Forked Tower: Blood Needs A Normal Mode

[Khryseis_Astra]

From one of the other threads:

So at that anime expo that happened, we got a few more details https://www.rpgsite.net/interview/17...ward-to-future Most of it is about the future but he did make a few comments on OC and FT.

"I do feel that Forked Tower: Blood was a misstep in development. It wasn't meant to be hardcore content, so to speak. The intention was that it might be more difficult at first, but over time more players might be willing to take on the challenge; yet, in the end we made it too difficult for players to even get into the raid in the first place. That's why we're making adjustments with 7.3, and why some of those adjustments were pushed even earlier than that. [...] That's why we're revising our roadmap to account for this feedback in patch 7.5." Yoshida also reflected that the team may have been putting too much focus on a player's individual responsibility, and how a single person's failure could have such a profound impact on the whole party. They regret that they weren't able to strike that balance they had intended for the content.

[Daralii]

From one of the other threads:

There's a point where "We accidentally made it hardcore" stops being a mistake and becomes a problem with SOP/QA.

[Mawlzy]

There's a point where "We accidentally made it hardcore" stops being a mistake and becomes a problem with SOP/QA.

When it's repeated multiple times, it becomes increasingly difficult to believe it's an "accident" at all.

A raid simulator is cheaper to produce than a MMO.

[SkankyRoe]

When it's repeated multiple times, it becomes increasingly difficult to believe it's an "accident" at all.

Do we know if Mr. Ozma was in charge of FT? Because he was the one responsible for the previous two "accidents"(Criterion, CAR). Either way there's no excuse for it happening yet again assuming it's really the case; Yoshi P's comments at the expo kinda contradict some of the explanations he gave during the LL so I dunno what to believe.

[Mawlzy]

Do we know if Mr. Ozma was in charge of FT? Because he was the one responsible for the previous two "accidents"(Criterion, CAR). Either way there's no excuse for it happening yet again assuming it's really the case; Yoshi P's comments at the expo kinda contradict some of the explanations he gave during the LL so I dunno what to believe.

It's a sad conclusion to reach, but either the director doesn't know what's going on, or he is lying to us.

[SkankyRoe]

It's a sad conclusion to reach, but either the director doesn't know what's going on, or he is lying to us.

I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt but he already lied to us fairly recently(CAR) and he's currently in PR damage control mode so I can't really trust anything he says. It's also just as bad a problem if he doesn't know what's going on, because knowing what's going on is literally his job.