SE: Holding back information won't stop criticism, it will only delay it and is bad.

[MomomiMomi]

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All of this is just part of a larger problem, and they're going about it the completely wrong way. They should be giving us more methods of giving them feedback earlier, not less. The sooner they get good, accurate feedback, the sooner they can make their changes. Instead they're implementing sweeping changes that are disliked by a large amount of players, and receiving no feedback until nobody is playing those jobs anymore.

I personally believe these developers, Yoshida in particular, are too full of themselves. You can't just design a game in a way you want to, which is something that I've seen to be the case based on a lot of Yoshida's comments. You have to design a game for the players. Your players need to find it fun, otherwise you have failed. But they are waiting far too long to give us information on what changes they're making, and waiting even longer to start taking feedback into account.

[Deceptus]

I personally believe these developers, Yoshida in particular, are too full of themselves. You can't just design a game in a way you want to, which is something that I've seen to be the case based on a lot of Yoshida's comments. You have to design a game for the players. Your players need to find it fun, otherwise you have failed. But they are waiting far too long to give us information on what changes they're making, and waiting even longer to start taking feedback into account.

It's. . . almost like this exact same scenario has happened before and they supposedly "learned from it". Clearly not.

Yes, but there's nothing wrong with waiting until after implementation to listen to feedback as FFXIV is not a fixed game and can be patched.

Shouldn't be waiting for patches to fix everything.