What do japanese players think of letter VII?

[Black_Rose]

i hardly doubt that the whole team was working hardcore on implementing an easter event while dropping other more important things.
just my thought, but i can't imagine that more important things like the battle mechanics were held back in development just so they could work up an event for us.
sounds like the work of 1-2 persons max.

[AntonyB]

They don't seem to care.

More than likely this, JP ain't a bunch of whining babies unlike the rest of the world. They know it will get fixed eventually. Wish I could say EU/NA was the same but then I would be lieing.

[Kaedan]

i hardly doubt that the whole team was working hardcore on implementing an easter event while dropping other more important things.
just my thought, but i can't imagine that more important things like the battle mechanics were held back in development just so they could work up an event for us.
sounds like the work of 1-2 persons max.

Yeah, someone explained this earlier, or tried to. But it fell on a lot of deaf ears. A development team is split up into sections just like any other project team, so making a holiday event wouldn't have taken away from "fixing" the game.

But the whole point is moot since they stated that they had the holiday content planned from the get-go back with Tanaka.

[Akumu]

i hardly doubt that the whole team was working hardcore on implementing an easter event while dropping other more important things.
just my thought, but i can't imagine that more important things like the battle mechanics were held back in development just so they could work up an event for us.
sounds like the work of 1-2 persons max.

Agreed. If everyone stopped just to make this event I think I lose all faith in SE.

SE: "EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU"RE DOING NAO! This egg hunt is a lot more important than those battle mechanics, ui functions, and re-balancing!"

[Peregrine]

They sure shut the hell up fast about companies and started talking about eggs pretty quickly when pressed for more company info.

It doesn't matter if the easter event caused delays in other content or not. It's an image issue. Now is not the time to be hyping egg hunts in letters, I'm sorry. If someone who is on the fringe of uninstalling the game logs onto the lodestone and sees a bunch of crap about egg hunting, it's over. That's not why we play the game and all these holidays make it APPEAR that the devs are not taking this overhaul very seriously even if they are.

[Dreamer]

I looked in General Discussion and a bunch of the other boards, and I didn't really see anything about it at all. So yeah, apparently they aren't pissed off.

Though I did see a bunch of threads on Death Penalty, Auto attack, and a thread complaining about the amount of threads.

Hey Kaedan, can you please give us a short summary of what the overall feeling is on those two subjects? We seem to be pretty evenly divided here in NA.

They sure shut the hell up fast about companies and started talking about eggs pretty quickly when pressed for more company info.

It doesn't matter if the easter event caused delays in other content or not. It's an image issue. Now is not the time to be hyping egg hunts in letters, I'm sorry. If someone who is on the fringe of uninstalling the game logs onto the lodestone and sees a bunch of crap about egg hunting, it's over. That's not why we play the game and all these holidays make it APPEAR that the devs are not taking this overhaul very seriously even if they are.

Some of us enjoy these events, you know.

[DurtiMonkeyToe]

The JP base is politely treacherous. They don't rage on you until AFTER you do something even if they had the opportunity to box your ears for it BEFORE you did it. 5000 beta comments from JP commity during beta compared to like 20,000 from NA and EU. But MAN did they ever light this game on fire after release, which is what got the devs' attention finally.

They're not going to say what the **** is this going to be? Instead of public companies this patch is now about eggs? They're going to say what the **** was that???? Instead of getting public companies we got EGGS???

It's like they are waiting to see if SE just be trollin before they rage. We've long since cut the pretense.

This patch was never about Public Companies. They said INFO would be released on public companies just before this patch.

[Elkwood]

considering the developers are japanese it does kinda make sense that the japanese get direct conversation with said developers being they speak and type the same language. God I wish I could read japanese as I imagine those forums give you less of a headache then the NA ones, maybe now it is time to download that Rosetta Stone crap...

[Kaedan]

Hey Kaedan, can you please give us a short summary of what the overall feeling is on those two subjects? We seem to be pretty evenly divided here in NA.

I'll give them a look-over, sure. There are over 350 replies in each one (658 in the Death penalty one), so it might take me a bit. I did take a glance before and they seem to be pretty split, same as us, but I'll put some more time into it.

[Kaedan]

I'm gonna try and make some translation notes as I go here:

-There are a lot of people on both sides.
-A few people suggest having a "death bonus" instead of a death penalty. The whole "positive reinforcement" thing.
-People have concerns over the "zombie attacking" (just keep throwing bodies at mobs until you kill them)
-A couple people say that SE shouldn't do everything the players say, and should make their own decisions (one of these guys was replying to a poster who was for the death penalty and specifically brought up the lack of "risk" and how that trivializes the game).
-Many players mention losing Anima upon death as an option.
-One guy says they should make a poll regarding death penalty.

Ok, so I went over about 10 pages of the 65 page thread (few at the beginning, few in middle, few at end). They seem to be just as polarized as us. There are players that want no Death penalty, some that are fine with Yoshi's idea (this group is the smallest it seems though, which I found interesting), players that want SP penalties, players that want Anima penalties.

They bring up the same reasons too: lack of "fun" of Death penalty, lack of "risk" without a penalty, the merits of having it be losing a bonus rather than losing something you already have, etc.

So yeah, that subject seems to be just as sore over there as here.

Will get to AA in the morning, I gotta go to bed (I live in Japan here, so it's 2am) Good night!