Gamewatch Interview (full translation linked in first post)

[shukuffxi]

One of my biggest pet peeves with these interviews, and the stuff they mentioned at the fan fest is always the job balancing: They name things for every job, then introduce new things for like 2 or 3 jobs per update.

So, if you're lucky, your job will get an update right away, and if you're unlucky, well you might see your jobs new ability/balancing/whatever in a year and a half. What makes PLD more deserving to have their update early than RDM, or vice versa? I know that being a company, they love to delay things and keep people waiting, which equates to people paying for longer, but this is a bit ridiculous.

[Ace-o-fire]

well a lot of it comes with the players bitching for a new tank or people saying how NIN is now really the only tank (I'm just using it as an example) so the devs are going to fix that a shit ton faster then some DRK QQing about how his weapon takes too long to hit.

and people saying that ffxi is going to be dead in two - four years. I highly doubt that. the numbers have been pretty stable for a long time and even with starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 coming out some people may not cancel accounts right away it might be a year down, and people playing the new games and find out it's a fun thing for maybe an hour in a sitting then come back to ffxi like many have done in the past. And if you look at the Japanese player base many of them are very dedicated and i don't have numbers maybe some one else can try o pull them up, but that have been stable or growing in the past 2 years.

Worst case is that they start combine the servers with the least amount of people in to one server.

But you can be sure as shit that when SE new MMO comes out everything in the ffxi world is going to slow down alot. We have about another expansion or two before everything tapers off in to nothing. As long as the new MMo doesn't blow cocks and no one joins it.


But i'm going to cum buckets when the player made dungeons come out.

[Lordender]

FFXI will never die as long as people keep playing it. The older FFXI gets the longer the wait for updates will become leaving those who still play it feeling fustrated and more inclined to move on. I think a lot of NA's will hesitate playing another SE MMO after how FFXI was handled.

[Xanthe]

But they will still post on the same message boards months, and even years after quitting.

[Max™]

Swish, it's a 3 pointer from Mid Court! Xanthe wins the game!

[LD]

As long as they completely flesh out the world (the rest of the continents + appropriate content, Hell they haven't really finished the East yet) and fix the fuck-ups they've made and the fuck-ups to come, it might not be so bad. If it's just a hard stop and then "Play this now", there will be murders.

[Naash]

There are battle zones in Wings of the Goddess called “Lair Areas.” What are these places?

Looking at JP I'm pretty sure they meant Layer and not "Lair".

[Tarage]

Edit: double-posted, sorry

You dun broke the forum!

[Gere]

How is this... what?

[BRP]

Wut

how you do this

[Priran]

khamsin's revenge

[Suiram]

Is it clicking the lower "Post Reply" button that does it?

Edit: I guess not since I clicked the other one to make this, but now I can't delete this post.

[Epical]

Nashreen, edit that post with what you typed before, I had to baleet your divide by 0 post.

Thread should be fixed now.

[Naash]

Sorry about that, I don't know how that happened, posted normally, then something went wrong as I edited my post, and the result made me think I had hit quote instead of Edit and double posted...

(Is this related maybe? I was quoting the original JP text and some characters were not displayed properly. The new board doesn't propermy support Japanese maybe? In any case, I removed the JP quote to be safe.)

[LD]

It happened once before in the BLU thread.

[Elmer the Pointy]

Looking at JP I'm pretty sure they meant Layer and not "Lair".

Turns out レイヤーエリア is JP for "Instance." So most likely "Layer Areas" are then areas that can be layered upon each other for each entering party.

[LD]

Weird terminology. Is that actually how assault's instancing system works? I always thought it was some multi-server thing. Though now that I think of it, you can search Nyzul and see more than one group in there, so it would have to be a single server...

[Toksyuryel]

I think people are ignoring the potential of player created dungeons to be used by linkshells for training and practice purposes. You can experiment with new tactics, practice complicated pulls, train new pullers, etc, all without risking XP, gil, or pop items. Even if there's no real reward for them, this alone would make them worth it for a lot of linkshells out there.

[Rowe]

See like I said Gamewatch has regular coverage of FFXI,

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/...31/ff11_16.htm