Reddit vs. the Forums in the Graphics War of '24

[mallleable]

/r/ffxiv, and /r/ffxivdiscussion have been directing most graphics update feed back here because the devs don't read reddit. That's why there is hardly any graphics update discussion happening there.

[CidHeiral]

Reddit is an echo chamber.

So is every complaint thread on the forum right now lol

[Lyth]

The graphics are improved, but the art style is where it's falling short in a lot of cases. It's the latter that determines how well the graphics will age over time. Your textures and meshes don't matter if you don't have the fine anatomical details down right, and that's why player feedback on this is important. If anything, it's a testament to how good the art style was on some of the originals. They need to maintain that art standard on the new models.

Reddit isn't an ideal place for such a discussion because threads have a relatively short lifespan and not everyone is going to have an opinion on a Face 4 Highlander. At least in here, the relevant designer can see what recommendations players are making on their specific designs, and some of the feedback is actually really well articulated/drawn out with face maps and such. This is the most productive that I've ever seen this subforum.

[Arkdra]

Anyway...

Also, there's almost 300 threads of useless Graphics Update Feedback. How a dev is supposed to gather useful, orderly, well constructed feedback from so many threads is beyond me.

Big Fan guy is the best thread on the forum currently don't you drag them into this.

[Moqi]

How a dev is supposed to gather useful, orderly, well constructed feedback from so many threads is beyond me.

If only there were people whose job is to gather data, discern what's meaningful and present it to the devs...

[DiaDeem]

Big Fan guy is the best thread on the forum currently don't you drag them into this.

You know what? Yes

[Mouthbone]

If only there were people whose job is to gather data, discern what's meaningful and present it to the devs...

There are people like that, and they are currently tearing out their hair in clumps because they have to comb over dozens of pages of hysterics.
It's sad because threads with good feedback might get overlooked in favor of threads where people doompost because their characters were turned into unrecognizable monstrosities.

[HeyMcFly]

Yoshi-P has stated they don't take feedback from reddit seriously or consider it

[Moqi]

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Go apply to SE then, why are you telling me lol. Some of you have some weird parasocial relationships with SE employees.

[DiaDeem]

Some of you have some weird parasocial relationships with SE employees.

Dude, all I'm saying is that whatever this place was supposed to be, in practice, is little more than a mess filled with a bunch of nonsense and bloated information that hardly helps anyone.

I'm out. I'm wasting my time.