4.25 and beyond

[SaitoHikari]

Even when 3/4ths of the active players are non-JP? (I'd believe its more like 4/5)

It's pretty obvious by now that whether or not the JP staff is actually interested in hearing from the EN communities, it's clear that someone responsible for communicating things to the JP staff from the NA playerbase is dropping the ball hardcore. There's even recent proof of this - EN players trying to warn the staff that Ungarmax was a thing for 4 months and the JP staff not knowing about it until literal days before it was patched out.

I want to say, probably the biggest irony with FFXIV right now is that if you raid, by default half of the content released in the same patch is invalidated after the first month or so of a new gearing cycle, and invalidated right out of the gate during odd-numbered patches, by virtue of the vertical progression system currently put into place. I already had mostly best in slot Bard gear for the previous gearing tier by the time 4.1 hit, after all, which meant that gearing wise, Shinryu EX did nothing for me.

[Ayer2015]

I want to say, probably the biggest irony with FFXIV right now is that if you raid, by default half of the content released in the same patch is invalidated after the first month or so of a new gearing cycle, and invalidated right out of the gate during odd-numbered patches, by virtue of the vertical progression system currently put into place. I already had mostly best in slot Bard gear for the previous gearing tier by the time 4.1 hit, after all, which meant that gearing wise, Shinryu EX did nothing for me.

You don't even have to raid to encounter this which is only compounded by ilv barely being relevant in non-raid content . Simply re-working how increasing ilv is deployed would have a massive difference, even absent new types of content being added. Relying on people wanting to gear up multiple jobs in order to stay occupied for 6 months is a bit ridiculous imo

[Evogolist]

It's pretty obvious by now that whether or not the JP staff is actually interested in hearing from the EN communities, it's clear that someone responsible for communicating things to the JP staff from the NA playerbase is dropping the ball hardcore. There's even recent proof of this - EN players trying to warn the staff that Ungarmax was a thing for 4 months and the JP staff not knowing about it until literal days before it was patched out..

I've been saying this for months...MONTHS. You can look at the dev tracker and see that the responses to the NA threads aren't no where near what they where at the beginning of ARR and some of HW.

Another issue is that you can search the forum and see that there have been several content or QoL proposals that failed to catch any track, simply because of either the tired ol' song of server limitations or the lore enthusiasts come out of the woodwork to preach about how it wouldn't work.

[Molic]

I've been saying this for months...MONTHS. You can look at the dev tracker and see that the responses to the NA threads aren't no where near what they where at the beginning of ARR and some of HW.

Another issue is that you can search the forum and see that there have been several content or QoL proposals that failed to catch any track, simply because of either the tired ol' song of server limitations or the lore enthusiasts come out of the woodwork to preach about how it wouldn't work.

Yea, really feels like the NA community team is non-existent nowadays. Makes you wonder if all the content proposals and QoL stuff that people have been suggesting over the years was even seen by anyone, doubt the JP staff look at the NA board much either.

[Theodric]

Yea, really feels like the NA community team is non-existent nowadays. Makes you wonder if all the content proposals and QoL stuff that people have been suggesting over the years was even seen by anyone, doubt the JP staff look at the NA board much either.

It's possible that their hands are tied, I suppose. Ultimately, FFXIV saw a lot of success - and a lot of that is due to the NA and EU communities. With that in mind, it makes sense to take our opinions into account. At least when constructive feedback is offered up on a platter.

Yet it's clear from interviews that stuff is being lost in translation. Yoshi-P is aware that a lot of players want to see more customisation options, for instance...but his last statement on the matter involved him saying he wants 'specifics'. Yet that is something that has been given for years by quite a lot of players.