Okay, big changes take time. However.

[viion]

No, no you dont know, a screenshot is just a picture and might not be the final version, unless you work on SE's art team you dont know.

When people take screenshots last year and absolute nothing has changed from SE's little crappy sceneshots its time to realise. Nothing has changed with anything. Buffalo was identical on release as it was back in Alpha, those little scorpions the same thing, same then same now, Its like they just flicked the light switch.

So through this continuing streak of just holding back content for the sake of it so they can release it later and everyone thinks they've worked hard on new content when really they're just giving you access to what you already had, i am going to judge it will not change anytime soon.

Soon when this event repeats itself Alcide will unleash!

[Picoman]

Joe I think you're misunderstanding it.

You dont need a battle system to make a 3D Model or do some Texturing. Infact I could go do it now without touching a battle system/game mechanic at all.

And that is the flaw, honestly even if we kept having art images of content to come but cant be finalised until after battle changes would make people happy. Screen shots of new items made, we dont need stupid stats info we just want to see how it looks.

When the producer release the 2 art images, did he require the whole new battle system to be fininshed so he could show us 2 jpg images? ...... that is all we are asking for.

And even so, they have implemented some gear without the battle system finished and they are going to do it again come dungeons, new gear be added and the battle system will not be finished and stats need to be redone. So this whole "cant be done until battle system is done" is complete nonsense.

SE just dont have anyone working on that stuff, its obvious and the only explanation. Probably working on other games and will call them in later.

I think it is more that Yoshi-P doesnt want to release any new stuff under this old battle system due to the fact that it would be new content with a crappy system.

I do think that there has to be a landslide of content after battle fix. I would be sad if i had to wait another year for cap increase and new zones.

[Loki]

I agree with the fact that certain elements don't need the new BS like housing, customization, spells, skills, reciepes, LS management etc

Most of players just quit or don't log in anymore, waiting updates, towns are empty (except Uldah) that's sux, so why they don't add things which don't use this BS, it's complicated...

I was comparing official websites of diffrent MMOs, ff14 ones hasn't changed since long time >.< not really attractiv.

[Huh]

I still can't believe most races are limited to 4 hairstyles to choose from. :[

[Seif]

I still can't believe most races are limited to 4 hairstyles to choose from. :[

I agree and let's just for argument's sake say I'm wrong. The art team is working on a boatload of content. (no I can't say that with a straight face I'm sorry!=D )

So making a bunch of hairstyles to be available to us that were promised before the game even was launched. That would take 5 days from one 3d guy. (note; I'm being extremely lenient considering how easy those are to make)

Would that really derail their long term goals that much?

Sure we all want great content as fast as possible but I think some content would be better while waiting for the big stuff and honestly hair is important in a game like this where the character creation tools are so limited.

Hair also has a lot of symbolic value because it was promised a LONG time ago and ended up as just another pipe dream. They stressed several times that following through with the promises is important but they've yet to deliver anything of significance that was promised by the current or previous dev team.

Regaining the player trust back is important for SE but so far I've seen only a lot of talking and not a lot of changes to back it up.

[Alcide]

Soon when this event repeats itself Alcide will unleash!

Oh oh oh I'm gonna be the best NM of the whole 1.18
And I want a bunch of trolls as adds... uhm but maybe designing them would be too much effort :/ I guess i have to settle for a couple of kobolds.

[Colino]

Oh oh oh I'm gonna be the best NM of the whole 1.18
And I want a bunch of trolls as adds... uhm but maybe designing them would be too much effort :/ I guess i have to settle for a couple of kobolds.

I sure hope you drop a re-skin of some lance I already have with slightly better stats that don't matter because the damage calculation is still based on rank and not gear

[Dreamer]

I sure hope you drop a re-skin of some lance I already have with slightly better stats that don't matter because the damage calculation is still based on rank and not gear

He drops a stoker that increases enmity...

[northernsky]

Ok so we just assume that every patch is a kind of reset, i-e every bit of work that has been achieved since last patch is delivered?

I'm not saying it's not the case, I have no idea, but I sure hope that there are some unrelated work in progress on the longer term even when they are working on a specific patch, like expansions, new zones, character style etc.

[Alexis_Arteme]

Thanks for all the input and commentary. I get so incredibly tired of the limited options on how a character can look, so I suppose that's my "hidden agenda". WoW's been around for many years and they've still ever managed to model a new dragon, even for a major boss in the game, so obviously modelling for an MMO is the hardest thing ever. The best they could do for hairstyles is swap them around with other races.

What I'm trying to say is, if I could at least look and feel like an actual Final Fantasy character as opposed to "generic fantasy adventure X" which this game clearly is, I'd be a lot more patient with their changes. And I feel that is something that could be done while we're waiting on all these "important" patches, since they have nothing to do with the battle system.

But as I've read earlier, lord knows there's probably 10 people left working on this thing, while we're all picturing an entire building full of top-notch programmers and artists.