Housing enjoyers will continue to wait, but please don't forget your promise

[Slainne]

Contrary to what appears to be the sentiment of a large part of the community right now, I'm not displeased with the Live Letter. I've been enjoying the current content in Occult Crescent and Forked Tower, and I'm looking forward to a lot of the content and improvements they showed off in the Live Letter today.

I'm grateful for all that the devs have put into the game, but I am slightly disheartened again to see that the teased housing improvements that were proposed during Fanfests over two years ago still have yet to be implemented. I don't want to be considered ungrateful for feeling that way, and I'm very thankful for all the time and effort the devs have put into the content they selected to work on for this patch, and all the work thus far in the 7.x patches.

We knew it wouldn't come right away; we were told it would be awhile. We'll wait, as patiently as we have been. Some of us may take a break, and wait while enjoying other things-- and that's okay. I appreciate all that the devs do, and I'll still be here, enjoying other parts of the game.

Please, don't forget about the housing enjoyers. I make no demands or threats, claiming to leave or to be wholly disappointed for one singular aspect of this multi-faceted game. I just ask that you don't forget us.


Waiting patiently for more,
- a housing enthusiast

[Striker44]

Contrary to what appears to be the sentiment of a large part of the community right now, I'm not displeased with the Live Letter.

Just want to remind you that the amount of people who actually pay attention to the LL's is barely a grain of sand on the beach compared to the playerbase, and it's a grain that seems to be perpetual complainers. The "large part of the community" couldn't be bothered with it at all, let alone have an opinion on it.

[Themarvin]

They need to stop lying and get more to work on the stuff on the development side, you can't just run a shell crew for this, SE must realize that and how much they are punishing the the FFXIV team and even worse... how much they are punishing those playing the game.

[CidHeiral]

Just want to remind you that the amount of people who actually pay attention to the LL's is barely a grain of sand on the beach compared to the playerbase, and it's a grain that seems to be perpetual complainers. The "large part of the community" couldn't be bothered with it at all, let alone have an opinion on it.

True, I see people every day responding to Hroth/Viera hat comments with "we're getting hats?!" lol

[Velthice]

I'm grateful...I don't want to be considered ungrateful...I'm very thankful

This is a very backwards relationship to have with a corporation. SE is a business and yoship is a businessman, not your friend. Never forget that, because if you make the mistake of thinking that they care about you, they will take advantage of that misplaced goodwill 10/10 times.

They should be grateful for YOUR patronage, not the other way around. As a paying customer, you have every right to voice your dissatisfaction and demand a better experience. Don't try to appeal to their feelings, they don't care. They care about the bottom line and making number go up, but if you tell them you'll keep playing regardless of what they do or don't do, then why would they ever listen to you? They already got you, hook line and sinker, so they have no reason to spend any effort trying to appease you.

[MicahZerrshia]

and it's a grain that seems to be perpetual complainers.

You mean the ppl who are actually paying attn to whats going on and not afking in LL all day or playing a week and then unsubbing for 4 months are unhappy and vocalizing that unhappiness? Well color me shocked, shocked I tells ya!

[Slainne]

Why can't it go both ways? I can be grateful for what I paid for getting updates and improvements, and I'm genuinely happy with the things that they do decide to work on, even if some other things I'd like get left out. I have faith in Yoshi P that he is grateful for the people who continue to play the game, and I think there's been plenty of times that he's shown that.

The experience /is/ good, and I don't have to complain just because it's not perfect. You said I have every right to voice my opinion, and I did. Respectfully.

[MayuAmakura]

Why can't it go both ways? I can be grateful for what I paid for getting updates and improvements, and I'm genuinely happy with the things that they do decide to work on, even if some other things I'd like get left out. I have faith in Yoshi P that he is grateful for the people who continue to play the game, and I think there's been plenty of times that he's shown that.

The experience /is/ good, and I don't have to complain just because it's not perfect. You said I have every right to voice my opinion, and I did. Respectfully.

I'm not sure if you understood the comment from Velthice. You "can" be happy for certain things but you may realized that this game hasn't been respecting your time nor your money. YoshiP isn't your friend. He just cares about your subscription like any business man would. Square doesn't care about us either and they have clearly showed that.

I myself hate them for not releasing housing update. It's what they always do. They give you a hype, they want you to feed on it and then never release the content they promised or do it after 1-2 years. Am very disappointed with 7.3 patch.

[Gortys]

I took what they said as meaning they are working on it and it's taking longer than expected. YoshiP etc have not been averse to delivering bad news for some community desires so if they know they aren't going to do it, then I think he would have said so.

[Gortys]

I'm not sure if you understood the comment from Velthice. You "can" be happy for certain things but you may realized that this game hasn't been respecting your time nor your money. YoshiP isn't your friend. He just cares about your subscription like any business man would. Square doesn't care about us either and they have clearly showed that.

I myself hate them for not releasing housing update. It's what they always do. They give you a hype, they want you to feed on it and then never release the content they promised or do it after 1-2 years. Am very disappointed with 7.3 patch.

If you hate them then I hope you unsub. It's not good for your own mental health to feel this way and it's not good financially to pay for something if you aren't getting what you want the most from it.

Also, I think Slainne perfectly understood. Their point was that housing was obviously not the make or break it seems to be for you in FFXIV. If you haven't unsubbed then it's not really a make or break for you either. I don't care about housing so this doesn't affect me, but if people unsub for it? The first time I unsubbed to WoW was because they removed class quests and changed a mount I quested for. We all have different reasons for playing these games. We aren't a monolith and everyone wants something different in their gaming experience and I respect that.