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

[MintnHoney]

well written critique

This is something that the average consumer would not be able to meaningfully provide, especially to the level that other consumers, as evidenced on these forums, demand. Typically a producer/provider/manufacturer/company/group does not require a thesis on how to improve their product before they consider customer feedback, because they know that's unrealistic for them to expect from every consumer and it would be unrealistic for them to be expected to digest such feedback.
Instead, most just expect their consumers to either like or dislike their product(s) to varying degrees, and hope for small, but specific tidbits as to what needs to be improved to garner additional interest and retention. For example, "PVP is bad" or "The Endsinger tastes like feet." The feedback may not be very specific, or even make sense, but they have key components listed which can be reviewed for issues.

That being said, laundry-lists of grievances are more specific and nuanced than those examples, and there are quite a few posts that do come with explanations and suggestions for improvements, but I guess those just don't count because of the "other consumers" I mentioned earlier.
Oh well, I guess.

[RyuDragnier]

Is here. I'll be happy to discuss it

Now THAT is info I can work with.

I think Verminion was their attempt at pet combat, but it's woefully lacking IMO. RTS isn't everybody's cup of tea (it certainly isn't mine), and I wouldn't mind if it was more "turn based" in a sense, like Triple Triad. Could be more than a little interesting with pauses and tactical thinking instead of the constant thinking on the go thing.

BLU could definitely use more solo content, or even just dungeons and things only for them. I'm still a fan of the idea of opening up Eureka for BLU to do, since it has all the abilities and spells to where it wouldn't need the elemental wheel, it'd be supplying its own spells. Add in unique spells only found in Eureka, a variant of Baldesian Arsenal just for a group of 4-8 BLU, and we'd live our lives in that place.

Moogle Trove I feel should be a permanent thing, with its own unique rewards, and the "temporary prizes" things that are added just for the event. You know, like the equivalent of the "Make It Rain" campaign they have for the Gold Saucer. Where you can get more of the tomes for trading in, and a unique list just for that. Else you have this other list of things you can get with moogle tomes.

Achievement wise they could probably do with more unique things. Such as clearing Unreal as every job once in a category. Or getting various rare items from multiple different types of content that you trade into a merchant for it (Master of Finding).

Oh man I loved Ishgard Restoration. Can we get one for Ala Mhigo, or especially Garlemald? I'd really like to get a region where you help them back onto their feet, complete with a unique area to collect materials at, and maybe one for those dropped by Terminus, for those who don't like to craft/gather.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

This has never happened at this alarming frequency in HW, SB, and even ShB.

Spoiler alert; none of those expansions were hit by player counts as high as EW has, or introduced as many massive changing systems like EW's lottery or DC travel.

Remember when World Visit was first implemented in SHB and people were stranded for a while due to the system breaking down under congestion? or when they first implemented Cross-World PF around HW-SB and the DF queue randomly broke down 2-3 times wile they ironed out kinks? Massive game changing systems will almost always have bugs or unexpected results on the live versions. You can do all the stress testing you want in the dev environment, but the pure anarchy and chaos that is free will of people can create scenarios you never expected.

Like every other major implementation of a massive system change throughout this entire game's lifespan, it's gonna be hiccupy. History has given empirical data to expect it to be rough initially.

[Deveryn]

This is just a shot in the dark, but all of this coincides with Final Fantasy XVI's development...

I can't wait for that game to be done, because as much as I love the game and Creative Business Unit III, I can't help but feel they're spread a bit too thin because of XVI.
That's just speculation on my part though.

If you shoot enough bullets in the dark, you're bound to hit something.

One really has little to do with the other, outside of being handled by the same people. Things happen. DC travel is a brand new feature and it has absolutely nothing to do with one person or another having been moved over to XVI.

[Adamantini]

...

We have many places that we could rebuild. Foundation is a city that is in ruins, imagine what we could do just there, for example.
Now with Garlemald destroyed, we can build a city for the homeless Garleans.

I would love for bluemage to be lv 90, and to be able to make fresh content. Imagine a bluemage-only party, trying to kill the endsinger. Or maybe he had some content that he could progress on on his own, something fun.

And the chocobo? It's been abandoned for so long... What if they remake the chocobo, giving him some minigames to make him learn new skills. Even if it's a skill that doesn't change anything, like dancing, counting, singing... We would have an electronic pet minigame.


EDIT: I just thought of something else: Imagine a PvP arena just for Bluemages...

[Moonlite]

EW queue wasn't a bug. They just made improvements and optimizations to something that had worked for years. A development server was repurposed as a login server to increase the amount of processing power.

DC travel is not part of a major patch. It's 6.18 and it's just congestion from people using it a lot.

No there was a bug. They claimed it had been there since 1.0

[Theodric]

If you shoot enough bullets in the dark, you're bound to hit something.

One really has little to do with the other, outside of being handled by the same people. Things happen. DC travel is a brand new feature and it has absolutely nothing to do with one person or another having been moved over to XVI.

On the contrary, I think it's inevitable that when members of an already team are tasked with working on a second title then things are going to get rather strained. It wasn't until recently that it was officially acknowledged in a Live Letter that Koji Fox had moved over to work on FFXVI as of Shadowbringers and the last two expansions have had some pretty jarring inconsistencies with the English localisation.

Furthermore, there's also revelations such as this in relation to the technical side of the company:

“In regard to profitable operations, hiring server engineers and other staff to work exclusively on FFXI around-the-clock the whole year round would increase its expenses,” Yoshida says. “So in Creative Business Unit III, engineering fees are expensed under FFXIV, while the FFXI team can submit proposals for tasks that require engineers. Once a proposal has been reviewed and approved, we have the programmers estimate the costs and then have a discussion with them. If we asked them to focus on FFXI for three months, for example, then FFXI would only incur costs for those three months. This allows us to keep costs down and is one of the perks of overseeing two MMORPGs in our division.”

https://www.denofgeek.com/games/fina...istory-profit/

It's pretty common for people to try and cut costs only to end up having to do more work as a consequence because by cutting costs the usual checks and balances aren't there. Or the people in charge of the task in question are overworked and pulled in too many different directions at once.

[Atelier-Bagur]

I love how people are acting like EW is the only expansion that has patch releases where something doesnt go exactly right. Enjoy seeing people just cherry pick and ignore the game's past patch launches as if they were exactly buttery smooth. Best community!

[Dionysius]

It wasn't until recently that it was officially acknowledged in a Live Letter that Koji Fox had moved over to work on FFXVI as of Shadowbringers and the last two expansions have had some pretty jarring inconsistencies with the English localisation..

I bet no one realized about the inconsistency at all before the Koji announcement. The moment they realized it's not Koji, their paradigm got shifted and suddenly SHB localization have a lot of issue.

Lmao this is so childish.
This is the kind of disingenuous complain I can't stand.

[RyuDragnier]

We have many places that we could rebuild. Foundation is a city that is in ruins, imagine what we could do just there, for example.
Now with Garlemald destroyed, we can build a city for the homeless Garleans.

I would love for bluemage to be lv 90, and to be able to make fresh content. Imagine a bluemage-only party, trying to kill the endsinger. Or maybe he had some content that he could progress on on his own, something fun.

And the chocobo? It's been abandoned for so long... What if they remake the chocobo, giving him some minigames to make him learn new skills. Even if it's a skill that doesn't change anything, like dancing, counting, singing... We would have an electronic pet minigame.

Garlemald, Ala Mhigo, hell, Bozja if they wanted to go the extra mile (I'd prefer Garlemald though).

BLU definitely needs its level cap increased already, preferably with them allowing BLU into the Ultimates. The insanity of being able to do UCOB or UWU alone would keep us busy for quite a while, especially if the reward was unique outfits.

Yessss I'd love for them to do more with the Companion system, it has been there for so long without any massive changes. They could really go for updating the system, adding more to the chocobo, maybe even giving us the Chocobo Hot and Cold minigame from FF9.