Should the devs appologise to the community

[Denji]

i'm tired of getting apologies for the housing system breaking or them making blm too strong in pvp or the servers not being able to handle the load or the world transfer system immediately breaking when it came out and trapping people in the lifestream between DCs or the non-apology we got for oceania servers taking so long to get and them routing the traffic across the pacific ocean twice because it was a thinly veiled attempt to pacify the JP server racists who didn't like oceania/australian players and the apology we got for them trying to take away hrothgar hair and the apology we got for them making stormblood such a miserable-ass expansion where we had 3 whole zones that basically didn't get used because they got too caught up in getting to design final fantasy japan to actually progress the story in ala mhigo or the apology we got for eureka being so painful because they wanted us to "learn and cooperate" which meant not describing anything and forcing people to trail and error for 500 trillion weeks in a row or the apology we got for the login queue system not being designed for more than like 4k players and if you were unfortunate you'd get to only 1 player being left in queue only for it to kick you because it turns out it was broken and thought you disconnected like eons ago or the apology we got for the grapes (which they didn't need to apologize for) or the apology we got because apparently eorzea was homophobic and same-gendered players couldn't marry eachother or the apology we got for when they were planning on locking behind all new viera/hrothgar hairstyles behind the online store or the apology we got for them saying that we'd get hats that worked for us in the future and then tried to backtrack on that or the apology we got for the achievements not working back in ARR or the apology we got for them introducing new housing wards only for 99% of them to be dedicated to FCs only resulting in 500 trillion new FCs being made with only a couple players in it and resulting in a virtual housing real estate market where like 5 players owned 70% of all the houses or the apology we got for them ruining the online store aka cutting off their nose to spite the face because of a few RMT websites or the apology we got for them repeatedly inflicting the same mid-boss theme on us for several years in a row that coincided with the twin's mystical oohh mysterious mysteries theme or the apology we got for the dungeon "revamps" that still needed to be done but got way, way, WAY dumbed down so the trusts could continue to be brainless and useless or the apology we got for ast being overpowered and then their nerfing which made the class really unfun to play or the fact that they can't stop changing how mch/mnk play every expansion and change them so radically each time that they never resemble the class you played in the last expansion or--

the run-on sentence can keep going.

tl;dr: i don't want another apology.

[IkaraGreydancer]

This is what happens when the target audience shifts from Final Fantasy fans and mmorpg players to people who actually care about adventurer plates and sit in venues all day. How could they possibly be burdened with the thought of having to invest time in battle content when they can entertain themselves for hours on end by treating the game as a chat lobby?

Such close minded logic. Yeah because apparently FF/MMO fans can't care about ROLE PLAYING in an MMORPG...
Do you think before you type? Role Playing is quite literally part of the package and folks focusing on that are no lesser than folks who focus on battle content.

[Kewitt]

Nope, but you can tell them how happy you are with your wallet.

As far as SE cares FFXIV is there biggest cash cow to date. Which will always inform them that the mass majority are happy enough with there server.
Honestly, I like the break and the slow down it, sure I keep my sub year round as I have an ingame house. But it also isn't a job to get gear and keep up with content.
I can log in once every 2 weekends do a few things, and play the other 10 games the peak my interest vs always being rushed to get gear only for it to be pointless in 3 months.

[Stormpeaks]

This is what happens when the target audience shifts from Final Fantasy fans and mmorpg players to people who actually care about adventurer plates and sit in venues all day. How could they possibly be burdened with the thought of having to invest time in battle content when they can entertain themselves for hours on end by treating the game as a chat lobby?

Always makes me laugh when instead of blaming the company, you blame people creating their own content by going to venues or just using the game as a social/hangout simulator

Protip : People going to venues doesnt mean SE shouldnt be creating content for those that want it, if they say that to any extent, then it's them using venue goers or people using it for the social aspect as a scapegoat from responsibilities because they just dont want to create proper content so they'd rather put the blame on the playerbase for creating its own content

[Anonemoose]

Should they apologise? To who? You? Me? That's absurd. The only tangible duties they owe are to shareholders.

What level of accountability should they be held to? We're consumers, if you don't like the product we take our money elsewhere. If you can't bring yourself to do that, you're an addict. Simple as.

[Stormpeaks]

Should they apologise? To who? You? Me? That's absurd. The only tangible duties they owe are to shareholders.

What level of accountability should they be held to? We're consumers, if you don't like the product we take our money elsewhere. If you can't bring yourself to do that, you're an addict. Simple as.

"how to silence feedback 101"

[IkaraGreydancer]

"how to silence feedback 101"

Are they fully wrong though? 1.0 only became 2.0 because folks took their money elsewhere. I've said this many times but franchises like Madden suck every year because folks keep lining up to pay for the game. It's simple business logic. Money talks and will aways be louder than words.

Oh btw none of what they said even remotely hints at or actively silences feedback...we're not misrepresenting what folks are saying still are we?

[Aword3213]

"how to silence feedback 101"

Pretty sure people like you are immune to silence

[Jojoya]

In this age of social media, it's impossible to silence feedback. All you need to do is hop onto TikTok, Twitter X, Instagram, etc. and let it all out.

Considering how many companies have at least one employee if not a team of employees focused on social media communication, it's obvious how important they feel social media is compared to other avenues of communication that they don't seem to interact with.

[aveyond-dreams]

In this age of social media, it's impossible to silence feedback. All you need to do is hop onto TikTok, Twitter X, Instagram, etc. and let it all out.

Considering how many companies have at least one employee if not a team of employees focused on social media communication, it's obvious how important they feel social media is compared to other avenues of communication that they don't seem to interact with.

What a pity that instead all we had here was Tweetingway, until they seemingly left SE.