Are the developers of XIV out of touch?

[Riardon]

What lore reason?

The reason of "Aether" and "Magitek".
BTW Magitek is Magic Tech.
Garleans can't use Magic but they found a way to use Aether through Magitek.
The bike is lore friendly. Maybe not aesthetically fitting to Eorzra but it can fit Garlemald.

I think this thread derailed from the original purpose.

[Sotaris]

The reason of "Aether" and "Magitek".
BTW Magitek is Magic Tech.
Garleans can't use Magic but they found a way to use Aether through Magitek.
The bike is lore friendly. Maybe not aesthetically fitting to Eorzra but it can fit Garlemald.

I think this thread derailed from the original purpose.

That's a fair point i guess. I wasn't aware they said anything about the lore behind introducing this later.

[Remedi]

According to the physics of Hydaelyn, what allows something to fly is how your body processes wind aether, having wings is not necessary

[BillyKaplan]

According to the physics of Hydaelyn, what allows something to fly is how your body processes wind aether, having wings is not necessary

And if you do have wings, you might be using them to puff out aether rather than use them more traditionally, like moogles.

[Remedi]

It's not like ff has always been full of mixing of different themes........oh wait......

[Mhiro]

It honestly comes down to this choice:

a) Yoshi-P and team continues the regular patch release schedule with constant toss ups of content for different slices of players and staggers QoL additions/upgrades over the course of years.

OR

b) Game content is stagnated for 6-10 months or longer while they overhaul everything and implement what you're asking for, focusing only on QoL and 0 content. When the patch drops to add these changes, there will either be no content or very little content similar to the x.0 expansion release but without the 10 levels of MSQ and side story.

[Sotaris]

OP, tbh i felt this since HW. Nothing new really happens ever. It just recycled mechanics, formulas since ARR launch.

[Lord_Umbra]

Mounts well are any of the mounts apart of the cannon almost all of them are obtain via non-canon missions/trials only Normal versions of fight canon & don't drop mounts & beast tribe quest aren't really all canon since just repeatable quest, think only flying canon mounts are Magitek Armor "Original from story" & Chocobo did we get any other mount in MSQ? cause rest are just fluff mounts there for variety.

As for questions asked they not only picked awful questions but asked them in terrible ways that Yoshi gave non answers to because I don't think he understood what being asked on some of the questions. Although hate the engine excuse it's a convenient excuse for so many years now that they could've fixed the bloody engine had set aside a small team 4 years ago to do just that.

[Alleo]

So many off topic posts x). Maybe if mounts have so much to discuss it would be better to open up their own topic?

Anyway:

I honestly have not pity for the devs about the questions and I find it a bit rude to react so much to them. Maybe some of those that post questions, that have been asked for more often, are from new people or they believe that they are not answered enough? Either choose different questions or just give us straight answers. If you dont want to do Ishgard housing just say no. They knew for quite some time that people wanted housing there and said that we cant have them now because a war is still going on..thus people believed that this means that we will get them after HW. Yet instead of giving us housing there (or at least apartments) they just jumped straight to Shirogane. And now suddenly a new housing district is difficult to do...then why not serve the long time wishes for Isghard first? (Which would make sense since we greatly helped them) Heck they could have even just introduced personal instanced housing there..So for me its no wonder that such question are often asked..and reacting to that in the way Yoshida does is imo not that professional.

Exactly. In fact, most people on the official forum most certainly love this game, whether they criticize it or defend it.

In my posts, I can be really cynical toward S.E., sometimes showing disappointment for the direction the game is taking, or even showing hostility toward Eureka for what it is, but I still love this game and hope the better for it.

And I dare say that if someone really hated FFXIV, or didn't care enough about it, this person probably wouldn't be here posting in the first place.

I 100% agree with that. I care for FF14 even if I complain a lot. If I completely hated it or dislike it I would simply stop playing the game. (Because why would I pay money for something that I truly dislike?) I just see that it has a lot of potential and at the same time I get the feeling that the devs wont change it much for whatever reason thus I let my voice be heard quite often because I really hope that I wont have to leave the game behind. (And if the continue to do so in 5.0 and their patches I will be gone) Its quite funny..I had a ingame friend that never liked to listen to any negative word about the game. And yet I am still playing while that person just left and might not come back ever again.

[Alleo]

Seems that from the denkegi e3 interview that we will only get an upgrade in the graphic engine and the with that the character customization if FF14 runs another 10 years from now..thus if it runs more than 15 years..

Interviewer: You briefly mentioned something about the graphics engine during the Q&A. Is there a possibility you'll be changing it in the future?

Yoshida: Like i said during the live letter, let's say we were going to continue FFXIV for 10 years. Then i assume there will be a time where we do so (update the engine), but i don't even know if i'm still going to be the producer and director at that point.

If we're talking about continuing our service 10+ years from "now", i feel like the current graphics will be half baked. One of the selling points is "FFXIV characters are cute/cool looking" and if that is lost in the future, we can imagine losing a pillar to bring in new players. If the game continues for 10 more years, that is when "Even if it means poaring in an enormous amount of resources, it will be better for the long run for FFXIV" and that's all about i can say now. There's a possibility we can revamp the character creator at the same time in that situation, since we will probably change the modeling and drawing.


(Also I found it a bit much how the RPG part in 4.3 was truly the hidden content and that it was something that no other MMO did..yeah right..someone pointed out another MMO that already did it years ago.

Yoshida: Also, we had a "never seen before in an MMO" test case we added, where hover for spoiler and we call it the "RPG mode". That was a surprise we didn't reveal in the trailer and we got a lot of positive responses on that too.)