The kind of feedback that Square Enix listens to

[VerdeLuck]

Pretty sure it was more than just the JP community that was outraged by both of those things.

Further, the lack of incorporating your feedback is not the same as them not listening. They are under no obligation to incorporate them. They can listen, they can read it, but it doesn't mean they're going to do anything about it - Especially if they don't agree with the direction.

If there's an outrage behind something, especially to the extent of which you have highlighted then obviously that will be actioned given that it has a more objective detriment to both the game and the community than quite a few of the feedback they supposedly don't listen to. Whether I agree or disagree with some of those points and whether I would see them as an issue is an entirely different matter seeing as it is ultimately their own direction/vision they're following.

I see, so SE doesn't agree with having their game and a number of jobs be playable with higher than 50 ping? That bit of feedback has been floated to them dozens of times, it has been thoroughly investigated by the community to pinpoint it's on the animation lock, specifically the exact part of it. Mods have been made to correct the issue, but SE just avoids fixing it and actually bans players for using those mods to fix their game on higher ping.

It's hard to believe that it's their desire to see anyone who lives outside of Japan and the west coast in NA to have trouble with certain jobs but hey who am I to judge? Maybe they have a reason for keeping their netcode in such pitiful condition, it can't just be that everything works fine in JP and they only really care about JP feedback, dating way back to ARR right?

[Kaurhz]

I see, so SE doesn't agree with having their game and a number of jobs be playable with higher than 50 ping? THat bit of feedback has been floated to them dozens of times, it has been thoroughly investigated by the community to pinpoint it's on the animation lock, specifically the exact part of it. Mods have been made to correct the isue, but SE just avoids fixing it and actually bans players for using those mods to fix their game on higher ping.

It's hard to believe that it's their desire to see anyone who lives outside of Japan and the west coast in NA to have trouble with certain jobs but hey who am I to judge? Maybe they have a reason for keeping their netcode in such pitiful condition, it can't just be that everything works fine in JP and they only really care about JP feedback, dating way back to ARR right?

If we're getting into specifics then yes, that would be one piece of feedback they should listen to, this is probably one of the few pieces where it absolutely would apply.

However, the point was that it doesn't apply to all strands of feedback, e.g., you're welcome to comment about job complexity until the cows come home, but they are under no obligation to agree with it if their direction for the game is 1 of simplicity. - This was the point. Equally, it was also the point that their not garnering all forms of feedback is not the same as them listening to those strands of feedback.

Are there cases where it does apply? Obviously. But there are also cases where they just simply disagree with it and elect to not action it, e.g., job design and content variety and depth.