Producer live letter 1/12/16, lets discuss.

[Soraki-Muppe]

I am not impressed. A jukebox and a training dummy, and yes I am saying that they both are dev times wasted.

For the jukebox: Most players are listening to music or other things outside the game, and if these are meant to stand in a single spot, how many players will stand next to them in order to listen to the music? And 20-30 new songs per patch? Really? Now I know that those working on those songs might not be able to do anything else in the game, but people will still need to be payed to get this done, that is money which could have gone somewhere else. I predict that most players will ignore this feature, dead on arrival.
The dummy: Seriously, this instead of letting people use a parcer? Seriously? I lack words for how much of a obvious waste of dev time this is. Is this one of the reason we get a mere 2 dungeons and 1 trial this time around again?

This hall of the novice also seems like a waste of dev time, most players are long past that point in the game and those that could use this will most likely not, seeing as they don`t realize it themselves or just don`t care for maxing out their job. Either you know how to move out of an aoe by now or you never will. Either you read what your skills are doing or you don`t. By level60 you will know your main job or you just don`t care. Not everyone is interested in maxing their job, which is fine as long as you don`t raid... or wait is this feature there to turn casuals into raiders? So the hardcore crew will have more to chose from? If that is the case, it will not work, most who stop hardcore raiding does it because they lack the time to do so, or simply want to do other things in their life beside the game, introducing this feature will not change that.

For me this looks like a raider + pvper patch, sprinkled with some features that hardly anyone will bother with using.
Come on SE, do a pull, ask the player base what we want to see in the game, the result might surprise you and might make it possible to avoid wasting time on feature you think people want but that then gets ignored.

[Pluvia]

Honestly I have this feeling it would be better if they listened less to the forums about a lot of things

[MrsFluffyButt]

I'm not excited for the mentor system, bad players will have their egos inflated, believe their gods gift to this game, and then pass unlock that attitude and lack of skill to newcomers. SE, I beg you, tred carefully with this addtion!

[ScarletDawn]

Anima's are gonna stay the same, super duper long grind. I feel sorry for anyone doing more then one.

Seems SE kinda forgot we had multi class systems and seem to think everyone plays just 1 main class, seems they forget with HW....Grind for alts has gone up by a huge margin, why do i need spent 30 days for 1 class weapon why i have 9-10 other classes....

[ToniRomo]

I am not impressed. A jukebox and a training dummy, and yes I am saying that they both are dev times wasted.

For the jukebox: Most players are listening to music or other things outside the game, and if these are meant to stand in a single spot, how many players will stand next to them in order to listen to the music? And 20-30 new songs per patch? Really? Now I know that those working on those songs might not be able to do anything else in the game, but people will still need to be payed to get this done, that is money which could have gone somewhere else. I predict that most players will ignore this feature, dead on arrival.

WoW added a jukebox feature awhile ago. I had a lot of fun going around the world and doing the various things to collect all the sheet music to add songs to my jukebox. If they handle it the same way here I don't think it is wasted content.

[aesteval]

I am not impressed. A jukebox and a training dummy, and yes I am saying that they both are dev times wasted.

For the jukebox: Most players are listening to music or other things outside the game, and if these are meant to stand in a single spot, how many players will stand next to them in order to listen to the music? And 20-30 new songs per patch? Really? Now I know that those working on those songs might not be able to do anything else in the game, but people will still need to be payed to get this done, that is money which could have gone somewhere else. I predict that most players will ignore this feature, dead on arrival.

I can't speak on the part of what most players want or don't want, but I'm personally looking forward to the jukebox. But then I tend to do chunks of crafting at a time in a housing ward and don't like the housing ward music...

Hmm, a portable music player would be good too.

[Warlyx]

WoW added a jukebox feature awhile ago. I had a lot of fun going around the world and doing the various things to collect all the sheet music to add songs to my jukebox. If they handle it the same way here I don't think it is wasted content.

the jukebox was added to garrison and u could choose the whole zone music with it...but wow players do a lot of things in garrisons the most important is AFK :P ,but this jukebox will probably need a house to begin with , be it FC or Personal....and how long u stand there?

[Nuinn]

So Anima is so worthless that they can't be bothered to create any even mildly engaging content for it and just rely on a huge time sink involving old content most of us already find boring as hell.... Lovely.

In other news; Yay for more furniture slots for houses and 512, which seems to be, limited spaces for apartments - for the first 512 people and their alts who manage to purchase them?

[Nalien]

but this jukebox will probably need a house to begin with , be it FC or Personal....and how long u stand there?

We’ve kept you all waiting for quite some time now, but the jukebox-like system, the “Orchestrion,” will be implemented in Patch 3.2. This can be placed in the inn, house, and private chamber, and it will play music if you have the sheet music for it.

It's for everyone, though I guess your point still stands, who the hell spends time in their Inn room? Most have probably forgotten it exists...

Personally though, I spend a lot of time in my house, though even if I didn't I'd still really be looking forward to this, because the music is certainly one of this games high points. Collecting and listening to the music is a big plus point in my books.

In other news; Yay for more furniture slots for houses and 512, which seems to be, limited spaces for apartments - for the first 512 people and their alts who manage to purchase them?

I really don't get why they didn't jump lump this in on Inns... Just give us a bleedin' customizable Inn room that are identical to Private Rooms... We'd have 512*4 (4 Inns) rooms per server, slap the Chocobo Stable for everyone somewhere (there is a whole section of Ishgard that would fit nicely...), and then maybe slap a Free Company Workshop, for Free Companies without a House, somewhere like Mor Dhona. Done. Then everyone has the benefit of Housing. All Housing becomes is a central location for all this stuff, plus the House itself. People without a House still get the Private Room through Inns, they still get the Chocobo Stable, even the Workshop, all Housing does is put all those things in one convenient locations.

[Nuinn]

I really don't get why they didn't jump lump this in on Inns... Just give us a bleedin' customizable Inn room that are identical to Private Rooms... We'd have 512*4 (4 Inns) rooms per server, slap the Chocobo Stable for everyone somewhere (there is a whole section of Ishgard that would fit nicely...), and then maybe slap a Free Company Workshop, for Free Companies without a House, somewhere like Mor Dhona. Done. Then everyone has the benefit of Housing. All Housing becomes is a central location for all this stuff, plus the House itself. People without a House still get the Private Room through Inns, they still get the Chocobo Stable, even the Workshop, all Housing does is put all those things in one convenient locations.

I'm not sure why but I'm guessing it's the same reason we don't have the adventure log, toy box (lol, forgot this existed) and the crazy Elezen stylist bell available for our homes.