Letter from the Producer, XVI (08/15/2011)

[Corrderio]

Am I the only one that cringed at the thought of the patch size and the crappy downloader?

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

Am I the only one that cringed at the thought of the patch size and the crappy downloader?

Yep, because the downloader works just fine for me.

[Lobo]

Downloader works far from fine for me, I just use uTorrent =/

[Archadius]

Hope so, I'll be logging at the end of the bridge when they open it.

You can't honestly believe they're going to just GIVE YOU Ishgard, can you?

It's going to be the equivalent of unlocking Sea or Sky from FFXI. You have to WORK FOR IT. This is how it should be, so we don't have 127398172 AFKers, RMT, and other scum strutting about like in Ul'dah.

Nothing against you personally, I just hate the mentality that people feel they deserve Ishgard on a silver platter and should be able to just log in when it's released and waltz right in.

[Nuru]

You can't honestly believe they're going to just GIVE YOU Ishgard, can you?

It's going to be the equivalent of unlocking Sea or Sky from FFXI. You have to WORK FOR IT. This is how it should be, so we don't have 127398172 AFKers, RMT, and other scum strutting about like in Ul'dah.

Nothing against you personally, I just hate the mentality that people feel they deserve Ishgard on a silver platter and can should be able to just log in when it's released and waltz right in.

I think you should work for it too, should be something like a Grand Company quest. ^^

[Delsus]

You can't honestly believe they're going to just GIVE YOU Ishgard, can you?

It's going to be the equivalent of unlocking Sea or Sky from FFXI. You have to WORK FOR IT. This is how it should be, so we don't have 127398172 AFKers, RMT, and other scum strutting about like in Ul'dah.

Nothing against you personally, I just hate the mentality that people feel they deserve Ishgard on a silver platter and can should be able to just log in when it's released and waltz right in.

Ishgard is nothing like Sea or Sky because its a city, you didnt need to do anything for access to jeuno in XI, Ishgard will be XIV's version of jeuno. All you could compare it to is Whitegate, but that was access to a region not a city, there is no logic in a quest to allow access for another city, if it was an endgame area, or an entire region then I would agree with you. Also a quest would not stop RMT, they would do the quest because it would be somwhere else to make money.

Also why would a quest stop people afking? The only characters that arent playing who are afk are mules that they use to bazaar.

tl;dr a quest for access to a single city is stupid and does nothing except make an unnesiserry timesink, a whole region or endgame areas is understandable but a single city makes no sense.

[northernsky]

I highly doubt that they just release Ishgard as a city among others, I expect considerable content (dungeons, classes, jobs) to accompany it, and probably new accessible areas.

I doubt we see Ishgard before an expansion or PS3 release.

[Munba]

Ishgard could be the center of the job quests. Maybe all in one, in 1.21 (the biggest ever lol).

[syntaxlies]

as glad as i am to hear all the good things in this patch, id like to take this time to say, I TOLD YOU SO, about the end of summer plans becoming the end of winter plans. This will respectively put 1.20 til December. Im not hatin though, its actually the opposite. More f2p time for me.

[Zanfire]

as glad as i am to hear all the good things in this patch, id like to take this time to say, I TOLD YOU SO, about the end of summer plans becoming the end of winter plans. This will respectively put 1.20 til December. Im not hatin though, its actually the opposite. More f2p time for me.

im pretty sure that they are not going to start charging after 1.20....they would be stupid to do so and it would pretty much destroy the game. Until the ps3 release i would expect it to stay free. And i wouldnt expect the ps3 version until things like the job system/world re-design changes are done with.