Please help me understand.

[Ashal]

Ok.
I canceled my account with you guys a long time ago because FFXIV was garbage.
Since then I have monitored the updates that have gone on in hopes that something final fantasy like would eventually emerge.
Today after reading some of the things that are going on I had to reactivate my account and ask some questions.
Why, for the love of god, did you think that releasing an egg hunt NOW is better than chocobos?

How is releasing an egg hunt better than airships? Why why why are you utilizing the dev teams for stuff like this over the LITANY of things that are wrong with the game.

For all intents and purposes this game is in a second beta. The damn egg hunt can wait.

How about releasing something that makes this game feel like a final fantasy.

I just really don't understand what you are thinking. I am constantly amazed at how you continue to release things that are so far down on the ladder of importance that it almost feels like you're trolling everyone.

What is wrong with you? I don't get the logic. At all. I'm trying to understand, I've read the letters from the producer and I'm still unable to grasp what you are thinking by releasing crap like this.

Then there is the picture of the grand companies. Chocobos all over the place. Are you serious?! Really?

Are you trying to piss people off? Is that the goal now? Are you saying, well the game has gone to the crapper so lets have some fun by shoving the things people want in their face without giving it to them and laugh. Seriously, if you really want to piss people off more why don't you put some more pictures up of people riding chocobos onto airships. Or how about those flying machines we see in the opening movie? Put some more of those pics up of the stuff we will never see.

What are you thinking? Did no one think that picture was probably going to inflame people? Who is giving the green light to this? You guys have no idea how badly you are running this game into the ground. I don't get it.

I really wish I could talk to you face to face because I don't think you accurately understand or feel the emotion a person that has paid 90 dollars or more on this game, with no way to get a refund, feels about the things you are doing.

Talking to reporters is nothing compared to actually talking to one of your customers. Reporters are worried about you not giving them access to any new titles or hands on with your game so they're not going to say things like "What were you thinking?".

I just really do not get it. I don't get it.

Then I hear that there is a limit on gathering. There's a hard cap on gathering? On gathering? Someone has a main job that has as they're main purpose for existing is to gather materials and you're going to put a hard cap on the amount of times they can do it? That's like putting a hard cap on the amount of times someone can cast a spell or swing a weapon. It's just completely retarded.
What is wrong with you? Who thought this was a good idea? I am constantly, without fail, amazed at the stupidity in which you are handling this game. It's almost bordering on criminal negligence.
You want to give the impression that you care about what people want but then release crap like an egg hunt that nobody wanted. Nobody wanted.

If I had a choice between an egg hunt and chocobos, I'd pick the chocobos because at least it would feel more like a final fantasy which if i recall is in the title.

If i had a choice over more equipment and airships, I'd pick the airships because, once again, it would make this game feel more like a final fantasy.

What is wrong with you? What is wrong with you? I don't understand it. I really don't understand it. It's incredible to me how you are wasting time, and manpower with things that nobody wants.

Why did you waste the man power developing enemy icons? Who asked for that? Who? Name names. I'd like to see an exact list of all the people that said hey, you know what we really need in this game? Larger Icons.

Oh my god this is all inconceivable to me. It makes no sense. None.

Who asked for enemy motions to be adjusted? Who asked for that? Really? Enemy motions over
chocobos and airships? What fool thought that was a good idea?

Enlarging graphics? Who asked for that? Why are people working on things like this. Why weren't those people working on oh I don't know the copy pasted terrain?

Oh my god you people have no idea how to develop your own game. It's just incredible. It's incredible how you are running this game into the ground. There is no hope that you will wake up and do the right thing. Final Fantsy was the name in gaming. Now it's a sad joke. What are you thinking? What is wrong with you?

[Zenaku]

am sorry i only read few lines the wall of text kill it for me if you please have the time to space them out then i read but at the end i tell you this.

There team working on each part of the game, so the onces who did the event are working on only doing events like x-mas and so on becuase i guess there not good enough to do the other stuff they need fixing. The game still need time to get fix.

everything they have done is ask by us btw the UI was very to small and that needed fixing. so i think they doing a good job but i still want final fantasy xiv how tanaka said it in his interview now yoshi-p is making it own right now am not liking his verison of that game vs the one tanaka said it going to be.

[origamikitsune]

Simple answer. You have one person working on the code for the UI. It goes slow. So you hire two more. It goes faster, so you hire three. All of a sudden you have too many people developing overlapping code, one person is always waiting for the other two to finish the sections they are on, so they aren't doing anything. So in order to catch the waiting person up on the new code, it has to be explained to them. The effort of coordination and communication starts to slow the process down again. So you take that extra third person, and put them on something else. Now the two people working on the UI are working at a faster speed again.

Basically you can only have so many people working on any one thing before it starts to hinder the process. Coding isn't like doing laundry where more people get it folded faster. Its more like changing the breaks on a car. Four people a great, five not so much, ten is pointless.

Now look at FF. They may have 10 people working on it, they may have 100 people working on it. At the point where you have 100 people working on it, you can have a whole team dedicated to things like easter egg quests without slowing down the overall process.

See. Simple explanation.