQUEENIX KEEP PUTTING PARRY ON ALL THE FRICKEN TANK GEAR THAT DOES JACK FOR OUR JOBS!!!!

*throws table*

Seriously, that is a design flaw if I EVER saw one. Pisses me off to no end that parry is the worst stat tanks can have, and yet it's always on gear we DONT NEED. TAKE PARRY OUT OF THE GAME. IT'S BROKEN AND USELESS! D:<

[Elkanah]

Ffxiv is not WoW, if you want WoW then go play it. Also Potd was a success compared to Diadem

And yet the dungeon only need run less than 5 times to complete. After that youre done for the next patch. I've only had to run it 3 times to get all of my drops to obtain my weapon when it first came out, and I'm barely bothering to do it this time around cause I could care less for the content that comes with it. Still not engaging enough these days. There was an actual storyline in there before, and now not so much.

[Jetstream_Fox]

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There is many options they can use outside of tomes, granted some of the suggestions would have tousher in entire new systems, but keeping it FF14 gear that grows with you through spirit bonding, could be a possibility, as could adding a system like Destiny where you fuse gear together. Tomes have constantly come under scrunity more impart to the very limited amount you can obtain and how quickly they become obsolete with each patch, and given the current state of the recent patch, max ilv gear isn't even needed to do anything in this game.

And yes, dropping ps3 support earlier would have allowed this game to be tuned much better, low end pc users wouldn't be hurt by this as much either, unless that machine is weaker compared to the ps3 which I would find hard to believe, given 400-600 dollar machines could run this game easily. This game doesn't need a 4.0 processor with a topline graphics card, I almost feel bad running this with my GTX 1080 because it's not even being utilized fully.

It's debatable that most of the of planned systems that had to scrap or pushed back were due to the ps3 or due to development team size. But these are things they should have decided early on before the release of 3.0, going into your second expansion with a possibility of needing an entire class overhaul, the implementation of new systems both gameplay and nongameplay, are things they should have been doing already.

Don't get me wrong, they've done good in some regards, but the future isn't something I'm going to say I'm hoping for when the present is in disarray.

[Aronys]

I've only had to run it 3 times to get all of my drop

That just means you have good RNG. Nothing else. I barely got any items in the new dungeons, and I'm running them daily.

[Astral145]

That just means you have good RNG. Nothing else. I barely got any items in the new dungeons, and I'm running them daily.

I know the feeling I am on my 4th full run (floor 1 -50) in PoTD and still have not received the newest hair style via the new appraiser system. Don't get me wrong I actually like the appraiser system its like putting your hand in the pot and you never know what you are going to pull out. But to add a certain glamour items such as hair is a bit harsh. I was really looking forward to that hair because there really isn't any nice long hair in the game for my character which of course is my opinion.

Still RNG is good for a system like the appraisal but its not so good for a job's rotation.