Letter from the Producer, XVII (09/01/2011)

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

Believe me: it was ^.^
Looks like they are having problems with shuffling around roles and squeezing Archers into the Bard blueprint after all ^.^

You mean after 1.20. They never out right said jobs coming in 1.20. I wish I could find the post.

Sonic_the_Hedgehog, that's what I've been thinking these past few days after seeing the threads of the person you quoted and thinking the resemblance they have. They may be or not the same person, but is funny still to think about it like that xD

Well I was first to sniff him out as Vesperia, so maybe I'm right again. Of course he didn't make it too hard this time with his stupid username.

EDIT: He's gifthorse, he pretty much admitted it in another thread. I'm 2 for 2 now.

[Royal]

I love this game but there are two lingering issues that bother me the most. Party search and AH.

Party Search
This game is going in a heavy instanced direction for its end game. We can all see the writing on the walls. Unless you have a LS it is impossible to try and find a pug group. SE needs all the help it can get attracting new players and I think this would help.

Auction House
I can't even get a retainer in the market wards at ul'dah to sell anything to even make money. When the materia system is released the economy is going to boom but part of us won't even be able to participate because we can't sell anything.

I'm not trying to bash but we needs these two and I can't even find them on the list unless I glanced over them.

[JackDaniels]

Sorry I'm just curious. Out of all the things wrong with the UI, the most important thing slated for it in the future is the implementation of a UI window containing titles earned from achievements? Umm...

[JackDaniels]

Pop-up help -NEW-
Implementation of pop-up help windows

YAY YAY YAY

[Forbin]

very disheartning that the only end game content that keeps coming up is INSTANCE RAID INSTANCE RAID ADDING ANOTHER INSTANCE RAID..

Please SE don't just do Instances.. Give us Sky, Sea and other great end game events like FFXI had..

[Felis]

Auction House
I can't even get a retainer in the market wards at ul'dah to sell anything to even make money. When the materia system is released the economy is going to boom but part of us won't even be able to participate because we can't sell anything.

There are two more market wards ingame. Nobody use them because the long travel time between the cities (if you don't want use anima). With the airships in 1.19 this should not be the problem anymore.
Now the market wards are like a meeting house with 3 rooms, but all people use only 1 room and complain about the little space ^^

[naaros]

There are two more market wards ingame. Nobody use them because the long travel time between the cities (if you don't want use anima). With the airships in 1.19 this should not be the problem anymore.

I hope you are right. But even in FFXI, for the longest time Jeuno was still the central Auction House that you would sell on because that was the most populated city. Even with airships and chocobos, I'm not sure if this is going to change. It's just way too convenient to gather in one city, so you can get your gear repaired and find groups faster. Granted with airships, it will be much more likely someone will take the time to go check the other city Market Wards than it is now, but still... Honestly, I wish they would just somehow link all the Market Wards together, but... they'd have to completely redesign the actual zones to accommodate more people.

[Royal]

I believe as long as the markets are not linked, there will always been a dominant MW. Why would a person even bother looking at other wards, when Ul'dah always has what they need. They will most likely look in Ul'dah first and then consider checking the other two. Yes airships makes checking Grid/LL easier but it still will be a second choice. This is just my opinion.

[Archadius]

I think the whole "Airship Issue" is a double-edged sword, really. They wanted to add alternate modes of transport, but if the ride took a while, people would rage because "anima is faster". As a result, we get a quick ride but nothing interesting to look at or interact with during the flight. Once the other modes of transport have been fleshed out, they really need to abolish the anima system. There will be a never-ending stream of bitching until it's gone, people will always compare each new mode of transport to the efficiency of anima.

[syntaxlies]

there is a reason they dont have you look from the airship to the ground, have you scene the map.

there is also the possibility that the tops of certain terrain and buildings are not animated.(they had this problem with the last wow expansion, they had to ad graphics to the tops of everything cause of flying mounts)