A Message to the Developers

[Cruentus]

I would just like to point out something to you.

We play this game. We play this game a lot. We know pretty much everything about how it works, and how that applies to us as players. We created the Final Fantasy XI wiki, which is now bursting with information on any given topic regarding this game. We even did some stupid things, like creating third-party programs to get infinite lines in each individual macro, take parsing measurements to see who did what damage when, how much of it, whether it was physical or magical, etc., but this was done so that we could understand the game as well as you developers do. Maybe we know the game even better than you do. We certainly understand what each job in the game is capable of, why that is, and how to improve the ones that are too weak, while balancing the ones that are just cheap as hell.

In short, this is what I am pointing out.

We know this game. We thus know directly how to fix it. You should trust our judgment.

Thanks for reading.

[Randwolf]

For being a large group of experts, we can't seem to agree on anything. Which ones of us do they listen to?

[Tsukino_Kaji]

In light of that OP statement. How are the DEVs, who don't realy have the same kind of experience playing the game, supposed to differentiate between real issues and complainers?

[Vinc]

How can they trust your judgment when 80% of the members posting on the board thinks gear swapping is a crime, Str gear is more beneficial than double/triple attack for tping, leeching is serious business - because experience points parties are endgame - and the majority just lack understanding of basic game mechanics.

From the plethora of suggestions on this board: I think the community team/dev's have a better idea of what needs to be done than any of the members posting here.

[JagerForrester]

Devs have the final say. We are allowed to suggest as much as we want, and the team will listen. That's what this forum was partially for.

[Greatguardian]

How can they trust your judgment when 80% of the members posting on the board thinks gear swapping is a crime, Str gear is more beneficial than double/triple attack for tping, leeching is serious business - because experience points parties are endgame - and the majority just lack understanding of basic game mechanics.

From the plethora of suggestions on this board: I think the community team/dev's have a better idea of what needs to be done than any of the members posting here.

This a thousand times over. Some players may understand the concepts of fStr, pDif, dDex, etc. That doesn't mean more than 0.1% of the people making suggestions about the game know any of these things.

[Mrbeansman]

Parsers aren't illegal tools wish you people would learn this.

[HFX7686]

This sounds like a very, very bad idea.

They should read what players have to say, but they really shouldn't take 95% of the suggestions seriously. And the other 5% should only be considered very carefully and probably only in passing.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

The problem is in that DEVs and MODs are not players, so realy they don't know entirely.

[JagerForrester]

The problem is in that DEVs and MODs are not players, so realy they don't know entirely.

I've always wondered about that. I'm sure they have some form of knowledge of actually playing their own games. I hear rumors some GMs are also real players, but they can't acknowledge they are real GMs.