To all adventurers and pioneers!

[Kincard]

Gonna have to see what the specifics of what he's planning are but this makes me pretty sad. There's a lot of REM weapons that are ALREADY useless in their current state so I don't see how he can possibly fix them without introducing some way to actually improve the stats on them.

Adjusting how some of them work (Ex Gungnir's DEF Down etc) might help some of them but it's not going to be enough to save most of the weapons that are currently useless.

[Sargent]

Since SE are adding a DMG:140 GK with STR+8 and WSD, you damn well better enhance R/M/E GKs

[Kincard]

It's actually skillchain damage, but if that weapon is an indication of what they're giving us right now, one can only imagine what kind of items they'll be giving to us down the road.

[Sargent]

Shame about the SC dmg, but it still beats most variants of Amano/Koga/Masa and is more than likely much easier to get.

[Volkai]

My pre-order has been cancelled and I'm about to cancel my account. I have been playing this game for over 9 years.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

I find it ridiculous that people can't voice their frustrations about how SE has been fleecing us, RE: Phogg's post that was deleted (and I can attest that the post existed, I saw it). Where exactly are our monthly fees going? It's certainly not going to develop the content that was promised to us 2 years ago, and certainly not going towards the content that was being sold to us via the new expansion.

Monthly fees go to paying the cost of maintaining servers, go to the dev team and community team's salaries (GM team, too) and the remainder goes to SE's profit margin.

And it's not surprising that SE would delete a post that apparently accused SE of dishonest practices. You don't trash talk someone on their home turf and expect a nonreaction. If you want to complain, be civil. If you can't be civil, do it somewhere else.


By the way, threatening to cancel your account is not an effective way to get what you want. Never has been, never will be.

[Karbuncle]

Okay um, I'm going to have to admit to a mildly "uneasy" state in regards to a new line of (Almost certainly) easier to obtain weapons with crazy stats that have the potential to dump all over R/M/E.

I see what they're trying to do, Make it to where R/M/E aren't required... but at the same time, if they're going to dump on relics, this guy is cleverly trying to run this game into the ground, because a lot of people own a R/M/E now, and if the work they put into it is suddenly outclassed by a weapon some Aurore-F**k just got from NEWCAMPAIGN, I can't see it going over well for a lot of players.

I mean if you never got a R/M/E, congrts to your lazy a** >:I.

Anyway, I ain't super upset, I'm cautious especially considering this is the "out of box" gear and its going to go uphill from here... but... I mean, I'm still going to go into it hopeful.

Okay i lied, I'm getting a sinking upset feeling at the prospect of them making my level 99 Mandau, which was a F**king pain in the dick to complete and costs me an estimated 170~mil gil or more... A sidegrade/Slightmildupgrade to weapon a Derpbro could get in an hour.

[Yinnyth]

A lot of empies outclassed relics and were significantly easier to obtain. Most people just got with the times and did what was required to get the new, best gear. I imagine this is what will happen here too.

Or heck, maybe they'll let you desynth these new weapons into shards that you can synergy onto your r/m/e to make it slightly better than the original weapon.

[Karbuncle]

I'd like to say theres a fine difference between an Empyrean 99, and the items shown here.

Empyreans and relics were both designed to be super weapons, and worked out to be about even in the end... These weapons are shaping up to be "Aurore" difficulty to obtain afaik... Plus A lot of Empyrean weapons took a heap of time when they were introduced, while easier than relics, still required a solid investment. Especially now to 99 them.

I don't think any of these weapons are going to flatout outclass their relic/emp counterparts (unless they specifically suck... Gungnir/EmpPole come to mind), Just don't think as many people will just "oh well" it like you do, this is a fine difference between a new class of super weapon, and some weapon augmented through new campaign battles.

[FrankReynolds]

Monthly fees go to paying the cost of maintaining servers, go to the dev team and community team's salaries (GM team, too) and the remainder goes to SE's profit margin.

Lol that's a drop in the bucket. There's plenty of money to go around. SE is pocketing fat stacks and reinvesting the minimum. Don't kid yourself.

And it's not surprising that SE would delete a post that apparently accused SE of dishonest practices. You don't trash talk someone on their home turf and expect a nonreaction. If you want to complain, be civil. If you can't be civil, do it somewhere else.

Dude was civil. It's a pretty funny trick to set up a site and request that your fans leave feedback but then put in a clause that says you can ban anyone for saying anything you don't like. It's more like a yelp page where you have to pay to leave a positive review and someone has removed all the bad ones.


At any rate... be prepared for all your gear to be outdated (this is nothing new and I look forward to it). As for the E/R/M weapons, this doesn't bode well. I expect a whole bunch of half-cocked balance adjustments to weapons / weaponskills in the near future. I think I am just going to sit on the money I was saving for a relic until the dust settles.

[Sarick]

Lol that's a drop in the bucket. There's plenty of money to go around. SE is pocketing fat stacks and reinvesting the minimum. Don't kid yourself.

I could add to this but I had a post deleted in general when I reported unfavorable news that's all over the interwebs now and nearly everyone invested in Final Fantasy knows about it.

Lets look at it from a school grade standpoint. If You're a student and have 5 grade assignments graded as A 90%, A 92%, A+ 100%, F 15% and F 0% the overall grade is what matters in the end. If those grades are considered other projects and you combine them to create the final grade those two F's bring down the overall grade significantly.

90 + 92 + 100 + 15 + 0 = 297
Now divide that number by 5 (the number of assignments) and you get 59.4% a failing grade! In this example grades don't go negative but in the real world one project can go over budget or flop effecting other profitable projects and their resources.

What I'm trying to say is a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. Even though this chain link might be holding more then it's weight elsewhere in the chain another link might have broken costing a fortune to fix or maintain. A big company that has multiple studios all use the same bank. If one project makes a profit another one can bleed those profits just as fast.

I think you know exactly whats really going on just Google this companies name with the seekers launch date March 26th. A little hint the news that will pop isn't about the Seekers launch. There is so much news about it only a blind mouse who can't read could miss it. Do some research before you assume financial investments.

BTW, I still clicked like on your post because you have a passion. I also don't think your entirely wrong. You're just not looking at the whole picture in a broad perspective.