outlawauron said:
In a sense, there is some disconnect, but I also feel they have tried and jumped through every hoop to please and communicate with fans. Look at FF14. Never before have I seen a large company rescind fees that the player agreed to, because the experience wasn't what they hoped.
Fast forward to now, they've taken player feedback and are essentially re-launching the game. That's clearly a company who cares about their fans.
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But that's the thing, nobody cares about XIV, if they did the game probably would have sold well regardless of its atrocious launch. to make matters worse, they actually pooled their resources from other teams to 'fix' final fantasy XIV in spite of the fact it's already ruined. Even if they make it the best MMO ever, that doesn't change the fact that they're taking resources from other, more popular ideas (vsXIII, Kingdom Hearts 3, FFXV) or completely ignoring projects that fans are BEGGING for (FFVII remake, The World Ends with you 2) in spite of how relatively cheap they'd be to produce compared to the inevitable sales.
They're entirely disconnected. It's almost like they're actively avoiding all the things the fans want in lieu of whatever bullshit scheme they're concocting. "Oh, the fans want a remake of FFVII?" "Meh, they don't know what they want, let's pump out another sequel to Final Fantasy XIII, you know, that game that got the lowest scores of the franchise and has garnered all sorts of hate and only a few white knights."
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