Famitsu interview with Yoshi

[Selli]

3.15 before Christmas probably means dec 22.

Inb4 "Maintenance will begin on December 24th 11:59pm PST"

[Kuwagami]

its the high end content for the top 1% of raiders, tough even casual groups who already got full 210 should clear it without problems

a3 normal seems to suit you more if you have neither gear/skill nor the determination/time to learn the mechanics

Whatever you say man. No point talking to someone resorting to personal attacks.

You just seem to have no idea what the "casual raiding" scene is like

[ServerCollaps]

You just seem to have no idea what the "casual raiding" scene is like

so what is it?

[RiceisNice]

its the high end content for the top 1% of raiders, tough even casual groups who already got full 210 should clear it without problems

a3 normal seems to suit you more if you have neither gear/skill nor the determination/time to learn the mechanics

That's an oxymoron. 1% of raiders =/= casual raiders.

And even then, "casual" definition differs people by people, but it doesn't change the fact that the general census is that A3S and onward is incredibly overtuned, the clear rates are concerningly low (admiringly by the developers, who intentionally designed these to cater to the high end raiders, so wut?), mass server transfers for a "better raiding scene", and that Normal mode can be done with even someone that's afking outside of the boss arena because it's so loose and undertuned comparable to a 24-man raid.

[Vlady]

I'm starting to think people blur the lines between the meaning of casual and hardcore. I know many people who are skilled to do as3 but have bad luck with statics losing people and spending time and energy to replace them. I still remember the 9 hour battle against absolute and thank god no mmo is that stupid to put in hardcore crap of ff 11 days. I got kicked from my raid team because I said f it and went to bed.

[Kosmos992k]

Thats also happening in the german version. There is alot of "typical german" and "germany only" stuff inside dialoges and other texts.

Thats good to know actually, it shows a lot of integrity that the apply localization for specific languages, and not just 'wester' or 'english'. It also seems to be an improvement over the way that things may have been handled before. Either was, it's good news.

[ServerCollaps]

That's an oxymoron. 1% of raiders =/= casual raiders.

no its not

hardcore raider (1%) can kill it without proper gear, casuals can kill it with proper gear, in the end everyone should be able to

a3s is nothing different then some kind of titan hm/ex just with 4.3m instead auf 300k hp, memorize some easy mechanics like sluices or protean wave and combine them later. Titan had landslide, exploding gaols and plumes at the same time

all what a3 requires is a knowledge of playing your class and to tunnelvision for only 60 instead of 90%, tough you still can tunnelvision most of it by just following set patterns for every mechanic, which will never change and are always the same

[Cheraa]

i'm the only one bothered by the fact that Yoshida did admit that they was unable to offer enough instance of diadem?
i means with a game for 4 million + people (as they have said) isn't normal to expect high congestion and to have the hardware ready for it?

.... between the lack of manpower and hardware we can't expect them to do miracle, but still i'm bothered by the fact that every month they get more of 40.000.000 euro (and i'm sure i under estimate how much they get) even if we count the maintenance and support team for 10.000.000 (what is far too much) where go the other 30.000.000. i can understand that the society get them but don't they can reinvest a bit into the game? i means god with the cash they get per month can't we expect a better support of SE to the dev?

FF XIV don't have 4 Million active players. It is said to be 4 Million Accounts. Active player are estimated to be around 400k-500k. Means an earning of ~5.5 Million Euro. Now subtract taxes, Salary, Server leasing, services, Development of Content and Expansions, Services, Translation and ofc. profit.

[Malakai]

Yoshida: With FFXIV now, within a single server process thread, we have a technique called "instance of an instance" which allows us to create multiple instances.

Hmmm... am I the only one who thought of "Oh hey, personal housing?"

[Colorful]

Hmmm... am I the only one who thought of "Oh hey, personal housing?"

If they can't even handle a few hundred instances I doubt they could handle a few thousand personal houses...