One to Fifty, One Zone - Long OP

[Bayohne]

Greetings everyone,

I apologize for the delay in getting a comment to you all about this. We are aware it is a hot topic in the forum, but it’s one that is difficult to provide a satisfactory comment on. Firstly, I want to bring attention to the following comment was posted by Yoshida on the Japanese forum back in March:

Hello! This is producer/director Yoshida.

I appreciate you bringing up your concerns in regards to the map.
Just like you, I am keenly aware of the concern, and even though it is going to be a lot of work, we are drawing up plans for a proper rebuild. However, as you have all pointed out already, these fixes are related to the core of the game itself, so it is going to require quite some time.

Therefore, we are also making long-term plans alongside of this to alleviate the current map collision in a step-by-step fashion. This is an answer to the fundamental structure of the maps as well as the specs as a whole, so please note that the level design of a single area as well as other things are included in this.

We brought up the concerns being presented by the community, as well as the comment made above, to Yoshida again today.

In regards to the overall direction, he said that nothing has changed and he is still dedicated and moving forward with the edit work.

Next, in regards to the main focus of this thread, that the game is just a single area filled with monsters of different levels; the necessity to revamp this has not changed and we feel stronger than ever that along with the edits, each area should have its own specific theme.

However, as stated by Yoshida in the comment before, please understand that there is a large amount of work to be done and it will take some time before we can even share the information with you. Once the new designs start to take shape, we will make it our top priority to share them with you.

[Chinook]

Finally !!!

[Nikita]

Greetings everyone,

I apologize for the delay in getting a comment to you all about this. We are aware it is a hot topic in the forum, but it’s one that is difficult to provide a satisfactory comment on. Firstly, I want to bring attention to the following comment was posted by Yoshida on the Japanese forum back in March:



We brought up the concerns being presented by the community, as well as the comment made above, to Yoshida again today.

In regards to the overall direction, he said that nothing has changed and he is still dedicated and moving forward with the edit work.

Next, in regards to the main focus of this thread, that the game is just a single area filled with monsters of different levels; the necessity to revamp this has not changed and we feel stronger than ever that along with the edits, each area should have its own specific theme.

However, as stated by Yoshida in the comment before, please understand that there is a large amount of work to be done and it will take some time before we can even share the information with you. Once the new designs start to take shape, we will make it our top priority to share them with you.

Wooo! Thanks!

[Kiara]

Greetings everyone,

I apologize for the delay in getting a comment to you all about this. We are aware it is a hot topic in the forum, but it’s one that is difficult to provide a satisfactory comment on. Firstly, I want to bring attention to the following comment was posted by Yoshida on the Japanese forum back in March:



We brought up the concerns being presented by the community, as well as the comment made above, to Yoshida again today.

In regards to the overall direction, he said that nothing has changed and he is still dedicated and moving forward with the edit work.

Next, in regards to the main focus of this thread, that the game is just a single area filled with monsters of different levels; the necessity to revamp this has not changed and we feel stronger than ever that along with the edits, each area should have its own specific theme.

However, as stated by Yoshida in the comment before, please understand that there is a large amount of work to be done and it will take some time before we can even share the information with you. Once the new designs start to take shape, we will make it our top priority to share them with you.

Hi Bayohne,

Thanks for the response! Much appreciated, and it's great news that we *are* getting a revamp of areas and monster distribution, with "themes" for each new area.

Siobu and all, we got our Crown.

Can't wait for the rebuild.

[Perrin_Aybarra]

Thanks Bayohne!

We knew this was not an easy thread to reply to and we were ready to wait as long as needed to get an answer. Your answer sums it up and is in line with what we learned from the JP forums. If I may ask for just one specific thing, when you say area will have their own theme do you/Yoshi' mean "area" is like Thanalan - Noscea - Black Shroud or that each sub-area within the thanalan (for exemple) region should each have their own theme?

I think just by answering this you will settle the matter discussed here greatly.

Edit: And also, I think everyone is willing to be patient if it means the world will be rebuilt drastically so no worries about it being a long-term project, we just want some hope to save Eorzea from blandness.

[Evangelus]

woooooooooooooooootttt

[Siobu]

We brought up the concerns being presented by the community, as well as the comment made above, to Yoshida again today.

Everyone's invited! http://seahorror.com/happyparade.jpg

Thank you, Bayohne!

And thank you to EVERYONE who has been supporting this thread for the last 10 days. This thread gives me hope, a unifying voice of the worldwide player base... I hope everyone here can take something from this.

Just a short response for now, as I must quickly make some adjustments to the first post.

[Reinheart]

Everyone's invited! http://seahorror.com/happyparade.jpg

Thank you, Bayohne!

And thank you to EVERYONE who has been supporting this thread for the last 10 days. This thread gives me hope, a unifying voice of the worldwide player base... I hope everyone here can take something from this.

Just a short response for now, as I must quickly make some adjustments to the first post.

LOL you just drew that? lolol that's really good if you just did that right after Bayohne just responded LOL

But this thread finally got the crown it deserves, now hope the devs keep on taking in ideas and improving theirs/ours

[Evangelus]

the very hight best ever reply form Bayohne since the begining of the game !

[Anathiel]

Way to go siobu, well deserved thread recognition.