Are the developers of XIV out of touch?

[RiyahArp]

Pardon me as a shake my head, while looking at the Fish Guide. Seriously, 750+ fish, each with it's own description, that I'm sure only a fraction of the player base deals with, and even a smaller percentage bothers to complete, and I can't get a proper Glamour Log.

Also, I also don't understand why there's all this effort going into Squadron improvements, when retainers, the content that I actually pay extra for, haven't had a decent UI improvement in ages. I can't be bothered to keep the eight I have stocked, because the UI is such a chore/bore, especially after dealing with it for 4+ years.

Oh, do I agree with you. The squadron thing especially. Its virtually useless for me, since i was all 60s when it came out. I mean, they are literally pointless runs for me; i don't need the ai helpers in any dungeon. They were just us beta testing AI for SE to use in story mode later on.

They had to repeat the most boring fc ability imaginable, airship runs, with sub runs. They jsut keep wasting time on minor things.

[DarkDedede]

They had to repeat the most boring fc ability imaginable, airship runs, with sub runs. They jsut keep wasting time on minor things.

I wouldn't mind airship ventures if the system produced some actual useful goods, with a constant enough demand. Apart from the "rare" materials, the more common materials are produced in such abundance that it far exceeds the demand for any of it. The market ends up being oversaturated with loads of materials that no one is buying, because no one needs any of it. Of course that doesn't stop the airship venture system from producing more and more useless market fodder anyways.

If some one told me that that an actual human being was had the actual responsibility of overseeing this game's economy, I would be shocked. There have been so many instances where some new update or addition has completely ruined some portion of the market, I find it hard to imagine anyone is paying attention.

[RiyahArp]

If some one told me that that an actual human being was had the actual responsibility of overseeing this game's economy, I would be shocked.

It makes sense when you realize they manage it to blunt the power of RMT. One thing the decisions do is manage to make an economy where gil is purely optional, and that prevents RMT from getting a foothold in actual gameplay. They remember FFXI, where RMT early on got so powerful that you had hyperinflation for goods, and player MPKing over notorious monsters. Side effect is that, well, gil is purely optional.

[DarkDedede]

It makes sense when you realize they manage it to blunt the power of RMT. One thing the decisions do is manage to make an economy where gil is purely optional, and that prevents RMT from getting a foothold in actual gameplay. They remember FFXI, where RMT early on got so powerful that you had hyperinflation for goods, and player MPKing over notorious monsters. Side effect is that, well, gil is purely optional.

If that were the case, they should do a better job distributing shards, and not requiring cobalt materials in so many FC workshop recipes.

[KaldeaSahaline]

Eureka is not a core feature.

Eureka is a core feature of the Stormblood expansion. See for yourself.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/stormblood/

I don't like racing games

Just decided you didn't want to read what I wrote? I asked for specifics.

Content is designed for more than yourself deal with it. I've said plently that PVP is trash tier content for me but I don't ask for them to stop working on it even though imho it would be the best thing ever since it won't ever work, but honestly I deal with it since it's fine that not everything in a MMO is designed to be of my liking or suit the masses.
Heck remove savage then it only works for 10% of the playerbase! I mean seriously....

Let's approach this a different way, since I'm starting to wonder if you're merely arguing to appear edgy and cool, or if you actually believe the drivel that you type. You clearly aren't reading what I am typing because you keep mentioning this 'stop working' nonsense when I clearly explained that wasn't what I was saying.

Please - answer this question for me (a simple A OR B will suffice). Do you:

A) Believe that designing MMO content for an isolated narrow audience is a better solution? This would mean getting rid of both normal (so ARR CoB raids) and 24 man raids, and removing the "harder" floors of PotD to keep low difficulty consistent. Removing EX trials and only having story trials.

or

B) Believe that designing MMO content for a multiple playstyles is better. I.e. having normal mode raids and Savage, harder floors in PotD, Eureka with more than just FATEs/AFK Train, etc.

If you're answer is A I want to see you say it. Loud and clear that you believe that to be the better solution. If your answer is B then we agree and you look like an idiot for arguing when you agree.

Please - choose an answer. Show me where you stand.

Lov is overxtending because they wanted to add too many things to the table just making it a short minigame would've made it too popular instead they wanted to make several pointless additions to it for no reason

To be abundantly clear - you're advocating that if LoV was 30s to 1 minute long it would be "too popular".

I have no rebuttal for this. You saying this says it better than I ever could.

Duty recorder is not really a bad thing but they limited the use of it to 1 duty alone/patch for apparently no reason, they made you impossible to watch it unless you are in an inn, otherwise it would be very useful to raiding, True you can do that already with twitch and other media, but it's not a bad thing per se only the implementation has been ass

Bad implementations can make even the greatest things bad.

I don't know that they take infos from streams, I DO know that they watch them, I DO know they've been using them for promotions too as such they DO use them in some forms. Yes it's my opinion but I have enough evidence to make the claim that companies have been using streamers as Class A gamers for some times now and eprsonally speaking I'm not okay with this. Ofc they also take infos from other sources I'm not saying that streamers are the only source, but considering how streamers were invited in the press conference well I do think that they hold them in high esteem

Streamers are invited because they are a cheap and easy mass dissemination of information and hype, not because they're aggregates of community information. IMO of course.

If you read that in context, you'd see that I said that in the same context of where resources should be allocated. If SE was allocating resources evenly to PvP, Raider EX-Primals/Ultimate, Alliance Raids, Overworld, MSQ/Storyline, Eureka, PotD, Chocobo Racing, Lord of Verminion, etc, then allocating any resources at all to anything that isn't MSQ would be seen as a detriment.

That's a flawed argument and you know it though. For instance Ultimate may be something barely any of the population touches, but it BY AND FAR brings the most exposure to the game; which is good for the game. Your suggestion would lead to a mass exodus of the raiding community which would not be good for the game btw, but I know would be good for you (bias and all).

The Duty Recorder was something introduced too late into the lifecycle of the game. It is still the only way as PS4 user can do anything remotely like what some pc players do with unauthorized tools.

It has two uses that SE kinda missed the boat on
1) Machinima, this kind of thing would have made "Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light: Season 1" that much easier to produce, as the game engine could be used to play back any arbitrary combat or overworld data, and to make "cleaner" videos, one could change NPC's or players to protect their privacy or exaggerate a gag or something.
2) Combat replay, which is what it seems like it was designed for, but someone could produce an unauthorized tool to record all the incoming packet data and then play it back on the client offline and accomplish the same thing. Since the current version is tied to the maintenance cycle, it seems like it literately does something like this, where it's playing back the data as it was recorded, and is thus not compatibile after maintenance due to whatever minor adjustments or cleanup is done.

The Duty Recorder could easily be the next best thing for video producers the game has where you could play the Duty on the PS4, and then replay it on a PC at 4K later to produce your youtube video, and have the game client render the video slower and higher quality than recording it live would.

I'm inclined to agree with your Machinima point. I think it'd be a good marketing tool for the community. Not to mention user created content goes a long way, something SE would do REALLY well to adopt.

Regarding the PS4 thing. PS4 users can pretty trivially save recordings of their play sessions...