Greetings from the Producer!

[Infidi]

No thanks. How about we beef up Black Mage instead?

Sincerely,

A career Blue Mage.

I agree! I need to be able to do 20k instead of 10k on one spell. (meteor needs a boost too har har)

[Elexia]

Why, welcome, sir. I look forward to seeing my #1 game become #1 again.

I look forward to people blaming Matsui for their personal disappointments.

[Rosina]

Btw the jp forums are actually more polite in some cases then we are... all ppl do here is type insults. Heck even the ffxiv forums got better >.>;; sorta...

Anyway
Welcome! I hope you do well with ffxi, I look forward to your changes and ideas, and lead this game out of the slum it is in. I hope you re examine the current style of leveling players are doing and opt for a more productive form that stalls leechering, and possible look to making allience leveling less plausable. But do so in away that makes as many people happy.

I also hope for a re examination at all the content that goes un used. And do what you can to give players a "reason" to do them. I never got a chance to do garrisons or do eco war. And would love for these to be seen again.

Al my hopes are for a fun open mmorpg again, not the closed solo online game it turned into.

From a non final fantasy fan, but a long time mmorpg gamer.
=^.^=

ps add mumor eternal vena illusion as a dancer ability ^^;; that be epic.

[anjisnu]

Hello Mr. Akihiko Matsui we know that you will have little control over what is implemented in this game, but if you tell us the names of those actually responsible for screw ups the community will hate you less than Tanaka honest injun

[Logandor]

Hello and welcome ^.^
Hope that you have a great time in the boss seat. Maybe we could see you come out onto each server for a day and say hi to everyone in White gate or something. Any ways just wanted to say hello.

[Deathrose]

Welcome Matsui-san! Good luck with reading the forums; they'll give you a migraine. Be sure to have a White Mage around to Cursna the nightmares that will haunt you at night. You're a brave man to venture into dangerous waters.

To Spank, yes, the Japanese forums are similar to the English ones. Really the only two differences are one, they're in Japanese and two, there's about ten posters to our one.

My word of advice that will set you far apart from the previous administration is to remember the Japanese thought of humans being imperfect. When you remember that your product may not be at its best state, you can listen to your customer's pleas, fix the errors, and make everyone happier.

And after discovering new additions to the game, such as Fields of Valor, Grounds of Valor, and Abyssea, consider why they were added. The game is 10 years old now, and that means a lot of the player base was 10 years younger when they started the game. In 10 years a lot of new commitments pops up in a person's life and pull that person away from their luxury time. We love the game and don't want to quit, but the old game you worked on is not plausible by today's standards. When designing new material, please keep the customer's time, energy, and frustrations in mind. That's all I ask.

Thank you! m(_ _)m

From the rest of my Troupe of Roses and I, We say welcome, wish you well, and have high hopes on you, as well as the rest of the team of developers, to bring Final Fantasy XI to its original glory. With that said, the quote I added to my post I completely agree with. This game is about a decade old and the majority of the ppl playing have been playing since its origin, and at this point dont have the luxury time we use to have to grind out a lot of what we want to do in regards to long term goals. So I suppose you can keep a lot of the reqs. but kinda tweek the item procurement options as well as the rate, to be kinder to those with more busy lives, so we as well as the children can enjoy FF XI to its fullest.

P.S: I look forward to the dancers rising to end-game important jobs like I know they will be!! >^-^< Solo is boring for the most part

[Sp1cyryan]

all ppl do here is type insults. Heck even the ffxiv forums got better >.>;; sorta...

May I ask if you are new to the internet by any chance?

[Nawesemo]

/em mumbles something about getting to force a critical magic spell every 7-10 min (meritable) and being happy.

[Logandor]

not everyone here types insults but we do try to give suggestions to the reps. Sadly I don't think our voices get heard all that often.

[Infidi]

/em mumbles something about getting to force a critical magic spell every 7-10 min (meritable) and being happy.

Like this post fellow BLMs!