Letter from the Producer LXII

[Khalithar]

I'm just going to leave this here because it comes to me every time I hear devs mention things like this. If you know of this game's modding scene, his post becomes especially laughable.

[Dyvid]

Hmm, I hope they are at least focusing on head gear from level 71 to 80 for Viera and Hrothgar. I can understand not going back and update that gear but shouldn't stop them from moving forward.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I'm just going to leave this here because it comes to me every time I hear devs mention things like this. If you know of this game's modding scene, his post becomes especially laughable.

Already been discussed in this thread, you are wrong, the modders routinely say they can't fix certain bits of gear they mod to make them right,frequently break character models and textures. Plus, from the pictures I've seen, most of their work looks flat, like an image basically just laid onto a model. There's no texture, no feel to it.

[Alucard135]

I'm just going to leave this here because it comes to me every time I hear devs mention things like this. If you know of this game's modding scene, his post becomes especially laughable.

I've seen videos of modded works. And some of them can't fix simple stuff in their work and don't know what causes it. Take for example modding armor pieces. The modded armor can't interact with other pieces of armor. So if you had a long sleeve coat, it will just clip with any long sleeve gloves. It won't interact like the armor made by the designers so that both pieces fit harmonically with any other that interacts with it. Another example is those using very long hair mods. You will see the animation moves really bad since it was made from a pony tail or any of the long hairs we have that has very few and short links to move them. So the hair moves like it's a pendulum.

Not to mention also that the majority of the modded works only work on certain races/genders/faces etc. Unlike what the dev team does each time they make a new gear.

[griffinborn]

I too often suspect that too much money from FFXIV goes to other projects, which is... not great.

I've had this notion since FFXV's release. The obvious cut content, the in-game product placement...these are things that show signs of a troubled development. I can't imagine how much money had been wasted. SE is probably using FFXIV profit to recover from FFXV's shortcomings, which is sad.

[Ceasaria]

Every race is actually less valuable the more races you have, because most players only use one or two races. There is a 1/16 chance that new race is going to be the most appealing race. Then, every race also makes every piece of gear more expensive to make, forever, and increases the costs of every skill with a unique animation/emote, cutscene etc (due to QA and development). And the upfront cost per race increases the more emotes/unique skills/armor etc the game has.
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basically, at this point new races are no longer worth how much they cost, that doesnt change no matter how much money i make. Are you going to spend 2x the street value of a car, just because you have a good job when you already have 14 cars? Is that logical?

You can have 14 cars and access them for free, when in FFXIV to play another race you have to pay money (Fantasia).
Normal people and fantasia addict people will for sure allow SE to make great profits once new races will arrive.

[enthauptet]

That's another story. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ My comment was more for those who thinks that "10.000 armor" thing is an exaggeration, while it's not.

There is a huge number of duplicate items as well so it is a bit misleading.

Here's the problem with the number of likes. That number had a sharp increase to 1400 in 4 days. But that number only increased to 1666 in a span of 7 weeks after that initial increase. Where do you think the initial influx came from? It was from those that were watching the live letter and those that were told about the thread after. So the main question becomes "how many actually saw that announcement, heard about the thread and didn't bother to like it?". That's the actual pool size that the number of likes must be compared to. And that number exceeded 48K (that's only if you count the EN and JP twitch views for Tokyo live letter, let alone the number of players that didn't watch it).

If you were now to calculate the percentage of players that posted their like on the mega thread, that's 3.4% only. The reason many thought that 1666 likes is a big number to show profitable demand for SE was because they thought the number of likes was huge but they fell to what's called "non response bias" in their calculations.

And then we have the google poll that was done. That also falls into the same issue of "those that didn't participate in it, already should be counted as neutral". Hence the "non response bias" again. And it also has the issue that some can vote multiple times and even non players can vote. So that skewed the results drastically.

Most players aren't even aware there is a forum and if you believe reddit 90% of people are banned lol.

[Alucard135]

Most players aren't even aware there is a forum and if you believe reddit 90% of people are banned lol.

Those banned can still like a post but not comment (as far as I know). And also, that thread was circulated a lot on reddit and even in game on the first days (which further increases the sample size).

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Those banned can still like a post but not comment (as far as I know). And also, that thread was circulated a lot on reddit and even in game on the first days (which further increases the sample size).

You can't even log in. So you can't like.

[Alucard135]

You can't even log in. So you can't like.

Oh, you can't? Well, that completely ruins the sample then.