Forked Tower: Blood Needs A Normal Mode

[Raikai]

The content difficulty is arguable, but it's fine.
The real issue is the way it was introduced still makes me wonder who exactly it was meant for?

The lack of premade/queueing to it and having the free for all "just go there to join" system makes it seem like it wants to appeal to casuals who want to "try it out" when it pops, but the amount of personal responsibility and coordination in both jobs and mechanics required makes it seems like it's meant strictly for statics.

I'd love to read the design doc of FTB just to see how it was presented and argued.

To me that sounds awfully lot like a corporate miscommunication issue. It's kind of hard to believe that Yoshida green lit this with full awareness of the situation, unless he delegated somebody else to approve the material, since it's side content. Probably? I would believe that a director having to manage multiple huge projects had to do this in order to work or not go insane.

[Mawlzy]

I feel 100% confident they meant that North Horn will have both normal and savage.

You've got to remember this is translation and things get lost in translation. It's pretty obvious to me they meant North Horn will have a normal mode and they've got around a year to find the development resources.

Have they not noticed these translation issues are the source of a lot of discontent?

Additionally, have they forgotten they have E,F,D localization teams that are quite well placed to provide accurate translations so we don't all run around in circles in this fog of confusion?

[TeresaFortell]

Have they not noticed these translation issues are the source of a lot of discontent?

Additionally, have they forgotten they have E,F,D localization teams that are quite well placed to provide accurate translations so we don't all run around in circles in this fog of confusion?

I still remember when they forgot to translate Rral Majun's role quest dialogue. Clearly, the team lacked adequate resources to work on this game.

[Khryseis_Astra]

Speaking of translations, I decided to take a look at JP’s forums to see what they had to say about the Tower. For the most part they seem to have similar complaints to ours, and I was heartened to see that their posts in favor of creating a Normal mode had a lot of stars on them.

[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.