PvP from a casual new player (very long)

[Geryth]

I think the "talk with us" is perhaps the most important thing here. Kaposhipi kindly informs us from time to time that they're collecting feedback to pass on to the dev team -- which is great, don't get me wrong.

But we'd kind of like to know what's getting shared and what the dev team has to say in return. I know it can be hard to nail down and everything is in a state of flux as to whether it will or won't be implemented, but a little back-and-forth discussion would be absolutely refreshing.

Other games have taken an strong dev to community communication approach, and it's really working for those games. The first I noticed of this was Riot Games with League of Legends having great back and forth between the community and the developers. That's obviously turned out really well for them. Blizzard took note and has done the same with both Hearthstone and Overwatch. Those games also have benefited very positively with that approach as well. I think SE follow suit, especially for PvP which is really not in a healthy state.

[Theodric]

Other games have taken an strong dev to community communication approach, and it's really working for those games. The first I noticed of this was Riot Games with League of Legends having great back and forth between the community and the developers. That's obviously turned out really well for them. Blizzard took note and has done the same with both Hearthstone and Overwatch. Those games also have benefited very positively with that approach as well. I think SE follow suit, especially for PvP which is really not in a healthy state.

Ideally, the Live Letters should be used as an opportunity to engage the player-base more, especially the NA and EU communities. It actually seemed like they were a lot more open in the past, yet nowadays a chunk of time is devoted purely to advertising FFXIV related merchandise whilst major concerns within the community go without mention.