Should SE implement a way to poll the playerbase?

[SargeTheSeagull]

Ehhh sorta. I’d rather see the devs invite content creators like Xenosys, Woops, Drak, Momo, Zepla and Happy to have an honest, no holds barred, complain-athon talking about how much everyone hates all these new changes and how making the game more single player friendly is stupid. The average player sucks and these content creators, regardless of what you think of them, are all fairly decent at the game and have solid understanding of how jobs work. Whether or not the devs would listen is another matter. I remember during the media tour Woops and Drak talked really in depth about job changes. Drak (a former monk main) and Woops (a DRG main) told Yoshi P that losing the greased lightning aura and blood of the dragon auras sucked and asked him to give it to those jobs. He just kinda shrugged it off and went “yeah I’ll ask the combat team about that”. Like, that’s not a big ask and it couldn’t be difficult to put in.

[Dyvid]

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Success has made SE arrogant. They have quickly forgot that it was the loyal customer along with dedicated developers that pulled SE from the Abyss. Not just FFXIV related either, but in all departments of the company. A few successful venture and now they are going full tilt into greed. NFTs, a $12,000 plastic Terra Statue, Mobile cash shops in fully priced games.

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Not sure Content Creators should be the end all here. There has been enough data over the years for the devs to know who the mains of the jobs/roles are and who has been dropping good suggestion. You don't have to be a high end user to see the fundamental fails of a job. Maybe they should let Akihiko Matsui step in as battle director again because whatever they are doing now isn't working.