Future direction of FFXIV

[KizuyaKatogami]

Just give me back my 6 DoT scholar. It's been like 4.5 years and it's all I want.
ONE DPS focused Healer!

Sadly the only attention Scholar has gotten now is a nerf…funny how that works.

[IdowhatIwant]

Live letter said all I needed to know about to future direction. More class simplification, bad pvp is back, same content as usual.

[AziraSyuren]

I don't feel like the game's going anywhere. As infuriating as some of the changes (or lackthereof) are, none of them have anything to do with why people actually play this game. Even for healers, too many of them play healers simply because they like the idea of healing to really care about their job design. I don't feel as if the dev team hasn't done any major course corrections in terms of things OTHER than job design ever since the overhaul of the Diadem and the game is only getting more popular.

The future isn't looking bright, it's just kinda looking listlessly forward.

[Midareyukki]

In the event that Yoshida does leave, we need someone to follow his disposition toward the game. And not fall into the same mistake ActiBlizzard made of replacing all their roster with uncaring money-makers. To me, Yoshida and all the others should stay (assuming they want to, of course). Because for better or for worse, they're the ones who have made the game what it is, and they aren't the rest of Square Enix.

Regardless, the dev team needs new blood. Not just to replenish the ones they've been losing over time, but also to make room for new ideas and improve on what they already have. Especially to finish their long-term projects. A lot of systems in the game are left unfinished because no one's had time nor patience to pick them back up and polish them.

[alex4815162342]

Welcome to the Complaint Zone !

[KageTokage]

Welcome to the Complaint Zone !

There's a difference between complaining for the heck of it and making constructive criticism.

As much as people like to sugar coat it XIV is not perfect and could still be better in ways both big and small.

[Jandor]

There's a difference between complaining for the heck of it and making constructive criticism.

As much as people like to sugar coat it XIV is not perfect and could still be better in ways both big and small.

There is plenty of complaining for the heck of it on these forums

[Clover_Blake]

There is plenty of complaining for the heck of it on these forums

Seconding this. People think that their personal opinion of what something "perfect" is should be the universal norm, and the game should change and adapt to their personal wishes, otherwise it's a bad game, its future isn't looking bright, and Yoshida should consider leaving. Meanwhile, the rest of us are excited about 6.1.

[LaylaTsarra]

Seconding this. People think that their personal opinion of what something "perfect" is should be the universal norm, and the game should change and adapt to their personal wishes, otherwise it's a bad game, its future isn't looking bright, and Yoshida should consider leaving. Meanwhile, the rest of us are excited about 6.1.

Amen sister. You're not alone.

[Liam_Harper]

In the event that Yoshida does leave, we need someone to follow his disposition toward the game. And not fall into the same mistake ActiBlizzard made of replacing all their roster with uncaring money-makers. To me, Yoshida and all the others should stay (assuming they want to, of course). Because for better or for worse, they're the ones who have made the game what it is, and they aren't the rest of Square Enix.

I don't think Yoshida needs to leave. His mindset on the game as a developer is amazing, he doesn't fill it with endless treadmills, FOMO, WoW tokens, reinvent the wheel every expansion or put the story as a second priority. That's the main reason I play this game over other MMO's on the market.

But he needs to back away from the game design. Badly. I have a strong feeling he's getting involved in pretty much everything lately, from the Story to Crafting and Gathering to testing dungeons, EX and Savage to class updates and reworks, to Housing and so on. As a result, many parts of the game feel watered down. For example the crafting system alone won awards in ARR for being so indepth, nowadays the DoH forums are dead and it's just bot infested. He needs to assign experienced designers to each feature and let them do their own thing without interfering. He can't design the entire game.

I've honestly given up on ff14 after the recent LL and interviews. I still like FF14, but I've accepted the game will never be something for me to invest in, they're not ever going to make it engaging. I enjoy the raids enough to pay a sub, it's not a "bad" game, but similar to how I ended up in WoW, I'm just waiting for a better MMO to come along, then I'll move on.

Seconding this. People think that their personal opinion of what something "perfect" is should be the universal norm, and the game should change and adapt to their personal wishes, otherwise it's a bad game, its future isn't looking bright, and Yoshida should consider leaving. Meanwhile, the rest of us are excited about 6.1.

This is 110% the attitude they had over in WoW. Almost word for word. "The game is fine, you can't expect the game to change just for you, vocal minority, the rest of us are just enjoying it". That game is a shell of what it used to be. I don't think most players even realize that big spike of players from WoW and the hype over ff14 has already died out.