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

[HReincarnate]

Every single time I look at one of these threads I see them devolve into a few people arguing with each other for 10+ pages until the next group of people take over.

This is why SE isn't listening to this feedback, because this 63 page thread isn't a sign of community consensus - it was a few pages of community feedback followed by ~60 pages of personal squabbles.

Aside from a few pissed off SAMs & house bidders (the latter will hopefully be fixed soon), the game is in a fine state. The upcoming content seems more promising than SHB's, 6.1 was the best x.1 patch I can remember & launched to wide praise of the alliance raid & pvp updates, and as always job balance is more or less fine :P

I do wonder if people crying doom are playing the same game sometimes, but I do acknowledge that as someone not playing Hrothgar & only casually playing SAM, I'm not really affected by those problems. As for healing - it is what it is, and it will continue to be so until the game ends; I accepted that after Stormblood started things by gutting the SCH kit.

[Denji]

Every single time I look at one of these threads I see them devolve into a few people arguing with each other for 10+ pages until the next group of people take over.

This is why SE isn't listening to this feedback, because this 63 page thread isn't a sign of community consensus - it was a few pages of community feedback followed by ~60 pages of personal squabbles.

Aside from a few pissed off SAMs & house bidders (the latter will hopefully be fixed soon), the game is in a fine state. The upcoming content seems more promising than SHB's, 6.1 was the best x.1 patch I can remember & launched to wide praise of the alliance raid & pvp updates, and as always job balance is more or less fine :P

I do wonder if people crying doom are playing the same game sometimes, but I do acknowledge that as someone not playing Hrothgar & only casually playing SAM, I'm not really affected by those problems. As for healing - it is what it is, and it will continue to be so until the game ends; I accepted that after Stormblood started things by gutting the SCH kit.

unless you're working for square all you've provided us with is a shaky supposition at best.

"not listening" to your fanbase because they're debating would be stupid since you're already observing the threads in order to know this. you would essentially be paying someone to track and relay information and then not act on it.

i think in the end it's just some ol' fashioned feature creep and they're now struggling to maintain it all. removing features is never popular but if you don't add new things, people start to question why they bother paying to do the same stuff every expansion.