Opinion: The Development Team should revert to Q&A for Livestreams

[Jeeqbit]

Usually they give a small spoiler about things before saying "look forward to it". I mean, you can't spoil the entire thing without, well, spoiling it. And then the point is defeated. Quite frankly, the amount of information they give is enough to figure out a whole story mostly. I was able to figure out, vaguely, the whole flow of events in Dawntrail for example just purely based on vague details they gave: area names, dungeon crawl, boss names, map. For example, it was obvious it would be Kozama'uka (Dungeon1) > Urqopacha (Dungeon2/Valigarmanda) > Yak T'el (dungeon3) > Shaaloani (dungeon4) > Heritage Found (dungeon5) > Zoraal Ja > Mystery Area (Dungeon6/mystery villain)

And we were not just told Zoraal Ja was a major villain in the keynotes but also in 6.55. In both we were told about Valigarmanda as well who I instantly knew was the 93 trial. Due to the map we could instantly pinpoint all the locations and match them to their respective dungeons and guess Zoraal Ja fit in there. Seeing Yoshi-P fly around Yak T'el confirmed for sure its level range had enemies of 94 proving it was indeed before Shaaloani as it looked.

Quite frankly, my prediction at the time was it would be a boring story about someone slowly becoming a politician while you take out their opponents, but that SE likes a big larger-than-life fantasy to happen by the end of it, so the end would have to involve something mystical like visiting a shard, time travel, etc. So I knew what to expect really. Watching live letters spoils me enough as it is.

So it's fine to use this phrase for certain things like story. I don't know if they even use it for job changes. Why would they when they hold off on the details?

[HyperiusUltima]

So it's fine to use this phrase for certain things like story. I don't know if they even use it for job changes. Why would they when they hold off on the details?

Because they don't want their dev team to become demoralized. When you've made something or made changes to something existing that a player plays as and the moment they get information from a Media Tour or other information source they start making speculations. Feedback mid-expansion is usually pointed towards next expansion to where they will make meaningful changes so they don't drastically have to upend their content pipeline for Raid Content.

If anything, they need to at the least deal with the backlash they've gotten since Endwalker about homogenization and every job being the same with different bells and whistles. It doesn't take 4 years to respond to feedback - but it takes apparently 8 years for some because they don't listen until it gets shouted out by an influencer or such.

Influencers sometimes have a negative effect on the game as they make narratives. Sometimes, these narratives are not very well fleshed out. There are sometimes even controversies over certain things(i.e. Warrior Soloing through the 91 dungeon of Dawntrail without repercussions in Media Tour) that are still ongoing to this day that people have complained about back in Endwalker(Tanks) or Shadowbringers(Healers). I suppose it's DPS turn now.

[ty_taurus]

Because they don't want their dev team to become demoralized. When you've made something or made changes to something existing that a player plays as and the moment they get information from a Media Tour or other information source they start making speculations. Feedback mid-expansion is usually pointed towards next expansion to where they will make meaningful changes so they don't drastically have to upend their content pipeline for Raid Content.

If anything, they need to at the least deal with the backlash they've gotten since Endwalker about homogenization and every job being the same with different bells and whistles. It doesn't take 4 years to respond to feedback - but it takes apparently 8 years for some because they don't listen until it gets shouted out by an influencer or such.

Influencers sometimes have a negative effect on the game as they make narratives. Sometimes, these narratives are not very well fleshed out. There are sometimes even controversies over certain things(i.e. Warrior Soloing through the 91 dungeon of Dawntrail without repercussions in Media Tour) that are still ongoing to this day that people have complained about back in Endwalker(Tanks) or Shadowbringers(Healers). I suppose it's DPS turn now.

You know what, I didn't praise the XIV devs enough here on the forums back when healer design was fantastic. I should've been here shouting about how masterful the design was, but I didn't because I took it for granted. FFXIV designers, you don't know how innovative and well-designed your healer role was during the first half of XIV's lifespan. Were there imperfections? Sure. But for what it's worth, Scholar was a near masterpiece. You guys did that. But you also changed that, and that change absolutely ruined the beauty you had previously created.

If showering you with praise and positive feedback is what it will take, then I will absolutely do that if healers change for the better. I will be back here with positivity, praise, and encouragement, and I will fight any naysayer who disagrees. But I can't do that until I see change. This path of absolute simplification has been one of your biggest mistakes, and I cannot praise that. You have taken your masterpiece and set it on fire with your own hands. But if you can finally acknowledge the years of criticism of job design and strive to correct it, you can paint a new masterpiece. Maybe it won't be perfect---it probably wont be, but I will absolutely make sure to praise every strength if that's what it will take to convince you to change. You will not have nothing but overwhelming negativity on here if you are willing to make the necessary changes.