What I want

[Delsus]

Thats all nice but,

Keyboard could have been fixed 10 months ago.

Chocobo's and Airships could have taken priority over holiday events and NM's

Zone reforms could have already occurred rather than not considering the delay in transportation

Market Wards continuing improvement would be "delete market wards, insert auction house"

I don't take direction from Famitsu, I thought thats what these developer run forums were for, so where is that on this forum regarding Bard? And with that said, adding Bard shouldn't be a priority when a basic issue like building a group is still "under development"

The reason I am voicing these issues is because the progress to date does not inspire confidence. The developers focus has been misplaced. They need to fix these core game mechanics, not be adding content. You can't build a house without a foundation.

What you seem to forget is most of the new dev team is working with an unfamiliar engine, and work on games takes alot of work and time.

Keyboard I admit could have been fixed along time ago.

The main complaint under Tanaka was there was no content, so no chocobos couldnt have had priority over content, also events, NMs and transport have differant teams working on them.

I believe the zone reforms are going to be quite big, what we had at launch took 5 years to fully develop from concepts to release, so unless you want more copy and paste dont rush them, its an entire graphical overhaul of the zones so it will take time.

Market wards work, most of the community will be happy now if the seperate HQ items from NQ in the search.

Famitsu is a Jappanese magazine and if they have interviews with Yoshi-P then you can take direction from them, if you only look in one place for news you will get at the most of half of it, what famitsu has said has never been discredited by the reps, the one time we had a fake interview posted Bayohne was fast to tell us it was fake, i'm sure the same would happen if we posted things from Famitsu that were inaccurate.

Yes progress is slow, but they are rebuilding a game that took 5 years to develop in a very short time frame, so if the reforms are finished in 1 year its still good progress.

[Kinseykinz]

So in essence you don't want simplified grouping, you want lag, you like being limited by anima, you enjoy leve's which kick immersion in the teeth, you think the current keyboard setup is intuitave, you like sprawling giant zones with cut and paste gfx and no means of rapid transport, you feel the market wards are an efficient timely way to shop and sell, and you enjoy a lack of character direction/value?

Oh and you DONT WANT A BARD?!?!?!?!!?!?

1.I don't tend to lag, so I don't worry about it. Also, I hate RMT's more than lag, but that's me.

2.I group with my linkshell... and HATED looking for a party for hours in ffxi, and actually didn't tend to play with random players anyway. Personal choice, but while a seeking party flag would be nice, it's not super necessary, but yes, that would be helpful.

3.I conserve anima, and since I am one of the mages of which you speak, it i just as annoying to be constantly asked if you can tele someone somewhere just because you had the gaul to walk through down dressed as a Mage.
4. I play with a gamepad, so the keyboard issues don't affect me greatly. (Played FFXI that way too)

5.Yes, I happen to like the zones, especially since I know there will be new maps one day. Also, there are underused parts of each map now. And while yes, there are obvious copy+paste parts of the map, there's also plenty of interesting things on each map that they are slowly making more important via the storyline and quests.
6. I have no trouble finding and selling items in the market wards. The only thing I wish they'd add to the actual markets is a sort not only the item but the quality of said item. (+1,+2,+3)

Bard is coming... so you at least get one of your wishes


My main point was this, if you expect this game to be FFXI-2 then you're going to be disappointed. FFXI is still out there and still has a community of dedicated players who play it. And while it is okay for you to want these things, it is just as okay for others of us to NOT want that.

[captainpicard]

1.I don't tend to lag, so I don't worry about it. Also, I hate RMT's more than lag, but that's me.

2.I group with my linkshell... and HATED looking for a party for hours in ffxi, and actually didn't tend to play with random players anyway. Personal choice, but while a seeking party flag would be nice, it's not super necessary, but yes, that would be helpful.

3.I conserve anima, and since I am one of the mages of which you speak, it i just as annoying to be constantly asked if you can tele someone somewhere just because you had the gaul to walk through down dressed as a Mage.
4. I play with a gamepad, so the keyboard issues don't affect me greatly. (Played FFXI that way too)

5.Yes, I happen to like the zones, especially since I know there will be new maps one day. Also, there are underused parts of each map now. And while yes, there are obvious copy+paste parts of the map, there's also plenty of interesting things on each map that they are slowly making more important via the storyline and quests.
6. I have no trouble finding and selling items in the market wards. The only thing I wish they'd add to the actual markets is a sort not only the item but the quality of said item. (+1,+2,+3)

Bard is coming... so you at least get one of your wishes


My main point was this, if you expect this game to be FFXI-2 then you're going to be disappointed. FFXI is still out there and still has a community of dedicated players who play it. And while it is okay for you to want these things, it is just as okay for others of us to NOT want that.

The "I don't tend to lag" statement doesn't register, because the game has built in lag tied to any menu actions due to the server-side architecture. Move your mouse up and down the menu and watch the bar lag behind, trade items to your retainer and watch the system lag severely.

In FFXI I never looked for a party, I just built them. I enjoyed PUG'ing quite a bit and still do today. Playing solely with a guild or linkshell seems very limiting to me. PUG'ing is a great way to make new friends.

Having played WHM in FFXI, I personally never found people wanting a teleport annoying, again this was a great way to meet people. That said I can see how someone might find it unwelcome. The tele-taxi was a good source of income in the early days of FFXI though, and it made teleports available for all, all the time. Since this game has had a lack of alternative transportation, this could have only been beneficial, and since this game allows anyone to equip most any skill, they could certainly set teleport-spells as equipable by anyone, removing most of the pain you would experience as a mage with teleport in town.

If there will be new maps one day, I have to stop and wonder why they are adding clandestine things to the existing maps. This seems like creating content that is scheduled for deletion which makes no sense whatsoever when your game is floundering.

I never expected the game to be FFXI-2, I expected the developer to improve beyond FFXI. Instead they took many, many steps backwards.

The fact that the races look very similar, only serves to remind me constantly that this could have at minimum been FFXI-2, but instead is some sort of twilight zone FF game where many aesthetics were lifted from FFXI, but everything fun about it was discarded.

I am all for them creating content, events, and so forth, after they fix the obvious things.

[Delsus]

I am all for them creating content, events, and so forth, after they fix the obvious things.

They need to add what they can in the way of content or there will be no one to see them if they slide on content to fix other things.

Also there are differant teams working on differant things eg. theres a battle team that focuses on the battle system, and events team that looks at events, a gear team that looks at how gear will work, a localisation team for translations and text.

Because of this they can work on fixing things, overhauling the basics and add content and events at the same time, like the class balancing mainly needs to wait until the battle system overhaul, but it can be done along side the geographical overhaul or the crafting overhaul, which gets the game up to an acceptable standard faster.

[captainpicard]

They need to add what they can in the way of content or there will be no one to see them if they slide on content to fix other things.

Also there are differant teams working on differant things eg. theres a battle team that focuses on the battle system, and events team that looks at events, a gear team that looks at how gear will work, a localisation team for translations and text.

Because of this they can work on fixing things, overhauling the basics and add content and events at the same time, like the class balancing mainly needs to wait until the battle system overhaul, but it can be done along side the geographical overhaul or the crafting overhaul, which gets the game up to an acceptable standard faster.

Alright then lets put a whole team on Party Creation Tools =)

[Delsus]

Alright then lets put a whole team on Party Creation Tools =)

I expect there is a party team that looks at things like this as well as other party aspects.