Questions and Feedback on the Future of FINAL FANTASY XIV

[Gunheim]

Thanks for being more transparent with your goals, but, to start charging me for your beta is revolting. I won't bother to log on anymore if it's gonna cost me valuable meal tickets. You will lose a lot of players in an already tiny community come December.

It's funny. I'm not even surprised that the subscriptions are being restarted. I almost expected it even if it's a bad choice. To be real: I'm starting to see SE as a maker of bad choices. You know Stars Wars: The Old Republic releases in December? I will be playing that, Diablo 3, and GW2 until the mythical version 2.0 is functioning. I'm shaking my head right now thinking about how SE is gonna compete with the heavyweights. Did you know GW2 and D3 won't even have monthly fees? All this disappointment and frustration is coming from a longtime FF fan who wants the game to succeed. Imagine what the non-fanboys must think about paying for this game.

Speaking of successful free games, if the plan is to take ideas from other places, learn to make money without charging monthly fees. There are some fine examples to emulate like League of Legends, AoC, or GW.

Take care. See you again! December 2012. Yes, please.

[leomike35]

Thanks for being more transparent with your goals, but, to start charging me for your beta is revolting. I won't bother to log on anymore if it's gonna cost me valuable meal tickets. You will lose a lot of players in an already tiny community come December.

It's funny. I'm not even surprised that the subscriptions are being restarted. I almost expected it even if it's a bad choice. To be real: I'm starting to see SE as a maker of bad choices. You know Stars Wars: The Old Republic releases in December? I will be playing that, Diablo 3, and GW2 until the mythical version 2.0 is functioning. I'm shaking my head right now thinking about how SE is gonna compete with the heavyweights. Did you know GW2 and D3 won't even have monthly fees? All this disappointment and frustration is coming from a longtime FF fan who wants the game to succeed. Imagine what the non-fanboys must think about paying for this game.

Speaking of successful free games, if the plan is to take ideas from other places, learn to make money without charging monthly fees. There are some fine examples to emulate like League of Legends, AoC, or GW.

Take care. See you again! December 2012. Yes, please.

Yeah you're a fan allright. A fan of the games you mentioned you will be playing. Good luck to you good sir.

[Icehunter]

Questions:

1. Will you release an API tool to allow creation of add-ons like Auto-translate and data parsing?
2. Can we have true full-screen with suspended Dirext-X states to utilize crossfire/sli and alt-tab out without crashing?
3. Can we adjust the majority of graphic settings in-game? (like modern games)
4. Can we map ALL key's to whatver we want? Like Alt-0 for slot1/bar1 and Alt-Shift-0 for slot1/bar2?
5. Can we dynamically re-size the window? (like modern games)
6. Will you engineer the game to support DirectX9-11?
7. Will you offer a downloadable ISO for the new version 2.0 as I bought collector's and don't want to have to buy the game again to get the new large installer?
8. Will I have to buy the game again?
9. Can I work for SE?
10. Will we have a public test server so you can send invites to a few hundred/thousand players before each patch to test each one?*

*I ask this because players will think differently than developers. You develop to make the game work in a certain fashion and 8/10 players (especially lazy/hardcore) ones will attempt to circumvent this by finding loopholes. The same way I tried to get out of doing presentations, or the laundry when I was a kid lol.

*We would have uncovered the PL issue before the patch went live, because the first thing we want to do is break whatever has been done so it works for our benefit, not SE's (sad but true fact)