Producer Communication

Why does FFXI have such poor communication to its playerbase as opposed to FFXIV?

I know they are seperate games with seperate teams, but they are still the same company,

But if you go look at the lodestone right now, the amount of communication planning and updates by the Game Producer and dev team is AMAZING:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/14828


Who is our producer, why do we get nothing while another branch of the same company makes everyone look incompetent?






Very little progress, and then borking things like making cure do 999999 damage, then doing a maintenance that takes 8+ hours for a 2 hour update.

Whoever is Producer (Is it horrible Hiromichi?) for this game should take some lessons from the producer of XIV.

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Originally Posted by Urteil

Why does FFXI have such poor communication to its playerbase as opposed to FFXIV?

I know they are seperate games with seperate teams, but they are still the same company,

But if you go look at the lodestone right now, the amount of communication planning and updates by the Game Producer and dev team is AMAZING:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/14828


Who is our producer, why do we get nothing while another branch of the same company makes everyone look incompetent?






Very little progress, and then borking things like making cure do 999999 damage, then doing a maintenance that takes 8+ hours for a 2 hour update.

Whoever is Producer (Is it horrible Hiromichi?) for this game should take some lessons from the producer of XIV.

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I tried to send him a /tell all I got was JP ony

You don't talk to the cash cow, lest it become self-aware. FFXI doesn't need to dig itself out of a massive crater of fail, FFXIV does. It's PR more than anything when it comes to FFXIV. Not that they don't listen but still, the newer product (that massively failed at launch) should and will definitely get way more attention to its users than the much older product that they're just milking.

Also, the 2 hour pre-planned maintenance was to implement things they already had done prior to the maintenance, this 8+ hours un-planned maintenance is to figure out a problem and fix it, something that they have NOT done prior to the maintenance.

Did they massively screw up said things? Yes. Should pre-planned maintenance take longer than un-planned (emergency) maintenance? No.