Greetings, fellow FINAL FANTASY XIV fans. I hope you are all enjoying your adventures in Eorzea.
I have a confession to make—I love the new forums. And I'm using "love" in the strongest sense of the word here. Call me old-fashioned, but I never saw these English forums of yours as anything but entertainment. Just looking at the topics, I can tell these tissues definitely aren't big enough! And yet here I am, writing my first letter at 3 am. Why? Well, because FFXIV is a beautiful endeavor, and after the recent changes to the game, it's fallen to me to give everybody the lowdown on the game's new direction.
Meanwhile, the rest of the team is NOT safe on Japanese soil, wrapping up conclusions from patch 1.16. This patch brought the long-awaited introduction of sidequests, which were a major disappointment, and our localization staff has been hard at work putting their final touches on their translations of our feedback from the Japanese forums in order to bring you an unforgettable linguistic experience and maintain the impression that we care about your novel and groundbreaking ideas. We originally intended for more item storage to be implemented before the end of February, but unfortunately I had to make the decision to delay its release for a few months to allow your inventory sufficient time to overflow and cause repeated episodes of shuffling items back and forth between your retainers just to add a new item to bazaar. I understand your frustration, but ask that you bear with us just a little longer while we realize that without a mailing system extra character slots are basically useless.
Regarding the frequent ffxi flashbacks affecting many of you, patch 1.15b introduced a measure to help address this issue. While there has been a dramatic decrease in the number of posts suggesting that ffxiv become ffxi, we're aware the issue has yet to be fully resolved, and so our team is continuing to waste its efforts sifting through your suggestions.
And now for a bit of good news! I'm looking forward to reading all your posts. (^-^)v
Jumping? Really!? Is the idiot trying to make me soil myself!?
To help me express how much I love being on these forums, let me try and calm my nerves with a couple new concept designs...
- If you recall in a previous letter I mentioned that death porting was not very FF'esque and the issue would be addressed. Airship and chocobo travel will now allow players an alternate to anima for moving around the wonderful world of Eorzea at the cost of gil instead of anima.
- Also, after being KO'd players will now be taken to the CLOSEST aetherial gate for no cost. Additionally, players will be given the choice to revive at the gate of their choice for the same cost in anima it would take to teleport to that location from their current position. We realize this system makes sense and is fair but will still upset some of you who have nothing better to do than complain about our amazing game. Which brings me to the next point.
- I understand that some of you haven't figured out you can discern HQ items from normal by adding 1, 2, or 3 gil to the price (such as 10,001 for a +1 item) but since not everyone has adapted to this makeshift system we are going to waste resources tweaking our search tool instead of fixing the lack of inventory space/ retainer storage. Also, it has come to my attention that some of you are lazy as hell and complain about travelling to the individual wards and retainers to physically purchase your desired items. I would just like to take this opportunity to reiterate that you are lazy as hell.
- Furthermore, until I read it here on the English forums, I had no idea that 95% of every server population congregates in Thalnan, and Ul'dah more specifically. We are hoping the re-vamp of The Black Shroud paired with the new travel methods and better mob distribution will encourage players to seek adventure in all reaches of Eorzea. We are also looking into some form of global auction house to link the individual city markets. Whlie I can't go into great detail about this just yet, we have decided there will be a hefty tax added of about 20% for utilizing this convenience. Since our global auction house system will rely on mail delivery, the implementation will be sometime in mid-summer of 2011, after we realize how the introduction of a mailing system would give people incentive to buy additional character slots for storage. We do want to take your money at some point, just not until after some more radical changes- rest assured.
Finally, I still plan to explain the "introduction of new synthesis concepts" bit from last month in a little more detail in a future post, just waiting on our team to come up with them first.
That's all I've got for now. Until next time, I wish you all the best in your Eorzean endeavors.
Talk to you all again in a few days! (^-^)
Letter from the Player, I (3/13/11)
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03-13-2011, 05:04 PMFierosLetter from the Player, I (3/13/11)
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03-13-2011, 05:06 PMReika
Niceo copy~ /thumbsup
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03-13-2011, 05:32 PMKilta_Firelotus
reported sorry bad taste inlight of what is going on over in japan. And the possibility that our new ffxiv producer may have lost a close friend of his.
really dude.... this was not cool -
03-13-2011, 05:45 PMReika
It was rude, but kinda funny.
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03-13-2011, 05:57 PMKilta_Firelotusi would find it funny if the timing was better. : /Quote:
Originally Posted by Reika
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03-13-2011, 05:57 PMfallaciesNot to continue the rudeness, but death-porting is exactly what happens if you load after gameovering in every FF.Quote:
If you recall in a previous letter I mentioned that death porting was not very FF'esque and the issue would be addressed.
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03-13-2011, 05:59 PMReikaI know. But staying on a positive side is also good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus
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03-13-2011, 06:04 PMFocant
I personally could just do without the immense sarcasm. Whatever the OP was trying to get across, assuming he wasn't just doing it to be a jerk, was totally lost in the post.
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03-13-2011, 06:20 PMKarbine
I'm getting disgusted with a good portion of this community really quickly.
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03-13-2011, 06:21 PMVaymathias
Is this the same fieros in the NAYA?
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03-13-2011, 06:24 PMPeregrine
If this was a mock letter from tanaka it would have been much funnier.
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03-13-2011, 06:28 PMFierosTiming has never been my forte. Apologies to anyone offended due to tragedy in Japan and my best wishes to everyone there. Just meant to be read as satire with some thoughts of my own intertwined.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus
True, but you lose any progress gained beyond the last save point. You wouldn't "game-over" as a means of fast travel in those console games.Quote:
Originally Posted by fallacies
It sure is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vaymathias
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03-13-2011, 06:38 PMKilta_Firelotussame if this was 9/11 none of this would happen, and if it did... >.> ya....Quote:
Originally Posted by Karbine
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03-13-2011, 06:39 PMKilta_Firelotus
can a mod lock this thread. This is tactless. Tactless humor is NEVER good.
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03-13-2011, 06:42 PMPeregrineOh good grief...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus
I see this is some of your alls first attempts at white knighting on the Internet. -
03-13-2011, 06:45 PMFieros
Take a deep breath, exhale. Enjoy some chowder. Care to discuss any of the ideas presented, perchance your knee-jerk reflex ceases spasming.
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03-13-2011, 06:55 PMKilta_Firelotus
guys grow up.
This goes beyond the internet lingo.
You guys are bring tactless of a tradgey as large scaled if not worst then 9/11. if all those plants go nuclear japan would no longer exist. Everyone will be dead. or dying. And it would effect america.
Sorry but if you can't be mature about this just never play this game or post on this forum again. You tactless behavoir is not welcomed.
Go rot in w/e cesspool you crawled out of. -
03-13-2011, 07:07 PMKiroh1.) You didn't present any ideas. Even if there WERE ideas floating somewhere in that empty space between your shoulders, none of them ended up in your post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fieros
2.) Learn some tact. Believe it or not, I really couldn't care less about your 'satire', especially when you mocked the tragedy directly in your post. "Not safe on Japanese soil", in what context could that possibly be construed as bad timing when you go out of your way to let people know you're aware of what's going on?
3.) Grow up. I only hope someday that you can learn to understand how things affect people other than you in this world. Sadly, I don't see this happening until someone you care about ends up in the same situation as the people in Japan are going through right now.
This thread is beyond tasteless.
And for the future, it wasn't even funny in it's own context. If you're thinking of making satire your work, then I would seriously advise you not quit your day job. -
03-13-2011, 07:16 PMgifthorseI love all your posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peregrine
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03-13-2011, 07:29 PMyukikaze_yanagi
trololol
also, /facepalm. I humbly request usesr NOT take this forum like another fansite where you can troll freely. This forum mean used for gathering opinions and suggestions, not trolling under SE nose. Be more polite pls -
03-13-2011, 09:05 PMFierosThe polite opinions and suggestions extracted and clarified from OP by request:Quote:
Originally Posted by yukikaze_yanagi
Be constructive with forum posts. If you have a problem, offer a solution.
Sidequests introduced in patch 1.16 were much less impressive than the streamlining of the sythesis cursor movement during menu selection and gamepad improvements regarding camera zoom and page scroll.
As expected, feedback is primarily taking place on the Japanese forums. They will translate and get to ours, calm down.
Extra character slots would be worth purchasing if a system of mailing or transferring items between characters on the same account existed.
Jumping is one thing. Bunny hopping is another.
Airship and Chocobo travel should require gil instead of anima.
After being KO'd players should be taken to the CLOSEST aetherial gate for no cost. Additionally, players will be given the choice to revive at the gate of their choice for the same cost in anima it would take to teleport to that location from their current position.
MMORPG players are fickle and will always find something to complain about.
When listing HQ items on retainer add 1, 2, or 3 gil to the price (such as 10,001 for a +1 item)
I love the current market ward/retainer system and like travelling to the individual wards and retainers to physically purchase desired items.
While keeping the current market system, a global auction house could link the individual city markets. Heavy taxation could balance the convenience.
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03-13-2011, 11:10 PMSeif
Well I found it funny. I also find the lack of humor on this thread funny. Given that it takes so long for the English translations to anything written on the Japanese forums by Yoshi-P to appear online I think it's pretty safe to say that about 0,00001% of this forums content gets through to him.
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03-14-2011, 12:19 AMGraciousI totally agree with this thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Focant