I love your analogy of laying tracks right in front of the train. That strikes me as (truth of seas).
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I totally agree, and I consider myself pretty patient, but with the universal response they've given to every question asked, do we even need reps here to ask the dev team? We know exactly what answer we'll get back beforehand.
Rukkirii, can you submit this question to the dev team: why can't you [the dev team] give a straight answer about anything?
You can't give a strict time-line if you don't have one. With the enormous amount of updates that FFXIV needs, priorities get switched around A LOT. And if Yoshi-P was to say "We'll fix it by August!" and then failed to meet that expectation, there would be 10 threads of people bitching about it.
That said, thanks for making sure this suggestion reached the Dev team, Rukkirii.
The problem with that argument is I'm not even asking for a strict timeline. Despite the fact that it's something that should have been in the Alpha version, it'd be pretty cool if they said "by the end of the year" instead of "the future". Given their track record, it wouldn't be unsafe to assume that "the future" means years from now.
perhaps they can't give a set date as they don't know the date themself as there are more important things that need to be taken care of first.
atleast we now know it's on their list, which we know by now is so huge and filled with things that needs to be fixed, that it's literally impossible to give a straigth answer to every of our question.
when it comes it comes, and most likely we'll get informations on it when it's around the corner, not months away from actually getting fixed.
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we all know it should have been in the alpha, and that the game shouldn't have released so early yada yada, but shit happens, and now they have to iron out all those nasty bugs, it's just normal that we have to be patient now.
if it leads to a great game experience, it sure is worth the wait as we are playing for free anyways.
anyways, atleast we now get to communicate with the reps/devs. instead of blindly waiting longer for a game that still could have sucked if we would have waited another year for it.
Oh boy, core programming issues again.
It almost sounds like it would be easier to blow away the game and recreate it from scratch.
Agreed, it's great that, technically, they're hearing our complaints and that we have a line to them through the reps here... however, can't argue the fact that their response to everything is either "we'll look into it" or "it's being worked on" or "we're planning to work on that" which really isn't alright. I think it's really starting to get to people, myself included :(
Their fix speed has been pretty unacceptable so far, and they only stand to lose more players if they keep it up.
lol on the ffxi forums they say due to ps2 and ffxiv is due to core issue ahaha.