Yoshida gives update on the benchmark/character creator

[Ancalagon_Blacktalon]

You literally don't know that. You seriously think you can just pop a PS3 model with half the triangles and make it work seamlessly with a new rig tailor made for a new model?

yeah like, if anyone says "it's not hard" or "it's not difficult" or "I'm not asking for too much" or any other awful dumb assumptions about something tech-related, at this point my reaction is to ignore them, because that kind of downplaying of the real effort it takes to do most things in tech is both endemic (and worse with Gamers) and also speaks to profound ignorance of the process.

[CidHeiral]

Yoshi P. had no choice. He had to react.
I doubt that he cares about what NA/EU has to say.
it's just that The Japanese Player would have ripped him and his Team appart. As they did in the past.

Live shot of your mental gymnastics:

[Moqi]

I speak the way I do because people like you need to understand that you're no more special than any other paying costumer. The devs aren't gonna tailor make the game for you based on your personal experience, or anyone else's for that matter. Everyone's feedback matters, and they will implement as much of everyone's feedback as they can to the vision they have for the game.

If you can't understand that and are not willing to accept that you won't get exactly what you want, then I don't know what else to tell you.

I'm wasting my time with you. Take care and good luck.

Everyone's feedback matters to the devs. No one's feedback matters to me. You seem to be under the impression that you're anything more than a paying customer for a product and trying to mediate between other people's wants and expectation of the product they're paying for and the devs' work is downright bizzare. Just who do you think you are, exactly?

I don't need to do anything but sit here and wait for the product to be delivered to me and if it's to my liking I'll keep consuming it, and if not I won't. Whatever goes on in the kitchen is not my business. If the pizza is bad I'm not coming back to that place, no matter how hard they worked to make it tasty for someone else.

Remember what I said about concern trolling?
Coming into threads for feedback and saying "I support your feedback but what about the people who are happy but aren't giving feedback? Are you considering them when you ask for changes?" is exactly that.

It's like a reverse Karen telling I don't need to speak to the manager. Like... lady, who asked you? Mind your business. The manager invited me.

[Nyxs]

Personally I'd rather them delay DT to correct issues and attempt to make the majority happy if they need to.

They are not going to delayed a highly hyped expansion launch just because of some issues with faces. They would launch then fix them after which makes more sense.

[AirisRay]

Remember what I said about concern trolling?
Coming into threads for feedback and saying "I support your feedback but what about the people who are happy but aren't giving feedback? Are you considering them when you ask for changes?" is exactly that.

Exactly! All these people appear under each of our posts, even the most detailed ones with a large number of images and descriptions of the problem, and express their "expert" opinion regarding our complaint. Completely forgetting or ignoring the fact that no one cares about their opinion at all. We came here to leave a message for SE on their official forum. We didn't come here to discuss our characters' new looks with someone.

It is these people who turn the forum into chaos, in which for one picture there are a dozen meaningless answers and flood that simply hide information from the developers.

Insults, the standard remark "it’s the same picture", questions like "whose opinion should be a priority?" and other similar things are everywhere here.

There seems to be no moderation here at all. This is simply impossible on a Japanese forum. I have seen meaningless messages being deleted almost immediately.

[CuteBucket]

I'm just glad the devs have acknowledged there is a problem at all, to be honest. These days I don't expect much out of any companies, let alone video game companies, actually responding to issues, but FFXIV has historically been better at this than many, but even then, I was expecting radio silence or a very canned response about fixes but with no details given. Will my concerns be addressed in the update? I'm cautiously optimistic, as they specifically called out the "dead eyes" and the scaling being wrong on some of the mouths, which is where a lot of my problems were. I hope they address more than just those things too, of course.

[DiaDeem]

And now you're deliberately reading me in bad faith!

I am not. I might have misread you and if that was the case then I apologize, but I do not go into any post with bad faith in mind.

That said, I made a huge edit because of Airis's post.
Many people aren't here to discuss, they're here only to drop feedback. I understand now why people get annoyed with unwanted opinions.

Because of that, I apologize. I'm gonna just stop now.

We came here to leave a message for SE on their official forum. We didn't come here to discuss our characters' new looks with someone.

You know what? Yeah, actually.

You made me think of it, and being bombarded with unwanted opinions when all you're trying to do is talk to the devs is just an awful way to send said feedback.

I guess the same could be said about positive feedback threads... This is why I'll keep saying that closed surveys would be way better than the forums when it comes to asking for feedback.

[Catwho]

I'm not saying lighting has absolutely no influence on certain changes. Lighting is of course very powerful and I don't mean to dismiss that at all. But over the course of this discussion "you just have not tried xyz" has become a bit of a blanket statement towards many points of criticism even when people had already proven that their points of contention were in fact not caused by lighting (e.g., showing features had been remodeled) and that they had tried out the proposed solutions (shaders, lighting).

If the lighting engine was BROKEN in those zones, which was the case in the case of some models), then no amount of "have you tried XYZ" was going to fix it.

For the character models where we did notice a difference between the Thanalan lighting and the aetherial sea lighting, then the problem was with the character models.

My notes:

Hyur, Viera, Hroth, Miqo, and Roe looked markedly better in Aetherial sea than in Thanalan. Their problems were lighting issues from the Thanalan zone. They're fine.

Au Ra had problems even in Aetherial Sea lighting. Their problems are problems with the model itself, not the lighting. No amount of zone switching was going to fix it. Hoping new benchmark fixes it.

Individual racial feature bugs need to be addressed on a one by one basis; the reporting done here and elsewhere will be helpful for it.

At least we're not in Pokemon GO where they deleted women's bodies as part of their graphics updates....

[Gyson]

Not YOU personally this forum. Spent 10 years here. It's gotten nothing but worse and I would suggest you get ready for the Story Sucks, the Battle System Sucks and so on.

I don't know, I remember the beta forums for the original FFXIV and it wasn't a pretty place.

[Glenfiddich]

I am not. I might have misread you and if that was the case then I apologize, but I do not go into any post with bad faith in mind.

That said, I made a huge edit because of Airis's post.
Many people aren't here to discuss, they're here only to drop feedback. I understand now why people get annoyed with unwanted opinions.

Because of that, I apologize. I'm gonna just stop now.



You know what? Yeah, actually.

You made me think of it, and being bombarded with unwanted opinions when all you're trying to do is talk to the devs is just an awful way to send said feedback.

I guess the same could be said about positive feedback threads... This is why I'll keep saying that closed surveys would be way better than the forums when it comes to asking for feedback.

Hm.
I read Forum. I read General Discussion.
I can't see were it says " Message to the Development Team. Feedback only. No Discussion"

That said. What is the full meaning of Forum?
Well.
A forum is a place, situation, or group in which people exchange ideas and discuss issues, especially important public issues.
So, don't feel discouraged. Acknowledge what you feel. You do have the right to do so. Why? Because it is a Forum.