Dev team appreciation thread!

[Alucard135]

But seriously, I will not jump on these threads. Every year, I (mathematically) pay 155,88€ (or US$175) per year. That are more than two full-price AAA titles, with all the story, content, engine, sound effects, script FROM SCRATCH.

Here's where I'm going to stop you. You need to change that mentality. The monthly sub you're paying is for the use of the game's service for 30 days. If you think that your use of the service for these 30 days is not worth the monthly amount you pay, then why did you continue to pay for it? It doesn't matter if you paid 100,000$ a year or 10$ a year.

Just to give you a small example, an engineering software called Abaqus, that is used for researching and development, costs hundreds of thousands per year just to lease it (you don't even buy it). That's a lot more than other similar software like the ones you get from Autodesk. But why do some universities pay for it? Because the research they publish and conduct using Abaqus justifies the amount they're paying for it.

So the question for FFXIV's case would be "Is the service you're receiving worth the amount you're paying for it?". If yes, then good. If no, then why are you still paying?

[RokkuEkkusu]

I want to give a big thanks to the devs for making this game. It changed my life and encouraged me to socialize with others from time to time.

I also appreciate the difficulty and rewards of the EX trials, especially Sophia EX. It helped me improve my player skills and and I get to travel in the open world with some cool looking mounts.

I'll do my best to help others and make their experience of FFXIV as decent as possible. At the end of the day, if I can do my part to make a different in someone's life for this game, I'll be satisfied.

[Thmas]

Love this game! Thank you! *bow*

[LittleChickenNugget]

Sincerely,

I can tell right now what kind of person Mr. Kusakabe is in real life lmao.

[Clover_Blake]

I'm glad more people are thankful to the devs. They always seem to be working very hard, yet not everyone can appreciate the amount of work behind everything they do.

Thank you for such a wonderful game, devs! I hope you get all the rest you deserve ;_;

[Reimmi]

Coming from wow this dev team is amazing
so much more care and interaction with their playerbase than the lawyer in charge of wow these days, i appreciate you guys so much! Yoshi P is the best.

[Haxaan]

I would like to thank the Dev Team for doing their best to continue to produce fantastic content that not only stays true to their visions but also caters to their audience. There are millions of people who play this game with millions of different opinions and at the end of the day the choices they make are based on what they feel will be best for the game, for better or worse. I hope that one day other games from the franchise will slow down on sponging away the FFXIV budget so that they can have a larger department and be able to do more with what they have, but I am grateful for what we have gotten and continue to get. Thank you so much!