Aren't holiday quests a waste of development time and effort right now?

[Elexia]

What we need: R47 pickaxe
What they coded: Santa hat
What we need: Quarry balance
What they coded: job balance so that everyone makes about equal holiday trifles
What we need: job-specific accessories
What they coded: jobless samurai hat (good for gathering! except not...)
What we need: spell and battle animations.
What they coded: Peach confetti.

Fail. Just within-category all around fail.

This post was fail, indeed.

P.S Get off the "code armor piece" already.

Here's how your post should look:

What we need: A better Battle system.
What they coded: In progress.
What we need: Class uniqueness
What they coded: In progress.
What we need: Stat balancing
What they coded: In progress.

Anything after that is a 'want', because what XIV needs is fixing, and content won't fix the game compared to making the game playable.

[Chrees]

I guess you missed the part about them scrapping the May event to focus on more important things.

They know what their priorities are.

[Peregrine]

I guess you missed the part about them scrapping the May event to focus on more important things.
They know what their priorities are.

Good. No more of this crap. I'm actually worried that there aren't bells. At this dev team's proven pace, that probably means it took them all of february to make this event.

[Peregrine]

My persistant concern is that this dev team still doesn't have what it takes to keep up, so they keep focusing on the easiest and cheapest way to prove they have content and progress: holiday events and useless fetch quests. The game's dying, folks. What few of us left that are playing are just withering away. We're planning. We're thinking. We're preparing. We're...planning some more.

****ing do it.

6 months, barely any progress. I've had enough of the excuses. This is Final Fantasy. If they can't even keep up with Rift, buy their staff and fire ours. I guarantee they'd rather be doing SE employees' job than waiting for WoW to kill their product.

I've had it with the useless content updates that makes our game look like trash.

[MagicofGaia]

Ok Tanaka. Rift came along and pretty much destroyed that excuse. I don't want to hear any whining about how long things take. If they're having trouble keeping up with the industry pace, they need to hire better talent. Other games are doing this just fine. No excuses.

My persistant concern is that this dev team still doesn't have what it takes to keep up, so they keep focusing on the easiest and cheapest way to prove they have content and progress: holiday events and useless fetch quests. The game's dying, folks. What few of us left that are playing are just withering away. We're planning. We're thinking. We're preparing. We're...planning some more.

****ing do it.

6 months, barely any progress. I've had enough of the excuses. This is Final Fantasy. If they can't even keep up with Rift, buy their staff and fire ours. I guarantee they'd rather be doing SE employees' job than waiting for WoW to kill their product.

I've had it with the useless content updates that makes our game look like trash.

I took a second to think about what I typed. I went back to read more, and you pissed me off more. You are being added to the "Troll+Ignore" List.

If you are 'SO' sick of content updates that are being provided. If you feel that Rift or WoW are games worth playing so much, then go play them and stop pissing us off. Give it up. You + This thread = fail.

And Blizz is building on a long tradition of ideas that have worked for them. The only projects that didn't work out that was really any big deal was Starcraft: Ghost. The only reply to this comment would be 'what about ffxi' but if you have read maybe.... 5 other threads in this board or have been following progress you would know that is due to Tanaka's 'extreme direction' with the original game. Yoshi is trying to get us back to core FF values. Shut up and be patient.

[Peregrine]

Then where are the enhanced spell and character animations?
I'll tell you where. In your santa outfit.

[Elexia]

Then where are the enhanced spell and character animations?
I'll tell you where. In your santa outfit.

I so wish I could get bitter over a video game, maybe I can understand your point of view.

[Peregrine]

You want to argue that these updates don't hinder progress in other areas, prove it. Because it looks like they're failing to produce to everyone else. Do you have any idea how lolzy this announcement is to the gaming community at large? To hint that companies are coming next only to produce another stupid holiday event? This game is the laughing stock of the MMO world, and this is exactly why. Rift came out with a better launch product than this game has in 6 months of retail patching, and THIS is the content we get. It's bad publicity. No holiday event, at this point, is better than another stupid, pointless one because releasing a celebration when this game is a DISASTER makes it look like the developers are sitting around on their decadent asses making petty crap while they should be doing more important things to stop a blight.

Nero fiddles around while Rome burns. That's the image the devs are giving people by releasing petty quest and trifling holiday events right now.

In every department this game needs fixed, even in the same areas that they spend time on in the holiday events. They make new animations for holiday events, the old animations are pathetic. They make new gear for holiday events, we need more real gear. They balance the synthesis of pointless things, we need balance of significant synths. Everything they spend time on making holiday events...we need improvements on in the *actual* game world.

[Aion]

You want to argue that these updates don't hinder progress in other areas, prove it. Because it looks like they're failing to produce to everyone else. Do you have any idea how lolzy this announcement is to the gaming community at large? To hint that companies are coming next only to produce another stupid holiday event? This game is the laughing stock of the MMO world, and this is exactly why. Rift came out with a better launch product than this game has in 6 months of retail patching, and THIS is the content we get. It's bad publicity. No holiday event, at this point, is better than another stupid, pointless one because releasing a celebration when this game is a DISASTER makes it look like the developers are sitting around on their decadent asses making petty crap while they should be doing more important things to stop a blight.

Nero fiddles around while Rome burns. That's the image the devs are giving people by releasing petty quest and trifling holiday events right now.

In every department this game needs fixed, even in the same areas that they spend time on in the holiday events. They make new animations for holiday events, the old animations are pathetic. They make new gear for holiday events, we need more real gear. They balance the synthesis of pointless things, we need balance of significant synths. Everything they spend time on making holiday events...we need improvements on in the *actual* game world.

ah..so its mean you can prove seasonal event hinder dev progress on fixing FUNDAMENTAL of the game?

[Kaedan]

You want to argue that these updates don't hinder progress in other areas, prove it. Because it looks like they're failing to produce to everyone else.

Actually, you're the one with the burden of proof here. You're claiming that them making seasonal content is significantly effecting their ability to fix other things.

Prove it.