Are the developers of XIV out of touch?

[Alleo]

I'd be interested in the source here, but I'd suggest that this actually worsens the situation.

There are several interviews where he stated that they have forseen that people would wait in town thus even discussed if they should put something in it to punish people but decided against it. Thus it feels like they know how its going to be played. (I mean even the Japanese players are waiting in town) Also seeing how Fates give the most rewards, I cant just see how it would have gone any other way. The thing that shocked me more was his one sentence where he said that more people went into this just for fun instead of rewards..which I kinda wonder how they got that information? I mean they have no surveys, both forums were quite more negative about Eureka and even quite a few that liked it had negative things to say..thats were I sometimes get the feeling that they reading their numbers how they want them to be..

About perform and other minor stuff: I like them theoretically, I just have a problem how much time they put into that since they released it while we lack good longtime content. If we had that they could introduce new minor stuff and I would not care but maybe they should really take a good look at their core content before putting so much work into side stuff. Heck even Yoshida said that they used a bit too much for perform..

PVP, perform, fashion report and so on...all that has their place in the game because people need something else next to all fighting..but please only if we have enough of the core things done.