Time, Budget, Manpower, and Scope

[Hallarem]

Have they tried looking beyond Japanese people who only speak Japanese...?

They can't. Because they demand you understand japanese and speak it. Which makes sense as its a JP company, but at the same time they COULD outsource some tasks to another team, pay them and see what happens. To fix specific issues. They are reaching the point of nothing to lose.

[plasmacutter]

Let's not pretend the talent pool is too thin given the collective layoffs in the tech sector, gaming included, have accumulated to 60% of headcount.

[Kahnha]

TBH Idk why they spent extra resources on the Oceanian server people there complaining about not being able to que for mandatory content like CT. Dynamis is in the same situation it takes longer to get into content so end up going to primal or crystal. Even the graphics update that was basically just 2x sizing the textures could have put those resources into making more housing wards, or improving the environment for the DCs.

maybe even spending into improving the game engine itself that would clear so much of the issues on how the game feels but eh we'll see :3

[Halivel]

TBH Idk why they spent extra resources on the Oceanian server people there complaining about not being able to que for mandatory content like CT. Dynamis is in the same situation it takes longer to get into content so end up going to primal or crystal. Even the graphics update that was basically just 2x sizing the textures could have put those resources into making more housing wards, or improving the environment for the DCs.

maybe even spending into improving the game engine itself that would clear so much of the issues on how the game feels but eh we'll see :3

They spent resources on OCE DC because people asked for one for almost a decade. The issue with any new servers, however, is that people are always reluctant to mover over, as majority of them have established FCs and connections where they currently are. Which shouldn't be as much of an issue with FF14, that has server travel infrastructure, but people still cling to the servers they're on.

They spent resources on Dynamis because people, surprise-surprise, were asking for it, as other DCs are overpopulated. Same issue happens however, because no one actually wants to move over. As result, with both OCE and Dynamis, it will take a relatively significant amount of time to fill them with players, either new or old.

They spent resources on graphic update because... oh yes, people asked for it to happen, for years.

Now that all that is done, people are suddenly "you should have spent those resources elsewhere".

Point of the day is, I guess, is that there's no win, and people will be never happy regardless of what devs do.

[plasmacutter]

They spent resources on OCE DC because people asked for one for almost a decade. The issue with any new servers, however, is that people are always reluctant to mover over, as majority of them have established FCs and connections where they currently are. Which shouldn't be as much of an issue with FF14, that has server travel infrastructure, but people still cling to the servers they're on.

They spent resources on Dynamis because people, surprise-surprise, were asking for it, as other DCs are overpopulated. Same issue happens however, because no one actually wants to move over. As result, with both OCE and Dynamis, it will take a relatively significant amount of time to fill them with players, either new or old.

They spent resources on graphic update because... oh yes, people asked for it to happen, for years.

Now that all that is done, people are suddenly "you should have spent those resources elsewhere".

Point of the day is, I guess, is that there's no win, and people will be never happy regardless of what devs do.

Every region should have unified party finder.

This is not hard to do, I'll explain how:

1 - people queue up
2 - the system makes a match
3 - the system determines the datacenter where the majority are located
4 - the system spends 45-60 seconds transferring people to a "staging" server in the correct datacenter
5 - the system loads them into dungeon.

This greatly reduces overall stress on congested datacenters and load balances stress with more agility.
It could actually save them hardware costs, because right now a LOT of people just camp on Aether while Party Finder empties on primal, and especially crystal and dynamis.

[Halivel]

Every region should have unified party finder.

This is not hard to do, I'll explain how:

1 - people queue up
2 - the system makes a match
3 - the system determines the datacenter where the majority are located
4 - the system spends 45-60 seconds transferring people to a "staging" server in the correct datacenter
5 - the system loads them into dungeon.

This greatly reduces overall stress on congested datacenters and load balances stress with more agility.
It could actually save them hardware costs, because right now a LOT of people just camp on Aether while Party Finder empties on primal, and especially crystal and dynamis.

This I agree with, they should do something like that.

I can understand the reluctance to make cross-region queues for "ping and culture" reasons, but in-region ones should be totally fine. And OCE should be probably queued with JP, as that's where the majority of their players seemed to be prior to DC creation.

[Exmo]

If creativity is what's needed, they should re-open the feedback forum and have the community post and rate ideas.
Dedicate a couple mod staff to deduplication by moving posts into established topics when merited.

Worst idea in this thread so far. Players are not game designers. You'd be better off asking pigeons about the price of fish.

[plasmacutter]

Worst idea in this thread so far. Players are not game designers. You'd be better off asking pigeons about the price of fish.

"Why should we listen to the customers"

Aaand ignored.

[sharknado]

Worst idea in this thread so far. Players are not game designers. You'd be better off asking pigeons about the price of fish.

Players tell what is fun for them and what is not. Blizzard had to do a 180 on Legion Remix now because they got overwhelming feedback on what people want and don't want. They added new stuff, experimented with others, but the feel had to be changed because players did not want the original version (as in really bad). The goal is not to get design decisions from players but to get a rate on the content and adjust accordingly.

[plasmacutter]

Players tell what is fun for them and what is not. Blizzard had to do a 180 on Legion Remix now because they got overwhelming feedback on what people want and don't want. They added new stuff, experimented with others, but the feel had to be changed because players did not want the original version (as in really bad). The goal is not to get design decisions from players but to get a rate on the content and adjust accordingly.

That, and, some of the players are, in fact, game designers and enterprise SAAS architects who might actually have something useful to contribute.