We can't

[Naunet]

I think at this point it is very clearly the majority of the player base asking for a glam log and multiple glam slots on an item. And theyve been asking for years.

Things take time and effort, true. But when there is a clear and overwhelming need in the community united for one thing.. Well yea, hearing "maybe we'll make it so you can 'save one glam' is pretty disheartening.

Agreed. And all the content in the world won't change the fact that if I can't store any more armors, then I have very little reason to bother running that content. And then what's the point of continuing to sub...?

[Moonlite]

And I'm not entirely sure why people seem so convinced that Yoshi-P himself

Poster boy who puts himself at the front of everything in this game. You chose to be at the front you get to see the good and the bad. How many other MMO's have you played where you could pick dev team member out of the line? How many other MMO's have you played where anniversary event is a plug for dev team.

Is it his fault, no. Does he deserve the criticism, yes. He has chosen by personal or by taking company pay checks to be the face. Game devs don't need to be a focal point of the community.

Long story short, because we don't know how the game works internally, the community that asks for these things often vastly underestimates how much work they are asking for. Some of these things entail fundamental and far-reaching changes to the game, which would require a huge amount of testing and optimisation to maintain the quality to which we have grown accustomed, and all this while continuing to deliver new content at the same pace. It's not like the development team finished 4.1 a month after Stormblood released and is now just twiddling their thumbs and loafing around before they start on 4.2.

Long story short other game MMO's seem to manage certain design functions. No one has asked for stuff that isn't mostly basic feature in other games. Other games that do not have a monthly sub plus a cash shop. If someone asks for something not running in another MMO tell them SE is not an innovator and to be realistic.

While we haven't seen 4.1 yet so can't judge yet a lot of 3.1 should have been 3.0 expansion pack. Not finishing a bunch of stuff and putting it into X.1 doesn't make the cycle look that great. If you step back and look at it from other MMO expansions. They still release content faster but if you look at what you get with 4.0 and then down the road it doesn't look nearly as good in comparison.

[FoxyAreku]

Poster boy who puts himself at the front of everything in this game. You chose to be at the front you get to see the good and the bad. How many other MMO's have you played where you could pick dev team member out of the line? How many other MMO's have you played where anniversary event is a plug for dev team.

Is it his fault, no. Does he deserve the criticism, yes. He has chosen by personal or by taking company pay checks to be the face. Game devs don't need to be a focal point of the community.

World of Warcraft.

You should have seen the backlash and constant rude criticism that Ghostcrawler got before he left.

I haven't paid attention to WoW in forever but I can guarantee they have some other scapegoat that people won't stop complaining about now as well.

[Stormfur]

I'm surprised that they chose to take an engine that was developed for a single player game with some MMO facets and bolt on some third party tools and it worked. Game engines are the very beating heart of the whole operation.

[Naunet]

Here is a wonderful idea for all those crying about the fact we can't have every single system the second you demand it

We've been demanding several of these things for 3 years.

Look at how long it took WoW to get the glamour system they have. It took many years. Them saying "we can't" does not mean "we will not". It takes time to code, test, and implement. They also have deadlines on other projects and a budget. That is all controlled by SE itself. Not trying to be a white knight as I think it sucks too, but this all takes time.

It took many years because WoW was made many years ago and those kinds of systems didn't become popular until relatively recently (say within the past 3-4 years). WoW and FFXIV were made in completely different MMO markets. It is entirely on SE to not have recognized popular features in MMOs. We shouldn't have to wait 7+ years for a modern MMO to have what others had years ago.

[Moonlite]

World of Warcraft.

You should have seen the backlash and constant rude criticism that Ghostcrawler got before he left.

I haven't paid attention to WoW in forever but I can guarantee they have some other scapegoat that people won't stop complaining about now as well.

Was he the blue crab that nerfed anything good in pvp?

[Singularity]

Long story short other game MMO's seem to manage certain design functions. No one has asked for stuff that isn't mostly basic feature in other games. Other games that do not have a monthly sub plus a cash shop. If someone asks for something not running in another MMO tell them SE is not an innovator and to be realistic.

How many of those MMOs had those features written into them from the start? It's a lot easier to change the foundations before you've built the house.

[MagiusNecros]

All Tanaka tried to do was copy FF11, which in turn copied much of its structure from earlier RPGs. Pretending that XIV has been objectively worse under Yoshida is laughable, especially when it comes to infrastructure.

Could have at least been a part of it to offer advice. Doesn't this forum like to circlejerk around XIV having new content and the first thing people pine for is content that Tanaka tried in XI? Which ultimately fell on it's face?

Take stuff like Diadem and the Treasure Hunt junk. It's either pretty on paper but garbage in execution or dead on arrival. Just doesn't last.

Problem with this game is everything is mostly instance based and most of that is wailing on sandbag enemies. The world itself is pretty dead and lifeless.

And of course we have people who apparently are super interested in more important things like glamour, butt sliders, customizations options to fulfill their vanity on their avatar. Real gamechangers to be sure.

[Theodric]

Yes, I'm pretty tired of it - especially in regards to character customisation. They have no issue adding new hairstyles with each new patch so I'm not sure why they can't add new make up options for women and facial hair options for men.

I'm also getting annoyed by the lack of unique, masculine glamour options for male characters both in-game and on the Mog Station.

[ErryK]

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I wish I had the expectation of MMO developers heeding every beck and call and demand I had to say about the game.