It's offiical....SE no longer gives a darn about FFXI.

[Krystal]

simply put no this is not a troll topic. this is simply stating a fact. SE no longer gives a care about FFXI nor our forum posts. for those of us who do not view the FFXIV forums allow me to shed some light. how many times have we seen a post from the Developer or a head director themselves?(omitting sections mini posts they call the "In development" topic) NONE! what's going on now is they are having a backwater staff take care of dev for FFXI not the official staff as they were moved to FFXIV due to the original staff being sacked for making FFXIV nearly bombshell.

THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING!

the Producer has posted a fair few of these letters to the official FFXIV forums....i have yet to see ONE posted here regarding FFXI.....so ya i just figured i'd let everyone in on this little tidbit.

comments thoughts opinions?

TROLLS WILL BE IGNORED AND THEIR POSTS REPORTED

DO NOT DERAIL THIS THREAD WITH COMMENTS ABOUT ABYSSEA. THANK YOU

[Sama]

May be that's why both the forum and the twitter person sounds like a robot with the same voice all over the FFXI places even the in game message.

[Fiarlia]

TROLLS WILL BE IGNORED AND THEIR POSTS REPORTED

This is exactly why I just reported your thread, so I'm glad we could agree on this.

[Dallas]

[Removed by Moderator according to the FINAL FANTASY XI FORUM Guidelines.] If SE didn't care, why does this forum exist?

[blowfin]

Erm, i'm pretty sure there was something just about identical, but obviously tailored for FFXI posted here about the earthquake. Unless I've been living in a parallel universe for the past month. Have you been living in a parallel universe for the last month? If so, please include instructions on transit, i'd love to know how to get there, I really could use a vacation.

On the contrary, could the mods please remove this inflammatory topic from the forums? We deserve much better threads than this.

[Fiarlia]

Erm, i'm pretty sure there was something just about identical, but obviously tailored for FFXI posted here about the earthquake. Unless I've been living in a parallel universe for the past month. Have you been living in a parallel universe for the last month? If so, please include instructions on transit, i'd love to know how to get there, I really could use a vacation.

On the contrary, could the mods please remove this inflammatory topic from the forums? We deserve much better threads than this.

Look at the bottom left hand corner of Krystal's post, you should see a small triangular symbol with a "!" in it, click that to report.

[Greatguardian]

The Development Team wouldn't ever be posting in the English forums. If you're waiting for them to reply to something here, it just won't happen. Tanaka-san himself has posted on the JP forums, though it was in regards to the Crysta donation business. Developer interaction is here. However, it comes to this foreign language subforum in the form of the English Community Team. They read this site a great deal, and they do respond to great ideas. It is no surprise, however, that there is less visible communication here than on the JP forum when the Community Team is basically working as a middle man between us and the Developers.

[CrystalWeapon]

That's not true, the new head of XI's dev team atm is from the original dev team. He was one battle director of xi before the promotion.

New Director for FINAL FANTASY XI (09/01/2010)
We would like to announce the appointment of a new director for FINAL FANTASY XI.

Former Battle Director Akihiko Matsui has assumed the post, and would like to take this opportunity to offer a few words of greeting to our players.


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Dear Users,

It is both an honor and pleasure to give this address as the newly appointed director of FINAL FANTASY XI.

With the commencement of official service for FINAL FANTASY XIV imminent, the period ahead will prove to be a turning point for FINAL FANTASY XI. I have had the privilege of being part of the team since the project commenced some ten years ago, but to assume the mantle of leadership at this juncture is daunting indeed.

As director, I intend to work in close cooperation with all project members and involved parties to ensure that FINAL FANTASY XI will continue to hold allure for our players. For truly, nothing would please me more than to see Vana'diel remain a gathering place for those seeking high adventure and camaraderie.

I look forward to your continued support in the future.

Akihiko Matsui
Director, FINAL FANTASY XI

Also the old dev team was not canned for FFXIV's flop, the team got reorganized and some stayed there some went back here. I beleive Tanaka is back on XI and has posted on the boards recently about the crysta donation relief effort. You have to understand that Yoshi-P is a very interactive guy, where as the staff from XI isn't so much so. They are trying their best, and from how they used to run things I say they are doing a good job. They have recently put much more of an effort in trying to please the playerbase than they have in the past.

The community representatives have stated themselfs that they do indeed read every post here, but to sit there and respond to each one individually would be unreasonable. XI has a smaller dev team than XIV does, and similarly they have a smaller community team to interface with us.

[Gennadi]

This is exactly why I just reported your thread, so I'm glad we could agree on this.

I like pudding

[Starcade]

And if he really wants to try to go that route, that's been the case for several years.

Square-Enix has proven fully incapable of putting together one robust MMO -- what made anyone think they could do two?