Keep Us Informed

[Rizon]

Now that the excitement from the End of an Era trailer has subsided we now need to prepare ourselves to a long hiatus before the launch of ARR which could be between 4-6 months from now. That is an eternity in the life of an MMO. Unless something is done about it a lot of people will lose interest by the first of the year and move on to something else. With this in mind I recommend the following to SE:

1. Institute a weekly posting on the forums where a member of the Dev team provides us with information on various aspect of ARR. This can start with the basic mechanics of the game as they should be the further est along in development and should only need tweeks and adjustment that become apparent as the result of testing. Examples of this would be the Server System, UI, Battle system ect. After this we can then move on to content. A good reference point would be from all the questions posted prior to the last live from the producer broadcast.

I recommend that the Dev team members do this for several reasons. First and most importantly Yoshi-P cannot as his time is tied up in overseeing all aspects of Development whereas the the particular branches of the Dev team are consentrating on their areas of expertise and are the most qualified to provide the information. Yoshi-P would, of course review the postings and sign off on them. Secondly it will give the player base a chance to know the individual team members and thank recognize them for all their efforts.

2. Yoshi-P should provide us with regular updates as to the progress of the overall development, especially as it relates to the upcoming road map. I leave it to him to determine the proper spacing for these reports

3. The updated road map is scheduled for release late November to early December. A good time to start this would be shortly after its release.

I know that this is asking a lot and I do not make this recommendation lightly but after reading a lot of the posts on the forums begging for information I believe that something of this nature will ease the minds of all of us who want this game to flourish and help to maintain interest in the game

[Akira_Tenshi]

They said there would be weekly alpha videos, but nothing this week. I don't believe anything they say anymore.

[MicahZerrshia]

They said there would be weekly alpha videos, but nothing this week. I don't believe anything they say anymore.

We did get a video this week though... End of an Era

And Alpha testing is shut down this week for server readjustments. Chill pickle

[Jacien]

We did get a video this week though... End of an Era

Oh didn't think of it that way.

Damn technicalities.

And stop hanging on and dissecting every word like "flood" and "immersion" when that is most likely fluff text done by the translation from Japanese to English to make it sound exciting. -.-

Agreed. Leave that to the "gaming journalists" or overspeculate/overhype stuff.

[casker]

They said there would be weekly alpha videos, but nothing this week. I don't believe anything they say anymore.

Didn't they also say that we would get a barrage of info, like weekly, during the summer? WTF happened to that? Why is Square so ungodly horrible at marketing?

[Zenaku]

Didn't they also say that we would get a barrage of info, like weekly, during the summer? WTF happened to that? Why is Square so ungodly horrible at marketing?

We did get a lot of information it was just not that amount you thought it would be.

[Reika]

They said there would be weekly alpha videos, but nothing this week. I don't believe anything they say anymore.

Well, they didn't do an alpha this week. They were fixing all the bugs they found in last weeks alpha.

[Akira_Tenshi]

I guess but they said it would be videos from the alpha.

[Warlock]

I guess but they said it would be videos from the alpha.

Considering after shutdown we got live letter and that was almost 2 hours of non-stop in-game footage i wouldn't be expecting MORE this week Camp tranquil was impossible to recognize until he called it ...amazing revamp ^_^