To Square/Yoshida

[Derio]

No to the leveling potions.

[Snugglebutt]

Some things I will always be passionate and vocal about in these forums like being against anything that promotes and leads to increased RMT, making sure actions are taken against botters, arguing against anything like P2W style services (for example the leveling potion issue), housing issues on multiple fronts and people being rude or abusive to new players especially in dungeons, trials and raids will always get on my bad side. I will never subside voicing my opinions on those issues as long as they remain issues plaguing this game.

Crafting specializations is another thing I was very vocal about in the past, I was and still am in favor of specializations as a concept including them having unique specialist recipes (limited to specialists for x amount of time) plus I still think they should never be able to craft the highest tier raid gear meaning crafted DoW/DoM gear in my opinion should be high enough to get someone on the raid ladder but not high enough to bypass most of it. Some other things I will tend to take note of and argue about is such things as imposing hardcore values on low/midcore content like for example if SE ever tried to make savage modes part of the main story quest line or if someone is being an elitist jerk in general.

I also hate when people use fallacies to add fictional weight to their arguments so I always call them on it too. Overall I see nothing wrong with SE listening to everyone's opinions, I hope they agree with me on them obviously (who wouldn't want SE agreeing with them?) but I understand they might not always see eye to eye with me so all I can do is put forth my feedback, suggestions and complaints as best I can just like everyone else should. In the end however SE will always do what SE wants regardless of who screams the loudest. The best you can hope for is convincing them of your stance through reasonable and logical arguments put to them in as respectful and polite as possible way.

[Gokuhan]

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I don't know exactly what it is you are complaining about but consider 2 things:

1. People paying to play this game pay for it's development and our "screaming" is how we tell them what we like and what we don't. Sometimes it means something isn;t good or fun like the Diadem, and sometimes it means we like something just the way it is which just happened during the last live letter when Yoshi P said that many people were enjoying the difficulty of the Weeping City.

2. Your advice to "make XIV the way you envisioned it, not the way everyone 'wants' it" is the kind of single minded thinking is what caused 1.0 to be the massive flop that it was. Listening to the consumer base and focusing on their gaming experience is what has lead us to the XIV we have now and the only reason this game still exists. (Side note, this kind of thinking is what is killing the FF franchise overall.)

[Jetstream_Fox]

Then give feedback privately, not in open forum.

Where can you do that? Not like they advertise Yoshis email or anything.

[Gokuhan]

Not to mention this is the way the Devs want us to give feedback. Of course they would be happier if we used the Like button more instead of having people start new threads all the time, but I digress.