Should the devs appologise to the community

[Sebazy]

should the developers appologise for the state of the game?

Personally, I'm not particularly interested an apology, I want results, I want hires and I want fresh blood and ideas brought into the mix.

[IkaraGreydancer]

Personally, I'm not particularly interested an apology, I want results, I want hires and I want fresh blood and ideas brought into the mix.

You didn't read the interviews cause EW HAS been new people with new ideas. It says something when Yoshi himself is saying to up difficulty and make things less straight forward. The new folks are still find their stride

[Sebazy]

You didn't read the interviews cause EW HAS been new people with new ideas. It says something when Yoshi himself is saying to up difficulty and make things less straight forward. The new folks are still find their stride

ARR battle system team: Kei Sato, Takashi Kawamoto, Hikaru Tamaki, Tsuyoshi Yokozawa

Endwalker battle system team: Kei Sato, Takashi Kawamoto, Hikaru Tamaki, Hironori Isami

IMO this is the root of the problem outside of perhaps Yoshida himself (Or the financing department holding him to ransom). The battle system team (aka class designers) are stretched too thin, the team should have been expanded long ago or another team should have been bought in on consultancy terms to feed the internal team with idea filled whiteboards for them to pick and choose from.

[IkaraGreydancer]

ARR battle system team: Kei Sato, Takashi Kawamoto, Hikaru Tamaki, Tsuyoshi Yokozawa

Endwalker battle system team: Kei Sato, Takashi Kawamoto, Hikaru Tamaki, Hironori Isami

IMO this is the root of the problem outside of perhaps Yoshida himself (Or the financing department holding him to ransom). The battle system team (aka class designers) are stretched too thin, the team should have been expanded long ago or another team should have been bought in on consultancy terms to feed the internal team with idea filled whiteboards for them to pick and choose from.

This is why I opt to not blame CBU3 for the majority of this. Patches wouldn't take so long if SE gave the game the funding and manpower it deserves. Get some of the FF7 Remake folks over hear to help with battle elements and rpg mechanics (for example). But SE won't do that sadly. I 100% believe the devs want XIV to be it's best but they only get so much help from higher ups. Ofc I don't know this for sure but it makes sense based on what we've seen

[Aldath]

Personally, I'm not particularly interested an apology, I want results, I want hires and I want fresh blood and ideas brought into the mix.

I want results too, but ehhh... if you read the recent interviews, new blood is exactly what they got and it might be one of the reasons the content has been so "mid".