Letter from the Producer VII

[Jericho]

Please go back and reread the timeline and patch notes from FFXI.

Cheer the hell up.

It'll get better.

[Elexia]

Don't be surprised if the holiday event IS 70% of the new patch content, because holiday events have been 70% of our new content to date. They're scrapping for easy points, and the players are letting them.

No more holiday events until 1 significant area of content is released, IMO. No more 1-shot pointless quests.

Or because they're redesigning the game which will take awhile to do.

"No more basic stuff, I don't care that the game's foundation is broken, GIVE ME CONTENT!"

I bet you'll be the first to complain about balance issues too with said content.

[Evangela]

WHAT? new dungeon but still don't fix anything in combat system???

you want me to use Flare and another awful AM's, waiting 25 seconds, cost 100MP and do 50 damage? with the animation I can't see if I blink my eyes? what do you expect players to do in the new dungeon? use their weapon hit monsters and spam 1 1 1 1 1 1 ?

[Kaedan]

You don't have to be a Christian to ENJOY Easter, do you? The same goes for Christmas. Hell, I'm an atheist, but every year, I help my family celebrate Christmas and Easter. Why? Many reasons. The main reason is that I don't like to be such a spoiled brat that I want to make others unhappy just because I don't believe what they do. The second reason is that Easter and Christmas were not originally Christian holidays....so why shouldn't I celebrate them? I can just celebrate them in a different way than everyone else. Now...if you don't want to celebrate Easter, you can just...not log in.

Whoa, calm down chief.

First off: Yes, Christmas and Easter are both Christian only holidays designed by Christians. But what they did is place Christmas near the Winter Solstice and Easter near the Spring Equinox to help them convert pagans who had their own holidays at those times. Just wanted to correct you on that fact.

And you're right, you don't have to be Christian to enjoy fluffy bunnies and get Easter candy. I completely acknowledge that fact, and I also "go along with it" in my family as well.

But the point is that many Japanese people have no idea what Easter actually is. The same point can be made about Golden Week (many westerners don't know what it is), but this is a Japanese game. So if they had to choose between them (like they have), I believe the better choice would have been the Japanese one. Especially since it isn't based on a religion. I think it would be nicer to introduce more cultural events to the game than religious events.

But I suppose it doesn't matter at all since there's nothing religious about fluffy bunnies and painted eggs (and it's not like the holidays haven't all been commercialized anyway).

[Kaedan]

WHAT? new dungeon but still don't fix anything in combat system???

*sigh*

You too?

False. You cannot reasonably assume we won't be getting content. The only thing we know is that we are getting seasonal content, but we aren't getting the raids yet. We have no information as to what other content may or may not be in the patch.

We could quite possibly be getting combat changes. In fact, it's actually quite likely. 70% of the original patch cannot be the seasonal content. Just because it wasn't mentioned in the Producer's letter doesn't mean it's not coming.

[Evangela]

I really need to ask.

Does anyone here really care about seasonal events with the current state the game is in?

No friggin' one!! why they spent their time on these stuff? while a lot of issues waiting them to fix

[Ghalith]

WHAT? new dungeon but still don't fix anything in combat system???

I sort of assumed that "preparations for the mid- and high-rank PvE content planned for later release" was implying that they were going to fix up the combat a bit... Hopefully they'll add auto-attack.

[Elexia]

No friggin' one!! why they spent their time on these stuff? while a lot of issues waiting them to fix

You do not equal everyone as if you took a minute to read this thread there were at least 2 people who do care for it, and that's just the people who actually choose to post on the forums, because reading blogs I see more people who liked even the "bell events".

[Buttons]

I for one am looking forward to the easter event. If it's properly done it will be lots of fun and will probably also be groundwork for events to come.

[Aion]

No friggin' one!! why they spent their time on these stuff? while a lot of issues waiting them to fix

err...how do you know seasonal events that the dev spent their time mainly on?