Urgently Change your Approach SE

[Souljacker]

Tanaka was set up to fail. I don't think he's a terrible producer and the contraints he was working with (It must NOT be ANYTHING REMOTELY LIKE XI) really tied his hands. I'd rather YoshiP be in charge, but he does STILL need to listen to not only us, but others within the organization who have headed successful projects. Tanaka is one of those folks. He led some really awesome stuff from XI. He didn't sweat the small things so to speak (meaning he didn't use something as trivial as mog houses in his war on RMT. He didn't make it into an "achievement"; the pinnacle of your gaming career). Many of the things he did made sense. Goblin patrols being set in common RMT fishing holes, for example. He's got a proven track record no matter what you want to cite regarding XIV... and I agree it was a failure.

Don't condemn the man without looking at the whole picture.

[Koanyan]

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I don't condemn Tanaka , he have done a great work on XI , XIV 1.0 could have been a great game if no big server problem and some other problem. I still play XI , I'm not like some who have stop play when Abyssea expansion have hit and say that is crap now. I have stay , have accept change , because without change a MMO can't survive . That is true for XI , like that is true for XIV. Like I said in my first post XI like XIV in my opinion are good MMO but they have some crap point , but all MMO have crap point. The best of the world MMO will have.

After to come back to Tanaka , he have work on great game(xenogear omg i love you) , have done great game(XI) , have done a bad release of one game(XIV).He work on a new game that seem great.
What I want to point isn't : Tanaka have done crap work , is to answer to WeiShan saying yoshi-p have done nothing , he have only come take the idea that was here from Tanaka and that is all.


For house do I agree that is a bad move : yes.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I seriously doubt 1.0 failed for being pushed out quickly. It just wasn't fully fleshed out or even thought out.

[Bucy]

I'm a bit disappointed with how every patch they come up with a way to bribe players into playing old content. It's like they know how boring the old content is, so instead of making new content, they implement something that "forces" us to play the old content (Animus, Nexus, exclusive mats that have a 0.0001% droprate).

I'm willing to put up with it, assuming it will stop with 3.0.

[Prototype909]

I'm willing to put up with it, assuming it will stop with 3.0.

Why would it stop with 3.0 though? If anything it will need to expand because of a perceived need for helping new players who can't just jump to 3.0 content.

I mean let's look at the relic questline for instance

Atmas - Encourage players to do FATEs, give new players help or give the players the impression that the open world in this game isn't just deserted even though it largely is
Animus - Requires tons of dungeons/content that there is no logical reason to touch at level 50
Novus - N/A, guess this was their way of helping out the Spiritbinding RMT bots
Nexus - Most of the bonus light windows are low level primals or stuff like Turn 4, content that is obsolete for most level 50 players

Of course what SE failed to realize, typical of their shortsightedness regarding most content that has been released is that rather than queue up for Duty Finder for things like Nexus players just make a party finder of 8 people who actually have Novus and just blaze through it.

At this point patches are pretty much

1) One to two new fights that are actually worth doing (Or not in the case of Ramuh EX on launch)
2) Three new dungeons that nobody particularly seems to care about aside from vanity or expert roulette
3) Non-descript Mechanic of the patch that will force you into old content
4) Content that was promised turns out to not be what players were expecting or is locked behind either a massive gil wall or some overly convoluted system without any real need for it

[Eekiki]

I'm a bit disappointed with how every patch they come up with a way to bribe players into playing old content. It's like they know how boring the old content is, so instead of making new content, they implement something that "forces" us to play the old content (Animus, Nexus, exclusive mats that have a 0.0001% droprate).

I'm willing to put up with it, assuming it will stop with 3.0.

Since 3.0 will likely be an expansion pack that we'll be paying extra money for, it'd be awful silly if 3.0 didn't feature all new content.

[DartFx]

I for one support this. Even though they are lashing out content every few months, it's no where near the level of quality promised.

[Hurlstone]

In my opinion, I think they are producing solid content at a fantastic pace. I love how each patch comes with a boat-lode of new story quests, which actually push the lore forward. That is just my opinion, though.

[SythSynner]

Nice this thread is still going. For some reason it's my favorite one to read and jump into from time to time.