Yoshi-P Praise Topic :D

[pushin_tin]

Haters and trolls come here on the forums to whine about everything because they think their sub money entitles the world to revolve around them. They have no appreciation for what Yoshi does every day for them, they just demand demand demand.

The hundreds of thousands of people enjoying the game and not complaining really shows how amazing a job Yoshi is doing despite the vocal haters. That's why I want to make the positive voices vocal for once :-D.

[Shinsaki]

Haters and trolls come here on the forums to whine about everything because they think their sub money entitles the world to revolve around them. They have no appreciation for what Yoshi does every day for them, they just demand demand demand.

The hundreds of thousands of people enjoying the game and not complaining really shows how amazing a job Yoshi is doing despite the vocal haters. That's why I want to make the positive voices vocal for once :-D.

I wouldn't say hundreds and thousand of people are not complaining. It's just that they don't use the forums.

[Shyle]

The hundreds of thousands of people enjoying the game and not complaining really shows how amazing a job Yoshi is doing despite the vocal haters. That's why I want to make the positive voices vocal for once :-D.

Here's the issue, while I and many others enjoy the game, the people who pay are allowed to voice their opinion regarding the service and the product they're paying for as well, whether it's positive or negative. But judging by your post, you haven't played many other MMO's to comment on the items you did. This game, like many others, has flaws, some VERY serious and some that make me question what the developers were thinking when they decided to do the things they did regarding ARR and HW. It's obvious that Yoshi and the dev team took an idea from a game that was doing well at the time (World of Warcraft) adapted the older concepts into ARR. Then with HW they tried to expand, looking at WoW again (flying, death knight, etc) for more inspiration, and the theme-park style just isn't prone to longevity without new (not rehashed) content.

The relic grind hints that 3.1 didn't go to plan for retention, so 3.15 was to offer enough grind to keep people playing until the next major update. Frankly, SE/Yoshi have looked to older games as inspiration (WoW is an obvious one of course) and if they're going to continue do do so, they really need to broaden the view to other modern MMO's for inspiration to adapt and improve on, not live in the past and assume that because it was a good idea 10 years ago, that it'll in today's MMO culture)

-As for what you mentioned:
-Housing, while it's nice, is very restrictive in this game, assuming you have the 30m+ gil to buy a house now. There's been several posts about FAR better housing systems in other games that SE could've copied off of (Wildstar has one of the best examples of housing).

-Customer customization is decent, but again, other MMO's just have far more options available, but I'm able to make my character look the way I want, so that's subjective. But if you want a good example of one of the best Character customization, look to Black Desert.

-Larger group content *is* more accessible, but then again, Alex (norm) and ark is barely *raiding* in terms of the "older" definition. It's definitely not like what the older WoW was in terms of raids or even how wildstar has raids. As someone who works 50+ hrs a week I appreciate the ability to jump into what we have as larger group content, but unfortunately, as theme-park MMO's go, this one is pretty bare regarding "end game" content (as far as I'm concerned).


Being positive is great, and XIV has some things that I truly enjoy, but to completely ignore the issues of the game is doing the developers a disservice to blindly tout the game as the best ever without acknowledging the issues at large as well.

[Kosmos992k]

Diadem was busted by the meta mostly. Given the chance, players in endgame would seek out the easiest way to the important loot and eschew all others. Now that the gear won't be there and it will lokely not get updated until 3.3, and is mainly going to be for spiritbonding and materia diadem has an uncertain future for battle classes. Again, players seek out the easiest way to loot.

This is true, and it pisses me off no end. The players at end game who are easily the most vociferous critics of Diadem, are the very players that descended like locusts feeding on fresh shoots in a field. Only now that they've completed their feeding frenzy and screamed bloody murder about it for weeks, it's going to be changed which means that players who didn't exploit the crap out of it are now to be screwed over because the end-game locusts got their way...again.

Which is more or less similar to what happened with Hunts in 2.x.

[Stormrider]

I am happy to highlight and hear things in the game. I enjoy the visuals and lighting in many areas. I love the time lapse videos some people make. I also enjoy or approve of them removing hunting log and basically making a daily one for exp through the hunt.

Now not to bash anything specific. Threads and comments like this disgust me. The godding of the development team and the leader is just wrong. Some stuff seems to be ego trips directly derived from players praising how great they are. Please stop this. Let us discuss what is good in the game. Not a bunch of people responsible for as much mediocre content as good. Or who ignore as many complaints and have no answers as well as seem to get some sort of satisfaction from live letters and fan events.

[pushin_tin]

This is true, and it pisses me off no end. The players at end game who are easily the most vociferous critics of Diadem, are the very players that descended like locusts feeding on fresh shoots in a field. Only now that they've completed their feeding frenzy and screamed bloody murder about it for weeks, it's going to be changed which means that players who didn't exploit the crap out of it are now to be screwed over because the end-game locusts got their way...again.

Completely agree with you 100%. The naysayers have nobody else but to blame if they don't like Diadem. People like myself who aren't locusts remembered this trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkRTO7co_Yc

and used that as a guide on how to enjoy Diadem. I have so much fun relaxing with my FC and friends while we fish, mine, chat, kill a few monsters, and enjoy the beautiful scenery. It's not Yoshi's fault that people are playing it wrong and it is unfortunate that he is going to have to waste his time making changes to it because of screaming locusts.

[Valoiz]

Thank you Yoshi-P. Thank you for killing this game and returning my free time to me. It makes me so happy.

+1 same here

[Theonekitten]

lol it starts.. xD

[Adire]

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Supporting Yoshi and team with sub money isn't appreciation itself? Last time I checked, financially supporting someone/something is one of the best ways, if not the best way to show appreciation and support. Supporting with money while voicing dissatisfaction is a show of care and love for the product (in this case, FFXIV).

Customers have a right and responsibility to critique what they're dissatisfied with and praise what they're happy with, without customers doing that, capitalism would be a scary thing.

[Mimilu]