5 Honest Questions for the FFXIV Player Base

[Eekiki]

1. Do you understand the basics of any development cycle (How long it takes/How it works)?
2. Do you think that the dev team, under Tanaka, included meaningful documentation in their code?
3. Are you a major stock holder?
4. Do you understand the meaning of the phrase "we have to stand before we can walk"?
5. Have you, personally, seen ANY of the feedback submitted other than your own that was not on the forums?

I can say "Yes" to only two of these questions.
What about you?

Loaded questions, but I'll bite.

1. Yes.
2. No, and even if it was, the coding was outsourced to china, so I doubt anyone could understand their documentation unless they spoke Chinese.
3. No.
4. Pretend I don't and explain it to me.
5. I don't understand the question.

[Corrderio]

This all seems rather pointless to me.

Think the point was to see how many people acutally know what all goes into programming for a game and whatnot and those that don't and complain about stuff being too slow/etc.

[Eekiki]

Think the point was to see how many people acutally know what all goes into programming for a game and whatnot and those that don't and complain about stuff being too slow/etc.

If so, it sure wasn't worded very well.

[Galamantyl]

1. I am in favor of a 4-phase development cycle beginning with inceptional design to transitional deployment.

2. I am in favor of Tanaka's efforts but nobody is perfect when it comes to documenting.

3. I am strongly against stockholders. They usually make poor decisions.

4. I am strongly against standing - I prefer sitting.

5. I am strongly against the feedback given during closed beta which were not on these forums.

[Evangela]

asking these question to the FFXI-XIV fanbase... we're mostly mature gamers and a lot of us are professional/master in many kind of business

don't acts like we're WoWfans

[Chezen]

1. Do you understand the basics of any development cycle (How long it takes/How it works)?
-Yes
2. Do you think that the dev team, under Tanaka, included meaningful documentation in their code?
-Yes
3. Are you a major stock holder?
-No.
4. Do you understand the meaning of the phrase "we have to stand before we can walk"?
-Yes
5. Have you, personally, seen ANY of the feedback submitted other than your own that was not on the forums?
-Yes.

[Chrees]

Think the point was to see how many people acutally know what all goes into programming for a game and whatnot and those that don't and complain about stuff being too slow/etc.

I have a feeling that anyone who is a programmer, works with programmers, or is in a field relating to computers/IT/development/etc. is going to reply to this just to tip the scales, making it look like the majority of FFXIV's player base knows exactly what is going on inside of Square-Enix, which is most definitely not the case.

And it looks like it's already happening.

[Keith_Dragoon]

1. Do you understand the basics of any development cycle (How long it takes/How it works)?
2. Do you think that the dev team, under Tanaka, included meaningful documentation in their code?
3. Are you a major stock holder?
4. Do you understand the meaning of the phrase "we have to stand before we can walk"?
5. Have you, personally, seen ANY of the feedback submitted other than your own that was not on the forums?

I can say "Yes" to only two of these questions.
What about you?

1. Yes I am studying to become a developer myself.
2. I guess
3. No
4. Yes
5. Yes

So do I get a stuffed animal or some kinda prize?

[Galamantyl]

I'm a programmer.

I can honestly say that corporate shareholders have it rough, I mean programmers are so expensive working for less-than-they're-worth pay, which is a big cut into their billions of dollars worth of dividends. After all, they can only spare maybe 5~10% at most of that to put back in as company investment, so they have to get the game up and running as soon as possible so they can make more money so they can continue to underpay their programmers.

Those poor shareholders... What will they do without their personal airplanes, luxury yachts, and million-dollar acreages?

[Shelia]

1. Do you understand the basics of any development cycle (How long it takes/How it works)?
Yes, but they should've had this game completely developed before even bothering to market it. I'm not talking things like chocobos/airships... I'm talking like having a finalized combat system and UI. To this day they're still fixing it, and they should've taken these suggestions during alpha/beta... not now.

2. Do you think that the dev team, under Tanaka, included meaningful documentation in their code?
I kind of doubt it, but who knows.

3. Are you a major stock holder?
No.

4. Do you understand the meaning of the phrase "we have to stand before we can walk"?
Yes, but that's no excuse for this abomination that was sold as a product....six months later it isn't much better either. lol

5. Have you, personally, seen ANY of the feedback submitted other than your own that was not on the forums?
Uhm... The wording in this question is a little weird and I don't know how to answer. I've seen other people outside these forums complain about the game several times.