Are the developers of XIV out of touch?

[RiyahArp]

I feel like there's a huge communication issue more than anything else.

The thing is though, Japan has a lot more of a media culture when it comes to games. Like they still have at least ten print magazines for them, where I can only think of Game informer in the USA, and its a promotional mag for gamespot now. the usa has only a few websites devoted to it, and less public presence. Not many places in the usa for them to communicate with any more. Remember EGM, official PS magazine, PSM, etc?

[Hestzhyen]

The thing is though, Japan has a lot more of a media culture when it comes to games. Like they still have at least ten print magazines for them, where I can only think of Game informer in the USA, and its a promotional mag for gamespot now. the usa has only a few websites devoted to it, and less public presence. Not many places in the usa for them to communicate with any more. Remember EGM, official PS magazine, PSM, etc?

They have myriad options in other media formats- devs from other games post all the time on reddit, Twitter, Facebook, or heck even their own forums. The death of print media in the US does not mean that Japanese devs are limited in how they communicate to us. SE just... doesn't do it. So our feedback goes unheard and we get feisty and the game stays the same as ever.