Letter from the Producer LXII

[Alucard135]

You're delusional if you think there enough people like you to support this game. And it's sooo funny how you defenders always use the entitled word per usual. So I guess were just entitled children, while you're just hypocrites...

Oh yes, the game is running on life support and will fall down if the entitled ones stopped playing. I just find it funny you're paying for a service that you don't like what they're doing in it. And I'm proud to be a hypocrite in your book if it means giving credit when it's due.

[Skivvy]

I'd also love to see some proof of this outcry, cuz I certainly don't remember it. I remember people requesting the other genders. I do not remember an outcry. Certainly not like the current ones where the devs are called cowards and homophobes lol.

I was around on the old forums (doubt too many people remember those!) and I don't personally remember a huge outcry either. To be fair, I had tapped out of 1.0 pretty early on, but I did pop on the forums now and then, so it is something I could have missed.

[savageink]

I'm already assuming many people will start to "Appeal to Authority" with their many rebuttals of "Where are your credentials" or "Modeling background" but think about this clearly. If this was the case for WoW or any other MMO that XIV competes with would you be praising them if they said "Oh we'll have a 1/3rd of some visual gear work for this new race by launch"? or would you logically question why a MMO standard isn't being met? Why is FFXIV given a free pass in this regard?

They get a free pass because they told people in advance. End of explanation.

[savageink]

My hype for the Hrothgar has increased. That guy looks so cool!

Actually, yes, he does...I feel an alt coming on. I was all set on actually finishing the levelling process on my other alts, but...but...sob

[Alucard135]

And now we really see it. Lalas are evil.


(well, some of them anyway)

They just got nuked lol.

[savageink]

Then talks about how there's only 2 ranged melee DPS so they feel they are doing good by adding another ignoring the fact that idk theres a ton of DPS!? Who cares if there's only two melee ranged, it's all under an umbrella.

There are alot of us who prefer mobile ranged dps classes. Until Machinist there was only one. And then they added the mage features to Bard so we still only had one until they fixed it. The melee dps classes are decidedly different play styles.

[Jin-]

I mean the people asking for male viera are far greater than female hrothgar. Just by looking at the forums

Those are just extremely loud minorities who do that

[Cidel]

With the exception of the blue mage limited job, there are fifteen jobs—

Thanks for reminding us.

[Esp]

Thanks for reminding us.

/comfort

However, I am impressed by the dedication of the Dev Team. They so didn't need to do that since I know they are probably on crunch time trying to get Shadowbringers out, but they did it anyway.

With so many other horrible stories going on with other companies, seeing something like this just make me glad we have such a awesome team that truly loves what they are doing and are doing it for the fans.


Bravo Dev Team, you guys rock! <3


(Please don't work too hard...)

[savageink]

Imagine if they just said "DPS is broken in FFXIV. We're changing how all of them work. That is all." and then left everyone in the dark for 5 months. There'd be SO much panic and people making posts going "PLEASE DON'T CHANGE [X] SKILL / [Y] CLASS!"

Lol! I think that happened with Bard and Machinist when Stormblood started. Totally grey hotbars on log in are not an exaggeration. They did warn us a little right before the expansion came out. I'd expect the same thing for healers this time.