Quote Originally Posted by MeowyWowie View Post
No, that's as far from the truth as you can get. FFXIV is in such a state because they completely ignored players' feedback during alpha and beta testing. The biggest thing that they should have listened to was everyone telling them it's not ready for release when it clearly wasn't.
So when they polled the players and everyone agreed on an overhaul..they didn't listen?

When people wanted the game to be "more Final Fantasy" they didn't listen?

When people clamored for class definition they didn't listen?

When people wanted an enchantment type system they didn't listen?

When people complained about surplus, they didn't listen?

When people complained about the random nature of SP and fixed it they didn't listen?

When people complained most skills were useless they seriously didn't reform them?


You're right, them listening to players is far from the truth. I mean, every change they did had absolutely zero to do with the playerbase. I think you're confusing them not listening to "GIVE ME ARMOR WITH +9001 STR, DEX, VIT AND ACCURACY AND LET ME SOLO EVEN END-GAME CONTENT" stupid requests as not listening to players.

By the way, they stated the game wasn't ready for release but do you think it was Tanaka's call to push it out unfinished? If you remember how they had literally nothing for the 2010 year beyond FFXI it got pushed out to try to pad things, which means it was if anything Wada's decision, not the people working on it.