The "Letter from the Producer LIVE Part II" Video & Q&A Summary Released!

[Delsus]

If you honestly think they haven't been listening to the fan base, there is something significantly wrong with your mental faculties. Zone remapping, Class reforms, Job titles, auto attack, storyline participation requirements, jump, alternate mounts, armor with required levels; all of that is because of player feedback. Agree or disagree with the changes all you want, but claiming they haven't been listening is plain asinine on your part.

While this is true, in the alpha and beta they didnt listen to us, I was there and it was a lil anoying, ultimately that is why the game is in such a state and it needs to be in this flipflop state, as Jenestia put it, and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

I really hate to agree with a troll like Irongripz, but alas I have no choice, whats the world coming to.

[Jennestia]

The game sold 600k+ copies

Don't post actual facts, it upsets people not being correct in their cynicism..

[xanj]

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Q: Could you tell us about why you decided to commence billing at this time?

A: In the previous live letter, I mentioned that standards-wise, I felt the game was only 50% complete. My stance hasn't changed since then. For patch 1.19, the programmers did their best to lay the foundation for content to be implemented continuously."

ok so yet again you are asking us to pay for a game that is incomplete? beings its half done how about you charge us like 5 bucks that sounds much more reasonable and will help allot with server costs. if you decrease the costs im sure most people will view it more along the lines of a donation, plus money is short these days 15bucks adds up quick but 5 bucks a month will much more reasonable for most people im sure

[Soukyuu]

They already said they are considering a discount, so.... what is your point?

[Dreadnought]

There is a difference between creating one model for a hat piece and then allowing you to display or not display it, and creating a robe that allows you to have it's hood down or up.

Do they create two models for that single robe, one for hood down and another for hood up? That isn't an elegant solution for future items, storage wise and development time wise. They're already trying to get away from duplicate items with separate .DATs when it comes to coloured gear, making each robe have two nearly identical models is a step backwards. If they went that route it would mainly be so they wouldn't need to create an animation for a player grabbing onto their hood and pulling it over their head.

The other method is create a robe that can move, this isn't simple. No other piece of equipment in this game has it's own animations associated with it, only some physics. Having a robe hood that animates fluidly when a player grabs it and pulls it over is extra animations that need to be done and for each race. What happens when future hoods come out that look completely different, more animations specifically for those?

It is not a simple issue and they already said they're working on figuring it out, figuring out what is the best way for them to go about this that won't cause problems for them later on (like so many of the horrible systems that were put into XIV initially). It is no where near comparable to /display head on or off, it's not even the same ballpark.

have you looked in the .dats? the color you see is a filter being displayed server side.... not a separate dat. ive modified tons of them.

there is one base .dat per model. I made Cowls a near black so all colors being displayed will be much darker instead of the cartoony pastels we have now.

If SE said this themselves then they are lying through their teeth.

you yourself can open up the model viewer and see that there are only base models in the .dats with very few color options versus what you see in game.

i tried for a month learning how to get rid of Pink Robes only to find out by talking to other modders in neko sentai that i was correct in that they are filters, not .dat duplicates

[Dreadnought]

another thing SE lied about is having to create gear models for each race.
thats funny because Elezen males do not have their own CNJ robe model. they literally share the exact same .dat file as Hyur males. it took me like a week to figure that out.

what happens so far as we know is that when an elezen equips that robe, it calls a different .dat filled with its animations to satisfy the model. the model itself however is just scaled according to size just like it would depending on which size you chose to create your character.

[AmyRae]

The game sold 600k+ copies

Don't post actual facts, it upsets people not being correct in their cynicism..

It was actually 630k boxes shipped as of Nov. 4, 2010. What actually sold worldwide by that date was estimated to be 300k.

By now, most of that stock has sold, but only after serious price reductions and the current free-to-play, waived-subscription-fees in mind.
http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/sales...sy-xiv-online/

[irongripz]

It was actually 630k boxes shipped as of Nov. 4, 2010. What actually sold worldwide by that date was estimated to be 300k.

By now, most of that stock has sold, but only after serious price reductions and the current free-to-play, waived-subscription-fees in mind.
http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/sales...sy-xiv-online/

how many of those did amazon buy?