New Yoshi-P Interview

[Greyhawk]

Reddit for information, now there's a reputable source. The subreddit there for FFXIV will hang you if you say one bad thing about this game. Social media doesn't really cover issues and concerns - it's there just for hype, except the Youtubers lately seemed to have finally caught on about the issues. And then we have the forums. Raw. Unmoderated.

I think that trying to find the magic bullet is his problem, because he won't please everyone, but the SBI triggers go against the majority, triggering the minority. He believes it's the opposite, as does the minority. For someone who talks about balance, his content balance is way off. He can do both casual and challenging content. Lowest common denominator and all... and I'm a casual player, but even the rinse/repeat totally 'see it coming' aspect of dungeons are sore to do, even the ones I like. All because you know what's coming. If they created the encounters like Chaos, where every time you start the fight, it's a different rotation, that would at least make it somewhat more of a step in the right direction of enjoyable.

I may edit my post to add more thoughts, but I haven't slept and not enough coffee to keep going with the mind-numbing rhetoric.

[Larirawiel]

Reddit for information,

Yepp. Using reddit for information is so ...






Cheers

[CNitsah]

Yepp. Using reddit for information is so ...

Cheers

Reddit is not such a bad source of information, as long as you put it in perspectives with the other sources and the knowledge of the subreddit bias. The fact you can now criticize DT writing or the content drought in r/ffxiv tells a lot about how much they fucked up.

[AnimaAnimus]

Reddit is not such a bad source of information, as long as you put it in perspectives with the other sources and the knowledge of the subreddit bias. The fact you can now criticize DT writing or the content drought in r/ffxiv tells a lot about how much they fucked up.

That is shocking lol. During EW I replied to a post pointing out a few of the many flaws in the writing for that expac too and had over 1k downvotes within a couple hours. It got so bad I completely abandoned r/ffxiv and last I was on r/ffxivdiscussion was starting to have the same problem.

But I still say reddit is a bad source of information. Even knowing it's an echo chamber doesn't negate the fact that it's an echo chamber, making everything you read on it suspect. And most other sources, like twitter and even gaming news sites are usually echo chambers as well. Twitter gives you brigading if you disagree and news sites want clicks so they will nearly always give shiny reviews to appease the audience, esp ones that are, or at least were, as unhinged as xiv's online army if they are not flat out paid for good reviews by the companies making the games. Metacritic and other such sites are known to remove even legit reviews so thats not a good source. The forums are literally the only place you can criticise due to there not being a downvote system and the ability to report ppl directly to SE. And even though that creates another bias, its not nearly as powerful as the others making it likely the most reliable source of information.

If they want more accurate information, SE should literally just poll their audience and get back actual individual feedback, but that requires work and money, which they are not willing to put into the actual game, much less a poll.

[Daralii]

That is shocking lol. During EW I replied to a post pointing out a few of the many flaws in the writing for that expac too and had over 1k downvotes within a couple hours. It got so bad I completely abandoned r/ffxiv and last I was on r/ffxivdiscussion was starting to have the same problem.

But I still say reddit is a bad source of information. Even knowing it's an echo chamber doesn't negate the fact that it's an echo chamber, making everything you read on it suspect. And most other sources, like twitter and even gaming news sites are usually echo chambers as well. Twitter gives you brigading if you disagree and news sites want clicks so they will nearly always give shiny reviews to appease the audience, esp ones that are, or at least were, as unhinged as xiv's online army if they are not flat out paid for good reviews by the companies making the games. Metacritic and other such sites are known to remove even legit reviews so thats not a good source. The forums are literally the only place you can criticise due to there not being a downvote system and the ability to report ppl directly to SE. And even though that creates another bias, its not nearly as powerful as the others making it likely the most reliable source of information.

If they want more accurate information, SE should literally just poll their audience and get back actual individual feedback, but that requires work and money, which they are not willing to put into the actual game, much less a poll.

Both of them banned discussion of a certain DT character, but they're more willing to let people acknowledge the flaws at least.