Quote Originally Posted by vetch View Post
Understand this statement for the PR smokescreen that it is. FF14 has so many players that CBU3 can literally say this about any change they come up with, because there's always a cluster somewhere clamoring for any direction the game could possibly take, as well as a legion of apologists to hunt (or conjure) the relevant feedback up and pretend like it was a significant opinion that forced CBU3 to implement the unpopular change du jour.

The reality is that CBU3 does what is convenient for them, which usually involves pruning game features to reduce their QA costs and development overhead.
This has been the sad reality since the launch of stormblood where every patch has made the game worse. This game will have a terrible legacy despite being one of the best multiplayer games of all time circa 2015.