Version Update Sneak Peek (07/17/2009)

[Melios]

That's the strange thing, people bitch and moan about how terrible the update is going to be when they tease us with filler shit first and give us the good stuff at the end

and then people bitch and moan about how terrible the update is going to be when they show us the good stuff up front and pad the wait until patch day with filler stuff

I think we've determined that people on the internet have the attention span and short term memory of gold fish

You bet they do.

[Hanyoko]

Fix all pre ZNM ??? repop timers (or even a small subset) or make /bell able to do more!

Glad to see SE has its priorities straight......... Unless using /bell on firesday new moon at G-6 facing west in East Ronf makes a special HNM spawn!!! Sadly i could see them making NMs pop from making music........

[Draylo]

Guys

I failed to pick up a bell during Christmas

And I don't go home for another 5 hours (need to stay back for testing), so I can't go home and try yet. But now I really want to.

Can I /bell without a bell? i.e. with my Blau Dolch or something???

No but they released craftable bells with that update, so you can get lady bell for like 5k from AH.

[Mizango]

You bet they do.

That's pretty neat lol.

[Mizango]

That's pretty neat lol.

REMIX

[Davricle]

This is worse than the DaVinci code! Both the novel by Dan Brown and the movie.

[Tomiko]

The fact that my LSmate called the bell updates last night and then we get this shit means I'm beating him with a bell.

ftfy.

I agree then about the pizza slices, that would be nice.

[enoch]

I too am dismayed that they wasted engineering resources on /bell when there are so many other worthwhile things in-game that still need to be addressed. If they wanted to make the game more musical, they should update BRD songs so that each song actually sounds different.

Kudos to the Ebisu update, though.

As for whatever the third update item was... that I can't even remember what it is after reading through the 7 pages of this thread means it's probably just junk.

Edit: oh right, buns. However could I forget Curry Buns? Probably be as crappy as the Cheese Sandwiches.

[Karbuncle]

Anyone who thinks the bell notes will be remotely interesting: you cannot make notes play faster than one note per 1.2sec. Try playing something at that speed. I'll wait, you'll need 10 minutes or so. Very, very few songs can be paced that slowly. There have been a couple of songs done decently, but even then the timing could be better. So unless that's corrected, adding more notes is pointless(er).

This is from like, Page 2, don't care.

You can have more than 1 person playing bells... so as long as you practice you can make just about any song.

Just like you can have 2 people cheering next to eachother, get 2-3 People with bells, practice a song, then play it... Sure its alot of work, but it isn't impossible.

Btw, These update notes suck, horribly, except like mentioned for the 3 people who bothered to get Ebisu o .o

[Purrloin]

This has got to be the most uninteresting update in years.

Long time reader, first time complete utter disappointment in BG analysis.

Has anyone else considered the implication that for the first time in 5 years, SE has decided that fishermen need to bring MORE gil into the economy? The last time we saw an update like this, they cut Limbus and Dynamis entry fees. This could be the biggest update note ever, if only for the economic forecast.

Lu fisherman here. I ain't gonna see squat, but congratulations Ebisu fishermen!

[BRP]

Holy crap how is your post count still 0

I guess you don't gain posts in this forum?

[Aksannyi]

Fail. Nothing they've said they're releasing this update has made me excited at all, usually there's at least something.

[Tempyst]

You bet they do.

Why did you remind me that tvtropes exists, every time I've been to that site I've lost three consecutive days of my life just reading stuff

[BRP]

I used to have that problem, until the sheer madness of webcomics and fan fictions getting entries there scared me off forever.

[Cutriss]

Probably be as crappy as the Cheese Sandwiches.

Don't be a hater.

[Shassira]

Even if there are no more job adjustments or avatars for this update, keep in mind patch day is when they reveal all the stuff that would cause people to rush before the update to sell/buy/run somewhere and log/etc. When the server is down is when they tell us things that make us go "shit! I should have ___ before I logged! Hope I can log on fast enough after the patch!" And anything that gives us that reaction is exciting.

So there's still some exciting stuff waiting for us, plus whatever MKdE adds besides quests/missions/CS/hat (e.g. the other key rewards).

Following this train of though, the update still has a lot of potential.
For instance, the new areas could have new merit camps or another playground for botting some HNM (or both). The campaign bodies may actualy be good and worth the suspense of the wait.
The ANNM "on the fly dynamis" systems could bring serious rewards to the system in the form of currency and salvage related materials.
The nin job abilities could prove to be game changing, opening new strategies and options to the whole comunity.
The circle JAs could become the new berserk and the blu spells may open new traits or actualy be directly useful.
Maybe even the new curry could patch up needs for some job. It could even include a whole line up of food types, maybe even some that are fed to pets patching this way many of the problems pet jobs have.

And finaly, although this isn't part of the update, Kupo expansionette could be good. (Ok, this may be going overboard )

The problem is, the update is full of "could" and empty of "will be". Past track records from SE show that most of the time when there is a chance to make things wrong, they will be made wrong. And sometimes when there's no way to make them wrong, they will still make them wrong (bells with incomplete scales and big timers between sounds!).

Personaly, i'm pretty sure this will be a huge flop, but most of the latest updates have been kinda flops anyway... so on the line, I suposse.

Btw, the latest update had nothing new (and relevant) added to the patch notes on final day, if I remember correctly.

[Psion]

SE: "Happy Friday guys! lolololol"


I demand we make a sacrifice of Pikko to cleanse the company of its alla infection, cause clearly they picked up a bug from one of their premium sites.

[Max™]

Three guys are sitting at a table looking at a cup with shit in it.

Mr. Optimistic points out that it's half full, Emo-angst Pessimist dude corrects him, saying it's half empty, while I'm left with horrible flashbacks from the last time I saw a cup with shit in it... and the dreadful awareness that there are two guys besides myself... not two girls.

[Phraust]

I think the saddest part is there's someone that actually worked on "/bell".

I mean seriously... seriously... they could have been fixing things like "<call>" Volume, or beetle feet or any number of TINY things... but no.. there's some dipshit jackhole fucking with /bell...

[Ezekial]

Ok, I believe it's time to start a petition to publicly execute the person/s responsible for the /bell command.