Quote Originally Posted by Deo14 View Post
For me, it's seems questionable that in this expansion they've been actively trying to make this game a single player, instead of focusing on this stuff that people do want. I get that attracting new players is priority, but it would be nice if veterans got a little bit more than just scraps.

But in case of healers, they got told to "just play ultimates". I get that this is hard thing to fix, but they still haven't done anything meaningful to address that. In case of Kaiten, that's relatively easy thing to fix, just revert to the state that people were happy with. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the whole SAM 6.1 clown fiesta, but here's my thread if want it in more detail. Long story short, all reasons they gave us make no sense if you dig just a few centimeters under a surface. They specifically asked for feedback about it, which we did provide, and then they ghosted us. You can check DPS forums, even after 1.5 year, people are still not happy about it. So if they don't care about this, how can you expect them to care about anything else?
Yeah, I get it. From a business standpoint, trying to bring in new blood and appeal to the casual player base (that is less concerned about the ins-and-outs of job balance) is where a significant amount of development effort should be focused, to keep the game profitable and hopefully to expand the game's budget...but hardcore players deserve attention as well. Your frustration is valid.

Did healers really get told to just play Ultimates? If you've got the source for this handy I'd love to see it, as that isn't just a terrible suggestion, but terrible PR as well.

While I'm familiar with how dull healing is right now, I'm less familiar with the Kaiten stuff. Seems really suck that they'd ask for feedback and then not follow-up. It makes me wonder if perhaps they're mainly taking Japanese feedback or something? I can't say, but I'll read the thread you provided, maybe that information is already in there.

Quote Originally Posted by Deo14 View Post
So if they don't care about this, how can you expect them to care about anything else?
Two things:
  • We know that the developers don't have the bandwidth to implement everyone's feedback; because of this, a great deal of feedback they receive will never be implemented.
  • FF14 is a product that the devs want to endure for another 10 years; for the devs to not care about any player issues wouldn't just mean not caring about their players, but not caring about their own livelihood. That seems incredibly unlikely.
Both of those together suggest to me that even if for whatever reason the devs aren't catering to Kaiten feedback, there's no reason to think they won't cater to any feedback.

I know that doesn't help with the Kaiten thing, which sounds like a bummer.