What is going on with Square Enix and the 14 team?

[Midareyukki]

Some of us have been warning you guys that the quality of the game has been deteriorating, people just keep excusing it.

And at the beginning, I could get behind some of it.
Blue Mage being ridiculously polarizing at the time? "Nah, people just have shoddy tastes and don't know how hard it is to implement something like that"
Eureka sucking hard in Anemos and being Black Hole levels of suck in Pagos? "But I like FF11's slow paced system, you guys just don't know what's good"
PvP being a constant miss? "Nah, the game just isn't good for PvP anyway"
Umbrellas and Mahjong when we have "Limited Races"? "But it's good for RPers!! We need more of this!"
Streamlining of classes? "The classes were too clunky before and had ridiculous button bloat. Nevermind Scathe exists to this day with only one real purpose. Or SMN Physick"
Hrothgar and Viera hair and headgear? "You guys knew what you were getting into"
Servers crapping out despite the obvious rise in player numbers with WoW mass exodus and the free trial giving them tremendous success? "Who could have foreseen this!?"

Look, I'm aware that this is a very common, very normal bug. It's a problem in arrays. It's not Y2K levels of "stupid but breaks the system", but it's still something that happens when you're not paying attention. It happens to the best of programmers, and yes, it is true that everything can get thrown into the water because one comma was misplaced in your code.

But that's why we care enough for QA. That's why we test things out before shipping, as best as we can. Every game has bugs, but not every bug breaks the system.
And this, for a lot of people, is the final drop on an already full glass. Square's been getting far too lenient on quality and it's shown. All their good will on ARR keeps being spent and spent and spent. A lot of you will likely still have patience for the dev team, but it's high time we tell them that though we like them a lot, we do have our limits.

[aveyond-dreams]

Some of us have been warning you guys that the quality of the game has been deteriorating, people just keep excusing it.

And at the beginning, I could get behind some of it.
Blue Mage being ridiculously polarizing at the time? "Nah, people just have shoddy tastes and don't know how hard it is to implement something like that"
Eureka sucking hard in Anemos and being Black Hole levels of suck in Pagos? "But I like FF11's slow paced system, you guys just don't know what's good"
PvP being a constant miss? "Nah, the game just isn't good for PvP anyway"
Umbrellas and Mahjong when we have "Limited Races"? "But it's good for RPers!! We need more of this!"
Streamlining of classes? "The classes were too clunky before and had ridiculous button bloat. Nevermind Scathe exists to this day with only one real purpose. Or SMN Physick"
Hrothgar and Viera hair and headgear? "You guys knew what you were getting into"
Servers crapping out despite the obvious rise in player numbers with WoW mass exodus and the free trial giving them tremendous success? "Who could have foreseen this!?"

Look, I'm aware that this is a very common, very normal bug. It's a problem in arrays. It's not Y2K levels of "stupid but breaks the system", but it's still something that happens when you're not paying attention. It happens to the best of programmers, and yes, it is true that everything can get thrown into the water because one comma was misplaced in your code.

But that's why we care enough for QA. That's why we test things out before shipping, as best as we can. Every game has bugs, but not every bug breaks the system.
And this, for a lot of people, is the final drop on an already full glass. Square's been getting far too lenient on quality and it's shown. All their good will on ARR keeps being spent and spent and spent. A lot of you will likely still have patience for the dev team, but it's high time we tell them that though we like them a lot, we do have our limits.

This post summarizes my thoughts exactly, I warned people, got called every name in the book for it, and now in the year 2022 look at the state of things.

[GomezAddams]

Some of us have been warning you guys that the quality of the game has been deteriorating, people just keep excusing it.

And at the beginning, I could get behind some of it.
Blue Mage being ridiculously polarizing at the time? "Nah, people just have shoddy tastes and don't know how hard it is to implement something like that"
Eureka sucking hard in Anemos and being Black Hole levels of suck in Pagos? "But I like FF11's slow paced system, you guys just don't know what's good"
PvP being a constant miss? "Nah, the game just isn't good for PvP anyway"
Umbrellas and Mahjong when we have "Limited Races"? "But it's good for RPers!! We need more of this!"
Streamlining of classes? "The classes were too clunky before and had ridiculous button bloat. Nevermind Scathe exists to this day with only one real purpose. Or SMN Physick"
Hrothgar and Viera hair and headgear? "You guys knew what you were getting into"
Servers crapping out despite the obvious rise in player numbers with WoW mass exodus and the free trial giving them tremendous success? "Who could have foreseen this!?"

Look, I'm aware that this is a very common, very normal bug. It's a problem in arrays. It's not Y2K levels of "stupid but breaks the system", but it's still something that happens when you're not paying attention. It happens to the best of programmers, and yes, it is true that everything can get thrown into the water because one comma was misplaced in your code.

But that's why we care enough for QA. That's why we test things out before shipping, as best as we can. Every game has bugs, but not every bug breaks the system.
And this, for a lot of people, is the final drop on an already full glass. Square's been getting far too lenient on quality and it's shown. All their good will on ARR keeps being spent and spent and spent. A lot of you will likely still have patience for the dev team, but it's high time we tell them that though we like them a lot, we do have our limits.

I couldn't have said it better. I beta tested this game back when it was pure shit. I was amazed that ARR was so much of an improvement. By SB, however, I was already noticing and speaking up about a variety of issues. Housing shortages have been a thing since always. Content has been either getting gutted or made too easy for quite some time. Remember your Grand Company squadron? How about battle leves? Dungeons are all exactly the same, 2 packs of trash and a boss, repeat. Remember when the economy was booming and being an omni-crafter was actually worth the effort? I could go on, but why.