To the Devs: Communication is failing!

[OMEGA_HACK]

I agree with the information portions that was being discussed, you don't have to give overwhelming information you just need to give concise information when you give it. That is how you rule out confusion.

Side Note: Nice sig, Babydoll, that was an awesome series!

[normalforce]

"It will be fixed in 2.0"

2.0 will be full of miracles. 2.0 will cure cancer and diabetes.

I, for one, welcome our new v2.0 overlords.

[Babydoll]

I agree with the information portions that was being discussed, you don't have to give overwhelming information you just need to give concise information when you give it. That is how you rule out confusion.

Side Note: Nice sig, Babydoll, that was an awesome series!

Thank you! I love Macross ^^ /offtopic

[Lavani]

Final Fantasy 14, trolling done right.

[Zezlar]

I would really like to know if they plan to address the difficulty of the story mode. I just find it amazing how all these bad asses in the story have such power but yet are so weak. Ifrit was designed for level 25, level 25!!!! He should have been designed for level 50s and then been more difficult from there.

I'm not supposed to be able to solo a primal (even though it calls for 4 to enter, it definitely only takes 1). Story or not.

[PSxpert2011]

... This Byzantine discussion is precisely what I'm complaining about, and I blame the Developers and the moderators for failing to communicate the New Vision that ought to be replacing Tanaka's. ...

I am sure I speak for the vast majority of the community when I say we don't want a excessively streamlined game, that falls into the territory of the simplistic. The pull of the Final Fantasy universes has always been the complex interactions within a very deeply structured system of interacting forces. We, as players, are given the end of very entangled strings, and by pulling them, we slowly learn the effect they produce, and get to partially (very partially) control the forces of the world to our advantage. And the forces are part of a continuously shifting kaleidoscope that permanently plays with the influence of light, darkness, moon, weather, day and hour... You are kept constantly on your toes and your strategy has to change on a dime. That feeling is what brings us here, and we are afraid a good chunk of that is being taken away from hydaelyn. Perhaps it's not, but appearances are paramount. It seems the game is moving towards one in which the point is to gank, and gank fast without much thought. Maybe it's not, but again, that's what it feels like from the very succinct information you gave us.


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I commented on how simplistic the game feels on some far, far distant thread before. It's hard to explain but not hard to miss. Isn't this the work of a game developing team or is it over company political matters. We should see this game not as a political tool to draw players in... it's should deliver challenge. It should be seen as a work of art imitating the creativity of the dev team with the ambition to present more than what FFxi was able to.

You know, I saw FFxi with a straight forward and linear objective which led everyone to follow and then meet in the middle. Not ignoring the quest and the low-level events that could've kept many busy with craft, selling, farm/gather, explore and do rank missions. What's holding FFxiv back?? We all seen the future to come with the FFXIV road map but will it hold up and why did it take this loooong??

FFxi was able to sell itself just on fan support only. Is this going to happen with FFxiv?

Is SE focusing too much time on "bells and whistles" before building up the core of the FFxiv world? It's built up from great graphics and good enough characters till now but nothing memorable. I don't think I'll be able to recall much experiences as I did back in the FFxi days (before they 'fixed' the game, oh gawd, going back to nostalgia) here on FFxiv.

[Jinko]

I agree with the information portions that was being discussed, you don't have to give overwhelming information you just need to give concise information when you give it. That is how you rule out confusion.

Agreed, in a normal situation the dev could answer our questions directly but there is this whole too and fro thing with us > community dev > yoshi P and back again.

The JP side get it a lot easier, but even so there are days when threads and posts are ignored.

I know they are busy and all but they really should take the time to set people minds at ease, unless of course A they don't know either or B they are uneasy because it's all true.