Onrpg.com Fanfest Dev Interview

[Knightfell]

I always enjoyed Bercus's interviews, as it stands now it seems rather hard to get SE's attention on certain issues, being that there is no one "voice(s)" of the community.

Even with the direct feedback it seems SE will only do something when there inbox gets flooded with certain requests, and submitting suggestions with out any follow up just seems rather discouraging, as it allows SE to cherry pick whatever issue they feel like addressing without having to delve into older issues that need their attention.

With a community voice SE would have less wiggle room, as they couldn't play the "When we get pestered enough" card as often as they do now.

[Guyverarmor]

I always enjoyed Bercus's interviews, as it stands now it seems rather hard to get SE's attention on certain issues, being that there is no one "voice(s)" of the community.

Even with the direct feedback it seems SE will only do something when there inbox gets flooded with certain requests, and submitting suggestions with out any follow up just seems rather discouraging, as it allows SE to cherry pick whatever issue they feel like addressing without having to delve into older issues that need their attention.

With a community voice SE would have less wiggle room, as they couldn't play the "When we get pestered enough" card as often as they do now.

I agree...but we should get someone who thinks defeating Kirin is the fucking new thing >_>

[Khamsin]

Become a premier site and sure.

Hell you don't even need much content, freaking Ballista website (who plays ballista?) is a premiere site.

Too bad BG can't become an under-the-table premiere site. One that SE visits and watches as if it were, but doesn't advertise us on their site so we don't have to censor.

I wonder if there'd be merit in a BG: Special SE Edition forum site, that'd have no linkbacks to the rest of BG forums. It can be filled with topics intended for SE to see (like the current SE subforum), and be censored to SE's heart, all as a separate site so the regular BG forums don't need to be censored.

Call it... bluegartr.com/forums or something, to keep it a different URL.

[Priran]

I wonder if there'd be merit in a BG: Special SE Edition forum site, that'd have no linkbacks to the rest of BG forums. It can be filled with topics intended for SE to see (like the current SE subforum), and be censored to SE's heart, all as a separate site so the regular BG forums don't need to be censored.

Call it... bluegartr.com/forums or something, to keep it a different URL.

no one would use it for anything but bitching and venting. I can guarantee the devs would just stop bothering to check it within the span of a week.

why does BG need to be an official premiere site anyway? it's clear that someone at SE reads it, if not Sundi then the guy who got that hat and told him to wear it.

[Hellfury]

I wouldn't have a problem with the inside joke and the wasted question in the interview, and I could even forget about misrepresenting the MWF... if only SE hadn't actually taken that shit SERIOUSLY.

The whole point/problem is that it'd be PR suicide of SE to NOT consider a question/wish from MWF seriously, making it that much worse.

[Priran]

if SE makes a bee mage I'm totally making a character named Thepain

[Headache]

grim just sent me the info about the bee mage... and I TOTALLY DID NOT MEAN TO MAKE THIS JOKE.

Dingo says:
those bastards
Dingo says:
i would've had an update ready in 5 days tops
Dingo says:
the job that noone else can unlock
Dingo says:
but that's ok, his only move is final sting
grim says:
...
Dingo says:
and damnit... i didn't mean to make that joke

I didn't even realize it til after I hit enter, I drew a total blank on bee tp moves!

[orson]

I can't believe there's still people who think not receiving skill-ups in level sync and campaign is ok. As for not having the teleports directly to dungeons that is just another prime example of SE cockblocking their players. They just do this to waste our time instead of actually letting us play the game. There's 0 reason those things are the way they are.

As for the dodging the AV issue at least it's being pushed in mind that we still want the truth.

[Guitarman]

Obviously the way to get SE's attention is to throw a shoe at Sage Sundi.

[Epical]

Yeah, to the people who think we need our own premiere site-based interviews ----V

What the fuck do you think bercus has been doing?

Where do you think he gets his questions from? Us. =P

Also, if things go like last Fanfest, BG has longer interviews than even the premiere sites do. =)

[Tradition]

Obviously the way to get SE's attention is to throw a shoe at Sage Sundi.

Throwing shoes at somebody is a supreme insult in the Near East.

[Maaglin]

Throwing shoes at somebody is a supreme insult in the Near East.

You watch the news?

woosh

[Guitarman]

Throwing shoes at somebody is a supreme insult in the Near East.

Wow.

It's called political satire. Read the news more heh.

[The Stig]

Just be thankful it's not a bucket of shit ...

[Headache]

Just be thankful it's not a bucket of shit ...

Are you talking about what's being thrown, or the target of the shoes?

Because I'm talking about shoe-targets.

[/wordsmith]

[The Stig]

Ah, touche. I was talking about what's being thrown instead.

[Destinye]

I can't believe there's still people who think not receiving skill-ups in level sync and campaign is ok.

Because it defeats the fucking purpose of leveling in certain areas for exping, especially once you can do campaign efficiently it defeats going to even more exp zones.

So yes..it is ok that you can't keep your ass in one camp spot/campaign for the rest of your leveling/meriting with a negative side effect of no skill-ups..you want to keep your ass in dunes/qufim from 10-75? Go for it, but you'll be gimped.

[Arcanesoul]

I wouldn't have a problem with the inside joke and the wasted question in the interview, and I could even forget about misrepresenting the MWF... if only SE hadn't actually taken that shit SERIOUSLY.

An easy way they could make it happen though could be an NPC child that calls himself a Bee Mage and makes with some silly antics ala SOBs (hmm, maybe he could be IN the SOBs. I could see that working and possibly even being funny). Quick, someone suggest this to SE before they actually make a fucking Bee Mage!

Talk to the 3 kids in Mhura near the moogle I think.
Edit: Or is on other side of bridge? I'm positive one of the npc's somewhere talks about a bees-master...

[ronin sparthos]

I can't believe there's still people who think not receiving skill-ups in level sync and campaign is ok. As for not having the teleports directly to dungeons that is just another prime example of SE cockblocking their players. They just do this to waste our time instead of actually letting us play the game. There's 0 reason those things are the way they are.

As for the dodging the AV issue at least it's being pushed in mind that we still want the truth.

Not getting skillup is part of the drawback of Level Syncing. Imagine if you could sit in dunes and hit weak ass mobs for little to no effort and cap all your skills, people would be abusing the fuck out of it for just about everything.

Skillups on certain things should be adjusted (looking at you guard and parrying) but you should be forced to face mobs of higher levels to cap skills because anything else means people abuse it.

I agree that not being able to teleport to dungeon theaters is quite stupid, especially when Crawler's Nest and Garliage Citadel are obscenely far from the warp ins. The Necropolis isnt too bad but the other two zones are just too far away and unless you know the battle will be protracted, you have a high chance of wasting your time.

Thats just something i wish the developers would understand is common sense, that no one wants to walk half way across a zone then grab tags and find out the battle is over.

AV? Its just there to keep people interested in FFXI and create buzz, the developers have no intention of helping on that front because they need something to epeen about too~

[Khalil]

Not getting skillup is part of the drawback of Level Syncing. Imagine if you could sit in dunes and hit weak ass mobs for little to no effort and cap all your skills, people would be abusing the fuck out of it for just about everything.

Skillups on certain things should be adjusted (looking at you guard and parrying) but you should be forced to face mobs of higher levels to cap skills because anything else means people abuse it.

I agree that not being able to teleport to dungeon theaters is quite stupid, especially when Crawler's Nest and Garliage Citadel are obscenely far from the warp ins. The Necropolis isnt too bad but the other two zones are just too far away and unless you know the battle will be protracted, you have a high chance of wasting your time.

Thats just something i wish the developers would understand is common sense, that no one wants to walk half way across a zone then grab tags and find out the battle is over.

AV? Its just there to keep people interested in FFXI and create buzz, the developers have no intention of helping on that front because they need something to epeen about too~

I wouldn't say "weak ass mobs" but let it be T-IT++ and still get skill ups. Personally, I don't mind, you can always join a skill up PT later or after every 10 levels and still be fine.