Dev Tracker

[Pharaun]

Then what the fuck was your point? Trying to say that hitting SE in the pocketbook would effect any change is laughable at this point.

[Septimus]

Then what the fuck was your point? Trying to say that hitting SE in the pocketbook would effect any change is laughable at this point.

Because why are we paying for a game where the development team has its collective head up its collective ass? Even if it doesn't change anything, why should we keep giving them money if they are going to troll us at every turn?

[fantasticdan]

Sword Weapon Skill “Requiescat”
Since Spirits Within’s damage varies based on your amount of HP and TP, we are adjusting Requiescat so that it will be easier to use than Spirits Within once you have 300 TP and also so that jobs that cannot boost their HP as high as paladins will be able to deal damage.

Also, Atonement is an easy to use weapon skill for paladins, which has a special feature, so the idea behind Requiescat was to give jobs other than paladin, specifically red mage and blue mage, a good weapon skill choice.

http://pressthepsbutton.files.wordpr...pg?w=372&h=300

[Alkar]

Good news everyone!
"We want Fenrir's new Blood Pact to be useful between 1:00 and 2:30 on 100% Full Moon and a complete waste of a job ability the rest of the time." Why waste development time on this?

Add to this that they "may" increase accuracy for Nocturnus and add a bonus if it fails but not damage because that would actually make sense.
And yeah the new WS nerfs is simply BS. Is there any WS actually worth meriting now?

[Darkmagi]

Gun, Gaxe for mighty strikes/bravura, dagger, gk, staff(lol), archery for yoichi sam?.

[Gokulo]

Lol, I was thinking about coming back to the game after the patch, but when I look at their decisions, I'm not sure it's worth the headache.

[machiko]

Good luck getting FFXI to flop harder than XIV.

I have no idea if it's possible to go over Ito/Tanaka's heads, but if it was it wouldn't be something a non-JP speaker could do that's for sure. The worst part is that the JP boards are just as up in arms about this bullshit as we are - moreso really, since most of the anger posts in the English forums get 10-15 likes, while anger posts in the JP forums are getting 100+

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Maybe Tanaka feels bad and responsible for FFXIV failing and is on a quest to ruin FFXI to make all us sheep go flock to FFXIV instead (most of us sadly are this dumb). Sounds retarded but not as retarded as throwing out all the progress they made listening and making good content over the last 2 years and now just annoying us all with everything they do/add.

[Lordender]

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Maybe Tanaka feels bad and responsible for FFXIV failing and is on a quest to ruin FFXI to make all us sheep go flock to FFXIV instead (most of us sadly are this dumb). Sounds retarded but not as retarded as throwing out all the progress they made listening and making good content over the last 2 years and now just annoying us all with everything they do/add.

I think Tanaka is just way out of touch with reality, he's one hell of a producer/director for single player console games but he's terrible at MMO's. He was probably on heavy dosage of oxycotton when he was drawing up the plans for XIV. Tanaka needs the Gordon Ramsey of video games to show up at his office just so he can point out just how delusional he is.

[Scythiroth]

I'm mostly just confused about limiting merit categories at all, including these new WSs. If people want to waste time getting tons and tons of merits, wouldn't that be good for the game since they would technically be playing for longer? >.> I highly doubt letting people max everything would really affect things -too- much. It's not like we would all of a sudden become way overpowered having all of them.

[Trigun]

They're back to their old ways.

So the only way I remember them making drastic changes fast was after the Pandemonium Warden marathon and when FFXIV made their stock drop.

Make a list of demands together and pick a day to #OccupyXI.

[Spekkio]

the problem is their process. in a single player game, it's perfectly fine to make half the abilities for a player fall under the "why do i give a crap?" category. look at debuff magic, especially in older games, it was next to useless in most cases, but we didn't care because it was a marginal effort to get and something cool would be coming down the pike soon. not every aspect needs to be tailored to pass the "why do i give a crap?" test because you know something new is coming that will.

that test becomes essential to an online game where the cost has to be MUCH higher for any reward to keep the skinner box going. that reward has to be worth it. in short, i have to give a crap. the problem is, outside of the golden age we experienced recently, SE has never applied said test. new blp created that we would never use. a new crafting category that is a huge nuisance for little gain (synergy). these things are not put past the "why do i give a crap" test and when we the player do, because our decision to use it is critically based on that test, they fail miserably.

SE is giving us a monkey's paw bargain. we ask for new spells, they give us temper. we ask for new ws, they give us something no better than what we have, but we have to work for the privilege. we ask for upgrades to weapons, we're told to collect 1,500 items for 150k ea for a marginal gain. outside of that golden age of abyssea, they find some way to troll us by giving us what we ask for, not what we want.

take the damn monkey's paw away from these fools. make them ask themselves one critical question before adding or changing anything: if i make this change, how many times out of a hundred will a player want to use the content i'm adding? if the answer is below 10, you're wasting your money and my time developing content that will never be used and thus does not exist. all you've done is made a claustrum. it may be pretty, but at the end of the day, it's pretty crap.

[Lordender]

I think the worst thing about XI is that just about all the new shit that gets added people always ask this question: Is it worth it? most of the time its laughed off and becomes an afterthought.

If its not worth it, why spend the money, dev time to add it? SE are the kings of redtape, there is never point A to point B in a straight line because SE makes you go in all these different directions just to get where you want to go.

[Appie]

Hand-to-Hand Weapon Skill “Shijin Spiral”
There have been requests saying that this is weaker than Stringing Pummel and Victory Smite, so please make it stronger than both of those, but we cannot do this for the same reasons listed for our adjustments to Ruinator and Realm Razer.

We have also received some comments saying that the damage of Shijin Spiral is no different than Asuran Fists, or perhaps lower.

We took a look at the conditions of the players who performed weapon skill tests, but there are differences in attack power when executing each weapon skill, and because of this the result was that Asuran Fists and Victory Smite was higher.

Shijin Spiral is stronger than Asuran Fists and when boosting your stats using the appropriate equipment and food, the differences between Asuran Fists and Shijin Spiral will become more apparent, and the gap between Victory Smite and Shijin Spiral will also become smaller.

This is one of the saddest things I have ever read (other things being the comments from Camate on the other WS in that dev tracker post). What the fuck makes them think we going to bother for such lackluster shit? So I can have shit sub par to weapon skills I already got? I am just going to just .dat swap the new animation and save me the hassle of merit bullshit. How the fuck can you not understand vertical progression after going from 75 to 95 and then "balancing" shit out with lv55 weaponskills? Seriously?! Weaponskills I could get from a fuckin sub job need balance with a 1 million exp weaponskill I can only get at 99? Really?! REALLY SE?!?!

The signs were obvious the past months, but it is obvious now they seriously fuckin lost it.

edit: I am aware that Shijin is one of the "decent" WS on the test server so far, I only quoted that part because it shows the apathetic tone of the whole message nicely, which annoys me the most.

[Eagleheart]

Because why are we paying for a game where the development team has its collective head up its collective ass? Even if it doesn't change anything, why should we keep giving them money if they are going to troll us at every turn?

I always thought I would be the last person in my circle of friends to quit. XI was the first MMO I ever played, and I have tried hard to stick with it because of all the people I know, and am frankly afraid that if we quit XI, we'll just stop talking eventually. Happens a lot in such situations.

But my entire friend list says basically the same thing. "Why stick around if we're going back to the old XI? I don't want to be here for that." Frankly, I do not either. Why do we keep paying for them to, as you accurately put it, troll us?

Because really, this is indeed trolling. No one could be this bloody stupid. Why, I don't know - maybe Tanaka's ego is burnt by XIV being taken from him after he annihilated it - maybe he's angry about all the things people (fairly, in my opinion) say about him, but at this point, someone in dev team is simply out to make the playerbase angry.

And maybe Lordender is right, maybe it's simply time to pack up and say screw off, SE. Between voidwatch, and 'abyssea was a mistake', and the weaponskill bait-and-switch, I'm just bloody tired of dealing with the constant disappointment.

/rambling.

[Forte]

I'll keep playing as long as I'm still having fun. When I stop having fun, I'll leave.

That doesn't mean I don't think SE is retarded as fuck and will yell at them every chance I get. It simply means that for all the fucked up shit they've pulled, they somehow have yet to kill the small bastion of fun I still derive from it.

[Septimus]

Good news everyone!

Hey guys! We will be looking into adjusting the caps to waltz cure potency along with our adjustments to cure potency in general. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/im...lies/smile.png

In regards to your feedback about separating shared cooldowns for DNC, the dev. team has no plans on separating them.

They know that the job is broken, but they aren't going to do what it takes to fix it.

We need a Professor Farnsworth icon.

[Greatguardian]

This is one of the saddest things I have ever read (other things being the comments from Camate on the other WS in that dev tracker post). What the fuck makes them think we going to bother for such lackluster shit? So I can have shit sub par to weapon skills I already got? I am just going to just .dat swap the new animation and save me the hassle of merit bullshit. How the fuck can you not understand vertical progression after going from 75 to 95 and then "balancing" shit out with lv55 weaponskills? Seriously?! Weaponskills I could get from a fuckin sub job need balance with a 1 million exp weaponskill I can only get at 99? Really?! REALLY SE?!?!

The signs were obvious the past months, but it is obvious now they seriously fuckin lost it.

edit: I am aware that Shijin is one of the "decent" WS on the test server so far, I only quoted that part because it shows the apathetic tone of the whole message nicely, which annoys me the most.

After seeing that they had planned some response for Shijin Spiral, I breathed a huuuuuge sigh of relief when they posted that. I think the JP forums were either incompetent in their testing, or intentionally asking them to buff an already-strong WS, so at least it's not getting a nerf. For a Spharai owner like you, Shijin Spiral is going to be the top WS around - better than Vereth/VSmite.

Essentially, for that WS at least, they may as well be responding to players saying Tachi: Shoha is too weak. It's got sort of a "Uh... this is one of the strongest WS out there, and destroys Stringing Pummel, y u so angry?" vibe to it, and I can understand it in this one case, since the WS is actually awesome.

[scaevola]

After seeing that they had planned some response for Shijin Spiral, I breathed a huuuuuge sigh of relief when they posted that. I think the JP forums were either incompetent in their testing, or intentionally asking them to buff an already-strong WS, so at least it's not getting a nerf. For a Spharai owner like you, Shijin Spiral is going to be the top WS around - better than Vereth/VSmite.

Sometimes it's fun to forget the assumptions we've all gained from years of FFXI and laugh at the absurdity of how the weapon skill that actually comes with the hyper-exclusive weapon you're talking about is not even on the table when discussing competitive uses of said weapon.

[Taint]

I'll keep playing as long as I'm still having fun. When I stop having fun, I'll leave.

That doesn't mean I don't think SE is retarded as fuck and will yell at them every chance I get. It simply means that for all the fucked up shit they've pulled, they somehow have yet to kill the small bastion of fun I still derive from it.

Thats kind of how I approach it. FFXI is the first and last MMO I'll ever play, gonna wear it out as long as there is something worth while to do. My biggest fear for the 99 cap is that Emp/Relic weapons will have some retarded trial and I'll lose motivation. (more retarded then HMPs)

[Skeelo]

My biggest fear is that VW is going to be the endgame. I cant take that shitty system much longer.