Discuss : is ffxiv in trouble

[strawberrycake]

All of this

But thats just it, it's the constant assumptions that go on that anyone critical of the expansion didn't enjoy it, I enjoyed, XIV is a game I love and care for very mcuh. But that Shouldn;t have to be explained when I'm literally here talking about what feels like a lack of attention to the consumer. I'm not the entire playerbase, but I feel like I, unlike many here, at least have went out my way to talk to many people as I could and have considered the different positions prior to even making a statement on said forums.

I raid, I do casual content, I rp, I help manage servers for XIV, even if they're personal ones, that still counts, I join learning parties and clear parties, I help people learn the game, I try to involve myself as much as possible in the game I enjoy as a hobby. However, the XIV community, instead of calling attention the companies lack of interaction on these forums where with other MMOs the devs are active and responding to said feed back, or a community manager, we just hand wave it. It makes these problems that everyone wants to minimize bigger then what they have to be. And literally everyone in the community lies down and accepts that. Bar the Eastern player bases who have zero problems talking about how much the lack of their presence is felt.

Also I know for a fact I am not in an echo chamber, I don't need a single person around here to confirm what I've seen, played and know, Thats the wonderful aspect of actually being involved with the larger community. The self same community filled with people who would come here more often IF the devs were actually present on here, the selfsame people who would be here IF ya'll could take someone being critical and not tell them quit, take a break, tell them they're burnt out, when they have reasonable feelings, gripes and issues with the game.

And as for the devs seeing the bigger picture, smart devs would actually use all the free data generated by it's own community to actually hone in on whats what and what people are actually doing, but low and behold they have their whole weird ass issue with third party everything, sadly including that free player generated info and data.

So no, It;s not just people out numbering you or me, or that the game isn't or is tolerable, it's that so much of this could be fixed if they weren't vague. And what I mean by Vague is telling us of, the concepts for the new expansion, but not confirming how much of it we're getting per patch, not showing us these new systems in action, not letting us have an idea of their plans so we can actually, as a community, keep them from making content thats gonna be DOA, and actually considering ways to balance the game better from our perspective. We aren't all knowing and neither are they. But asking them to work closer with us as a community and create more direct back and forth is apparently a sin in this community.