Milkman 1up Interview 5/22/09

[MyTitthias]

Not sure if this has been posted. Enjoy a lumpy and incredibly uninteresting interview!

FFXI Developer Interview Reveals the Process Behind Their Latest Expansion: News from 1UP.com

edit: Just finished. Yawn... At least he bugged them about the lame farming...

[grantlogan]

That interview was just meh. Maybe it's just SE being assholes in their non-answers but most of the questions were equally worthless.

[Xavier]

Slightly, but only slightly, more informative than a simple "I don't know" response to every question.

[Gere]

Only questions worth reading IMO:

1UP: ACP is easily beaten in a day, if you know where you're going and what you have to do. Has the experience of offering downloadable scenarios inspired you to create bigger, download-only expansions, or do you prefer to offer them in bite-sized bits?

KO: The currently in-progress Wings of the Goddess missions have just recently reached the halfway mark, and anything beyond this is yet to be determined. But the world of Vana'diel is a treasure trove of exciting tales waiting to be told; we would definitely like to explore scenarios and activities that make use of that rich variety in the future.

1UP: When are the Iron Ram and Cobar Unit bodies going to be added to the game? Our Campaign sets are incomplete!

KO: Our profuse apologies for having kept our fans waiting. We suspect that the final pieces of these sets may make an appearance when new Campaign ranks and further Campaign areas are added.

1UP: Over the last couple of years, you've done a great job adding Blue Mage-specific swords and whatnot, keeping the BLU community satisfied as a result. But where are the Puppetmaster-specific hand-to-hand weapons, and the Dancer-specific daggers?

KO: The development team is looking into this as we speak. In the near future, we think we will be able to deliver something that fans will appreciate!

[Auspice]

1UP: Over the last couple of years, you've done a great job adding Blue Mage-specific swords and whatnot, keeping the BLU community satisfied as a result. But where are the Puppetmaster-specific hand-to-hand weapons, and the Dancer-specific daggers?

KO: The development team is looking into this as we speak. In the near future, we think we will be able to deliver something that fans will appreciate!

Who the fuck cares? Why call out those specific jobs? Why not ask about SCH or COR or any other job? I don't get it.

[Silenka]

I don't understand why people even do interviews with SE anymore. Aside from the specialized ones like with the effects/translation teams and whatnot, we don't leave the interviews with any information we didn't already know, but carrying way too many vague half-assed bullshit answers.

[ronin sparthos]

Who the fuck cares? Why call out those specific jobs? Why not ask about SCH or COR or any other job? I don't get it.

Because Dancer and Puppetmaster arent exactly "accepted" as Scholar and Corsair.

....or thats what I believe he was trying to get at.

[Silenka]

I don't think a couple of new weapons are going to make PUP or DNC more useful. =/

[Yugl]

I don't think a couple of new weapons are going to make PUP or DNC more useful. =/

They might if they had a cheap Mandau or Spharai!

[shaddix]

i hate SE

[Kimiko]

What about the BLM update?! When can we be in real parties again?!!

[Ruuz]

I don't think a couple of new weapons are going to make PUP or DNC more useful. =/

Sad but true.

[Katarzyna]

It's really pathetic that SE would grant part of their dev team to interview with this waste of a columnist, instead of loaning them out to the community/premier site leaders who actually talk to the community each and every day.

[Plow]

What exactly was he supposed to ask?

"Hey, this expansion didn't involve any drings or ebodies. Please elaborate."?

[tonystigma]

Totally understanding why this is in Standard, lol. Thanks for posting it.

[Kaylia]

KO: The development team is looking into this as we speak. In the near future, we think we will be able to deliver something that fans will appreciate!

I think this is my favorite pre-made reply. The question and solution are so simple I find hilarious that a whole team has to "look into the issue". I picture them around a table talking seriously about something really retarded.

[Belgaer]

Over the last couple of years, you've done a great job adding Blue Mage-specific swords and whatnot, keeping the BLU community satisfied as a result. But where are the Puppetmaster-specific hand-to-hand weapons, and the Dancer-specific daggers?

Too bad Beast Slayer is the only one worth half a sandwich.

[Hellfury]

1UP: Please tell us about the three new scenarios and why you chose these particular story threads to pick up and continue. The dev team told me in a previous interview that these were stories you had originally wanted to tell, but didn't have the time or proper forum to expand.
MK: Well, I don't like leaving things unfinished. If you start telling a story, you should bring it to a proper conclusion, you know? Of course, with FFXI being an online game, there are certain things that have to continue as they are, that you can't change, so loose ends kind of go with the territory. I'd say that with A Crystalline Prophecy, I felt like I was bringing closure to something that had been left unfinished.

Are they kidding me or did I miss something horribly?

Spoiler: show

Because I am pretty sure that we already knew fairly certainly that she was Aldo's sister and alive in Selbina, and the fact that they forgot everything and we couldn't reunite them properly after ACP is one of the biggest cop outs in this !#"¤ game..closure my ass

[ErzaScarlet]

Hard hitting honest review that completely reflected the communities issue with the expansion. Then this teet-suckling interview which carried none of the issues that made me click on this thread.
What a waste of a read, I mean every interview with SE is, however I expected more.

Totally understanding why this is in Standard, lol.

LOL ^ this, totally agree.

[Arcanesoul]

I found the interview quite interesting to be honest. The message the responses seemed to give is more that the Dev team completely stopped Kato from telling his story. His aim and what was delivered are two completely different things. I'm not defending Kato either since we don't know exactly what he wrote in the end, and it could very well be that the story he gave was poor. However the biggest culprit almost certainly seems to be our life long enemies, the Dev team, who continually spring stuff like poor drop rates and endless grinds on us.

FFXI is fun, but without story to enjoy I find the whole experience meaningless beyond another place for social gathering. Not everyone gets time to fit their schedules to the big endgame shells, but then I would also say that the challenge offered by endgame becomes lessened once you are well-practiced at it anyway. Everything has a limited lifespan in this game in terms of interest. Without fresh new stories however which aren't limited by the battle system though, what do we have left?