Letter from the Producer LXII

[Clifton]

Looking good on all fronts. So excited for the expansion! Thanks for all your hard work, Yoshi-P and the development team.

[enthauptet]

I still think the reasoning behind the new job choices is questionable. If ranged DPS was a priority since it only has 2 roles why did it not get that new job in Stormblood instead of Shadowbringer? Instead we added a 3rd STR melee to make the jobs more unbalanced gear wise? It would have been 3 ranged, 3 melee and 3 casters. So we went from "WE NEED SAMURAI" to "we are using this job because the number is imbalanced" - yeah it's worse now because you made it that way lol.

I feel bad for machinist fans too since it plays nothing like it did in Heavensward. Unfortunately it feels like they are saying "we have no ideas so here is a new ranged job instead."

[dinnertime]

I still think the reasoning behind the new job choices is questionable. If ranged DPS was a priority since it only has 2 roles why did it not get that new job in Stormblood instead of Shadowbringer?

Probably because they didn't want to add another Ranged DPS job two expansions in a row. Before someone says "but Caster did it with RDM and BLU" no, BLU doesn't count.

[LiteBrite]

If you're not gonna support the devs and are unhappy with this game then why do you even play? That's completely unfair to attack or judge those because we support the company. So please if you don't support them or anything they do keep it to yourself and don't get mad at others who do.

Yes... Cause PAYING CUSTOMERS that agree with what the devs do 100% of the time, should be the only ones that allowed to post here. And if I buy a product, it is completely fair to judge the product that they sold to us, that was paid for with MY money. And it's not my fault your bar of video game standards is set insanely low... And saying that people are attacking the devs is kinda hypocritical too, considering the dev's blind defenders attack anyone that dare critise their decisions..

[Kyrausagi]

Yes... Cause PAYING CUSTOMERS that agree with what the devs do 100% of the time, should be the only ones that allowed to post here. And if I buy a product, it is completely fair to judge the product that they sold to us, that was paid for with MY money. And it's not my fault your bar of video game standards is set insanely low... And saying that people are attacking the devs is kinda hypocritical too, considering the dev's blind defenders attack anyone that dare critise their decisions..

If your really that miffed then stop playing....end of story.

[yukiiyuki]

People seems to forget that our player numbers are not that big (~650k) on all servers and the all devs team are all Japanese, they dont have huge international team working on the game. Knowing their culture I'm sure some of them haven't slept in a while, working to bring you the headgears on the new races, while finishing preparations on new expansion.
I really love how on one topic people complaining about devs not bringing them "quality content" and on other saying to new players that they should go play another MMO.
SE will milk this game in this state, this is not Yoshi-P fault that 1.0 was disaster and Squares want their money back, game needs to have at least half of WoW numbers and attention from all over the world so Square Enix will invest more money in this game. If that wont happen, well, we will still have limited jobs, races, limited amount of storage etc. Just look at numbers, Japan region have almost the same amount of players as NA have, EU is basically have half of it.

[LiteBrite]

You've been very entertaining this afternoon, I must thank you.

You've been very condescending this afternoon, I must thank you.

[Skivvy]

You've been very condescending this afternoon, I must thank you.

Anytime o/ I'll be here all day!

[LiteBrite]

Anytime o/ I'll be here all day!

Good to hear! Keep fighting the GOOD fight...

[Berethos]

I'm sorry but I will have to heavily disagree with giving them praise in any regards if they can't even meet the bare minimum of the MMO standard.

You think WoW is manually modifying 10k gear assets when they introduce a new race? The devs that only recently started incorporating 3D elements into gear that for years was just painted on textures that stretches (sometimes horribly so) to fit whatever race was wearing it (most recently chest pieces and legs. and a few years ago it was belts)?

That hasn't gone back and updated the horribly pixelated gear from early in the game's life?

And they manage to not do gear to the same quality level AND lack the consistent cadence this game has.

Or maybe we should consider GW2 who...oh wait, they've never actually added a new race. Oops.

I think you've severely overestimated what other MMOs are doing with their gear model work.