Dear Square Enix Management ...

Dear Square Enix,
Dear Yoshida-San,

I fully understand that the curent business model of Final Fantasy XIV may be the most attractive fo your stock holders. Thus it may make sense to have turned the game into some kind of rail shooter, where customers grind the same content over and over again, until it gets invalidated with the next update and people move on to the next stage, grinding it over and over again.

But, with all due respect, if you wish to pursue this business model seriously, you should really consider

- deliver new content on schedule (instead of misguiding customer expectations),
- deliver new content when the old and easy content has been finished by a majority (like "Labyrinth of the Ancients"),
- do not release unfinished content, fix existing broken content (like CT requiring DF, existing DF issues, economy, etc.) and
- give the project manager the resources to accomplish this without redefining goals, dates or releasing unfinished contents (maybe send them to a SCRUM training).

If this is not possible within the boundaries of your business plan, then please deliver content which lasts at least until the next major update. It should also be in a finished state by then, or at least a traceable reason for it being unfinished communicated.

Regards,

Sol

Oh look, this thread again

It was stated that they had two options when it came to the Crystal Tower. Either release it early, without the ability to form an alliance or delay it in order to impliment the alliance forming feature.

I for one am glad they gave us Crystal Tower, even without the alliance tools; it's just something else to look forward to.

There was a third option. Release it in time and finished, like they announced it in their presentations 2 years ago.

Grats on your law degree

somebody has never played an mmo berfore.

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Originally Posted by flamds1

somebody has never played an mmo berfore.

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Or knows nothing how the real world works behind such projects :).

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Originally Posted by SolArisa

There was a third option. Release it in time and finished, like they announced it in their presentations 2 years ago.

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Things don't work like that. I'm sure they weren't trying to release it on time and they actually just did it like this to annoy you. Sarcasm aside I wouldn't blame them if they did; this genres playerbase are the most entitled bunch of the whole gaming industry.

Threads like this make me laugh, I'm sure SE never thought about completing content on time, or trying to work the bugs out before release, sort of difficult when you have a small testing team that has to try to break it like the hundreds of thousands of people will try to do once it's out. These threads remind of sports interviews where people that have nothing to do with teams involved say crap like, "For them to win, they need to play both halves," "They need to start hitting more shots if they expect to score more points," or my favorite, "There's no way they can win, if the team doesn't show up to play." OP if you think your ideas are so revolutionary, maybe you should send your resume to Square, and see if they have room for your forward thinking.

Seems pretty much tonns of content for me . Game will be rail shooter for every player that turns it in rail shooter for himself lol .

There's nothing about this game that is even remotely difficult outside of Twintania; and even that is just being attuned to a set list of mechanics. Look you get a free piece of ilvl90 and a free piece of ilvl80 every week for little to no effort or real strategic application. Games only really succeed when expansions are less about forcing players to farm up 3 months straight for an aesthetic plot of land and more about giving players a real reason to explore more of the game world (not sit in revenant's toll). I cancelled my sub, and for those of you that started playing later maybe the game is still attractive to you; until you realize that any real effort you put into your character is completely pointless when offset by scrubs with 3 hours of free-time a week. Gear used to mean something. Now it means that you can log in and do some pathetically easy content to acquire BiS gear 35 ilvls above said content. For the casual gamer this is a great system. For the more Hardcore gamer it is a very bad system. It is what it is.