We need better comunication with the Community team

[Ayer2015]

Eureka is in no way a grind. I hit level 20 and had 7 weapons completed in a week. Finding it boring is one thing, but it is in no way time consuming.

[Granyala]

I find it utterly absurd that we do not get more input on Eurekas countless technical issues.

DCs, vanishing mobs and party members, chest/crystal trade in one by one etc.

[Ruf]

Eureka is in no way a grind. I hit level 20 and had 7 weapons completed in a week. Finding it boring is one thing, but it is in no way time consuming.

It is more time consuming than some players are willing to spend at it & that's a fact, also not everyone have the same schedule. Some players do it in fear of what will happen afterward on a later date, & while you dont find it time consuming, some might.I find no entertainement in that design for the most part.Back on topic, ""We need better comunication with the Community team""

P.s: While you say this Ayer

My first impression: It feels like everything done wrong in an MMO. It just feels bad.

Today was the first day I went in there, because of life being in the way, so I'm obviously late to the party. Don't have anyone to run with at the moment, so doing this place alone as a fresh lvl 1 is just painful. And everyone is so far ahead of me that it's not worth my time now. I feel like I'm missing out just because I couldn't get in there on day one and spend hours doing it.

Guess I'm not getting this relic weapon.

[Ruf]

I find it utterly absurd that we do not get more input on Eurekas countless technical issues.

DCs, vanishing mobs and party members, chest/crystal trade in one by one etc.

I find it absurd too.

[Avenger]

Wasn’t this supposed to be a thread about communication with the community team?

It seems to have devolved into another eureka thread.

[Vahlnir]

Eureka is in no way a grind. I hit level 20 and had 7 weapons completed in a week. Finding it boring is one thing, but it is in no way time consuming.

A grind is a grind, no matter how "easy" it is. It still takes time, and you need to collect currencies. It's not a fun grind, which is an issue. There's nothing amazing about mindlessly killing mobs en masse, popping a fate (which are seriously overused at this point) and killing a bigger mob...and moving on to the next.

As to the topic...yeah, we really do need better communication. Seems like just about everything that's suggested gets lost in translation...or they simply don't care.

[Remedi]

I disagree with the concept of fun grinding, grinding implies taking your time to continuisly repeat an action while working towards a goal which cannot remain fun, frankly I think we just glance the root of the problem, maybe by that ppl want to say that actually they find the combat itself to be boring, in which case the content is not the culprit, but the combat of the game is.

[Vstarstruck]

Reminder:

I wonder.. does SE do this on purpose:
https://youtu.be/WBLHEiWmy4k
like that?

I mean before we where talking about glam dresser, and everyone spoke about those problems. Then out of nowhere SE changes the MSQ, then people rant about those changes. Now with diadem 3.0 out, people stop talking about those issues and now just focus on diadem 3.0

What happened to glam dresser issues? what happened to addressing the MSQ situation? then with all of this we get a post on fireworks and loot boxes =/ What about the misplaced PvP mount for the top 100? that is also weird call

SE can do better about communicating to us in general. I'm not expecting Riot or even Blizzard levels of engagement, but almost anything would be an improvement over what we have. Loosen the restrictions on what team members can say, hire more people, give them more time to engage us, something. Trying to communicate to SE feels like I'm shouting to a brick wall. Screaming into a void. Utterly, completely wasting my time since they have more important things to do than gather player feedback.

Since some wanna talk about diadem 3.0, this goes back to my quoted response of the rep we got on it. My issue there is they show no indication of showing they read other things. Level sync for example is requested AN AWFUL lot here and on the Japanese boards. My point is even if they have no plans of implementing said change in the near future, they can at least say "we also see other ideas and concerns about elemental level adjustments and quests. We will forward these ideas as well but we an't guarantee change in the near future in regards to them" least they shows they truly read everything because to me lock box issues is on the lower end of importance, least to me and what I understand. Seems level sync is the biggest.. (Also social searching interfaces like PF is high up there)

[Mahrze]

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from reddit:

Yoshi-p has random streams called "Yoshi-p's walk" on Niconico when he feels like it, where he visits a random JP server and plays with people on that server. During tonight's stream, he revealed some back stories and future updates to Eureka.

• Eureka's first goal was to reanimate "Right after the launch of an MMO".
• Eureka will get an update in patch 4.3x.
• The next Eureka area:***** (Word will replace Anemos) will have a few new functions and game play elements added to it. (He hinted at something you can do solo as well)
• They are planning a levelsync system so players who started late can catch up (note: Not talking about the levelsync for NMs, but a levelsync you can use anywhere in Eureka)
• If they make it too convenient, Eureka will just turn into another/the usual FFXIV, so they will need to find a balance in between.
• The next hot fixes (planned for the end of March) will include some improvements to the game play and adjustments to the lock boxes.
• The hot fixes coming after the above hot fixes will include adjustments to "identifying Anemos crystals" to make it easier to turn Anemos crytals into inferior crystals.
• They will not implement a "deathscythe" in FFXIV. (TL note: a deathsyche is an item from FF11 with Damage:97 Delay:528 and was overpowered for a craftable "NQ regular item", meaning that it was as strong as top tier weapons for other jobs, even though it was easy to get and cheap on the auction house = market board. Deathscythe Hayashi = current lead item designer who got his name from the same item, was on the stream with Yoshi-p tonight, and to this day and after 14 years, people still remember him and his sins as the man who overpowered a scythe. For those players who haven't played FF11, just imagine the crafted ilv 320 (not 350) NQ weapon being as strong as the Kefka weapon (Ilv375) and only for dark knight).

jp sauce http://blog.livedoor.jp/umadori0726/.../53181849.html

[Alleo]

So the whole idea behind Eureka was, to gave people just another way to level up from the start? (So the new to MMO system was meant to still feel like the launch of any MMO?) Solo for next one as well..if this is like this one then that will be "great".

We waited 17 months for content that was meant for the majority and more casual players (thus relic behind it) to have a system that makes people feel like they are back at grinding stuff from the beginning and it seems that we will only get a levelsync system and some small changes and only different elements in the next Eureka part. So our feedback again is for nothing? That completely innovative..can we get stuff completely from the beginning and not somewhere when we are at Eureka 4?

To get back to the topic: This shows that they have quite the problem with communication..nothing like that was ever told to us before it. Maybe tell us before that you plan on creating a system where people can just grind again..(because the grind at the start of an MMO is so great for many..)

I really have no words..