Quote Originally Posted by worldofneil View Post
However, if you didn't already contact support, I would suggest you do so with how it affects you. It's quite possible a futile effort, but it's certainly not going to change unless we demonstrate to them how it's causing problems and that's our only real way to contact them (it's very rare to get an official reply here and there's no evidence they even read our threads)
If this is an issue that you feel strongly about, post something in the official feedback form rather then contacting Support (preface, I work the customer facing side for a tech company who's parent company is Japanese). Main reason for this is that Support's job is to troubleshoot FFXIV/SE products which Steam is not. Unless tech support has specifically be told to log feedback regarding the Steam version change, your issue will likely be logged as a "third party issue" and closed out. Consolidating feedback through the official channels has a much greater chance of being acted on even if a formal statement isn't made there. Company policies can change, but they'll base the decision to do so on data (be it technical or customer feedback).

There's likely people within SE who didn't like the Steam changes anymore then some customer's did, but in order to advocate for change they need to be able to point to pull data to back their points up. Being able to pull that data from official channels will make any possible action that much faster then if it trickles in from other sources.