Future direction of FFXIV

[ForteNightshade]

Saying what you plan to do or what you'd like to do is not lying. People like you have no understanding of game development and its why 99% of game studios just say nothing. Things like road maps and open letters and general open conversations with player bases are just a nightmare for most studios because things can shift dramatically within days.

And yes these are the forums and can be used for criticism. Too bad none of you know what actual criticism is and fail to ever give any meaningful feedback.

Let's stop making excuses for multi-billion companies here. Game studios are notorious for creating road maps after releasing broken products they rushed on the door. Anthem, Cyberpunk, Halo Infinite and Marvel Avengers are all recent examples of such practices. Which is why gamers as a whole have become incredibly jaded towards road maps. While this doesn't apply to FFXIV specifically, Square Enix is quite notorious for being shady themselves.

What does apply to FFXIV is the fact we've repeatedly been told contrary things or outright lies in some form or another. The whole "We didn't receive much feedback for changes to Blood Weapon" comes to mind. Meanwhile, someone complied thirteen posts with upwards of 50+ likes (something the devs have said they use for reference) in just the last several months from the JP forum alone. Living Dead has been complained about since Heavensward. How about them claiming Scholar only wants to focus on damage while White Mage does all the healing when we have metric data which says the precise opposite is true?

At this point, if they haven't noticed these complaints. They just weren't looking to begin with.