FFXI Interview August

[BRP]

Oh yeah.

Tell them to get rid of a total-cap of merits.

And turn merits into a system like BLU.

(To classify, you buy the merits, then you can switch into them, not simply saving up merit points to switch. Nothing changes save the fact there is no total cap and that you can change between the ones guy buy with points).

[DrObvious]

bullshitFirst, it isn't insulting if you are saying the truth.bullshitI give them the sources where I got the information if they are willing to start being honest and admit to the truth.bullshitI'll say it again: Don't make judgments or say shit until you get the facts and do the research.bullshit"It's not what you know. It's what you can prove."
Think about that quote.

If you really had any proof at all you'd be much more aggressive than asking a tasteless question in an untactful manner. You'd give se an ultimatum demanding that they come clean in an official statement otherwise you'll reveal the truth on all ffxi fanboards and to major gaming publications. All you have is the same conspiracy theories that everyone else has. Speculation and no facts whatsoever. I won't derail this thread any further arguing with you, but I'm expecting an amusing reply at least.

[Lordender]

tell them to

1. kick the god damn rmt out of sky and crack down on it, SE should know when a gilseller has to go to the bathroom imo is how tight they need to lock down on it.

2. make sea a more comfortable place to farm (easily the most fustrating zone in the entire game)

3. Shed some light on this parade gorget, no use in wasting database space on something no one but 3 people have gotton.

4. Give me a real ridill scythe thats drk only, 65 dmg ffs.

5. make cop dynamis better with droprates and better design.

[Sylvrdragon]

Why are CoP Dynamis's on the same timer of normal Dynamis? They don't share a story-line and it really just makes no sense from a player's point of view.

For all NPC conversations that require player input, can you please add an option to punch them in the face? Especially Naja Salaheem, all Mission NPCs, and just about every NPC in Sandoria.

Can you please make Blueblade Fell an accessable city/dungeon? That would be awesome.

Can you give us the option to skip entrance/exit cinematics? Especially into Sea, Sky, Climbing ladders, Opening Doors,and Exiting Ferry/Airship ports. I really do not need a 20 second cinematic of my character casually walking through a door while my LS is waiting for me to pop Kirin or whatever.

[Veli]

Heres my question, tried to word it well enough so that he can't sidestep and I get exactly the answer I'm looking for -

"FFXI has been out for awhile now; many players are level 75 on one or multiple jobs, and the number of players with a 75 job is growing every day. More 75 players means more demand for gear to outfit those jobs, but many of the pieces of gear, especially those from King Behemoth, Aspidocholne, Fafnir and Nidhogg drop at the same rate as they did 2 years ago. More 75 players means more competition, and it is not uncommon to see 150 to 200 people in Dragon's Aery on more populated servers during Fafnir and Nidhogg's spawn time, yet only 18 players will be able to engage in battle. How does the development team plan on addressing this increasing demand for endgame gear?"

Thats my attempt at sundi-proofing the question of "give us ridills, adaberks and m bodys!!"

I think they already solved this with limbus,dynamis,sky, pop nms etc. I think they have changed the game to make things easier to obtain but people still want more. I see some ls talking about Fafnir kill #126 and im thinking WTF does fafnir drop that would make you kill him 126 times.

[Lordwafik]

Heres my question, tried to word it well enough so that he can't sidestep and I get exactly the answer I'm looking for -

"FFXI has been out for awhile now; many players are level 75 on one or multiple jobs, and the number of players with a 75 job is growing every day. More 75 players means more demand for gear to outfit those jobs, but many of the pieces of gear, especially those from King Behemoth, Aspidocholne, Fafnir and Nidhogg drop at the same rate as they did 2 years ago. More 75 players means more competition, and it is not uncommon to see 150 to 200 people in Dragon's Aery on more populated servers during Fafnir and Nidhogg's spawn time, yet only 18 players will be able to engage in battle. How does the development team plan on addressing this increasing demand for endgame gear?"

Thats my attempt at sundi-proofing the question of "give us ridills, adaberks and m bodys!!"

I think they already solved this with limbus,dynamis,sky, pop nms etc. I think they have changed the game to make things easier to obtain but people still want more. I see some ls talking about Fafnir kill #126 and im thinking WTF does fafnir drop that would make you kill him 126 times.

I cant tell you what he drops, but I can tell you what he doesn't drop.


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[Bebopaloo]

Seiryu's Sword. Damn and I had killed him all those times hoping he would T_T

[bercus]

Done with those 16 pages.
Got all questions and deleated double ones or similar ones.

Right now i need way more then 30 min

Iam also thinking about once i put everything together to giv them the suggestion stuff from you guys writen black on white:D, send it via Email to everyone of them and post it all together in their Feedback section.

Stuff that will be asked are :

-Sky related (Ullikummi , green ports, )
-Sea related (Why Virtue stones are not 100% drop like Seals from Gods ect ect ect )
-Dynamis related (think again about a way to instance it, cop dynamis longer ectect)
-the gameplay it self (missing hidden skills, signet, merits)
-KS/BC/ENM (We want BC99, able to carry more Orbs when we head to BCs and the Orb should dissapear once used up to see which was used and which can be used still when we carry more then 2 ectectect)

-Besieged related 1 question
-RMT/Gilseller related stuff

"Why is it so, that a genuine player can identify who is RMT, living in sky 24/7, and their highly trained and well paid GMs cannot? If this is not the case, this "no tolerance" to RMT policy is rather false.
Are the players better than GMs at their own job? It was said by SE a long time ago that monopoly will NOT be accepted nor tolerated, yet RMT monopolize sky with nothing. "
I wanna see their face when they hear that :D

-About Kings and Wyrms loot and windows.
-and of course some other questions.

Anyway, iam sure there will be more questions once they are done with the new Version Update. Thank you so far.

[Dezzimal]

"Why is it so, that a genuine player can identify who is RMT, living in sky 24/7, and their highly trained and well paid GMs cannot? If this is not the case, this "no tolerance" to RMT policy is rather false.
Are the players better than GMs at their own job? It was said by SE a long time ago that monopoly will NOT be accepted nor tolerated, yet RMT monopolize sky with nothing. "
I wanna see their face when they hear that :D

I can give you their answer on that one. It will be some evasive bullshit like "Its not what you know, its what you can prove." or "We have our own methods that must be followed before banning accounts suspected of RMT".

[Tyrath]

Fix 2handed weapons formula so they can actually compete with mnk or wars on dot? Please?

[bercus]

"Why is it so, that a genuine player can identify who is RMT, living in sky 24/7, and their highly trained and well paid GMs cannot? If this is not the case, this "no tolerance" to RMT policy is rather false.
Are the players better than GMs at their own job? It was said by SE a long time ago that monopoly will NOT be accepted nor tolerated, yet RMT monopolize sky with nothing. "
I wanna see their face when they hear that :D

I can give you their answer on that one. It will be some evasive bullshit like "Its not what you know, its what you can prove." or "We have our own methods that must be followed before banning accounts suspected of RMT".

Last year he didnt evade that much , we talked about Gilsellers for like 30 minutes, ending in yelling at each other >.<. Was fun though but he was right in many things you cant ban gilseller just cause this and that person says he/she is one. Even if 100 people say this person is a gilseller, they cant do that.

Why? For example player A dislikes player B. Player A tells his friends ect to make a GM call about Player B is a gilseller ect. Therefor they dont do that.

But yes i try to tell them about the suggestions, like to watch those people we report who they trade gil to. On which credit cards they play. Maybe 100 people on the same one all reported as gilsellers, duno. I will write something together.


NINJAR EDIT:

I know they wont accept Screenshots. But can guys post Screenshots of Gilseller at Ullikummi for example? Or other stuff you want to have changed, like 8x killed Tiamat no Herald Gaiter, ectect.
Best way to do is to PM me the links.

[Siatdiat]

-Sky related (Ullikummi , green ports, )

Green ports question has been answered.

-Dynamis related (think again about a way to instance it, cop dynamis longer ectect.)

Please god do not ask them to make anything longer.

-About Kings and Wyrms loot and windows.

LOL

What you need to do is just ask him straight up why the fanbase is constantly ignored, and let him know that to alot of people it just feels like a slap in the face. Tell him maybe if they started actually putting effort into the game they might have 6million subscribers like some other mmo out there. (hint: Its the one where the devs actually listen to the players)

[Ksandra]

Bercus not that he will but maybe you should at some point give hime this thread link to say that there were other suggestions generated from this thread that you didn't have time to put into the interview. Then too maybe he'll (or whoever it is that looks at the forums), start looking at the whole site for player thoughts.

[bercus]

Bercus not that he will but maybe you should at some point give hime this thread link to say that there were other suggestions generated from this thread that you didn't have time to put into the interview. Then too maybe he'll (or whoever it is that looks at the forums), start looking at the whole site for player thoughts.

He knows about this Site. I mentioned it to him last year and iam sure BG told him in their interview about it. I for myself would stop reading this Thread at some points already having idiots arround here that talk here like retards. Would you continue reading when you see in posts that you are called , assholes, asses, fuck them, fuckers,liers ect? I for sure would stop .

Anyway I will print maybe the whole Thread out and giv it to him. And yes I will tell him about the site again.

[Julian]

GOBLIN WOLFMAN AND PARADE GORGET OR ELSE

[Septimus]

Bercus not that he will but maybe you should at some point give hime this thread link to say that there were other suggestions generated from this thread that you didn't have time to put into the interview. Then too maybe he'll (or whoever it is that looks at the forums), start looking at the whole site for player thoughts.

He knows about this Site. I mentioned it to him last year and iam sure BG told him in their interview about it. I for myself would stop reading this Thread at some points already having idiots arround here that talk here like retards. Would you continue reading when you see in posts that you are called , assholes, asses, fuck them, fuckers,liers ect? I for sure would stop .

Anyway I will print maybe the whole Thread out and giv it to him. And yes I will tell him about the site again.

If it were up to me, I would have a forum here that anyone could read, but only certain people could post in. This forum would be about ways to improve the game.

In my utopian fantasy, Square would read it, realize the logic, and implement our suggestions. I am a wacky dreamer.

[bercus]

Bercus not that he will but maybe you should at some point give hime this thread link to say that there were other suggestions generated from this thread that you didn't have time to put into the interview. Then too maybe he'll (or whoever it is that looks at the forums), start looking at the whole site for player thoughts.

He knows about this Site. I mentioned it to him last year and iam sure BG told him in their interview about it. I for myself would stop reading this Thread at some points already having idiots arround here that talk here like retards. Would you continue reading when you see in posts that you are called , assholes, asses, fuck them, fuckers,liers ect? I for sure would stop .

Anyway I will print maybe the whole Thread out and giv it to him. And yes I will tell him about the site again.

If it were up to me, I would have a forum here that anyone could read, but only certain people could post in. This forum would be about ways to improve the game.

In my utopian fantasy, Square would read it, realize the logic, and implement our suggestions. I am a wacky dreamer.

It can still be done. Just set all Forums to Read only and giv a few people of HNM Linkshells or Communities Write-rights.

Maybe Square itself will do that. Or implement something like that in their Linkshell COmmunity site. I will talk to them about that.

Having a discussion with the players themselves will for sure be better then the 40 people they have for the Questions and Answer section.

[Xrave]

1. Even though they might know of this site, it should still be mentioned again to read here where people are actually involved in end-game activities.

2. Instead of banning gilsellers, ban 5 or 10 gilbuyers from each server and post their character's name in public. You'll see a nice drop in RMT activity.

[Cesaria]

Not quite sure how to phrase it as a question - but something about the player base viewing GMs as inconsistent in how they approach things, and inactive in how they are towards the RMT problem.

We have had situations where GMs openly undermine each other and state that another GM has done something incorrectly (my LS had fun at orc god with RMT spamming tractor on dead people to cause a wipe, and one GM said it was a perfectly acceptable tactic for the RMT to use, then another that answered someone else's GMcall 2 hours later said that no, it wasn't acceptable at all). Surely the GMs should be acting on a consistent set of guidelines as to acceptable / unacceptable behaviour - rather than the present situation where they all seem to make up their own rules as they go along.

Time taken to answer GMcalls - sometimes it seems like they openly stall answering calls so the situation is long since over by the time they show up and they don't have to bother dealing with it. When you call a GM on someone flee hacking and they finally bother to answer you 2 hours later and tell you there's nothing they can do because the person has logged - and it happens again and again... it starts to break down any trust and respect the player base has in the GM system. If they are seriously so desperately understaffed that they can't deal with the volume of calls - they need to hire more staff.

The percieved JP/NA bias. If the GMs are seen to be operating to a clear and consistent set of guidelines - then, whining aside when someone gets caught botting with their pants down, this shouldn't be a problem.

If he tries to pull the outsourced GMs so not our responsibility cop-out trick - then that's bs because it IS SE's responsibility to ensure their servers are adequately manned/womanned and if the outsourced crew aren't doing their jobs correctly - SE need to remind them who's paying the contract and rein them in a bit more (hell, the company I work for just pulled all its outsourced customer contact centres because they were crap and it was reflecting badly on the company).

Quite how to get all that in a short and snappy question I don't know - but it's a problem the complete breakdown of trust between the player base and the GMs.

(Oh... and why doesn't S*ttygami Weapon EVER drop?)

[Don Katsu]

Ask them if they know Sea fails and I farm obis with a total of 2 people in the whole zone and no one In the grand palace of hu'zxoi/ the garden of ru'hmet (sp) i.e do something about CoP.