New Letter from the Producer, XII

[Abriael]

Wait so he think party play is not for ffxiv wtf? ok yoshi-p i love to party playing by myself level up is boring i get sick of it within 30-1hour vs Finding people take about 30-1hour then play for 1-4hours level up.

I hope you still working on something for party just fix the dam SP from mobs and allow us to do camps like in ffxi so players like us can do it and let the casual do the soloing.

I think you missed the little detail that they're going to implement party oriented dungeons in a few days. Yes, I think you did.

[Kallera]

I think you missed the little detail that they're going to implement party oriented dungeons in a few days. Yes, I think you did.

The letter from the producer should be required reading before you post on the forums.

[Zenaku]

I think you missed the little detail that they're going to implement party oriented dungeons in a few days. Yes, I think you did.

Forgot the little detail that Dungeon have 60min limit and he said they be a limit how many you can do a day or few hours not really a party to get yourself 1-50 now is it? I'm talking about going out and fighting mobs to level up for the few of us who still enjoy that from FFXI. I understand that there are casual people who just want to solo but that just not me i can't stand logging in playing by myself or made to play by myself because party give you no SP due to mobs giving no good SP. Also now with the Leves becoming more solo and less SP if you don't get them done fast enough there no point in doing them in a party if they give the same amoumt of sp if i still get them done with leve linking then ok if not then it pointless.

The letter from the producer should be required reading before you post on the forums.

I read all the interview from E3 2009 dungeon would be limit to how many you can do a 60min meaning it not a very good party not if it give you 1-3+k Sp per kill.

[PrettyPrincess]

reading dev posts are hard

[Reinheart]

Just wait up for the endgame contents and more party play stuff, he did mention that once the battle system's foundation is built they can start working on all these kind of stuff. Without the base battle system, adding more end game content could be a huge risk to the game. He's not planning to make this game only for casual players, he know their are different play styles for everyone and he's going for all but you have to understand with a broken game like FFXIV they have to do it right or it's just going to get worse, and it might make the hardcore players even more pissed off with the end result if done wrong.

From game programmers point of view I rather have the root system, libraries all set up correctly so it's easier to work on the actual functions, how the program will run. Rather than making the program first then building the libraries, then going back to the program and try to figure out how to fix it so it runs better with the better coding, in some cases might be too hard to go back to fix + fixing might break other things and requires more work in the end.

Can't think of good real life example...lol; can only think of ideas with food.... I'm hungry damn it...

[Zenaku]

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Just wait up for the endgame contents and more party play stuff, he did mention that once the battle system's foundation is built they can start working on all these kind of stuff. Without the base battle system, adding more end game content could be a huge risk to the game. He's not planning to make this game only for casual players, he know their are different play styles for everyone and he's going for all but you have to understand with a broken game like FFXIV they have to do it right or it's just going to get worse, and it might make the hardcore players even more pissed off with the end result if done wrong.

From game programmers point of view I rather have the root system, libraries all set up correctly so it's easier to work on the actual functions, how the program will run. Rather than making the program first then building the libraries, then going back to the program and try to figure out how to fix it so it runs better with the better coding, in some cases might be too hard to go back to fix + fixing might break other things and requires more work in the end.

Can't think of good real life example...lol; can only think of ideas with food.... I'm hungry damn it...

Thank you this post give me a peace of mind about it just being casual/solo i love to solo 1-10 but once you reach 10 am more in to party like FFXI. FFXI was my first real MMO play it for 6years and doing so i only know one way of playing a mmo i can't stand wow,rift or aion battle system,art work overall how the game look so you can say ffxi sarred me into liking that type of game play only.

[Nordya]

I'm not sure if it's been stated, but in the leve redo, is the timer shortened? I think those would be good daily content.

[Payadopa]

I think I've read that it'll be thrown out of the game soon.

[NoctisUmbra]

I think I've read that it'll be thrown out of the game soon.

It won't be discarded. At least not anytime soon. They are remaking leves to essentially be a solo-play oriented content instead of it being the center of the game. Leves are going to be a lot less important than they are now, but they are not going to be discarded.

[thedevilsjester]

It won't be discarded. At least not anytime soon. They are remaking leves to essentially be a solo-play oriented content instead of it being the center of the game. Leves are going to be a lot less important than they are now, but they are not going to be discarded.

I think Nordya and Payadopa are referring to the 36 hour leve refresh timer.