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

[xenahawk]

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.

totally disagree with you on that one. dont get me wrong i like being able to throw my whole ass into one game for fun but anything you do over and over or spend countless hours on tends to feel more like chores and less fun and can even be borderline unhealthy. people shouldnt be criticized for being truthful and say its ok to take breaks from a specific game though its weird to see it from the company itself rather then them try to milk people for all its worth.

[IdowhatIwant]

I've largely tried to stay away from Ex and Savage, mainly because I don't really like the design philosophy around encounters. But that backstory aside. I got roped into this fight on Friday, prior to that I was actually freighted by how the overextended the emphasis was on the difficulty of the fight, but I was actually surprised to not only learn it hits weaker than normal mode, but the encounter itself felt like half a fight... That was probably my only disappointing moment of the patch, personally

That is disappointing, I was looking forward to trying this out but work hours have prevented me from having time to bother with it. In the end it's just a mount grind I will probably do later if it is as bad as yall are saying. At least the 24man is good from what I have heard.

If nothing else perhaps we should be thankful for the housing bug helping to force them to look at the feedback on here that is, seemingly, routinely ignored in favor of reddit and twitter.

I think it was more the fact that there was about 3 or 4 pages of threads posted on the bug report section when it started.

Anyways. Maybe with the housing situation the devs will take a bit more into account. I can't exactly say 6.1 has been bad. Pvp needs adjustments but thats a given. I have no complaints about the new raids other than I wish the boss voices were a bit higher. Msq was a ok to me

With the housing bug, as well as some other issues. I think this may have been one of the worst patches as most don't come with this many problems. A major disappointment to me for the MSQ was we were told back in ShB that 6.1 would introduce a new character that would be our traveling partner, but I guess they rewrote that or something. The moment I had to go get the scions again I was angry, I get it, we had to have the scions for the trust system single player mode, but they could have done better I think.

I wonder what the reason to dedicate so many Fc house wards over personal housing was?

I think that is a better approach than previous housing releases where FCs get there run of the mill first and players get the left overs. Also in many cases a FC getting a house benefits more players than a personal house. There are also less wards in the new district which would mean more wards are likely to come.

It's a lot more divisive because to most people it's either the best or the worst. Previous expansion stories were either universally meh or universally good. But here, the very nature of the story makes it much more difficult to have a measured position.

I did not like EW but I think I expected too much from the story after ShB. I loved ShB but I went into ShB assuming it was going to be terrible. Perspective going in makes a big difference as well.

But that's the point that many refugees doesn't understand, Square Enix is a multi-billion dollar company, but each project operates like a company itself and has a budget based on their expected profit.

That is how almost every game development company work. I think refugees understand that most people play more than 1 video game in there lives.

totally disagree with you on that one. dont get me wrong i like being able to throw my whole ass into one game for fun but anything you do over and over or spend countless hours on tends to feel more like chores and less fun and can even be borderline unhealthy. people shouldnt be criticized for being truthful and say its ok to take breaks from a specific game though its weird to see it from the company itself rather then them try to milk people for all its worth.

It's okay to take breaks yes. But when the question being asked is related to lack of content and the answer is take a break... That is not a very good answer from my point of view.