They should put actual MMO players on the development team.

[ArkNova]

Lol the reason they are forced to copy paste responses is because they are timed on each one of their responses and have to meet the expected time, and number of responses per week. The job of GM is usually outsourced to other countries to keep spending down, and that's why they usually speak crappy English. It's probably the case with FFXIV too, a lot of GM's on MMOs tend to be from Brazil they have low wage laws there but it's still a first world country so good internet and such. Regardless if that's the case or not customer support jobs are almost always out sourced, so you can rest assured when you talk to a GM you're probably not talking to someone who directly works for SE.

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2007...44154673.shtml (old wanted ad, Requires you live in California)

http://eu.square-enix.com/en/jobs/ga...-germanenglish (Requires you live in London)

https://www.greenlightjobs.com/bi-li...-vj218532.html (Requires you live in California)

And here's a link with some information about a GM that lives in dun dun dun California http://www.linkedin.com/in/maniberenji

[Alderton]

I'm pretty sure that there are people out there that play mmos more than he has time for... After all he did go to college and does have a professional career. Even if he was the most experienced MMO player in the world, the opinion of only one MMO player designing a whole game most certainly cannot be a recipe for true success. He would benefit from the opinions of the types of people who like, stayed up for 18 hours trying to kill Pandemonium warden, or someone who in 2005 already had several relic weapons in FFXI. From the WoW people maybe the guild who clear the hardest heroic 25 man crap in the first week it comes out would be a good place to search for a hard core gamer...

But again, those opinions are useless without the ability to critically analyze your thoughts and opinions.

There isn't just one man designing everything, by the way. There are many people working together, collaborating and making ideas the best that they can be.

You don't need to play something for a bunch of hours to know what makes it fun. Just because you play something for a bunch of hours doesn't mean you know what makes it fun.

[Mijin]

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2007...44154673.shtml (old wanted ad, Requires you live in California)

http://eu.square-enix.com/en/jobs/ga...-germanenglish (Requires you live in London)

https://www.greenlightjobs.com/bi-li...-vj218532.html (Requires you live in California)

And here's a link with some information about a GM that lives in dun dun dun California http://www.linkedin.com/in/maniberenji

Haha I liked your "dun dun dun," you sounded so serious. All that proves is that they hired like 2 or 3 NA GM's for serious stuff and the rest are foreign. However, here's the kicker, are you ready? Dun dun dun I never said I was sure! My exact quote was "It's probably the case with FFXIV too." So even if you are right not like it matters. I already admitted I could be wrong when I said it. Which sucks because I bet you spent a long time finding those links.

A good friend on mine has a brother who works as a GM in Brazil, but she doesn't know for which game. The reasoning I gave was based on information she gave me purely speculation.

[Mijin]

But again, those opinions are useless without the ability to critically analyze your thoughts and opinions.

There isn't just one man designing everything, by the way. There are many people working together, collaborating and making ideas the best that they can be.

You don't need to play something for a bunch of hours to know what makes it fun. Just because you play something for a bunch of hours doesn't mean you know what makes it fun.

I never suggested it was one man designing the whole thing, I said there was only really one person on the staff who spent any real time playing MMOs.

While anyone may have their opinion of what fun is and isn't in a video game, the people who have best grasp on whats fun in MMOs and what isn't are those who've played them, and played them religiously.

[ArkNova]

Google Requirements to be a Game Master for Square Enix and let me know how long it took you to find that information

[Mijin]

Google Requirements to be a Game Master for Square Enix and let me know how long it took you to find that information

What information? About the Brazil thing? A good friend on mines brother works as a GM in Brazil, but she doesn't know for which game. The reasoning I gave was based on information she gave me so it's purely speculation. Zero seconds to answer your question more directly. I don't bother looking stuff up for forum disputes unless I can find it like instantly on wiki. The other stuff I said regarding copy paste and time limits was based on information given to me from a Girl I used to dated who worked in customer support. So also speculative. When ever I post something I'm not sure of though I always try to leave myself an out, which I did, so there's no point in arguing over it.

The link you provided (I only bothered to read the first one) is old and out of date. It's a 2007 add for FFXI, SE has lost a lot of money since those days... It's possible that my hypothesis was correct still...

[Alderton]

I never suggested it was one man designing the whole thing, I said there was only really one person on the staff who spent any real time playing MMOs.

[Citation Needed]

While anyone may have their opinion of what fun is and isn't in a video game, the people who have best grasp on whats fun in MMOs and what isn't are those who've played them, and played them religiously.

[Citation Needed]

[ArkNova]

You like spouting random garbage don't you? I pointed out that the first link was old not my fault you chose not to look at the other links which quite honestly you probably did anyway and your just looking to keep an argument going. If your gonna post something and then turn around and say what you post doesn't matter then why post it in the first place? And you base your information on a website that can be edited by anyone, if I were you I would rely on information that's a little more reliable. You made a comment saying SE's GMs are probably outsourced to Brazil and your sources are from a source that's not even sure what company their relative works for and you rely on wiki and when presented with information saying your comment is wrong you toss it to the side and say it didn't matter anyway.

[Mijin]

[Citation Needed]



[Citation Needed]

Citation #1: In this interview you can read that FFXIV's very own producer Naoki Yoshida states that people on the staff were requested to play MMOs because they had little experience with them. They're aren't really something you can just pick up over night in my honest opinion.

#2 is impossible to cite at all. It's based on my experiences, and on my conversations that I've had with other players. I hear what I consider to be some of the best suggestions come out of hard core gamer's, and as a somewhat hard core gamer myself I've found a lot of my suggestions to be agreeable with hard core gamers as well. I also think that my belief that the more you do something the more understanding of it you will have may be correct based on common knowledge, but if you can show me evidence against it I could be persuaded against it I suppose(That was sarcasm in case it lost it's meaning being read).

You like spouting random garbage don't you? I pointed out that the first link was old not my fault you chose not to look at the other links which quite honestly you probably did anyway and your just looking to keep an argument going. If your gonna post something and then turn around and say what you post doesn't matter then why post it in the first place? And you base your information on a website that can be edited by anyone, if I were you I would rely on information that's a little more reliable. You made a comment saying SE's GMs are probably outsourced to Brazil and your sources are from a source that's not even sure what company their relative works for and you rely on wiki and when presented with information saying your comment is wrong you toss it to the side and say it didn't matter anyway.

Well what I took out of that big wall of angry text was that you were angry, and one of the reasons why was because I didn't check the other links. So I did. One's from Germany and the other doesn't have a date. So that also proves nothing, great. Not many people in Brazil don't speak German, they speak Portuguese and English. In regards to wiki, the fact that it can be edited by everyone makes it more reliable, in lieu of the fact that anyone can and does call out incorrect information.

Who cares anyway, maybe you're right maybe you're not. I'm not arguing about it, I'm just saying don't act cocky when you didn't prove anything. If it makes you feel better I'll concede the point to make you happy. You're right, I'm wrong. Now lets get back to the subject of the topic please.

[Chardrizard]

Well you're obviously frustrated, and that's why you're personally attacking me. I never said that I was lifeless or that I live in a basement, I was facetiously suggesting that type of person would be best suited for the job.

It was never a personal attack, it was me referring to me as no one and my opinion holds little no value in the eyes of devs because i don't study game design or anything.

However since you are not the brightest, I forgive you.

As far as I know, and I may be wrong, but the community reps don't get paid, and charity work isn't always the most efficient form of labor... Not only that who knows if anyone on the dev. team even reads or takes into consideration anything they forward over to them. It's not like the community reps make any of the shots.

Have you ever thought that maybe you are wrong sometimes or alot of times? that is why you research before you create a thread? Do you see a pattern with your other thread? that is why you actually experience the content before you create a thread? that is why you actually need to have DRG levelled before you call them shit?