Letter to SE Development Team: Tanka I hope you read this

[FrankReynolds]

if people really wanted to make a point, they would write the stock holders of SE a letter entailing the dissatisfaction of the populace of this game. theyre the ones tanaka is out to please. not us. we get them up his butt, then things will change. im sure the stock holders wouldn't like the prospect of loosing the millions of dollars a year this game rakes in, in pure profits if we all decided to boycott this game. hell if we all cancled our accounts for ONE month, and notified the Majority stockholders of this, they would be ALL OVER them to get the issue fixed.

think of it this way... you are all complaining about a problem, to the source of the problem.... this is where you deviate from the chain of command, and go ABOVE the developers heads and piss THEIR bosses off. remember kids #$%^ rolls down hill, and thankfuly were off to the sides.

You could always try change.org, but I doubt it would muster the signatures required to get anyone at SE to care. Most dissatisfied customers don't bother telling the vendor. They just stop using the product. Most people probably don't even bother to read these forums (if they read any forums at all), so it would be extremely difficult to even make people aware that such a letter / petition existed. And then you would have to word your letter / petition in a diplomatic and sincere enough manner to warrant people getting on board with it once they read it.

But hey, it couldn't hurt to try.

[darkhorror]

yeah I expect this will be my last month, I had waited to see this update and give legion a try but it didn't even come out. Looks like a total crap update with not much else to look forward to. I have logged on like 2 times this month. I have very little desire to play. I may come back in a few months if it looks like there is some worthwhile content again. But right now not so much... Plus it doesn't look like there is much coming to look forward to.

[Tohihroyu]

Those of us who are playing because we like the "Fantasy" part of the game are complaining because there's no Fantasy left, any hint of fun is drained away when you open the voidwatch chest to find you're now 0/300 on something, And your reward is 4k worth of synth mats.

Why I'll never bother with Voidwatch, Legion or any "new" event...I can do the same shit with better results solo leveling jobs & finding Random NM's. (and make more gil possibly lol)

And that RMT rule the game again but this time SE is doing absolutely nothing about it, yeah go on & laugh at me for not supporting or enabling RMT like a lot seem to do. I have sent in so many STF reports about this HUGE RMT or gil buyer on my server (or they are both!) and they are still there buying 100s of Ocelomeh Headpiece's ether for the ring of RMT he works with or just to raise the cost along with buy surplus of other items that cost over a mil. Also raises prices of Red Curry Buns & Dragon Meat.

No I am not "butthurt" its just fucking pathetic that RMT are allowed to play with absolutely no trouble at all, not all RMT are little Chinese guys in a sweatshop many are actually NA/EU cause they can't get a real job (or rather a job that has them leave their Mommy's basement) And I know I'll be reamed for this (and talked shit about on BG) but: I wish Starcade was back, least his rants in Part Jeuno would possibly get a GMs attention, he was right about a lot of things; This game going to hell, RMT ruleing, RMT, botters & other cheaters not getting bans let alone warnings...hell my old signature saying I don't play using bots, windower or other 3PP was "against the rules" but most wont have to worry I highly doubt he'd return now not even just to go in game & see how sad it is, I think he even moved on from this games BS all together, blogs not updated & twitter mostly about WWE, & other shows.

[Teraniku]

2. You're already overhauling the whole f*cking game of FFXIV, why not make it so that FFXI players can transfer over their characters for the new frontier! Hell you are already implementing old jobs into the game now anyway after you realized how much of a f*ck up you made by making it entirely new and alien to FF fans. I mean you can even make certain job classes only available to those that have FFXI, to reward your veteran members of your community that have been putting up with the crap you call content over the past "Abyssea Years" and how far you have fallen from the Golden ages of ToAU and WotG....

WotG was Golden Age? Storyline(s) were great and campaign was interesting, but to me, The zone rehash was the beginning of the Downward Spiral for this game, Abyssea was interesting but they dropped the ball on the entry conditions. Abyssea was the switch from where finishing the story was more important, to where getting the gear was more important. I still enjoy the game currently but I totally understand where everyone who posts their current frustrations with this development team is coming from. I only have A Shantotto's Ascension to finish, then I will have all the story arcs done. I will then evaluate whether I'm staying, when the new roadmap comes out.

[DrStrangelove]

if people really wanted to make a point, they would write the stock holders of SE a letter entailing the dissatisfaction of the populace of this game. theyre the ones tanaka is out to please. not us. we get them up his butt, then things will change. im sure the stock holders wouldn't like the prospect of loosing the millions of dollars a year this game rakes in, in pure profits if we all decided to boycott this game. hell if we all cancled our accounts for ONE month, and notified the Majority stockholders of this, they would be ALL OVER them to get the issue fixed.

think of it this way... you are all complaining about a problem, to the source of the problem.... this is where you deviate from the chain of command, and go ABOVE the developers heads and piss THEIR bosses off. remember kids #$%^ rolls down hill, and thankfuly were off to the sides.

You can't write stockholders a letter. They are private citizens and their ownership is not public.

Also, stockholders are not concerned with this game , anymore than McDonalds stockholders are concerned with McNuggets. They are concerned with the entire company not one product. We are entitled to our opinion about this, but you have to show them that this affects the whole company, not one game.

IF you want to go this route, write the Board of Directors, who are in fact the people the CEO reports to, or better yet, write to the CEO. Their names are public knowledge and you can mail them care of Square Enix in Japan.

[Runespider]

Yoichi Wada was the one that took the action to attempt to change the fortunes of FFXIV I think?, as in the reshuffle of team leaders.

[Ravenmore]

You can't write stockholders a letter. They are private citizens and their ownership is not public.

Also, stockholders are not concerned with this game , anymore than McDonalds stockholders are concerned with McNuggets. They are concerned with the entire company not one product. We are entitled to our opinion about this, but you have to show them that this affects the whole company, not one game.

IF you want to go this route, write the Board of Directors, who are in fact the people the CEO reports to, or better yet, write to the CEO. Their names are public knowledge and you can mail them care of Square Enix in Japan.

Thing is one product can effect a whole company, aka look how much damage FF14 did to them. You don't have to be a gamer to see where the cash cows are and were the drains are.

[Malamasala]

IF you want to go this route, write the Board of Directors, who are in fact the people the CEO reports to, or better yet, write to the CEO. Their names are public knowledge and you can mail them care of Square Enix in Japan.

Tempting...

[Psxpert2011]

When people start leaving for F2P MMOs you know the game is in bad shape heheh.

found him

Tanka AF FTW!!

[Dazusu]

Nyzul isle revamped (old content) that are so random that we have to pray we get a certain floor. Again you disappoint us.

I am very probably the only one, but I am happy that there is finally an event where stuff isn't handed to you just because you are present. I like the idea of not everyone getting the gear immediately after release and it trickling slowly into the system. Kind of like Salvage when it was first released.

That's how FFXI should be - and how it always was.

Another thing you need to keep in mind is that the whole Abyssea area was 'filler' content. No one at all seems to realise this. The end-game content is going to be at 99 as it was at 75 because its, and I'll bold this for effect, End Game.

Abyssea was great transition content. It aided us in progression to 95~, quick gear, fast leveling. Now the level 99 content arrives, and people are surprised at the mahoosive amounts of items needed to finish off Empyreans, Relics and Mythics to their ultimate state (glowy effect, etc). It's meant to take time and give you a long distance goal.

Nyzul is no different. I hope Salvage is the same too.

FFxi last stand...?
SE is making a closing statement that no more content is coming to FFxi.

Really? That's what you get out of an event name? SE have always publicly maintained that (and I'm paraphrasing), "While people are playing the game, we will continue to make content".

As far as I know, people are still playing. Infact, my entire Linkshell just resubscribed with the arrival of Lv.99, and I'm sure we're not the only ones. By your conclusion we could have called the Proamthia mission "The Last Verse" the end of the game too. There's no more content coming. That's their analogistic statement, right?

Such a stupid thing to claim.

When SE are done adding content, they'll inform us. I'm sure of that.

I remember when FFxiv was first released the transfer of FFxi characters was confirmed by Square.

Source?

I think you'll find no such thing was ever confirmed, and I'm sure it wasn't even claimed or implied. They said they wouldn't/couldn't do that technical problems were cited as one reason, and it being a completely different game was another. The furthest they said they would go is to let you reserve your FFXI character name.

Roll on FF11-2, I'd play that shit.