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

[Denji]

I cancelled my subscription too. At this point, I feel like taking a break is well overdue.
I've always preached how SE have extorted money from Viera and Hrothgar's limitations, but from the outside looking in it seems barely any of that money is invested back into the limited races.
We want them improved, and we want it done within a reasonable time.

Considering this but I manage an FC so I need to figure out if someone wants to take over.

I will never forget the ''pissed off face'' he did when he repeated the excuses about hrothgar ears in the patch notes video.

Classic victim blaming 101. Act as if the people you've lied to are the ones causing trouble, not you.

Maybe it's just time for someone that's not Yoshi P to be lead game developer? No king rules forever or whatever the line from the post Lich King cutscene was.

yoshi-p's the only one protecting you from the cash shop taking over the game so, please. don't monkey paw us.

While there are problems to be as hyperbolic as some here are being is a bit disingenuous don't you think? Most of the issues brought up have been addressed or are being reviewed, that would never happen in say WoW. I will be happy as long as I know it is being addressed or reviewed. I will admit there are problems of course but they fact they have been pretty open about it and willing to try to make amends/adjustments where possible tells me this ain't close to begin nearly as bad as WoW, no dev has gone "We don't want you playing *insert class here*" yet.

Nothing will ever come close to as tone-deaf as WoW was during BfA and Shadowlands by a mile given the issues that took months for them to address were brought up in beta and promptly ignored.

Dang, how much is Square paying you to do PR for them? 0 dollars? I'd get a new job if I were you.

Honestly, the WoW comparisons are strange to me because...it can easily be inferred that after seeing the decline of WoW in real time many players moved over to FFXIV who are now seeing the exact same decline here as well.

WoW didn't collapse into controversy over the course of a single expansion. It was a slow, steady process that consisted of many different problems stacking up atop one another. Even then, many players rushed to stifle feedback and pretend everything was fine.

Exactly. It was a slow, gradual process much like the one we're seeing here and had just as many people trying to stifle feedback.

[Johners]

yoshi-p's the only one protecting you from the cash shop taking over the game so, please. don't monkey paw us.

This game already has a massive cash shop though. You can level boost, story skip, race change, home world change, buy NPC outfits as cosmetics, buy other cosmetics, wedding services, mounts and minions. The only difference is that the cash shop isn't built into the game client like it is for World of Warcraft and just about every other modern MMO and assorted online games. That's literally it. Yoshi-P isn't protecting us from anything but rather holding up this illusion that FFXIV isn't the soulless cash cow of Square Enix. Well, I hate to break it to you, it's the soulless cash cow of SE and once you look beyond that, Yoshi-P is kind of clueless when it comes to certain key areas of game design like class design. There's a solid case for replacing him already.