Letter from the Producer LXII

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The numbers being smaller is kind of the point. When you increase the number of people in total, you actually increase the number of people contributing to that ratio; So when there wasn't even enough people to keep the lights on in the game, you're not going to get even a fraction of people bothering with the forums of the game.

And yet the forums were quite active. You still only have a fraction of a percent of people playing the game on these forums now. Its literally no different. None of my friends use the forums, just me. Most people don't even visit the lodestone and I swear half don't even know it exists.

[savageink]

And yet the forums were quite active. You still only have a fraction of a percent of people playing the game on these forums now. Its literally no different. None of my friends use the forums, just me. Most people don't even visit the lodestone and I swear half don't even know it exists.

Plus there is the fact that the game sold really well initially, but nobody wanted to stay and subscribe. Squeenix extended the free time a few times but it didn't take.

[enthauptet]

During 1.0, not the recent mess.

Most of what I remember as a non-player for 1.0 was people complaining they couldn't even play the game so I imagine the races were not really that much of a concern compared to poor state of the game itself.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Most of what I remember as a non-player for 1.0 was people complaining they couldn't even play the game so I imagine the races were not really that much of a concern compared to poor state of the game itself.

It had rather high system requirements, but I was able to run it on a laptop with a crappy gt330m lol, albeit at like 15 fps on lowest settings and windowed mode. My desktop handled it ok, nothing super special. Had a core 2 quad from a gateway and a gtx460.

A lot of it was people doing what they do with the current version, running it on complete potatoes (you'd be surprised how many people play this game under minimum required specs with old laptops). Not to say the graphic requirement wasn't insane, it was. Its just a bit overblown. The game it self was functional. It was missing a lot of features, had very little content, but it was functional... the UI tho, was not lol.....

Also, 2.x+ on lowest settings looks far, FAR better than 1.x on lowest. Take a look for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV6n5xAoAjw

[TitaniaZero]

I don't remember the potato that A1 V3 was when I played FFXIV 1.0. I had to set everything to low to just to play, but considering I couldn't play WoW with shadows this wasn't troublesome to me or my family. We were used to not having the power to have shiny graphics.

But ya. I mean, hunt down the ARR end credits. There is a list from A-Z of the players that supported and gave their advice. From 1.2X to 2.0. If that is small then okay, but I can't even go through it, its too long. I think that is a decent amount of people who for the whole life of ARR did not go ape shit crazy over every little thing like this forum does now. I made some many comments on how even keeled and calm the forum goers were through those first two years.

FFXIV's player base before 3.0 maybe even 4.0 was a far nicer, less cruel group. The insults I have seen since 4.0 here on this forum is atrocious, and felt just like the WoW forums. Its really, really sad.

Anyway on topic! I'm was pleasantly surprised at the work of those devs that made the small amount of head gear work. That's like the 110% effort I hear about but never see anywhere.

[Kogasan]

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...

It's also so funny how you say we are talking down to those who don't support the dev's while you go ahead and talk down to us that do support them. I'm proud to be a white knight if that's what you want to call me. But if you don't want to be talked down to you shouldn't be doing it either. Also your just as hypocritical as you claim we are.

[reivaxe]

Wow... White Knights are out in full force in this thread, talking down anyone that don't praise the devs cause of this "Live Letter". And why do you always have to use the word entitlement too? Like you think you're entitled to get what you're getting in the new expansion is funny stuff...

Entitlement is acting as if you're owed something and it's exactly how many people whining about this topic come across.

You pay to play this game, you don't own it or the dev team. This is their game and their vision to do with as they see fit. Now, hearing that the hard working devs behind this game we all play decided to take it upon themselves to work on something for FREE ahead of schedule just to please us when they could have waited to work on it Post 5.0 release as Yoshi planned in their scheduled work hours ... I'd think any reasonable person would applaud that effort and commitment.

[Fawkes]

So when are they going to fix 540 pieces of gear that clip with tails?

[PharisHanasaki]

So when are they going to fix 540 pieces of gear that clip with tails?

"Oh, so they worked on their free time to fix 540 pieces of headgear for the new races?
How about they fix more stuff for me since they still got free time left!"

[Fawkes]

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