Letter From the Producer IX.

[Anty]

i think its because the communication is a bit weird sometimes (irritating) and rises too many expectations and/or leaves too much room for stupid interpretation. And if i think about the poll... it wasnt exactly a way to tell SE what i/we want imo.
You had very few choices and it was a lot black and white. So its only natural many ppl are disappointed.
The question about instanced dungeons was flat and i would have rather not answered it since some big events can be instanced and still be very good, and larger scale stuff can be very annoying if not instanced (i remember a lot of arguing if we got zonejacked by other ls in dynamis or limbus....). if these areas were instanced that wouldnt have happened and nobody would feel different about these zones, except you dont gather 30+ people only to find out that nothing happens today . Instancing too much on the other hand kills the rest of the world and makes it feel dead. but i dont really think they will do that , but well its only a suggestion, who knows...

another thing is.. people get impatient.
And i think thats only natural considering SE didnt listen in alpha and beta and was BShitting us in the first place...
The new team has a hard time now. But i can understand every ff fan that gets impatient, pissed or worried about how the game will develop.

In the end - nobody really knows what the game will become like and we can keep fighting and speculating til the content and patches arrive... thats something at least isn't it?

[Peregrine]

Yeah every thread I open these days has content so way out there that it's like reading a CNN article comment section about the endeavor launch only to somehow have most if the comments replying about cuba and bush's Guantanamo policies.

Wait, what? @!&$ing space shuttle, people. Focus.

[Moth]

Oh, the camps look like they have harvesting/ farming fields in them. Maybe a hint at what will come for Botanists one day

[Walton]

Dev team:

If you don't want people mis-translating information regarding upcoming patches, then the least you could do is translate the information to the four languages used by your customers before you release it. I don't appreciate the Japanese still getting preferential treatment as they did for ten years of XI. If you're going to accept paying customers from outside of Japan, then I expect that you treat the rest of the world equally.

The problem is not going to go away simply because you ask nicely for it to. I wouldn't expect people to wait patiently by, waiting for you to get around to translating everything.

[Dreadnought]

Dev team:

If you don't want people mis-translating information regarding upcoming patches, then the least you could do is translate the information to the four languages used by your customers before you release it. I don't appreciate the Japanese still getting preferential treatment as they did for ten years of XI. If you're going to accept paying customers from outside of Japan, then I expect that you treat the rest of the world equally.

The problem is not going to go away simply because you ask nicely for it to. I wouldn't expect people to wait patiently by, waiting for you to get around to translating everything.

although i kind of agree with you, it is this mentality that deterred SE from ever releasing official forums for FFXI, they didnt want to have to deal with doing that kind of thing, not a bias, just a hassle i think.

[Gramul]

although i kind of agree with you, it is this mentality that deterred SE from ever releasing official forums for FFXI, they didn't want to have to deal with doing that kind of thing, not a bias, just a hassle i think.

Well, that does call into question how committed they are to national servers.
When you make a game that has people from all over playing it, it is your responsibility to keep all your customers up to date regardless of what language they speak.

[Dreadnought]

Well, that does call into question how committed they are to national servers.
When you make a game that has people from all over playing it, it is your responsibility to keep all your customers up to date regardless of what language they speak.

this i totally agree with, it is non the less an international business.

[Ostia]

Seiken Densetsu 1 - 4 was amazing.
Chrono Trigger was and still is considered one of the best RPGs around
Chrono Cross was amazing
Xenogears was amazing.
Final Fantasy I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, Tactics, Crystal Chronicles and Tactics 2 were amazing.
Romancing Saga 1 - 3 were amazing.
Saga Frontier was great.
Valkyrie Profile/Vagrant Story was amazing.
The World Ends with You was amazing
Kingdom Hearts was great.
Dissidia/Duodecim was amazing.

So yes, SE does make great fun games.

Half or more of those game's where ok, not classics, except for xenogears, FFT, FFVI and CC/CT

[Ostia]

Agreed. Unless you're talking about games like Diablo III which is going on 8+ years of development! Also, it's a Blizzard game for those forum goers that think Blizzard is the golden child and can accomplish anything in half the time it is taking SE. News flash: They can't.

They can, they have a much bigger dedicated team and well they do have infinite resources as compared to SE. Also diablo III has not been in development for 8+years, thats like saying SC2 was in development for the last 12 years, wish is not true, they only started development 5-4 yrs ago

[RinL]

Jesus, mid-June...?

Its May, not too much of a wait