Fishing in ARR

[Fatestorm]

It annoys me, when I remember the 32 or so RMT that would always be standing around Cedarwood in 1.0 doing leves, that SE seems to be nuking Fisher pre-emptively for a mostly non-existent RMT threat, when I literally could have pointed them to 32 guildleve RMT to which they are obviously completely blind.

[LlenCoram]

Unbelievable. Could someone tell Yoshi that Tanaka also tried fighting RMT and it made the game garbage?

This is insane. They're ruining a class for no reason.

[Fatestorm]

I might actually get the address for SE Corporate Headquarters, and mail them a menu from Red Lobster, so the development team can learn that fish are actually valuable items that are highly sought on the market. -____-;

[Akubikumo]

Replace "Woman" with "Fisher" and "World" with "Eorzea"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5lMxWWK218

[LlenCoram]

It's funny, because I'm not even that angry. I'm disappointed and insulted that they would do something this absolutely, mind-bogglingly stupid, but I can't be angry anymore. I'll wait until... gods, whenever fishing gets implemented (maybe after launch? Gods know) to pass absolute judgment, but so far it looks like I'm out. I will not support someone who makes decisions this idiotic.

I hope everyone else has fun.

[Fatestorm]

I keep cross-posting but whatevs...

Bayohne said that a lot of JP were asking the Fishing questions too, which makes me happy, cause at least there are a lot of JP fishers concerned about the state of our job too.

I just don't know what's up. I literally have no idea what they have in mind for this job, even after hearing their answers. Like, fishing for the sake of personal achievements? You get personal achievements for every other job too... what would be special about fisher? Ugh I mean I just don't understand.

I hope there are similar threads to this on the JP forums, equally upset with this same run-around.

[TigleUpendi]

Kupo glad they changed fishing....was the only gathering not fun fun kupo.....btn yay.....ummm yya so dont think of it as a bad thing kupo!

[Robobandit]

I just keep thinking there has to be some reason that they haven't showed it yet. If it was as stupidly simple as they make it sound, surely it would have been finished already.

[Akubikumo]

I just keep thinking there has to be some reason that they haven't showed it yet. If it was as stupidly simple as they make it sound, surely it would have been finished already.

My personal theory is that they just didn't give a crap about it and it'll "get there when it gets there". Again we are the bottom of the list, obz.

[Fatestorm]

Here is the direct quote from Ferne, translating Yoshida:

"We don't want to make that fish, the individual fish, the items, that valuable; because we think that it's going to be more about the players catching the fish, it's going to be more about their achievements: so, what kind of fish you've caught, you have your log that keeps track of what kind of fish you have, and how large a fish you've caught, and getting achievements for larger fish..." [stream cuts out]

That sounds like planned obsolescence to me.