4.2 Updates from Q&A with Yoshida

[Sebazy]

You can't really blame people for jumping to Gordias difficulty, when raid difficulty is brought to the discussion table. It was Final Coil feedback from a minority of hardcore players that SE listened to, that resulted in the difficulty of Gordias.

Hiya, Gordias' inflated DPS requirements were primarily down to SE's then flawed testing and balancing procedures rather than a deliberate design choice. Yes the goal was to make Savage content more challenging that coil had been in the past, but this was further compounded by mistakes within the dev team, thus leading to quite the double whammy we had with both A3S and A4S.

Yoshida confirmed later on that the testing team had been running the encounters phase by phase rather than as a whole, naturally this aligns and resets cooldowns, inflating DPS significantly. This is something they changed for Midas and it shows, massively.

[Nezerius]

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Not sure if you misread my post, or quoted the wrong post/person.

I wasn't talking about what made Gordias difficult, but why the difficulty of raids were heading in that direction. Yoshi also said they tried to make it more difficult after reading feedback about final coil, and raiders calling it too easy.

[Sebazy]

Probably a better discussion for another thread I think <3

[Alleo]

Like really? Is it that hard?? xD

Its just like, is it one poor guy who got the short straw and has to fix it whenever he got some time free? xD

For me it just feels more like: "We dont really want to introduce this outfit for males ingame and thus we will just give such answers when you will ask us about this..hopefully someday you will forget that you ever wanted it" Its years since people wanted that and yet somehow they still are trying to fit it to other races? While they already talk about adding Alphinauds HW outfit to the cash shop? An outfit that probably needs quite some fitting for all races to look good. But hey they will get real money for that..seems to be a better incentive..

[Nezerius]

For me it just feels more like: "We dont really want to introduce this outfit for males ingame and thus we will just give such answers when you will ask us about this..hopefully someday you will forget that you ever wanted it" Its years since people wanted that and yet somehow they still are trying to fit it to other races? While they already talk about adding Alphinauds HW outfit to the cash shop? An outfit that probably needs quite some fitting for all races to look good. But hey they will get real money for that..seems to be a better incentive..

The difference being that Alphinaud's set has already been designed, and only has to be fitted for the other races.

The male bunny outfit isn't just the female one being applied to males. They've talked about it being a new set.

[New_Game_Plus]

Like really? Is it that hard?? xD

Its just like, is it one poor guy who got the short straw and has to fix it whenever he got some time free? xD

Every time someone asks this question I wanna shoot myself in the foot.

[BillyKaplan]

The male bunny outfit isn't just the female one being applied to males. They've talked about it being a new set.

Which really misses the point of why people were asking for it in the first place, and potentially makes you wonder why, if it's a different design, they still feel so uncomfortable designing it. Makes me hopeful it won't be a nun-suit in comparison to the female variation, but still worrisome.

[jameseoakes]

The difference being that Alphinaud's set has already been designed, and only has to be fitted for the other races.

The male bunny outfit isn't just the female one being applied to males. They've talked about it being a new set.

That they've been promising since before Heavansward

[Nezerius]

Which really misses the point of why people were asking for it in the first place, and potentially makes you wonder why, if it's a different design, they still feel so uncomfortable designing it. Makes me hopeful it won't be a nun-suit in comparison to the female variation, but still worrisome.

They can't just copy paste the female version onto the male model. Sets designed for female characters generally don't work like that. I also don't remember them ever stating to feel uncomfortable designing it, but it likely isn't high on their priority list.

That they've been promising since before Heavansward

We don't know when they started working on the bunny suit, after they had first mentioned about there being plans to design it.

[Alleo]

The difference being that Alphinaud's set has already been designed, and only has to be fitted for the other races.

The male bunny outfit isn't just the female one being applied to males. They've talked about it being a new set.

Yes which they had at least two years to do so I still dont see the argument. So one year creating it for males and one year fitting it on all races is not enough? Especially since we dont even now when we will finally get it. And if they even only started working on it recently...well thats even worse.