The Lessons Not Learned.

[VelKallor]

To be honest?

Doesnt matter what they do, doesnt matter what they put into the game...you lot will ALWAYS find something to complain about.

Its funny..in a sad, tragic kind of way.

Calling me a "white knight" for praising the game, appreciating their hard work and enjoying myself. GOD FORBID I should do that..........

Sheesh.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

To be honest?

Doesnt matter what they do, doesnt matter what they put into the game...you lot will ALWAYS find something to complain about.

Its funny..in a sad, tragic kind of way.

Calling me a "white knight" for praising the game, appreciating their hard work and enjoying myself. GOD FORBID I should do that..........

Sheesh.

Yeah, pretty much this.

In other words....no matter what, they cant win.
-They do something: People complain
-They try a new thing: People complain
-They try something completely new taking in feedback: People complain, saying how its locked to 1 system and its slow
-They retry it, taking in feedback allowing more paths to goal: People complain, say they liked old way
-Do something else: People complain it should be like last time

No matter what, they cant win.

So Really, there are always gonna be people that can't be Pleased.
Thats why they should focus on the people that are happy. Which I think is a Bigger Percentage then the people who are unhappy. But of course, always look to improve.
We all agree that OP has often weird and bad takes, but we arnt blind to the fact he and others do say things that are agreeable. There is always ways to improve.

[Carin-Eri]

To be honest?

Doesnt matter what they do, doesnt matter what they put into the game...you lot will ALWAYS find something to complain about.

Its funny..in a sad, tragic kind of way.

Calling me a "white knight" for praising the game, appreciating their hard work and enjoying myself. GOD FORBID I should do that..........

Sheesh.

I tend to agree in principle.

I'm not going to repeat comments I've made in other threads beyond saying that having come from another MMO where the Devs and CM both demonstrated and voiced the fact that player feedback was absolutely irrelevant, and tended to respond to the the select few questions they could be bothered to answer in their Livestreams with either disinterest, mockery or disdain.

I will note, however, that it was a double-edged sword because one of the reasons they cared so little about community feedback was that sufficient numbers of players were buying their gamble/loot boxes and expensive bundles, as well as falling for their FOMO-based nonsense. With that in mind they undoubtedly didn't feel any need to care - because sadly, It doesn't matter how much you hate or bemoan the sleazy marketing tactics of a game like that; if you do so, but give them your money anyway, you are communicating what kind of abuse you are willing to accept in the only language they understand or care about.

For me at least, FFXIV has been a real breath of fresh air in comparison!