Letter from the Producer, XV (07/27/2011)

[Kopuno]

I <3 you sig -Sorry for off topicness- R.I.P BST ^^^^

[Zenaku]

He had to make a letter just to explain to all the idiot/troll on the forums and what happen? complain how the letter did not give information on anything. Maybe becuase if he release information and it's not out at the patch most of the trolls and people would be attacking like "where the hell is X,Y,Z and where the A,B,C quest huh yoshi-p you said this patch now where is it"

So i guess then say what he going to do he just wait too he have it 100% done pretty much what tanaka does but yoshi-p at least talk a little more. it's sad he had to skip on 1.19 patch letter to explain it to all the trolls.

@LuxLex thats why there removing physical and giving each class an amount of points according with the rank of the class assigned to them. it'll be less points but itll mean more overall per point.

[Loony_BoB]

I've really liked the 1.18 patch so far and I don't think you went overboard, personally. I haven't even tried a huge amount out yet, but battling has definitely been more entertaining. Auto-attack has added to this immensely as it has allowed for us to talk during battle, which has been great.

I'm a tank, and holding hate has been much more easily manageable with the hate meter, but still a challenge, which is what it should be.

My girlfriend is a healer, and she has found it more challenging but has inevitably managed with very little downtime (recharges are quick, too) and we have only died when trying out higher level mobs to see if we can take them. Or when we simply mess up and get too many mobs due to AOE attacs... oops. :s

The people we've played with have been great and clearly DD's are still doing their end. We're all in the mid-20's, rank-wise.

So far, so good. SP is a little low but that didn't stop my gf going up four levels on one mage class with a few levels on the other in the matter of 24 hours of leves and grinding.

Haven't tried the raids yet. We'll see how that goes when the time comes.

I can understand some people will give knee-jerk reactions of the grumpy nature, but give it a week or so before you respond to "overkill" claims as having a knee-jerk reaction of your own would help nobody. Also, there is still a lot to be done with the job system coming in this year, so it would be silly for us to assume that this is the end product. We live in hope for more progress, so keep up the good work!

EDIT: I do agree however with LuxLex's comment regarding implementing the stat reallocation changes at the same time. I really look forward to the day that stat reallocation is a little more simple.

[LuxLex]

@LuxLex thats why there removing physical and giving each class an amount of points according with the rank of the class assigned to them. it'll be less points but itll mean more overall per point.

I know, and I am looking forward to that. It would have been better planning to do so concurrently with these changes in my opinion, but what is done is done.

[Elkwood]

I feel like he said nothing but acknowledge the existence of perceived-issues (and only a handful) without even explaining which side of the fence he stands.

This is an awful letter. Awful. He might as well have said nothing, which incidentally is all he did say. Nothing worth a darn.

Kinda of agree this was a pointless letter, Aside from saying only 280 ppl in total have completed the Boss in Dungeon, and O yeah 1.19 info next week or letter or whatever. Would have liked for him to dive in more regarding our responses to 1.18. The only thing i am not a big fan on is the delay on Auto Attack it seems way to slow. Combat was a much faster pace pre 1.18

[slipmac]

since 1.18 i feel like i have more i need to get done in one day then i can for the first time.
good job xiv team

b4 i would just log on do my leves then log out.
now i spend about 3 hours crafting a few hours for party sp
most the time i dont get around to my leves. maybe 2 or 3 DOL leves on a good day.

anyway the point is i am happy with the dirrection of the game

[Preypacer]

Oh look, gift is complaining.

That's different.

Seriously though...

The letter was pretty short and didn't go very deeply into any topic. It does at least acknowledge that they're paying attention to feedback and, in some context, agree that some things will likely be tweaked (the "overboard" statement).

Interesting bit he dropped about the dungeon. I don't think he's talking about the additional chests.. There's nothing exactly "secret" about those at this point that would need pointing out. I'm gonna guess that there's some other kinda secret or trick in there that people haven't figured out yet. Would be very much in line with a FF game, to be sure.

Although I suppose he could be talking about that "secret" boss that was discovered early on... though I'm sure it's been known that people have already found it.

Interesting.

[Nixius]

Seriously though...

The letter was pretty short and didn't go very deeply into any topic. It does at least acknowledge that they're paying attention to feedback and, in some context, agree that some things will likely be tweaked (the "overboard" statement).

It was a bit of a non-letter, I'd have rather waited an extra day or two and have him actually say what they might address in 1.18a. At any rate, at least he is communicating quickly which is what a lot of people have asked for, more transparency and all.

I am excited to hear about plans for 1.19 now!

[TonyMontana]

Kinda of agree this was a pointless letter, Aside from saying only 280 ppl in total have completed the Boss in Dungeon, and O yeah 1.19 info next week or letter or whatever. Would have liked for him to dive in more regarding our responses to 1.18. The only thing i am not a big fan on is the delay on Auto Attack it seems way to slow. Combat was a much faster pace pre 1.18

Roughly 1% of the population clearing the most cutting edge content in the game in under a week. Thats actually a very high amount. Compare it to wow. If 1% of the 13 million people beat the most cutting edge content in the first week of release(a 25 man heroic dungeon) that would be roughly 5200 groups of 25 people. If wow has say 520 servers that would be 10 group per server. End game content there would never be cleared by so many people in such a short amount of time.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

Complainers gonna complain...

"Oh look! Complainers complaining on letters that tries to subsided the complains!"