Live letter fail

[Sephrick]

What if, now this may blow your mind, but there were, wait for it... hardly any questions were asked about 1.20 etc etc, so they just decided to make up the questions.

That would be a valid point accept while perusing the 63 pages of that thread to make the "most liked" response, I noticed there were more questions about 1.20 and 1.21 than any other topic.

I've done my research, maybe you and your attitude should go do some too.

[Jinko]

I respect that they wanted to try a live questions and answer session. I believe that experiment has failed miserably.

They did selectively pick the questions they wanted to answer.

In the first one, they refused to answer what moon phases and direction had on crafting. Why?

They have so many things that need fixing that they did not address.

1. When are they going to add personal map markers?
2. Random number generator? /random
3. Party invitation, looking for group and /sea , /seacom. Why do you have to be near the party leader to be promoted?
4. Linkshell management. We need to be able to kick offline members. We need an /o officer channel.
5. Auction House. Market Ward search.
6. Inventory management. Can we get a separate tab for gear and items?
7. Inventory search.
8. Party Alliance. We cannot do group events without separate parties.
9. Loot system. We need a /random or /lot option. Need and greed will not work if they base it on the current job you are playing. This works for lolWoW because they only play one job. It won't work for FF11.

LOL at FF11, someones bias is showing !!!
Need/Greed will work just fine they already said that they will alter it to work with the switch-able class system.

A lot of those have been answered and are being fixed in the next patch.

[grandm]

a really easy solution for any1 that didn't like live letters

if they do another one. don't watch it. don't find the translation's, don't join in any discussion's after the event. plz don't let let this ruin your life

[Sephrick]

a really easy solution for any1 that didn't like live letters

if they do another one. don't watch it. don't find the translation's, don't join in any discussion's after the event. plz don't let let this ruin your life

What if I liked the first one? Should I only watch half of the next one?

[grandm]

What if I liked the first one? Should I only watch half of the next one?

no you should understand that not everything revolves around you. the letters were not made to keep sephirck happy. if you like some good for you. if you didn't like others tough luck. there are ppl out there that did like it

[Sephrick]

no you should understand that not everything revolves around you. the letters were not made to keep sephirck happy. if you like some good for you. if you didn't like others tough luck. there are ppl out there that did like it

Well, it's a good thing I never said anything about my questions in specific. Just cited some general stuff I've seen asked.

This has nothing to do with me or my inquiries. Only that SE failed to do what they advertised.

[grandm]

yarn 17 pages of ppl telling you that the latters are not a fail. this thread is a fail, you may have picked up a couple of ppl that believe the carp that your are spouting. but most ppl enjoyed the letters. most ppl dont' need information on 1.19 because playing the game since the patch or talking about the patch on these forums for the last month has been enough to understand what 1.19 is about. we will be getting info on class balancing in 1.20 in a week or so, so we didn't need them to waste our time by talking about something that we are going to find out about in a weeks time anyways. then there is the job system in 1.21. i think the reason we were not told much more than what we already know is coz they are still working on it, and don't want to commit to something now that they might still want to change. here is a hypothetical example for you. they could have told us that monk will be an evade tank, but then after a bit of testing change their mind and make it a DPS. if this was would have ppl complaining (i bet you will be at the front of the queue) "you told us you were going to do this, but then you did this instead"

[Sephrick]

yarn 17 pages of ppl telling you that the latters are not a fail.

Actually it's 17 pages of the same two people recycling the same baseless garbage and personal hunches as "facts."

we will be getting info on class balancing in 1.20 in a week or so, so we didn't need them to waste our time by talking about something that we are going to find out about in a weeks time anyways. then there is the job system in 1.21.

So why advertise specifically 1.19/1.20? If they weren't going discuss it and instead only about 2.0, why didn't they say the theme was 2.0?

i think the reason we were not told much more than what we already know is coz they are still working on it

Possibly a reasonable notion, except everything they showed was concepts and things still in development. This argument falls in on itself. If they don't show things we're getting in a month because it's still being worked on then there's absolutely no reason things in 2.0 should ever be shown this early.

they could have told us that monk will be an evade tank, but then after a bit of testing change their mind and make it a DPS. if this was would have ppl complaining (i bet you will be at the front of the queue) "you told us you were going to do this, but then you did this instead"

I wouldn't as long as they just added in a line like "after thorough testing we've deemed evasion tanking to not be viable in this combat system." Which would make sense given the nasty AoEs they like to give bosses.

[Bethor]

Well it's just a let down that they've talked about stuff which is basically too far ahead. A lot of people think "wtf idc". Information about things which are coming in the nearest future would've been better. Or more details at least.

People are tired of answers like "We're looking into it.", or "We don't know if we can do this, but we're going to talk about it.". While I understand that the dev's don't want to give any information which might be taken back at a later time... but hearing that is the same as hearing nothing at all.

But I have to agree with you. Some people expected certain questions and those didnt show up. Of course they're dissapointed thus the letter have failed.

They could've revealed a lot of more information about the game instead of this "bla bla" though

OT: And I only wanted some information about Blue Mage goddamnit /ragequit ;O;

[Sephrick]

Well it's just a let down that they've talked about stuff which is basically too far ahead. A lot of people think "wtf idc". Information about things which are coming in the nearest future would've been better. Or more details at least.

This is all I'm trying to say. After a world tour of interviews, the live letter should have gotten down to business. We're the paying (box sales) customers who soon will have to fork over subscription fees. No one but us would have been watching this. They should have taken the chance to tell us about the exclusive year for which we're expected to pay and how the game we enjoy right now will change.

Let me emphasize that last piece:

They should have taken the chance to tell us about the exclusive year for which we're expected to pay and how the game we enjoy right now will change.