87th PLL showcases a need for change in announcing content

[Annabellechu]

I understand the sentiment and I don't want to be completely dismissive but this is a lot.
A casual hardcore player as myself would be able to be ready for the ultimate playing casually in a static or savage, it will definitely take more than 8 weeks but I can do it at my own pace without having to take PTO.

I personally think that telling 2 months in advance is fine, well at least for my job it gives me plenty of time to apply for PTO if I wanted to go world first / hardcore.

The 3 issues I see in your situation are more related to your own goals and choice.
1- Wanting to clear fast (8 weeks)
2- Wanting to have multiple classes geared
3- The lack of motivation to clear savage if an ultimate is not released after.

These 3 issues could be fixed with 2 solutions to be fair:

1-Unlock the tier faster if an ultimate is announced, giving time to either start a savage tier later without being penalized and/or gear more jobs

2-Fix the gearing system with options such as unlocking the alternative ways to get gear faster such as hunts, alliance raids, criterion dungeon, etc. and maybe add more of them. Other options would be welcome too but I can't come up with anything else at the moment. ><

[Infindox]

It does get translated but it takes some weeks for them to do it. It would be nice if they did it, but meanwhile, I'd suggest just listening to the unofficial one (hardly anyone seems to listen to this and seem unaware it exists): https://www.youtube.com/@ilunari/streams
They do summarize the points. It's all translated on the forums and summarized in the Live Letter forum. You can go back and read their summaries of all the past live letters. But content creators do that as well, and much faster.

I appreciate the response for it and I do know about those, my point is I don't think they should be necessary when there are important bits like that discussion in the beginning; these should be already translated. (Also I should point out my comment earlier was about that, not so much that we aren't getting Ultimate. I'm not super mad about that point) The second part of the Live Letter was fine being the way it was.
I ran into a big problem this time when three different sources had three different translations, which is uncommon.

[TaleraRistain]

I'm pretty sure they've said in the past they can't guarantee a set schedule for Ultimates.

So you made assumptions based on nothing and put in work you had no assurance was going to be necessary and now you're getting mad.

You also do this after the LL that slapped casual and midcore players in the face by telling them when there was a choice between normal FT and hard FT, they chose the version that excludes more of the playerbase. Now you're here whining you don't get more exclusive content when you want it.

Before you start, I'm a Savage raider. I've eaten well this expansion. But you just sound completely entitled.

[brinn12]

The devs waited ~45 days before 7.3 to announce there is no Ulti. This kind of information should be given when the Savage tier releases, as a sign of respect for players' time. OP has every right to ask for more transparency, and they are not entitled by any means. It's a clear move to ensure the Savage tier doesn't lose players.

(I'd still be fine with this, if it didn't take up to 4 months to get 2 weapons, or 7 weeks to get BiS)

[Mawlzy]

I appreciate the response for it and I do know about those, my point is I don't think they should be necessary when there are important bits like that discussion in the beginning; these should be already translated. (Also I should point out my comment earlier was about that, not so much that we aren't getting Ultimate. I'm not super mad about that point) The second part of the Live Letter was fine being the way it was.
I ran into a big problem this time when three different sources had three different translations, which is uncommon.

A slide/lodestone post with a summary of the response to each question (in E,F,D), prepared in advance, would be completely trivial and solve this issue. It's not like anyone cares what Yoshi-P is rambling about; an increasing fraction of the player base doesn't believe half of what he says anyway.

[Jeeqbit]

As someone who is still on Crystal, characters with Ultimate weapons are way more prevalent now....as are bought runs.

People could have bought runs on Crystal back before DC travel. But the lack of visible weapons anywhere indicated to me that buying them wasn't common. Lots of people had them on Aether because people actually were able to genuinely do the content easier there, or were interested in doing raids instead of RP.

Buying does happen but it really seems like an overblown meme to me that people use to discredit most others who earned it. Dying to a dungeon boss could happen because they just ignore dungeons most of the time, or are playing a job they don't normally play to shake things up, but people will jump on that.

[Batbrat]

I don't care about it, but I do believe they need better structure for these Live Letters. 80-something in, and they still have no English translator? On top of that, Yoshi kind of rambles on about things lately. It was the pixel on the lala's cheek all over again, with the chat bubbles. Why are we talking about it for sooo lonnng. He needs to figure out how to get the important info out more efficiently. And I did NOT appreciate having to wait all the way until the very tippity top end for him to say 'btw no housing until next stream' omg, if you let me know that from the start I woulda just skipped this LL and stayed in bed!! Do you need my one little view THAT bad??? Trying times I guess!! Let us know what he's going to talk about each LL ahead of time please and thank you.

[churchren]

I'm pretty sure they've said in the past they can't guarantee a set schedule for Ultimates.

So you made assumptions based on nothing and put in work you had no assurance was going to be necessary and now you're getting mad.

You also do this after the LL that slapped casual and midcore players in the face by telling them when there was a choice between normal FT and hard FT, they chose the version that excludes more of the playerbase. Now you're here whining you don't get more exclusive content when you want it.

Before you start, I'm a Savage raider. I've eaten well this expansion. But you just sound completely entitled.

i don't get how i'm entitled when i all i want is more notice of whether doing splits or not is required for those of us in the hardcore scene? I don't care about the lack of a 7.31 ultimate, i wanted a 7.51 ultimate, I'm upset that from a player standpoint, there's no way they didn't know about not being able to deliver a 7.31 ultimate on time, so therefore we should have received even just a one-liner prior to 7.21 or even around that time frame that said "hey guys, can't do a 7.31 ultimate, sorry" and then I would've been fine with that

The inverse of this argument would be if they had announced a 7.31 ultimate, and people didn't prep for one on the basis that there was no notification at all until the PLL. It's a simple ask for more time of a notice so people can actually plan what it is they want to do, and not have to guess as to what content we'll possibly be getting.

[Hippo]

that’s not correct

[Hippo]

just watched the summary before the watching the LL