Letter from the Producer, XXIII (01/23/2012)

[Rizon]

The pettiness of people in these forums continues to amaze me. This was clearly a "Touch Base" post intended to show that they have not forgotten us with the start of the new year. I see no problem with that and, in fact, I am glad for it.
As far as supplying information is concerned I keep track of the Community Reps postings. More and more over the last 6 months we have been getting information from the individule developement groups through the Reps. Even Yoshi-P is using the forums more then long posts to update us. I would expect this to increase as time goes on. Up until the holiday break there was always a couple of posts a week from them with new information. As we get closer to the release of Ver 2.0 and the workload increases informational Letters from the Producer will be more like the upcomming update to changes for Ver 1.21 and progress reports on the developements for Ver 2.0. The individual developement groups will be providing us with information concerning the current game.
As for those of you who decided to use this post to rail against Ver 1.20b it did exactly what the letter patches were designed to do, implement things that were not ready in time for the main patch and to fix problems that were discovered as a result of the patch
This letter did offer 1 subtle hint. With Ver 1.21 scheduled in about 3 weeks <according to the roadmap> the updated changes for Ver 1.21 will be posted soon. Let the guesing begin.

[Elexia]

He is the Producer and this is his letter, if he want's to talk about it raining he can. I wish people would have a bit more compassion for the people working their butts off to make this game what it is. What they do is a lot of hard work, long hours, little sleep and then all they get are people complaining and whining about silly things.

/facepalm

Swear sometimes people make me wonder about the human race...

Never take him seriously, his main arguments are that anyone who doesn't agree with 10 minute content with great rewards they have no lives and lives in their parents basements. He's a little kid lol.

[Fated]

I don't understand where the 1.20b hate is stemming from either. When have we EVER gotten a "b" patch that did virtually anything except for a minor fix here and there? I'm one of the anti-Goobbue members of the forum, but I still recognize the fact that introducing a new mount in 1.20b was probably the biggest thing a "b" patch has ever done to date.

[Skies]

I want to know what he wants to do about the server merges/changes. What about the next patch?

Bayohne already gave us a status update on the server transfer:

Greetings,

As Estellios mentioned, we posted some words from Yoshida on the current plan in December. In that post, we said we'd be watching the population numbers in January and planning how to proceed from there. We also said we might have an update around mid-January, but I wanted to let you know that there is a slight delay with that and we plan on making further details known as soon as we can.

Also, despite the length, that post sums up to "We're going to be late about our next update"

[Jennestia]

im fairly annoyed there was no mention of how far away 1.21 is, in real terms, 2 weeks, 2 months, either way, even if its an over estimation, a date to look forward too is nice.

Didn't people complain when he pushed the patch back from end of November to early december? Since people complained he already stated he won't say anything unless he's 100% certain basically.

[Seif]

A tad pious aren't we. I don't care about / like Yoshida. It's nice to see the dev team is doing well, but that's not why I bothered to read the letter from him.

I agree. And who does he think he is really?! Michael Jackson level celebrity?!

He hasn't yet turned this game into an enjoyable product and thousands have left the game leaving servers more dead than ever.

I'm sorry dude but that space is for future updates and you haven't done so far anything in your lifetime to make normal people even vaguely care about your fevers/drinking habits.

Go back to work because I haven't encountered anyone in the gaming industry who has as long and frequent vacations as you guys are having while billing for a complete shell of a game.

[Forerunner]

The point is you're arguing about time between content. Lettered patches aren't for content, so your timescales are schewed.

Why can't lettered patches contain content?
I wasn't even asking for a brand new BCNM, or Dungeon. I mentioned one or two open world NMs. A full month to think some things up and implement em. Yoshi said in the New Years that the team was 4x bigger than what they showed, and I know that they are trying to make 2.0 not as big a fail as FFXIV was at launch, but that doesn't mean they can't create some small peices to slowly add into the game.

You're over-reacting to my hopeful expectations. Please, stop.

[Bongeh1986]

How dare you expect any information about Final Fantasy XIV in the Letter from the Producer of Final Fantasy XIV?

You must be some sort of heartless bastard.

P.S. to everyone preparing to revolt and attack SE HQ because Yoshida posted a cheeky letter: He did the same thing last year, stop getting jimmies rustled.

I'm merely expressing my only emotion felt while reading that letter. Disappointment.

Yeah they are human, blah blah blah, they also get paid to do a job, by us (now). I did quite enjoy reading about the festivities and traditions for japanese new year, however, would it have been so hard, considering it is the final week of january, to have 1 sentence relating to 1.21, specifically more than 'we're working on it'?

I work as a game developer for iOS and Android, I'm aware that schedules slide, it's called creeping scope and games are particularly susceptible too it, but if I told my clients 'I'm working on it' when they asked for an estimated date of delivery i'd be out on my ass faster than I am when I accidentally untoggle walk/run in turning leaf.

Even an estimated date for the next Letter from the producers would have been nice.

[BolterAura]

No update about 1.21 since weeks? You need to read more
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...ndex.html#news

I read just fine thanks. A lore update on Limsa chocobo barding just didn't count as "meaningful update" to me.

[ShellQ8]

I'm glad to see the Dev. team taking a break once in a while, I'm taking a break myself right now, seeing how I can't find a goddamn way to pay..

Happy new year Yoshi-P!