Letter from the Producer LXII

[LiteBrite]

Anytime o/ I'll be here all day!

Good to hear! Keep fighting the GOOD fight...

[yukiiyuki]

People seems to forget that our player numbers are not that big (~650k) on all servers and the all devs team are all Japanese, they dont have huge international team working on the game. Knowing their culture I'm sure some of them haven't slept in a while, working to bring you the headgears on the new races, while finishing preparations on new expansion.
I really love how on one topic people complaining about devs not bringing them "quality content" and on other saying to new players that they should go play another MMO.
SE will milk this game in this state, this is not Yoshi-P fault that 1.0 was disaster and Squares want their money back, game needs to have at least half of WoW numbers and attention from all over the world so Square Enix will invest more money in this game. If that wont happen, well, we will still have limited jobs, races, limited amount of storage etc. Just look at numbers, Japan region have almost the same amount of players as NA have, EU is basically have half of it.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I'd also love to see some proof of this outcry, cuz I certainly don't remember it. I remember people requesting the other genders. I do not remember an outcry. Certainly not like the current ones where the devs are called cowards and homophobes lol.

[Vahlnir]

I'd also love to see some proof of this outcry, cuz I certainly don't remember it. I remember people requesting the other genders. I do not remember an outcry. Certainly not like the current ones where the devs are called cowards and homophobes lol.

It usually takes a lot for him to personally post something in order to address controversial decisions, so the outcry must have been fairly substantial.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It usually takes a lot for him to personally post something in order to address controversial decisions, so the outcry must have been fairly substantial.

During 1.0, not the recent mess.

[Vahlnir]

During 1.0, not the recent mess.

You have to take into account that NA and EU aren't the only players who wanted the other genders and/or wanted to hear about the state of healing. I only say this because that's probably the majority of the people who post on this particular subsection of the forums.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

You have to take into account that NA and EU aren't the only players who wanted the other genders and/or wanted to hear about the state of healing. I only say this because that's probably the majority of the people who post on this particular subsection of the forum.

Oh, I don't disagree that everyone wants the other genders. However, there was no outcry over miqo being female only, and highlander and roe being male only in 1.0. There was a request post that was civil, and contained, and that was pretty much it. No huge outcry, no 50 million topics.


As for the healing thing, people won't be satisfied until a 4th healer is added. And if they had added one, people would be complaining just like during 3.0 when ast was terrible and then overbuffed. No one wins until the devs fix healers. Everyone says they had 2 expansions to do they. No they had 1, and they changed their minds on how to go about it after realizing they couldn't solve the issue the way things are now.

[enthauptet]

During 1.0, not the recent mess.

Most of what I remember as a non-player for 1.0 was people complaining they couldn't even play the game so I imagine the races were not really that much of a concern compared to poor state of the game itself.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Most of what I remember as a non-player for 1.0 was people complaining they couldn't even play the game so I imagine the races were not really that much of a concern compared to poor state of the game itself.

It had rather high system requirements, but I was able to run it on a laptop with a crappy gt330m lol, albeit at like 15 fps on lowest settings and windowed mode. My desktop handled it ok, nothing super special. Had a core 2 quad from a gateway and a gtx460.

A lot of it was people doing what they do with the current version, running it on complete potatoes (you'd be surprised how many people play this game under minimum required specs with old laptops). Not to say the graphic requirement wasn't insane, it was. Its just a bit overblown. The game it self was functional. It was missing a lot of features, had very little content, but it was functional... the UI tho, was not lol.....

Also, 2.x+ on lowest settings looks far, FAR better than 1.x on lowest. Take a look for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV6n5xAoAjw

[Skivvy]

I'd also love to see some proof of this outcry, cuz I certainly don't remember it. I remember people requesting the other genders. I do not remember an outcry. Certainly not like the current ones where the devs are called cowards and homophobes lol.

I was around on the old forums (doubt too many people remember those!) and I don't personally remember a huge outcry either. To be fair, I had tapped out of 1.0 pretty early on, but I did pop on the forums now and then, so it is something I could have missed.