Letter from the Producer Vi

[Shura]

Ya all we can do for now is make interpretations based on what very little info we have. global communities, global impact, endgame event, sense of danger for eorzea, large & small scale event and he said he would focus on gameplay with 4 and 8ppl parties.

i'm thinking of a mix of conquest, besieged and campaign from ffxi. What you do will have a global impact, guessing some kind of point system for the company u join, more ppl that complete events will raise the rating of said company. Planned campaign type attacks on aetheryte camps by beastman tribes or the empire. Destroy flag in beastman hideout or rescue npc prisoner similar to besieged. all events gives points which you can then trade in for gear, along with instanced quests to take place at said new locations or quests to accomplish when said attacks happen, such as kill enemy leader or collect certain amount of item that drops from said tripe but can get it during the raid only. If they do add new beastman locations then we know there will be a overlord type leader for each tribe, which can be HNMs.

These are the type of events that come to mind for ME when i read interviews about companies. but its all assumption till we get official news.

[CelestialFurry]

I'm glad to hear everyone on the team is okay, physically at least. I know it's going to take a long time for them (and all the others affected by this tragedy) to be mentally and emotionally okay.

I'm also glad to hear that the game may not be down as long as I had originally anticipated. Working on new patches seems a little extreme, all things considered though. I'd be more than happy to just have the game back up by the end of the month (assuming of course that the power situation is stable.) We've been playing it incomplete and quirky for some time, there's no reason that we can't continue that for another month or two to allow everyone to get back on their feet.

I'm glad he took the time to let us know what is going on with the dev team, even with everything that is going on around them. I wish them the best of luck and as much time as they need to get their lives back in order.

[Rowyne]

I wish they'd still post these on the Lodestone top page. I think it should still be a definitive place for news, with the forums being a place for discussion.

My site's Lodestone RSS reader will get lonely.

Edit: This is now posted on the front of the Lodestone. Yay! =D

[TheVedis]

Nah I'm not going to go dig up quotes. If you have been playing since launch then you know this is not the first time companies have been mentioned. It's completely justified. Selective memory is doing you a disservice young Abigail.

obvious troll is obvious
cant even provide proof

[TheVedis]

Please don't name call. Here you go sweetheart: http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com.../entry?e=19057

so wait, a random player in game posts a blog, and you call that a gospel of how SE is doing things straight from SEs mouth?
yeah, you really got your facts straight

[Mega]

Last thing I want to do is boost my post count. However, it must be mentioned that the Lodestone is the worst site to try to navigate since the days of netscape. Also, "Companies" is quite a common term.

[WintersMoondancer]

Nice to see that letter. I am glad that for the most part, they are all doing well. I wish them the & their families the best in recovering from this disaster. Their dedication to still wanting to make this game better is admirable despite all that is happening and they definitely have my respect.

[Mishakai]

So a thread directing people who might not check all the forum areas has turned into a childish argument about a couple sentences that were typed.

How about everybody slow down, and take a few deep breaths.

I look at the producers letter this way:

They were working their rear-ends off to deliver two patches within a few short weeks, and despite the disaster that has essentially put an entire country in disaster recovery mode, they still see the need to inform us about what we can expect in the near future.

Personally, I think this thread needs more:

/bow

Than it needs:

/nerdrage

[Kallera]

They are troopers, a earthquake, a tsunami, and nuclear power plant problems, and they are expecting a delay of only one to two weeks? That's amazing.

I wonder if the companies will be part of the various factions, like the horn and hand? or will be part of npc companies that track their activity for bonuses, like in Conquest?