The New Chat Restriction in The Feast

[Februs]

Greetings, adventurers.

Thank you for all of the feedback you have provided in regards to the chat restrictions in The Feast. Please rest assured that we have been sharing your thoughts with the development team and will continue to do so.

At this time, the team is planning on making improvements to the quick chat feature to improve communication. If you have any suggestions for improvements to this feature, including additions of phrases such as "Please recover MP," be sure to let us know!

Remove the chat restriction.

You can keep the quick-chat feature in if you want to, but no matter what improvements you try to make to it, it will never be a substitute for actual communication. Forced censorship is also morally and fundamentally wrong in any civilized culture. Assuming everyone is going to be equally abusive and punishing us all in advance of crimes that many of us have not even committed is also wrong. Judgement comes after the crime, not before. Implementing this policy is the worst decision the development team has ever made, and it should be removed immediately.

Secondly, it would be greatly appreciated if you could restructure how your development team communicates with their players. Quite frankly, it is unacceptable that it has taken this long to get any kind of official response on this issue, especially when other issues receive much faster responses from the community representatives. PvP might be a small and niche community in FFxiv, but they are still paying customers. They deserve equal customer support from their development team. I understand that the decisions you are faced with in the PvP side of this game are often more challenging than those of PvE, but PvP'ers should not be left completely in the dark and feel as though they have been abandoned. Even the smallest amount of communication is appreciated so long as it is consistent. Keeping in touch with us instead of blindsiding us with random announcements and arbitrary decisions would be a dramatic improvement which would go miles to encouraging a bit more confidence in the development team. Oddly enough, that theme of open communication seems more important now than ever before.