New Roadmap and FFXI's direction

[Falseliberty]

the amount of q.q in this thread is amazing
boohoo I duel boxed bronagi and now I cant duel box the next stage waaahhhh
yeah voidwatch fights are great but loot system is a total shitfest im sure devs know about this and are trying to find some kind of middle ground to save face. but be a sport and let them find way.

hell didn't they just announce that they looking for new blood to work on this game?

btw man up and game on a PC. PS3 pfft (in before comfy couch argument)

[Zumi]

If you want to do the new content Either you like voidwatch or you don't. I guess you have the option of grinding out full AF3+2 sets for all your jobs along with more level 90 Empyrean weapons.

People grinded sky for 7 years and abyssea only been out for like 1. So I can see the average FFXI player continuing to do abyssea. Even with little new content people will still pay for FFXI.

[Concerned4FFxi]

I'm going to save my comments about FFXI direction until after the next update. I am concerned about the term used for The Last Stand and that its been in the dat for a long time now. I hope I haven't been grinding out empyreans for a weak 99 endgame. One would think with all the content abyssea offered, and gear, that it was to prepare players for a large, final add on with 99 endgame in mind. Hopefully these updates are just that, fillers, and that after the 6 month roadmap is completed, the next roadmap reveals a true future. I am all for updating the old content, and I like VW and will probably enjoy the last stand and maybe dungeon crawling, but I think everyone NEEDS another add on to take all this gear grinding hard work and do something with it. Even a statement by SE that, yes, in the future (with a release date unknown) once 14 is 2.o worthy, 11 will be seeing a final add on that is 99 content approved with endgame.

[Kimble]

Well, its already been proven that "Mr. X" was always the producer in charge of FFXI. There is no "Mr. Y" (if there is, then who is it?)

[Kimble]

No, that is wrong. he was never apart of the FFXI team. He took over FFXIV but did not go from FFXI > FFXIV.

[Kimble]

Actually, it looks like Akihiko Matsui is the man you might want to "blame" for VW. Seems he was moved up from battle director of FFXI to Director of Final Fantasy XI on September 1st, 2010. Which was a few days before Scars of Abyssea came out so the earliest he would have gotten his finger prints in the game was Heroes of abyssea.

[Juilan]

Actually, it looks like Akihiko Matsui is the man you might want to "blame" for VW. Seems he was moved up from battle director of FFXI to Director of Final Fantasy XI on September 1st, 2010. Which was a few days before Scars of Abyssea came out so the earliest he would have gotten his finger prints in the game was Heroes of abyssea.

That explains why the drop system in abyssea changed with heros and afterward hi2u body drops in Scars zones...
And for those who think that we're complaining over the difficulty of VW... WE ARE NOT, we're only tired of what could be filler gear having less than a 20% drop rate. I'm shocked people continue to do the fights, i enjoy them though, the gear sets SE released when they released augments via synergy requiring evoliths and pigments that 1)required more work to get a decent one then the decent one should merit (oh im going to get 2min off my 2HR for my horribly out date weapon) 2) both of which required killing abnoxious NMs with a painfully low drop rate... They should have learned with that (maybe have taken a PoL survey) that people don't like killing stupid monsters and not see drops, especially when the monsters are some what difficult for 75. VW seemed to get some what easier at 95, even more so after my group started letting me come pld (no ochain or aegis but i dont die and i hold decent hate off the melee </3 the slashing resistant monsters or the ones that wipe your tp or plague). Aside from that we can still wipe fairly easily if someone isn't paying attention.

AGAIN THE ONLY ISSUE WITH VOID WATCH IS THAT FACT WE DO NOT LIKE FIGHTING THINGS WITH ABYMAL DROP RATES(i see abyssea having high rates since you're timed as there is so much to get afew sets of +2 niche gear etc) IF WE CAN GET WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IN LESS THAN 10 KILLS WE WOULD BE HAPPY, HITTING KILL 30 AND STILL NOT SEEING A DROP DOESN'T MAKE HAPPY PLAYERS.


Keep the loot system, just make the drops higher for everyone... -.-

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Actually, it looks like Akihiko Matsui is the man you might want to "blame" for VW. Seems he was moved up from battle director of FFXI to Director of Final Fantasy XI on September 1st, 2010. Which was a few days before Scars of Abyssea came out so the earliest he would have gotten his finger prints in the game was Heroes of abyssea.

If he's the reason for all of these new fugly as sin armor designs, fire him now.

[Leonlionheart]

If he's the reason for all of these new fugly as sin armor designs, fire him now.

I like them barring the hats and toci's