Time, Budget, Manpower, and Scope

[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.

[Absurdity]

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.

The graphics update did quite a bit more besides the obvious texture upgrades, unfortunately it's something most people won't even notice.
Hands and feet models were updated to no longer be square blocks.

All head meshes were completely remade with a uniform texture layout, roughly 50% more polygons and about 50 extra bones for better facial animations.
For example the new faces actually have tongues that can be animated while the old faces just had a static mesh rigged to the lower jaw, they just haven't really made much use of them so far.

[Larirawiel]

If you look it up, DX12 is significantly more work for developers and usually they don't need its features so a lot of games just don't bother with it. DX11 is easier to work with and causes less problems.

In general though, there are a lot of problems that there shouldn't be, especially given the number of employees they have. It doesn't make a lot of sense.

I doubt it, that DirectX 12 is so much more work for developers. Even smaller Studios like Larian have their own DirectX 12 capable engine, see Baldur's Gate 3. The most obvious reason why FF14 runs on such an ancient technology is lazyness and waste of ressources.


Cheers

[Moqi]

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.

They won't*. If they wanna act like a small indie company with no international audience, appeal or resources, that's on them.

[Exmo]

"Why should we listen to the customers"

Aaand ignored.

"Players opinions are interesting and valid"
*immediately misreads an opinion and flips out*

Ok