Do the devs even play their own game or listen to anyone anymore?

[Pixela]

Why do you want to cap Master Levels so fast?

Also the thread title is stupid, you don't have to play the game to be a developer on it. Players are the worst people in the world to develop a game they care about, which is why private servers suck and die so fast.

[Alhanelem]

Why do you want to cap Master Levels so fast?

Also the thread title is stupid, you don't have to play the game to be a developer on it. Players are the worst people in the world to develop a game they care about, which is why private servers suck and die so fast.

No one said they wanted it "so fast." We just want it to where it's reasonably achieveable playing conventionally. i.e. not cleaving with a very specific party comp or paying someone else to do it. Right now it takes drastically longer than it took to level up to max level in "the good ol' days." And if it's TOO long, that just pushes people to do anything to speed it up, i.e. pay mercs/RMT to do it for them.

We get it, you're a super duper hardcore who wants everything to take as long as possible so you never run out of things to do. But most of us aren't like that.

[Pixela]

I'm not at all actually, when I post it's normally in the interest of the game and not for my benefit.

Maybe you can't understand that, but I think you probably do.

Mlevel taking a long time to cap is in the best interest of the games future, and it's not even something that NEEDS to be capped. People just WANT to because mmorpgs minds are far more goal orientated than most other gamers.

[Alhanelem]

I'm not at all actually, when I post it's normally in the interest of the game and not for my benefit.

See, what is preventing me from believing this is the fact that most of your opinions are detrimental to the game and not beneficial to it. But I'm not going to copy paste everything I wrote in all those other threads for you. You don't understand basic marketing concepts, you don't understand the basics of how a corporation works, you don't understand that it takes money to make money.

Let me be real: every "real" player could quit the game right now and SE could keep it running off RMT and their cheating customers alone. You do not need to worry about something costing SE a few pennies on the dollar causing the game to suddenly shut down or stop getting updates. You do not need to worry about personnel changes spelling sudden doom for the game. Even though this game isn't really that popular, it still prints money for SE with little effort. It. is. not. going. away. So please, stop standing in the way off marketing efforts to attract customers from other SE products to the game, stop being paranoid about changes in the staff roster, and maybe consider being just a little bit more positive around here.

[Zenion]

So please, stop standing in the way off marketing efforts to attract customers from other SE products to the game,

I don't really wanna step into the middle of what all you guys have going on here, but that line just made me laugh.

It's like saying "please stop blocking the train" at somebody who's out surfing. We're so far removed from any part of any of SE's decision-making processes in this forum that nothing anyone - everyone! - says here will even slightly shift the actual direction of the company's plans on anything. Howling into the void isn't getting in the way of anything, it can't bother anyone but other forum dwellers.

[Cherrywine]

If anything, it is those forum dwellers that respond to every post in every thread as though they speak for SE that are "blocking the train". The chance of getting an official response is admittedly small given this company's inability to or lack of interest in engaging or communicating with its player base. But those individuals only help to eliminate any chance.

[Lortheron]

No. No one at Square Enix care a bit about FFXI anymore. Most of the original team from. Squaresoft that made FFXI, including Sakaguchi, don't even work there anymore, and Square Enix executives are too dumb and greedy to employ them back.

[Lortheron]

They used to care. Up until ~2008~2010 that is. Now it's just a lost cause. There are alternatives you know, to enjoy this game, if you want.

[Lortheron]

Most of the fans and players are gone too. People want the game they love, no vertical progression, challenges from the get go, now power creep, grouping at every level, no steamrolling, horizontal progression, every good equipment of every level meaning something and being important, an economy directly connected to each and every players that is not bloated, GMs available 24/7 whom actually care a lot... you know, an actual good classic MMO experience, and not FFXIV with worse graphics.

And that is way things like Everquest Project 1999 exist and are very successful.

[Lortheron]

If anything, it is those forum dwellers that respond to every post in every thread as though they speak for SE that are "blocking the train". The chance of getting an official response is admittedly small given this company's inability to or lack of interest in engaging or communicating with its player base. But those individuals only help to eliminate any chance.

100%. Thank you so much for this.