Dawntrail's Misleading Advertising

[Arzalis]

The one thing people always seem to forget when it comes to issues with code limitations and tech debt, is that you can always address them. There is just a time/labor cost to it. I do think after a decade all the excuses are pretty flimsy.

Ultimately, SE just doesn't think things are worth fixing and ignore player feedback over them. See: YoshiP's response to unlocking glamour. Essentially boils down to "We could, but we just don't want to."

[Aldath]

Tell that to Mihoyo

*cries in fully voiced cutscenes *

Because ironically, despite making games of predatory nature, they have a better work ethic than SE and have invested the money they earn into actually strengthening the company. Genshin was better than HI3, HSR was better than Genshin, and ZZZ seems to be better yet.

SE would rather spend their budget in unnecessary luxuries for their games (aka making them look pretty) while sacrificing substance and using ungodly amounts of time to develop. Also they love to produce elite collector garbage, like the FFXV car por the KH Chair.

[kajv95]

At this point in the game's life, the whole "Spaghetti code" thing really is just an excuse. Chat bubbles, as a prime example, have literally been in the game since 2.0 for NPC's, yet they cannot seem to figure out how to make them work as a toggle-able option for player characters after over a decade? Certain "programs" have given Viera and Hrothgar's hats, yet after all these years the main devs still cannot get the hat stuff working properly for like 80-90% of the available hats, but still continue to release cash shop glamours with hats that cannot be worn by Viera/Hroth even though they should be putting in the bare minimum effort to at least make those wearable given you have to pay for them? I can certainly understand that there are no doubt SOME limitations with this game being held together with some chewed gum, paperclips, and a whole lotta thin string, but at this point it's either they are just very lazy, under paid / smaller budget, or understaffed / overworked, or maybe even a combination of them.

The whole thing with speech bubbles in the same regard as hats is doubly annoying to me because I've seen what other players can do in this regard. I've seen people on twitter hide players from their client on the *client* side. I've seen people play with chat bubbles. Yet when the game officially introduces hiding other players, it "is limited because of blah blah this and that, its hooking into a server function and--"

After they accidentally dropped some broken retainer functionality in 7.01 I have *some* hope that 7.1 will be some massive QoL patch but... I'm sure running out of that copium by this point.

[sharplysurreal]

With how much I have loved this game since 2013, I cannot believe how bad Dawntrail is. What is going on? Aren't they going to address what is happening?

[ZephyrMenodora]

This, but with Wuk would have been more honest advertising:

https://youtu.be/aASCZgbJxC8?si=kKMzWyfJ7UsTabo5

[ronibosch]

This, but with Wuk would have been more honest advertising:

https://youtu.be/aASCZgbJxC8?si=kKMzWyfJ7UsTabo5

Wuk Lamat - Beyonce
WoL - Kelly
Krile/Erenville - Michelle

[ZephyrMenodora]

Wuk Lamat - Beyonce
WoL - Kelly
Krile/Erenville - Michelle

=D Complete with everyone washing floors and other menial tasks for Wuk.

[Turtledeluxe]

Because ironically, despite making games of predatory nature, they have a better work ethic than SE and have invested the money they earn into actually strengthening the company. Genshin was better than HI3, HSR was better than Genshin, and ZZZ seems to be better yet.

SE would rather spend their budget in unnecessary luxuries for their games (aka making them look pretty) while sacrificing substance and using ungodly amounts of time to develop. Also they love to produce elite collector garbage, like the FFXV car por the KH Chair.

SE diverts XIV profit to other (likely failed) projects and shareholders. It's pathetic.

Also idk how much time or money it took to update the graphics. I would much prefer to a sequel given that this code is so outdated and allegedly just slowing them down at every turn anyway. It's kind of a lipstick on pig situation. But SE lacks confidence that they can do a ZZZ. That's the problem. (In the sense of funding a XIV follow up that's bigger and better)

[Aldath]

SE diverts XIV profit to other (likely failed) projects and shareholders. It's pathetic.

Also idk how much time or money it took to update the graphics. I would much prefer to a sequel given that this code is so outdated and allegedly just slowing them down at every turn anyway. It's kind of a lipstick on pig situation. But SE lacks confidence that they can do a ZZZ. That's the problem. (In the sense of funding a XIV follow up that's bigger and better)

Didn't the CEO of SE said recently that they should have been the ones to come up with Genshin because that's what the company is famous for?

[ZXN]

The whole thing with speech bubbles in the same regard as hats is doubly annoying to me because I've seen what other players can do in this regard. I've seen people on twitter hide players from their client on the *client* side. I've seen people play with chat bubbles. Yet when the game officially introduces hiding other players, it "is limited because of blah blah this and that, its hooking into a server function and--"

This reminds me of a super old MMO I use to play a ton, before they went full greed mode and made the game severely P2W [I'm talking "You require two 0.1% chance items from two SEPARATE LIMITED-TIME 20 DOLLAR LOOTBOXES to get the meta thing we are currently designing all the endgame bosses around you having levels of greed], that despite being made so incredibly cheaply, it still had the incredibly basic function of chat bubbles that you could toggle them on, off, or modify them to trigger for specific chats only. They also had an option to "simplify" other player characters, turning them into small green people icons which hid all their player character, their "pet" they had out along with all their pet's combat skills, and their pet mounts too if they were on one. It made it so PC's would lag drastically less in...
- Heavily crowded towns due to not needing to load as much
- When fighting event bosses so lag wouldn't screw over players due to there being so many, and also let them hit the boss reliably without too much delay
- Wouldn't block NPC's from being clicked on if they're swarmed with people/covered by other's large mounts.

Meanwhile the FF14 devs are like drooling toddlers when it comes to these seemingly basic things. After a decade they cannot seem to find a way to make toggle-able speech bubbles for players, and while they did implement a sort of "Hiding players" feature, it has a bunch of restrictions to it.