Developer lack of communication

[MisterLucie]

As someone that plays WoW along with this game, I can only laugh if you think that this is what lack of communication looks like. The fact is that the FFXIV playerbase is spoiled if you honestly think SE is lacking in the communication department. A lot of other MMOs would give anything to have the kind of devs that work on this game. You have no clue what real lack of communication looks like.

What, seriously? I would actually use Blizzard and WoW as an example of excellent communication. Coming from WoW to 14, I was really shocked by the comparative lack of conversations the devs have with their players.

Blizzard reveals all their upcoming changes to their playerbase months ahead of time and has conversations with them, their intention behind the changes, and what they may or may not be tweaking in the future and how they will tweak it. If information is outdated, they will immediately inform their players, along with giving them the current iteration of that information. If you ever visit MMO-Champ you can see just how much information they share every single day. Blizzard takes their transparency very seriously. 14's information may as well be locked in a guarded vault by comparison.

Now, are the changes Blizzard makes always good ones? Definitely not, but to say they aren't transparent about them is pretty far from the truth.

Community reps are a different issue though, and they're something Blizz and SE are pretty similar on. SE's US forums are the redheaded stepchild, whereas Blizz's EU ones are equally ignored.

[Deceptus]

Now, are the changes Blizzard makes always good ones? Definitely not, but to say they aren't transparent about them is pretty far from the truth.

Until they sneak stealth things in during the patches that players catch anyway (undocumented changes). The 7.2 undocumented change of mobs scaling to your level was very poorly received.