Yoshida/FFXIV Team appreciation

To Naoki Yoshida and the FFXIV team:

Thank you for striving to create an MMO that has the look, the atmosphere, and the feel of "grand adventure" that I loved about FFXI, but with the features of modern, more streamlined MMOs. You've really changed my mind about this game's future, which I didn't even think would come to exist when playing FFXIV for the first few months. Nearly everything I complained about (even down to the lack of Naoshi Mizuta's composing) at release is being addressed, and as an originally dissatisfied customer I have to say I am very impressed with the work you guys have done.

Looking forward to 2.0 and a new, worthy, addicting Final Fantasy MMO.

Seconded!

/10 inb4 negativity

Third!

/10 I'm with this guy! ^

Excited about 1.20 and Beyond. Thank you Dev Team and Naoki Yoshida for making this game very fun to play.

Woot! Woot! Go Yoshi-P & Team!

+1 for Team Yoshi-P & Co. <3 Love you guys. Keep up the good work!

I've been incredibly impressed by the degree of open communication about plans, and the degree of listening to feedback. All of that is the exact opposite of what SE is known for.

The game isn't completely where I'd like to see it, but I'd be willing to pay now, just because of that. Yoshi-P has earned my trust. This game is getting better and better as each patch rolls in, but just knowing what's going on (and why) is the icing on the cake

I can't stop telling my friends and family how the game (of which I'd never lost faith in) is evolving due to Yoshi's great leadership and vision. The 2.0 announcement surpassed my expectations and I'm thrilled to be a part of its evolution; I can't wait to set foot in the 7th Umbral Age.

Makes me feel like this all over again. Keep it coming team (and that includes the community)!

Even though some changes they did feel rushed, they are still doing a good job cleaning up the mess v1.0 was.
I don't know if I stay and pay yet, but should they keep the promise of 2.0 (especially the alt+tab and finer graphics engine scaling) I'll definitely be back.

I believe many people on these forums tend to get excited about words and pretty pictures and then get disappointed by reality, just to get excited again over the next series of words and pretty pictures.

Good Job dev team, but please Yoshi go to sleep! For at least 20 hours, we will survive!

I appreciate for what Yoshi & XIV Team have done up till now and I have to say Good Job to them!

I fully believe that they have what it takes to make this game big and awesome.
Why? Because Yoshi made this Game better, and he also kept his promise! plus he even showed me something I'd have never expected at all! (Version 2.0!)

Keep it going Yoshi! but don't forget to take Extra sleep and rest so you don't get sick:p

I am super excited about this game. Yoshida and team have done a wonderful job thus far and I have confidence they will continue to do so.

two thumbs up from me

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Originally Posted by Kirith

I believe many people on these forums tend to get excited about words and pretty pictures and then get disappointed by reality, just to get excited again over the next series of words and pretty pictures.

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I think this is the best way anyone has ever put it.

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Originally Posted by Kirith

I believe many people on these forums tend to get excited about words and pretty pictures and then get disappointed by reality, just to get excited again over the next series of words and pretty pictures.

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I no longer get excited or mad about news starting from the day they post the pdf files. When the update come i'll see if i get excited or mad it been a big disappointed to a lot of people every patch but i guess because you can't make everyone happy lol.

Let's hope 2.0 is worth the time and money because so far i'm enjoying the game i hope 2.0 make it better and not kill it for me lol.

I've gotta say that 1.19 has left me incredibly satisfied. I decided to start a new character on Mysidia with a friend to have a fresh look at all the new content, and from the first few battles, I felt that the leveling curve and combat felt much closer to what I was originally hoping for(this coming from a dude who was vehemently anti auto-attack). Being able to chain enemies and having enemies link was a pretty big game changer for us.

It only got better once we hit around level 14 and got into our first linkshell. Once we hit level 15 with our new friends, we started running Shopshae, which is still a crazy fun non-stop mob onslaught for our lower leveled classes. With leve allowances and crazy leve parties and behests, we were able to get everyone to level 25 relatively quickly and thus began our march to join the grand companies and eventually grab our own chocobos and challenge Toto-Rak. Well long story short, the bosses of Toto-Rak handed us our own asses, so we quit the place for a bit, but only to emerge victorious 4 levels later!

Going through the companies, seeing all the new plot, and FINALLY grabbing my own chocobo was a very rewarding experience and I love the direction the story is going in, although I can't believe anyone would think that chocobos are somehow easier to acquire in FFXIV. Armed with my trusty steed Altair, I soon set out to explore Eorzea and tag all the aetheryte camps and gates once again.. At least I would have were it not for all the bloody DIREMITES everywhere! :(

I decided to take a hiatus on the exploration(which was still fruitful and fun thanks to my bird) and focused on building my own unique class(a "dark monk" or as I affectionately call him, "the mob day ruiner"), which given the new battle balancing has been very rewarding and fun in preperation for my linkshell's inevitable first conflict with Ifrit and the total decimation of Toto-Rak once and for all.

To aid in this goal I decided to try both company leves and caravan escorts. I have to say that as the bloodlusting combat system whore I am, I love the thought of having wave after wave of enemy tossed into the fray so I'm appreciative of the company leves save for the guarding one, as I still need to work on my strategy there. Chocobo caravans are something that I thought would be a great addition, and I enjoy them a lot, but I just CAN'T FINISH THEM solo! This is probably a good thing though, and I'll need to "recruit"(sucker) some unsuspecting Maelstrom(where my Storm brothers at!?) members to aid in that endeavor.

All and all I feel overwhelmed with all the stuff I can do right now, and if patch 1.20 serves to amplify that, then I'll be one hell of a happy paying customer. So here's to Yoshi-P and his 250-strong army of developers and here's to the future of FFXIV!

Yeah! You guys have taken great leaps over the last year! Great job Yoshi-p and FFxiv DEV Team!! Keep up the good work.

I like words and pretty pictures when they're consistently followed up with changes from terrible gameplay to excellent gameplay, which has definitively been the case so far and I have no reason to believe that will suddenly change. It's been amazing watching the development of this game - albeit from afar for a few months, I'd stopped playing entirely leading up to 1.19 - and this'll be a pretty fun year to be playing the game, rather than a fun year to be... sitting around on my butt waiting for a re-release. :P Things aren't perfect, some things won't change until 2.0, but I can roll with that until then.

New dev team is awesome, community team's always been awesome, glad to see an appreciation thread :D

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Originally Posted by Kirith

I believe many people on these forums tend to get excited about words and pretty pictures and then get disappointed by reality, just to get excited again over the next series of words and pretty pictures.

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You are one negative dude.

ap·pre·ci·a·tion [uh-pree-shee-ey-shuhn]
noun
1. gratitude; thankful recognition.

2. clear perception or recognition, especially of aesthetic quality: a course in art appreciation.

3. an increase or rise in the value of property, goods, etc.

Understandably though, many people won't be excited due to the fact that we've been let down before by SE. I'm a positive person and like to keep my glass half full. A picture is worth a thousand words, and that picture reveals a vision for FFXIV that surpassed most people's expectations in one shot. Don't let people like Kirith bring you down.

Not all games have to be like FFXI "with all the features of WoW".

I feel like I spent the first week after 1.19 complaining over the stupid dye system, the stupid item and crafting changes, the stupid skill-less materia RNG, the stupid spiritgrind concept, etc., so I dont really feel like giving FFXIV team my appreciation.

Maybe they can impress everyone else with false promises, but lots of stupid ideas get green lit lately and im not impressed.

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Originally Posted by ellohwell

Not all games have to be like FFXI "with all the features of WoW".

I feel like I spent the first week after 1.19 complaining over the stupid dye system, the stupid item and crafting changes, the stupid skill-less materia RNG, the stupid spiritgrind concept, etc., so I dont really feel like giving FFXIV team my appreciation.

Maybe they can impress everyone else with false promises, but lots of stupid ideas get green lit lately and im not impressed.

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Maybe you should start your own nonappreciation thread. I'll be sure to post there about how much I appreciate this game.

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Originally Posted by Zaireeka2025

You are one negative dude.

ap·pre·ci·a·tion [uh-pree-shee-ey-shuhn]
noun
1. gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.

2. clear perception or recognition, especially of aesthetic quality: a course in art appreciation.

3. an increase or rise in the value of property, goods, etc.

Understandably though, many people won't be excited due to the fact that we've been let down before by SE. I'm a positive person and like to keep my glass half full. A picture is worth a thousand words, and that picture reveals a vision for FFXIV that surpassed most people's expectations in one shot. Don't let people like Kirith bring you down.

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Hey man, let's not get hostile. Everyone has their say (even though they tend to lean more towards the ridiculous end on these boards). I was way more negative than that dude before the changes that the new XIV team brought really began to pop out and become noticeable. Like straight up bashing every single aspect of it, writing poor reviews on Amazon, sending negative feedback to SE, etc. I was becoming optimistic after 1.18 but was sold on 2.0 and the idea of more FFXI (and a teaspoon of WoW) in my FFXIV but without the frustrating/outdated bits.

Speaking of which, I found out last night that I could finally map my keyboard buttons the way I wanted to and it blew my mind. Now if only this game wouldn't crash so often.

I'd like to cheer the current efforts of Yoshida and the dev team. Half a year to a year ago I didn't have much hope for this game, the future was pitch black and I was ready to leave it behind. But I have to say that the game has much improved, I'm having fun and feeling at home now. The future looks bright, even though right now the game is far from exceptional.

The important actions I feel SE has done right:
- The open communication
- The direction of the game (especially with 2.0 in mind)
- The effort, especially considering that this game could have been left for dead

Keep up the good work, don't let us down.

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Originally Posted by Zaireeka2025

You are one negative dude.

ap·pre·ci·a·tion [uh-pree-shee-ey-shuhn]
noun
1. gratitude; thankful recognition.

2. clear perception or recognition, especially of aesthetic quality: a course in art appreciation.

3. an increase or rise in the value of property, goods, etc.

Understandably though, many people won't be excited due to the fact that we've been let down before by SE. I'm a positive person and like to keep my glass half full. A picture is worth a thousand words, and that picture reveals a vision for FFXIV that surpassed most people's expectations in one shot. Don't let people like Kirith bring you down.

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Your dictionary skills are astounding, thanks for that insight. BTW. his statement is extremely true and represents the views of many people. It was pretty tame for an appreciation thread compared to what he could have brought up.

God what is it with all these brown noser threads. I would appreciate it if people would quit making appreciation threads. We need to have more threads on how to improve the game beyond what 1.19 brought us.

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Originally Posted by Fated

Your dictionary skills are astounding, thanks for that insight. BTW. his statement is extremely true and represents the views of many people. It was pretty tame for an appreciation thread compared to what he could have brought up.

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True as it might be, this is an appreciation thread. Like I said, things like that can go into a separate nonappreciation thread.

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Originally Posted by sasquatch23

God what is it with all these brown noser threads. I would appreciate it if people would quit making appreciation threads. We need to have more threads on how to improve the game beyond what 1.19 brought us.

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What you're talking about already makes up about 90% of the other threads in this forum. A thread like this popping up from time to time may just cheer the devs up. Yoshi himself said that positive statements and praise keep him going, and positive threads like these are far and few between. No need to taint them with whiny statements about the game.

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Originally Posted by ellohwell

Not all games have to be like FFXI "with all the features of WoW".

I feel like I spent the first week after 1.19 complaining over the stupid dye system, the stupid item and crafting changes, the stupid skill-less materia RNG, the stupid spiritgrind concept, etc., so I dont really feel like giving FFXIV team my appreciation.

Maybe they can impress everyone else with false promises, but lots of stupid ideas get green lit lately and im not impressed.

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Why are you here? Go play something that will make you happy and leave us to our happyness

I'll be the first to say I had my reservations about the future state of ffxiv at multiple points, but I held fast to my belief in Square Enix as a company. From publishing to anime to games, SE has brought me thousands of hours of quality entertainment. There are still 1000 things that need to be done to get this game to the level I know it can be, but I would be remiss if I did not express gratitude for the open and humbled attitudes of the Xiv staff and their relentless commitment to improving this game, even if some changes are not well received by all.

Commence the personal attacks if you like but I have fun on Xiv almost nightly. That may be due to the game mechanics, or the people online I have made real connections with over the past year. Ether way, as long as SE continues to devote time to his game, so shall I.

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Originally Posted by ellohwell

Not all games have to be like FFXI "with all the features of WoW".

I feel like I spent the first week after 1.19 complaining over the stupid dye system, the stupid item and crafting changes, the stupid skill-less materia RNG, the stupid spiritgrind concept, etc., so I dont really feel like giving FFXIV team my appreciation.

Maybe they can impress everyone else with false promises, but lots of stupid ideas get green lit lately and im not impressed.

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The first week after 1.19?

Have you checked your post history lately?

You complain about practically everything.

Constantly.

Every thread I see started by you is to complain about something. Every post I see made by you is to complain about something.

If there were no such thing as complaining, you would have nothing to post here.

I am very excited to hear about what's coming down the line. All the info initially released with the 2.0 report, and now with new info recently provided via a recent interview...

I'm definitely excited about the direction Yoshi is taking this game in.

I'll hold off on cheering it on as a "success" 'til after it's actually been realized as envisioned.

Beyond that, my impression of Yoshi can be summed up by Mr. Roddy Piper himself as such: Click Here

Just think guys after they start charging THIS is what the average thread will look like!

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Originally Posted by TonyMontana

Just think guys after they start charging THIS is what the average thread will look like!

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As happens when you filter out everything but what SE wants to hear

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Originally Posted by TonyMontana

Just think guys after they start charging THIS is what the average thread will look like!

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Sadly, this isn't going to happen. FFXI's fanbase has been full of whiners for years, and they still pay to play.

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Originally Posted by TonyMontana

Just think guys after they start charging THIS is what the average thread will look like!

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Untrue.

But there will be a lot more threads highlighting specific issues with the game and less threads about how the game as a whole "sucks" or "isn't worth paying for."

People who are quitting need to realize that you're not as important as you think you are.

Great job with the game Team i can't stop playing. Yoshi make sure you worry about your health and don't push yourself to hard.

I have never been so impressed with a gaming company before. I have full trust in Yoshi-P and the rest of the design team. Heres to the future of FFXIV!

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Originally Posted by TonyMontana

Just think guys after they start charging THIS is what the average thread will look like!

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I rather have this then a billion people that don't even play the game but just come here for fun " act" like they know what they are talking about and such lol.

"Quality posts over Quantity Posts"