[devPLEASE] Dynamic World - If Ever You Do Something - Do This!

[fusional]

Wow the SE Defense Force is showing its presence today, and from BG no less......... curious. Fine you guys are so right, the game is perfect as is, nothing needs to be change. FFXIV is such perfection that there isnt even room for improvement. LOL, this is madness.

someone points out something objectively, and you respond with straw man and ad hominem fallacies. great way to solidify the validity of your point, hoss. but in the meantime, go ahead and quote where i'm defending square enix against anything, where i've ever called it perfect, where i've ever said anything never needed to be changed. intentionally ignore all the valid criticism i've heaped against the game since launch (even today, in other threads) because it's inconvenient and undermines your feeble position. and finally, do explain what my LS has to do with my opinions... or anything whatsoever.

i'm trying really hard not to find ways to call you stupid. so help me out by giving me reasons not to.

It's not the essential quest formula that's changed, when you break it down it's still kill X, gather Y, escort Z, etc. What makes it different is that the quests have storylines, the outcomes actually affect each other and the world can respond in different ways.

After centaurs attacked a village (we lost the event) and broke through one of the walls, the NPCs went out and gathered materials and repaired the wall in real time, complete with voice acted dialogue. If we had driven the centaurs off, the outcome would have been completely different and likely opened up new quests. And that's just one event of hundreds all throughout the game world.

It's that kind of thing that makes the world feel alive and dynamic. Would you HONESTLY not want to see things like that in XIV?

if the dialogue is 'voice acted in real time', explain to me how the content is dynamic. are the voice actors sitting there in studio, drinking coffee and eating donut holes, just WAITING for the conclusion of the event so they can act it out live, just for you and a handful of other players?

sounds more like a bunch of stuff was planned and finished ahead of time, thrown in a pot, and a random number generator pulls out those finished bits to piece together into a 'dynamic' event.

seriously. think about it.