The Final Fantasy XI Team Answers Your Questions! (01/20/2011)

[JigglyJam]

ooo FoV change before the update? hurray!


I wonder if they'll keep the fees for the auction houses the same. With access to storage, cheaper auction house fees, and not having to make the trip to jeuno to sell things might lead players to gravitate their mules back to the three nations.

[EvilTheCat]

Who asks these dumb questions anyway? I wish they came with players name and server. Some of the "this is not dropping/working as intended" questions seem made up by them as obvious things they already know about.

Need more "Wheres the game heading besides adding more equipment every update?" "What are they doing about the jobs seal that have been placed on terrible quests?"

[Shenrien]

"What are they doing about the jobs seal that have been placed on terrible quests?"

placed on an easy to kill NM that a MNK and WHM can duo.

[Kaslo]

placed on an easy to kill NM that a MNK and WHM can duo.

Isn't that 95% of the NMs?

[Julian]

There is going to be an inherent amount of lag between NA responses compared to JP responses. This sucks, yes, but man this is WAY more responsive than anything we have ever seen before. Keep in mind that this post is just a few days after they opened the twitter. I am willing to see where this goes before I start worrying about an NA/JP bias.

Eh, it's not a huge deal, since the kind of things they're looking over is stuff that everyone is complaining about, which is great. The main point is, the JP one will probably all be looked at by devs, while the NA ones will be pruned by the NA people, and then maybe forwarded. Stuff that's needed to get done is getting done, which is great, but they're not really listening to us.

Like I said, I'm extremely happy with the direction things are going. I just like to complain.

[Sho]

Eh, it's not a huge deal, since the kind of things they're looking over is stuff that everyone is complaining about, which is great. The main point is, the JP one will probably all be looked at by devs, while the NA ones will be pruned by the NA people, and then maybe forwarded. Stuff that's needed to get done is getting done, which is great, but they're not really listening to us.

Like I said, I'm extremely happy with the direction things are going. I just like to complain.

Is it really so huge a difference between NA and JP complaints anyways? It's not like JP are completely stupid and don't share some of the majors concerns that we do. I can see NA spamming with more frivolous complaints that would have been overlooked at any rate.

[orson]

In addition to taking limit off of fovs for xp, I'd like to see it become impossible to get xp in Abyssea until level 60-65 or so. I don't really have a purpose in joining Abyssea pick up xp, but have done +1/+2 emp items with WHM/BLM who leeched their job to 90 and think that their sub makes it viable for them to come for DD. Just overall tried of meeting people who leeched like 10+ jobs to 90 and suck terribly at all of them, having an attitude that you could understand from someone who just started playing below level 30, but not from someone who has 10 level 90 jobs... I don't blacklist people, but I am getting an incredibly long list of people who I will never do any actual events with ever again.

I'd like to see someone bring up a good reason for getting xp in Abyssea at lower levels. Besides wanting to leech xp.

Get a life. Nobody wants to have crappy exp for 30+ anymore.

There always have been terrible players. Leveling a job was just as easy prior just took a bit longer. A lot of old Maat cap players didn't give 2 shits about all but their 3-4 mains. Whether you're a good or bad player wholly boils down to if you put in the effort to research your job so it's merited and geared properly.

[Kaslo]

Not to mention 90% of Maat's cap owners sucked at all their jobs, even mains.

[Toth]

Well, the next patch was always due in March so its nice to say they are actually increasing the schedule. However...we need to know when the Fanfest is and soon ; ; We know there are 10 levels worth of content left coming (well 9+ merits lol) but it's time to let us know how this is coming and when. Are we FINALLY going to get new, non-recycled areas and continents to explore?

[Darkmagi]

Where the fuck is the Dragua/Apademak empyrean question?

[vagus]

The ability to get into Abyssea from other places is all well and good, but I wonder how /sh will work now... will things become too sparse? I hope the community decides on a "main" area for such /sh to happen in.

JP's on Odin still use Aht Urghan.

Glad SE is listening to players. Some of these patches are a bit late, however the abyssea patch for atma is quite fast considering how long Abyssea has been out.

[EvilTheCat]

placed on an easy to kill NM that a MNK and WHM can duo.

Yes because everyone has a WHM and MNK duo combo or dual boxes. Idiot.

[Absolutely Virtue]

Dear SE:

I would like you to make it as easy as possible for me to level up all my jobs. Once I'm finished with that, I would like you to nerf all the missions so they're easier for me to complete. Once I'm finished with that, I'd like you to improve all the drop rates for the gear I want, so I can get it all. Once I'm finished with that, I'd like you to create new content that appeals to my specific tastes.

But while you're at it, I would like for you to make it as difficult as possible for other people to level up. I want you to change the missions I have completed back to their original difficulty. I want you to reduce the drop rate on the gear I already own to 0.001%. I would also like you to get rid of all content that appeals to other players but does not appeal to me.

Thanks,

Virt

[Absolutely Virtue]

placed on an easy to kill NM that a BST can solo.

ftfy

[Yugl]

Dear SE:

I would like you to make it as easy as possible for me to level up all my jobs. Once I'm finished with that, I would like you to nerf all the missions so they're easier for me to complete. Once I'm finished with that, I'd like you to improve all the drop rates for the gear I want, so I can get it all. Once I'm finished with that, I'd like you to create new content that appeals to my specific tastes.

But while you're at it, I would like for you to make it as difficult as possible for other people to level up. I want you to change the missions I have completed back to their original difficulty. I want you to reduce the drop rate on the gear I already own to 0.001%. I would also like you to get rid of all content that appeals to other players but does not appeal to me.

Thanks,

Virt

Spoken like the real AV.

[millionsknives]

I wish they'd just make the level caps optional >_<

[Siatdiat]

Fuck off. If you don't wanna do shit with idiots, get some friends. Pickup people always sucked and they always will suck, there's nothing you can do about it.

K, I guess I don't have friends. People getting mad enough on the forum and attack peoples character because they want to play the game again as opposed to stand around leeching jobs 30+, and start using profanity about it?

You decide.

More people getting butt hurt. So I need to get a life, and fuck off. Why is it cool to have xp be all about standing around leeching xp to max level, but people mention item drop rates increasing and its not hardcore enough? If you could lay the game 30-75 and enjoy it, would you choose that over standing around in Abyssea?

I suppose I'm the fucked up one for wanting to play the game, versus standing around thumbing my ass. How about you, get a life, and fuck off, in any order you choose.

[rezn0r]

i'd probably put the fucking at the start of the order regardless

[Siatdiat]

i'd probably put the fucking at the start of the order regardless

I edited it so your post doesn't make sense now!

[Jeryhn]

Where the fuck were the "Fix the Auto-translate" and "Can we unbreak the key item list once we get 200 KIs" questions?

Honestly I'd also like to see a key item category solely for Abyssea to be made to go along with the other four.