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    Xmbei's Avatar
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    On top of all the other responses on this forum. Hey Azur if you think you can do so much better. Let us put you in charge of a worldwide multi-language MMO and see how long it will take for you to collapse under the pressure of the people and the corporation. I bet you wouldn't last a week before you start making posts about "I am sorry I can't give you the info you demand, because we are still in the development stages of said product." or you would just have a nervous breakdown and disappear. Don't bash something if you don't understand what is going on behind the scenes, and when you honestly can't do better. Now maybe you can do better... but seriously until you can prove otherwise you have no room to "toot your horn".

    Edit: On top of all that the "lack of communication"?!?!?! Are you kidding me?!?!?!? We have 200% if not more communication then we ever did under Tanaka's reign on FFXI and FFXIV. It was until people raged so hard on here for a forum, and he was removed from his pet project 2.0, FFXIV, that he went... "oh... damn... I really should listen to the people.... here you go FFXI you have your own forum's now"
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    Azury Ariella
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xmbei View Post
    On top of all the other responses on this forum. Hey Azur if you think you can do so much better. Let us put you in charge of a worldwide multi-language MMO and see how long it will take for you to collapse under the pressure of the people and the corporation. I bet you wouldn't last a week before you start making posts about "I am sorry I can't give you the info you demand, because we are still in the development stages of said product." or you would just have a nervous breakdown and disappear. Don't bash something if you don't understand what is going on behind the scenes, and when you honestly can't do better. Now maybe you can do better... but seriously until you can prove otherwise you have no room to "toot your horn".

    Edit: On top of all that the "lack of communication"?!?!?! Are you kidding me?!?!?!? We have 200% if not more communication then we ever did under Tanaka's reign on FFXI and FFXIV. It was until people raged so hard on here for a forum, and he was removed from his pet project 2.0, FFXIV, that he went... "oh... damn... I really should listen to the people.... here you go FFXI you have your own forum's now"
    I run a successful e-marketing + economic/political consulting firm so I doubt i would break under the pressure and honestly, any marketing firm on this planet should be able to turn this game's PR around in days. That's one of the reasons I post things like this. Like I mentioned. One PR professional and 1 cultural anthropologist would fix all the problems. Instead of releasing info all over the place in multiple languages they could phrase the info in a way making it difficult for people to rage, center debates into single threads, and properly translate things so that they mesh with the culture they are being released for.

    And companies that communicate well do not spawn 100s of speculation threads. If communication was good there would be no speculation because people would be clear on issues. People speculating non stop and saying "they said this" "no they said this" "well they said that but havnt mentioned it since" "they are thinking about it" is clear proof from a PR perspective of incredibly poor communications.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Azurymber View Post
    One PR professional and 1 cultural anthropologist would fix all the problems.
    Maybe Yoshida-san needs more staff to help deal with information dissemination, but I assure you that they are on a fixed budget.

    What you suggest is that they should give more information and a disclaimer on every projected change. I would contend that every single piece of information they provide has an implied disclaimer. It would not solve any problem.

    The fatigue/surplus idea was a really bad mistake. They apologized and demoted Tanaka. There was the PR spin. At least they were wise enough to LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKE and remove the fatigue system. You do have to give them credit though because they tried to deal with the societal problem where people play MMOs for too many hours of their lives. It just didn't work.

    I believe that the problem with FFXIV is that SE does not have direct input from real players when they consider making changes. They come up with ideas among their own employees and programmers, but implementation and actual use often exposes exploits or consequences which were unintentional. It is simply the problem with modifying existing programming code without having enough time or resources to fully test the changes. I would simply tell you that it is probably the resources.

    They are trying to satisfy a very opinionated fan base through these forums. They are obviously listening based on the feedback we read herein.

    Players have the right to state their opinions about games they invest hours playing. For people to challenge them and complain about raging or complaining is not productive and a waste of time.

    Thanks for your concern.

    Quote Originally Posted by Azurymber View Post
    when i played Hello Kitty Online
    lol.

    Nice work on the solo guide BTW. You do need to check out affect vs. effect.
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