Excuses & Daily Updates

[Elexia]

I wouldn't call it defending since if you've played since Alpha it's ok to admit the game actually improved since then and especially since release, it just hasn't gotten any content. The current content isn't enough to satisfy everyone as guildleves were described to be the content for people who have a little time to play...however the game released with only said content so it's easy to understand what some people could mean by "the game has lots of content" because by definition, guidleves, sidequests and the main story arc is content, but it's subjective, because people only deem "dungeons" and raids as content.

I know it doesn't take me 20 minutes to clear my inventory like it did at beta and release and I know the game actually registers my actions unlike it did at release..so the game is improving, but I don't think anyone is defending by saying it's getting better because it is for all intents in purposes.

[Paksenarrion]

I guess it depends on when you started playing the game. I've been playing since launch so I have seen some changes of course. I mean, I still remember trying to find items without the market ward item search. Heck, that was a gigantic improvement alone. But as someone that has been playing since release, I've just got fed up with continuously waiting for a game to improve that was wrong from the beginning. I mean, who releases a game with a gigantic market ward system with retainers for each player... and then don't add in an item search? Just confuses me. How could they forget such a vital thing to an mmo and to a game in general? Even logic would side with an item search... when there is lots of items...

Anyway, regardless I'm still a fan of FFXIV. I know it had potential to be amazing, still does. Just something went wrong along the lines. I think they rushed the release to be honest.

[Jinko]

It's sad (and laughable) that people think they have the right to know what's going on behind the scenes, that's not to say I'm not curious of course but they aren't going to bare their soul just because a few people are getting frustrated.

Go play Rift for a couple of week or a month by which time you will be bored and ready to come back to FFXIV.

[Neptune]

What happened to that ridiculous [Request For SE] Disclose the Team Structure for FFXIV thread?

[Grimm]

What happened to that ridiculous [Request For SE] Disclose the Team Structure for FFXIV thread?

Deleted I believe.

[zaviermhigo]

I don't know if I've made an excuse until the delay for patches as a result of the recent crisis in Japan. But what I've said is there was no excuse for releasing XIV in almost the same state XI was in it's first year, they should of learned from there mistakes. People used to go "oh well XI didn't have that in its first year", wtf, well even more then XIV should of had this. Anima for getting unjankified I understand, what about other transportation for those of us who want it, and another city besides the three main cities sometime within the first year of release. That's all I really wanted :/ I know that programming is hard, but literally that's all I still want. Eff content if I have a chocobo (don't quote me on that, if they came out with content tomorrow I might be like "eh no way cool")

[Paksenarrion]

Did anyone here actually participate during the beta? Cause I heard a lot of players were upset due to the team not listening to the players. (Even though it was beta... and that's sort of the whole point?).

[Dubont]

Did anyone here actually participate during the beta? Cause I heard a lot of players were upset due to the team not listening to the players. (Even though it was beta... and that's sort of the whole point?).

I did and it's not that the team didn't listen to the players, but more of the players not actually giving proper feedback. Let me just give you some examples of the crap that I saw "Battlesystem is broken. Please fix it." "BRs are stupid. Make them back into skillchains." Essentially, every other bug report was a "QQ dis game sux!" report...

[Grimm]

Edited the OP this thread is officially about test servers.

[chime85]

It is hard to put a point on this one. Yes, we all would love hot off the press updates. However...

Day by day updates will be small, eg: yeah....we changed,......a code.....if you can read code, isnt this cool.

Also, if SE update publicly too much, they could give info to rival companies, which may jepodise the game further. also, being on a tight rope of PR, they do not wish to make promises they may not be able to keep