Ladies and Gentlemen. Answers to the Interview....

[Lordwafik]

“If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." -Maya Angelou

I agree with Ms. Angelou, civil rights are for suckers.

Yeah Ms. Angelou can sit wherever she damn well pleases on buses these days because no one made changes in the past.

I don't think you put enough pennies in your Whooshing machine.

[Shuvo]

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/6796/pep3ib6.jpg


PEPPERMASTER!!!!

BAHAHAH XD

[Synbios]

The idea is to adjust the difficulty so that you obtain a better item depending on how much effort you had to put into obtaining it.

This made me LOL.

[Matricide]

Typo aside, quit then. I hear WOW developers spend all kinds of time chatting on forums with their playerbase. Honestly, this is far more than I had expected, and hope that this is the begining of SE being willing to talk with us at all.

EDIT: SE doesn't owe us shit. If you think you deserve to have your questions answered, you're delusional. The fact that they have decided it's in their interests as a company to do so at all is a damn good start.

I'm going to complain when there's a problem, and I'm NOT going to be happy with 4 months waiting for 'maybe, you'll see, we promise that maybe stuff will happen possibly." There are 6 developers working on FFXI, it's not like it's some huge team that doesn't have time to deal with their players. It's embarrassing for anyone here to accept this--the "well, atleast we got something right?!" attitude is horrible.

It's not just WoW, it's nearly any game developer over the last decade or more. Back from the days of john carmack and id developers posting updates, in that whole boom, to today's wow and others.

People shouldn't stop complaining when there are problems until they are addressed, that's their right as paying consumers. Take that 'just quit' attitude back to alla.

[Beckwin]

There are 6 developers working on FFXI, it's not like it's some huge team that doesn't have time to deal with their players.

I'd think a huge team would have an easier time having someone more available for community relations.

[dragoryte]

Interview Bercus – Bahamut Server – BG Community http://www.bluegartr.com / Hokuten Linkshell – http://www.HokutenLS.de.vu and Square Enix Development Team

Question 17:
Does wearing corresponding elemental staves or synthesizing while facing certain directions have any effects on success and fail rates for synthesis? Do these actions or crafting on certain elemental days or in certain weather have ANY effect on crafting results?

A17:
We have been asked this question for the last five years *g*
However, we won’t be disclosing this information to anyone even in the future.

It makes it more exciting to have a little bit of mystery, don’t you agree?

Out of all the bullshit they spewed in this interview that last little section about crafting pushed me over the edge. "Hehe, we know something you don't know! Nah nah nah! " Hey SE, {fire}{death}{You can have this}. Been reading this site for years but created my account today for this post as if Square might actually care (lol yeah right, as if they care enough to read what their customers want).

/sigh.....thanks for trying Bercus

[Epical]

God damn you sure got your point across with that slick auto-trans message.

[Rocl]

38% Crunk
and
100% Auto-translating on the forums

[Epical]

ROCL BECOME A TECHNICAL GENIUS FOR JUST A MOMENT.

[Miji]

God damn you sure got your point across with that slick auto-trans message.

Isn't that why everyone starts an account? To make a post with an auto-translated message in it?

[Rocl]

ROCL BECOME A TECHNICAL GENIUS FOR JUST A MOMENT.

Fuck if I know, do a barrel roll.

[Matricide]

There are 6 developers working on FFXI, it's not like it's some huge team that doesn't have time to deal with their players.

I'd think a huge team would have an easier time having someone more available for community relations.

ya but we don't want some community relations prick, we want direct "contact" with the developers. does anyone remember Quake days?

[Valrath]

Interview Bercus – Bahamut Server – BG Community http://www.bluegartr.com / Hokuten Linkshell – http://www.HokutenLS.de.vu and Square Enix Development Team

Question 17:
Does wearing corresponding elemental staves or synthesizing while facing certain directions have any effects on success and fail rates for synthesis? Do these actions or crafting on certain elemental days or in certain weather have ANY effect on crafting results?

A17:
We have been asked this question for the last five years *g*
However, we won’t be disclosing this information to anyone even in the future.

It makes it more exciting to have a little bit of mystery, don’t you agree?

Out of all the bullshit they spewed in this interview that last little section about crafting pushed me over the edge. "Hehe, we know something you don't know! Nah nah nah! " Hey SE, {fire}{death}{You can have this}. Been reading this site for years but created my account today for this post as if Square might actually care (lol yeah right, as if they care enough to read what their customers want).

/sigh.....thanks for trying Bercus

Theres no fucking way SE will ever release all the variables for crafting. It'll completely trash everything. I'd rather SE keep its mouth shut on this topic.

[StaplerGuy]

Why they don't just say then, "Releasing this information would cause a sudden HQ boom and subsequent economy crash. As you can see from our recent STFU actions, we care about protecting a reasonably healthy economy. Therefore, we cannot release this information, now or ever."

They even get to say STFU!

[Mifaco]

hey, I know the reason the answers were so shitty, it's because we aren't a premier site!

[Epical]

ROCL BECOME A TECHNICAL GENIUS FOR JUST A MOMENT.

Fuck if I know, do a barrel roll.

Lol, brb cutting.

[Ryko]

hey, I know the reason the answers were so shitty, it's because we aren't a premier site!

Alright look, we need to fix this. Everyone give me money, then we'll be a premier site.

STOP THINKING AND DO IT.

[Taj]

BG would seriously turn into Alla if it became a premier site. :(

[Luke]

Not gonna post a new topic since the update will get its own topic tomorrow, but download sizes have been released for the update. I don't remember updates being this large before.

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnews/news9856.shtml

An update for FINAL FANTASY XI is currently scheduled for Mar. 7, 2007 at 16:00 (PST). Approximate file sizes and installation times for this update are shown below.

[File size for clients with "Chains of Promathia" and "Treasures of Aht Urhgan" installed.]

"PlayStation 2" Version
Downloadable file size: 70MB
>>Analog modem (56Kbps) users
Volume check: 12 minutes
Download / Unzip: 4 hour, 57 minutes
Installation: 6 minutes
Total: About 5 hour, 15 minutes

>>DSL (1Mbps) users
Volume check: 10 minutes, 30 seconds
Download / Unzip: 30 minutes
Installation: 6 minutes
Total: About 46 minutes, 30 seconds

Windows Version
Downloadable file size: 95.2MB
>>Analog modem (56Kbps) users
Volume check: 14 minutes
Download / Unzip: 6 hours, 2 minutes
Installation: 3 minutes, 30 seconds
Total: About 6 hours, 19 minutes, 30 seconds
>>DSL (1Mbps) users
Volume check: 11 minutes, 30 seconds
Download / Unzip: 22 minutes
Installation: 3 minutes, 30 seconds
Total: About 37 minutes

Xbox 360 Version
Downloadable file size: 103.4MB
>>DSL (1Mbps) users
Volume check: 8 minutes
Download / Unzip: 24 minutes
Installation: 5 minutes
Total: About 37 minutes


[File size for clients without "Chains of Promathia" and "Treasures of Aht Urhgan" installed.]

"PlayStation 2" Version
Downloadable file size: 59.1MB
>>Analog modem (56Kbps) users
Volume check: 12 minutes
Download / Unzip: 4 hour, 44 minutes
Installation: 5 minutes
Total: About 6 hour, 1 minutes

>>DSL (1Mbps) users
Volume check: 7 minute
Download / Unzip: 28 minutes, 30 seconds
Installation: 5 minutes
Total: About 40 minutes, 30 seconds

Windows Version
Downloadable file size: 75.5MB
>>Analog modem (56Kbps) users
Volume check: 13 minutes
Download / Unzip: 4 hour, 56 minutes
Installation: 3 minute
Total: About 5 hour, 12 minutes

>>DSL (1Mbps) users
Volume check: 10 minutes, 30 seconds
Download / Unzip: 19 minutes
Installation: 3 minute
Total: About 32 minutes, 30 seconds

[Miji]

Let me get this straight. We are told that highly desired items will have new ways to be obtained, they're still planning changes to Ullikummi, sea pop item fixes are in the works, virtue stones will be quiverable, BST has some enhancements coming, along with a few other morsels, and people are complaining about the answers? The only problem I can see out of the deal was that there were a couple of misunderstood questions and they took way too long to answer them. What kind of answers would have made everyone happy, short of disclosing update details a few months in advance?