Are the developers of XIV out of touch?

[Hamada]

But a view streamers do not make a whole playerbase. And reddit itself was pretty negative about it too. There was a thread with over 1000 upvotes and it was really negative. If thats how they get their informations, then no wonder that we got Diadem 2.0..

OMG... if they only get info from onesided viewpoints of streamers, that is a big issue. mr happy will never criticize things of the game, no matter how bad they are. I do not know about the other streamers, but they seem to carry a big bias.

[KisaiTenshi]

OMG... if they only get info from shrill streamers, that is a big issue. mr happy will never say negative things of the game, no matter how bad they are. I do not know about the other streamers.

If he wants to keep those interviews with Yoshi-P/SE staff, he has to keep criticism of the company to a low burn. Journalism is not about opinions, it's about fact-finding.

Generally speaking, some journalists that are given advance access to content, are under a NDA to not publish it before the company wants it to, and are not permitted to level criticism at unfinished content. They can say what they think might be lacking from it, but they can't insert personal opinion, because it might color how it gets received by those who watch/read the journalist's content. Just look at what happened already.

SE is not going to hand out a review copy of a game to someone who routinely makes comments alluding to SE being incompetent like some players do on the forum. There are many criticisms I have of SE as a company that I feel are factually true (eg objectively bad ports of FF5/6/Chrono Trigger, non-trivially bug-ridden ports of FFXIII, XV and Neir Automata) that were not always true. FF7 (1997) and FF8 (1998) PC ports which actually were superior to their PSX versions, but the average PC's music hardware was just awful (FF8 actually included a softsynth, FF7 had a soundfont for Sound Blaster cards. The FMV for both also suffered due to codec license BS), and PC joysticks have always been rubbish. Fast forward to FFXV where the PC version is loading-time hell, and full of nVidia gameworks bugs and memory leaks.

If SE is in fact using twitch players as any kind of barometer of feedback, (to which I hope they're not), it's very likely that they are not listening to people violating the materials usage license:
http://support.na.square-enix.com/ru...la=1&tag=authc

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