We anticipate that even with this update, third parties will continue

[Aniya_Estlihn]

Pretty ridiculous change, the mount and minion restrictions genuinely make no sense because if someone is close enough to you that they're on your friend list, then you can just ask what they do or don't have or check Lodestone. I know Yoshida has been saying to provide constructive criticism on the forums in the recent PLLs, but when they keep making these strange backwards decisions this expansion, I really don't blame people for getting heated.

So my one constructive criticism and piece of advice is—

Please look into implementing and utilizing player surveys like every single other major live service game does so that you can get direct feedback on potential changes, player/user use cases for current features you want to depreciate and-or replace and scrap this idea that the forums provide any meaningful feedback.

Nonsensical decisions such as this could easily be avoided if they actually looked to the player base and surveyed us periodically to see how features are utilized and ask for opinions on these things rather than pushing out the changes and waiting to see how angry the player base becomes over a bad decision. Its 2022, not the early to mid-2000s and its time to actually act like this game is being developed and run in the modern era.