Interim Report – Sorry to keep you all waiting!

[Rubicant82]

I’m still in the midst of learning what it means to be producer, but I am doing the very best I can and would like to build a FINAL FANTASY XI with you all that will be loved by everyone.

Here is one of the biggest things which one can learn, listen to the player they are the customers and currently I feel the DEV team has lost sight of that (example the changes to PD, Embava, and the new SP abilities). In business there is a fine balance that must be reached to keep customers content, but if you have read any of the forums related to some of the content changes/planned changes you will see that the customers (players) are NOT happy.

[Meyi]

I feel like crying tears of joy. It's nice to actually hear an update from the guy in charge. Honestly never would have expected it, not after 10 years of blindly grasping at things in the dark. It's a welcome change. Even though he doesn't have all the answers right now, it was nice of him to let us know where's at in his current thinking process.

I approve strongly of the point system. And I approve strongly of more solo content. I've never been one who enjoyed playing with others (inb4 don't play mmos noob) because most people are incompetent. That, and many are annoying. And to top it off, I'm usually exhausted from dealing with people all day, and I just want to play a video game and whack some monsters. So actually getting to accomplish things on my own without having to beg other busy linkshell members who are also trying to complete their own goals? HELL YES!

まついさん、ありがとうございました。ｍ（＿　＿）ｍ

[Psxpert2011]

solo contenttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

/unlike

MORE party conteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeent!!!

Or play soloooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

[samusaron]

My bit here is
1. Re-cap everything that was un-done
2.Make Dynamis zone a choice Solo players or Multi as it was for many many year's + drop the upgrade relic+2 gear
3.Introduce + 10 new Dynamis Area's with Relic 3 Gear and make those the Best in Game.
4.Extend story lines in Promythia + Zilarts to meet with Seeker's of Adulin and Gear to Match.
5.Put 6 New Dynamis expansion in to Campaign Area's ie 16 Dynamis Zones all told.
6.Cap Abyssea expansion to 75 as you Can wear gear til that levell + Anyway's and not 30 as it is now which will remove Very Quickly RMT activity.

Just some very Basic commonscence Idea's and thing's you Can do to Amazingly improve Game Mr Producer. I have more much more Idea's that can really bring FFXI back to life.

[bigdave]

I think they should allow certain 3rd party aps like wow does and the updates since june and july have been nothing but let downs to me personally I am sick of the lets make our weapons weaker cause some one else was whining and put my mandua back on top of the relic parser for dot both my emperian weapons and relic have been greatly reduced since I got them hopefully next year they will quit doing that to us

[Krashport]

Seeing what Square Enix is as company today, Its sad to say many members have really given up and moved on. You guys at Square Enix really should've just made Final Fantasy 11 more better and not "Try" to make another MMO, All that money wasted and spent that could've made Final Fantasy 11 so much more then it is today. There's not many that want to start over and that's what you are telling us to do. Numbers work on the offline games but they kinda don't when they're online your biggest mistake. Final Fantasy 17 online anyone?

[Arbalest]

Seeing what Square Enix is as company today, Its sad to say many members have really given up and moved on. You guys at Square Enix really should've just made Final Fantasy 11 more better and not "Try" to make another MMO, All that money wasted and spent that could've made Final Fantasy 11 so much more then it is today. There's not many that want to start over and that's what you are telling us to do. Numbers work on the offline games but they kinda don't when they're online your biggest mistake. Final Fantasy 17 online anyone?

FFXI has always held a niche, and a reasonably small community of dedicated followers. It's not a mainstream MMO by any means, and it's growing smaller with each passing day because of all the people who are leaving. Lots of players, including myself, strongly dislike a lot of systems FFXI currently has in place (shitty drop%, Voidwatch, events that only support specialized jobs, etc) and we've left because of that. Not only that, but the game came of age a long time ago and the technology that it was built for is long past. It needs a major overhaul, especially to compete with all of the MMOs coming out in the market today.

I think that supporting FFXI for the long term probably would've been a good idea, but (in my opinion) doing so would've been a huge risk. They'd need to do a lot of things (that are part of my opinion and thoughts, of course) before FFXI could ever become mainstream.

-Make the game more accessible to new players jumping into the game.
-Improve the presence of solo content in the game, as well as adjust the difficulty of existing content.
-Fix all of the systems currently in place for the 99 cap, which are still tailored to the 75 cap.
-Drop PS2 support and as a platform entirely. Get rid of it, and the limitations that come with it.
-Give the engine a huge overhaul, or put the game on a new client entirely.
-Give us a new, easily-moddable UI (every other MMO does this, quite literally, with the ability to move/add components)
-Be more in contact with the playerbase and actually take EVERY piece of criticism into consideration, not just JP.
-Adjust the pace/flow of the combat system. A new UI would help us with displayable icons for macros/JAs, instead of having to navigate the shitty little menu we've had for 10 years.

They need to do a LOT to this game before it can be considered mainstream. And, with their release of FFXIV: ARR coming early next year, I think that SE is ready to support their new game for a decade, and keep FFXI on the side on semi life-support. The game has been stagnant for months now, and unless the new development team picks up the pace, I don't think a lot of people will be around for Seekers of Adoulin in 2013.

[larrymc]

I for one am very encouraged by the words of the new director. Sometimes you wonder if SE knows whats really going on in the game from an average player's perspective, as it seems like it is tailored around pleasing the top 1%. But assuming SE follows through on their words, I will give them time to adjust and look forward to the changes.

[Afania]

I for one am very encouraged by the words of the new director. Sometimes you wonder if SE knows whats really going on in the game from an average player's perspective, as it seems like it is tailored around pleasing the top 1%. But assuming SE follows through on their words, I will give them time to adjust and look forward to the changes.

FFXI never tailor around pleasing top 1%, at least not post abyssea era when majority of content are not for hardcore(abyssea, meeble, new limbus, VW are not for hardcore).

[Direct]

Just make sure you add some new world spawn hnms to go along with the new expansion, there is after all people who still want this content.