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[Deader2818]

You're right, it's impossible to have worked a job where you receive an unsatisfactory answer and calling someone to get better clarification is an unheard of action.

In that type of business, yes.

They are only spokes people so only tell us what they are allowed to tell us. I don't know why that is so hard of a concept for you. You're asking to get something that you are just never going to get.

[Spira]

agreed.

He definitely has someone to call, but it won't be the devs. Probably his supervisor, who reports to like PR or something. Its a big corp so they belong to entirely different chains of command, so to speak. Only difference is that devs are now more vocal than intended to be.

Also basically because he is just a forum rep, he can only relay messages and cannot directly influence it in any way other than his intended role (relaying feedback and delivering announcemts). In other words, they aren't given any form of empowerment in areas relating to game development insights. The scope of their power probably lies within the OF framework only

[Apelila]

You're right, it's impossible to have worked a job where you receive an unsatisfactory answer and calling someone to get better clarification is an unheard of action.

Except when the people you call have rules limiting what they can and cannot tell you. I've worked at places before where I was fully aware of why services in a specific area are out, but can only repeat one sentence and not deviate from the company line in anyway.

Then I moved to a position where I could tell people specifics. You know what happens 9 times out of 10? The people who demanded to know what was wrong then want to know why I can't magically fix it.

[NynJa]

Probably because when I am given the runaround or a bullshit answer, picking up the phone and actually talking to someone is often the easiest way to get a real response.

Try that when you're the employee instead of the butthurt customer who actually believes in that bullshit "the customer is always right" line.

[Colenzo]

GMs don't exist unless you say the word "nigger" true story. Its like the magic beetlejuice word. It makes them come out and do things.

[Byrthnoth]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...776#post263776

A little birdie told me that Meteor is coming pretty soon!

/ma "Invisible" < me >
silly forum code messing up my emote...

They also made some bullshit posts in the Pankration thread that didn't add information.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...677#post263677

Hey there Alhanelem http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/im...lies/smile.png

With these adjustments, there are no real changes to drops from other walks, so it’s not like the things that dropped there will no longer drop. Depending on the walk, there will be walks where coins drop easier and walks where Devious Dice will drop easier. On this basis, it’s possible to get the item you want efficiently by participating in the walk that caters better to that item.

Camate also gave some quasi-information about WoE that didn't make the tracker.

[Hirronimus]

Fo some reason I pictured Xzibit when I read that WoE response.

[Shenrien]

Not sure if it was posted.. but just incase.

Hello Insaniac!

I forwarded your question to the dev. team and they informed me that there are no plans in making the stats and the weapon skill damage different between the two stages of the weapons. The difference between the two will be the afterglow and the visual effect.

I hope that helps clear some confusion!

epic.

[Arkanna]

Not sure if it was posted.. but just incase.



epic.

...it's on THIS page. Heh.

[Draylo]

lol

[Churchill]

Except when the people you call have rules limiting what they can and cannot tell you. I've worked at places before where I was fully aware of why services in a specific area are out, but can only repeat one sentence and not deviate from the company line in anyway.

Then I moved to a position where I could tell people specifics. You know what happens 9 times out of 10? The people who demanded to know what was wrong then want to know why I can't magically fix it.

I'm glad we're telling stories, as has already been stated it is impossible for me to have any experience like this so I'm not sure what you're trying to relate to.

Try that when you're the employee instead of the butthurt customer who actually believes in that bullshit "the customer is always right" line.

Thanks sah.

[Lordender]

I want to work as an SE community rep, they get paid for delivering troll news, how could you not like that job? You get to deliver news that makes people rage then when the community backs you into the corner you just utter BALANCE! which is the equivalent of casting "Galaxy Stop" in FFT on the playerbase.

[Septimus]

Good news everyone!

Voidwatch

Howdy!

I would like to make an addition to a planned adjustment that was announced earlier.

The issue at hand is the highest priority issue that we would like to address first before we make any other adjustments. There are many other adjustments we would like to make, but if we make too many adjustments at once, the following issues may occur:

• The balance is shifted too quickly, possibly making the game worse
• It is difficult to see improvement because too many changes are made
• An unexpected adverse effect occurs due to the changes overlapping

To avoid these problems, it would be best to plan adjustments in order based on priority and their effect.

In response to us making adjustments in stages, many of you may feel that we are not making enough adjustments, but we hope you understand that our plan is to continuously make adjustments.

Also, when leaving feedback I would like to ask that you provide detailed opinions with suggestions for improvement, rather than simply stating whether you like or dislike a proposed adjustment. This would be very helpful for us.
　
Now, I will address some feedback that has been submitted.

I personally like the separation of weaknesses and loot, but I feel like this leads to players simply switching to their strongest jobs to finish content.

We understand your concern that players will simply switch to their strongest jobs due to the removal of the necessity to proc weaknesses and we’re carefully planning to address this issue.

In order to avoid content becoming monotonous, an idea we are looking into is not completely separating weakness and loot by increasing the maximum bonus attained through cells and other ascent items. As a result, if there are few players involved, using cells will replace having to proc weakness, and for larger parties, it would be possible to avoid paying the high cost for cells by procing weakness as usual.

We may discover some issues with the above proposal upon our extensive review, but we believe that if we completely separate weakness and loot, it is inevitable that players will lean toward using only their strongest jobs.

In order to allow creative freedom in battle, it is necessary to improve the effects of procing weakness, so that it is more enjoyable to use various tactics to proc weaknesses rather than resorting to using the strongest job available. This is a long term goal for us, so it is not possible to make this change all at once, but we will be taking steps one by one to achieve this goal.

Please let us know what you think.

Corsair

Dearest corsairs,

Just wanted to deliver some feedback that was being discussed on the Japanese forums in regards to Quick Draw and Rolls.

Personally, I would like to focus on Phantom Roll + Quick Draw + Weapon Skills.
(With the current system for Phantom Roll)
What is currently severely lacking is the number of charges for Quick Draw.
I would like this adjusted so that it would be possible to pull off something like the following rotation: Roll→2 Draws → Roll → 2 Draws…→Weapon Skill → Roll…
As such, I would like the number of charges for Quick Draw to be increased to about 6.

Increasing the number of charges will lead to an increase in damage dealt over the same time span, so this is something we have to look into very carefully.

Since Quick Draw is an ability, it can be used quickly and there is not much down time, which means that it is more convenient than ranged attacks and it is possible to deal as much damage as a weapon skill, based on how it is used. If the number of charges is simply increased, corsairs would have more attacking power than rangers.

If we do end up increasing the number of charges, we would have to nerf its effects to maintain balance. Whether or not it would be worth nerfing the effects to increase the number of charges is an issue that we are investigating with the help of your feedback.

In addition, we plan on adding enfeebling effects to Quick Draw in the enfeebling spell adjustments we have planned, so please look forward to these changes as well.

Gravity II and enfeebles

While this was communicated in the past, as a general direction for enfeebling magic adjustments as a whole (not limiting it to Gravity only), the development team is planning to make adjustments so it is more difficult for NMs and other high-level monsters to resist these spells.

More Voidwatch

Trust me when I say that I understand what your major concerns are and that discussions are taking place about them. However, when the team outlines other areas of adjustment, it does not mean that ways of improving what you care most about is not on their radar.

As a side note, being rude to me or other members of the team is not going to help your case or make the development team look at these points of concern any quicker. Please try to keep your comments on target without being rude or offensive.

[Draylo]

Poor Camate and people being rude to him.

[grevenilvec75]

Poor Camate and people being rude to him.

I can sense a Camate meltdown coming. At first he seemed calm and cool, now he's posting more and more "don't be a dick" type stuff.

Before you know it he'll be in full on FUCK YOU mode flipping his shit at ppl who continually shoot the messenger.

I just hope he gets to bang rukkiru before he gets fired.

[Lordender]

You would be pissed off too when you're passionate about something only to get trololol responses from the people who are supposed to have all the answers and then you bring the trololol news you recieve to the community and they crucify you for it. You know what this reminds me of?

Camate = Tom from fucking officespace.

“Well, look, I already told you. I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don’t have to. I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?!"

[Ansems]

I swear to Lucifer, if the dev team uses the word "balance" again there is no hope for ffxi.

[Julian]

Did those posts even give any new information?

All they did was respond to some random japanese question saying "We are not going to do this, but if we did, we would have to nerf something in its place"

The corsair question was retarded though. Why did they even waste their breath responding to something so stupid?

[Kaisha]

I kinda miss the old days of where they were more concise with their responses.

"We have no plans for that."

"We are unable to speak about that at this time."

[Charismatic]

I just hope he gets to bang rukkiru before he gets fired.

I wouldn't doubt that they all have already, that aside... I get the impression that they've been working there for a while so if he hasn't he probably won't.