What is going on with Square Enix and the 14 team?

[HeyMcFly]

Many of us knew this was coming bc of the lack of content with everything else besides story, that the lack of depth would continue- we were either told by other players "you have a good story, why are you complaining?" or by Yoshi-P to "go play something else" (abit out of context)

See why those of us being the squeaky cog were so persistent about the lack of depth in the content we were getting?

One of the issues too, being most players were content bc they don't believe in constructive criticizing - even JP players have said they get annoyed at their own playerbase for being too content bc they're too "polite" to say they don't like something or want to see changes. Take the Hrothgar issues, the jp players joked about the ears but they didn't actively say they aren't okay with it- some even turned to the NA forums since although NA forums can be pretty rude & obnoxious, there are those of us who are direct & get the point across.

When Viera & Hroth were 1st released many of us hoped they would continue to get cosmetic support as we were told they'd retain their uniqueness & be given more unique hairstyles (paraphrasing here)
But that hasn't happened. Viera still look mostly half-completed copy-paste E-girls with bunny ears on them. Not the Amazonian like humanoid Leporidae that appeared in FFXII or in other previous concept art. (atleast that's how I've viewed them excluding how they appear in XIV)

Hrothgar certainly have gotten the biggest middle finger- The devs have wasted our money on the recourses spent to trying to fix this race.
Do not support other SE projects until we start seeing features we have asked for- and the devs correcting their mistakes.

I do appreciate the content we do get, but I don't appreciate the blinders the devs apparently wear when it comes to listening to their fanbase- All I'm asking is for more transparency. More honest communication. Like, tell us when something is taking longer bc of issues, tell us when we are getting instanced housing, tell us the best way to get our point across.

Protest by cancelling your subscriptions. Or talk about cancelling subs-
either way, it might help get the point across.

[Theodric]

Isn't it interesting that whenever the game endures some manner of controversy, posters who rarely contribute to the forum appear out of the woodwork to insist that there are no problems whatsoever?

[Vahlnir]

Protest by cancelling your subscriptions.

I am doing this right now, actually.

Edit: And...done.

[Puksi]

I'm wondering if Yoshida will bring out the convenient emotional waterworks this time, lmao. It's a safer bet than the broken lottery system.

As usual, $quare wants your money for the least effort, because why do more and profit less? And yes, I mean Creative Business Unit III, too. This goes beyond "small indie company, please understand". Smaller MMOs have done better. WoW has done better. It's hard to swallow "rookie mistakes" while listening to all the "critically acclaimed" boasts and memes. Which is it to be?

[Mapleine]

Man, these official forums are wild.

The official forums are just the venting grounds, I was venting a bit too until 6.1 rebuilt confidence. They used to be a bit better though, like people were still whiny messes in ARR (me too) but the WoW exodus had a highly obvious effect and some people just found that type of miasma to stew in due to it.

Consider that this is the largest x.1 we've had by a fair clip, and we have the handful of denizens on this forum complaining about the exact opposite right in its wake. Just the roadmap listing for 6.2 makes 5.2 look like anemic by comparison. COVID ran a spike through Shadowbringers, as they stressed about 3 times, and we're barely now recovering. That much is obvious.

I do think people are in the right about job design though. It's not "ruined" or anything but it's on a worrying trend. Healing has always been a confused mess, from ARR to now, it isn't a recent occurance. I really wish they'd just give up on it and make the PvP WHM a reality. XIV is a game about puzzles and patterns, it's scripted and its rough to make exciting healing for that.

So gimmie my damn lily beam and seraph strike.

[Ravor]

What is this thread??? Complain without substance or detail at all? I can understand if you said i hate the game because bla bla bla, but simply state the game is bad, the story is bad, everything is bad, of course it is bad for you so just play other game, if you think the game is bad then make a point of what to do about it so we can start discussing, well i think nothing bad/questionable happened right now except the housing matter? Well i didnt participate in that so i hope the dev fix that, dont rollback, i spent all my time crafting this 2 days........

[Milus]

What is this thread??? Complain without substance or detail at all? I can understand if you said i hate the game because bla bla bla, but simply state the game is bad, the story is bad, everything is bad, of course it is bad for you so just play other game, if you think the game is bad then make a point of what to do about it so we can start discussing, well i think nothing bad/questionable happened right now except the housing matter? Well i didnt participate in that so i hope the dev fix that, dont rollback, i spent all my time crafting this 2 days........

Some people can't refund their 50.000.000gil.

[Denji]

what are we even paying for at this point.

PVP bugs, can't queue as a party, ugly karen hair hair, no ears, clipping equipment, viera headpieces embedded in their foreheads (or fiveheads, depending on hairstyle) and more bestial features taken away, roes once again drowning in obscurity because despite getting hair nothing ever seems to be particularly aimed at them, housing taking SEVERAL YEARS AND THEN ENDS UP BEING CRIPPLED BY A BUG and some people aren't getting their refunds. Like. What's the point here.

This is abysmal.

[Shin96]

what are we even paying for at this point.

Bugs, ugly karen hair hair, no ears, clipping equipment, viera headpieces embedded in their four (or fiveheads, depending on hairstyle) and more bestial features taken away, roes once again drowning in obscurity because despite getting hair nothing ever seems to be particularly aimed at them, housing taking SEVERAL YEARS AND THEN ENDS UP BEING CRIPPLED BY A BUG. Like. What's the point here.

This is abysmal.

Don't forget the convenience of using a forum you need a sub for that goes largely ignored which trolls can use to manipulate the general consensus.

[Lauront]

Holy hell, I hope the devs are lying when they say the official forums are the best way to get info to them.

You people are hilariously pathetic.

The game is fine stop crying lmao

Does white knighting come with weekend overtime pay now?