One to Fifty, One Zone - Long OP

[Sephr]

Hey, the Japanese thread has 70 likes and seems to be doing quite well too! Good sign!

I'd recommend people go and like those threads too, being as you can like anything on any forum.

[Rentahamster]

Thanks, Reinheart, for the updates! Don't get in trouble at work!

And sending my thanks out once again to Meph, Chinook, Dark, Perrin, Renta (Did I miss anyone...?) for helping to convey the messages collected here. I'm glad to learn that members of the FF14 community as a whole, no matter the culture, share similar concerns. Hopefully together, we can receive an answer.

No prob. And yeah, I would say that the majority of the playerbase craves variety, if the results of this poll are any indication: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Zones-Variety

It's a pity the game engine hold back so much potential.


As for a dev response, what more can they say right now besides, "we recognize the problem, and we'll address it after the major portions of the battle revisions are complete"? (Because that's what they'll say. That's just the state of things at the moment)

I think if a community rep popped in here and said "we're looking into it", he'd get a lot of negative feedback for it, but really, I think it's safe to say that they actually are "looking into it" without having to say as much. Going by what YoshiP posted back in March, they are at least planning on some kind of redesign, we already know that.

I think what most users crave for is specifics, but realistically, the devs have been so busy with battle system reforms and server/game code optimizations that I doubt they had time to give zone redesign any significant thought to warrant a detailed post just yet.

But anyway, the point still stands that, for what it's worth, it would be nice to at least have an additional reassurance from the dev team that they are aware that this is a serious problem and that yes, they will address it in the future.

[Cutriss]

You know what else they could do? Not make their "next-gen" game use a 7 year old version of DirectX.

See, I'm a little torn on this. On the one hand, There's nothing really wrong with DX9 if you know what you're doing. On the other hand, it's pretty clear that you need a very new PC to run the game adequately, and you might as well not be running XP on it. In the case of some of the newer hardware out there, you're doing yourself a disservice to run XP on it since the driver focus has long shifted to Win7.

At the very least, if they moved to DX10, we could finally have Alt+Tab support in fullscreen. Not that we can't have it now, but it seems pretty clear they don't *know* how to make it work right now.

[Grundy]

It's a very interesting proposal and I hit like.

[Cutriss]

Going by what YoshiP posted back in March, they are at least planning on some kind of redesign, we already know that.

Not saying I don't believe you, but I see a lot of people referencing this and I don't remember it myself. Can you source that for me please? Much thanks sir.

[Zanfire]

welp 80 pages and 800+ responses...ON A ROLL TO 1k!

just some older videos i found that make this point overly clear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La9nL...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA7GG...eature=related


oh the lolz...

[Richard]

It's a very interesting proposal and I hit like.

About a week or so ago Yoshida responded to the Dev's questions in a post similar to this on the JP forums. The direct translation was:

Thank you for all of your concerns regarding maps. Like you, the players, Yoshida is also very concerned about the layout of the maps, and although we have a great deal of work to do, we are working on plans to substantially redesign the maps. However, as previously mentioned because we have to work on fundamental changes first, it is going to take time.

I just woke up and don't care to go 10-20 pages back to find the link but it is there. Just search around.

[Cutriss]

Thanks, that's good enough for me.

[Rentahamster]

Not saying I don't believe you, but I see a lot of people referencing this and I don't remember it myself. Can you source that for me please? Much thanks sir.

From back in March:

プロデューサ/ディレクタの吉田です。

皆さん、MAPについての問題提起ありがとうございます。
皆さん同様に吉田もMAPの仕様について、強く危機意識があり、
莫大な作業量ではありますが、しっかり再設計に向けた計画を進めています。
ただし、既にご指摘いただいている通り、根本からの修正のためには、
お時間を頂いてしまうことになります。

そのため、現MAPのコリジョン緩和（段差/引っ掛かりの緩和）は地道に続け、
根本改修も長期的に計画という並行策で進めています。

Paraphrase: Yes, much like the rest of you, I am aware of how bad a problem the MAP is and are planning on fixing it. However, it is a very fundamental problem and will therefore take a long time.

[Cutriss]

Thanks, I appreciate it a lot!