5 Honest Questions for the FFXIV Player Base

[Macha]

1. Do you understand the basics of any development cycle (How long it takes/How it works)?
2. Do you think that the dev team, under Tanaka, included meaningful documentation in their code?
3. Are you a major stock holder?
4. Do you understand the meaning of the phrase "we have to stand before we can walk"?
5. Have you, personally, seen ANY of the feedback submitted other than your own that was not on the forums?

I can say "Yes" to only two of these questions.
What about you?

[Nephera]

1. yeah, from being on the sidelines to personally knowing a dev or two.
2. God i hope so or we're going to be in serious trouble.
3. nope
4.yup
5. yup

[Evangela]

1. Do you understand the basics of any development cycle (How long it takes/How it works)?
--- I'm not a professional but I don't think these thing need to be a pro to understand it

2. Do you think that the dev team, under Tanaka, included meaningful documentation in their code?
--- I don't know

3. Are you a major stock holder?
--- No

4. Do you understand the meaning of the phrase "we have to stand before we can walk"?
--- Yes, but you shouldn't try to sell something when you still don't know how to stand

5. Have you, personally, seen ANY of the feedback submitted other than your own that was not on the forums?
--- Yes

[PeppinoTuna]

1. Do you understand the basics of any development cycle (How long it takes/How it works)?
2. Do you think that the dev team, under Tanaka, included meaningful documentation in their code?
3. Are you a major stock holder?
4. Do you understand the meaning of the phrase "we have to stand before we can walk"?
5. Have you, personally, seen ANY of the feedback submitted other than your own that was not on the forums?

I can say "Yes" to only two of these questions.
What about you?

1. I'm learning about child development cycles in psychology.
2. Yes.
3. Not for Square Enix.
4. Does this relate to my answer to #1? If so, yes, I understand it.
5. Yes.

[Nabiri]

1. I believe so.
2. Yes.
3. Nope.
4. Yes.
5. Yes.

Curious.. What is the point of this?

[Evenstar]

1. Yes. My study is related to developing software. So I know how it works. It is not as easy as some people happen to think. Especially in the current situation of FFXIV I only can imagine the mess. They are redesigning a big portion of the game. Since everything is related to each other I can understand why it takes so long. It is not like you change a few lines of code and patch the game to awesome mode.

2. No. I also think the code is one big mess. I base my opinion on the developers post about the ambient sound. The ambient sound is not coded separately, so at this moment there is no way to turn it off. Seriously, anyone with basic understanding of developing and modeling wouldn't make such a mistake. If they have to rewrite code for something simple as turning off the ambient sound I can only imagine how bad (and undocumented) the rest of the code is.

3) No. I think I miss the goal of this question, please explain

4) Yes, I do, but most people here obviously don't. They not only skip the standing part. They just want to start running from day 1, before they can walk (or even stand).

5. I might be stupid, but I do not get this question :P

[Reika]

1. Yes, and it is the reason why I don't want the devs to waste their time trying to scrap every current system in place and replace them... I just want improvements on what is already in play.

2. Not likely, or we would see more constant bug fixes.

3. no

4. yes

5. If you are talking about through the square enix support center, No i have not seen any of it, and I doubt anyone besides the Development team has...

[Cairdeas]

1. Do you understand the basics of any development cycle (How long it takes/How it works)?
Yes, admittedly I'm in IT for a Healthcare company that in house develops its own EMR to sell to hospitals and I support the actual devs hardware issues.

2. Do you think that the dev team, under Tanaka, included meaningful documentation in their code? It should have, the documentation alone for the code in our system is compiled in major databases. And its no where near as advanced as XIV is.

3. Are you a major stock holder?
Yes, I own stock in various companies, Including SE.

4. Do you understand the meaning of the phrase "we have to stand before we can walk"?
Yes.

5. Have you, personally, seen ANY of the feedback submitted other than your own that was not on the forums?
Yes, But only because I've seen LS members and other players tell me what they have submitted directly to SE through the suggestion/support site links before the forums were even created.

[PandaTaru]

Yes.
Yes/No -- Don't know for sure, but I do hope for them they got something.
lol.
yes.
No.

[Apricoth]

1. Do you understand the basics of any development cycle (How long it takes/How it works)?
A: Yes
2. Do you think that the dev team, under Tanaka, included meaningful documentation in their code?
A: Yes
3. Are you a major stock holder?
A: No
4. Do you understand the meaning of the phrase "we have to stand before we can walk"?
A: Yes
5. Have you, personally, seen ANY of the feedback submitted other than your own that was not on the forums?
A: No

Pretty straightforward questions. They deserved a straightforward answer.