Special Dev-Team Interview (Game Watch)

[Avé]

That's a good interview. Makes me almost excited to start playing again.

[Cow_k]

How do you feel about Campaign in its current state?

Itou: I think it gives too many experience points. I feel like leveling up has shifted too much into usage of Campaign. That then raises other problems, such as how to skill-up your weapon, and such.

Oh my God... People get too much XP from campaign? 5000-7000 xp per hour is too much!? And that's at 75 on the right job! Anything lower than 70 is going to be getting like 3000 xp an hour or less and good luck if you're a mage. What. The. Shit.

[PHiFE]

And the Moblin Maze, the impression I got is that a player can only make a maze once per day, but if you have a party of six, you can actually do six runs a day with each person making one maze each.

From my understanding at FanFest it was once per day. If this is the case above, parties can just invite a new person each run and enter over and over no?

[Byrthnoth]

That interview was better than everything we got from Fanfest, essentially.

[thatwasnifty]

They've finally admitted it. Other MMOs are just too easy.

[Tomiko]

Thanks for posting that Elmer!

Balrahn’s Secret Treasures serve as a new kind of Relic Weapon, but the difficulty level of their acquisition is just incredibly high.

Ogawa: The original concept was to make it equal to that of Relic Weapons.

I don't really see how they can be seen as equal. Both in power and in difficulty attaining.

So there’s no way you will change anything regarding their acquisition?

Ogawa: We already changed it once, so for the time being, no.

:<

[Uubu]

does no one care about asking about av anymore , on the upside good interview and really look forward to to "job bags"

[Zubuis]

Yeah the "job bags" would be really awesome if they could somehow implement that >.>

[Xanthe]

Or they could make it Damage varies with TP like the original penta, but then make it a higher fTP... -_-;

I was going to make a lengthy explanation as to why not, but I'll just say no thanks. I would much prefer a multi-hit critical WS than a multi-hit damage varies with TP WS.

[Toth]

Hmm Version Update is in two steps. Maze Monger will be opening on Monday then :D

Love the DNC and SCH info!

Thanks Elmer

[Midnightjade]

Good interview, insightful questions and open responses. Lots of interesting stuff in there. I'm excited by the proposed changes to BST although they seem a bit vague at the moment.

[Ophannus]

Maybe SE will add a dual function to Drakesbane like YGK.
Tachi:Gekko "Silences enemy. Damage varies with TP." see? 2 effects
New Drakesbane could be:
Ignores enemy defense.Chance of critical varies with TP.

Making it awsome for everything :D

[grantlogan]

A possibility for 100-200 more floors on Nyzul Isle assault? :Q

[Hogie]

Elmer.... Will you Merry me?

[Loziel]

Drakesbane Buff!!! Gimme moar candy!!!

Tweak Wheeling too plz

[Zaredx]

Oh my God... People get too much XP from campaign? 5000-7000 xp per hour is too much!? And that's at 75 on the right job! Anything lower than 70 is going to be getting like 3000 xp an hour or less and good luck if you're a mage. What. The. Shit.

Just imagine what'll happen when one of these jokers learns about the Greater Colibri camps!
And 5-7k is pretty high, I spend so much time just waiting for one to start. And a lot of the time it's over after no time at all, ~300 xp ~300 AN

[Cow_k]

All I know is that campaign gets boring real fast once you cap out your medals simply because of the low xp rewards. It's nice to get some buffer when you're starting to cut it close, but I really don't think that hardly anyone thinks that the xp from campaign is seriously very worthwhile. I really wanted a boost to at least 10k an hour, but now I don't see that being a possibility at all.

[Kaylia]

How do you feel about Campaign in its current state?

Itou: I think it gives too many experience points. I feel like leveling up has shifted too much into usage of Campaign. That then raises other problems, such as how to skill-up your weapon, and such.

Uh lol...4k/hours is "too many"? Come on...

[Xavierus]

i'm surprised they talked about their budget so much... how much are the devs making that "adding content to the new expansions might go over the budget". that doesn't really make sense to me

They probably get paid a fair amount, but usually companies include an employee's hourly value in with many other things such as benefits, depreciation of technology, buildings etc etc. That being said, an employee who may be getting piad $30/ hour would be viewed as $100/hour cost to the company. Also, any time you put 5 of SE's employee's in a room for an interview, it is comming out of the FFXI budget in some capacity. In essence, assuming the magazine isnt paying SE for the time, it could cost SE upwards of $1,000 dollars to have a few employees interviewed for a few hours.

So when you have upper management only looking at the top level (planned work vs budget) if something is comming up over budget, managers will cancel it. Remember, we're not paying for this new content, so SE doesnt want to pay an exubrant amount either. Sucks but thats the way it is >.>

[Darkrift]

This is one amazing interview... WAYY better than the other crap i have read.


i wish they said what avatar (s) it was.


I am calling it now. Its an avatar that we have yet to see.