@Devs: Please allow us to travel at will between servers.

[Keith_Dragoon]

I guess I would first have to see how SE handles the dungeon finder before I then jump on a the wagon for pushing them to take the "Worldless Server" thing even further. I guess it's because I know SE as a company has a reputation of screwing things up when they deviate too far away from their "norm" to cater to the changing genre.

As far as the Elitism and the selling of things that begins when some arrogant douche-biscuit(they live in every game) publicizes their plans to sell services to players because they can do it and players can't. Currently there is very little in TSW that some people can't do and others can so it rare if not even non-existent.

The rather safe then sorry does not prevent further innovation/advancement cause it only really applies to something that if not added it will not be that big of a deal but if added improperly or the feature itself causes untold issues with some aspect of the game it could very well spell the end. This is why i said you'd do best to win over the faith and approval of your peers cause the more people pushing for something like this the higher the chances. things that receive mostly negative responses may be glanced at and then make a B-line for the trash bin because SE is also playing it cautious.

I have put in my personal feelings about this matter and don't have much else to contribute so I will now wander off into another thread now.

[Abriael]

I guess I would first have to see how SE handles the dungeon finder before I then jump on a the wagon for pushing them to take the "Worldless Server" thing even further. I guess it's because I know SE as a company has a reputation of screwing things up when they deviate too far away from their "norm" to cater to the changing genre.

As far as the Elitism and the selling of things that begins when some arrogant douche-biscuit(they live in every game) publicizes their plans to sell services to players because they can do it and players can't. Currently there is very little in TSW that some people can't do and others can so it rare if not even non-existent.

The rather safe then sorry does not prevent further innovation/advancement cause it only really applies to something that if not added it will not be that big of a deal but if added improperly or the feature itself causes untold issues with some aspect of the game it could very well spell the end. This is why i said you'd do best to win over the faith and approval of your peers cause the more people pushing for something like this the higher the chances. things that receive mostly negative responses may be glanced at and then make a B-line for the trash bin because SE is also playing it cautious.

I have put in my personal feelings about this matter and don't have much else to contribute so I will now wander off into another thread now.

Eh, honestly I have enough faith in Yoshida and the development team to be fairly sure that they have their own brain and can decide what's a good idea or a bad idea regardless of how loud a few vocal people screaming in a half dead forum are.

If they weren't able to do that (In general, not just in this case), the game would probably sink anyway. Game development really isn't and shouldn't be a democratic process.

I would also avoid judging their work according to Square Enix's "reputation", which is something that varies according to personal interpretation, and that some tend to see, in my eyes, in an excessively negative way. SE made some mistakes. I can't remember a single software house that doesn't, but to see them as a team that screws up on a regular base seems excessive to me. To think that they shouldn't "dare" because of that seems excessively conservative. Without "daring", games simply fail to catch a stable audience and die.

And about the elitists, I'm not talking about just a single arrogant douche, but entire guilds. Can't talk for other servers, but the community I have personally seen in Final Fantasy XIV is decent, but not even close to what Final Fantasy XI had.