Letter from the Producer LXII

[savageink]

Why can’t we all just... chill out? It’s almost like 55% (or more) of the player-base is never happy with this game.

I think that's just the people on this message board. Most of the people I play with are having a good time. They never come here.

[Insertcoins]

You know what.. real talk. I'm just glad Yoshi P said what he said.. cause he could've been like " I see people are unhappy with our choice of not including a male Viera and Female Hrot. We're sorry for your dissappointment but don't plan on doing anything at all, And we're NOT fixing any jobs so just deal with it." Like another company did recently......coughfallout76-

OOOORRRR " Do you not have buns and cats? We got miqo'tes and bunny suits too."

[Tsukino]

Meanwhile through Google translator:

The Japanese name for the expansion, 漆黒のヴィランズ, is indeed "Jet-Black Villains," with "Villains" being in English. It's a really dumb name.

[Kalise]

The Japanese name for the expansion, 漆黒のヴィランズ, is indeed "Jet-Black Villains," with "Villains" being in English. It's a really dumb name.

Ehh... Jet-Black Villains isn't too bad.

At least it doesn't sound like what a 13 year old edgelord would name their DRK only FC >.>

[Vahlnir]

Ehh... Jet-Black Villains isn't too bad.

At least it doesn't sound like what a 13 year old edgelord would name their DRK only FC >.>

It sounds like it could be FF XIV's version of Team Skull. Not that it's a bad thing, I love those guys. I'm picturing a group of thugs dressed in black walking up to adventurers like hipsters and waving their arms like mad just to harass them.

[Kalise]

It sounds like it could be FF XIV's version of Team Skull. Not that it's a bad thing, I love those guys. I'm picturing a group of thugs dressed in black walking up to adventurers like hipsters and waving their arms like mad just to harass them.

Inb4 new Masked Carnivale stage xD

[frostmagemari]

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.

If 1.0 had more players than what could fit into a movie theatre, you might have something with this.. but since there wasn't enough players to even keep the lights on, there wasn't enough players with access to the forums to give the devs advice on features.

[Tsukino]

It sounds like it could be FF XIV's version of Team Skull. Not that it's a bad thing, I love those guys. I'm picturing a group of thugs dressed in black walking up to adventurers like hipsters and waving their arms like mad just to harass them.

I can't not think of the recurring joke-rival adventuring party in the "Tales of" series, the Jet-Black Wings (漆黒の翼).

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

If 1.0 had more players than what could fit into a movie theatre, you might have something with this.. but since there wasn't enough players to even keep the lights on, there wasn't enough players with access to the forums to give the devs advice on features.

You say that, yet, even now, most people don't use the forums. The old forums are still here btw, you can go look yourself.

The ratio is still the same, even if the numbers are larger.

[frostmagemari]

You say that, yet, even now, most people don't use the forums. The old forums are still here btw, you can go look yourself.
The ratio is still the same, even if the numbers are larger.

The numbers being smaller is kind of the point. When you increase the number of people in total, you actually increase the number of people contributing to that ratio; So when there wasn't even enough people to keep the lights on in the game, you're not going to get even a fraction of people bothering with the forums of the game.