FFXIV And Feedback

[Jeeqbit]

I can't help but notice a feeling of disconnect between players and the dev team.

I feel that Q&As in the past did often help with that. Yoshi-P has even let people send him tells in the game before and just answered them. During Covid, he became a little bit of a livestreamer and actually read things in the stream chat but I don't see it very much now because of how formulaic the liveletters are.

So it would be useful if they would read stream chats, receive questions in tells on stream and do reddit Q&As. There are other game developers that do this because it's the most direct way to interact with people.

At the same time, I feel like if they got all the hate I actually see in stream chats and on the forums, it would be difficult to sift through it to find an actual proper, considerate and decent question.

when we see threads making anniversaries with 0 acknowledge from the team.

What is strange is that they do respond to some of them when they get 100 pages. There are many that reach 100 pages that I understand them not responding to, because sometimes they are just pure hate threads.

But in the case of Hrothgar and Viera hats, it's been pretty reasonable because modders have literally adapted the hats for Hrothgar and Viera - I believe a single person did this and SE has an entire team that believe they can't.

Net code issues? What is that?

Code is one of the things I am struggling to understand their problem with. I did a little test in Sastasha and however many enemies I pull, it takes 3 seconds to iterate through them and kill them. We are talking about server machines that can do billions of iterations per second. It's the same with applying knockbacks or raid buffs. I know it is handling all the battle activity going on, but it's 2025!

If you're not raising an issue that is a critical bug (or is JP forums), you're out of luck, come join us screaming at clouds.

I think they would benefit from a proper issue tracker. The forums aren't working as that.

I mean c'mon, every couple of months we have a Live Letter, we definitely could have a segment to addressing feedback there

That would be a good idea. I remember seeing it at fanfests and events where players asked questions in real and it's oddly missing now.

[Kes13a]

What is strange is that they do respond to some of them when they get 100 pages. There are many that reach 100 pages that I understand them not responding to, because sometimes they are just pure hate threads.

and yet, some make it to 1000 pages... and they dont even acknowledge it with any kind of response, and 1000 pages is not pure hatred... much of it is simpley asking "where are they going with this role"