Trying to understand the negative posts I keep seeing about the Dev Team

[SerLuke]

- Lack of content - while I consider those claims more valid at times (and feel like I dont have enough to do myself), I often see them from people who only like a very specific type of content that they burn through to quickly. Obviously, if you only want to raid, FFXIV wont keep you busy for long! Those people often overlook the theme-park-aspect of the game and ignore/discard the vast majority of content - again, we've been getting less content, thats true and a valid thing to complain about. But sometimes I feel people forget that they also choose to only do 10% of the offered content.

That is one complaint I think is valid as well but I don't blame this on the Dev Team I blame it more on the higher ups at SE not devoting adequate staffing/funds to FFXIV.

[Vidu]

That is one complaint I think is valid as well but I don't blame this on the Dev Team I blame it more on the higher ups at SE not devoting adequate staffing/funds to FFXIV.

As I said - I do consider those complaints valid most of the time. Specially now with Stormblood and them cutting back on content for the mess that is Eureka.

However I'm struggling a bit to take them serious if they're coming from someone whos ignoring most of the content alltogether, aka a person who only has one job at level 70, hasnt set foot into any raid, hasnt gotten any primal-mount, no crafting/gathering classes, maybe not even finished one beast tribe... I could continue my list, but I wont because my point is not that you have to raid or farm ex-primals or craft/gather or do whatever if you dont like it. You dont even have to do that to have a right to voice your opinion that you'd like to see more of the content you enjoy. But I always take it with a grain of salt when I see people claiming "there is nothing to do" when infact they would have plenty of stuff to do or achieve, they just dont want to.
...or maybe I'm just jealous of them because I'm at the other end of the scale - did pretty much everything there is. And while I'd like to see more content aswell, I also realise that the devs will never be able to release so much content that it actually keeps everyone busy for the whole duration of a patch-cycle.

They could do better, for sure! And they defintely need more funding!
But at the same time I often feel like people overlook a lot of content they could do aswell.

But the overwhelming majority of stuff in the cash shop are things that were originally available in game

At least I'm under the impression that thats not the stuff that people are complaining about - a few weeks back we got the werewolf-set from last year in the cash shop and I dont recall any heated discussion about that on the forums. At best a "You can now buy this"-info-thread.
On the other hand, mogstation-exclusive items always lead to threads in which people are venting about the cash shop and how those items should be available ingame.
And to an extend I agree with ideas like "We need more stuff to spend achievment points on" or "submarines should be useful and bring back cooler items!" and so on.
But people dont seem to understand that the devs dont develop something like that whale and then pick the option "mogstation" out of a pool containing stuff like subs or achievment points, but rather "either this goes on the mogstation or its not gonna happen at all".

And they're also quick to overlook everything thats being added ingame - one new outfit on the mogstation? Suddenly it doesnt matter anymore that we got two new glamour-sets with the last patch, everything is now PayToWin and cash-only!
I'm not a fan of the mogstation - but I'm also pretty annoyed by people just complaining about it without proper reflection about the whole matter and treating it like the end of the world that you cant get Minfilias hair ingame...

[Maero]

That is one complaint I think is valid as well but I don't blame this on the Dev Team I blame it more on the higher ups at SE not devoting adequate staffing/funds to FFXIV.

That would be because a large portion of the sub money from this game goes to fund other projects SE work on which i do not agree with but it is how business goes i guess