Letter from the Producer VII

[Kallera]

How am I to know an event is taking place with no bells? Serious issue.

The bells have been overthrown by drums.

The bells will have their revenge...

[Cairdeas]

How am I to know an event is taking place with no bells? Serious issue.

Exactly. The bells should be welcome at all events, even if its not the center of the event.

[Griss]

Kind of but not really disappointed by the lack of info on the grand companies but i am guessing that will come a bit later with a post directly concerning it. Other then that it was a good but brief read.

[Randis]

bells or no bells... i hope we get some gear, i am not fond of cookies.

[Cairdeas]

bells or no bells... i hope we get some gear, i am not fond of cookies.

Its the year of the rabbit and its easter. I'd love to see a Samurai styled rabbit armor set to match the helmet from new years.

[Randis]

humm yes, after the last mini patch the expectations might be raised.

[Alcide]

OOOOOOH GREEEEEEAT ANOTHER EVENT!!

Seriously?? >.>

Dear Yoshi-P... you said yourself you're not gonna give us any content since the gameplay is still broken... SO WHY ARE YOU GIVING US EVENTS?? Who cares?? Oh this one doesn't involve a bell? :O Niiiice... so you actually spent time devepoling this one...

I don't know if this guy realizes what's the situation, but the players are quite frustrated, because of the current state of the game and also because we have no idea on how this game is gonna be in the next few months (or years...)

And from the latest news t seems they don't know it either!

Due to the fact we still have a lot of elements that need to be tested and looked into, it is difficult for me to tell you any more info in great detail, but if you give me some time I will do my best to share the information with you.

As soon as we hammer out the basics of the new dungeon and raid environments, we’ll be throwing out some screenshots and introducing them to you.

And we still have no info about the armory system and the physical level, so I have to assume they still have to start working on them...

So... you still have to test the new battle system and you have no idea on how the promised dungeon scheduled for spring is gonna be... good, that's really what I wanted to hear as someone playing since September.
Seven months and we are still at the same point... I know the new team just started 4 months ago, but I also have to say that the biggest updates we got were the November and December ones, both from the former team, I really find it hard to say the new team did something great aside promises.

So it really pisses me off that they spent time and effort in something like a holiday event... WAKE UP YOSHI if you go on thi way FFXIV won't have another holiday!

[Kilta_Firelotus]

everyone here who is complaining should play dcuo. on the ps3. then go to the station forums. games in worst shape then ffxiv, and ppl who complain, are pretty much unwelcomed.

[InuraBera]

ZAM: Do you have an estimated time frame of when players can expect to see that battle patch?

Yoshida: Right now we're working on a high-end dungeon for hardcore players. We want to have the battle changes ready for when that's released. I can't give you an exact date, but I can tell you it will be sometime in the spring. When the dungeon is released, a bunch of battle changes will also come with it.

In the published list of the battle stuff we're planning on implementing, we hope to have pretty much most of that done sometime in the spring. In the spring you'll be getting that high-end dungeon and the first round of battle changes. Not everything, but the first round. You can't just change the rules overnight. There's a lot of stuff that has to change, especially with reassessing all of the attributes and actions of all the classes and rebalancing and adjusting stuff with the armory system. It's going to take a lot of time. But that first big change will come in the spring with the new dungeon.

from http://ffxiv.zam.com/story.html?story=25503&storypage=2

I'm tired now of all the complaints. If you are not enjoying it - then leave the game. Do it. I mean it, and then come back when they are finished with "Final Fantasy XIV - Take Two". If you are unwilling to do so while they take the game to a level that they believe *you* will find acceptable, then nothing can be done, but staying here complaining when they are no doubt hard at work is just a waste of everyones time, and is clearly driving some of my fellow posters to their wits end.

We are, as I have said quite a few times now, in a game that is effectively under development. People asked for these changes - or so the Poll results said - and yet they are unwilling to give them time to do it. Personally I think they should just shut the servers down until it is complete so I don't have to put up with the level of ignorance that is present here.

Not only do you take bizarre things from what you read, but you ignore any information that has been released before this time. Information on the 'Grand Companies' was only stated to be released just before Patch 1.17 goes live. Nothing more, nothing less. They have also stated that more content would only be added once the Combat is 'fixed' (and by 'content' I assume they mean dungeons etc). Does a Holiday event require a reworking of the current combat system to be fun? Doubtful, and hence why we will get it - though we don't know what else will be present in the patch - yet.

You don't seem to realise just how big this overhaul to Combat will be, if any of you played World of Warcraft, think about what happens to the game each time they do the final patch before an expansion and how out of whack the combat system goes - and that isn't even a true reworking from the ground up.

Anyway, I'm away to lie in a darkened room, any more reading of the forums and I think my head will explode in dissapointment and anger at people.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

from http://ffxiv.zam.com/story.html?story=25503&storypage=2

I'm tired now of all the complaints. If you are not enjoying it - then leave the game. Do it. I mean it, and then come back when they are finished with "Final Fantasy XIV - Take Two". If you are unwilling to do so while they take the game to a level that they believe *you* will find acceptable, then nothing can be done, but staying here complaining when they are no doubt hard at work is just a waste of everyones time, and is clearly driving some of my fellow posters to their wits end.

We are, as I have said quite a few times now, in a game that is effectively under development. People asked for these changes - or so the Poll results said - and yet they are unwilling to give them time to do it. Personally I think they should just shut the servers down until it is complete so I don't have to put up with the level of ignorance that is present here.

Not only do you take bizarre things from what you read, but you ignore any information that has been released before this time. Information on the 'Grand Companies' was only stated to be released just before Patch 1.17 goes live. Nothing more, nothing less. They have also stated that more content would only be added once the Combat is 'fixed' (and by 'content' I assume they mean dungeons etc). Does a Holiday event require a reworking of the current combat system to be fun? Doubtful, and hence why we will get it - though we don't know what else will be present in the patch - yet.

You don't seem to realise just how big this overhaul to Combat will be, if any of you played World of Warcraft, think about what happens to the game each time they do the final patch before an expansion and how out of whack the combat system goes - and that isn't even a true reworking from the ground up.

Anyway, I'm away to lie in a darkened room, any more reading of the forums and I think my head will explode in dissapointment and anger at people.

Thank you for quoting that and being one of the few who does not suffer from reading incomprehension.