Newest interview (abyssea was a mistake?)

[Runespider]

i completely agree with tanaka.. the balance of the game was horribly done in abyssea. war is to OP whm ONLY healer pld all but useless brd all but useless i could go on. nothing he said there was wrong. if you want easy content go play wow i didnt sign up to see my apoc drk useless to my mnk with below average gear please fix mr tanaka

Did you just get an apoc? relics were never very impressive. There is always an OP DD job, before Aby brd was overpowered, rdm was the best healer.

[Neisan_Quetz]

FFXI's population was in decline before Abyssea was released, not saying Abyssea didn't eventually compound the problem.

[Arcon]

Did you just get an apoc? relics were never very impressive.

I've had just about enough of your shenanigans. Stop trolling your own threads. You're either not serious or the only relic you've ever seen was a Claustrum.

[Urteil]

I've had just about enough of your shenanigans. Stop trolling your own threads. You're either not serious or the only relic you've ever seen was a Claustrum.

Woah Bro, that dispel is pretty good (in ballista.)


Oh who am I kidding, get a fucking Terra's Staff.




All the silly Japanese designers had to do, was make minimum level into abyssea 75.

But now they are holding their heads going "OH NO DESU, WHY SUCH FAILURE NANDAYO".

Seriously, not that hard.

[ShadowHeart]

they merged servers due to massively declining numbers before merge we were at steady 2500 members + daily they crunched all the servers drastically increasing numbers and competition but that being said many months later now the numbers on most servers are about where they were previously showing that in last 6-12 months they lost almost half their numbers of players... its an aged and dated game but i am still here even though have experienced almost every bit of content available. I have always loved ffxi but like any good thing i know one day all good things come to an end...

[darkhorror]

If anything this is showing us how this developer thinks and if that is how we will go from now on I will be quitting again here in a few months. Random drops should be for crafting and items that you can sell, not for a 1% drop rate. Those items should be bought with points or something so you can work towards something while having a chance to get other items you want.

[CrAZYVIC]

Abbysea not was a mistake.

The mistake was Giving us "God mode for fight vs insects". This happen when you dont take the time for test the things with detail.

If they dont make a Event give the comunity challenges and good rewards the next year we will have a x3, x4 Servers Merge.

A good tip for the devs.

If you guys want make a good balance.
Listen the Comunity ask the Comunity for new Enemies or battlefields.
Read the new DD, TANK, etc forums
Read our posts here
in the Test server Call voluntaries for test new events BEFORE even announce this events

We are in the same Boat if this die FFXI dev team will die too.

[Raksha]

I couldn't give 2 shits about whether abyssea was a failure or not, I'm just pissed off that they still think the voidwatch loot system isn't massively retarded and in need of redesign.

[Tamoa]

I'm fairly certain the server merges would have taken place even without Abyssea. In fact some did, like Pandemonium merging with Asura in March 2010. During EU prime time (say 4-6pm EST) Pandemonium had 7-800 players online. I'll check later and see how many are online at that time on Asura today, an ordinary Monday evening. This game is getting old and a decline in server population was bound to happen either way.

In my opinion, the problem with Abyssea was that everything became so easy with brews, atmas and cruor buffs and whatnot. Not everybody handles having to go back to time sinks/grinding/low drop rates very well.

[Neisan_Quetz]

The only things I ever felt were over the top in Abyssea was brewing Shinryu (not even necessary but really cheapened the fight), 200k Brews and infinite reraise on Apoc atma.