Wada Explains the Revamp?

[Malakhim]

Wasn't Romancing SaGa already a sort of open-world game? At least that was the case for Minstrel Song.

[Jennestia]

Wasn't Romancing SaGa already a sort of open-world game? At least that was the case for Minstrel Song.

They're open (just in which party members you can end up with alone), which is why it would make more sense with an RS theme than FF theme.

[Captaindownsyndrome]

We only ban people when they were causing problems, and it is generally treated as a last resort. However, fairly recently we have changed around the admin team, and I can personally say that I very rarely ban people unless it's necessary.

Actually, That's impossible. There is no ban setup like this setup. I've only had to ban one person by IP address, and this was only because this person was very persistent on creating new account to continue to troll.

Anyway, I'm really not trying to stir anything but only to clarify.



I'll check this out, but I most certainly don't remember doing this.

you also sold beta keys never cared for site after that.

[viion]

Can we please get back onto the topic, discussing how FFXIVCore is run is nor here or there.

I am not surprised by Wada's words, but I've heard this before. I remember a while back Wada went around with the angry gun telling developers to stop making games "they" wanted to play, make games people want to play. (or something along those lines) and now we're back here with the same response.

It also makes me very saddened by SE employees, its like they do not care for the franchise nor the customers and they're wrapped up in a fantasy of their own.

[Wolfie]

Sorry, I'm not buying that whole "FFXIV was released too early" thing. Tanaka's vision of the game is/was incompatible with what the huge majority of MMO players are looking for. There are dozens upon dozens of concepts in this game that are fundamentally broken, unscalable, and difficult to work with; and as a director, HE'S the one who had the final say in what went into the game and what didn't. Another two years of development under Tanaka would not have made this game much better; it would have been mediocre at best.

[DoctorMog]

I've got banned because one of their moderator using this official forums too, and he hate me

I was ALSO banned from FFXIVCore because I defended the game and i made a (GASP) second account because I disliked my forum username. (it wasn't my character name)

FFXIVCore is a TERRIBLY run website.

[Cairdeas]

Sorry, I'm not buying that whole "FFXIV was released too early" thing. Tanaka's vision of the game is/was incompatible with what the huge majority of MMO players are looking for. There are dozens upon dozens of concepts in this game that are fundamentally broken, unscalable, and difficult to work with; and as a director, HE'S the one who had the final say in what went into the game and what didn't. Another two years of development under Tanaka would not have made this game much better; it would have been mediocre at best.

Tanaka was the Producer not Director. Komoto was the director.

[Jennestia]

Sorry, I'm not buying that whole "FFXIV was released too early" thing.

Anyone that touched any form of game development let alone program design can tell you the game was pushed out far too sooner than it should have been. There were very, very common errors that aren't found in any of SE's offline games because they're released at the time they should be released.

I can guarantee any form of business the boss has the ultimate say so on what happens - It's not just in the media industry.

If we're talking about visions, Tanaka's vision was to make a solo friendly MMO instead of revamping XI to fit that style, which correct me if I'm wrong, but players these days only care for solo content and casual friendliness?