Letter from the Producer LIVE Part X (11/11/2013)

[Evane]

I personally question the ilvl55 requirement when the reward is ilvl80 and there's no weekly reset. Just feels like a really huge jump. Then again we jump from Darklight to Myth/Allagan so whatever I guess.

I do too. But when you think about it, BC#2 is coming in 2.2. And it has a story that a lot of people want to experiment for themselves instead of reading about it or watching videos on YouTube. This jump will make BC#1 definitely easier to get them past whatever bottleneck they have right now. I'll take gear upgrades rather than content nerf any day.

[Kipling]

Might work assuming group A gets, say, ticket#29 and B gets #30. 50/50 shot at least?

Course that assumes SE doesn't use some arbitrary sorting feature for their matchmaking.

Exactly.

He actually says in the video (the one you posted with translation) that you "might end up in the same group" and "we're looking into adding it", but that it won't be there in 2.1. So, it tells me that it SHOULD be possible. Considering it sounds like you need 8 to even queue together first it wont be as if everyone solo is just queueing this and fucking it up for groups trying to do this. You'll probably get some misfires and have to wait around but I bet you could do it semi-reliably.

[Ratatapa]

Cramate post about Allagan gear

According to the stream, Yoshida did in fact mention this upgrade to item level 95 was to be for Allagan weapons only due to the difficulty of turn 5, whereas the text on the Japanese and English Q&A post indicated equipment in general. Just to be certain, we will double check with Yoshi-P and let you know for sure

[mightyg]

So much whining about the duty roulette. Blows my mind. We just got a ton more options on how to get our myth tomes and because it isn't perfectly catered to how you want to play the game it's garbage. If you just want to get to your myth cap just keep running WP, AK, and the two new hard modes. If you want to mix it up and help some lower level players in the process use the roulette. Quit acting like any PUG that doesn't run perfectly is beneath you. It's not nearly that bad. I swear it's like people react to wipes in this game like it's a worse penalty than FFXI.

[Fojoop]

RIP FFIXV 2.0 2013-2013. They just lost their entire hardcore population.

The problem is they don't even care, they obviously don't want us. This is quite possibly the most casual MMO I've ever seen, and that's their intention.

Being forced to PUG CT with 16 randoms? Are you fucking kidding me? Another level of retardation, can't wait to sit there for hours watching the other 16 morons wipe to a boss and griefing my entire run.

Moogle weapons equal to relics? What the fuck? Extreme mode weapons being equal to relic +1's is ok, but moogle weapons being equal to relics makes no sense.

Yoshi's answer to "What will players on CT do next patch?" being "You can collcet this gear for the vanity system...which btw isn't in the game for 3-4 more months please look forward to it!" "oh and you can gear up your alts!". Are you fucking kidding me? Next time just tell us to fuck off and give us the middle finger, I'd feel like insulted.

Duty roulette: I can't queue with anyone? I have to queue solo? Well, there's content I'll never do. I can do 2-3WP runs in quicker time than queueing up as a healer or DPS solo and sitting through a bullshit 30 minute run with people in full AF who just dinged 50.

Harsher penalty for leaving DF groups: So I should sit here and suffer through playing with horrible players who keep wiping to nothing over and over? I hate penalties for leaving, it's bullshit I'm punished for being put into a bad group, but you want to increase the punishment because a few bad eggs ruined the entire experience for everyone? No, I don't want to sit through a 50 minute AK or WP run or wipe to garuda/titan for 90 minutes. This doesn't effect me at all, but I still don't like it.

It doesn't make sense to do Duty Roulette with more than one person. If you're building a 4-man group, you're going to farm the single dungeon which is most efficient in tomes per hour. Duty Roulette is to encourage bored solo players to use it and get put into a lower level dungeon and help out new players who are doing it for the first time.

I'm really sad we didn't get Aurum Vale and Darkhold. Those would be much more fun.

It makes no sense, because if I'm going to farm Phil or Myth tomes I'm better off making a premade and doing 10-15 min runs. Why would I ever use dungeon roulette which is longer runs and less tomes per hour? It just serves no purpose for someone like me. I was looking forward to it too, so I could break up the monotony of running the same dungeons over and over, but it's something I'll never use because I'll never be using DF solo queue. This deletes a lot of potential content in 2.1 for me and makes grinding myth tomes just as repetitive as it currently is, bar a few more dungeons being added. Which is stupid, because it goes against the point of this feature existing - it's meant to make it easier to find people for lower level dungeons and story mode dungeons with quicker queues, but since the majority of people are going to be forming premades they won't be using this feature and it won't help people much at all.

[Rocl]

The vanity system comments really grated my nerves

Like if vanity was in 2.1 okay I guess, but the fact it isn't even showing up to February earliest and being used as an excuse to do content is like what

[Spider-Dan]

It makes no sense, because if I'm going to farm Phil or Myth tomes I'm better off making a premade and doing 10-15 min runs.

This is exactly why DR is not for you.

There is no way DR can (or should) compete with the speed that people are currently completing WP.

Why would I ever use dungeon roulette which is longer runs and less tomes per hour?

Because it gives you some rewards for doing varied content, instead of the current reward of nothing (or damn near it) that applies to everything that is not HM primals or AK/WP.

[Tyrath]

The vanity system comments really grated my nerves

Like if vanity was in 2.1 okay I guess, but the fact it isn't even showing up to February earliest and being used as an excuse to do content is like what

[Fojoop]

This is exactly why DR is not for you.

There is no way DR can (or should) compete with the speed that people are currently completing WP.


Because it gives you some rewards for doing varied content, instead of the current reward of nothing (or damn near it) that applies to everything that is not HM primals or AK/WP.

If you said nothing at all, your post would have had the same meaning behind it.

SE doesn't seem to get that a major draw of playing MMOs is to be able to play with your friends. Not with random fucking people.

Casuals have no friends, and they want to design this game for people who want to play this game like a single player RPG for some reason

[Seravi Edalborez]

I'm not like super pissed about the no-premade-alliance shit (yet), but I mean do they not think casuals have more than 8 friends? Most "casual" communities I've seen ingame have tons of people all slotting in for one another for whatever is appropriate.

I mean if their idea of "casual" is "solo player, DF only" then this shit is the bees knees.

[Tyrath]

Casuals have no friends, and they want to design this game for people who want to play this game like a single player RPG for some reason

I'm a casual. I play MMOs to play with friends. If I wanted a single player game I wouldn't be here.

[Raldo]

Moogle weapons equal to relics? What the fuck? Extreme mode weapons being equal to relic +1's is ok, but moogle weapons being equal to relics makes no sense.

You... do realize that there is no normal mode Moogle fight, right? Moogle fight is supposed to be on par with Garuda/Titan extreme, unless I'm misunderstanding something. Seems easier to get a relic, soooo that makes sense to me...?

Shit, now I can't find where I read that, so I hope I'm not delusional.

Nvm, I'm delusional. Reading comprehension for the lose.

[Fojoop]

I'm a casual. I play MMOs to play with friends. If I wanted a single player game I wouldn't be here.

It wasn't actually a pure serious sentence, but they seem to want to design this game in mind for someone without any friends and wants to just press a button and join a dungeon.

I really wish SE would stop stealing great ideas from other games like the random daily dungeon, and implementing in a ass backwards way that's fucking horrible. How do you copy something from another MMO and completely fuck it up?

You... do realize that there is no normal mode Moogle fight, right? Moogle fight is supposed to be on par with Garuda/Titan extreme. I should think getting a relic weapon is easier than defeating Moogle (extreme) so what's the issue here?

No, moogle is slightly harder than Garuda hardmode. Having an easier boss reward a weapon equal to relic, which comes from a much harder boss doesn't make much sense.

[Spider-Dan]

Fojoop, complaining that DR does not help elite endgamers spam myth the-same-or-faster than the current max efficiency option misses the point of DR. You may wish that SE had implemented some sort of turbo-myth feature, but that's not what DR is. DR primarily exists to fix the (already significant, and growing) problem of non-endgamers being unable to complete DF content. The tomestone rewards are a carrot to entice the less-than-elite endgamers to participate. This purpose was fairly clear from the moment it was first mentioned:

We also plan to update the Duty Finder. As there are a significant number of updates planned, we're considering focusing on this during the next Letter from the Producer LIVE. One particular addition I'd like to briefly mention is random matching. This is a matching feature that will let you join instances at random after choosing one of several categories such as "leveling dungeons," "high-level dungeons," "main scenario primal battles," etc. By using random matching, you'll be able to obtain Allagan tomestones once a day for each category. After selecting a category for random matching, you will join whichever instance has the fastest matching speed. This feature will also make it easier for new players who are progressing through low level dungeons and story primal battles to be matched up.

In other words, unless you were being inconvenienced by long DF wait queues for AK/WP (read: not speedrunning) or lowbie/story content (read: not endgame), DR is not for you.

[Tyrath]

You... do realize that there is no normal mode Moogle fight, right? Moogle fight is supposed to be on par with Garuda/Titan extreme, unless I'm misunderstanding something. Seems easier to get a relic, soooo that makes sense to me...?

No, moogle is a HM, not an Extreme. It stands between Garuda and Titan yet gives a weapon better than Titan.

[Raldo]

Dang, I can't read. Derp

[Carth]

I only have very important question.

Can Ifrit Extreme be stunned????

[Fojoop]

Oh I just remembered something. The worst part of all this is that since they're not fixing their progression, we're going to be backwards progressing every patch until the end of time. They really needed to release new turns of coil every CT update.

[Raldo]

I only have very important question.

Can Ifrit Extreme be stunned????

Good lord, I hope not. Makes that fight too damn easy. It's always funny to watch a DF party fall apart 'cause omg we have no PLD.

[Rocl]

Oh I just remembered something. The worst part of all this is that since they're not fixing their progression, we're going to be backwards progressing every patch until the end of time. They really needed to release new turns of coil every CT update.

This is 100x more disconcerting than Duty Roulette shit