Liveletter "feedback"?

[Iromi]

I agree with OP.

Fun fact, in the 1.x era..the live letter WERE about game play and upcoming things, no glamour..no minions (those didnt even exist) and it was just all purely about content, game play and fixing the game. Now they are boring to watch..I am sorry they just are to me ; ; It is all fluff content and everything else gets ignored. The horizontal vs vertical, interesting stats on gear, job changes and fixes, open world content...all of that sort of thing is NEVER mentioned anymore.

[Culfinrandir]

He already told us yesterday that inventory and armory chest space expansions will be there in 4.0 and this is more than enough evidence that they are going to drop PS3 support in 4.0.

Now THAT is something that needs serious discussion sooner rather than later. They continually avoid answering just *when* PS3 support will be dropped. In my opinion if they state it as fact now that it will not be supported in 4.0 then people can begin the process of updating their hardware via saving, gifts or watching out for sales.

What would be very damaging would be if they wait until after Christmas to reveal that 4.0 is PS3 free. It'd also be very shortsighted to continue supporting an almost dead (outside Japan) platform to the detriment of the next expansion, which will probably be the "make or break" patch.

TL;DR We need an answer about PS3 support ASAP.

[Lorielle]

Anyone who's played XI can tell you that PS3 Limitations is such a unbelievable excuse. The PS2 was able to hold inventory space, armor space, macro swapping, and much more. Yet...We somehow cannot increase inventory and armory space because the "PS3 Can't Handle it"? I'm no tech expert, but something doesn't quite add up here.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

If you consider having 6 stats where 4-5 of them are relevant to each class and constant vertical progression with no interesting variation to a formula interesting then sure >_>

There's nothing they can do to itemization to actually make it interesting, imho. Until something besides 'moar dps' matters, it won't matter what stats they add, it'll always be cut and dry.

[Caelum_Dragguell]

There's nothing they can do to itemization to actually make it interesting, imho. Until something besides 'moar dps' matters, it won't matter what stats they add, it'll always be cut and dry.

That I agree with, but I do think there needs to be a change in the game where DPS is no longer all that matters, like a point where having support roles for things like enmity control (y'know make enmity an actual hard thing to deal with) and support heals or buffs is necessary. I don't think the next expansion will have the potential to go full throttle on this but I'd like it if some actual depth was put into the stats of this game. That being said such an overhaul of a game system is a big undertaking, and due to many rumors of a lack of manpower on the FFXIV dev team (which is a crime considering how much money this game makes for the company and how little they put back into it) we can only pray they'll do something eventually.

[Remus]

I have to agree with OP here as someone in EU i stayed up pretty late in hoping that some interesting questions will be answered but nope. I have to say this was the most disappointing live letter i have seen in awhile and I just think they shouldn't have done it. Live letters have been really going down hill recently and i'm not even excited for them anymore.

[Theodric]

I have to agree with OP here as someone in EU i stayed up pretty late in hoping that some interesting questions will be answered but nope. I have to say this was the most disappointing live letter i have seen in awhile and I just think they shouldn't have done it. Live letters have been really going down hill recently and i'm not even excited for them anymore.

Sadly this is how I feel as well. When I heard that there was to be a 'big announcement' I assumed we'd be learning something about 3.4 or 4.0. To be fair, the developers are often very tight lipped about future content but I feel like something as big as E3 would be well suited to a major announcement.

[Dualblade]

Sadly this is how I feel as well. When I heard that there was to be a 'big announcement' I assumed we'd be learning something about 3.4 or 4.0. To be fair, the developers are often very tight lipped about future content but I feel like something as big as E3 would be well suited to a major announcement.

Was anything about 3.0 announced at the E3 procceding it? At most the only thing I can think of may have been Dark Knight, and even then we didn't get much info on it till the Fan Fest, much like how we don't expect to get announcments on 4.0 till this coming FanFest. Even surprised you would expect 3.4 info when 3.3 isn't even two weeks old yet, even if it is "E3" and all that.

[RayneLittlewinkle]

Was anything about 3.0 announced at the E3 procceding it? At most the only thing I can think of may have been Dark Knight, and even then we didn't get much info on it till the Fan Fest, much like how we don't expect to get announcments on 4.0 till this coming FanFest. Even surprised you would expect 3.4 info when 3.3 isn't even two weeks old yet, even if it is "E3" and all that.

There Is a Reddit thread claiming to be the recap of the YouTube and stream and it states 3.5 is less than a month away....not sure how accurate that is.

[AnimaAnimus]

There Is a Reddit thread claiming to be the recap of the YouTube and stream and it states 3.5 is less than a month away....not sure how accurate that is.

In the official video Yoshida's translator also stated less than a month away. So it's seems fairly accurate