Will there be any more player polls for Yoshi-P to get feedback?

[NovaUltimatum]

Hello everyone,

I was browsing through some of the old threads that came about before the launch of ARR and found that it was interesting that Yoshi-P gave players of 1.x polls to find out how they would like the game to be shaped.

This looks like a great idea to get player's expectations and desires instead of trying to decipher some of the complex ideas coming from threads. I'm bringing this up now because the player base that existed before launch and after launch may have changed so there maybe be some skewed response to the requests of previous poll results.

Some old polls results:

First FFXIV Players' Poll results (01/21/2011)
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...98e4034b898102

Second FFXIV Players' Poll results (03/03/2011)
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...16083b634f7678

Third FFXIV Players' Poll results (05/28/2012)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/46535

Forth FFXIV Players' Poll results (06/04/2012)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/46936

[NovaUltimatum]

I think this one shows a good example of how the community may have changed:

10. If the current target claiming system were done away with, would you prefer for content such as dungeons and battle to be converted into instances as much as possible?
* "Instances" refer to those events and areas that can only be occupied by a single party, or certain characters, at once. This serves to prevent players from competing with one another for the same enemies, for example.

The people have spoken. As such, we'll be operating under the premise that new PvE content, such as dungeons containing sought-after loot, will be instanced.

Now the players who took part in this poll question at the start of 2012 have been the major reason we now have instances in just about every aspect of battle content.

I respect that Yoshi put forth directions to Matsui to design content to be instanced because of the people's decisions here. However, now that the player base has had experience of what instance content means/feels like, their desires for future content may or may not have changed. The idea is to be up to date on this form of direct feedback at least.

[LlenCoram]

I honestly think the polls were just a way to make it seem like we were taking part. As far as all the systems outside of combat/dungeons go, he didn't listen to us for even one second.

I distinctly remember the community asking for more content for gathering. What'd we get? An incredibly reduced, braindead system that has no purpose at all.

He won't do another poll because "too much stress." If not the too much stress excuse, pick one of the other ridiculous excuses he's fed us with in the past.

Please look forward to it.

[Skyhound]

It wouldn't matter because the forums are never a good representation of the player base. We're a big minority and at most our opinions only serve as a guideline. Also, the only section they really pay attention to is the suggestion forum.

[Gwaeron]

I honestly think the polls were just a way to make it seem like we were taking part. As far as all the systems outside of combat/dungeons go, he didn't listen to us for even one second.

I distinctly remember the community asking for more content for gathering. What'd we get? An incredibly reduced, braindead system that has no purpose at all.

He won't do another poll because "too much stress." If not the too much stress excuse, pick one of the other ridiculous excuses he's fed us with in the past.

Please look forward to it.

Yoshida: Even now, RMT can create bots to get around the timing of actions. What we don’t want is to have fishing become stressful. It is supposed to be a relaxing thing. Pressing extra buttons for actions is going to create that stress

I'm glad we still get to press buttons sometimes, but I'm afraid that'll disappear too!

I want another poll, all day long I see people complain about the very same things and Yoshi-P doesn't seem to have any interest in fixing it because it's working as intended. Just look at the dev tracker from yesterday where they said they have no plans to re-introduce repairing others' gear because "people won't use the feature anyway". Yet in the auto-translator there are phrases like "Can you repair it for me?". All I see is ridiculous excuses to avoid implementing things that should always have been there. Maybe a poll could make them change their minds about certain things ("We have no plans to add more content for diciples of the land/hand").

[LlenCoram]

I'm glad we still get to press buttons sometimes, but I'm afraid that'll disappear too!

That one quote by him always pissed me off the worst. Pressing buttons isn't stressful. Losing a fish because you didn't press a button isn't stressful. Pressing buttons period isn't stressful. You know what it is?

Gameplay. It's gameplay. Because this is a videogame. The fact that I'm sitting in a chair, wrapped in a blanket at home with a roof over my head is relaxing. The fact that I have enough time in the day to play a videogame at my leisure, that I have enough money to afford a computer and electricity and internet to play said videogame, THAT'S relaxing. The game itself is relaxing. I play a videogame to play though. If I lose a fish because I didn't press a button, or I pressed the wrong button, or, gods forbid, I haven't yet learned how to fight that specific fish, isn't stress. It's gameplay, and it would make me say, "Crap, I need to learn this. Good thing that was my fault and not the systems!"

All of his excuses are blatant, bold-faced lies. The truth behind all of them is that they don't want RMT to run the show, and the easiest way to do that is to punish the players. That's it. It's laziness, pure and simple.

[Surian]

Having people vote would be fairly terrible considdering the amount of blatant trolling on these boards...

It would have the same impact as Ukraine voting if they want to be a part of Russia again, when 80% of the people living in the country are russian.

What would they vote for? Certainly not what's in the best interest of the people actually enjoying the game.

[Gwaeron]

Having people vote would be fairly terrible considdering the amount of blatant trolling on these boards...

It would have the same impact as Ukraine voting if they want to be a part of Russia again, when 80% of the people living in the country are russian.

What would they vote for? Certainly not what's in the best interest of the people actually enjoying the game.

They would vote for what they, themselves would like in the game, as they should do. If someone disagrees, they'll vote for another option.

[Amberion]

If the current target claiming system were done away with, would you prefer for content such as dungeons and battle to be converted into instances as much as possible?

What other option would there be? If they got rid of what it had, then for a real vote, you would actually need 2 options. Not a, yes = Instaces, No = ???.

[Gramul]

[...] now that the player base has had experience of what instance content means/feels like, their desires for future content may or may not have changed.

I can vouch for that.

Well, that is to say, I don't hate the instanced content. I hate how it's the only major thing to do.