Thoughts on the new Letter from the Producer? (May 20)

[Rentahamster]

Just keep your expectations low for the time being.

This would be the safest thing to do.

[LateReg]

I really, really hope they're not pulling their classic SE bull of messing with words to keep themselves off the hook.

"Up until summer", in English, means that all of that will be implemented by the start of summertime, June 21st.

Why can they not just be crystal clear for once? It's like they border on lying with half the stuff they say.

[Grundy]

Summer in Scotland is the one week in July it doesn't rain.

[Captaindownsyndrome]

-NEW-
Addition of frontier hubs -NEW-
Addition of hubs to remote areas -NEW-
Ongoing consideration for the addition of further hubs
Balancing of enemy attributes Changes to enemy attributes and drops Ongoing balancing as necessary
-NEW-
Strengthening of beast tribes -NEW-
Distribution of roaming and quest-specific beastmen
-NEW-
Diversification of monster types in existing species Further implementation in line with new quests
-NEW-
Addition of beast tribe settlements -NEW-
Ongoing addition of beast tribe settlements
-NEW-
Development of beastman strongholds and assets -NEW-
Implementation of beastman strongholds

so does this mean im not going be just killing wild life now.

[Elexia]

JUMP IMPLEMENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED AS LOWER PRIORITY


THIS SUCK!! END OF FINAL FANTASY XIV

Good, maybe you'll go elsewhere then. Plenty of games have Jump implemented that's currently released.

[Elexia]

I am still disappointed that there is no mention of player housing, a mailbox system, Auction House, gardening, or mining being avalible in the mines.

AH is unneeded. Player housing is unneeded though expect it to be like Mog Houses if anything. Mailbox system is unneeded as they already mentioned a delivery system will be coming.

Also, for people who are wondering about the "until summer 2011"...

He said he bolded it for emphasis for a reason.

[Heaven]

Linkshell controls?

I'm really hopping they simply forgot to mention it. We need to be able
to remove inactive members.

Like others have said it's not listed on the task chart or in dev tags.

[Elexia]

It's an interface (UI) thing so it's something they can easily change. They never put dev tags for "3D Party text" and it was implemented. If they're smart they'll use XI's Linkshell system as a base and improve it from there. In XI I can boot people, I don't have to see people who no longer play filling up the list and therefore eventually have to REMAKE an entire linkshell just to get rid of them.

[Onidemon]

Well if they pull off everything in that list, we will all get the game we all expected to get when it was released. These are amazing changes and I'm glad to see that the Devs really listened to the community.

Now let's just hope the new job system, abilities and all combat and character progression stuff is done right.

Good Job Yoshi-P!

[northernsky]

Hmm, I keep reading this part over and over:



and a part of me is interpreting this as he's planning on having all of the stuff listed or most of it done BY summer.

Sure sounds like it, but I read the French version and it's poorly translated and even more vague, so my guess is that it's just a translation artifact and that it's until the end of the summer. If not, why not simply stating "to be implemented in patch 1.18" which is planned for mid june?