Comments from the Devs

[Eagleheart]

Originally Posted by Fernehalwes

The connected thread is a doozy. I'm actually a little frustrated that the Devs/localization team responded to that thread at all.

I am firmly of the opinion that the official forums are going to be the death of XIV, not so much about this topic (which is minor, but annoying) but about the many other inane threads on those forums daily.

"Needs more of this from XI, needs more of that from XI" et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseum. It's murder, really. Although, I think the Magical Girl Transformations thread was the really big red-letter neon warning sign. Could be mistaken.

[Raldo]

I don't even open OF threads with more than 30 posts anymore unless I've been actively following it, so I'm shocked they responded as well. I can't possibly see what all people could have to say about the subject of long-winded NPCs, let alone 100+ posts worth. I dismissed it as the usual pissing contest, and was sad to see it stinking up the usually-tame Localization forum.

I never did read anything that was said in that thread except the OP and mod posts, but I did find Fern's response insightful. They have to match the number of text prompts regardless of language? How lame.

[Eagleheart]

I don't even open OF threads with more than 30 posts anymore unless I've been actively following it, so I'm shocked they responded as well. I can't possibly see what all people could have to say about the subject of long-winded NPCs, let alone 100+ posts worth. I dismissed it as the usual pissing contest, and was sad to see it stinking up the usually-tame Localization forum.

I never did read anything that was said in that thread except the OP and mod posts, but I did find Fern's response insightful. They have to match the number of text prompts regardless of language? How lame.

Amongst the topics discussed: reading level too high, too much plot exposition by NPCs (Nael von Darnus was specifically mentioned as being particularly poorly done), and NPCs having too much text for everything from Louisoix to NPC shops. Disparaging remarks about William Shakespeare were made repeatedly, which is annoying enough, but complaining that the prose in XIV is somehow equivalent to Shakespeare is just stupefying.

The entire thread is maddening batshit insane.

[TacoTaru]

The entire forums are maddening batshit insane.

ftfy

[Lucavi]

D... Did you say Magical Girl Transformations?!

Holy...

[Elcura]

D... Did you say Magical Girl Transformations?!

Holy...

Every time you put on a job crystal you get a 15 second transformation sequence.

[Lucavi]

Well.. I guess if they made Drg's like the Ronin Warriors transformations...

No, what am I saying. No. No.

[Niiro]

I guess you missed the many instances where they've stated that they cannot do that with the current server architecture, and they're doing the best they can?

I refuse to believe adding a simple chat channel is complicated, much less impossible.

Copy/paste the linkshell/party chat code (the ones not limited by location or proximity) and change it to make it visible to all people on the server.

No way in hell that is more complicated than than restructuring one zone into two and dealing with the adverse effects of the flood of rendered objects simultaneously going in and out of memory because it's a zone line in a congested area (most zone lines have little to no NPCs around them).

[Croy]

I refuse to believe adding a simple chat channel is complicated, much less impossible.

Copy/paste the linkshell/party chat code (the ones not limited by location or proximity) and change it to make it visible to all people on the server.

No way in hell that is more complicated than than restructuring one zone into two and dealing with the adverse effects of the flood of rendered objects simultaneously going in and out of memory because it's a zone line in a congested area (most zone lines have little to no NPCs around them).

... did it ever occur to you that maybe the linkshell system is in fact hamstrung by the current servers as well? There is a hard limit right now on the amount of people that can even be allowed into a linkshell channel right now and what you suggest is to put that system into a public global chat channel? Look at how many join/leave features are still, STILL not implemented to the current Linkshell system, stuff that has been asked for since alpha to get implemented and still hasn't. Call it incompetence on the previous devs who designed this games server architecture but it seems to me it isn't nearly as simple as you are making it out to be.

[Niiro]

When everyone's cluster fucked in Ul'dah there aren't any issues with the shout function, and there's certainly a fuckton more than 50 people there.

[Croy]

When everyone's cluster fucked in Ul'dah there aren't any issues with the shout function, and there's certainly a fuckton more than 50 people there.

But that is the server code, the instances are displayed on that particular zone as an instance, I'm saying its not as simple to port over the party/linkshell code by the simple virtue of the limits we already face as is with that system.

[Lucavi]

... did it ever occur to you that maybe the linkshell system is in fact hamstrung by the current servers as well? There is a hard limit right now on the amount of people that can even be allowed into a linkshell channel right now and what you suggest is to put that system into a public global chat channel? Look at how many join/leave features are still, STILL not implemented to the current Linkshell system, stuff that has been asked for since alpha to get implemented and still hasn't. Call it incompetence on the previous devs who designed this games server architecture but it seems to me it isn't nearly as simple as you are making it out to be.

No, I think we can agree that, for a game that was released in 2010, there was a fuckton of incompetence rolling around.

I really, really, really can't wait for them to give us some solid game footage so we can all stop this "cautiously optimistic" viewpoint about 2.0. Show us the chat, show us the latency, show us the UI settings; don't just show us some pretty graphics and fancy weaponskills.

[Charismatic]

Well.. I guess if they made Drg's like the Ronin Warriors transformations...

No, what am I saying. No. No.

[Lucavi]

Don't tease me, bro.

[Spira]

LOLOLOLOL

theres 15s transformation animation in game tho? anyone has a vid of it?

[Thiefami]

No, I think we can agree that, for a game that was released in 2010, there was a fuckton of incompetence rolling around.

I really, really, really can't wait for them to give us some solid game footage so we can all stop this "cautiously optimistic" viewpoint about 2.0. Show us the chat, show us the latency, show us the UI settings; don't just show us some pretty graphics and fancy weaponskills.

Even after the footage I will reserve my opinion for the beta, and see how it works with a population.

[Spira]

probably the wrong place for this.. but anyone returning with the welcome campaign today/tmr (depending on time zone)? I intend to play before D3 hits

[Alkar]

LOLOLOLOL

theres 15s transformation animation in game tho? anyone has a vid of it?

Hmm no, it was a joke.

[Eagleheart]

LOLOLOLOL

theres 15s transformation animation in game tho? anyone has a vid of it?

Negative, was one of a number of Petition threads on the main forums.

The thread in question.

[Izzy]

Negative, was one of a number of Petition threads on the main forums.

The thread in question.

Wow, that forum is actually full of pedophilia crazed ass clowns.

I expected some sort of "wow this is stupid" by the end of the 1st page. I got 3 pages in and still haven't seen one. This community is the worst.