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

[TheVedis]

The most important thing to take from this letter

All of this should be coming by the end of summer(im believe summer officialy ends around september)
and ALOT of it should be coming in 1.18(such as the dungeons) and i bet 1.19 will have ifrit and the job system


also ignore the trolls guys, eva never has anything good to say, one of those chronicaly life hating people who needs therapy

[Onidemon]

Wow, are you a detective?

All sarcasm aside, as you probably don't get it..

You know this isn't a flash game.. right?

I'm sure she meant SE making a flash game for FB and iphone ver of FFXIV's crafting. As stupid as you may think it sounds it could actually work well. Especially if it's somehow linked to the PC & PS3 game.

An IPhone app that let's you browse your inventory and let's you craft some special or bonus items that you can then pick up in-game.

I'm not sure which game it was but i think it was Skies of Arcadia on Dreamcast that you could use the VMU(memorycard/mini gaming console) to play a mini game and receive items in game from it.

If i were SE this is what i would do for sure.

[Anathiel]

I'm realy happy with the changes being implemented, and noticing its only til summer, I'm hoping the next letter froom the producer touches briefly on the post summer updates.

[Evangela]

Lol ArcheAge beta in 4 days with over ten zones, 3 different species of customisable mounts, player housing, players cities, PvP, sieges, ability to grow your own crops, jump, climb, swim, hop, skip, dance, airships, naval combat...

and SE sits their trying to figure out if they should implement jump or not.

Just freaking implement something.

the truth!

[Scherwiz]

Why are people freaking out about jumping? The only fun thing about jumping, is jumping off of mountains and that breaks my already probably broken weapon -_-!

[Maat]

BEST LETTER THUS FAR YOSHI P YOU RULE! ... I agree with all the changes great news.

[Sephr]

Rewarding Effort And Innovation sounds awesome. Give us some tools to experiment outside the box with.:P

Why yes, like abilities that can be transferred from one class to another, and personally allotable skill p- HEY WAIT!

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

There are still some naysayers out there, but I think, overall, the reception of this letter is fairly positive. I think we are finally starting to see some payoff from the extended planning and development phases of the newer Dev team and people are starting to get excited again. I see a lot of new names on the forums from people coming back to check on the state of the game.

[Kailok]

I think it's hilarious how people..sorry, trolls, continue to say they "don't care about this game", but they're obviously keeping tabs on it. If I don't feel hopeful for a game, then I don't keep tabs on it. If I don't play a game anymore, I don't keep tabs on it. If I think a game is a "festering pile of crap", I'll stop playing, and then NOT keep tabs on it. You obviously care about the game, so stop acting like you don't, otherwise you wouldn't be bothered by thinking it is vague.

I, however, think this was the best LftP thus far. Also, I honestly think MOST of this stuff will be out before summer. He put "UNTIL SUMMER 2011" in bold twice for emphasis for a reason. What else have they been doing these last 5 months? These are changes that should already be done by now. I'm not saying they're going slow, just saying this is just the fruits of what we've been waiting for all along. The reason they are saying "looking into" most things is probably because they don't want to make anything definite before they release the patch notes, otherwise people go "OMG BUT YOU SAID THIIIIIIIIIS".

All that being said, I'm not going to get overly excited until I see some patch notes and know what he really meant, or until a Community Rep replies to confirm the timing.

[Elexia]

Why yes, like abilities that can be transferred from one class to another, and personally allotable skill p- HEY WAIT!

This system didn't fully work out as planned though.