To the devs, some thoughts and a petition for the future of Eorzea.

This post is for the developers, i don't intend to discuss here about content or game mechanics i'm just asking for imformation.
Since the launch we had 1 mayor update and another that is coming on march, both updates are releasing exactly the same kind of content we already had from day 1.
All the content we have is instanced and party locked.
There's no class and jobs personalization.
Gear progession is vertical (item lvl based, new gear will always be btetter, no personalization gear wise)
Open world content is non existent, beastmen quest, treasure hunt and fates are not rewarding for a lvl50 player, you can't make your lvl50 character progress doing such content.
Bosses are all about memorization, strategy is not involved, they are repetitive and boring.
Crafting is useless, tomestones and dungeon/raid gear is always better than crafted gear.
Materia caps makes the system useless and again makes the crafting useless.

This is the way the game is right now, and i don't like it, like many other players.
I really want to see the future of this game, but i need to know is the money i put on this game will be used to create something i will be able to enjoy with my friends, son i want to ask to Yoshida about the future of the game.

please could you make a letter from the producer talking about the future of this game, and the changes and different content we will see on the future?

There are some questions i would like to see answered:

Will we see open-world content that is rewarding? (useful gear and may be tome stones)
Will we ever see more personalization regwarding character progression and gear? (different gear with different stats, not the basic ones, and more useful cross-class skills)
Will all the bosses be highly encrypted and predictable? (battles are not fun and strategy is not needed)
Will crafting be improved making crafted gear better or equal than tome stones and dungeon/raid gear?


On a side note, some words to Yoshida with the hope of changing his mind:

Fearing RMT activities, exploits and possible harassment you are just limiting the potential of this game, stop using those as excuses and start thinking about the possibilities of this wonderfull world you have helped to create.

PD: i write this post in a simple way because i intend to translate it with google and post it on the japanese forums.

Sorry, I did read it. It's not closed enough.

There are direct channels to them, though.

Everything here has been mentioned COUNTLESS times in past live letters. Instead of wasting forum space, you should try looking through the past letters and you'll get the answers you want.

I have been following this game since the 1.0, and still i don't have answers to my concerns.

PD: this is a serious post if you donit have something valuable to say, please, don't post, there are more threads to troll.

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Originally Posted by Renik

Will we see open-world content that is rewarding? (useful gear and may be tome stones)

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will not happend! they don't want to see place over camped for stuff and it become a pain to get acces to some content, because too many or too little people to one place. open world content have a lot of flaws and find a way to counter it is hard.

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Originally Posted by Renik

Will we ever see more personalization regwarding character progression and gear? (different gear with different stats, not the basic ones, and more useful cross-class skills)

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they plan to add more specific stats when the game will be more balanced, like more effect for this skill or even new effect. but for now no eta on this.

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Originally Posted by Renik

Will all the bosses be highly encrypted and predictable? (battles are not fun and strategy is not needed)

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random boss in a game like FF14 are probably not possible, we are not into an action type mmorpg. they can add some sort of random but not that much. random boss are simply hellish to balance.

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Originally Posted by Renik

Will crafting be improved making crafted gear better or equal than tome stones and dungeon/raid gear?

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will not happend.. simply because it will be pointless to do dungeon/raid or tomes if you can purchase with gil stuff, it will lead to an increase of the rmt. however they plan to add new crafting recipe with the 2.2, i guess you will have an answer to your question with this one.

ps: all your question was answered countless time, simply need to check more the forum. true, some of this question was answered while the beta and maybe you haven't seen all this answer.

This game is the best we have. FFXI got nuked and the mutants are running around, EQ is almost 20 years old, all the free to play games are atrocious. Just hope that we get a new game that is awesome and hope it is FF themed

I know the answers they gave us regarding some of my questions, that's the cause of the side note.
Balancing open world content and some randomness on bosses it's hard, but possible.
Regarding crafting, the mats used fot high lvl recipes could be dropped from hard boses or even exchanged for tomes.
As i said before we can't make a game fearing the RMTs, balancing issues or harassment and competition, that's just limiting our fun, they are supposed to take countermeasures about said problems but not limite the game.

OP this is an MMO so a lot of the things you're asking about aren't able to implement.
-Open World content works great for single player games but when they are used in MMO's open world doesn't work because it turns into a massive zerg feast and hard to access because of lag.
-Random bosses again works well for single player but in a MMO are a nightmare to balance even in the more action MMO which still use heavily scripted battles.
-Crafting high level gear equal to myth or above not gonna happen because it will make doing dungeons and raids pointless

Renik a lot of the content you want is geared toward single player games but not MMOS. If you played a lot of MMO's you know they can't just add content without balancing it with everything out.

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Originally Posted by Akiza

OP this is an MMO so a lot of the things you're asking about aren't able to implement.
-Open World content works great for single player games but when they are used in MMO's open world doesn't work because it turns into a massive zerg feast and hard to access because of lag.
-Random bosses again works well for single player but in a MMO are a nightmare to balance even in the more action MMO which still use heavily scripted battles.
-Crafting high level gear equal to myth or above not gonna happen because it will make doing dungeons and raids pointless

Renik a lot of the content you want is geared toward single player games but not MMOS. If you played a lot of MMO's you know they can't just add content without balancing it with everything out.

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I have played a lot of MMOs, EQ, EQ2 and FFXI had a lot of open world content, high end crafted gear and not fully encypted bosses, and those 3 games have produced huge profits and have had lots of subscribers, and they are still working.
This "everything instanced mode" is somthing that have been implemented to copy WoW and save lots of balancing work to get cheap, easy and quick money.

Right now Everquest next it's being designed with open world content and high AI bosses, so it's possible, hard but possible, the reason why i'm fighting for this game instead of moving to EQnext is because i love ff.

The short answer for the vertical progression problem is simply that we aren't at final level cap and are most likely looking at a cap increase by the fall. It's actually surprising they're doing as much vertical progression as well knowing they'll be upping the cap. All the current content will in the near future become almost mid-level content like AF and Shadow Lord became in FFXI. Once the cap increases and we're going to be the same level for a good 2-3 years and they're satisfied with the class balance they'll start the sidegrade gear with resistances and the like. As for open world content...what's to say the beastman dailies wont continue to increase in level? The ones they put in for 2.1 were very obviously there to help fill the quest gap from 40-50. The 2.2 batch might all be 50+. They want nothing to do with FFXI style NMs and I don't blame them. Even when some drops were changed to Rare/EX the camping was ridiculous and a massive time waste.

@Renik open world content in the game you have pointed are normal, the technic at this time didn't allows to support an heavy structure made of many instance.
now is possible, it give more chance for everybody to have acces to the same content.

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Originally Posted by Renik

I have played a lot of MMOs, EQ, EQ2 and FFXI had a lot of open world content, high end crafted gear and not fully encypted bosses, and those 3 games have produced huge profits and have had lots of subscribers, and they are still working..

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Most of that open world content in the above games consisted of NMs and HNMs that were Hell to camp, had atrocious respawns, and ludicrous drop rates. All of which are required in some form or another to prevent the entire server from having the drops in under a week. All the best content in those games was instanced too with the exception of Sky and did you do Sky in the heyday? OMFG Worse than the ground NMs. Sky lasted as long as it did because you had to win the lottery twice to get anything (win claim over the bots then actually luck out and get your drop). You add something like this to FFXIV and it would be unplayable for weeks with the glut of people trying to do it.

OP, you are still not seeing the whole picture of the game....
Yes, we all know this game is not perfect, but which game is?

Highest party level setting is 200. (why not 999, if it's just script)
We can't access to highest states in grand company yet.
Tones of area un-open yet.
Not mention we are only at the base of crystal tower.
Not all primals implanted yet.

In other words, the game isn't complete yet.
This type of thread will just keep coming back. (Shurg)
And your vertical progression? If it's level based games, it's gonna be vertical progression.
You do realize you are playing MMORPG and not racing game or mario brothers, right?

Lot of ppl saying this is an MMO, but a MMO is no place for scrypted battles, instances and vertical gear progression, this game, is not an MMO is a big lobby server with a lot "arcade mode" games, an MMO is supposed to be a living world where the players can interact, fighting, crafting or housing, ADVENTURING, that's a real MMO, the imagen of the MMOs this new generation of gamers have is wrong, MMOs are about freedom and adventuring.

I see it now, or you're too blind by the light of the title or i'm wrong for being the only one expecting excitement when fighting, freedom and adventures from a MMO.
Mark my words, since the alpha of the 1.0 and until the release of 2.1 i have been defending this game, believing it was good and it would get better, but now i don't even want to log in, and one day everyone will get bored as well.

If this is the kind of game the new generation of players want, then the genere is not for me, but not because i'm on the wrong genre, it's because it has changed.

i did start mmorpg i had 16 years, i'm soon 35 years old... i had my share of mmorpg, i had time in Anarchy Online where i was simply spending time to talk with people.
but as the time have pass the game have offer more and more.
- housing goal? a place where to spend time with people... do it's used like this? no!
- crafting in old mmorpg was rarely the best way to equip yourself...
- adventuring, i remember how big the map of some old mmorpg was... but honestly this was empty most of the time.

the genre have evolve for the better or the worst... but still evolve. we can argue countless hours and still talk about it. what was working 10 years ago will not work anymore now.

Ppl like stuff given to them these days instead of working as a team to achieve something…ffxi was good at that until they destroyed it, but yes the game is new still, but they could have used stuff from ffxi and implement it in here. ffxi had lots of good stuff and people that disagree never played xi, probably a MMO hopper, or played xi but couldn't handle skill+team work and prefers solo. Honestly thou there is no sense of achievement or adventuring everything is instanced, of course sky was great having the whole linkshell up there to kill the gods and kirin everyone working together. Yes you can say "well I was a this job and i didn't do any work", but they could now fix that and balance stuff better.

I've played FFXI for 9 years and although I love the game and treasure my experiences in it, I feel that it's original design is obsolete and that I could never go back to the old-style 'dooms' parties, of spending an entire night waiting for a party invite that never came, of never being able to get anywhere in the storyline because the battle required a certain party set up. And don't get me started on stupid NM monopolization (Shikigami Weapon *cough cough*).

Really, I'm sure most FFXI players only tolerated FFXI's system simply because there was no alternative - the only ones to say otherwise are the hardcore minority who are really gaming masochists and are only happy when the game is actually punishing them. Which I'm afraid doesn't sell games these days.

I know of an MMO with actually quite decent and variable open world content... I keep hoping other MMOs will catch on. :< I would be so thrilled if I could take that MMO's game design and stick it in an MMO with XIV's lore and artistic style. *dreams on*