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

[Etienn]

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.

Calm down and do not get your panties in a bunch, at least he wasted his precious time, (which he could have used on something productive) to respond to your ungrateful attitude, as was said by him we are only human. At least they do not need updates after maintenance like xi usually did; for the messed up stuff they usually did/do, after they screw up an update.

Summer event early August yay

Only thing that I was excited about in this letter.

[Dekken]

Thank you very much for this letter.

I would be very grateful if you acknowledged how overboard your development team went in increasing the MP cost of cures. Although some increase was to be expected, you have made it so I either

a) Can't solo my mages at all
b) have to change all of my stats so I am useless at everything but mage

I always played with fairly balanced stats because I like to play CON, THM, ALC, CUL, and FSH. This means I don't have a large MP pool. Having to take all my points out of Dex so I can manage to play mages really sucks, cause I also like fishing.

I realize that changes to point assignments are coming, but I am very saddened that your development team went ahead with changes which make it impossible for me to enjoy all of my classes, before fixing stat point assignment. Now I can only play 1 or 2 jobs effectively.

If you're dead set on not revisiting the MP changes, please consider increasing the MP restored by ethers and/or removing the medicated effect delay. 50 MP is nothing when cures cost so much. You could make this change into a good thing for alchemists (which like all crafting classes could use some more love) by making ethers less useless.

Similarly, please add refresh food like the "yagudo drink" and food that enlarges our MP pools significantly - this would, again, make it more reasonable to solo play on MP using classes without sacrificing the stats I use for every other class, while making culinarian (which is perhaps the biggest loljob in XIV) more beneficial to other players.

I appreciate the time you took to communicate with us and I hope you are serious about listening to player feedback.

I agree entirely with you on Items like Ethers being more potent now that MP consumption has increased. I used an Ether the other day and went "Awww."

[Drazzan]

I don't see the issue with people and MP...

Looking over my skills I realised there was a handful I'd never used due to the
endless supply of MP I once had. Now; I look at Stygian Spikes, Damnation, Spirit Bind.
I'm not 50,I have about 900 mp (40 MND). Combine that with Exaltation once every 10 minutes,
and Siphon MP every minute; MP is really not an issue in a solo situation.

In a boss whereyou are the only healer, you have to manage your healing, buffs and debuffs.
Which is GOOD; no more spamming, no more mindlessly not paying attention to your actions.
Game is easy mode; people complain.
Game is hard and balanced; people complain.
Just.Deal.With.It.

This patch /IS NOT A BAD THING/

[Noir]

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.

Agreed. And as expected he sided with his changes and the 30% of the player base. Just because some retards with a Zerg of 15 ppl in a party say that the game is easy and don't require strategy, doesn't mean that the rest 70% agree. It takes more strategy to handle a solo /duo, fight with a nm than 15 ppl button mashing and spamming. Keep ignoring one huge side of your player base yoshi and then when it's too late, grab your hat and leave.

[Jabo]

The letters was about that people should comment more ON THE GAME and here you are, writing 12 sites of comments on the latter itself. Seriously...

The only thing you people will accomplish is that he stops writing latters at all, unless it has everything everyone wants to hear in it.
I most certainly would stop caring/writing, if people would complain because i show them that I care about their thoughts.

[Etienn]

I don't see the issue with people and MP...

Looking over my skills I realised there was a handful I'd never used due to the
endless supply of MP I once had. Now; I look at Stygian Spikes, Damnation, Spirit Bind.
I'm not 50,I have about 900 mp (40 MND). Combine that with Exaltation once every 10 minutes,
and Siphon MP every minute; MP is really not an issue in a solo situation.

In a boss whereyou are the only healer, you have to manage your healing, buffs and debuffs.
Which is GOOD; no more spamming, no more mindlessly not paying attention to your actions.
Game is easy mode; people complain.
Game is hard and balanced; people complain.
Just.Deal.With.It.

This patch /IS NOT A BAD THING/

Yeah now you use all those when solo or partied up also? if you pull hate you get mp back from damage, isn't it nice ?

[Rentahamster]

No Yoshi-P, you didn't go overboard. Keep the good stuff coming.

[Etienn]

Agreed. And as expected he sided with his changes and the 30% of the player base. Just because some retards with a Zerg of 15 ppl in a party say that the game is easy and don't require strategy, doesn't mean that the rest 70% agree. It takes more strategy to handle a solo /duo, fight with a nm than 15 ppl button mashing and spamming. Keep ignoring one huge side of your player base yoshi and then when it's too late, grab your hat and leave.

Q_Q? Since when was it a written known rule that A letter From The Producer had to have content in it suited to your needs on what needed to be fixed, though he did hint (if you read between the lines) that he should not have wasted a letter responded to you ungrateful babies.

[Synfrag]

If only we all were that easily appeased lol.

I said "Irritating" not the only thing I don't like about the entire game. Maybe I should have said frustrating instead.

[Reika]

I said "Irritating" not the only thing I don't like about the entire game. Maybe I should have said frustrating instead.

And that is how a lot of people are writing things here, like they have only one issue while no others exist.