Live letter fail

[Sephrick]

Holland, your post is a shining example of why we need more official information on those topics instead of garbage about goobbue mounts and jumping.

3) The game won't be "release standard" in 1.20. It'll be release standard at 2.0 release. Till then it's a work in progress.

"But MMOs are perpetually a work in progress."

XIV is a special case where a publicly humiliated company said "our bad, we'll fix it." 2.0 is that fix.

In the mean time, we're told that as they work on the new, release-quality version of the game, they'll toss us some super special ont-time content -- at the rate of one battle every three months.

So my question stands. Why should I pay to wait for these battles when I could just as well not pay till a month before 2.0 and reap the same rewards as someone who sat on their hands for 11 months?

4) Yoshida has already said they can't make further enhancements along the way. The answer to lag is 2.0. So my question in response is, why develop content that is so affected by it. "Deal with it" is not acceptable.

5) Great, vague general guesses in the dark. That really clears things up. I'd ask you to cite your sources but, oh wait, you just made all of that up.

7) Yes, they are being taken away. Yoshida specifically said the extra inventory slots received in 1.19 are temporary and will be removed. It'd just be nice to know if that meant 1.20 or 2.0.

9) Yeah, yeah. We all know how well SE is at predicting these things when they're three months out. We've yet to have one delivered on the initial target. So I guess I should have been more clear and asked for an update on the progress of 1.20.

10) I've been patient for a year. I was patient when I uttered the phrase "it's only beta, they'll fix it" as I plunked down $70 for my collectors edition. Ive been patient as they've failed to meet their own deadlines. I've had enough of being patient. It's not like I'm expect a year's worth of content right now. I just want them to talk about what they say they're going to talk about when they say they're going to talk about it.

Why does that make me impatient or the bad guy?

We know they're working on 2.0, and that's great. But 1.20 is coming about 13 months sooner than 2.0. The priorities in this live letter were just backwards. Par for the course for SE.

[Betelgeuzah]

So my question stands. Why should I pay to wait for these battles when I could just as well not pay till a month before 2.0 and reap the same rewards as someone who sat on their hands for 11 months?

Because you feel that it is worth it.

If it isn't, then don't pay. This can't be that complicated but I guess it is.

I've had enough of being patient.

Now actually show it in practice. Bitching yet still staying here is pathetic at best.

[Holland]

Holland, your post is a shining example of why we need more official information on those topics instead of garbage about goobbue mounts and jumping.

Snip on the rest ;p

I stated that was only my opinion on the matter. I side with SE, believing 1.20 is fit for payment as I log in almost every day for two to three hours. I respect you feel the real fix for FFXIV is 2.0, however what I stated came from the mouth of the producer himself and is the answer you should add to that question: The game is release standard (By what he believes to be the industry standard, weather right on wrong? who knows)

On the jobs, this is definitely speculation, but seeing they will have specific roles in combat, its roots going to the most basic form of Final Fantasy combat, I'd be pretty sure there is no other tank.

On the lag: in one of those recent interviews they showed a lot of concern in regards to the lag EU and NA players are experiencing, hence, the creation of the sticky thread I mentioned, which is to keep alleviating the lag.

On the inventory: they added the extra inventory to our characters because for the moment, they can't implement housing or some NPC that can hold the item, but this was introduced because of the Materia system and recipes overhauls taking place which put a strain on our inventory. The Materia and recipe overhauls are here to stay, so its easy to see the inventory slots will only be removed from out characters and relocated to someplace else.

[Sephrick]

Because you feel that it is worth it.

If it isn't, then don't pay. This can't be that complicated but I guess it is.



Now actually show it in practice. Bitching yet still staying here is pathetic at best.

If people didn't complain we'd still be getting exp per hit and repairing our equipment every hour.

"Like it or leave" is such a weak response. This game is bleeding resources and limping a long. Yet I'm vilified for finally putting my foot down and demanding answers? Excuse me if riding a goobbue isn't enough to placate me to subscribe. I don't want ton know about 2.0 till 2.0 is ready.

Again, all I'm saying is there's 1.20-1.23 between now and 2.0's release. It stands to reason that since we are the target audience for pre-2.0 content, they'd take this opportunity to tell us more about what they're selling us.

[grandm]

lol you want info on 1.20, is that not what the 1.20 patch notes will be for? so if you can just wait a little longer you will get the info you want

[Sephrick]

I side with SE, believing 1.20 is fit for payment as I log in almost every day for two to three hours.

Based on what? We know more about 2.0 than we do 1.20. You haven't played 1.20, so it means nothing that you log in for hours a day. I do too. I'm a fan boy scorned.

I can wait for the delivery, I just want them to focus on the here and now. Yoshida just did a world-wide media tour about 2.0. I get it, there's big things on the horizon. Now she'd some light on the objects in front of our faces. You know, the stuff they said they'd talk about.

[Sephrick]

lol you want info on 1.20, is that not what the 1.20 patch notes will be for? so if you can just wait a little longer you will get the info you want

Ugh. Seriously?

If we're to wait for the patch notes, then why tease that you're going to talk about 1.19/1.20? It's not luck I'm pulling this out of my butt. They said they'd discuss something then proceeded to not discuss it.

[Zanfire]

i have to say, im not all that happy about the new mounts. I love the mobs, they are part of FF, but controling and riding some of them, like the ahriman just seems...off. Chocobos have always been the prime land mount and airships for the sky, just doesnt seem right using the monsters we fight all the time. If anything use unique monsters that end up in the lore as to why we can tame them. Id much rather that then no reason as to why im mounting a flying evil eye ball.

[Betelgeuzah]

If people didn't complain we'd still be getting exp per hit and repairing our equipment every hour.

If people didn't stop playing that would be the case.

Your bitching is hardly as effective.

"Like it or leave" is such a weak response. This game is bleeding resources and limping a long. Yet I'm vilified for finally putting my foot down and demanding answers? Excuse me if riding a goobbue isn't enough to placate me to subscribe. I don't want ton know about 2.0 till 2.0 is ready.

If it isn't, then don't subscribe. They don't have to provide anything for you. They are fine with you not playing, you are fine with it. Then simply don't play. Nobody cares about your bitching if it doesn't lead anywhere.

[Holland]

Based on what? We know more about 2.0 than we do 1.20. You haven't played 1.20, so it means nothing that you log in for hours a day. I do too. I'm a fan boy scorned.

I can wait for the delivery, I just want them to focus on the here and now. Yoshida just did a world-wide media tour about 2.0. I get it, there's big things on the horizon. Now she'd some light on the objects in front of our faces. You know, the stuff they said they'd talk about.

Hmmmm. I might not understand the question. I log in continuously because I'm having fun and find myself with so many things to do and don't have the time to do them all throughout my daily play time. They will not charge at 1.20 release, they will let us play test it before fees.

For me, its easy to see a trend. Since 1.18 the positive improvements on the game far outshine the very very very few negatives, in my opinion. If the trend continues in 1.20 I'll simply subscribe, no more to it than that. Since 1.18 they always start showing the updates and changes about two weeks prior to release date of patch, I'm so busy in-game at the moment that I do not spend half of my free time (Like back in April) refreshing the Lodestone website waiting for updates. What I have at the moment is more than enough and since they started putting out the massive patches 1.18, 1.18a, 1.18b, 1.19 and 1.19a it just continues going uphill.

I will agree with Betelgeuzah, it is rather simple. Its is not completely black and white in regards to subscribing, you either are having fun and continue playing by subscribing on 1.20 or you don't and either move on to new games or wait until 1.21, 1.22, 1.23 or finally 2.0 to come back.