Comments from the Devs

[Eagleheart]

Nice dev post on the UI development. Lets see how soon complaint threads pop up.

With respect, sir, there was a complaint thread up thirty seconds after the UI development post was posted.

[Takiwaki]

With respect, sir, there was a complaint thread up thirty seconds after the UI development post was posted.

lol well there you go! I def didnt see it, I think its because I was distracted by the "If Disney can do it in Japan.." thread..

[Sephiroth]

SE will avoid adding open grinding because it's not worth the time investment in balancing it. There will only be a handful of people crazy enough to want to do it and good luck to them finding parties in their level range.

[Sigmakan]

lol well there you go! I def didnt see it, I think its because I was distracted by the "If Disney can do it in Japan.." thread..

That thread delivers.

[Jamison]

Theres a lot of stuff coming in Phase 3/4 that should be dealt with waaaay earlier to make sure there are no issues. Especially the content finder.

Agreed. P3 is too long of a wait, especially if they're going to do multiple tests in P2.

It really sounds like they are in a strange middleground between an alpha and a beta. I question if they even should be calling phases 1 and 2 a beta, it doesn't really fit the definition. I guess you can say the infrastructure is "complete" (and by that I mean complete and ready for testing... followed by adjustment/modification). Since the early tests are apparently stress tests more than anything else, I can see it from that angle. But so much of the content and in-game systems aren't even going in until phase 3, and IMO that's the very definition of when a beta starts.

Now for them, it kind of doesn't matter. Testing is testing and it's a matter of methodically getting through the gamut of everything they need to do. But from a player and public perspective, it's going to sound like the game is in worse shape that it may actually be. Folks have been saying "wait for beta to judge that!", but SE says now we are IN beta, even though the game is not feature-complete, and now folks are saying "wait until later in the beta to judge that!". Long story short (too late!) it feels like we're in a similar boat to 1.0 ("they'll fix it before release! just wait!") and true or not, it's starting to make some folks nervous. All because of, IMO, poor labeling.

[Rionel]

It's kind of funny, but I'm glad the Dev team is actually taking some firm stances on some of their core game philosophies/mechanics. So far it's been turning out well... but I don't wanna jinx it. Knock on wood! >_>;

Sad though that there are people on the Beta forum that really believe Feedback = Ultimatums / Demands That Must Be Met.

[Lucavi]

^ Its nice of them to mention that they really don't need player feedback to know what's wrong. That speaks of a company who is firmly aware of what its rivals have out on the market, and its absolutely comforting, especially considering how often Yoshi admitted that the previous team know jack shit about what was and had been on the market since XI launched.

Now they just need to grind it out, and not push themselves into forcing an on-time scheduled release. If it gets pushed back 2 weeks for polishing, so be it. Fuck your shareholders or whoever else.

"When its done". That still means something, even if today's Blizzard is a shell of its former self.

[Rasa]

Based on comments made by Yoshi, it Would seem progress, not just character name will carry over to retail. He has mentioned something along the lines of "If some game breaking bug or exploit is found during phase 3/4, progress for that phase won't be carried over". They could possibly just roll back the data if such things do occur mid phase, if they really wanted to. Its pretty simple just to carry over names if they do happen to roll back during those phases.

That's how I have understood it as well. And as far as the exploit...there will be numerous that are found. That's kind of the point of beta. Find the things that can break the game and have them fixed.

[Stanislaw]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...020#post980020

Greetings,

Apologies for not responding to this sooner - it's my fault that I haven't replied yet, and I'm sorry for the delay in posting. With the latest Letter from the Producer LIVE video, we had intended to forgo the release of English subtitles in an effort to get the Q&A summary posted much quicker after the stream had ended. As I'm sure you can all agree, that didn't exactly work out.

To give some insight into the process, we have multiple teams around the world that spend their time working on these efforts (for instance, the Community Teams in North America, Japan, and Europe and the FFXIV Localization team). Unfortunately, as I'm sure you're aware, the Beta Test is taking up quite a large chunk of those resources, which led to multiple delays in the posting of the Q&A summary. Initially we had hoped to get the summary up in nearly half the time, with everyone focused on it first and foremost, but things don't always go according to plan.

Again, I apologize for the delay in the Q&A summary being posted, and also for not being clear about our plan not to include subtitles.

[shepardG]

Updated benchmark out today it looks like

[Xanthe]

Updated benchmark out today it looks like

Yep. It fixes a few issues and adds Borderless Windowed (native resolution) and Full Screen options.

[CasualPlayer]

@Grey

If they added a loot table to open world mobs then what's the dif? Whether you grind in a dungeon or grind crabs for hours it's still a grind. I'm not on one side or the other. I'm just having a hard time understanding why people give a shit so much about open world being an option period.

If there are die hard nostalgia seeking masochistic people looking to open world grind why not let them?

[miokomioko]

This is equating to asking wealthy people why their golf club has a dress code.

INTEGRITY or something.

Honestly though, let the dumb argument die. We'll see what Yoshi's call is on all this bullshit soon enough.

[CasualPlayer]

^Fair enough

[Lucavi]

This is equating to asking wealthy people why their golf club has a dress code.

INTEGRITY or something.

Honestly though, let the dumb argument die. We'll see what Yoshi's call is on all this bullshit soon enough.

NDA aside, Yoshi's long since already made his call. People, at this point, are simply pissing into the wind because they like to feel the spray against their faces.

[Kami]

NDA aside, Yoshi's long since already made his call. People, at this point, are simply pissing into the wind because they like to feel the spray against their faces.

Or perhaps, people think that if they're noisy enough they might get what they want in some future update since open area group grinding isn't something that would ruin the experience of all the other people that want to stick to "WoW quests leveling system". Sometimes there is a way to make everyone happy. I wouldn't be that surprised if Yoshi and SE realized that a year or so down the road. More ways to get shit done, more people happy, more customers.

[Pooky]

People are simply pissing into the wind because they like to feel the spray against their faces.

Pretty sure that accurately sums up the OF entirely.

[Lucavi]

Or perhaps, people think that if they're noisy enough they might get what they want in some future update since open area group grinding isn't something that would ruin the experience of all the other people that want to stick to "WoW quests leveling system". Sometimes there is a way to make everyone happy. I wouldn't be that surprised if Yoshi and SE realized that a year or so down the road. More ways to get shit done, more people happy, more customers.

You're cute. Wrong, but cute. Yoshi is all-in with following modern MMO companies. He's made that abundantly clear, and he's seen more data than you could ever hope to see that cemented the fact that the XI and 1.0. idiot supporters are not large enough in number to recoup the massive 1.0 losses. Modern MMO companies don't listen to the whiny and over-vocal minority. It is what it is.

You're free to dream, though. I don't slight you for it. I used to dream for balance in XI, and for justice in XI, back when I cared. None of them never came true, but hey, they were some nice dreams...

[Gulkeeva]

Well, OF or whatever complained enough to get male miqo'tes in the game, I'm sure if they make another 900 page thread about something, they may get it

[Lucavi]

Well, OF or whatever complained enough to get male miqo'tes in the game, I'm sure if they make another 900 page thread about something, they may get it

To be fair, Male Miqote complaints where in the 1.0. beta OF, as were Highlander females. Mancat petitions also came out once 1.0. officially flopped and went free, and Yoshi first came onboard.

I refuse to give this current crop of retarded OF pondscum the credit for mancats.