Comments from the Devs

[Hyan]

Every post Yoshida makes seems to reaffirm the notion that Tanaka was just a complete tool.

It would have been nice if EXACTLY THIS was going on, say, a year ago.

I don't see how what Tanaka is doing now is much different to what Yoshida is doing.

Well, he isn't posting haiku's at midnight JST, that's a difference.

[kisada]

Truth.

Yoshida sounds confident in what he's doing, but not arrogant. He also is quick to explain why he is thinking what he is, and it's usually based on experience playing other popular games.

I like that he's not afraid to learn what has worked, rather than following his own vision regardless of what the rest of the industry is doing.

If SE developed more games that way, maybe they wouldn't be hemorrhaging money and getting most of their releases panned critically.

what's hilarious is that no matter what he gets right he'll still be criticized by all the pro-tanaka people. now, obviously it's silly to give much weight to the opinions of the people who thought the game was fine upon release, but it's amazing to think that there are still people out there who think these changes are bad.

[Lordender]

Pro-Tanaka idiots need to wake up and realize that MMO's evolved a little since 2003.

[Kensaki]

Pro-Tanaka idiots need to wake up and realize that MMO's evolved a little since 2003.

Tanaka-pro people are the conservatives of the MMO sphere "Things where good enough in EQ why must you change it!!!!"

[Kurokikaze]

Tanaka-pro people are the conservatives of the MMO sphere

I tell myself this all the time whenever I read the forums.

[Lucavi]

Amazing how you really can inject politics into everything. Its so true. Hardcore XI purists are the Neocons, but these forum idiots are more like Tea Partiers.

[mightyg]

bg = pansexual peace party

[Lucavi]

BG = comfortable middle class white people, but not so comfortable that we're all conservative.

[Kurokikaze]

Meh... I doubt the majority here are middle class white people tbh. lol

[Lucavi]

With the rampant elitism, I'd beg to differ.

On topic, though, have we started the official "when will 1.18 drop?!" office pool yet? I'm ready to make some side cash.

[Kurokikaze]

Ask Sono to get a pool going. I got 5 on 7/11/11.

[Lucavi]

I think I will. My money's on 7/8/11.

[Jamison]

Ask Sono to get a pool going. I got 5 on 7/11/11.

That day will also have free Slurpees! If I had to guess, I'll go with 7/12.

[Spider-Dan]

Tanaka-pro people are the conservatives of the MMO sphere "Things where good enough in EQ why must you change it!!!!"

The irony is that Yoshida has mentioned several times that he was a fairly serious EQ player.

[Kurokikaze]

That day will also have free Slurpees! If I had to guess, I'll go with 7/12.

Wait are you serious? If so, I am so there!

http://rlv.zcache.com/milk_rage_face...1vu1z1_400.jpg

[jwang]

Wait, which time zone are we basing this off of? Because 8 PM EST is 8 AM JST the next day, give or take an hour or so.

[Kensaki]

7/7 is my guess.

[Kurokikaze]

I'm EST.

[Sephiroth]

I'm going with July 18th because that's when I'll be out of town for a week and patches always come when I'm away. By the time I get back the R50 dungeon will be beaten and people have a set strategy so it won't be as fun. Would be nice if SE could make it so difficult that only the elite players are beating it in the first few weeks and the rest of the population need longer before they figure it out. But I can't see SE making this shit very difficult.

[Cayos]

More forum posts.

Spoke with Matsui in response to the topic of reworking monsters aggro range, distance and behavior. He said that we'll be revamping this system along with the upcoming battle-related adjustments and claim system updates.

Spoke with Yoshida about current lack of a weather effect toggle. Currently, there really isn’t any meaning to the weather that occurs randomly within the realm of Eorzea, however, in the future plan on making weather a much more meaningful event and as such do not plan on implementing a toggle.

Had a discussion about this with the dev. team about wanting to be able to chat within multiple linkshells at the same time. Though it won’t be for quite some time, we are looking into addressing this.

Discussed the possibility of removing the SP cap with Matsui. Due to balance issues this could be extremely risky, so we're not currently planning to do this.

Checked with the development team about making it possible to use arrows infinitely. With the recipe fixes in patch 1.19 it will be possible to make arrows easily. We'll continue to look into adjustments and refinements after implementation based on all of your feedback.

Hey guys! We asked Matsui about adding daggers for archers to use when fighting close range. He replied:

I completely understand how you all feel, but when considering the nature of the Armoury system and class/job balance, we are not able to implement this.

You are just going to have to learn how to strike first, strike hard, and give no mercy.