Urgently Change your Approach SE

[Kardayel]

Personaly, i wouldn't mind so much the problems if SE had the honesty to recognize when they scr***ed up.

They underestimated the interest of the Hunt based on the rewards they gave. The game was a drama hell for weeks. The answer: all work as intended, there is no problem at all...

They stated that the personnal housing will be separated from FC housing. It's finally the same. The answer: We didn't lie it's you who didn't understood well.

I just want some honesty... is it too hard?

[Souljacker]

They are too busy working on things like a "smart un-away system". I remember they said they would look into making it not un-away you immediately, but they would have to do "extensive testing" with "a variety of pointing devices".

Because that's a better use of development time than just putting it back the way it was (which no one on the forums had EVER complained about). That right there told me that they have no idea what they are doing. They are more concerned with preserving some developer's "vision" than giving the players useful tools.

I'm not sure that even the Golden Saucer being a big hit could save them. They are already bleeding subs. I was shocked to find many people in my FC haven't logged on since the patch came down. Not a huge number - the core group of friends are still on - but a lot of the people who are our extended family have disappeared.

I agree - SE needs to rethink their approach, especially with the competition about to drop an xpac. This is going to get worse before it gets better.

[Kaskel2000]

For me, and again this is opnion, but it seems like unless you know and can post in japanese on the japanese forums any feedback is ignored. It really does seem lately that the English speaking forums will be up in arms about something, where as the Japanese forums might not be due to there culture of respect etc, and we are just ignroed by the dev team. As soon as something is big enough to cause Japanese posters to make negative forum posts then we get a reply from the dev team, but again only on the Japanese forum. During this whole sags all forum responces have been on there forum not ours. I do really enjoy this game but there does seem to be a massive amount of inequility when it comes to regions. But as I said this is just my opinion/feeling and as a human being i could easily be wrong and reading things wrongly.

[Souljacker]

Their JP playerbase is larger. You can look at the forums as a clear example. This post has the support of probably everyone here - and it only has 60 some-odd likes. When a JP post has the forum support, there's 400+ likes. That's a pretty big difference. NA isn't the same size playerbase. SE wants to grab as much money as they can from us, but you are kidding yourself if you think that our subs are anything but gravy on their JP mashed potatoes.

[SythSynner]

For me, and again this is opnion, but it seems like unless you know and can post in japanese on the japanese forums any feedback is ignored. It really does seem lately that the English speaking forums will be up in arms about something, where as the Japanese forums might not be due to there culture of respect etc, and we are just ignroed by the dev team. As soon as something is big enough to cause Japanese posters to make negative forum posts then we get a reply from the dev team, but again only on the Japanese forum. During this whole sags all forum responces have been on there forum not ours. I do really enjoy this game but there does seem to be a massive amount of inequility when it comes to regions. But as I said this is just my opinion/feeling and as a human being i could easily be wrong and reading things wrongly.

That is not really Yoshi-P's fault... each "community" as their own "community spoke person/group". It's more easier for him to talk to the Japanese Community because, well, he IS Japanese himself. While we have to wait for our English community team to translate and re-post for us. If anyone has something to say or think about it, I believe they should be flaming at our slow English community group that is to take care of the English players. (Which as ppl have been saying, feels like we are not getting heard and what not.)

[Gerolan]

Personally I total agree with the OP. I do believe SE is out of touch with the current game, patch 2.38 to me felt like a "quick get the patch out, destiny and AA are out we need something" hence why more than a few corners were cut.
We now have a hunt system that gives better rewards than end game content, personal housing that sold out instantly on most servers and now locks out a new fc from buying a house.
Chocobo raising, gardening, that lock out alot of people due to limited plots.
Makes me worried about when triple triad does come,will they make it for the cards you need a five star master crafted item that's been blessed by sacrificing yourself to Odin on a new moon, facing north west whilst wearing the beyond hard to get bikinis
Personally speaking I doubt I'll play xiv till 2.4 , I've lost faith in SE as a company.
Can barely stay logged in longer than 10mins since the patch.
And no isn't just me, I know a lot of friends have stopped playing now, for various reasons.
I just hope they stop ignoring their player base before they need to consider XIV a realm re-reborn

[AdamFyi]

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Hunts were added quite late after the release of 2.2 and it serves as a way for people to catch up to the max item level cap.

As for housing, just be patient. They're going to about double the amount of current plots. That coupled with the price cut every six hours, you'd need to work towards about half the current prices.

To be honest, the swimwear are not hard to get. You need patience to get them. I think SE made a good choice by barricading them behind something either you'd have to invest time in, or, you can simply buy from the market board. Otherwise, we'd see them everywhere.

Personally, I think the game is doing just fine. After playing numerous F2Ps in my day, this game is a breath of fresh air. Not that I'm disagreeing with the OP; this game could use some tweaks and fixes here and there. But I'm content at what we have right now.

[Aylis]

I promised myself I wouldn't argue anymore because I honestly feel like any of our "valuable feedback" is just going to be that weeks trashcan liners, but okay one more after thinking things out. The issues isn't Yoshi-P is out of touch, hes in touch with the JP side of things, its the rest of the world he's out of touch with. What works in Japan doesn't often work in Europe or North America. Were playing a JP based game developed with the JP way of thinking and its assumed we are all to fall in line with it. So in is the issue of things.

I can't read Japanese so for all i know everything is sunshine and rainbows with the game in that region. Players are all accepting and wait patiently for others to watch cut scenes, feel Frontlines is the most engaging and riveting PVP on the planet and view sightseeing logs as sitting in a park and watching a bird for hours on end and view open world housing as something to whistle while you walk home after a long 18 hour work day in dungeons or whatever.

It's not limited to here and reflects the JP game market in general and some may even attribute the declines of Nintendo to the same effect. Japan doesn't get us nor seems to be wanting to put in an effort to try to get us.

To succeed in a global market means being willing to open up to the global market, instead of trying to just appeal to one market. It feels counter productive to release overseas due to costs and a smaller market interested in said product then. Despite MMO's all going niche due to competition its been something upstart companies from Korea have been learning. Take your game, send it to your development teams in other countries, let the regional teams rework aspects of the game to work with expectations and needs for the nation. Release it and make a larger profit margin.

My deciding line will be Gold Saucer. My only expectations for it ideally is to just plop down a few gil to play a fun mini game or game of Triple Triad and racing is one of my favorite activities in MMO's so I /want/ to be excited for chocobo races. Though in my ideal world it would play out as the race start and each racer has X amount of speed boosts to use in the race. Realistically sad to say this is SE and back to the JP way of things I'm expecting an omniplexic system of chocobo stat allocations tied to RNG and months and months of standing and waiting for food to grow. That will be it for me.

[Mjollnir]

I can't read Japanese so for all i know everything is sunshine and rainbows with the game in that region. Players are all accepting and wait patiently for others to watch cut scenes, feel Frontlines is the most engaging and riveting PVP on the planet and view sightseeing logs as sitting in a park and watching a bird for hours on end and view open world housing as something to whistle while you walk home after a long 18 hour work day in dungeons or whatever.

It's not limited to here and reflects the JP game market in general and some may even attribute the declines of Nintendo to the same effect. Japan doesn't get us nor seems to be wanting to put in an effort to try to get us.

To succeed in a global market means being willing to open up to the global market, instead of trying to just appeal to one market. It feels counter productive to release overseas due to costs and a smaller market interested in said product then. Despite MMO's all going niche due to competition its been something upstart companies from Korea have been learning. Take your game, send it to your development teams in other countries, let the regional teams rework aspects of the game to work with expectations and needs for the nation. Release it and make a larger profit margin.

I don't think the cultural divide is that wide when it comes to MMOs. Final Fantasy at the core is D&D after all, and this is true for XIV as well. If you pop over to the Japanese forums in Google Chrome with auto-translate on, they're talking about the same issues we are.

I think out of touch is right - concentrating on PvP and harder dungeons, whilst bringing everyone else up to spec through grind and downright ruining the non-battle parts of the game is where we're at at the moment.

[Bluevann]

Gonna quote this from another thread, of a player directly addressing to Yoshida. It comes from a housing thread, yet I feel it quite belongs to this topic.

In 1.0, you used to put out these wonderful surveys that collected user feedback, which is largely what contributed to A Realm Reborn becoming as successful as it has been ( and even helped 1.0 become a game that people enjoyed by the time we hit 1.23b). You have gotten cocky again. You need to go back to regular surveys of your community.