Official 10th Anniversary Survey

[ASkellington]

They just want to internally compare those results of 10 years later to the previous survey during 1.0. Such complaint makes no sense. It's like asking for a owl to hunt like an eagle.
I would give you the reason if they said "here is an important survey about in-game mechanics, we would like to hear where we can improve" but isn't. Chill.

You're missing my point. I'm saying that it COULD HAVE BEEN a survey about in-game mechanics or even ASK them alongside these questions and they haven't. In my eyes its a waste.

[AlexiaD]

They always give you the option to express yourself better than just mark your answer. There is something called emotional state analysis, they can easily use your text to understand the reason of your happiness/unhappiness. Also, you can find their intention here:

Depending on the responses we receive, the new side story may feature a character whom already appears in a previous side story or the new Tales under the New Moon series.
Survey answers will serve as a reference for our future endeavors


This survey feels exactly like those questions made by Omega (Venat, Emet or Hermes) or Venat "Has your journey been good?". It's a collection of generic questions, not a combat specific question or combat design question. This is confirmed here:


As part of A Realm Reborn’s 10th Anniversary celebrations[...] Tell us about your main job, what sort of place FFXIV is to you, and other details we would like to hear about your adventures!

They just want to internally compare those results of 10 years later to the previous survey during 1.0. Such complaint makes no sense. It's like asking for an owl to hunt like an eagle. This survey probably was made by marketing department (confirmed by the first two questions) and not from someone that belongs to the main staff.
I would give you the reason if they said "here is an important survey about in-game mechanics, we would like to hear where we can improve" but isn't. Chill.

[Vahlnir]

Not sure why my choice of minion is relevant, but if you (SE) really need to know about my wind-up Bahamut, then okay. I guess. Or something. I feel like this survey overall was a swing and a miss. It didn't really ask anything with any real substance or importance. That said, I voted for Gosetsu. I was never going to vouch for any of the Scions at this point.

[Fourbestintoner]

Am so glad SE care more about my favorite minion than what I think about job design.
Which character I want to see more of? What about characters I want to see LESS of? You know, Graha, Alisaie and every single ancient shit, get them out of here.

[Remish]

My choice of side character was Fordola, without hesitation or question.

I wanted to pick Azem but they weren't on the list.


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So I see a lot of posts on here annoyed about the questions asked in the survey, so I went back and re-read the Lodestone post for the survey. It mentions this is a survey for the 10-year anniversary celebration. This sounds like to me, it's just meant to be a survey celebrating the joys and hardships of the last ten years rather than a feedback survey for the current state of the game. I imagine the featured character for example will probably be a story about them enjoying the in-game celebration and reflecting back on it, rather than some brand new untold story from their point of view. That said, I lowkey expect Emet, Y'stola, G'arha, or Zenos to win just from knowing how this community is.

[OgruMogru]

Props to whoever came up with that last question because it was so asinine in it's wording that it just wiped my brain clean of any criticisms I had.

[Jojoya]

I didn't take it as a state of the game survey. I took it as a PR/marketing survey with the questions related more to who you are as a Warrior of Light than what you think as a player.

The questions asked leaving me feeling like they will affect that future "Tales" story, what minions/mounts get added to the game (or mogstation) in the future, and possibly new jobs in expansions after Dawntrail.

It would be nice if they would have an actual state of the game survey. I can't say that I agree with all the feedback getting left around here lately but it would be nice if they were using a better method to collect it.

[Toutatis]

I didn't take it as a state of the game survey. I took it as a PR/marketing survey with the questions related more to who you are as a Warrior of Light than what you think as a player.

That's definitely what it was. It's a flavour survey, nothing more.

I chose the Poogie as minion (lively little piggie and he dances around when someone pets him) and as for characters, I chose Gaius and also mentioned Gosetsu in the comments.

[Fyrebrand]

It would be nice if they could find a way to put surveys like this within the actual game, and maybe give a small prize or incentive for filling it out. I'm guessing most players don't check the lodestone or forums.

[Cidel]

Besides the sentiments about how disappointing the survey was...

Really? Even blue and red jongleur were choices for NPCs? But no Scarface Bugaal Ja on that list? The guy had a Postmoogle questline and even crashed one Moonfaire event as a FATE. But they left him off on the list. The nerve. We're heading to the Mamool Ja homeland next expansion so I'm expecting to finally see this notorious bathing dance somewhere...