May 2019 FINAL FANTASY XI Digest

[StriderShizard]

It was a great surprise to see this when I woke up today! It was short and sweet but still contained a lot of important information for the update. Thank you for taking this initiative and your continued support for this game.

[Zigou]

Reading on prompter screen , the same definition we got in news page doesn't bring anything at all..... Again a waste of ressource... what about news of Those wardrobes WE NEED....... more gears = NEED of SPACE.... more jobs = MORE SPACE

[FortyWater]

Thank you so much for taking your time to listen in on the other side of things!! I think the community overall has been very thrilled hearing about your team's commitment to continue to see FFXI thrive on for years. Creating short simple content, hearing your intentions, and creating a video really helps tie together our hope for a FFXI that not only lives on, but is molded to the player's around it.

With that said, I do feel we have a bit of work to continue to see the NA player-base grow, as it's contribution and commitment to long-term video game's in general is varied. I do see the player-base growing around me on a smaller server which is great!! I do often feel that they run themselves into a corner seeking a group and a bite of the amazing new content out, often they end up leaving quickly or leaving for another server. On the other hand I love when brand NEW players start playing, its astonishing that after so many year's people are seeking something entirely different then what is out there, and FFXI is clearly a standout game title!!

[Lizka]

Hello Producer Matsui and Director Fujito. Thank you for taking the time to make this video, it is very appreciated.

I like the changes to Esuna. The previous version was clumsy and not very useful, except for a very few selected fights. Now we get a version that works more similar to the old FF concept of the spell, and it can remove Amnesia too! Amnesia went from completely unremovable, to removable, even if with some difficulty and some slowness. Thank you for this.

I was thinking that it is a shame that Esuna is not affected by WHM Mythic Weapon, Yagrush. Maybe it would be possible to have Yagrush giving only a chance to get Area of Effect Esuna? It would be a nice bonus and I feel like it would not be too overpowered.

[Lizka]

Thank you for the changes to Protectra V and Shellra V. It is really good, and the new merit categories Animus Solace and Animus Misery are very good.

However, it seems that there is a bug with the new Protectra V spell. It only adds 205 to defense. Previously, if casted with 5/5 merits, and with Piety armor, it was 220 defense. Maybe an oversight?

[Lizka]

This is a very nice bonus, thank you.

I have a suggestion: I do not like a lot the icon of the status effect. It is the "MP Refresh" icon - I understand that it is because it allows you to store Merit Points, but it's confusing.

Considering that this new status effect is very similar to Signet (the way it works, and the way it is obtained), maybe it would be better to have an icon similar to Signet and Sanction? Maybe with a different color.

[CronsMule]

Thank you for putting time and effort back into this rich, diverse, beautiful, open world we all love and enjoy. This is probably too much to ask for but could you give a RDM Protectra IV & Shellra IV? I mean... Don't you think it's about time? If not that then maybe /toss a struggling red mage a Blizzard VI. Preferably in scroll form. One of the things I've always loved about this game that made me WANT to play was the acquisition of spells. Whether it be your first memory of walking down to the dreary dungeon of Regine's Magicmart in Port San d'Oria or the awesome time you had in the Necropolis hunting for the Genkai 1 scroll back when it was like a 1% drop rate and I don't care what the stats say cus I'm pretty sure I killed almost 400 of those effing undead before that papyrus dropped... I think the only thing worse was Carby's Ruby but I digress. But please keep up the hard work! And we look forward to the many more awesome spells you will introduce yes? Oh and more cutscenes??? The 'Dawn' CS at the end of Promathia particularly comes to mind. Oh the feels. Arigatoo gozaimazu. Ganbatte kudasai.

May the Goddess Altana protect you on your journey.

Cron's Mule <Cerberus>

[Selindrile]

The extra effort to communicate future changes is much appreciated!

[esmrambo]

Extra effort? It was text only!

[Haldarn]

Extra effort? It was text only!

1) Go find a video on YouTube where people talk English to the screen for six minutes solid.
2) Transcribe it.
3) Key it to display the sentence-by-sentence overlay at the correct times.
4) Tell me how it was no effort and bear in mind you didn't have to translate it from Japanese.


I appreciate the video, if only that it recognises that the players outside of Japan aren't insignificant and that it reinforces that the game isn't going offline any time soon. Here's to new content in the future and some news about FFXI Mobile!