Opinion: The Development Team should revert to Q&A for Livestreams

[Hallarem]

You don't put guys who have written nurse-dating visual novels in charge of a storybased MMO MSQ just for the sake of "cycling writers". This isn't a sitcom Jeeqbit, nor an episodic tv show.
It was a blunder to include these new writers in without proper oversight and moving a decent writer off to overseeing this, unless they specifically requested to be moved off the project.
The quality has clearly taken a downtrend, and whether it was a purposeful Japanese company duty shuffle to try and JAM people into places they have no idea about or to "learn on the job" is extremy unprofessional in any company that wants to keep a quality product going. You take ideas from interns, you dont put them in CHARGE of your whole projects throughline sellpoint. WHich is the MSQ.

I can honestly just pray that they learned their lesson with this for 8.0. I was already worried when they were talking about their own "system" where they can check their own story / lore if they forget something.
But I am a 100% sure with the blunders, worldbuilding being tossed in the can and their own lore being mishandled that over half of these new writers dont probably know what has even happened in the game so far, let alone any lore. Dawntrail seemed like an experiment, they have said as much "See what sticks" YOU DONT EXPERIMENT WITH STORY, that just tells me you didnt have a damned plan to begin with. You experiment with gameplay, which they HAVENT done, as the formula just keeps repeating and repeating. I keep saying that they think they are COCA COLA they aren't, they are a damned MMO and MMO's need to innovate and break the mold constantly in some ways. CHANGE FOR THE SAKE OF CHANGE sometimes needs to happen, they have broken over half of Yoshi-P's holy bible that he so proudly powerpointed out with his bulletpoints, what's one more rule in "change for the sake of change" gonna damage anymore.

8.0 needs to be a splash with experiments, fresh ideas, solid story and transparency in their plans. Or else this downhill will just keep going steeper until this game will be left with drones who just log in to afk in Limsa.

[Kozh]

In terms of making merch on the SE store, I have to point out that FFXIV players are profiting off FFXIV handmade merch on Etsy like crazy. It's only fair for SE to make a tiny, miniscule percentage of that profit themselves from the SE store merch, which is very likely just a drop in the ocean of what players are making collectively through their own art and merch that they have no permission for.

Oh no... that poor indie game dev...

Man, if only their merch don't cost an arm and a leg, maybe they can profit more...


Sarcasm aside, I don't mind ff14 merch being advertised at PLL, but it's the way they handled it that irks me. The length of time they wasted to talk about merchs keep getting longer and longer. We don't need to spend that much time talking about the twins earing, do we? Just notify us about the new product, show the link to online store at the end of PLL, done.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

[...]Just notify us about the new product, show the link to online store at the end of PLL, done.

They gotta make sure there's as little window as possible to talk about the job gameplay, yanno... The lesser, the better. :P

[Rithy255]

I don't think they will, maybe dawntrail will be a wake up call that they need to actually listen to feedback (of course they shouldn't just listen to everything, a lot of people asked for 2 minute bursts only and look how that turnt out).

Honestly this game will likely carry down it's current path as it's what's safest, taking no risks is what they've been doing for years now even if they steadily lose players to them it's better then taking any risks for a potentially more successful game.

[Carin-Eri]

I'm not sure, personally.

I mean, I found the Q&A segment of the last live-letter really frustrating personally. It didn't feel like it addressed very much and there were too many replies that basically amounted to:
- Player Feedback: "this is a problem"
- YoshiP: "We will consider addressing this in the future" OR "I don't consider this to be a problem"

I know for a fact that the last Live-letter caused a few people to cancel their subscriptions (sadly, @Mawlzy being one) - whether the lackluster Q&A session contributed to that decision or not I don't know.

However, I DO know that holding Q&A sessions where the replies are corporate non-answers holds no value whatsoever.

[Mawlzy]

I'm not sure, personally.

I mean, I found the Q&A segment of the last live-letter really frustrating personally. It didn't feel like it addressed very much and there were too many replies that basically amounted to:
- Player Feedback: "this is a problem"
- YoshiP: "We will consider addressing this in the future" OR "I don't consider this to be a problem"

I know for a fact that the last Live-letter caused a few people to cancel their subscriptions (sadly, @Mawlzy being one) - whether the lackluster Q&A session contributed to that decision or not I don't know.

However, I DO know that holding Q&A sessions where the replies are corporate non-answers holds no value whatsoever.

Mostly it was the content, particularly Cosmic Explo, that pushed me over the edge.

The LL just confirmed for me that things are unlikely to get better any time soon.

[Valence]

We're talking about a job, not a hobby, Jeeq. If your job is literally eating up all your time so that you can't even play a single video game on the side for months, that's called crunching.

[MatchaokaCha]

It's already a trash fire at this point. They had the audacity to drop that hot sack of crap called Occult Crescent, while attempting to assuage outrage over, what is clearly, downgraded content by FINALLY giving Hroths and Vieras some hats. They're mocking your intelligence at this point with the recent CS marketing ploy they know some suckers are going to be conned into buying. SE no longer respects your intelligence, so why the hell should you respect their business? Don't wait and hope they'll do anything in 8.0. They clearly don't respect their customers at this point.

[HyperiusUltima]

Looks like they aren’t delaying on the Forked Tower fix. This is a step in the right direction, but they’ve got a long road ahead of them if they want to regain our trust.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Looks like they aren’t delaying on the Forked Tower fix. This is a step in the right direction, but they’ve got a long road ahead of them if they want to regain our trust.

Can't wait for them to take 3 steps to the left direction in near future, someway, somehow.