Global Countdown Timer - My big concern for the future on FFXIV.

[Maxthunder]

They probably looked at WoW and decided that this is the way to win on the market. Yoshi-P explained how FFXI was born (with Everquest in mind), and what we are watching now is the same, but with a worse sample.

I'm happy for ALL the things ARR will take, but I admit to have some doubts on Battle Speed and the new Battle System. Personally I like the "old" one, it needed some tweaks but was not so bad.

I don't understand why is so difficult find a compromise between very long fight (FFXI) and very fast fight (FFXIV 1.0, and ARR from what we saw)...

I think the issue is with yoshi and the dev's. It is possibly that the devs are taking the easy route instead of actually sitting down and working out something that is not too fast and not too slow. Even in 1.o with all the changes yoshi couldnt find a balance and it seem this issue will continue into 2.0.

[Rex]

I think the issue is with yoshi and the dev's. It is possibly that the devs are taking the easy route instead of actually sitting down and working out something that is not too fast and not too slow. Even in 1.o with all the changes yoshi couldnt find a balance and it seem this issue will continue into 2.0.

The speed with which they're pumping this game out...I don't see it as an "issue" but more of a time crunch.....If people really see issues with this..they will surely patch and continue to fix. As XI goes on, since they upped the level cap, they still to this day continue to rebalance jobs, recast times, abilities..