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

[shao32]

I remember Yoship saying FFXIV will get way more budget... yeah on marketing bcs i see more announcements of the patch 6.1 everywhere more than content that is not broken or gutted, amace me how they are ok with current roghtgar and viera situations, healers, cut content, broken systems and overall oversimplification that kill job identity of so many jobs already.
I know old Yoship would have never tolerated such things and listen the playerbase but right now seems he is just focus on put the game in low manteinance and maximun profit while he focus on other projects.

[Nabby]

Man, these official forums are wild.

[Violet_Galaxy]

It's because this game doesn't have legitimate competition. If it did, they would find a way to fix housing issues overnight and Hrothies would actually have ears with their new hairstyles. Actual competition, mind you. Not some korean style BDO that I already forgot what the title was.

[Kyrj]

It's because this game doesn't have legitimate competition. If it did, they would find a way to fix housing issues overnight and Hrothies would actually have ears with their new hairstyles. Actual competition, mind you. Not some korean style BDO that I already forgot what the title was.

Oh god it's becoming WoW...

[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.

[Leemon]

Well now they really need to pray hard to reach 100th live letter. Well done.

[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.

[Shin96]

This is what happens when instead of keeping people accountable, fans silence those who speak against key issues under the pretense of combatting alleged "toxicity." I'm sorry, but what we've seen come out of this patch is in no way acceptable.

You are 100% correct on that. It's strange in a way. Let's say you have Hrothgar hairstyles without ears, for example? Well someone will defend it. But on no logical base. It's incredibly strange to me.

It's as if they take this as an attack on themselves or their ego. Many have supported this game for years and in no way would they want for FFXIV to be another WoW.

In other words, all they're doing is ruining this game without even realizing it.

[Arzalis]

Any lead director who says this about a MMORPG needs to be let go. The sad truth about online gaming like this is that you want people to be as hooked as possible, the more exposure to your game the more likely they're to buy stuff off your cash shop.

No, I disagree with this.

He's always polite about how he says it, but I appreciate that he doesn't want me to only play this game and generally respects players time. The mentality you're saying they should have is how you get all sorts of time sinks and time wasters in a game. It leads to a lot of predatory practices nobody wants in this game.

[Milus]

SE can't fix those issues because they are too buzy making new idle animations for umbrelas, making glasses that already exist in game as fashion acessories, and making new textures for those umbrelas no one cares about. Ah also more umbrelas shapes probably comming in the future, and maybe they will implement the option to use the umbrela while use the glasses!!!!!!!!!!!!