Does dev even read stuff in the English forum?

[JohnLakeside]

I actually think the devs listen much more to the NA playerbase than the JP playerbase. The game getting easier, all the soft reportable things like emoting in PvP, the PlayerScope drama queens.

NA players bring in the most money, so the devs prioritizing NA sorta makes sense.

[Catwho]

The title says it all. I am just curious. I know they don't go to the ff14 sub Reddit for sure but some claim they only care about the Japanese official forum.

I have had specific feedback I've made on the UI forum incorporated into the game. Little things like the lock on the UI window for raw ingredients so you don't lose it when you switch retainers or search for things on the market board, or being able to sort the display order of retainers.

So I can confirm that the community managers are passing along some messages from the English UI forum, at least.

[WutWut]

I can't verify it, but on the PvP boards someone asserted that JP PvPers are frustrated because they believe the devs only listen to NA/EU.

Certainly seems plausible that we're all being ignored because "SQEX knows best."

Nail on the head right here. If they listen to us or the JP players, it's only when they pick and choose to.

[tsuchii]

Yes, several changes were suggested here like mount tilt, dissatisfaction with certain graphics updates etc.

[Voryn]

Take it from an industry vet, this to me sounds more like some dev with some gravitas/authority (like a creative director, team lead or executive) decided that they found it too complicated or didn't like it and asked for it to be changed, and they just complied because they had to, then came up with random justifications to make up some back up claims.

I’ve been feeling the same way. Like they just do something they don’t feel like explaining for whatever reason, and say it’s “because of feedback.”

I’d appreciate more transparency about why decisions are made, and maybe about why they think certain changes are good ideas. Like right now if we look at the job guide’s adjustments overview, the Dark Knight section explains that the changes to Dark Mind and Dark Missionary are for making its abilities match other tanks, and the change to Abyssal Drain is to give it better healing for dungeons. Even though I don’t think it needed more healing, I appreciate the explanation. Meanwhile the GNB Double Down change and NIN Ten Chi Jin change are “to improve ease of use,” and we just have to guess why. Why made easier? Why those changes? It can feel annoying to hear, and then I feel the same way when we just hear that changes are “because of feedback or “to reduce inputs.” And then we get casuals complaining that jobs are made easier for parsers, and raiders complaining that jobs are made easier for casuals, and then so many people wonder whether the forums actually get read.

On one hand maybe we’ll get explanations that some people don’t like, and the devs wanna avoid that response. Like if a higher-up just doesn’t like something. But at least it would be nice to hear more of the actual reasoning about things because people are gonna complain either way. It would also placate the people who don’t understand why a change was made and keep asking for it to be reverted, if they better understand the intended design philosophy.

[Derio]

Living dead and blood weapon on DRK were messed up for more than 6 years. If they do read it, they do a bad job at compiling the feedback and relaying it to the dev team. Except when it comes to the graphics update.

[lilmoon]

It's unfortunate that the multi-billion-dollar company owning the world's most popular MMORPG communicates poorly with its player base.

[keichirou]

nope, if they did (just to give you an example) , they would have removed or change all hildi quests , which they're aimed to japanese audience, they like that sort of comedy , unlike us, we dont find it funny, comical or entertaining (ofc few like it but they're a minority and that's a fact), or change /add certain systems that players have requested for years(im looking at you gear restrictions)

[Veritas-Ancora]

nope, if they did (just to give you an example) , they would have removed or change all hildi quests , which they're aimed to japanese audience, they like that sort of comedy , unlike us, we dont find it funny, comical or entertaining (ofc few like it but they're a minority and that's a fact)

Why do you hate fun?

[Fawkes]

nope, if they did (just to give you an example) , they would have removed or change all hildi quests , which they're aimed to japanese audience, they like that sort of comedy , unlike us, we dont find it funny, comical or entertaining (ofc few like it but they're a minority and that's a fact)

It's actually the opposite, they tried to stop and did the Scholasticate quests instead but the people demanded they bring back Hildibrand.