Questions you don't think SE team will answer.

[Stormrider]

So some threads or comments keep popping. So I thought it would be amusing to gather some of the questions you don't think have been answered. If some one has actually seen an answer feel free to link the Live Letter or interview.

One of the original ones that pops back up onto the front page is 1.o butts. Now that they are officially moving on from ps4 they could have more options.

Why were players not given more retainers and instead charged for them? Not all just an increase to cover the increase in game related items.

Why have you continued with open world housing?

Why have you not increased forum post size over 1000 characters?

Why do you continue region locked items when all items are made by the japanese dev team?

Why do you answer mostly fluff questions now and avoid pressing issues? Creating blame Balmung live letters, which is a said affect not the main point.

[Shurrikhan]

Are certain features being purposely restricted or issues neglected for the sake of revenue from retainer fees and cash shops?

Is such revenue actually reinvested into the game in such a way as to produce greater improvement to the game's enjoyability than would fixing these causative issues or implementing their solution QoL improvements?

[NolLacnala]

Creating blame Balmung live letters, which is a said affect not the main point.

Everything wrong with the game IS Balmung's fault, after all, however...

One of the original ones that pops back up onto the front page is 1.o butts.

...you've got your priorities straight, so you're cool in my book

[NolLacnala]

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I can answer these myself

1) Yes. Additional retainers for purchase is exhibit A. The cash shop is primarily glamour, which would be defensible if this game was free to play. "Blizzard did it first!" doesn't make it excusable. Content is either being developed for cash shop, or being moved from planned in-game to cash shop, with dev time being wasted on cash shop content either way.

2) Funds are only now being given to Yoshi's team for Stormblood, now that profits from XIV aren't being funneled into SE's other projects. This excuses all of the shortcuts Yoshi had to take throughout Heavensward since SE was barely giving them money. What was it, patch 2.2 where Yoshi was on stage begging for funds?

[Enkidoh]

One of the original ones that pops back up onto the front page is 1.o butts. Now that they are officially moving on from ps4 they could have more options.

It's the PS3 version that is being suspended, not PS4. Also that tired old meme has no basis in reality as design choices in the game were decided by taking into account the need to make the game accessible by PC players with a wide range of system set ups (including players with a bucket-of-bolts $300 department store special PC that they bought to send emails and download funny Youtube videos - the game still will run under Windows XP after all. Console 'limitations' are a myth.

Why were players not given more retainers and instead charged for them? Not all just an increase to cover the increase in game related items.

Extra retainers were always going to be a paid service - that was clear way back in 1.0.

Why have you not increased forum post size over 1000 characters?

Blame the spam on the Beta Test forum around Phase 3 for that - before then the 1.0 forum had no such posting restrictions. But the huge influx of new testers that were a little too zealous in their posting dragged the Beta forum down into a quagmire of "Hello World!" posts and flaming, forcing SE to implement similar restrictions there.

And when the Beta forum was finally put out of it's misery when ARR was launched, and the 1.0 forum became the ARR forum, SE also implemented the same posting restrictions here based on your character's level in the game. "This is why we can't have nice things" I guess.

[Claire_Pendragon]

OPs questions are just Rhetorical. You dont actually want to know why, you want them to be aware that you want something done about it.

[ChandraNoctis]

You already know the answers to these questions - you just want different answers...

1. Obvious - a) because they can generate income that way, b) because part of allowing this depends on only a percentage of the population using it.
2. Open world housing is a unique feature of this game - housing shortage only really impacts v. large servers (which I agree is lame and they should address it), no real ROI from majority of customers in fixing this.
3. Likely a standard feature with this type of forum to limit spam and obviously not a priority to change.
4. Probably related to contract with local distributers to provide extra items - adding them to other regions in either an after thought or requires permission depending on contract details (yes even if SE created them).
5. They do answer pressing issues - just in a way that often gets misinterpreted: re: Japanese business culture of not saying a direct 'no' to customers. i.e. if they don't answer or say well maybe in the future /PS5 or whatever - they mean 'no'.

I'm not disagreeing with you on these issues - just trying to clarify the point.

[Reiryuu]

Healers and Tanks may stick to their role, but that doesn't mean we don't like new classes/jobs to play, so why did we get left out in the cold for job content in 4.0? T_T

[Ultimatecalibur]

Healers and Tanks may stick to their role, but that doesn't mean we don't like new classes/jobs to play, so why did we get left out in the cold for job content in 4.0? T_T

Because they are focusing on rebalancing the Jobs in those roles.

[ADVSS]

Healers and Tanks may stick to their role, but that doesn't mean we don't like new classes/jobs to play, so why did we get left out in the cold for job content in 4.0? T_T

Also something like they found that adding new tank and healer didnt really affect the people playing healers and tanks in the long run, ie how queues are still role heavy leaning