Dear Yoshi P: What is your vision?

[weeble]

Those are all specific questions, not a vision.

well yeah, they are all things u would normally know b4 u buy a game for most part. do u see the million youtube vids on the upcoming games. we should of know we was in troubles when this game had none. seriously se needs to get on the vids or go homes.

[Rhomagus]

I didnt ask for plans. i asked for a vision, a general overview of plans for the future. Not specific plans about whats coming out in the next patch, but how the general feel of the game will be a year from now.

From a marketing point of view:
Different MMO's appeal to different people
there are the easy-mode jump around ones like WoW
story rich ones
Cute-based ones
serious + story heavy ones
etc

I want to know what this game will feel like in a year so both I and others will know if its the game for us.

What if they changed the entire game to copy hello kitty and made the game pink? Would you keep playing ?
What if they got rid of levels and equipment and made it easy to get everything, would you still think its the mmo for you?

People deserve to know what they are waiting for. Will it be an FFXI-2? Or will it go in a much different direction? Will it become pvp heavy? Raid heavy? will there be more fantasy? More zones? Stronger story?

I want to know what strengths this game will -eventually- have and what will -eventually- set it apart from others.

And i think a lot of other people want to know that as well.

You deserve to know when you start paying for it. Otherwise you don't really deserve anything. You can wait until they announce their "vision" or until they start charging. When they start charging then you'll have the right to "deserve to know".

You shouldn't be forced to pay into something you might not want to invest in and that's why we aren't paying now.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

large group gaming ..even though it was a grind rather then say public quests like in gw2 that is on way, it still big group play just for simple grinds. what would of end game been like then, heck even dungeons if they stuck with 15man. and i don't mean the negative effects but if actually done correctly.

even as we speak, what we gonna get hamlets? what u think they will end up being 16-32man events tops? (no idea by way cause again they still playing this out like every week we need to look an wait to find out instead of releasing what they do know) they took'ith away and the lord'ith want to give'ith back now in a form of some content lol.

it was just easier to picture a better future with even just that then what we have now.

Hamlet battles are coming in 1.21.

well yeah, they are all things u would normally know b4 u buy a game for most part. do u see the million youtube vids on the upcoming games. we should of know we was in troubles when this game had none. seriously se needs to get on the vids or go homes.

IMO they don't need a bunch of videos right now. Because they're in the process of fixing the game, no reason to hype it then have more people buy a broken game. If they did that we would have a lot more people complaining why aren't they going fast enough or what's their vision.

[User201109011315]

Here is an example of Tanaka and his design philosophy:

We don't want to implement instances because we think players in an MMO should play in the same world.

Here is an example of Yoshi P:

Some players like instances and some don't but we hope everyone can enjoy the juicy contents!


edit: I think it's a good idea to implement content for both types of player, but the way yoshi conveys himself makes it look like he has absolutely no idea whatsoever.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

Here is an example of Tanaka and his design philosophy:

We don't want to implement instances because we think players in an MMO should play in the same world.

Here is an example of Yoshi P:

Some players like instances and some don't but we hope everyone can enjoy the juicy contents!

Wow Yoshi-P sounds better. Open world content and instances. The man is a genius.

[weeble]

Hamlet battles are coming in 1.21.



IMO they don't need a bunch of videos right now. Because they're in the process of fixing the game, no reason to hype it then have more people buy a broken game. If they did that we would have a lot more people complaining why aren't they going fast enough or what's their vision.

i didn't mean we need vids right now, i'm saying is we usually know what we buying when we do. but derp all we got now is a year and nother year on way of not being sure what to expect.

[weeble]

personally this is how i see it going, first get as many people to p2p as possible, then it will either go to hell an game will get more and more dumbed down till server shutdown. or it can get good and they kinda make the choice in more difficult or easier content depending on what they see. they probably don't have a vision cause it's whatever will keep them making money. like warhammer, that game launched early too and look at it now just enough subs to keep it going and every 6-12months changes to dumb it down even more. i think we need a expansion ..least in how much content we need added into the game for it to stand a chance now.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

i didn't mean we need vids right now, i'm saying is we usually know what we buying when we do. but derp all we got now is a year and nother year on way of not being sure what to expect.

Well that happens when you're in the process of revamping the game, but yeah when they're finally done with everything they need to promote the hell out of this game. Also Yoshi-P said a patch 1.19 video is coming soon, so that should hype up some of the current players.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

edit: I think it's a good idea to implement content for both types of player, but the way yoshi conveys himself makes it look like he has absolutely no idea whatsoever.

Yeah because you make him sound that way. Here's my example.

Yoshi-P:
Some players like instances and some don't but I want to make a world where no matter your play style there will be something for you to do and there won't be any limitations to that.

[Jynx]

His general game philosiphy from what we can discern from his posts seems very lofty. I'm of the opinion that especially in the MMO world you can't catter to everyone. Someones going to get burned in the end.

If he can pull it off great, I just hope some of the content for the people who don't like instances crops up...eventually.