Quote Originally Posted by Daniolaut View Post
I assumed they meant "play a better game" but ok.

The developers job is to make video games. They dont have to listen to the player base at all. I'm 100% positive most artists do not listen to their fans. Some do for the sake of wanting more money, or as a courtesy but the best artists dont need to listen to their fans at all. You're a fan because you like the art.

A big problem with society these days is this mindset of you get to control people with your money, and thats frankly not correct. Especially in regards to the video gaming community. Which is actually why games are getting worse cause a lot of companies are trying to conform to the players and in reality the players dont actually know what they want, so you get messy sloppy games.
Their job is to develop a game that will make money for Square Enix. If the game doesn’t appeal to many players, they won’t make as much money. It’s nice to have an idea of “artistic integrity” but ultimately this is a business. If they didn’t take any player feedback, FFXIV would still be like it was in 1.0. If I don’t like the game, I’m not going to pay for it. It’s up to the devs to decide if they want to listen to feedback and try to improve, but either way they will make a decision whether my money is worth the investment to them or not.

One of the greatest powers one has as a consumer of a product is to not buy something that is not meeting their needs.
I’m sure most of us can agree that in general the dev team does a good job of making FFXIV fun (after all we probably wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t good enough to grab us as established players). That doesn’t mean there aren’t numerous areas for improvement that can be addressed. Making sure the devs are aware of those areas is the entire point, so that they can make an even better game I feel comfortable recommending to more people, which in turn makes Square Enix more money in the long run.