State of the Game prior to Liveletter

[Denji]

Can we also mention the absolute boredom when doing CT roulette? CT raids popping for the 100000th time isn't really fun to do anymore.

I've given up on any healer changes since Ast lost their cards and Royal Road. I'm actually excited to see if they'll remove Undraw this time or forget it exists again lol.

EW's story definitely felt rushed to me.

If I hear "hope" and "despair" one more time, I'm gonna go back in time to tell Venat, "we deserved instrumentality after all" and watch the whole universe pool into blue LCL while I laugh hysterically. It only reminds me how much I like Danganronpa V3 more. My opinion is that they should have never finished the season in this expansion if it was going to turn out like this. It feels like a rough manuscript that has a beginning and an end with missing pages in between. Music was banger tho.

I don't realistically see Hroths seeing any good meaningful changes until 7.0 (if ever) after witnessing the absolute chaos that was Wigageddon. I wanted to have a straighter posture as an option for idling/walking/running just like the other races, but apparently they're too beastly to have that in a fantasy game.

I'm probably going to skip this live letter since the last one was the first time I ever felt regret and frustration for playing the game after they presented those "hair" previews.

We've been telling square about how ilvl cheesers forcing us to do crystal tower is infatuating us for years and square has perpetually ignored this issue because it doesn't have anything to do with lalafells, black mages or making everything unique about a class the equivalent of a bowl of plain oatmeal.

We get almost nothing from our community manager, we get nothing from the devs. They tell us to voice our opinions on the forums and then just blatantly ignore us.

[Kaurhz]

I like how people are specifically only critiquing the op's comment on island sanctuary and not bringing to light the major problems theyve brought up elsewhere. Lets stop avoiding it and actually talk about them shall we? Again, like i posted, the decrease in quality and quantity of content.

The quality of said content is a subjective matter entirely, of which there is no discussion wherein a mutual agreement can be reached. E.g., some people will prefer Bozja, and some will prefer Eureka. Conversely, there are those that think Endwalker is a better story than Shadowbringers. Similarly, there are those that think the Heavensward story is a steaming pile of garbage. So let's not actually try and be under the impression that quality is an objective matter here.

Furthermore, the issue on the quantity of said content isn't really that simple of a matter, barring that which involves the extreme primal weapons. Whilst you could arguably make the claim we have fewer glamours, the research done into this thus far is inadequate at best. Whilst it does indeed account for it across dungeons, it does not however accommodate for those that are actually unique. Case in point with Gubal Library. Whilst it does indeed have a unique set, this is only one across several roles, and is similar across quite a few dungeons in Heavensward wherein the alterations made to certain sets of gear are minimalistic at best. E.g., Sohm Al. Another point on the case of glamours. The large-scale 24-man raids prior to ShB were not actually dyable and was only first present in ShB, continuing in EW with the Panthean sets, to my knowledge, and in fact only came about to be dyable when they decided to reuse these assets later on in i320, and i450

Additionally, whilst you can lay the claim that Eureka has more zones than Bozja this completely fails to take into account the very fact that within Bozja are included several 24-man raids which arguable arguably take considerable development time in itself, and then there is the larger scale savage content which need I might add was a very highly requested feature. So contrary to your belief this issue is not as simple as: Eureka has more zones, therefore has more content. Conversely less zones does not automatically equivocate less content, especially in the context of Eureka and Bozja.

Not that I entirely disagree on some points, but there are some absolutely wild takes, especially with the comparison between Bozja and Eureka.

[Payotz]

The simple reality is that EW is seen far and away by the playerbase as a fun, enjoyable, successful expansion, and people are overwhelmingly happy about the current state of the game. Thankfully, the devs realize this and give little credence to the attacks and pathetic insults thrown around on the NA forums. Sadly, what happens is the small group of malcontents create an echo chamber here among themselves, and start managing to actually convince themselves that they represent the playerbase instead of the tiniest sliver of the minority that they in truth are.

I still watch this every now and then as a reminder of the time when the game was good and brimming with potential, with all its little imperfections and flavor.

Now it's just a sterilized husk of its former self.

[Axxion]

Curious how long you've been around the forums, because honestly, they've been a cesspool of negativity since forever. Even during some of the most highly-rated expansions like HW, come here? Nothing but bad-mouthing the devs. Heck, even Reddit - a place known for being negative about practically everything under the sun - is positive about FFXIV and EW.

The simple reality is that EW is seen far and away by the playerbase as a fun, enjoyable, successful expansion, and people are overwhelmingly happy about the current state of the game. Thankfully, the devs realize this and give little credence to the attacks and pathetic insults thrown around on the NA forums. Sadly, what happens is the small group of malcontents create an echo chamber here among themselves, and start managing to actually convince themselves that they represent the playerbase instead of the tiniest sliver of the minority that they in truth are.

I mean, just look in this thread at people declaring things as "facts" which aren't by any means, purely personal opinions, and ones in opposition to the opinions widely shared by the general playerbase. It's okay to be dissatisfied with something. But to call opinions as facts and make pathetic, puerile attacks on the dev team doesn't do anything useful.

Listen yoshi him self time and time again always says the following. Please provide feedback in the forums. And that what people did minus a few necro and troll post. There where legit concerns about the state of the.

Like many people have said they there concerns will always be drowned out by this "positivity" of the community. Take for instance storage issues when it comes to the buying this from the mog station. Player A) can we have increase space for our storage? Player B ) no its a player issue, you still have items from the level 10 dungeons and you need to clean it and we dont want them to take away there time on creating content

Job changes- When it comes to the changes of the jobs some are good some are not. They do not explain anything to us on why they made the changes. For instance take the current issue with smn and sam. What was the breaking point for smn? only they know and they have yet to tell why. Same thing with kaiten. We provide feed back.

role changes- take the healing role when the skills shown early before the release of the game you gained alot of good skills, lack of dps and they just shorten the cast time for casting said skills. Yoshi him self said what something challenging do ultimate. okay fine people done and completed ultimate to a point where it was one healer clear. If this was suppose to be hard to heal than one healer should not be able to clear it, correct?

Keep in mind that he said all jobs are viable in content which means any healer can solo heal this fight.

However you meet people that would come out the wood works just to insulting people or telling people "oh why you still playing the game if you criticizing it so much" just for
asking for an understanding for these changes.

[Vahlnir]

"-Concern that the initial step of the relic will be an overly simplified quest similar to Shadowbringers until the exploratory zone itself is released."

Honestly, this is probably the least concerning thing we might have to deal with at the moment. I might argue that it isn't much of a concern at all. Other than this particular point though...yeah, there's a lot the devs could unpack here, and I agree with almost all of it myself, but they'll probably dodge all the hard ball questions or give a vague non answer for any concerns they choose to address, and they will probably be nothing we talk about regularly around here.

[KizuyaKatogami]

The quality of said content is a subjective matter entirely, of which there is no discussion wherein a mutual agreement can be reached. E.g., some people will prefer Bozja, and some will prefer Eureka. Conversely, there are those that think Endwalker is a better story than Shadowbringers. Similarly, there are those that think the Heavensward story is a steaming pile of garbage. So let's not actually try and be under the impression that quality is an objective matter here.

Furthermore, the issue on the quantity of said content isn't really that simple of a matter, barring that which involves the extreme primal weapons. Whilst you could arguably make the claim we have fewer glamours, the research done into this thus far is inadequate at best. Whilst it does indeed account for it across dungeons, it does not however accommodate for those that are actually unique. Case in point with Gubal Library. Whilst it does indeed have a unique set, this is only one across several roles, and is similar across quite a few dungeons in Heavensward wherein the alterations made to certain sets of gear are minimalistic at best. E.g., Sohm Al. Another point on the case of glamours. The large-scale 24-man raids prior to ShB were not actually dyable and was only first present in ShB, continuing in EW with the Panthean sets, to my knowledge, and in fact only came about to be dyable when they decided to reuse these assets later on in i320, and i450

Additionally, whilst you can lay the claim that Eureka has more zones than Bozja this completely fails to take into account the very fact that within Bozja are included several 24-man raids which arguable arguably take considerable development time in itself, and then there is the larger scale savage content which need I might add was a very highly requested feature. So contrary to your belief this issue is not as simple as: Eureka has more zones, therefore has more content. Conversely less zones does not automatically equivocate less content, especially in the context of Eureka and Bozja.

Not that I entirely disagree on some points, but there are some absolutely wild takes, especially with the comparison between Bozja and Eureka.

Quality can be objective under some circumstances, unless you think they truly put in 100% quality when it came to hrothgar hairstyles.... or healer changes. Or the amount of time it took for them to fix drk living dead etc.

[anhaato]

Cringe /10chars

[KizuyaKatogami]

As a human since 1975 day 1 of my life I don’t think I’ve ever seen this planet's community in such a widespread state of disarray. With tomorrow looming on the horizon, this is what I’m seeing:

- Many people are angry in their day-to-day lives and are a hair's-width away from melting down. Weapons are often included.

- People don't respect each other for being human. Other humans behind other computer screens or phone screens are belittled, shamed, and accosted at will.

- We give far too much credence to what celebrities think and do. We elect them to public office.

- We've completely forgotten how to be humble. Proud of this, proud of that. There's no humility anywhere to be seen.

- A fair portion of us don't possess the common sense necessary to separate the false from the true, even though the truth is completely obvious.

- People have become overly concerned with semantics. If the wording of something could suggest in any way an idea that is different than what's in an individual's head, chaos ensues.

- Humans have completely lost the ability to deal with momentary disappointment and pain, and lash out when they feel bad. Feeling bad sometimes is OK. It's part of life.

- Many humans are extremely narrow-sighted. If they want something, then "everyone" must want that thing. It's impossible for many to conceive of vastly different lives. Along with this goes the infantile, ridiculous fallacy that, "If I can do this, so can you." That's so much nonsense, yet many don't think twice when using this logic.

- Behavior in social video games can be atrocious. See previous bullet on "humans behind random screens should be respected."

How in the world did we end up like this?

Take a note from this recent expansion. Human beings are flawed and we're heading for our dead end. But dont worry! If you pray reallyyyy hard you can overcome anything!

[MatchaokaCha]

We've been telling square about how ilvl cheesers forcing us to do crystal tower is infatuating us for years and square has perpetually ignored this issue because it doesn't have anything to do with lalafells, black mages or making everything unique about a class the equivalent of a bowl of plain oatmeal.

We get almost nothing from our community manager, we get nothing from the devs. They tell us to voice our opinions on the forums and then just blatantly ignore us.

Yea, I've been reading around the forums recently and the good faith criticisms are usually the top posts, and I've agreed with 90% of the takes here. It's sad that they won't even bother reviewing these posts then. They were so keen and vocal on respecting player feedback back in ARR and HW.

[Kaurhz]

Quality can be objective under some circumstances, unless you think they truly put in 100% quality when it came to hrothgar hairstyles.... or healer changes. Or the amount of time it took for them to fix drk living dead etc.

Sure we can make the claim that under certain circumstances quality of content can be seen as being objective, particular when some cutting methods are required, especially in the case of Hrothgar, that I am inclined to agree. However, the universal use of quality content leads me to believe that your intent is you believe it to be entirely objective. There are more components of this game that fall within the realm of subjectivity than there are not.

Snip.

Dunno, but look on the bright-side, we apparently have a forum psychologist now. Congratulations.