Comments from the Devs

[Kurokikaze]

Oh good to get confirmation on that. I always thought Return should have been free from the start.

Fixed up the mock up and gave myself a full hand of cards. Think I overdid it a bit but I like how it looks. Cards lookin legit.



Edit: If someone could post a link to the picture in the Triple Triad/Tetra Master thread, I'd greatly appreciate it.

[Reapz]

God damn it would be so awesome if they implemented that, looks like theres huge support for it over on the official FFXIV forums so hopefully SE consider it once the more important things are out of the way.

[Sephiroth]

The Triple Triad idea is one of the best suggestions I've seen on the forums. It has so much potential with the card collecting/trading aspect. As long as they don't drop like candy like everything else in the game. The best cards should be rare etc. Allow players to purchase packs of cards (gil sink) that have like 5 average cards and one good one. If you're lucky the good one will be a rare. And then let's say you kill a cactuar HNM, you get the cactuar card. I think a lot of people would want to play FFXIV just for that.

There is just so many things that could be improved upon with small changes. Take crafting for example, shit is so annoying and boring, I really think they fucked up by making those actual jobs. The mini-game is just terrible, I just spam square on my controller once I start synthing once I select w/e it is i'm going to craft while the games minimized for all my local leve's. I don't see whats so fun about that, I can just watch a youtube video while hitting square to confirm standard synth's.

Spamming square only gets you so far. It won't get you anywhere if you're synthing a recipe more than a couple of ranks above you. I regularly skill up on synths 7-10 ranks above me and I'd fail every synth if I weren't popping abilities like Perfection, Assemble, Tender Touch etc.

They can make crafting low rank shit faster quite easily. Just make hasty hand 100% success rate on synths 10 or more ranks below you and add in that continue synth option leves have for normal synthing. That would be crazy fast.

I'm against making it easier to rank up however. Do you really need everyone having all crafts maxed out?

I'm also against making it easier to HQ for simple economics reasons. +1s are already starting to become trash, do you want +2/3s to be worthless too? Well of course, because then you'll be able to buy them with no effort. But try think of it from a crafter's perspective. I would support changes to HQing of materials however but nothing major. Just add touch up.

Most people who craft like crafting the way it is but admit some small changes could make it better. Most people who don't craft will never like crafting, they just bitch. It's the same with these people bitching about gathering fatigue. They don't gather and they still won't gather if the fatigue was removed because then they'd be bitching about something else. Like the fact all gathered items became worthless due to over production or SE had to cut production by 3/4 for balancing issues forcing them to gather for 3 times as long each day.

If someone doesn't like a class they shouldn't force themselves to play it and bitch about how it needs fixing. I don't like Pugilist because I prefer ranged attack battle classes but I don't go bitching about how PUG should be able to shoot arrows so that I can play it. I didn't like gathering in FFXI so I didn't gather and most importantly I didn't bitch about how it needed fixing so that I would like it. What I like isn't necessarily what you or someone else likes. SE can't make a game tailored to the individual.

[Kurokikaze]

The Triple Triad idea is one of the best suggestions I've seen on the forums. It has so much potential with the card collecting/trading aspect. As long as they don't drop like candy like everything else in the game. The best cards should be rare etc. Allow players to purchase packs of cards (gil sink) that have like 5 average cards and one good one. If you're lucky the good one will be a rare. And then let's say you kill a cactuar HNM, you get the cactuar card. I think a lot of people would want to play FFXIV just for that.

I always thought HNM and dungeon bosses should have about 5-10% chance to drop their card. Maybe a little higher for the lowbie NMs we have now. Low drop rates on trash/exp mobs just so they don't drop all the time and clutter people's inventory.

But yeah the suggestion has massive potential to be a much needed gil-sink and distraction within the game. Let players challenge NPCs and PCs, have a leaderboards somewhere in town, etc. Unless SE does something horribly wrong - it cannot fail.

[Lordender]

Spoke with the dev. team about time travel, while we appreciate your concerns about traveling back to the past however we don't have the 1.21 gigawatt's in place yet. However, the dev. team wants to implement this as soon as the battle system updates are finished.

GREAT SCOTT, as they say!

Thats basically what I read every time there is a post like that, I'll believe it when I see it. All we've seen is talk, carrots being dangled saying this and that, sugar and rainbows are being promised.

I just don't believe any of this shit they're saying until I read it in the patch notes. They should only be talking about things that we will see next month, not shit that could come at anytime over the next year because now they've created a new monster where people are gonna bitch about x or y not being in patch a or b.

Only thing all this talking has done is make almost every future patch to amount to an insane amount of hype that the developers will never be able to deliver. I just don't get all this talk about Addons, cross server parties, other shit that are more than likely over a year + out in time frame. Just get the basics done, don't talk about stupid shit that we know isn't coming anytime soon.

Don't sit there and tell me about glowing weapons, mini games, etc. Tell me about chocobo's, making crafting better, mailboxes, auction houses, class balance. As far as I'm concerned the community reps shouldn't even respond to anything outside of the huge problems the game currently has. I am already pretty aggravated because all I see is them hyping shit and every time you want details they tell you "its coming, soon, being looked into."

This is almost like a bad t.v show where they show some teasers of bad ass scenes the night before the new season starts and every week you don't see them until about 8-9 weeks into the season then you get the bad ass scene they been showing for months.

[Draylo]

So with financial losses does anyone think they will cut FFXIV as a possibility?

[Reapz]

I doubt it, unless the upcoming major changes turn out to be a failure. Then I could possibly see them pulling the plug, alot is riding on 1.18 really. It's been a long time since they first announced the major changes though, so given all the months they've had to work on it, it'd be pretty embarassing if it doesn't turn out to be awesome at the least.

[Vuitton]

yes, card games will fix this game for sure. its just what is needed.

[Kurokikaze]

No one said the game will be fixed with a card mini-game. So theres no need for the sarcasm.

[Biggie]

I read the production of FFXIV for PS3 was stopped, not sure if permanently or even if is true.

[Grey Jorildyn]

I'd pay to play Triple Triad.

[Cichy]

Here's the thing though, card games, new races, and any other side content like that will not be even looked at until they know that the game can recover. I bet they can pump something like that fairly quick if the battle system succeeds but they wont take time to design any of that until than.

[miokomioko]

I read the production of FFXIV for PS3 was stopped, not sure if permanently or even if is true.

You're reading lies or pure speculation. All that was mentioned was that they cancelled a number of development projects. There are so many projects that we don't know about or ones in extremely early stages that they could have cancelled. The ones that have yet to be announced are obviously the easiest to cancel because it doesn't reflect poorly on them like cancelling a game that is already launched and undergoing promised overhauls.

[Kurokikaze]

Definitely. The foundation of the game comes first, otherwise whats the point?

PS3 release was only delayed not stopped. Check your sources Biggie.

[Cichy]

Like Miko said most likely it's games that haven't been announced yet (FFVII remake for sure got canned, j/k). There is too many people who stuck around with XIV over this time for SE to just cut it now, would be just too big of a blow for the fan base.

[Biggie]

Again, no clue if is true or even the true source for this.

Well, while we don't know if they have just been canceled, this is what Square Enix currently has announced:

Eidos:
-Hitman: Absolution
-Tomb Raider
-Deus Ex: Human Revolution
-Thi4f

From Statements:
-Kane & Lynch 3
-Eidos Montreal Game 3

From Job Postings:
-Crystal Dynamics New IP

Enix:
-Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime 3
-Dragon Quest X

Square:
-Final Fantasy: Type-0
-Final Fantasy Versus XIII
-Final Fantasy XIII-2
-Final Fantasy XIV Online (PS3)
-Chocobo Racing 3D
-Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance

Semi-Announced:
-Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep: Volume 2

External:
-Dungeon Siege III
-Chaos Rings Omega
-Chaos Rings 2
-Wakfu

Just something I seen posted in another thread.

A few things on the list would jut be stupid, Like Dues Ex and Versus XIII, considering I thought they were just about finished.... So, probably complete bullshit..

[Kurokikaze]

Versus XIII is nowhere near finished unfortunately. That game looks fucking phenomenal too.

[Cichy]

Deus Ex already has a release date and seems to have massive following so unlikely, also anything with XIII in the name probably not.

[Kurokikaze]

Bayohne on PC Optimizing:

Got word back from Yoshida about the changes that they're planning to implement. Like I assumed, there aren't concrete details on what precisely is being done that I care share, but he said that along with the PS3 version development, they are performing optimization work to overall the core engine to make improvements.

Well if you were wondering about PS3 development - its still going. =_=

Talking about shit in the distant future.

[Lucavi]

There's that "core engine" term again.

Ugh.