Letter from the Producer VII

[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.