Regarding that Finaland Interview...

[Rokke]

German Media : Glamour restriction seem to be very hard since you can only glamour items of your own class or fellow classes that share the item. Would it be possible in the future for example to have a White Mage being able to glamour parts of Paladin’s gear ?

Yoshida : But then it wouldn’t be a White Mage anymore !

German Media : The community was thinking about just some parts like hands or boots that really fits with the other outfits.

Yoshida : But everybody have their own taste, if there is one person that think that those Paladin’s gloves would fit really good with their White Mage outfit and that’s just one person opinion and some people might think that looks ridiculous.

This question has been asked several times but I feel like no one has elaborated “NOT INCLUDING ARTIFACT GEAR” so we always get the lolololol bUt hOw WiLL PeOplE KnOw WhaT YoU ArE?¿ reply

[LineageRazor]

https://www.finaland.com/?rub=site&page=news&id=6350

Every time I think Yoshida can't be out of touch anymore then he already is, he surprises me with this:

Finaland : Yes but for example if I take a break from the game for two months, and my subscription is not active, I can’t log-in to do that and will lose my house.


Yoshida : If you had an appartement you wouldn’t even had to log-in !

Trouble is, this is the wrong question to ask. The real answer, which Yoshi P is polite enough not to say, is, "You're not paying us now, and you may never pay us again! Why should we reserve resources for you that are in hot demand by other players?"

The correct question to ask should have been, "I still have a subscription, but am unable to play the game for two months or more due to injury, sickness, or military deployment. Because of this, I can't log in and will lose my house! Why would you treat your loyal, paying customers this way?"

Of course, Yoshi P might give the same answer, but he'd look like more of a douche if he did.

[SenorPatty]

Trouble is, this is the wrong question to ask. The real answer, which Yoshi P is polite enough not to say, is, "You're not paying us now, and you may never pay us again! Why should we reserve resources for you that are in hot demand by other players?"

The correct question to ask should have been, "I still have a subscription, but am unable to play the game for two months or more due to injury, sickness, or military deployment. Because of this, I can't log in and will lose my house! Why would you treat your loyal, paying customers this way?"

Of course, Yoshi P might give the same answer, but he'd look like more of a douche if he did.

Agreed. I'm glad the hard questions are being asked live. Now we just have to word them correctly to paint him in a corner.

[Vahlnir]

Agreed. I'm glad the hard questions are being asked live. Now we just have to word them correctly to paint him in a corner.

We need people to ask the hard questions in this manner, but what will likely happen is this:

"Paissa glamour when?!"

-random Fanfest goer

[SenorPatty]

We need people to ask the hard questions in this manner, but what will likely happen is this:

"Paissa glamour when?!"

-random Fanfest goer

"We are working extra hard to bring them"

"Oh sweet. Thanks"

...to the mogstation for 12$

"Sorry, what was that?"

"I said please look forward to it."

"Oh ok"

[Vahlnir]

"We are working extra hard to bring them"

"Oh sweet. Thanks"

...to the mogstation for 12$

"Sorry, what was that?"

"I said please look forward to it."

"Oh ok"

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

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I'm not arguing in favour of him, but his side-stepping is more for the share-holders than for you. He simply doesn't want to say "Our current system can't support such a feature due to how its coded." in any Q&A, as that'd look bad.

With how the current system operates, it's pretty obvious whether a piece can be glamoured or not is intrinsically linked to what roles can equip that piece as actual gear; the coding more than likely uses the roles as the glamour check. They'd more than likely have to design an entirely new system to handle it, or re-do the entire current system to support a equipment/glamour dual system, which obviously they'd probably only do on a major expansion, if at all. So rather than sound negative, he simply gives fluff responses to side-step the issue for another few months.

[Noodle_Trinidad]

German Media : Since A Realm Reborn, the end game pattern haven’t a lot : Farming tomestones, four high level raid and alliance raids, is there any plan to break this pattern and doing something new or are you going to continue to follow it ?

Yoshida : Currently we have added the even higher end, the Ultimate raids, but beyond that we still haven’t considered anything yet. However for the Disciples for the Hand and the Land, we are thinking of some new type of end content for those classes, but we can’t tell you anything about that yet.

To me this is the worst part of the interview, the overall feel from all the communities so far has implied that the majority is bored with a predictable patch cycle. The fact that he has not even considered that for 5.0 really makes me question what the next expansion will even do to evolve this game if anything.

[Mimilu]

Damn. There go my chances of glamouring healer/caster robes as a tank.

...Can't you do that with most of ARR's healer/caster robes though? >w>

[SenorPatty]

German Media : Since A Realm Reborn, the end game pattern haven’t a lot : Farming tomestones, four high level raid and alliance raids, is there any plan to break this pattern and doing something new or are you going to continue to follow it ?

Yoshida : Currently we have added the even higher end, the Ultimate raids, but beyond that we still haven’t considered anything yet. However for the Disciples for the Hand and the Land, we are thinking of some new type of end content for those classes, but we can’t tell you anything about that yet.

To me this is the worst part of the interview, the overall feel from all the communities so far has implied that the majority is bored with a predictable patch cycle. The fact that he has not even considered that for 5.0 really makes me question what the next expansion will even do to evolve this game if anything.

Right now, it just seems like you can look forward to the story and some QoL, which is great if that's what interests you the most and not so great if you want more than a new chapter in msq.

And yes, I'm aware of unconfirmed new jobs + race but let's be realistic, that's the sort of novelty in this current climate that starts fading away in about six months time.