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

[Corrderio]

Still waiting on my job/combat change info. =/ These new additions are nice for whenever they fix the other stuff and I can actually play this game again.

You're not the only one. I really want to know what to expect with the combat changes/dungeons. Since if the combat/jobs make this feel too much like XI and the dungeons are as easy as the NMs after the 1.17 patch I'm pretty much out.

[Blasta]

This is all just a big ass trap /runsawaycryingcauseittakestoolong

[Lordender]

Really disappointed about the mid June release. Atleast surplus should be gone when the patch releases with dungeons.

[Kensaki]

Why should it be gone? All they've said is that they are looking into it.

[Hyan]

You're not the only one. I really want to know what to expect with the combat changes/dungeons.

Indeed. At least Matsui will be briefing us with the combat changes in the meantime, and 1.17b is coming at some point.

I think I'll just ignore the game for few months.

Why should it be gone? All they've said is that they are looking into it.

They've said it will be removed in the dungeon patch.

[Kensaki]

Really have a link to where they stated that?

EDIT: NM found it http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...4448#post84448

[Toth]

Well, plenty of time to get ready for it at least...Hopefully the next letter lets us know what leveling we should focus on.

[Kurokikaze]

Dang mid June oh well.. Plenty of time to finish up my Glad and Archer.

Quest hubs is just areas that are not the main cities with quests in them. Hopefully they don't all look the same (probably will) and are spread out around the world in a way that makes sense; quest ranks gradually get higher the further away you get from the town. Would require mob distribution to be altered a lot, but I think they were doing that anyways..

The amount of "omg quest hubs and low level dungeons - this isn't WoW" bawwing thats going on on those forums is absolutely unheard of.

[Kensaki]

"We don't mind if the game fails! Please just don't take good ideas from other games!!!!111"

[Tomino]

I guess new hubs will be usefull in adding some variety to players levelling experience. I think they'll probably add them as "mid-tiers" between like Skull Rock / Bloodshore and so on.

[Sephiroth]

The quest hub in Thanalan is at 9,27, the La Noscea one is at 7,20 and I'm not even going to try locate the one in Shroud.

Edit: I found the Shroud one too due to the writing on the mini map. It's at 35,43.

It seems all of these are relatively close to the 20 camps, indicating mid rank content.

[Arximiro]

Hey Kuro, have you been on lately? Are there still people who play on Saronia? I need something to occupy my time, I'm about done with the plutionia missions episode of Final Doom on hurt me plenty. We should get on and finish leveling our jobs.

[Katlan]

Kinda wondering what they mean by "starting to roll out battle changes." Why not just do it all in one swoop.. why gradually change it?

[Sephiroth]

Because if they said you have to wait until August for the battle and class changes people would bitch and whine about waiting so long. So they're giving some soon and some later. I think by the game's first anniversary we'll have a good game, people expecting it sooner will be disappointed. If only they'd released the game a year later.

[Sagacious Sundi]

I'm glad it's mid-June at the earliest. This Umbral Era crap got me interested in the game again, and it's nice to have time to catch up.

[Kenshiin]

If they would have waited a year I don't see it being that much better. A lot of these changes are due to people playing all this time.

[Biggie]

I'm glad it's mid-June at the earliest. This Umbral Era crap got me interested in the game again, and it's nice to have time to catch up.

This is pretty much how i feel. I'm r47 GLA now, that gives me enough time to get it max rank, get all the sub classes I need and want ranked, and get 1 or 2 classes to r30 to be ready for the 30 instances. Don't get me wrong, the sooner the better, but i'm not upset at mid june.

[Charismatic]

Kinda wondering what they mean by "starting to roll out battle changes." Why not just do it all in one swoop.. why gradually change it?

Feedback..?

[Kaiyoko]

If they would have waited a year I don't see it being that much better. A lot of these changes are due to people playing all this time.

Pretty much this, if Tanaka was still here shit would be even more fucked up as well. We wouldn't have the "better" community related SE I'm guessing as well, that we have now.

[Takiwaki]

My only concern is that if the battle and job changes can be done gradually, then the complete change is not going to be different enough to make a difference. It just does not seem like they are going to revamp anything just build upon the shitty system in place.