Quote Originally Posted by Cursed View Post
^ This.
The ZNM system was almost as good as this except it had the fatal flaw of requiring players to go and take pictures of things.
Where's the fun in that?

Salvage was a fun idea, but SE treated it as a reward in itself, where it wasn't. Mainly due to its horrible drop rates and the fact that it was another seperate event. Having to farm assault points also made this event more tedious. Limiting tags, even more hinderance.

The equation is simple, and if it is followed it leads to happy/more satisfied players = greater player retention = longer player retention= more subscribers = more money.

Its simple, reward effort. That's all it is. Its not some magical wall street worthy credit default mind boggling algorythm.
Set us targets that deliver rewards once achieved. Set them high, but not like the insane amount of work required to get a Lv.99 Emp/Mythic/Relic.
Do not leave things up to chance.
Make doing things actually fun, and apply a reward for doing them. wait, you already did that and it was called Abyssea.
Despite our love for it, you think it was out of B A L A N C E.
Well hold on a second, what should be a greater influencer on your decision making process, the amount of people who enjoyed Abyssea, or some game developer's vision of balance?
Regardless how much Tanaka has under his belt, you've got to come to a realization that his past achievements do not say anything about his current/future achievements.
What has been happening in FFXI since you guys decided to toss the current FFXIV out the door and release version 2.0 in 2013 demonstrates some really bad contigency planning, project management, PR strategy and not to mention basic fundemental understanding of customer satisfaction.

get in the game SE, you're hanging onto nothing more than childhood based loyalty at the moment, and even that has been stretched as far as its going to.


EDIT: one more hint, look at the STUPID amount of events and instances you, SE, have released in FFXI that are just a waste of server memory.
-MMM
-Chocobo racing
-Chocobo raising
-Pankraton
-Beseiged
there's more, I just don't care to waste time even thinking about it.
Its not even worth that.
^^ I like this guy, well said bro.