Ok, i give up! But only because you said so.
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Ok, i give up! But only because you said so.
I will not.
I will stop posting wanting elements from XI when the community stop pushing FF-WoW ONLY!!!11!.
It works both ways.
Mainstream style is garenteed to fail and XI is garenteed to only keep a small playerbase(aka fail).
They need to find the right mixture to keep the hardcores, XI diehards, and casual mainstream ppl happy or the game will just fall apart. They have work to do... considering no mmo has ever accomplished this.
Why are people so narrow-minded?
This is a Final Fantasy Title.
So what if it borrows idea from another Final Fantasy title. It is, after all, a franchise. And why is it limited solely to XI, what if this game takes an idea from Final Fantasy 8?
OH NO THEY ARE MAKING A FLYING SCHOOL. BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT
I do promote these threads because it gives me some entertainment at work.
I'm not saying he is a bad director, but you realise this game was released in september 2010, right? By Rise of Zilart standards, if I can make a comparison, i.e., the western release of ffxi, content in FFXI was basically doubled since JP release. So within a year, there were huge improvements to the game. The staff upheaval when Tanaka stood down may have actually crippled progress for FFXIV for all we know. I mean, in FFXIV, we've had some improvements, but no new areas that weren't already in the dats since the official release date. There's been progress made, but come on, not as much as you'd expect for 2 years of continued development.
I realise it's an uncommon situation since most of the progress they've made is still under wraps, and that's my point, we haven't even seen their progress, so you can't act like Yoshi has proved himself the amazing director everyone says he is, yet.
In fact, I think the game would be in better shape now even if Tanaka was still on board, and I say this because we would actually SEE the progress, rather than it being hidden away for 2.0. Progress was happening at a rapid pace even before Tanaka stood down. Don't you remember the rather prompt release of NMs and debugging that happened after release? They even alleviated a lot of lag? And they increased timers for food and guild facilities , etc, so already they were listening to feedback and building the game around that, and making it less punishing.
And there are still a great many complaints, today, many directed at things S.E. intends to launch with FFXIV. Just take that content finder thingy as an example.
So in conclusion, Yoshi might be good. Might be. But how do we know until 2.0?
Tucking all the content away for 2.0 is a very bold strategy... only time will tell if it works to his advantage...
We can make predictions... but the gaming market is fickle and unpredictable...
No one knows what will happen come 2.0....
A big E3 and a strong Famitsu score will help... but it's still anyone's guess overall