So, what now? Lotteries with 150+ bids until... when?

[Arzalis]

What other reward in the game is so limited in quantity that a player might never be able to get it despite putting in large amounts of time and effort? Doesn't it seem strange to you that "entitlement" is only a problem in this one specific area when SE is so accommodating in all the rest?

You know why there were so many small houses left with 0 entries in the earlier lottery periods? It's because they were in the FC wards. If you're trying to get a personal house, you can't bid on the ones in the FC wards. The personal wards filled up fast once we got past the 0 bug. The only houses left were those being vacated by owners who relocated to other plots.

MMOs do not thrive when popular content is limited to access by the lucky few. That's why you almost never see such systems implemented outside of PvP, with those limitations at least gated by skill-based competition.


I don't think that's true. The differences are more from improvements in production of the Live Letter than any negative change on the part of YoshiP and Foxclon. They're probably more relaxed because they no longer need to worry about whether the game is going to still end up dying after all the work they put in to save it.

If there is a problem, it's upper management juggling things behind the scenes to move FFXIV resources to their other IPs. That sort of thing is normal in most companies running multiple projects but they have to be careful they don't drain the project that's making the others possible or everything can fall apart.

Not sure I agree. There was a lot more humility and humbleness because they seemed genuinely thankful folks were playing the game after the mess that was 1.0 and that sentiment lasted a very long time. It's what fostered a large part of all the goodwill the game got. That sort of thing doesn't really happen nowadays, especially relevant with how many issues the game seems to have with every patch lately. It's not that they have bad attitudes or anything, far from it, it's just that they act a lot differently now.

If anything, I'd say they seem less relaxed and more stuffy compared to earlier LLs.