Live letter fail

[Sephrick]

Holland, your post is a shining example of why we need more official information on those topics instead of garbage about goobbue mounts and jumping.

3) The game won't be "release standard" in 1.20. It'll be release standard at 2.0 release. Till then it's a work in progress.

"But MMOs are perpetually a work in progress."

XIV is a special case where a publicly humiliated company said "our bad, we'll fix it." 2.0 is that fix.

In the mean time, we're told that as they work on the new, release-quality version of the game, they'll toss us some super special ont-time content -- at the rate of one battle every three months.

So my question stands. Why should I pay to wait for these battles when I could just as well not pay till a month before 2.0 and reap the same rewards as someone who sat on their hands for 11 months?

4) Yoshida has already said they can't make further enhancements along the way. The answer to lag is 2.0. So my question in response is, why develop content that is so affected by it. "Deal with it" is not acceptable.

5) Great, vague general guesses in the dark. That really clears things up. I'd ask you to cite your sources but, oh wait, you just made all of that up.

7) Yes, they are being taken away. Yoshida specifically said the extra inventory slots received in 1.19 are temporary and will be removed. It'd just be nice to know if that meant 1.20 or 2.0.

9) Yeah, yeah. We all know how well SE is at predicting these things when they're three months out. We've yet to have one delivered on the initial target. So I guess I should have been more clear and asked for an update on the progress of 1.20.

10) I've been patient for a year. I was patient when I uttered the phrase "it's only beta, they'll fix it" as I plunked down $70 for my collectors edition. Ive been patient as they've failed to meet their own deadlines. I've had enough of being patient. It's not like I'm expect a year's worth of content right now. I just want them to talk about what they say they're going to talk about when they say they're going to talk about it.

Why does that make me impatient or the bad guy?

We know they're working on 2.0, and that's great. But 1.20 is coming about 13 months sooner than 2.0. The priorities in this live letter were just backwards. Par for the course for SE.

[Holland]

Holland, your post is a shining example of why we need more official information on those topics instead of garbage about goobbue mounts and jumping.

Snip on the rest ;p

I stated that was only my opinion on the matter. I side with SE, believing 1.20 is fit for payment as I log in almost every day for two to three hours. I respect you feel the real fix for FFXIV is 2.0, however what I stated came from the mouth of the producer himself and is the answer you should add to that question: The game is release standard (By what he believes to be the industry standard, weather right on wrong? who knows)

On the jobs, this is definitely speculation, but seeing they will have specific roles in combat, its roots going to the most basic form of Final Fantasy combat, I'd be pretty sure there is no other tank.

On the lag: in one of those recent interviews they showed a lot of concern in regards to the lag EU and NA players are experiencing, hence, the creation of the sticky thread I mentioned, which is to keep alleviating the lag.

On the inventory: they added the extra inventory to our characters because for the moment, they can't implement housing or some NPC that can hold the item, but this was introduced because of the Materia system and recipes overhauls taking place which put a strain on our inventory. The Materia and recipe overhauls are here to stay, so its easy to see the inventory slots will only be removed from out characters and relocated to someplace else.

[Delsus]

Holland, your post is a shining example of why we need more official information on those topics instead of garbage about goobbue mounts and jumping.

3) The game won't be "release standard" in 1.20. It'll be release standard at 2.0 release. Till then it's a work in progress.

"But MMOs are perpetually a work in progress."

XIV is a special case where a publicly humiliated company said "our bad, we'll fix it." 2.0 is that fix.

Someone probably said they need to start getting some money from the game, because it is loosing them so much every month, let me put it to you this way, if there were 10k subscribers at $10/month fee, thats 100k they are loosing every month, then we take into account that the game has been live for 13 months now, thats $1.3m they have now lost, and lets not forget the money to pay staff, they need to get this back.

In the mean time, we're told that as they work on the new, release-quality version of the game, they'll toss us some super special ont-time content -- at the rate of one battle every three months.

So my question stands. Why should I pay to wait for these battles when I could just as well not pay till a month before 2.0 and reap the same rewards as someone who sat on their hands for 11 months?

If it bothers you that much then dont, but I will enjoy my seventh umbral era content and gear that these people will never get.

4) Yoshida has already said they can't make further enhancements along the way. The answer to lag is 2.0. So my question in response is, why develop content that is so affected by it. "Deal with it" is not acceptable.

Ok you can have no new content for 1 year, have fun fighting ifrit and running DH for 1 year and nothing else, personnaly I want the content that will only be available in the 7th umbral era (which is what this next year is mainly about)

5) Great, vague general guesses in the dark. That really clears things up. I'd ask you to cite your sources but, oh wait, you just made all of that up.

They werent vague stabs in the dark, they were from the traditional roles of the jobs, DRG, WAR and MNK are always DDs, while WAR can take damage, but not quite as well as a PLD they are a viable tank for various situations, while DRG and MNK take extremly high damage. PLD is the only tank job out of what they have chosen to use, with WAR in a select few situations, but PLD will always be the best tank. BRD they have always said that it will get a bow, that transforms into a harp, therefore they will beable to do damage with the bow, and support with a harp.

7) Yes, they are being taken away. Yoshida specifically said the extra inventory slots received in 1.19 are temporary and will be removed. It'd just be nice to know if that meant 1.20 or 2.0.

If you read the questions and answers you would know that he said when we move to the 2.0 servers they may use a NPC to hold your items because they may reduce the inventory, this means come 2.0 we may loose some inventory, however all our items will be with a NPC, whether the NPC will be permanant storage or just until we have taken everything transfered has yet to be answered.

9) Yeah, yeah. We all know how well SE is at predicting these things when they're three months out. We've yet to have one delivered on the initial target. So I guess I should have been more clear and asked for an update on the progress of 1.20.

There are always unforseen problems with software, especially games, take these examples in FFXI there was an update which had nothing to do with cures, however all cures did 99,999 damage to undead, how could they forsee that? and because cures werent changed it wasnt tested. From somthing else not gaming related. The Duqu trojan, has been seen to use a previously unknown weakness in Microsoft Word's coding to gain permissions it shouldnt, therefore it can spy on your PC and your anti-malware would not know. Now if all of these were tested as thouroghly as I would expect FFXIV is, they may have seen them but they would take longer to release, You can have a completly broken update ontime if you want, I will take my update a week late and everything work.

10) I've been patient for a year. I was patient when I uttered the phrase "it's only beta, they'll fix it" as I plunked down $70 for my collectors edition. Ive been patient as they've failed to meet their own deadlines. I've had enough of being patient. It's not like I'm expect a year's worth of content right now. I just want them to talk about what they say they're going to talk about when they say they're going to talk about it.

Why does that make me impatient or the bad guy?

This to me just sounds like you are butthurt because they didnt answer what you wanted, you already said you didnt stay up to see it, so why should your questions be answered over the people who did watch it, did you even post the questions, because if not you cant say they didnt answer your questions, they will take the most popular questions, so if say a 2.0 question was asked 300 times, but one of your questions was asked 299 times they would choose the one asked most, and you asking could sway them. If no one asked about 1.20 and 1.21 they wont answer them end of story good bye.

We know they're working on 2.0, and that's great. But 1.20 is coming about 13 months sooner than 2.0. The priorities in this live letter were just backwards. Par for the course for SE.

As I said above they were answered because people are really hyped about 2.0, they want as much info as they can therefore 2.0 questions were asked most by fans its not SE's prioroties that are messed up, its the fan's questions so why not rage at the fans for not answering the almighty Sephrick's (oh look another lame Sephiroth rip off, guess that explains why you cant understand how the live letter works) questions.