EU Live Letter

[SilkaN]

Or they can prioritize adding in new content that players will be able to go back to frequently, rather than something that most players will look at maybe once?

You do realize that there are a lot of people buying several fantasias per month, right?
Adding more customization would give players even more incentives to buy them and that means more $$$ €€€ for SE.

[Anyan]

If they don't have the competence/time/man power etc to add more sliders then whatever. I think most of us can deal with that. However! Are they seriously not going to give us more options when it comes to things like eye shape, noses or mouths? Nothing? Not only does it severely disappoint me, I find it baffling that they're so dismissive and chill about keeping such a poor character creation in a modern MMO.

[Zojha]

Despite stellar aesthetics, FFXIV has a shallow CC.

I personally sooomewhat appreciate that actually.

When I had modded my skyrim to the point I could shape and resize each of my earlobes separately with a slider, I just got lost in the options and never actually got to play the game because just making the character "perfect" would take up all my time.
And similar happens in most modern MMOs that throw sliders and stuff at you. I have 40 hours playtime in perfect world and I don't even know what the starter zone looks like because I never got that far >_>

Here I just live with imperfections because I can't change them anyway. The only thing I'm regularly in danger of changing is my skin or eye color, but for just one shade change, that's just a taaaad too much money.

[RukiaFae]

What are we getting really though? The little information we have is not that amazing compared to what the did for Heavensward. They can't tell us anything about battle changes except we are moving some jobs around and combining some. A serve up grade and bigger invetory. This was needed two years ago when Heavensward came out. We are getting more zones. Well we know they will most likely be empty in the first few months. A 24 man dungeon and trials. We always get this. Two new jobs. Both are DPS because they don't know what to do with healers or tanks. Heck we have a new housing ward we can't touch when the expansion drop, even though we were suppose to get one in Heavenward. People are not just unhappy about what we are not getting, people are not thrilled about the lackluster stuff we are getting. Even SE knows they are not delivering for this expansion, why do you think it took them 3 fanfest to give this little information. They could have said some this in the beginning but no they waited until the last fan fest to say only 2 jobs, no character customizations, no you can't buy houses at release. We could have gotten the whole trailer at the earlier fan fest because it had nothing to do with the story. They could have released Samurai first and Red Mage second. They didn't because they used it make people excited. They made it seem like they had all this hidden information. That was all a marketing ploy. Now things might change when we get more information but compared to the Heavensward fan fest things are lacking this time around. They set bar high and now they don't appear to be doing the same. The main people who are excited are ones getting their dream job. That is understandable because they have been waiting for them. I'm only looking forward to the story at this point. I hope my feelings for the game changes but I'm not excited.

[Anarnee]

You do realize that there are a lot of people buying several fantasias per month, right?
Adding more customization would give players even more incentives to buy them and that means more $$$ €€€ for SE.

I wonder what % of the player base is that fickle that they have to change that often. I love character creating, I have a ton of alts, but over all the only thing that I feel the need to change occasionally is hair and make up.
I would very much like more face paint slots BUT in no way do I think that the character creation should over shadow the actual content of the game.
Granted, the info we've gotten on other new stuff has been a little skimpy. The world seems super expansive, I hope the battle content will be as meaty.

[Reyll]

They made it seem like they had all this hidden information. That was all a marketing ploy. Now things might change when we get more information but compared to the Heavensward fan fest things are lacking this time around. They set bar high and now they don't appear to be doing the same. The main people who are excited are ones getting their dream job. That is understandable because they have been waiting for them. I'm only looking forward to the story at this point. I hope my feelings for the game changes but I'm not excited.

This. This person understands what is going on. Well said. They are really going to see sub numbers suffer in this upcoming expansion unless Square decides to stop pocketing our money and give Yoshi the staff and servers he needs to make this game great to make it grow. Hearing all these 'no' answers at Live Letter and seeing what little stuff we are getting isn't doing much for my hope levels.

[ZhaneX]

We are getting more zones. Well we know they will most likely be empty in the first few months.

You're deliberately underplaying what in fact looks to be a massive amount of content to better fit your belief that not having been shown everything immediately means that there's nothing to be shown.

[Riardon]

@RukiaFae I couldn't agree more with what you said. It was underwhelming. They raised the bar and now they passed underneath it. I'm looking forward on exploring the new areas and story but beside that I saw nothing so much exciting. New areas/dungeons and jobs are to be expected. And even for the jobs we got less this time and no healer or tank. I'm also afraid that the new areas won't be as large as they seem on the map. They already said 50% will be in Ala Mhigo and 50% in Othard. I suspect the new maps will be HW sized at best I hope I'm wrong though.

[Aerish]

I wonder what % of the player base is that fickle that they have to change that often. I love character creating, I have a ton of alts, but over all the only thing that I feel the need to change occasionally is hair and make up.
I would very much like more face paint slots BUT in no way do I think that the character creation should over shadow the actual content of the game.
Granted, the info we've gotten on other new stuff has been a little skimpy. The world seems super expansive, I hope the battle content will be as meaty.

Persons with alot of creativity and manys tastes

[RukiaFae]

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No I'm basing it off of the trend. Everyone ends up the Mor Donna Hub of the new expansion. The over world is lacking and has been. We thought we would enjoy the new zones in Heavensward but we didn't because there was nothing to do there once you could fly. I'm being realistic. I said this could change when we get more information, did I not? They could have announced, hey we have these ideas planned for content in zones but they didn't say anything. They know zones are empty after the first few months. We can only go from information we have which is nothing. If they don't change the formula, the zones will be mostly empty based off of the game's and player's pattern. I love how some areas look in the game but honestly after you complete the quests theres no reason to go back except gathering or fates for limited time events. I'm hoping they prove me wrong. I'm not saying, I'm not going to buy the expansion because I know I probably will. I'm saying I'm not impressed and that's my opinion.