The Letter is up

[Ylferyf]

I'm kind of underwhelmed...seems like the bottom line is they added auto attack, adjusted recast timers, and changed ws animations or added ws's, which is all nice and good, but I was expecting this patch to be revolutionary. As in along with battle system changes, they redefined classes with the job system so party play is meaningful. But there's no mention of jobs for this patch. They are adding two raid areas but that doesn't change the core gameplay. I hope 1.18 is game changing, though at the rate it appears they're implementing things, this game won't be "done" until next year.

[TonyMontana]

So at this rate we can expect mounts around the 1 year mark?

[Sephr]

AMAGAD GUYZ, ALL DEY BEEN WURKIN ON FOR 6 MONTHZ IS DAT 2 MINUT VIDEO?!

I AM UNDRWELMED.

This forum never fails to amaze me.

[TonyMontana]

AMAGAD GUYZ, ALL DEY BEEN WURKIN ON FOR 6 MONTHZ IS DAT 2 MINUT VIDEO?!

I AM UNDRWELMED.

This forum never fails to amaze me.

One time there was this company and they made an MMO. After 5 years of "working" on the game it was sold in a glorified alpha state. On the 10th month this company released AUTO atack and 2 dungeons a 4 man and an 8 man dungeon. Some people were underwelmed. Some people acted like being underwelmed was stupid and laughed. It was fun.

[Shai]

AMAGAD GUYZ, ALL DEY BEEN WURKIN ON FOR 6 MONTHZ IS DAT 2 MINUT VIDEO?!

I AM UNDRWELMED.

This forum never fails to amaze me.

The faith of the loyal never cease to amaze me.

This is pretty grim news, bro. I like everything in the letter, too, but it's about 1/1000th of what the game needs. The auto-attack looks like slow motion fighting as if it were the Matrix / 300 special effects and not a real time battle. The WS look cool and are much needed.

I'm basically annoyed he thought this would be done within the next week or so and only has 1 dungeon to speak of and the crap in that video. I can see a lot of work went into it (the animation changes and such) and I'm a bit worried his idea of "tremendous" is more on the technical side of the house than on the "noticeable to the players" side.

It's pretty underwhelming news. It's downright disappointing to me.
I don't know how long I can put up with this, sadly.
I feel and fear I am about to join the ranks of people who move on and check for updates periodically.
It will be better for my mental health, I think... and certainly more fun.

[TonyMontana]

The faith of the loyal never cease to amaze me.

This is pretty grim news, bro. I like everything in the letter, too, but it's about 1/1000th of what the game needs. The auto-attack looks like slow motion fighting as if it were the Matrix / 300 special effects and not a real time battle. The WS look cool and are much needed.

I'm basically annoyed he thought this would be done within the next week or so and only has 1 dungeon to speak of and the crap in that video. I can see a lot of work went into it (the animation changes and such) and I'm a bit worried his idea of "tremendous" is more on the technical side of the house than on the "noticeable to the players" side.

It's pretty underwhelming news. It's downright disappointing to me.
I don't know how long I can put up with this, sadly.
I feel and fear I am about to join the ranks of people who move on and check for updates periodically.
It will be better for my mental health, I think... and certainly more fun.

But BRO he didnt have to stop running to pull his weapon out, this is cutting edge shit!

[Rau]

But BRO he didnt have to stop running to pull his weapon out, this is cutting edge shit!

I ain't your bro, pal.

[Seif]

So at this rate we can expect mounts around the 1 year mark?

Are you kidding me?!

At this rate expect a new bell event by 1-year mark.

[TonyMontana]

Are you kidding me?!

At this rate expect a new bell event by 1-year mark.

Aww yeah ringin tha bellz! Gettin me a new homosexual hat!

[Shai]

But BRO he didnt have to stop running to pull his weapon out, this is cutting edge shit!

Yeah and that gives me an e-boner, too.
Too bad it didn't come in 17b so that patch was actually worth a damn.

I'm not a game designer so I don't know what I'm talking about (keep that in mind as I'm about to get flamed by the 10,000 game designers/developers on this forum) but delays for testing and balancing sound like a BS reason to me. I know things need to be tested and balanced, but it's not really what you want to hear after a 6 month hiatus on any updates and 4 weeks of no news. I'd prefer something like "We have some real kickass ideas for our unfinished dungeon so we will have to hold off just a bit longer to squeeze them in!!!!" even if it's a lie. Haha. Just sounds better, more worth the wait.

Also... what kind of jerk says "mid-June at the earliest" then comes out the eve of June 15 saying "Wait longer." It's like he couldn't put it off for any moment longer. He should have told us a while ago there were delays, imo. Everything about this line of communication is BS.

Bring it, forum. Flame on.
I'm just sharing an opinion, not trolling, but feast on it like the sharks you are.