SE Needs to do Another Player Poll

[DPZ2]

With more and more people seemingly unhappy with the different kinds of content being produced, it may be a good idea for SE to get feedback from a wider base than these forums.

I can't really believe that we are at That Point in this game.

Some people appear to be unhappy. I don't think there's anything that's going to make them feel happy over the next year or so, because the changes I've seen requested are too radically different from current game play. They can't logically arrive until the next expansion (if ever).

This doesn't mean you shouldn't ask for change. It means you need to be realistic about a possible time frame, or the fact that "No" is an acceptable answer from the company.

[MeiUshu]

only if the poll was for all to answer, with a mandatory screen when you log in-game to answer the poll. This to ensure that everybody had a say. If you dont answer you dont access the game. Only this way, SE will get a true vision of the game.

Of course there would be a *dont care* answer possible.

Why ? because that way we wont have the usual long whining list of those that complains they had no say and how unfair it is and the yada.

Seriously, a poll is not necessary, it goes as well from the number of subscriptions/unsub the game gets...may not be perfect but is a good indicator in my opinion

[AnaviAnael]

only if the poll was for all to answer, with a mandatory screen when you log in-game to answer the poll. This to ensure that everybody had a say. If you dont answer you dont access the game. Only this way, SE will get a true vision of the game.

Of course there would be a *dont care* answer possible.

Why ? because that way we wont have the usual long whining list of those that complains they had no say and how unfair it is and the yada.

Seriously, a poll is not necessary, it goes as well from the number of subscriptions/unsub the game gets...may not be perfect but is a good indicator in my opinion

The way it worked during the 1.0 cycle was it was advertised on the Lodestone, in game (the system message that pops up when you log in), and in this version they can use the launcher. I'm not sure if forcing people to participate before logging in is a good idea, perhaps a pop up window might be a better option.

[Mimilu]

If they ever do a poll, they should do it in game and make it one poll per account. It should be optional, naturally, but have a way for those who accidentally x'ed out of it or those who currently don't have the time to do it a chance to do it, like in the Support Desk.

[Kosmos992k]

In all reality such polls are more for us than it is for them. They have access to all the metrics to really gauge how people feel about the content, they don't do polls regularly because they have the analytics in front of them despite what people may say.

Would I love to see data from a FFXIV useerbase poll? Man I'd love to see it hell I'd love to see quarterly polls or something pushed to players who log in just to see how we react to new content as a community and other such metrics. The Vanadiel Census (XI Census) was always really interesting to read and could tell allot about the community as a whole.

I wonder if they also have beta testers and/or focus groups with tight NDAs. I doubt that they would just go on analytics based on game telemetry.

[Jynx]

I wonder if they also have beta testers and/or focus groups with tight NDAs. I doubt that they would just go on analytics based on game telemetry.

Doubtfull it appears from quotes that they internally test content and don't even test it to proper completion. They said they tuned stuff like Alex fights with dev tools on so they could skip portions of fights and make some general assumptions on how the hardcore groups who are better than them can preform.

[Kosmos992k]

Doubtfull it appears from quotes that they internally test content and don't even test it to proper completion. They said they tuned stuff like Alex fights with dev tools on so they could skip portions of fights and make some general assumptions on how the hardcore groups who are better than them can preform.

Yikes, they should at least have a team of beta testers, outside the dev team to avoid the pitfalls that come from testing your own code.