Letter from the producer live XXIV

[maelor]

The description said Yoshi would talk about 3.1 and answer questions from the forums. I don't see a thread for questions from the forums so I'm going to post stuff here...

Keeping this short and sweet.

1. Please make all medicines more useful. Most are useless. I know you said you are rebalancing potions and ethers but the others need lots of helps too.
2. Future of gathering/crafting. Please give it more of a purpose.
3. love the new flying in new zones, it is way fun, but I miss being forced to explore the ground.
4. How is egi glamour coming along? I quickly got over that we are not getting new egi's but still need something other than just current ones.
5. New zones? Once we can ride our airships will we be going to totally new places?
6. Maybe new kind of instanced content that isn't a traditional dungeon but is more of a smaller instanced zone.

Just some ideas.

[Colorful]

3. love the new flying in new zones, it is way fun, but I miss being forced to explore the ground.

You're still forced to explore on ground to gather the aether points, and do the quests required for it, otherwise I don't know what you're suggesting. The removal of flight, or maybe areas that don't allow it that aren't just city/town areas?

[Nadirah]

You're still forced to explore on ground to gather the aether points, and do the quests required for it, otherwise I don't know what you're suggesting. The removal of flight, or maybe areas that don't allow it that aren't just city/town areas?

He wants them to pull a wow likely.

Where everything new doesn't allow flight.

Which pissed off a LOT of people.

[Aeyis]

He wants them to pull a wow likely.

Where everything new doesn't allow flight.

Which pissed off a LOT of people.

Speak for yourself. It pleased a LOT of people as well. Flying adds very little to the game (this one or wow) if you cant even combat while flying.

[Colorful]

Speak for yourself. It pleased a LOT of people as well. Flying adds very little to the game (this one or wow) if you cant even combat while flying.

It annoyed more than it pleased I'd bet.

It adds convenience, and to me convenience trumps everything else. Never understood the people who forced other people into playing how they want, it would be like if pro-flyers demanded ground mounts be removed.

[Aeyis]

It annoyed more than it pleased I'd bet.

It adds convenience, and to me convenience trumps everything else. Never understood the people who forced other people into playing how they want, it would be like if pro-flyers demanded ground mounts be removed.

That's a difference of opinion. There were a number of vocal complainers, thats for sure. But many also appreciated the fact they could actually enjoy the overworld again.

Never understood the people who forced other people into playing how they want

That argument was used on the WoW forums as well...by people who would force others to play in a world where there was flight. Simply having flight affects the overworld. The way its designed for example.

I can only call such reasoning irony at its finest.

[Nadirah]

Speak for yourself. It pleased a LOT of people as well. Flying adds very little to the game (this one or wow) if you cant even combat while flying.

What point would aerial combat serve when there's nothing in the air to fight?

EQ2's had mounted combat for years, and it still forces you to dismount in combat on flying mounts.

And flying *does* add to the game, whether or not you choose to believe it. Adds an entirely new axis to game play(z), giving your ground to work with, so to speak, without boring things like elevators.

And I'm pretty sure the mass exodus wow had right about the time they'd announced there wasn't ever going to be flying, plus the reluctant reintroduction of it to enact damage control, had nothing to do with removing flight.

Riiight.

It annoyed more than it pleased I'd bet.

It adds convenience, and to me convenience trumps everything else. Never understood the people who forced other people into playing how they want, it would be like if pro-flyers demanded ground mounts be removed.

With me, it was the fact that ground mounts are slow as hell and their attitude in that they think they know what we find fun, but we don't, that was my final straw.

That's a difference of opinion. There were a number of vocal complainers, thats for sure. But many also appreciated the fact they could actually enjoy the overworld again.
That argument was used on the WoW forums as well...by people who would force others to play in a world where there was flight. Simply having flight affects the overworld. The way its designed for example.

I can only call such reasoning irony at its finest.

Then why did they backtrack and put it back in? If it was so helping the community and gameplay by having it removed.

Lol.

[Verdan]

Speak for yourself. It pleased a LOT of people as well. Flying adds very little to the game (this one or wow) if you cant even combat while flying.

Fresh terrible opinions, out in the wild! This is the sort of thing that keeps people coming back to this website.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Fresh terrible opinions, out in the wild! This is the sort of thing that keeps people coming back to this website.

Flying actually takes away from the overall game.

I loved Archages gliding system which added a way to fly limitedly but added to the game instead of taking it away.

[Exodus-E]

4. How is egi glamour coming along? I quickly got over that we are not getting new egi's but still need something other than just current ones.

That was already answered in a previous Live Letter, actually:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3128435

They barely even started on it, so I wouldn't hold my breath on them revealing anything substantial (aside maybe some concept planning/sketches) this soon.