Liveletter "feedback"?

[Lorielle]

Anyone who's played XI can tell you that PS3 Limitations is such a unbelievable excuse. The PS2 was able to hold inventory space, armor space, macro swapping, and much more. Yet...We somehow cannot increase inventory and armory space because the "PS3 Can't Handle it"? I'm no tech expert, but something doesn't quite add up here.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

If you consider having 6 stats where 4-5 of them are relevant to each class and constant vertical progression with no interesting variation to a formula interesting then sure >_>

There's nothing they can do to itemization to actually make it interesting, imho. Until something besides 'moar dps' matters, it won't matter what stats they add, it'll always be cut and dry.

[Caelum_Dragguell]

There's nothing they can do to itemization to actually make it interesting, imho. Until something besides 'moar dps' matters, it won't matter what stats they add, it'll always be cut and dry.

That I agree with, but I do think there needs to be a change in the game where DPS is no longer all that matters, like a point where having support roles for things like enmity control (y'know make enmity an actual hard thing to deal with) and support heals or buffs is necessary. I don't think the next expansion will have the potential to go full throttle on this but I'd like it if some actual depth was put into the stats of this game. That being said such an overhaul of a game system is a big undertaking, and due to many rumors of a lack of manpower on the FFXIV dev team (which is a crime considering how much money this game makes for the company and how little they put back into it) we can only pray they'll do something eventually.

[Remus]

I have to agree with OP here as someone in EU i stayed up pretty late in hoping that some interesting questions will be answered but nope. I have to say this was the most disappointing live letter i have seen in awhile and I just think they shouldn't have done it. Live letters have been really going down hill recently and i'm not even excited for them anymore.

[madolyn]

As far as housing, it's great and all that flipping houses at a high cost is bad now but I would have preferred to see something along the lines in of separating FC and personal housing and making personal houses one per server per service account. Do some of you really need houses on your "alt?" Lol. Let the flames come.

[Jetstream_Fox]

PS3 isn't that far behind to say the game can't be updated. This is somewhat akin to FFXI and saying PS2 limitations. If everyone actually selected questions akin to gameplay only instead of mounts, housing, etc. RP icons. BALMUNG.. we might actually see some serious replies

What? The PS3 is a decade old and in terms of gaming technology that is ancient. Furthermore considering Sony is doing a PS4.5, FF14 will likely be available on that as well and it will further the gap between the three systems at that point. SE can't continue to refine the game to work on such a old system when the system developers are pushing for more and more powerful systems.

[Khalithar]

I don't mind the live letter that was recent for the first half of it, the ability to instantly report RMT was well worth all the other stuff, that alone is something I have wanted for since I started the game about a year ago. On Mateus I have tells disabled because I will get 10-20 RMT tells in only 1-2 minutes, it makes the entire tell system impossible to use for me. I also enjoyed the preview of the Palace of the Dead, it was a rather enlightening explanation and I appreciated the rather thorough explanation of the system, I'm giving the first half of the letter a solid thumbs up.

What bothered me was the second half which could be summed up as "spend money." It was "buy the cait sith plush for a glamour item, buy tickets to the fanfest for minions and a special outfit of your choice, buy access to the stream for minions on top of getting both the outfits you can choose from," and "get ready to buy the moogle slippers for when it becomes a real item." When they said they had a special announcement I felt that I had to sit through the livestream to see the big deal only to see advertising for things. All of that info could have been on the Lodestone and they could have spent the livestream answering questions or gave us some sort of teaser for new stuff coming up.

I feel as though Yoshida's time shouldn't be spent on him talking about advertisements.

[Theodric]

I have to agree with OP here as someone in EU i stayed up pretty late in hoping that some interesting questions will be answered but nope. I have to say this was the most disappointing live letter i have seen in awhile and I just think they shouldn't have done it. Live letters have been really going down hill recently and i'm not even excited for them anymore.

Sadly this is how I feel as well. When I heard that there was to be a 'big announcement' I assumed we'd be learning something about 3.4 or 4.0. To be fair, the developers are often very tight lipped about future content but I feel like something as big as E3 would be well suited to a major announcement.

[Starkbeaumont]

imo they should just do 1 LL around a month before the next patch and cover everything they are willing to show us. all those other LLs are basically a waste of time by now. they used to be much more entertaining and attention drawing.
Now it's mostly just "oh there was a live letter. let's check reddit and see what's new"

[KarstenS]

As it is right now, except for the relic, everything in the game is practically handed to you on a silver platter, even the absolute best weapons. There's really nothing that takes time and effort.

If you think its that easy, try to get the best weapon quickly (buying the kill doesn't count).

The average raidgroup is spending around 4-6 month for practising the fights, before they get their first raid weapon. And if you have no drop luck, you have to farm it for 8 weeks, before you can buy it with the tokens.