a pretty serious question

[silentwindfr]

I think he's talking specifically about the exclusivity of certain content - content that favors those who manipulate other players, hoard things to themselves and sometimes flat out cheat. I, too, got the feeling that this patch pulled a Tanaka-Yoshida switch... Some of this content has Tanaka written all over it.

that, it what i means mostly, this two last patch in some content look a lot at what we did get in the V1 under tanaka... i feel they are doing huge mistake, because they listen too much to some comment and forget the past error.
the hunt we have are dumb and bad, whatever they do will not change it. it don't give teeth to the world since most of them are Zerged by a huge pack of mindless player that only see into this a way to get fast Sand/oil.

for the relic part, i don't feel any achievement to get the animus, only a feeling oe deject and no more of this. it was possible to do this better, and less.... grindfest. indeed we are far of some grind of FF11, but it seems they try to increase artificially the life of the game by adding mindless content.

the live letter don't have make me feel that they did listen, when i see Yoshida say that the reward of the Rank B, A, S are not the trouble but that they need to increase the reward of the daily, i feel it don't look at the picture.
on one side we do have a content that will take you between 2 at 4 month for get a i110 weapon and on the other side you have the hunt that allows you to get an i110 armor extremely fast, but only for the fastest player or the more organized. (if not an elite)

i feel the balance of the game it's all over the place, i feel they try to satisfy way too many community and don't know how balance all. instead to make them game, they try to make a game that will please every type of player, what is not possible.

and the recent add, are more for please the FF11 player and nostalgic one. we had already ingame some feature that was only need some update for create a hunt more balanced...
like make the daily and weekly, use the leves and faction leves (from the v1 this one) systeme, allowing people to play with them friend when they want. it was even possible to add content for all sort of guild via the Faction leves, addind a slider for choice the number of people that will face the boss.

use the already existant boss FATE and add some level 50, for give acces to more people the feeling of the hunt.

and finally create S rank monster that will be hunted like we have right now, but with a lower respawn time and reward. (48 hours is far too long and if the boss is killed while the slow hours of the server population, most of the server will never see it)

i feel they really need to look at the bigger picture and more important at all the stuff they did in the last year, all the trouble and think more before add content that can create inbalance and bad blood in the community.

ps: and i'm a bit scared too that they start to forget that the game have a community outside japan. the live letter have leave me a feeling of let out one more time, no translation, and we did get a lot of question about frontline, because japanese play it a lot.
in the past reinhart was covering this lack, but now they really need to work on this, it's important or this live letter will be taken more and more like an insult to the other community. or maybe this live letter are only for the japanese player?