Dear SE: Please listen to actual players, not just content creators

[SoleilAlphi]

consistently critical, hardly, consistently whiny, absolutely, her rants are not criticism since they lact objectivity, I mean.... going as far as complaining about the music used in cutscenes? please.... and the fact she alienated most of her viewership is undeniable, just look at her streaming numbers. Also people are fed up with negativity by now.

But at the end of the day, this is also a people created problem. Maybe we should all stop giving these streamers so much importance in the first place

[Carin-Eri]

consistently critical, hardly, consistently whiny, absolutely, her rants are not criticism since they lact objectivity, I mean.... going as far as complaining about the music used in cutscenes? please.... and the fact she alienated most of her viewership is undeniable, just look at her streaming numbers. Also people are fed up with negativity by now.

But at the end of the day, this is also a people created problem. Maybe we should all stop giving these streamers so much importance in the first place

Sorry, but I agree with her on that point - mostly because her main beef seems to be how overused 'Machinations' is. And she is absolutely right on that front. I mean, it's awful and always has been! I have to turn my sound off any time I visit Wolf's Den Pier because of it. And yet this relic from ARR's time is still used with painful frequency - in fact I was extremely disappointed to hear it play during the new Occult Crescent Relic weapon cutscene. They serious need to retire that ear-bleed excuse for 'music'!

[Daralii]

Sorry, but I agree with her on that point - mostly because her main beef seems to be how overused 'Machinations' is. And she is absolutely right on that front. I mean, it's awful and always has been! I have to turn my sound off any time I visit Wolf's Den Pier because of it. And yet this relic from ARR's time is still used with painful frequency - in fact I was extremely disappointed to hear it play during the new Occult Crescent Relic weapon cutscene. They serious need to retire that ear-bleed excuse for 'music'!

Machinations at this point is code for "Anything of importance will be brought up later, just hit escape". I think she also complained about Smile being used for the very long cutscene of building the bomb train in 7.0, but I don't think I've seen a single person defend that decision.

[Carin-Eri]

Machinations at this point is code for "Anything of importance will be brought up later, just hit escape". I think she also complained about Smile being used for the very long cutscene of building the bomb train in 7.0, but I don't think I've seen a single person defend that decision.

Yeah - can't defend that either. I'll confess that I quite like 'Smile' on the whole but thought it should only have been used for the 7.0 finale cutscenes and was completely out-of-place during the bomb-train scenes.

That as an aside though - I can't say I agree that Zepla does nothing but rant.

[xbahax92]

Not saying content creators are less of a problem, but spend enough time here and you'll notice how someone will always complain about anything.
LGBT? Oh my. Jog is ruining my immersion. Oh no! I need to GRIND my relic?! Oh jeez! The relic is a tomestone weapon? Oh @$*"!

You could feed Vauthry for years with the amount of negativity. No matter what effort they put in, it's met by constant bemoaning.
I do not disagree with most of the complaints, it's hilarious how this place turns into an echo chamber like any other social media. You're not even allowed to praise some little work.

At this point, I wish people would just quit and move on to another game. You're becoming the real issue here. Opinions and ideas contradict with each other everytime I open a thread. There is barely unity in this game, let alone cohesion.

[Mondschnee]

See the problem with zepla she never happy with the game, mr. Happy and zenos only care about ultimates. How many ppl in 44 million players actually do savage and ultimates?

Gotta love when people just make shit up and then run with it.
Mr. Happy has often said that he enjoys all types of content, not just savages/ultimates.
Zepla hasn't asked for more savage content, she wants more engaging casual content that isn't just rehashed old content and offers something new. That's feedback I see a lot around here so I would say she speaks for a good protion of the playerbase.
Her main criticism is the current main story, which is completely valid.
I've often disagreed with Xeno when it comes to the definition of "midcore content". For me, savage is, BY FAR, not midcore content, he can say it as often as he wants, to me it's just wrong. I won't touch this difficulty, it's not fun.

Engaging but not hard content needs jobs that have a high skill ceiling. Unfortunately that is exactly what SE is trying to avoid having to design.

Yeah, I can see that point. I've noticed that ever since jobs have gotten easier, the casual content has been less fun for me.
8.0 will fix it, surely :copium:

[0blivion]

Tbh considering how, barring some outliers (M6S, P10S, A3S, O3S and, to a lesser extent, E3S), easy and accessible the non-capstone raids are, I'd agree with Xeno on Savage being midcore - and I don't even like the guy to begin with.

[BigCheez]

consistently critical, hardly, consistently whiny, absolutely, her rants are not criticism since they lact objectivity, I mean.... going as far as complaining about the music used in cutscenes? please.... and the fact she alienated most of her viewership is undeniable, just look at her streaming numbers. Also people are fed up with negativity by now.

But at the end of the day, this is also a people created problem. Maybe we should all stop giving these streamers so much importance in the first place

All of her criticism has been fair and valid IMO.

All FFXIV content creator's numbers have dropped because interest in the game has dropped. More generally, engagement with FFXIV has declined on all platforms - not just YouTube and Twitch.

[Yoshihara]

consistently critical, hardly, consistently whiny, absolutely, her rants are not criticism since they lact objectivity, I mean.... going as far as complaining about the music used in cutscenes? please.... and the fact she alienated most of her viewership is undeniable, just look at her streaming numbers. Also people are fed up with negativity by now.

But at the end of the day, this is also a people created problem. Maybe we should all stop giving these streamers so much importance in the first place

Honestly the worst part of the community is comments like this. Content creators are players, real players (although that should be obvious), in fact they are players who often dedicate more time and passion to the game. To simply label them as "grifters" or "doomposters" when they are unsatisfied or frustrated about something, and then hound them out of the community just exposes how rotten the GCBTW is.

[Valence]

Not saying content creators are less of a problem, but spend enough time here and you'll notice how someone will always complain about anything.
LGBT? Oh my. Jog is ruining my immersion. Oh no! I need to GRIND my relic?! Oh jeez! The relic is a tomestone weapon? Oh @$*"!

You could feed Vauthry for years with the amount of negativity. No matter what effort they put in, it's met by constant bemoaning.
I do not disagree with most of the complaints, it's hilarious how this place turns into an echo chamber like any other social media. You're not even allowed to praise some little work.

At this point, I wish people would just quit and move on to another game. You're becoming the real issue here. Opinions and ideas contradict with each other everytime I open a thread. There is barely unity in this game, let alone cohesion.

On a population if hundreds of thousands, if not million players, I can't believe that there is always at least one person dissatisfied enough with something to give feedback about it. Utterly shocking.
You remind me of those people that will look you into the eyes IRL and tell you to just leave your country if you're not happy with how something is handled.

Don't bother with it, just answer the question: what rewards do you exactly want to be not locked by Savage?

I don't know? Why are you asking me this?