Letter From the Producer IX.

[Wobi]

@ Wobi, if you played this game since release and don't have a 50, you have no excuse really. Doing leves(2-3 hours per 36 hours at most) will get you 1-50 in a month or so. I also want content for ALL levels, but I don't understand why we NEED dungeons, of all content to add, at low levels.

We. do. not. need. to. copy. WOW. to. be. successful.

-_________- I want to drill this into some MMO devs mind sometime, maybe that will finally make a MMO that isn't a WOW clone exist...

edit: I like the "combing low level dungeon gear to get good gear like salvage" idea. THAT is unique and cool.

While I'm glad you appreciate my idea, my excuse for not having a rank 50 is that I'm trying to keep a fairly even spread of my jobs with the limited playtime my job affords me. There are plenty of reasons to have engaging content before you hit max rank. They could also be level capped so when new or returning players come along anyone could join the fun in running the quest/mission/battle with them.

SE is a business, they sort of make games to make money so their employees can keep roofs over their heads and food in their bellies. They have to take into account the entire player base. The so-called hardcores running about this forum have dwindled into a niche group. I like many others just don't have the amount of time to dedicate that we used to and it's nice to be able to make some progress if you only have a few hours a day. There are a great deal many more people in that boat than those who can literally play the entire day ( which I do on occasion on the weekends if I can get away with it).

You seem determined to bring back the glory days of Uber-Elitest FFXI days, when people would be kicked from parties for not parsing high enough or never get an invite as they weren't the right job or didn't have the most perfect gear. Where people would literally sit there and talk smack at each other for hours waiting for a HMN to pop at 5am in the morning NA time. People would be regularly ridiculed for trying anything new that deviated from what became the standard way to play the game. Where your LS commanded as much of your time as your RL job if not more. I know these are the things the "hardcore" crowd get off on and I have to ask, do we really need that again? Wasn't 8+ years of that enough for you?

[Peregrine]

What i get from that sentence is we are going to be part of the vanguard, but again like most of the posts in this thread, they are only ASSUMPTIONS..

We getting dungeon doesnt mean we'll get dungeon-wow-style.. will people be happier if they call it "insertdifferentname", none of us have any idea what it will be like. NONE.

At the beginning of the post, Yoshida said the R30 and R50 raids were due mid-june.
It was worded poorly, but not poorly enough to walk away thinking that no nevermind, mid-may.

You'll get a report on the lodestone by a fake company scout team about what the dungeons are like in mid-may. Or two weeks.

They probably should not have even said that and just let it be a surprise.

[Gramul]

If you played this game since release and don't have a 50, you have no excuse really.

Work, school, friends, multiple family deaths. It's been a trying year for me.

[Shiyo]

@Wobi, sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I was insulting you for not being 50, I'm really tired and I just meant that it's easy to get 50 in this game and no one has an excuse for "IM NOT 50 ITS HARD TO LEVEL!" or something, everyone can eventually get 50 no matter what. OMG...I feel like I'm talking about wow, that hurt my head. Anyways, I WANT low level content, I don't want all the content to be at the level cap, that's lame.

I also despise HNM's and never killed or camped one. I loved sea, sky, VNM's, ZNM's, limbus, and nyzul. I only liked lowmanning all those events(Besides nyzul of course, 6 man was required).

[Duelle]

But why do we need to copy another game with content? Why couldn't they added content to the game that wasn't leeching off another? Why are all MMOs turning into the same thing? Can't we get something different, something unique, AND fun, for once? Please?

Unique for the sake of being unique is a terrible way to go through life. You have to bite the bullet and go with what works if it comes down to it.

Also, please take off the rose-colored glasses. It's not doing you or us any good. Open world mobs, open world dungeons, grinding on the same mohbs over and over ad infinitum, RSE, AF (which were hit or miss storywise) are NOT the pinnacle of MMO design.

[Wobi]

@Wobi, sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I was insulting you for not being 50, I'm really tired and I just meant that it's easy to get 50 in this game and no one has an excuse for "IM NOT 50 ITS HARD TO LEVEL!" or something, everyone can eventually get 50 no matter what. OMG...I feel like I'm talking about wow, that hurt my head. Anyways, I WANT low level content, I don't want all the content to be at the level cap, that's lame.

I also despise HNM's and never killed or camped one. I loved sea, sky, VNM's, ZNM's, limbus, and nyzul. I only liked lowmanning all those events(Besides nyzul of course, 6 man was required).

Fair enough, I just hope they roll with the more progressive content. That time spent completing goals = progress. If you were unlucky you could spend hours farming Diorite against other shells and walk away empty handed, sometimes the drops rates were so bad even uncontested you could throw away 5hrs up there with nada to show for it. ZNM was brilliance, the drop rates were decent enough and sometimes you got a nice piece of situational gear from the NM's you battled along the way. All the while collecting pop items to progress to the next tier and once you did the last one you went back to the start. However you could take different branches each time fighting various monsters and could adjust which ones you battle if the team you had that evening was more suited for one over the other.

Einherjar also had a system of progression but man was it hard sometimes

[Shiyo]

WOW's design also isn't the pinnacle of MMO design either, but every MMO seems to think it is. So copying it is the new cool thing. I want unique to be different and not play the same game until I die of old age. It shouldn't be unique just to be unique, it should be unique AND fun AND challenging AND awesome. I'm sick of WOW, I'm sick of casual games, I'm sick of single player lobby "RPGS", I'm sick of dungeon gear grinds, I'm sick of beating MMOs in a month.

It sucks, it really does.

[Teknoman]

Instance and world changing events isnt locked down by World of Warcraft. Im pretty sure anything Yoshi's team does will still be pretty different, since no matter what (for better or worse) every Final Fantasy title is pretty different from the last and definitely different from any other game in its market.

[Totobi]

I'm sick of casual games

Better find a new game, then, as FFXIV was marketed as casual.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

Waa waa WOW waa waa

Please stop your complaining, Yoshi-P presented us with polls, we voted, and what ever was the majority is going to be considered or implemented. So either deal with it or stop playing.