Quote Originally Posted by MAJRIS View Post
What made me give XIV chance was that I was pretty much fed up of the disrespect and ignore from the side of WoW developers and their GM's.
It was pretty refreshing to see some streams and also live letters of XIV devs showing various QOL features and new stuff, instead of the usual "wowhead datamines mount reskin and then writes article about it" type of information.

Mmaybe it was a PR stunt, because in terms of communication, it's pretty much one sided with the only difference from WoW is the live letters.

Recruited one of my friends that started playing lately, friend was so happy making it to the Stormblood. Met zenos and fought him. While I made him fully aware of the story ramping up and being minful of spoilers, but nobody warned us to not open FFXIV twitter page that day because someone decided to SPOILER THE REST OF THE STORY (even though endwalker is still the latest expansion to play to this day) with giraffe memes. SPACE FIGHT TEST OF YOUR REFLEXES haha!
Great. The climax of the story is completely smeared around as new/hot thread. Friend stopped playing soon after as it was very clear that the rest will be just RP walk to now obvious plot twist finale.
Five minutes of fame "my meme made 150k views" cost you one potential customer.

I don't demand apology or anything like that. I just wish the PR team were a little bit mindful of their actions for the new lifeblood that the sprouts are.
Get out of the comfort zone of social media where you pick who to block and whom to react to get likes and clicks, and come between people, listen to their pleas, stories, made them feel that you CARE.

I miss the old days of WoW where GMs actually played the game. they spawned critters around or helped to fill dungeon queue, or secretly participated in raids and revealed themselves after boss kill to celebrate the victory with the people in raid, or made WoW dad jokes in cities, or gave people low level ore or backpacks. They did not abuse the GM to give anyone significant advantage as all the items were obtainable and mine-able pretty much by anyone on starting character. But these small things and interactions made it to people's memories that there were people that honestly cared.

have good day whoever reads this.
Funny enough current WoW devs are being more communicative and less transparent than the FFXIV team. Especially with the recent stuff.

We just dont know what exactly the feedback theyre receiving from us the players.