Are the developers of XIV out of touch?

[Alleo]

@Vhailor: You do have a point, even though I have a hard time believing that someone that plays games for fun or is a fan of something can truly be 100% objective. I am not saying that one cant see the faults of a system (like you pointed out with the exp ratio) and imo its probably easier with something like a movie but a game?

For example if you hate plattformers and yet you have to review one. Can one be truly objective in it? Isnt there always a part that will influence this? In the end I believe that fun alone is not good but still something that SE can use for future content.

If someone posted that they found Eureka fun, then for us this is not really a deep look at it but SE can say that this person liked the way it was done. So if more people are of this opinion they know that their content works because people find everything as fun. If someone writes that they dont like the content itself but found it at least fun with friends, then SE can take from it that some people will do content that they dont like if they can do it with their friends. If someone writes that they did not find it fun because of x then SE might know that x might not be the way to go and can conclude what the people might like instead. All of this was founded on the feeling of fun with the input of why its fun or why its not.

About Eureka and its content: Well in a recent interview they said that they have forseen that people might react that way (Fate trains) and even just wait in town for a spawn, so can it be really objective broken if they have forseen it and are fine with that? I do agree though that bugs exists and those might count into buggy content.

But yeah maybe we are talking about the same thing in a different way. In the end its important to ask if they take our feedback into mind and listen because we players are the most important part in this (without us they could not produce the game further) and for me it feels like they dont often listen that good. I mean otherwise I just question why we have something like Diadem 2.0 if they did..

[Chevronone]

Of course the Devs are out of touch with the game, just look at some of the things they've implemented just recently and other things throughout this expansion like Bard performance actions (who even wanted this? 0.o ) greed only alliance loot, duty recorder (has this even been used one time by anybody?) and the entire loot system for the 8man raids both nm and savage.

...i mean do we even need go bring up Lords of Verminion or Diadem (TWICE!)?

[Remedi]

Their existance is not really a problem, but how they were implemented is. Duty recorder could've been very good for analyzing fights, but for reasons they only know it's bogged down by stupid restrictions. as for Bard performance, well I don't have it unlocked I only know that 4.2 ruined the sounds till 4.3, but ehi some ppl don't have barbershop unlocked either I don't think they are asking why SE wasted time on that either.

So long that additions to the game are made well I don't really see a problem with their existance.

[Ayer2015]

Their existance is not really a problem, but how they were implemented is. Duty recorder could've been very good for analyzing fights, but for reasons they only know it's bogged down by stupid restrictions. as for Bard performance, well I don't have it unlocked I only know that 4.2 ruined the sounds till 4.3, but ehi some ppl don't have barbershop unlocked either I don't think they are asking why SE wasted time on that either.

So long that additions to the game are made well I don't really see a problem with their existance.

I've come across plenty of people who think the devs are wasting resources developing systems like perform. It wouldn't be an issue if we were getting content with longevity.... but our devs seem to think continually making new content with a lifespan of 3 months is a good idea. They continually say they are under staffed, yet they choose an inefficient method of content creation.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I've come across plenty of people who think the devs are wasting resources developing systems like perform. It wouldn't be an issue if we were getting content with longevity.... but our devs seem to think continually making new content with a lifespan of 3 months is a good idea. They continually say they are under staffed, yet they choose an inefficient method of content creation.

Let's be fair here. The people who design and implement battle content are not the same people who designed and implemented perform, lord of vermillion, so the glamour stuff.

Their battle content team is severely understaffed. That is the issue they have, they are having trouble finding people to fill that team specifically.

[Ayer2015]

Let's be fair here. The people who design and implement battle content are not the same people who designed and implemented perform, lord of vermillion, so the glamour stuff.

Their battle content team is severely understaffed. That is the issue they have, they are having trouble finding people to fill that team specifically.

You don't think those people could have been tasked to create better content? There is too much fluf in this game.... and we keep getting more.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

You don't think those people could have been tasked to create better content? There is too much fluf in this game.... and we keep getting more.

There are a lot of people who like perform. Just because you don't doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.

What content do you want? Do you do all of savage and the extremes?

[Ayer2015]

There are a lot of people who like perform. Just because you don't doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.

I think having content that keeps people playing is more important.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I think having content that keeps people playing is more important.

Do you mean content that's fun or content that forces people to play to stay caught up.
Content that keeps people playing could mean low drop rates and rng.

Have to be careful with what you ask for . And fun is subjective. I enjoyed Eureka. I also thought the original diadem wasn't that bad, they just needed to tweak it a bit

I think people also misunderstand the fate system, but that ship has long sailed.

[Ayer2015]

Do you mean content that's fun or content that forces people to play to stay caught up.
Content that keeps people playing could mean low drop rates and rng.

Have to be careful with what you ask for . And fun is subjective. I enjoyed Eureka. I also thought the original diadem wasn't that bad, they just needed to tweak it a bit

I think people also misunderstand the fate system, but that ship has long sailed.

What I would like to see moving forward, is a narrower scope in the way to types of content, but significantly more depth and longevity of the types they are creating. If you are developing an MMO with an update schedule of 3-4 months rewards should take roughly that long to achieve... Eureka took 2-3 weeks to get all weapons.