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    Quote Originally Posted by Blitz0309 View Post
    It "could" speed up development. Simply by not having to worry about all the people keeping the gear/stats/levels and having to tip toe around making any huge changes to the worthless armory system. Running the game means people are playing something that could change. And the developers have to tip toe around not making those people angry. So that does slow down development and may down right kill some ideas from ever being implemented.
    I'm sorry but none of what you said is any different from any other MMO. Developers for other large MMOs do the same things while having the server online - aspects of the game are constantly updated. The ones on this forum advocating for taking the servers down are grasping at straws with no real thought put behind the idea.
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    No other MMO has had to completely redesign its world/combat/job system. Most at least have a general idea of what they are doing and made balance changes, unlike this game. Its still up in the air what changes are going to be made, which is ironic after 9 months.

    Lets say they actually gave in and went to ffxi jobs/subjobs. All your r50 classes are gone. But they can't do that because everyone who has played will be butt hurt.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blitz0309 View Post
    No other MMO has had to completely redesign its world/combat/job system. Most at least have a general idea of what they are doing and made balance changes, unlike this game. Its still up in the air what changes are going to be made, which is ironic after 9 months.

    Lets say they actually gave in and went to ffxi jobs/subjobs. All your r50 classes are gone. But they can't do that because everyone who has played will be butt hurt.
    I have to dissagree with your top line. WoW has redesigned the whole world once (Cataclysm), Combat many times, and class system many times. The combat and class system there go together by way of changing, adding, and removing roles to and from each class. So FFXIV isn't the first, and probably wont be the last.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DoubleEcho View Post
    I'm sorry but none of what you said is any different from any other MMO. Developers for other large MMOs do the same things while having the server online - aspects of the game are constantly updated. The ones on this forum advocating for taking the servers down are grasping at straws with no real thought put behind the idea.
    This, or they think wasting 5syears of hard work on a numbered title in their series is something easy to do, as if 14 is a number people skip over in math and counting, a floor that doesn't exist.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kallera View Post
    as if 14 is a number people skip over in math and counting, a floor that doesn't exist.
    Well, there is a '4' in the title, so who knows... :P
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    Beta testing aside, there's not much of a reason to keep servers running atm. SE should pull an APB; close the servers and bring them back up when things are fixed and they've got a better plan.
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