Quick Comparison: Info on POL vs Lodestone

[Shai]

I just told my wife I posted my first "original" topic and when she looked at my comparison said...

"Don't you think Yoshida's letter has a lot of good information, although its mostly vague?"
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/11012

Then I compared that to this...
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/4937

Notice anything different? Such as real deadlines? Accurate forecasting? Pictures? Detailed information? (Edit: ) Yoshida has a lot more on his chart, but he has a whole game to makeover. So of course he has more things but do they all have to be so few useable details?

Lol isn't that Tanaka again now? that would be ironic if they went to him for advice on communication.

I don't think so, but by "front man" I meant the guy in charge of POL/NA. The person who is posting once (sometimes twice) a week with real tidbits of information for fans to turn over in their heads about upcoming content and adjustments.

On the other hand we get "the developers are thinking of ways to improve this" and "Ongoing revision and balacing of Guildleves" as if those statements say anything other than "I don't know, but I will someday."

[Mack]

I just told my wife I posted my first "original" topic and when she looked at my comparison said...

"Don't you think Yoshida's letter has a lot of good information, although its mostly vague?"
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/11012

Then I compared that to this...
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/4937

Notice anything different? Such as real deadlines? Accurate forecasting? Pictures? Detailed information? (Edit: ) Yoshida has a lot more on his chart, but he has a whole game to makeover. So of course he has more things but do they all have to be so few useable details?



I don't think so, but by "front man" I meant the guy in charge of POL/NA. The person who is posting once (sometimes twice) a week with real tidbits of information for fans to turn over in their heads about upcoming content and adjustments.

On the other hand we get "the developers are thinking of ways to improve this" and "Ongoing revision and balacing of Guildleves" as if those statements say anything other than "I don't know, but I will someday."

Yea well wow I would love something like the FFXI roadmap you showed there.

[Shai]

Actually it looks like XI is updating more than 4x a year now, too. There's more than 4 planned in that road map as well as one on the front page scheduled for July that isn't on the road map (as far as I can tell) plus the scheduled release of test servers... Honestly, someone on the XI team needs to brief someone on the XIV team how to communicate better and what it means to give information and gather feedback.

SO WTF SE !? AGAIN
Man, I ranted for years how depressing 4 updates a year can be, and how slow and dragged out their mission release schedule was for Wings of the Goddess. I'm not overly impressed with all the drastic changes to XI in the last year and a half (but many of them are good, I think) but their ability to give the community much needed information and more frequent patching has improved by leaps and bounds.

Then need to spread that butter over here on the XIV side of the bread.