Letter from the Producer, XVI (08/15/2011)

[Zoltan]

Give us BST, or give us.....LS / LFP / map marker fixes.

[Delsus]

first off im not raging im stating facts. They said that was there end of summer plan, they did not deliver end of story. I really dont care when they are released, it was my main concern. The job system is a huge chunk of what the summer plans were all about without the end of summer plans are not complete, end of story. I dont know why you cant admit this.
If i had something to do at work and only finished 80% and was like ah, well you know it was more hen i thought my boss would tell me to go f myself.

There had been delays, anyone that works in programming knows this can happen, yes they missed thier targets by not getting the job system in, but when the list was made everyone was saying they would not get half of it done, they have done alot more work than a normal mmo developer to get 1.18 and 1.19 (hopefully) within 2 months of each other, yes they missed thier targets but they have still done alot more work in these 2 months than most mmo developers do in 1 year. 1.19 looks like it will be really good, yes there arent jobs but I dont care because this is a huge patch and there will be enough to do until jobs are ready.

If you would prefer they could release completly broken and incomplete jobs, just so they would meet thier targets, but I would prefer a delay and the jobs to work and be complete before they release it.

[syntaxlies]

There had been delays, anyone that works in programming knows this can happen, yes they missed thier targets by not getting the job system in, but when the list was made everyone was saying they would not get half of it done, they have done alot more work than a normal mmo developer to get 1.18 and 1.19 (hopefully) within 2 months of each other, yes they missed thier targets but they have still done alot more work in these 2 months than most mmo developers do in 1 year. 1.19 looks like it will be really good, yes there arent jobs but I dont care because this is a huge patch and there will be enough to do until jobs are ready.

If you would prefer they could release completly broken and incomplete jobs, just so they would meet thier targets, but I would prefer a delay and the jobs to work and be complete before they release it.

i already said that i dont care that jobs were not implemented. I know they did allot of work and most likely worked their asses off. All im saying is they did not get everything done by the end of summer that they said they would. It seems you are very defensive against me stating the truth when it also seems we both agree on all of the above.

[Sorel]

All im saying is they did not get everything done by the end of summer that they said they would.

OK. Putting jobs aside because that was never included in the summer timeline ... what is the Development Team not getting done that they said they were going to get done ... specifically??

[Holland]

OK. Putting jobs aside because that was never included in the summer timeline ... what is the Development Team not getting done that they said they were going to get done ... specifically??

I have read over the end of summer work twice now. This here is what I would like to know also. Jobs were never included in the "End of summer work" so what are we missing? ....

[Shikyo]

Yes, D&D classes are fine-tuned to be different. Have been since the 70's.

Doesn't mean SE can't try to do something they can call their own, instead of blatantly using someone else's work in your own franchise, even to the point that the people think that they didn't copy anything at all.

No one wants a copy of another game(D&D? O.o when it comes to jobs/classes w/e in the final fantasy universe, the ones I named are pretty much long standing staples of the series, why the fk would they not add them

All the content in the world wouldnt matter to me if I had no urge to play any of the very limited very generic battle classes that are in the game now Magicuser Guywithsword&shield Axeman barehandsdude homeboywithbow.... REALLY? this is the classes that they gave us....

SE seperate the damn classes make each of them use and value its own unique abilities.

Make this anti-social single player mmorpg lmao a real game worth calling a mmorpg because you want to play with others.

What I said makes sense to anyone that plays this game, ppl seem to want to pick sword dude and use skills from every other class get to lvl cap alone and sit in town and craft all day... to me thats not fun.

Grab some friends strategize on who will be what job quipt up and roll out, XI had that down perfectly =/

Jobs are extrememly important now! battle system nice, good ish now some real jobs to use and its a game.....

[Estellios]

Uh... you do know that is what is coming right? Classes getting revamped to be more unique in 1.20 (with a list of their ideas for us to give feedback on coming along with 1.19) and the jobs coming after that specifically for party play.

[Malakhim]

OK. Putting jobs aside because that was never included in the summer timeline ... what is the Development Team not getting done that they said they were going to get done ... specifically??

As far as I can tell, everything they were planning for the end of Summer is there plus new stuff.

[Tsukino]

I like how everyone knows exactly what will be inside Ishgard and what it will be used for despite the developers saying nothing and all we know from NPCs is that they worship Halone and hunt dragons.

[TheVedis]

OK. Putting jobs aside because that was never included in the summer timeline ... what is the Development Team not getting done that they said they were going to get done ... specifically??

nothing is missing

what he thinks is wrong is that 1.20 isnt in summer, when a specific patch number was never mentioned just features they were gonna add