Are the developers of XIV out of touch?

[Narangerel]

A lot of stream chat was crowing "casual content". which is fair, things like glamour and housing is casual content, there is no real pressure about it, but it also felt like to me there were no real hard hitting questions about the game, just lots of fluff. like minions of all things.

Also, as far as Im concerned we found Fenrir in a shed in castrum abania, so it doesn't break my immersion. can't wait to grab it.

[whiskeybravo]

A lot of stream chat was crowing "casual content". which is fair, things like glamour and housing is casual content, there is no real pressure about it, but it also felt like to me there were no real hard hitting questions about the game, just lots of fluff. like minions of all things.

Nah it was bad. I mean, yes people have been asking about Ishgard housing for years... But does it really need to brought AGAIN up at such a special event?? Whoever narrowed the questions down missed the mark entirely.

[Rokke]

Nah it was bad. I mean, yes people have been asking about Ishgard housing for years... But does it really need to brought AGAIN up at such a special event?? Whoever narrowed the questions down missed the mark entirely.

I have no idea why yall act surprised by the questions chosen. They've always prioritized the fluff. Yoshi n co always shy away from any difficult or loaded question at Q&As. If you ask about balancing or about the community's negative reaction(s) to [insert content here], you will get a "we will look over our data" or "please look forward to it" non-answer.

[Vidu]

I have no idea why yall act surprised by the questions chosen. They've always prioritized the fluff. Yoshi n co always shy away from any difficult or loaded question at Q&As. If you ask about balancing or about the community's negative reaction(s) to [insert content here], you will get a "we will look over our data" or "please look forward to it" non-answer.

Its because they often cant/arent allowed to say anything about the important stuff, so they have to stick to fluff.

[Dustytome]

But does it really need to brought AGAIN up at such a special event?? Whoever narrowed the questions down missed the mark entirely.

While skipping over some that have been asked would have been nice, these were the questions the community upvoted the most. If people want to attempt to get more hard hitting questions, they need to delve into the questions thread, put in a question and/or upvote one that was already asked.

[Rokke]

Its because they often cant/arent allowed to say anything about the important stuff, so they have to stick to fluff.

Which is why no one should be surprised by the questions selected.

[whiskeybravo]

Well, they solved the alliance need/greed thing beforehand so that was one tough question avoided.. They could've picked something a bit more relevant than Ishgard housing. I'm not flabbergasted, but my forehead does hurt from headdesking.

[GrumbleBeard]

I have no idea why yall act surprised by the questions chosen. They've always prioritized the fluff.

Nobody is surprised anymore, though. It's fluff in the live letters, fluff in the patches, fluff in the expansion. I love this game, and I really try not to be too harsh on it. Maybe they don't have the funding or staff and it really is difficult for them. That's fine, but they still have a duty to their paying customers and after years of playing and watching things dwindle it starts to get hard to defend them. It feels like they don't try anymore.

[Vaer]

Too bad they can't just pick out the "When can Sleipnir fly?" question to pad their list anymore. I swear that question was asked every LL until they added it.

Anyways, they likely just didn't have anything to show. The patch just came out and they already had 2 letters for it. I think the big thing was supposed to be the collab but it didn't have the "cool" factor since they already announced it the day before and the reverse side got leaked. Too early for the expansion and most of that stuff would be reserved for the slow trickle 3 fanfests anyway. I think a couple of previous E3 letters were just as meh as the one today.

[whiskeybravo]

After going through all the questions originally asked... I guess they did pick the more popular "liked" questions. Disappointment shifted to the community.