We need better comunication with the Community team

[Aniond]

I enjoy the content competely. Honestly I finish most of the content now in 3 or 4 days. I cap my tokens and run the raids so I get the item for the weapon and thats it. This is a very nice refreshing change of pace Its not a single boss in a raid. a rinse and repeat dungeon, or more beast tribe dailes. Its new content.

[Shouko]

It might not be content for you , but it is for others , personally it is the only end game content I find enjoyable at the moment , I like grinding and I love how they made fates enjoyable and each one of the high level fates feel unique

on the other hand I don't do savage or extreme trials anymore since most of them require a static to be able to clear them

I have yet to join a Eureka instance which isn't full , I think many people are enjoying it as well

Enjoying it or putting up with it for the sake of loot?

I can't say I enjoy it most of the time but I'll put up with it to get a bit better loot, and it's allowed me to cap men tomes, which normally I wouldn't do because I dislike dungeons with a passion.

Strange as it sounds I get more enjoyment from soloing content in a MMO than I do in group content.

[Remedi]

It's not strange because it puts you out of a comfort zone and you need to devise a strategy to get things runninng and knowing your job to full too

[Vstarstruck]

Enjoying it or putting up with it for the sake of loot?

I can't say I enjoy it most of the time but I'll put up with it to get a bit better loot, and it's allowed me to cap men tomes, which normally I wouldn't do because I dislike dungeons with a passion.

Strange as it sounds I get more enjoyment from soloing content in a MMO than I do in group content.

I do not get why it is being put up with for loot at all unless you really love the look of something. Gear on release was outdated.

Regardless, I really want to know what they where doing because nothing in this diadem 3.0 validates all the delays and pushbacks this got. Why did it take so long? Why didn't they scrap it when it proved too difficult to program in time? Why couldn't they come up with an innovative way of upgrading gear (like fully customize stats) in the current world, if they couldn't fill this zone with content? Why arn't they talking to us and trying to communicate to us?

[Molic]

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New leveling system, ele wheel and making mob attributes, making all the mobs, the questline, gear, area, spawning system, balancing, creating the instances, network shit, also more than likely they finished creating the rest of the eureka zones we will be getting.

[KaivaC]

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Wait....whoa, whoa, whoa, so now that I caught this thread here and read through it...there is something about the OP's initial post that bothers me quite a bit: the whole issue regarding FCs being unable to pry players away from Eureka. Is...that a bad thing? Because to me, that just looks like it's keeping Eureka afloat. If players find enjoyment in this, why would it be a bad thing from an FC perspective? Note that I'm not defending Eureka here, I'm just questioning the idea that Eureka is the cause of FC issues.

[Shouko]

I do not get why it is being put up with for loot at all unless you really love the look of something. Gear on release was outdated.

Regardless, I really want to know what they where doing because nothing in this diadem 3.0 validates all the delays and pushbacks this got. Why did it take so long? Why didn't they scrap it when it proved too difficult to program in time? Why couldn't they come up with an innovative way of upgrading gear (like fully customize stats) in the current world, if they couldn't fill this zone with content? Why arn't they talking to us and trying to communicate to us?

I like the WHM staff which is primarily what I wanted from there for the glow of it, don't even care about the rest but still have to hit 19 for it, probably the only reason I stuck with it. I don't care about endgame content, I burned out on that years ago in WoW, while not the same I just don't have the mindset to do it. I unlock dungeons, except for EX primals this time around, I left the game for about a year or so because my FC was dying blah blah sad blab story type of stuff nobody cares about.

I guess I'm just a person who can put music on and grind, I don't have to think much, i'm not stupid just I can't do multiple things at once while playing a game I suppose. As I said I like to solo old content as much as possible and the 350 gear helps with that.

I can't help you with the rest of the stuff I would like to know as well.

[Vhailor]

There is the quote, that is very very sad. How meany posts do I need to read "oh it is fun with friends" to get the only reason this has any kind of suess is just on the fact there is something to do with friends, you can achieve that with anything. The work put into Eureka and seeing the effect it had on the game in 4.0 + does not measure up to the result. I think people are forgetting how much we lost for this no content place.

Not to mention that it's difficult to play Eureka with friends. I primarily communicate with friends via /tells, not via large Linkshells or Free Companies in which I know maybe 10-20% of the other players. Guess what, though? If I log into FFXIV for the night and my friends have already entered Eureka, I can't send them a /tell. And if I can get hold of them, joining their party involves them exiting their current Eureka instance in order to invite me first. And even if they do that, we've got level disparity harming the experience, because SE was obscenely incompetent and failed to include a Level Sync option.

I'll admit, Eureka with a group of friends is fun enough (anything with friends is, really). SE's half-arsed design throws up a lot of barriers to this, though. And playing with random strangers is going to be an increasingly iffy prospect as Eureka ages.

And I wholeheartedly agree with the OP. We need to hear from SE. The longer disappointed players feel ignored, the more acute their disappointment becomes. SE is letting community anger fester, which is about the single worst decision they could make right now.

[xbahax92]

Whats the community team gonna do? Hand you a free relic? Lmao.

umm.. thats what they did? you can finish relic set in a few days... faster than any other relic step by far

[Alleo]

Honestly for me their biggest flaw is their lack in communications. Sometimes we will get an apology but often we have silence. Merchandise items suddenly being single character only without any information before that, the same with the price changes for some countries that only got a response later when people already raged on the forum.

I know that they cant constantly chat with us but when I look at some indie games on steam that are early access and see all the devs there talking with the people, answering questions and even talking about development it just shows even more how barebone the communication is in this game. Yes we have a language barrier but then they should get more english-japanese speeking people that will be in both forums.

I mean with Eureka even the Japanese forum had a lot of negative posts with huge amount of likes and yet we are still waiting at least for some answer from Yoshida or anyone from the team. Even if its just a "we want to collect more data", "we have read your opinions and we will talk about it later" or stuff like that it would have been better than silence.

Another point: How often is it said that the forum is only the minority of players yet we still dont even have any other way to give our opinions. If they dont want to write in the forum why not just give us an ingame survey after each patch with new content so that you will truly get the opinion of the playerbase? Sometime you are going a bit blind if you work on something for a long time and thus such surveys could give you some truly fresh ideas. Yes some or maybe even a lot of them might be impossible wished but they still could give ideas..and that seemingly is something that they need.

Edit: Why is this thread just turning into another I like/dislike Eureka for x reasons thread? For me the OP was using Eureka as an recent example for bad communication. Maybe we could discuss that and leave most of the Eureka stuff that has nothing to do with communication for all the other countless threads?