Thread: 6.1: Deep reflection to the Devs

Good evening/afternoon/morning Devs,

While I wish not to speak any ill of the recent changes (be it for good & bad) I believe it is for the best interests to truly reflect what 6.1 overall has lead to, in which ultimately its leading most of the player base to have doubts & while not adding any sensitivity to aggravate the topic any worse, without any doubt its brought much discord & it has some of us questioning & concern for the future of whatever you have plan for us ahead past 6.1.

Samurai: While I cannot give specific highlights how the jobs currently functioning, it cannot be denied the utter reaction it brought into most of the player base, particularly the reason why "Kaiten" was removed as it stood as a respectful beacon of its job identity.....do you intend to do the same for every job? Rather, why not look to currently work the job's improvisation, deemed what's needed to be merged/or removed (only if absolutely neccesary).

I did & still do support the changes you brought into the job, however I myself cannot help but likewise feel skeptical as much as those that weren't pleased for it.

(Please look over the forums highlights regarding Samurai & analyze)

Housing/Lottery: What plans do you truly have to make the system any fair & convenient for those that were long looking forward to it? I cannot deny there's always an issue with editing the gaming codes etc., and glitches do happen, yet regardless it brought much deception.

(Please look over the forums highlights regarding housing lottery & analyze)

PvP: It brought such great change & truly it made the community more engaging! Regardless there's a lot to be overlooked at, in terms of the CCs & re-adjusting certain jobs to ultimately make PvP far more lively & engaging. You did fantastic in this overall with the bringing of a fresh new PvP! trial & error happens....please don't let it sit idle.

(Please look over the forums highlights regarding PvP & analyze)

Profile templates: Understandable it is still under BETA & please do continue on in bringing more creativity for it. A wonderful asset!

MMORPG Online to RPG Online: I cannot stress this out...this terrifies me...FFXIV stands a stronger beacon of a true MMO & the player base adores it.....why convert it into single player? While I am not certain what other ffxiv players sees it, to me its ultimately the abolition of an MMO & we play & like to display our actions, achievements, the journeys, friends, and anything to one another & even an introvert as myself still delight in the social aspects & interactions of other's & seeing their achievements & growth from FCs, Savages, Craft, memories worth keeping, the people whom we long befriended (especially during irl times as these...)

All in all,

I trust you're in the right direction to consider & truly understand some of us as truly we genuinely delight & care for the game.

I believe from the JP Patch reading, Yoshi P stated that they were going to discuss the reasoning behind the changes to Samurai, and I believe future changes and direction with job design as well, as he mentioned that crit synergy in general is a problem. I don't want to get to irate before hearing this out, how ever I believe changes like this, as well as changes that were made in ShB like to monk, feel like they should be held off on until the next expansion or until the end of the current expansion.

Housing is never going to work, not with out adding instanced housing. I am still of a firm belief the biggest mistake with housing was allowing singular players to purchase them. I understand there are loop holes around that, but those loop holes are also inconveniences to many as well. You will never see a fair housing system unless it is given to every one. I believe the most ideal change, would be to make every players inn function like an upgradable inside version of a house like an apartment or FC room but upgradable to larger sizes, while the Island Sanctuary functions as the outside portion of housing. It's a separated experience but gives everyone the same capabilities as owning a house.

The problem with the MMO to RPG is really in it's direction. The game is pushing more accessibility to things such as savage, which is content that many players choose not to do for what ever reason. Making this content more accessible isn't doing anything but making job design and raid design suffer. There is nothing wrong with having a high skill ceiling, most of the most popular games have it. That skill ceiling also does not have to affect everyone in all content either.

I know they are currently focusing on correcting the housing lottery system, but I am eager to hear what they have to say about some of these concerns specifically with class design.

Originally Posted by Amarande

In the case of the class design thing I expect a fair amount has to do with the limitations of input devices and the sheer number of buttons some classes have had (SAM for instance had literally over thirty essential keybinds last time I looked at the job, during Shadowbringers).

Classes do not have 30 buttons, as many of those skills upgrade to other skills or are assigned to a single button. Also most classes have additional buttons that serve little to no purpose over all that are never pressed or never put on some players bars. Looking at the number of abilities can be misleading, you need to play the class to understand how it functions before discussing something has button bloat and how it should be addressed. Also understanding how you play and designing good keybinds addresses this issue as well. No players plays the same, if you take 100 people that play Halo for example I will bet at least half of them will change a keybind some where before playing.

I don't miss Kaiten I don't understand the sadness over an extra step being eliminated.

The game isn't being converted to single player. It's being made more accessible to those that might try it out that way. There's nothing wrong with that and there's potential for those people to join in the MP fun.
Frankly, the game is already very much single player as it's been with the ability to just queue up into parties and get stuff done and not really have to deal with people otherwise.

Duty Support is nothing new. We've had squadrons for some time now. Hopefully, those will see some improvement.

Housing should be scrapped and redone, but they won't do that. They're kinda stuck with it.

Originally Posted by Deveryn

I don't miss Kaiten I don't understand the sadness over an extra step being eliminated.

Its not just an "extra step." It gave us some form of resource management outside of spamming shinten and it flowed well into our iajutsus. Also sam mains are not just upset over kaiten. Its the auto crits as well that has essentially removed the fun out of getting big hits since the auto crits now hit like wet noodles. Sorry that we want sam to be slightly complex....

Originally Posted by Ransu

Its not just an "extra step." It gave us some form of resource management outside of spamming shinten and it flowed well into our iajutsus. Also sam mains are not just upset over kaiten. Its the auto crits as well that has essentially removed the fun out of getting big hits since the auto crits now hit like wet noodles. Sorry that we want sam to be slightly complex....

SAM has two extra combinations and more buttons to spend gauge on. OK. The most potent attacks needed an extra skill to charge up? That goes against the concept of SAM which is no wasted motion. They have slain the evil inside. Be at peace.

Either way it’s so much of a mess currently going on, its pitting us amongst ourselves,

I was object from a previous SAM post & are at fault by it, while also it’s causing such schism to which where it’s lacking some rapport & the forum post will keep at it.

It’s no longer a laughable matter,

All in all, as being the too strongest MMO, with pride it can easily brings its own fall down (Take WoW for example)