A Follow-up Regarding the Dawntrail Official Benchmark

[Adeacia]

I'm happy they're listening to the player base and making changes quickly. I don't get the other half of this community that's actually upset and disappointed that SE . . . listened to player feedback.

I think it depends on the feedback SE is listening to. I'm sure everyone has an idea as to what kind of feedback they personally wouldn't want SE to listen to. I see plenty of arguments about that on these forums.

[LillyWandsworth]

Nice! Benchmark 2 at the end of the month. Very appreciated!

A Benchmark Reborn if you will..

Praying for Moon Teeth

[ethanrae]

Thanks Yoshi and the rest of the Dev Team. This is another undertaking that they weren't expecting but so many of us are looking forward to the fix.

[DrForester]

"Having said that, our players graciously provided a tremendous amount of feedback with screenshots, which helped us quickly determine our direction for fixes and adjustments, as well as identify points to address."

Translation: "Thank you Japan players for giving us useful criticism and identifying areas for improvement, and for not being a dumpster fire like the NA forums"

[Swordsman]

I guess, there will be benchmark 3. Because the Viera players will complain about their noses and Miqo players about their fangs. xD





Cheers

Lmao, yeah you're probably right.

[Erin1491]

I'm interested to see how the lighting changes affect characters appearances. As well as seeing if they fix the more obvious issues like miqo'te keeper fangs.

Im still hesitant to be excited about anything else though. I really liked majority of the changes to the details of the faces and thought they mostly looked miles better with some notable exceptions. Elezen mouths when emoting etc. I guess at the end of the day you can't please everyone and they should probably cater to making the characters more close to how they are now. It's just a shame to see details I liked better potentially rolled back but that's what happens when you're in the minority I suppose. It is what it is and if the changes make everyone else more satisfied then great. Still hoping for a character creation update someday in the future that maybe adds some of these other options to give players more choice.

[VerdeLuck]

"Having said that, our players graciously provided a tremendous amount of feedback with screenshots, which helped us quickly determine our direction for fixes and adjustments, as well as identify points to address."

Translation: "Thank you Japan players for giving us useful criticism and identifying areas for improvement, and for not being a dumpster fire like the NA forums"

It's not our fault you're too blind to see the constructive criticism that the EN forums created and gave to the developers. Though the "JP player base is so much better" is definitely a fun form of racism you've concocted there.

[CecMiller]

It's not our fault you're too blind to see the constructive criticism that the EN forums created and gave to the developers. Though the "JP player base is so much better" is definitely a fun form of racism you've concocted there.

Its funny because when I read the person you're quoting, the only people making english forums a dumpster fire are people like that.

Most people who gave feedback were quite thorough and there were trolls inbetween with the negging "nothing has changed", "its an improvement...", "why are you complaining, wait until DT releases".

As always, continue to ignore them and give feedback as it has clearly worked. It was a collective effort and not just a single effort from the japanese forums. At the end of the day, this is a victory for the people who worked really hard to give feedback and wanted changes. Their voices were heard and Square Enix clearly agreed there were issues that needed to be remedied.

Thanks again to Yoshi P and the FF14 Development team for working hard to correct these issues in the lead up to DT release.

[Moqi]

They are in crunch mode, working on Saturdays. And people will still complain after it releases.

And they should keep complaining since it works, as evidenced by the new benchmark.

[Swordsman]

I'm interested to see how the lighting changes affect characters appearances. As well as seeing if they fix the more obvious issues like miqo'te keeper fangs.

Im still hesitant to be excited about anything else though. I really liked majority of the changes to the details of the faces and thought they mostly looked miles better with some notable exceptions. Elezen mouths when emoting etc. I guess at the end of the day you can't please everyone and they should probably cater to making the characters more close to how they are now. It's just a shame to see details I liked better potentially rolled back but that's what happens when you're in the minority I suppose. It is what it is and if the changes make everyone else more satisfied then great. Still hoping for a character creation update someday in the future that maybe adds some of these other options to give players more choice.

Really what they should do is have those changes added as optional choices in character creation instead of just a complete rollback, that way people who like the changes can have them and people who didn't like them can have their char's previous facial features. I can't see why the devs would be unable to implement this. It would definitely make players on both sides happy.