Letter From the Producer Live Part LXXIX - 24 September 2023 - Summary and Discussion

[Myrany]

A cloud server is scalable. So let's say at the expansion launch they reach the maximum capacity. A cloud server uses virtual machines that can scale it to cope with the extra demand or add new virtual server machines, just like that. The virtual machines stretch across as many machines as needed on much bigger data centers hosted by places like Amazon and Google.

Currently this is not possible, because they have physical server racks like this


They can't add or reduce these without actually taking the servers down and adjusting the racks and it takes time to physically receive the hardware and due to covid and the semiconductor shortage, nobody was selling what they needed.

Whereas somewhere like Amazon would have hundreds of times this many racks and allow a virtual server to scale up and down across them as needed. The drawback is it being slower.

Ah ty so much for the details it makes much more sense now

[ZephyrMenodora]

It's disappointing but not surprising that they chose to 'censor' Thaliak...

A rather strange decision given that shirtless athletic men are rather well liked in general and they had no qualms depicting Nophica as being as busty as her original artwork depicted as well as Yoshi-P actively joking about it.

This is what we wanted:



This is what we're getting:

I will be honest when I woke up this morning and saw this, I thought "Was there a FFXI version of Thaliak?" Just a big visual downgrade from other depictions.

[Raikai]

Isn't Oschon half naked on his torso in the few bits he appears? Thought they just didn't want both of them with a very similar design.

[Theodric]

Isn't Oschon half naked on his torso in the few bits he appears? Thought they just didn't want both of them with a very similar design.

It certainly hasn't stopped them making a whole bunch of similar looking female bosses that float in the air with conventionally attractive designs...

Though Oschon and Thaliak have completely different attire, weaponry and hair colour to one another.

[ZephyrMenodora]

It certainly hasn't stopped them making a whole bunch of similar looking female bosses that float in the air with conventionally attractive designs...

For me my biggest issue is it really lost the ancient greece feel of the pantheon with this design. It's just so random and off. They could have kept his outfit from the card and added things to make it look watery/flowy which I think is what they were going for with the extra cloth The shirt part is the biggest offender.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

It certainly hasn't stopped them making a whole bunch of similar looking female bosses that float in the air with conventionally attractive designs...

Though Oschon and Thaliak have completely different attire, weaponry and hair colour to one another.

What's Oschon look like? I'm not watching them kill FFIV's legacy in that trailer.

[Theodric]

For me my biggest issue is it really lost the ancient greece feel of the pantheon with this design. It's just so random and off. They could have kept his outfit from the card and added things to make it look watery/flowy which I think is what they were going for with the extra cloth The shirt part is the biggest offender.

Yeah, I'm rather fond of anything Greek inspired and it's something I'd like to see more of within the game itself.

What's Oschon look like? I'm not watching them kill FFIV's legacy in that trailer.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

Thank you. Surprised he even gets to show skin at all. Must have been too late to censor him.

[SannaR]

Thank you. Surprised he even gets to show skin at all. Must have been too late to censor him.

They are technically censoring him as you don't get to see much of his face in the trailer. We tend to only see his back or part of his face is being blocked. This is the 1st time I've noticed he looks like most Greek depictions of Hermes. Course we only see 3 out of 4 fights so the 4th is a mystery.

[Eisi]

It's disappointing but not surprising that they chose to 'censor' Thaliak...

A rather strange decision given that shirtless athletic men are rather well liked in general and they had no qualms depicting Nophica as being as busty as her original artwork depicted as well as Yoshi-P actively joking about it.

This is what we wanted:



This is what we're getting:

This is pretty bad, I gotta say I wasn't a fan of Nophica because 1) her shoulder/neck area is weirdly unshapely and stiff 2) her face is childish 3) her curves are plastic, not natural, she could have used some chub on her arms as well. So I don't think Nophica was a great success either, in fact she was a disappointment, Nymeia is the clear winner design-wise in Euphrosyne.

Maybe Thaliak will drop his clothes during the encounter? Or maybe they wanted to dress Oschon more skimpy and thus gave Thaliak some more to put on?