Square Enix proved (again) they can listen to players' feedback.

[StrejdaTom]

Hello,
I am usually providing more negative than positive feedback here on forums but for today I will make an exception.

Reddit user named jiroland translated a few Japanese interviews with Yoshida and I have seen a few adjustments to hot topics (or atleast the will to work on adjustments).

What I am talking about:
"For the next Alexander on 3.2, it'll probably not use the same Normal/Savage division.
Yoshida ideally want to implement Easy/Medium/Savage three- tiered difficulties, but on the other hand they are lacking the staff to implement that much.
Yoshida wants to implement a cross-world, raid-only, party finder system. However, it is still only an idea he have and no real work has been done on it."

Regarding us asking for harder 4man dungeon (call it Savage muhehe): "Regarding a hard four-man dungeons, it will be hard to implement as the burden on healer will be intensive. However, Yoshida wants to implement it, if just once."

"They learned their lesson from LotA's FATE, so Void Ark will be very fast to unlock."

I know it is more about "we would like to do, we are looking into possibilities etc.", but I am still glad that they are atleast trying.

Honestly I am really glad because of this news, keep up the good work guys. Listening to feedback is the way to go.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...y_released_jp/

[KingOfAbyss]

Yup, and I know i'm not the only one, but I was part of the party to propose hard-mode 4-man dungeons, so it feels good that they llisten to us. Some stuff takes longer to be done, if any, but at least it seems they don't disregard anything which might make sense.

Kudos SE!!

Now go and make my PLD happy with DPS higher than a DRG!

[Jamillion]

Yeah, as someone who's worked with software for the last 10 years it's amazing to see a dev team that actually pays attention to customer feedback

[Azper]

Yoshida wants to implement a cross-world, raid-only, party finder system. However, it is still only an idea he have and no real work has been done on it.

This has me excited. I wish we had a cross-world Party Finder and friend list in general. This would make it so you could group with people from different servers you meet in the Duty Finder that you actually connected and had a great run of something with. I think it would help a lot towards the social aspect that MMOs are known for and maybe have a few less runs of dead silence.

[Jamillion]

Yeah, as someone who's worked with software for the last 10 years it's amazing to see a dev team that actually pays attention to customer feedback

[Felis]

I'm sad that there are no Void Ark FATEs.
The only problem about the CT FATEs was the repop timer and it got fixed after some weeks.

[zcrash970]

I think everyone can admit that SE and Yoshi-p listen to their playerbase, but the problem is that the content they release is usually a disappointment.
I personally try keep my hopes up for mind blowing content.

[Laerad3993]

A cross server anything would be more than welcome for myself. Would alleviate the issue I have with friends being elsewhere and not being able to leave my server because of Gil limitations.

However, seeing a third "raiding" tier being introduced for Alexander is laughable. Groups/people still wipe in 190+ in DF on normal and they want to make a middle tier? May as well lock that to preformed parties only, lol.

[Gilraen]

I think it's important to note that Square is listening to the right feedback. There's been alot, and by alot I'm not talking countable on your hands, of bad feedback in these very forums that keep being brought up with titles declaring Square as being terrible at game design and deaf to the 'real fans'. Not quite often enough to set your watch to, but often enough. I like that Square's listening to the right feedback, means my faith in them is ever well placed.

[Avidria]

Good to hear that, heh.

I'm glad that Void Ark will be a quicker unlock. Also curious to see how a hard mode dungeon would go in this game.

I'm sad that there are no Void Ark FATEs.
The only problem about the CT FATEs was the repop timer and it got fixed after some weeks.

I don't think it ever got fixed, at least not entirely...I waited an hour and a half for one of those fates a couple of months ago (as in, sat on top of the spawn and/or cleared out every other fate in the zone for an hour and a half before the other people waiting with me gave up and I was half afk before it finally popped).

Though I just started playing a few months ago. Was it worse than that before? Because an hour and a half is pretty freaking ridiculous.