There has not been a single major patch without a critical issue since Endwalker.

[Denji]

Yeaaah. This has been kinda brutal in both content drought and quality.

They're slipping.

[Ryaz]

Yeaaah. This has been kinda brutal in both content drought and quality.

They're slipping.

I disagree. PvP overhaul was great and very well received. It revived what was basically a dead mode. The raid series has been a blast so far. Aglaia has been well regarded as one of the best Alliance Raid tiers. DSR Ultimate was loved and is one of the hardest fights ever designed in the game. We've got a ton of new content coming in 6.2 with 4 man dedicated content, Island Sanctuaries, relic grind, etc.

[Denji]

I disagree. PvP overhaul was great and very well received. It revived what was basically a dead mode. The raid series has been a blast so far. Aglaia has been well regarded as one of the best Alliance Raid tiers. DSR Ultimate was loved and is one of the hardest fights ever designed in the game. We've got a ton of new content coming in 6.2.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch. You shouldn't rely on what -might- happen next patch.

[Zaniel]

Don't count your chickens before they hatch. You shouldn't rely on what -might- happen next patch.

But the doomsayers are allowed to critique and piss and moan with no actual patch? Got it. What's actually happened is the population of FF14 has massively increased so the number of trolls and poop-posters has also massively increased.

Also, inb4 "white knighting" post, there is no feedback or rational criticism in this thread, it's just malding (or outright denial of reality). If someone ever posted something remotely resembling feedback such as "SE should have continued using the (normal)(hard) model for dungeons in later expansions to increase our dungeon content" ... THEN I might be able to take it seriously and talk about how criterion dungeons seem to be retaking this path and discuss it with them.

Instead we get this posting:
"Yeaaah. This has been kinda brutal in both content drought and quality.

They're slipping."

Well done, clearly reasoned feedback there!

[Vahlnir]

I disagree. PvP overhaul was great and very well received. It revived what was basically a dead mode. The raid series has been a blast so far. Aglaia has been well regarded as one of the best Alliance Raid tiers. DSR Ultimate was loved and is one of the hardest fights ever designed in the game. We've got a ton of new content coming in 6.2.

They've had some hits, but also some major misses. CC and Aglaia were great. DSR is something I can't really speak on, but it's apparently doing okay. Meanwhile, they've been cutting corners in some places, like with Hrothgar and their apparent need to re-use job gear for CC rewards when, in my opinion, there should have been more unique sets given by those vendors. They've also messed up their housing lottery system is a really bad way. It shouldn't have taken them a month to get it working properly. And data center travel is apparently not doing so hot right now. Could just be the traffic or a bug, but either way I don't think they tested it properly, or at least not enough. I haven't seen them fumble content design back-to-back like this for a while. Think the last time this happened (for me at least) was back at the beginning of HW when they released Diadem and Verminion and they both died shortly after.

[Ryaz]

They've had some hits, but also some major misses. CC and Aglaia were great. DSR is something I can't really speak on, but it's apparently doing okay. Meanwhile, they've been cutting corners in some places, like with Hrothgar and their apparent need to re-use job gear for CC rewards. They've also messed up their housing lottery system is a really bad way. It shouldn't have taken them a month to get it working properly. And data center travel is apparently not doing so hot right now. Could just be the traffic or a bug, but either way I don't think they tested it properly, or at least not enough.

I'm not saying things have been going perfect. There are definite problems. But I also know the dev team is human, makes mistakes and I have enough trust in them that they'll get things fixed. The DC Travel thing seems to be an NA only problem right now. EU and Japan seem to be working well.

I just don't see the whole "we're getting less content" thing because I see plenty of content. It's not all for me, but it is content that appeals to a lot of people and I'm fine with that. I have no problems playing what I enjoy and then going to play some Destiny 2 or Fallout or something in between.

[Vahlnir]

I have enough trust in them that they'll get things fixed.

They eroded that trust for me over the course of a single patch, which says a lot given that I was a stalwart defender of them prior.

[Theodric]

They eroded that trust for me over the course of a single patch.

Likewise. There's room for them to renew that trust, though the 'usual suspects' who make a career out of defending absolutely everything that a billion dollar company does only serves to push yet more people into sceptical territory.

We're not 'hAtErS' for having genuine concerns about the very same pattern emerging that caused World of Warcraft to go from the most popular MMO in existence to a complete laughing stock and constant string of scandals.

[Dionysius]

Likewise. There's room for them to renew that trust, though the 'usual suspects' who make a career out of defending absolutely everything that a billion dollar company does only serves to push yet more people into sceptical territory.

We're not 'hAtErS' for having genuine concerns about the very same pattern emerging that caused World of Warcraft to go from the most popular MMO in existence to a complete laughing stock and constant string of scandals.

I don't think it's hate, else you guys won't be here on forum. More like "Beater", that's how you think people working on the game to you right? Let's keep beating them to moveee.... faster.. faster, not fast enough!