4gamer Interview

[Jojoya]

Endsinger - hopefully he realizes that Thordan, Shinryu and Hades all suffer the same problem as Endsinger. They could all use an adjustment with an ilvl sync being a reasonable choice.

Alliance raids - I think the problem is more complex than just difficulty if the discussion is about Alliance raids in general and not just a specific one (like CT). I still feel like they should separate Crystal Tower into a separate roulette then review both Alliance roulettes for changes in participation after one or two patch cycles. That could help identify specific problems more.

Criterion - what does he mean by "since it cannot be removed" - what can't be removed? As for the rewards in the next Criterion, it sounds like we're in for a set of shiny glamour that may or may not go with shiny relics due out about the same time. It also sounds like JP overall is fine with Criterion as it is, with the reward complaints mostly coming from "overseas".

Relics - definitely a more complex problem since he's bringing demographic trends into the discussion. From the sound of it, they're not inclined to include the relics with unique grind content going forward. That doesn't mean that grind content won't be added that has other rewards.

Using hunt trains as a source for tomestones, it would take about 54 hours per stage to get/upgrade all relics for the expansion (that's including estimated travel time between worlds to get to the next train if they're being chained). It's a short period of time for those playing 8 hours+ a day. That's several weeks of effort for those who play only 8 hours a week even if they do content to farm the needed tomestones and nothing else. Not all content rewards the tomestones and many players aren't interested in limiting themselves only to the content that does.

I don't think he's misinterpreting the data. I think that players are misinterpreting what type of content SE wants relic weapons to be. What those who want a grind should be looking for is new grind content with new rewards that SE is fine with making exclusive to the grind.

DC Travel - okay this one shocks me. He acknowledges they do receive and pay attention to feedback from NA and EU in his response to Criterion rewards. Why has he missed that NA and EU are having the same DC travel issue as JP? Is it because it developed for us slower than because we had larger world populations than JP to start with? Did the Community Team miss the feedback and so nothing was forwarded?

I'm sure YoshiP will hear about this soon enough because it's highly unlikely MrHappy won't say anything about it, and we know for certain that he's one NA content creator that gets watched by YoshiP and part of the dev team.

High completion rates of Manderville weapons are a result of people simply spending tomes just because they have too many of them due to the tome type required being an outdated type with no weekly cap that the game hands out like candy on halloween.

But it also had an impact on the end game gear crafting markets because players that had been buying up the tomestone materials to sell to crafters were now using those tomestones to get their relics instead. It wouldn't have had much impact on the week one raiders who expect the high prices but it certainly had one on those who want the crafted gear as a quick ilvl upgrade over waiting for the newest tomestone gear.