Thoughts about the LL?

[MaikoRaines]

People are acting like the drop-off in updates and communication is some new issue — it’s not.

Remember four years ago (June 2021, to be exact), during PLL LXV? That was the one with Yoko Taro and Yoshi-P answering top-rated community questions live on stream.

One of those top-voted questions — mine, actually — asked about the possibility of Flight Unit mounts. Yoko Taro was totally on board, but Yoshi-P gave the usual “I’ll have to check with the dev team” response.

Here’s the proof:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...07#post5585807

I was glad we at least got the Pod mount (since the assets already existed), but since then? Total silence. Even a “sorry, can’t be done” would’ve been more respectful than this endless radio silence.

And that’s not even the only question that got swept under the rug. A lot of community-raised topics just… vanish. No follow-up, no transparency, no closure.

This isn’t a new pattern. It’s just been getting harder to ignore.

We don't need a Liveletter - we need a Town Hall.

[MicahZerrshia]

I was glad we at least got the Pod mount (since the assets already existed), but since then? Total silence. Even a “sorry, can’t be done” would’ve been more respectful than this endless radio silence.

And that’s not even the only question that got swept under the rug. A lot of community-raised topics just… vanish. No follow-up, no transparency, no closure.

This isn’t a new pattern. It’s just been getting harder to ignore.

We don't need a Liveletter - we need a Town Hall.

It's been like this since 2.1

The lead up to 2.0, the communication was amazing, we could literally have conversations with community managers, who were absolutely amazing btw, and the devs, Yoshi PR and those managers were always quick and gave good answers. Even when they didn't when they said, "just wait for 2.0!" which was the "please look forward to it" of the community team, they were more than happy to talk more when I called them out on giving us bogus, non-answers.

In the space between 2.0 and 2.1, communication fell off hard and after that, it was mostly like it is now. They saw the relaunch as a success and the player concerns, questions and such were just ignored from there on out. The community team even "moved on" and were never replaced with anyone who has made themselves known. We did think they really cared during 1.x-2.0. After that tho, nope we were just subs who will just have to like whatever we are givin.

The community itself hasn't really changed either. I remember saying that the titan quests with all the wine and what not were a bit much and they should trim stuff like that down and the only response was, "the game is perfect! Stop complaining! Everyone here is so negative! Just unsub if you don't like it! blah blah blah" and guess what the devs realized and changed years later....yep about half those quests were just deleted because they were, drum roll please....too much