Final Fantasy XIV, Amazing Project, Again!!

[Lamhirh]

Tanaka was just a scapegoat. The only reason game have problems is that it was rushed. and only one who are responisble for that are marketing and board of directors. I dont believe any programmer/team leader/direct leadership said the game was ready. the got slaped n the face by relase date, and worked as har as could to make game as ready to that date as physically possible. game turned out buggy, broken, badly balanced and unfinished. Someone had to pay prive with his head, and most suitable is always project leader. But whats done its done, as muchas i ldislike some recent develepement (Namely Autoatack) i do hope Mister Yoshida will keep the game alive, and will turn tide. To do that however, he will had to overcome giant obstacle first: A bad reputation given to game by its unfinished state on release, which is still keep around thanx to some smarthat idiots who didnt even tried to learn game mechanic <_<.

[Akumu]

If the natural disasters never hit Japan we would have had our 2 patches by now and the tension wouldn't be so high. I have to admit that I would love some more info on the patch coming up even if it's not the full notes. I know it's for preparations but what exactly are these "preparations" Yoshi-P stated.

However, I Created a new character(on a better world) so that has been surprisingly fun. If I do hit a bored streak I just go do something else.

[Corrderio]

I only play this since I got nothing better to do and I don't trust the online gaming market for the most part

[SupaCancerion]

It seems like we all are forgetting that there were multiple 8.0-9.0 earthquakes (with aftershocks occurring just after the servers came back up), a devastating tsunami, and multiple nuclear reactor explosions in Japan over the last month. CUT THE DEV TEAM SOME SLACK. WE ARE LUCKY WE ARE PLAYING THE GAME AT ALL. If these things wouldn't have happened we would have gotten our updates on time and I'm sure Yoshi's letters wouldn't be so vague, but they did happen and there's nothing the players or the dev team can do about it. Bottom line is they're hard at work while their country is in near shambles, trying to get us the stuff that we want. Forgive them if they take a little longer than they should. No one has control over this stuff in times like these, everyone just has to grit their teeth and bare it. Trust me I'm frustrated too, I want this game to get better too, but there's nothing anyone can do but wait right now. That is all.

[Sweetheart]

Tanaka was just a scapegoat.

Hmm in some way, probably yes. I like it when he just said:

"I take full responsibility for the game's current situation." I respect him for that.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

I love how ppl pull the "devs had no time to make content" when it was really server stability issues that didn't help the game out. Yet ppl forget ffxiv had unstable servers through out beta causing multiple weeks of cancled time. So they got stuck fixing the bug and ended uo to launch it just to stablize the servers enough but also met with many issues and just was unable to really add much because of it. That why that had a team change because they couldn't fix the problems. And what was in game wasn't resieved well so they much change it again. if ppl liked at least some of the game content woulda already been added

you can't add too much content of you have to rewite the rules of battle and how we fight. After this massive change content will be added more frequently. Unless you guys complain more about other stuff.

so in a way the players are causing the delays since they hated stuff and demanded change.

[Shelia]

so in a way the players are causing the delays since they hated stuff and demanded change.

UMM not really considering most of it was completely flawed since Alpha and there was pretty much nothing that was fun about combat at all. I'd rather have combat and other things fixed before they get started on content. If they get the battle system out of the way, they can focus on other tasks.

[Zantetsuken]

One wonders if perhaps Tanaka was too ambitious with this game... Rather than build off the solid foundation that FFXI had, he decided to take it into mostly unknown territory.

Its a tough balancing act when you make a new edition to a multi-million dollar franchise like Final Fantasy. On one hand, you want to dazzle the players with something new, on the other, you don't want to disappoint your fanbase by departing too much from the formula that got you to where you are. These difficulties are exponentially compounded when you have the added weight of making an MMO. The job is in no way enviable, and I wish Yoshida-san the best of luck.

[Shikyo]

Hmm, no substantial news in over a month isn't boosting my trust to the future of XIV...

I agree.
Can i ask a general quastion w/o being attacked?

WHEN?!

When will there be a update with any of these changes that sound good in it?

I dont need a exact date, just a general idea of when we could see any of it actually done and not just talked about......
2-3~ months 4-6 months 6 months+~~~~ WHEN?

XIV blind Fan boys dont just attack if you cant answer, toss a link that shows me a straight answer from anyone from developement thnx, Not saying it hasnt been answered maybe i just missed it.

I've read tons of fan site iterviews ect ect I never saw 1 mention of when they will add even one of the great new ideas.
I'm one of the "Check in players" not playing until they make a real change that will improve the game, but it seems its far FARRR off atm.
Is no one else wondering the same?
Also Zantetsuken "fanbase" that word in this game is very sketchy and slinder.
Kinda the reason drastic changes from the games original form is needed, no?

[Evenstar]

Shikyo, I expect it to start within the next 3 months. It is hard to guess when they will be finished with the complete overhaul. I expect it to be late 2011 or early 2012. Just a guess, not based on any facts.

The good thing is they are working on all this stuff. I seriously can not believe we have people here thinking that the developers are sitting on their hands doing nothing. If that was the case they would have pulled the plug a long time ago. Why would they keep the servers up for free. Even after the whole disaster that hit Japan they tried to get the servers up as soon as possible. How can anyone that is reasonable believe they are not working as hard as they can to get this game back on track. I really can not understand that.

It is taking long, maybe too long, but I can not blame them. The game was a mess and from what I understand the code is a mess too. Developing is a long process, it takes time, it involves lots of people. We are getting small updates for now, but I am sure we will get something big within the next 6-8 weeks. Considering the new team took over in January I personally give them until June to come up with some big changes and then until the end of 2011 to finish the process of changing the game and start developing some new content.

Just my two cents. Meanwhile I will chill, keep playing and doing leves and contribute to the forums and community in the best way I can, instead of cry like some people love to do.