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7/7/2025, 12:25:29 PM
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Island sanctuary wasn't stupid from a testing grounds perspective. That combined with cloud test servers made it REALLY seem for a while that we were going to get instanced housing. The "catastrophically stupid" part came after, when NOTHING came out of any of that and all of it -- including the cloud servers -- were brushed under the rug. And then, of course, we got to hear all about how "congested" the servers were.
>OC
This part was alarmingly stupid, I agree. Not trying to open this can of worms again, but telling your community that there was a "cost" issue for making a normal mode variation of the only foray dungeon you were even including in the first real not-raid grindcore content we'd received all patch, was a god damned mindfuck. XIV's raiding community are like the spongebob nematodes. They devour something and then quickly move on to the next thing. You barely see these people doubling back around to do chaotic or the previous savage tier, because once you get your rewards there's no reason to go back. The content has a naturally short shelf life (to say nothing of the FOMO surrounding it), so the people who enjoy it don't enjoy it for very long and quickly begin wondering when the next thing is going to release. Since they're far from the majority demographic anyway, they shouldn't be treated like a top priority imo, but Square continues to go out of their way to please this group, and when they piss them off they apologize like mad and perform rapid fixes to things that are affecting them. Meanwhile, housing enjoyers are still waiting for furniture caps to increase. Alternate job enjoyers are still waiting for news on beastmaster. Variant enjoyers are still waiting for their first variant dungeon. Deep dungeon enjoyers are still waiting for that. BLU enjoyers are all dead. Casual combat enjoyers are stuck running expert and maybe jeuno lol. Their priorities are dumb as fuck.
Island sanctuary wasn't stupid from a testing grounds perspective. That combined with cloud test servers made it REALLY seem for a while that we were going to get instanced housing. The "catastrophically stupid" part came after, when NOTHING came out of any of that and all of it -- including the cloud servers -- were brushed under the rug. And then, of course, we got to hear all about how "congested" the servers were.
>OC
This part was alarmingly stupid, I agree. Not trying to open this can of worms again, but telling your community that there was a "cost" issue for making a normal mode variation of the only foray dungeon you were even including in the first real not-raid grindcore content we'd received all patch, was a god damned mindfuck. XIV's raiding community are like the spongebob nematodes. They devour something and then quickly move on to the next thing. You barely see these people doubling back around to do chaotic or the previous savage tier, because once you get your rewards there's no reason to go back. The content has a naturally short shelf life (to say nothing of the FOMO surrounding it), so the people who enjoy it don't enjoy it for very long and quickly begin wondering when the next thing is going to release. Since they're far from the majority demographic anyway, they shouldn't be treated like a top priority imo, but Square continues to go out of their way to please this group, and when they piss them off they apologize like mad and perform rapid fixes to things that are affecting them. Meanwhile, housing enjoyers are still waiting for furniture caps to increase. Alternate job enjoyers are still waiting for news on beastmaster. Variant enjoyers are still waiting for their first variant dungeon. Deep dungeon enjoyers are still waiting for that. BLU enjoyers are all dead. Casual combat enjoyers are stuck running expert and maybe jeuno lol. Their priorities are dumb as fuck.
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