So What IS still in Development?

[Colorful]

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I never mentioned the GCD having anything to do with PS3, but rather it being PS3 limitations and the slow combat. Just one of the reasons why large scale PvP wouldn't be very fun in FFXIV. I still don't know why people are so interested in the dance studio... but they did recently get a transmogrification (glamour) log which we've been asking for quite some time. To be fair though, WoW's server structure and technical side of things are miles ahead. If FFXIV updated their launcher to be constantly running in the background for updates (optional of course), the ability to log in with the click of one button with a UI overhaul and live hotfixes I'd be ecstatic. I'd settle for a glamour log though.

Maybe after FFXV is finished they'll actually think about spending money on such things, but I doubt it.

[Nayout]

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The slow battle is conditioned to have 2.5 of CGD, the whole goal of the game is created under this, reduce CGD ended up destroying the game.

Another thing, to this day it is not known whether the version of PS3 somewhat limited, there are no official declarasiones more things that can get people to think for which blame the version based on "assumptions" eh .. nope ..

[worldofneil]

Some of these questions, not just the ones I've listed, have come up in Live Letters or interviews but we usually end up getting the same answers

It's probably because in the past when they've said about something and it hasn't arrived when expected (or exactly the same as initially described) a large portion of the player base has taken up pitchforks. So it's just safer for them to not give us any information now unless they are 100% certain of something.

SE very likely have plans/designs of where things are going, but things might come up later to either no longer make them viable or make them take considerably longer than expected... neither reason would matter to most of the player base so from their perspective I honestly think they probably see it as better not say anything rather than something that might later turn out not to be a case.

[KitingGenbu]

Still haven't had FC ranks increased since 2.0....
Summoner pet glamour supposedly coming 'soon' (how people are satisfied with the excuse that more summons can't be created is beyond me)
Figuring out a way to NOT have our companion being considered as a party member? (This seriously didn't sound like it was going to be an issue in development?)
Figuring out the direction of JOBS since classes dont seem to be a thing anymore (yet still keeping the cross-class system....oddly enough rogue can't share any...but maybe they will in 4.0)
Passives are nice since we got 0 in 3.0

5 seems like a good place to stop for now

[MiniPrinny]

Summoner pet glamour supposedly coming 'soon' (how people are satisfied with the excuse that more summons can't be created is beyond me)

I don't have much to contribute to the thread as a whole, but as an aside: The reason so many of us are satisfied with that is that we understand that balancing and designing pets is hard work. When you add a pet to Summoner, you add yet another tool, or in the case of Titan-egi and Garuda-egi tools to the Summoner's kit. Summoner is already very powerful in terms of what it can do. The job has a potent targeted buff (Eye for an Eye), one of the most powerful debuffs in the game (Supervirus), is the only damage dealer that can raise, a nigh-passive 5% AoE slow, the strongest bind in the game, and a Heavy that also cuts any incoming healing. Now when we add on pets, we get access to two that can stun, an AoE version of flame spikes, a knock back, a limited off-tank, and the ability to extend their own DoT effects. To add in another pet means to add something in that Garuda-Egi, Titan-Egi, and Ifrit-Egi don't already do or their master doesn't already do, and there isn't a lot of precedence for what we as players can have for them to add a new tool to Summoner that wouldn't break Black Mage's back.

[bass9020]

I don't have much to contribute to the thread as a whole, but as an aside: The reason so many of us are satisfied with that is that we understand that balancing and designing pets is hard work. When you add a pet to Summoner, you add yet another tool, or in the case of Titan-egi and Garuda-egi tools to the Summoner's kit. Summoner is already very powerful in terms of what it can do. The job has a potent targeted buff (Eye for an Eye), one of the most powerful debuffs in the game (Supervirus), is the only damage dealer that can raise, a nigh-passive 5% AoE slow, the strongest bind in the game, and a Heavy that also cuts any incoming healing. Now when we add on pets, we get access to two that can stun, an AoE version of flame spikes, a knock back, a limited off-tank, and the ability to extend their own DoT effects. To add in another pet means to add something in that Garuda-Egi, Titan-Egi, and Ifrit-Egi don't already do or their master doesn't already do, and there isn't a lot of precedence for what we as players can have for them to add a new tool to Summoner that wouldn't break Black Mage's back.

All of this should have been egi abilities that we utilized when needed and switching between egis when needed. We as the summoners shouldn't have this power but fuse it with the egis.

[KitingGenbu]

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And here I though summoner was about summoning. That excuse can only go so far. WoW is a prime example since warlock is pretty close to how summoner is. This game likes to stick to a role instead of a theme. Garuda = range | Ifrit = melee | Titan = Tank. There's nothing that is actually special for each one. People thinking that each avatar should 'fit' into this particular mold are honestly not thinking about how the class should be played. Going back to wow's warlock, you have the same thing, but then if you look at demonology warlock even now since they added even more pets, you have distinctive themes per pet outside of what each one can do. Voidwalker is your usual tank, felhunter or whatever that dog thing is has a dispel and interrupt. Imp has range can can cleanse. The main issue that this game has is that there's no real crowd control, so not only is summoner stuck in this 3 trick pony deal, but alot of other classes are since everyone is a one-man army and doesn't have to really do much outside of their rotation.

[Lisotte]

Pretty sure 1-3 have been scrapped; 1 is a neat idea that they probably didn't have any idea how to balance into normal parties and probably didn't leave an opening so they could code for it; 2 is a rather grandiose idea and also currently there's like NOTHING IN THE OPEN WORLD TO USE THEM FOR (lolhunts anyone?), in raids or whatever that would make things real weird; 3 yes machinist is pretty much going to be our musketeer because 2 gun jobs would be superfluous the same way that adding thief would be superfluous with ninja.


For 4, it's probably not a great use of resources to do, considering you're basically making an environment that lasts like 3 minutes but would need to pretty much make a complete small zone for a feature like NO ONE would use except RP'ers. FC airships flying around would be pretty dope, I was pretty disappointed with the glorified retainers we got. If anything it could be a mini game part of the Diadem revamp hopefully, but I kinda doubt they'd casually let us fly it around the open world.

TL;DR: SE started out with some more grandiose, neat ideas then both underestimated how they could allocate resources to them, and also how to fit them into their very codified, set in stone MMO.

[Kallera]

it would be nice to have an idea as to what features are currently set in stone and what are still open to suggestions, it seems as if everything is always a considerable length of time away, or just long enough to try and make people forget about it.

[Aquaslash]

Iirc, MCH is the job that musketeer would have evolved into