Letter from the Producer IX (5/2/2011)

[Hyan]

I gotta get used to posting from my phone but I'll get to it. They also mentioned LS housing, not scrapped but postponed afaik.

[Kurokikaze]

They translated the stuff about LS housing?

What phone? Using Tapatalk app?

[Woozer]

Peregrine is the biggest fucking troll on the forums. She barely ever makes any kind of sense and I hope she gets vag cancer.

[Lordender]

I really agree with whats being said, SE has ONE chance to get this shit right. Yoshi-P will either be a success or a failure depending on how well this battle revamp is pulled off. Expectations have become insanely high, I wonder now if its become way too high, this is almost reaching Guild Wars 2 level of expectations. The whole fate of the game is going to be decided over what happens between 1.18-1.20 IMO, I don't think SE has much time on their side with SWTOR and GW2 incomming.

If 1.18 is fail and the first wave of battle revamps are really lackluster I can see this flushing down a toilet very quickly. There is much unrest just by the 1.5month wait alone, they better come through.

[Kaiyoko]

The fact that they have said nothing about the battle changes is what bothers me. Giving little tidbits of the changes could potentially spike interest for people, or could piss people off too.....

[Kurokikaze]

Yeah. Thats why I think they've been keeping tight-lipped about it.

I agree with Lordender though... Expectations for this new battle system are astronomical and I feel like they won't be met. We can only hope.

[solracht]

The sad part is I see the combat system being torn apart by the critics when they review the PS3 version, since it'll most likely come out after TERA does. There are a lot of features that would've been perfectly fine last year, but might not be impressive at all later this year.

We're trying to catch up to games from 5 years ago while innovative MMORPGs are coming out in the next months. Makes me really scared of the future.

The game better feel like a Final Fantasy by the time the PS3 version comes out, I feel like that's all they'll have.


EDIT: Hey Kuro I'd say you should bump your job thread again since there are mods around... but they might reply with "I just want to remind everyone that we indeed have a job system incoming!".

[Cichy]

Alot of people dont understand that just adding auto-attack and making flashier abilities will not fix the system.
They have to rework it from ground up making adjustments to enmity, mobs hp, how long we fight mobs, effects of everything, stats, etc, etc. It has to be enormous amount of fixes rolled into the battle system update to save this game. I just hope that in the time they took, they worked their ass of to come up with something because a bandaid just wont do it.

[Kurokikaze]

EDIT: Hey Kuro I'd say you should bump your job thread again since there are mods around... but they might reply with "I just want to remind everyone that we indeed have a job system incoming!".

Meh I've lost faith in those mods/dev posts. Crazy right..? I was as optimistic as one can be about 2 months ago.

I don't know if its the mods/devs themselves or just the posters on those boards thats doing it.

[Cichy]

Meh I've lost faith in those mods/dev posts. Crazy right..? I was as optimistic as one can be about 2 months ago.

I don't know if its the mods/devs themselves or just the posters on those boards thats doing it.

all they gonna say is "the dev team is looking into it, hold on for future updates" I lost hope in anything usefull being posted on the forums, only useful info is posted on the front page

[Waraji]

Should make mass post on the whole veil of secrecy, and how its scrutinizing every possible chance at the new combat system flopping entirely and every little bit of players left leaving entirely, LET ALONE, the game flopping entirely to server shutdown.

[Tomino]

Speaking of cold harsh facts, they only need to make the PS3 version "decent" to cash in a bit.
Just take a look about upcoming / current releases : FF14 will be the only fantasy MMO on Sony console for the time being. The PC market is becoming more and more crowded and many good titles will have to fight their way to survive, both olds and news. And if it's true that Cataclysm may in fact be WoW WotG, that still leaves "WoW Abysses" out in a couple years if you get what I mean.

Honestly, I think SE is just less and less interested in the PC market. They'll stuff the game with FF trademarks to lure people in (chocobos, summons, popular jobs), add enough content and bug fixing not to be destroyed by reviews and call it.

[Kurokikaze]

Oh god... Just got another 2 strikes. 5 total so far. They haven't seen my other posts yet... >.>;

[Kaiyoko]

Oh god... Just got another 2 strikes. 5 total so far. >.>;

What do you mean?

Edit- nvm --;

[Cichy]

Oh god... Just got another 2 strikes. 5 total so far. >.>;

on lodestone?

[Kurokikaze]

Yeah. At this rate I'll get banned before June.

[Kaiyoko]

Lol nice job Kuro on getting that thread locked.

[Kurokikaze]

I flooded that thread with logic and it only took 3 posts. Never saw it before. lol

[Corrderio]

Which thread? The Archer nerf one?

[Kurokikaze]

Yeah.