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

[Nethereal]

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I mean yeah the games amazing if you're just starting out, it's finally complete.

Just wait till they actually finish it, maybe they won't.

Just because most people only go so far up the bridge before turning back doesn't mean it isn't broken.

Healing wouldn't be more difficult. If it was I would be impressed. You can clear most if not all content using only 4 buttons. Lucid, Damage Spell, DoT Spell, Single Target GCD heal, AoE GCD heal.

The efficiency of healing is up to the player, it's gutted because they want to make the skill gap appear lower between healers.

[Jybril]

Between the healer problems for 6 years being ignored, the recent Hrothgar problems where they waited patiently for 3 years and got literal shit, to the horrid job design in 6.1, the pretty controversial story of EW, to now the housing system just imploding on itself. Do the devs just not care anymore? The game is seeing it’s peak, the game is bringing in more money than ever, and yet we’re somehow getting more broken systems. I guess this is what happens when they let the popularity get to their head? They start thinking they can half ass everything and people will continue to stay and kiss up to them. Seeing this community’s history i don’t blame them for thinking that way but…my god. The game is taking such a downward spiral. At this point i’m expecting Ultimate to have some major errors and that would be the icing on the cake.

I have tried to tell people for years this game has been going down the dumps. You really noticed it in SB.
It just got worse...and worse...and worse as we went.
I tried to say it but I got screeched at with any bit of criticism giving to this game and now look at it lol.
I actually got banned when housing first came out and called it a piece of crap.
Now look what happened LOL. I actually find it hilarious.

This game has gone to hell. We get less content every patch, healers have been in shambles for YEARS, mods are having to help
the Hrothgar because SE act like they just can't deal with it. I'm sorry but any graphical excuse is all null when modders can do it.
What are you guys hiring over there if they can't do what they do in an hour?

The community here is no help at all. The moment you say ANYTHING about this game you get sought out and destroyed instantly.
This is why the game is getting bad. We are drowned out by Defenders that think the devs can do no wrong.
I love Yoshi, the guys great, but come on man. People aren't happy and you're getting too comfortable in the success lane.
The same tired, boring patterns are just that and then the nerve to give us less. Just be honest and say you're funding FF16 then lol.

I hate to say I told you so, but....I told you so lol. So I agree, it's kinda funny to see after all these years.

[IdowhatIwant]

FFXIV 1.0 that it could not be saved it was built in a way it can be patched but never fixed. The entire housing system needs to be abolished and there needs to be a new system. They can keep the wards system as a legacy but instanced housing is a must. The forums and the player base have been vocal about this ever since the lottery failure.

The bold underline part of that, is the biggest issue this game has, and it is why they should honestly be doing 1 of 2 things. The game should either end with EW which it clearly is not. The next expansion should not come out in 2 years, and they should rebuild the entire engine from the ground up cause it is sorely limiting what they can do with the game.

But as far as housing goes I am all for what he said.

[Corvus_V]

I know I posted about this seven years ago and people have been talking about this for years even before me.

At this point I think many people are warming to the idea of instanced housing. As Yoshi P said in the NoClip documentary about FFXIV 1.0 that it could not be saved it was built in a way it can be patched but never fixed. The entire housing system needs to be abolished and there needs to be a new system. They can keep the wards system as a legacy but instanced housing is a must. The forums and the player base have been vocal about this ever since the lottery failure.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...up-is-horrible

I've said this for a while, there's probably a very good split of people who want to participate in housing and don't care about a neighborhood setting, especially if they don't want a small house. I haven't posted about it much on the forums, but I witnessed several friends dealing with this problem. It's been an issue forever, and as bad as placard clicking was, changing it now is extremely unfair to everyone who had to participate in that, as well as giving all the wards to FCs and shell FCs. They didn't even attempt to find a middle ground for the people who had to deal with that, or ease into it, like allowing relocation; they just instantly crapped every ward to FCS and made all wards lottery despite saying they were going to go half and half on a lot of this stuff.

Instanced housing is a must. An instanced homestead with an exterior, like an isolated plot with a size of your choosing is ideal. That's all they need to do. People can visit it, just like an apartment; it can be displayed in a housing board, traveled to via an ID, allowing owners to access control people who are trouble away from their homes, etc. They need to do it, it's become extremely clear that this system isn't sustainable and that players do not want the current layout of the wards, and giving 2/3rds of the houses to FCs is nuts. The smalls aren't even selling out on populated servers, but the anger is still all there. People want to pay for them, there is no reason they shouldn't be able to.

I genuinely at this point don't care if they do away with wards and just instantly transfer everyones homes to an instance. If people can visit it, it literally does not matter as long as everyone has access to it. It is not worth the grief of people having to deal with RMT, house-resellers and just flat out no access to the sizes they want to decorate.

[Rufalus]

The best things about the game include the music, art style, enemy design, fashion design, user interface, crafting system, minigames.

Things that could improve are graphics/tech (DX12 version, Xbox version, better lighting, better anti-aliasing options); content that is less scripted and formulaic; job personalisation; housing that meets players' expectations; some alternatives to gearing / progression model especially early in a patch series we miss that 'relic' type grind to work on; willingness to diverge from existing norms and patterns.

[Akimori]

I feel that the game would be better if they stopped wasting so much time on things literally no one asked for and actually focused on...idk....bringing the game up to speed. I love xiv, but the game is beginning to show its age...we don't need more idle poses for umbrellas and what not....

[IkaraGreydancer]

I have tried to tell people for years this game has been going down the dumps. You really noticed it in SB.
It just got worse...and worse...and worse as we went.
I tried to say it but I got screeched at with any bit of criticism giving to this game and now look at it lol.
I actually got banned when housing first came out and called it a piece of crap.
Now look what happened LOL. I actually find it hilarious.

This game has gone to hell. We get less content every patch, healers have been in shambles for YEARS, mods are having to help
the Hrothgar because SE act like they just can't deal with it. I'm sorry but any graphical excuse is all null when modders can do it.
What are you guys hiring over there if they can't do what they do in an hour?

The community here is no help at all. The moment you say ANYTHING about this game you get sought out and destroyed instantly.
This is why the game is getting bad. We are drowned out by Defenders that think the devs can do no wrong.
I love Yoshi, the guys great, but come on man. People aren't happy and you're getting too comfortable in the success lane.
The same tired, boring patterns are just that and then the nerve to give us less. Just be honest and say you're funding FF16 then lol.

I hate to say I told you so, but....I told you so lol. So I agree, it's kinda funny to see after all these years.

Yes now look at the game...still full of folks everywhere. Still plenty of people doing content, mingling and rping. If the game is so bad how can any of this be possible?

You want to know why people push against criticism? It's because sometimes it's overblown asf. Most people I've seen are fine with criticism so long as you aren't an arse about it. That whole "sought out and destroyed instantly" is hyperbolic. VERY hyperbolic. Hell this thread here is proof that that logic is off.

Also Yoshi doesn't decide where all of the money made from xiv goes so that comment was very stupid.

For a game that's gone to hell you wouldn't be able to tell. I wonder why

[Jybril]

False. The reason why things are broken and we're running the same crappy treadmill for years is because
whenever someone says something you don't like, you report us and get us banned because we aren't kissing feet.
So what do you get? People who defend this game with praises while the rest are silenced.
This has happened time and time again on these forums.
A lot of us are very cordial until someone jumps 'em and it just turns into a cesspool so it gets drowned out.

Stop taking this game like it's your firstborn child so we can actually get some meat into the game.
So sick of pressing 1111111111111111111-2-11111111111 and being told DON'T HEAL ME AT ALL in dungeons as a healer.
Fix the games horrible combat system for the love of God.

[IkaraGreydancer]

False. The reason why things are broken and we're running the same crappy treadmill for years is because
whenever someone says something you don't like, you report us and get us banned because we aren't kissing feet.
So what do you get? People who defend this game with praises while the rest are silenced.
This has happened time and time again on these forums.
A lot of us are very cordial until someone jumps 'em and it just turns into a cesspool so it gets drowned out.

Stop taking this game like it's your firstborn child so we can actually get some meat into the game.
So sick of pressing 1111111111111111111-2-11111111111 and being told DON'T HEAL ME AT ALL in dungeons as a healer.
Fix the games horrible combat system for the love of God.

Again with the hyperbole. People aren't getting banned just for offering differing opinions. You'd have to have violated something to be banned. Again the fact threads like these are still up proves that no you aren't being silenced.

The only classes even remotely close to what you describe is healers (at times). I sure as ever don't feel like I'm pressing one button when playing Sage. And I've NEVER seen anyone say not to heal them in ANY piece of content. If anything it's normally don't JUST heal, dps as well.

At this point it's not even hyperbole, you're just flat out lying

[Jybril]

Again with the hyperbole. People aren't getting banned just for offering differing opinions. You'd have to have violated something to be banned. Again the fact threads like these are still up proves that no you aren't being silenced.

The only classes even remotely close to what you describe is healers (at times). I sure as ever don't feel like I'm pressing one button when playing Sage. And I've NEVER seen anyone say not to heal them in ANY piece of content. If anything it's normally don't JUST heal, dps as well.

At this point it's not even hyperbole, you're just flat out lying

"Because it didn't happen to me, so it's a lie."
Alright, I'ma disengage with you because you think everything I have said is
"stupid" and now I am "lying". Exhibit A of the community folks and why this game is poor.