Developer lack of communication

[Deceptus]

Everyone know that the community is pretty frazzled currently. A lot of it has to do with the change to the battle system. One of the more contentious topics is the state of the White Mage job.

According to:

http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv299...op_onair&row=2
https://freshlive.tv/ngc

Cure II spawns a lily 100% of the time.

Per Yoshida:

Interesting side note: Yoshida said that the build shown at the media tour is from late April, so around a whole month old by the time the info was released, and he also said a lot of other things have changed since. "Please look at the patch notes."

This brings up a very important topic. Developer communication. During the Live Letter XXXVI the developers stressed that the numbers discussed "Weren't the final numbers". They KNEW during the live letter that everything discussed wasn't accurate and they had known it for at least 3 weeks. Why did they continue to broadcast information they KNEW was inaccurate?

THIS. NEEDS. TO. STOP.

We can only go forth trusting that the information the developers give us is accurate. If we can't trust that information, what is the point of the Live Letters? All they had to do is call up the Battle Design team a day or two before the presentation and get the proper numbers and abilities. I understand presentations are made ahead of time, and a quick correction to the presentation would be all that is needed.

[Keramory]

Why does this need to stop?

Seriously I think people take this nonsense too seriously. It's a video game. You want to know why the devs don't take us seriously? Cause of the over dramatic reactions ideas of things that are not even out yet.

[LaylaTsarra]

Why does this need to stop?

Seriously I think people take this nonsense too seriously. It's a video game. You want to know why the devs don't take us seriously? Cause of the over dramatic reactions ideas of things that are not even out yet.

Game hasn't release yet and things are subject to change. Seriously they shouldn't say anything and let people discover how it works upon release. One thing for sure there is no pleasing everyone.

[bswpayton]

Everyone know that the community is pretty frazzled currently. A lot of it has to do with the change to the battle system. One of the more contentious topics is the state of the White Mage job.

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no english translation ?

[Vidu]

The Dev-team is probably trying their hardest right now to finish a major project, aka the expansion - publishing and correcting minor details like this in a presentation thats mostly meant to keep people excited and give them an idea about whats coming for them, is most likely not their biggest concern right now.
My guess: they continued to broadcast this information, that they claimed might be inaccurate because they simply had more important stuff on their plate than micromanage something silly like that.

The point in the live letters is not to get 100% correct information - seriously, you're complaining about something that might still be tested during that time to figure out how to best balance it. The point is to give people an insight into what the devs are doing, keep them excited, maybe a feeling of being "included". For all that we know those numbers are changing within the day while the battle team is trying something out - so giving one number and saying "that can change" is as accurate as it will get.
Final, 100% accurate information has to be in the patch-notes - and they referred you/everyone to those.

I get that people are upset with WHM-changes in general - what I dont get is why someone would get worked up like this over something that (in the grande scheme of things aka a whole expansion) is a minor detail...

[DRHaymaker]

I don't think you know what an actual lack of communication looks like, at least as far as it pertains to your issue. They said that the numbers weren't final... that doesn't mean the information given is inaccurate, it means that the information can change. If by release, the tooltip didn't change but the actual numbers did, or vise versa, then yes, that IS inaccurate information. The only true inaccuracies came from mistranslations, notably, the damage buff if a MCH heat gauge reaches 100, opposed to the initial tooltip that said you got a damage nerf. That's really par for the course though, and doesn't mean much in the end.

So... get off your soap box.

[Felis]

Haven't they said since the start of the live letter that it is not the final version?

[Dyvid]

It was literally stated in the disclaimers that this was an older test build and things can change at anytime. They knew this and you knew this. Freaking out of tooltips is just silly at this point.

[Serret]

If they are showing something, no matter how many disclaimers they add to it, it has to be somewhat representative of the final product. Otherwise their credibility comes into question.
They kept pointing out that the potencies were not final, but the mechanics were supposedly representative. If this was not the case then every skill that was shown for every class might as well not even be there 2 weeks from now. After all "it's not the final version".


Just as an example: The infamous e3 footage for Gearbox's Aliens Colonial Marines was also said not to be representative of the final version of the game ^^
And in fact it wasn't. Leading to bait and switch remarks, to Gearbox having to deal with a massive backlash and leaving a huge stain in their reputation.

[RukiaFae]

I think it would be better next time if they don't tell us anything until the game is released since people can't handle it. They kept saying things are under development and may change. Why would they go back and change broadcasted stuff when they are very busy and things may change again? We are luck we got as much informantion as we did but some people are still ungrateful. This is why everyone kept saying just wait until release. I'm really starting to feel bad for the developers.