Are the developers of XIV out of touch?

[Asiragan]

I wish they answered more precisely our questions, because most of them are a must in-game, and not just a simple suggestion. Eg: "For a character customization revamp, we would need to hire more X developers, and that would delay the current patch releases by X months in order to fit the budget".

The questions asked from the forum are most likely given by the CM some hours before the LL, and analyzed by the marketing team, an all powerful being at S.E. it seems. So, even if Yoshida wanted it, I doubt he could say whatever he wanted at an important event like the E3, where all the camera in the world are filming.


You could ask on the forum "Hey Yoshida, why did your game became so bland?" or "We are tired of this patch cycle, any plan to change that during 5.0?" and get 1K likes for each, those questions are most likely to either be ignored, or answered with a joke or a "If you are bored, go play something else" type of answer. Mostly because it would show at the E3 that players are unhappy with the state of the game or that the game itself is stale. And they can't afford it during such a media event.

It feels like FFXIV is a weak and poor MMO that can't make any significant budget for self improving, just the safe content.

This is what strike me the most with this game. Everything seems to stink poverty and it looks like there is so much restrictions that it's a wonder how the game is working right now.
But it seems the game is fine when they want to put useless feature like taking videos and stocking them on the servers so that you can review them from the inn...