Fishing in ARR

[Mikaboshiff]

@ OP's Quote

That kind of sounds like FF11 Fishing.

[Punainen]

Is fisher not ready because it's too awesome...or is fisher not ready because they don't want to hear people rage about it yet?

[Mjollnir]

Other than "The weather will have some sort of effect" and "there will be different rods and lures," we really know nothing at all. Everything else is vague words thrown around meant to change the subject.

Boats.

/10char

[Yrusama]

Is fisher not ready because it's too awesome...or is fisher not ready because they don't want to hear people rage about it yet?

Edit (Condensed): I'm not a dev, but it seems to me FSH is the least straightforward class. Comparing it to MNK, as someone did, isn't all that fair; most of DoW and M abilities come from fantasy and magic (a.k.a. thin air), while DoH/L needs to be properly balanced in the economy. Immersion into the game world also depends pretty heavily on DoH/L, and I'd expect it to be harder to make FSH believable and still engaging in the long run. I can understand if they feel the need to spend more time on it, although at some point they'll probably realize that the end result won't be unanimously enjoyed. Such is the nature of the gaming community.

My FSH is 13, but I will level it to 50 at some point. I gladly sat through countless hours of the other DoL, and I look forward to seeing something new and interesting when FSH is fully implemented.

[LlenCoram]

Another day of multiple dev posts clearing up misunderstandings and answering questions, and yet again fishers get squat.

If you wanted to convince us that you don't give a chocobo's bottom about fishing SE, you're doing a fantastic job.

[Akubikumo]

They either have some super awesome surprise in store for us or they've just been blowing it off. We know we're a minority around here but thats JUST THE POINT. We will ALWAYS be a minority. So why aren't they listening/responding to those of us that actually love this part of the game. Who are they trying to please here? Yoshi, who obviously doesn't give two mouse poops about gathering? or us, who sometimes login in ONLY to fish? Maybe if we clamored for "PvP Fishing" Yoshi would take notice ><;

[Huh]

If the delay was a positive one they would've come out and said "hey we delayed fisher because <insert awesome feature> is being added." Since all we're getting is "fisher is delayed" it is most likely not a good thing. :\

[LlenCoram]

It's just infuriating over all. Early on botany got a good chunk of gameplay demo in one of the early live letters. It made sense at the time to not talk much about fishing because none of the other classes were getting a lot of screentime.

Then the live letter questions started, and I made sure to ask about fishing. We got nothing. Live letter after live letter with nothing. Then they said that all classes would be available in phase 3, because all of the cities would be. In the latest live letter the fishing questions got a combined Like rating over well over 200. Considering the reps specifically asked us to Like posts we wanted to have noticed, this should have warranted at least Yoshi looking into the camera and saying, "Fishing" before moving on with the broadcast. But still nothing.

I'm sure most of you felt the same as I did however. Despite the snub, phase 3 was going to start on the 14th. We'd see it then. The day after the live letter the DoL page was updated and we got a look at the Fisher AF, which spread pretty well, and overall there was a sense of optimism I found. But now no Fisher in phase 3. Despite us expecting it, talking about it, asking about it for months now, they decide to let us know in the most insulting way possible.

One tiny little footnote buried deep inside a giant document about upcoming plans.

The worst part of it all is that despite the talking and questions and expectations and pleading, we've never had any sort of community rep or dev response in any of our threads. It's infuriating that we got snubbed for at least two live letters in a row, only to be denied the chance to play the class during phase 3, AND to top it all off neither the devs nor Yoshi seem to care enough to put two minutes aside to talk to us.

We're not being silent about this. It's clear to see the anger in the fishing threads here. It's impossible that they're missing the uproar about this, so it's clear to see that ignoring us was a conscious decision on their part. We're being ignored, and there's nothing we can do about it.

To any community rep reading this, we are still being civil. We're still keeping all discussion to a small number of threads. No spamming is happening, no personal attacks being made. But we're angry, and while we aren't demanding a response, I think at this point a response would be well deserved. We've waited long enough, and this latest decision requires some sort of explanation.

[Nix]

I couldn't have said it better Llen, bravo!

[Skies]

I couldn't have said it better Llen, bravo!

She could have said it a lot better, though.

"I really care about Fishing but since it's one of the various other new features that aren't going to be in phase 3 i'm okay with waiting for phase 4" would have been a much better way to put it