Letter from the Producer, XXXVII (10/26/2012)

[Felis]

By the way, really!? 30m on Protect? I thought they took out spell timers, but I could be wrong.

It is the duration time, not the cooldown time.

[Felis]

Yeah including the races! Since they were clearly inspired from FFXI lol.

Except the hyurs. You find this race in every FF game ^^

[JDR388]

Eh, it's still early.
If we had more frequent updates, while nice, we'd just see more nit-picking over the most trivial stuff.

I would love it. Nintendo did a similar thing when they marketed smash brothers brawl. Every day from Monday to Thursday they would release some new detail about the game, sometimes as small as a new item and sometimes as large as a new charecter.

It was a very effective marketing tactic and really ensured that everyone following it was a drooling madman by the time the game was released. It could work for an mmo too.

[fusional]

It literally took NO time for what should have been a sweet thread to descend into the ussual silliness. Way to improve your time guys. You really are getting "better" with each post.

Screens look badass.

^ this. and i see the usual characters responsible for the degeneration... as always

[Arwen]

WIDE SCREEN-sm

[Babydoll]

Except the hyurs. You find this race in every FF game ^^

good point!

[neorei]

as i was chilling out on FFXIV and trying out RL, this had to come through.

[Punainen]

Anyone notice the bards shooting the mob from up on the cliff!! :3 Awesome!

[Zantetsuken]

About ported mobs there are several from FFXI :
copy pasted: Imps,mandragoras,rafflesia,raptor,skeletons,ogres etc.

Imps, Mandys, Raptors, [as well as Goblins, Qiqirn, etc..] = yes, those designs the same, the models just have higher poly-counts and better textures.

Skeletons, Ogres, Rafflesia, = no, those are actually different designs.

but there are more copy pasted names with different looks: treant,puk,deremite,bogy,sheep,buffalo,gnat,ladybug,bees,chigoe,arhima,cactuar,crabs,efts, etc.
really the only original mob i have seen in FFXIV is antelope

Don't forget, Amal'jaa, Kobalds, Ixali and Coblins are new designs and names to the FF series.

Using the same name with a new design has been done throughout the FF series - it's how the series retains its identity, but always seems new. Its the reuse of the exact same designs that some might find a bit off-putting.

Personally, I don't think it's a big deal for small mobs like Mandys though. Reusing exact designs for 'Boss/Uber Mobs' like Adamantoise can really come off as.. eh.. cheap, I guess.

I find it perfectly valid to express some disappointment over this, yet I also understand the pressures that the dev team is under, so its not a make-or-break issue for me.

[Rane]

An adamantoise in the Black Shroud.

Finally, this Lodestone post from back in April is beginning to make sense. I was beginning to wonder if they had forgotten about it.