We need more information.

[Jibe]

Sure SE has been giving us more info, but for the most part it is politicians info. They manage to say alot while communicating very little hard information. I don't really blame them though, they have a reputation that needs protecting, and they don't want to promise things that turn out to be false, because that can really backfire later, believe me (I work in sales, number one rule: don't promise what you can't deliver).

SE will never give us 100 percent of the information they have available, because it's all subject to change and the more detail they provide the more chance of it coming back to hurt them later.

[SilvertearRen]

Sure SE has been giving us more info, but for the most part it is politicians info. They manage to say alot while communicating very little hard information. I don't really blame them though, they have a reputation that needs protecting, and they don't want to promise things that turn out to be false, because that can really backfire later, believe me (I work in sales, number one rule: don't promise what you can't deliver).

SE will never give us 100 percent of the information they have available, because it's all subject to change and the more detail they provide the more chance of it coming back to hurt them later.

Here's the reality. Square Enix is currently the majority MMO operator in Japan. WHAT do they have to lose by sharing their design philosophy, and their approaches to making decisions on FFXIV?

Seriously, the Japanese are people who are arse-backwards sometimes, and it's driving the rest of the world crazy. (And it's not a good kind of crazy)

[giftforce]

Sure SE has been giving us more info, but for the most part it is politicians info. They manage to say alot while communicating very little hard information. I don't really blame them though, they have a reputation that needs protecting, and they don't want to promise things that turn out to be false, because that can really backfire later, believe me (I work in sales, number one rule: don't promise what you can't deliver).

SE will never give us 100 percent of the information they have available, because it's all subject to change and the more detail they provide the more chance of it coming back to hurt them later.

True but I mean would it kill them to give us some overall design-philosophy behind things. Just to let us know where they are coming from. Even if the specifics are off, the general design concept will be relatively unaltered.