dev1037 New Battle Effects

[Arcell]

Actually the "6 hours" estimate comes directly from valve. You can even add another 6 hours for co-op (that not everyone is going to do), and you get a completely negligible effect on the MMORPG market.

The only visible effect will be on sales, and FFXIV is free at the moment.

But actually, Portal 2 might have a very benficial effect on FFXIV, or at the very least on it's forums. We can only hope.

Let's just say 20 hours, that's how long most people will probably play it for. Some will play it for 100 hours to get every last thing and complete every challenge 20 times but that's not the average user.

Even at 20 hours or more your argument still holds that it has little to no impact on the MMO market. Hell I'm going to play Portal 2 as well, between FFXIV sessions.

[Kyra]

Is this SE answer to everything. Make it BIGGER! Cmon sort it out. Ill be back on ps3 release i think, I cant be assed with this game any more. Updates are to slow, and there entire team effort should be foccussed on making content not crap like making things bigger. They havent got a clue imo.

[Arcell]

Updates are too slow?! Do you know how insane the speed they're going at is? I've honestly never seen another game do a projected 2 updates a month to a game. Given the schedule was disrupted a little bit but with good reason.

Hell when I played Aion for 6+ months we only got a small handful of updates.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Give raise and resurrect an animation while you're at it.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Updates are too slow?! Do you know how insane the speed they're going at is? I've honestly never seen another game do a projected 2 updates a month to a game. Given the schedule was disrupted a little bit but with good reason.

Hell when I played Aion for 6+ months we only got a small handful of updates.

This is due to the fact that the majority has no idea what it takes to develop. End of story. People like to act like they know, but it makes them look more ignorant than before.

[Betelgeuzah]

Updates are too slow?! Do you know how insane the speed they're going at is? I've honestly never seen another game do a projected 2 updates a month to a game. Given the schedule was disrupted a little bit but with good reason..

It is by no means "insane". They have been quite slow at updating the game. The reasons for it are obvious enough (or maybe not), but it has been way too slow for the time being. Whether it continues that way or not will be seen this and the next month.

If they'll keep this pace for the whole year, the game is as good as done. If the majority of fixes and content is scheduled around the same time period (April-May) then they still have a chance. But let's not fool ourselves. They haven't done enough.

But more importantly, they haven't yet shown us what they have done. Maybe it'll tip the pace in their favor, maybe it's not enough. But we have yet to see what "it" is in more than a producer's blueprint.

[Griss]

While making the current animations a bit bigger might help in a couple of cases, some animations will still be pretty bland. How ever once they start changing the partical effects this will definatly help the impact.

though some animations are pretty big right now, Simian thrash is already a giant ball of shiny. making that much bigger might be a bad thing lol.

[Chanse]

IMO the size of the effects doesn't bother me too much, but making it bigger should give a dramatic effects. I may be wrong since I don't play DOM much but I don't remember having an effects on the caster, again I might be wrong but if I remember correctly FFXI not only the effects was on the MOB but there are some animation/effects on the caster as well... For example NIN had some cool scripture effects every time the caster makes a spell.

UPDATE: There are animations to casters in FFXIV, but they all look the same, probably why I didn't notice or care... /sigh.

I think if they can add more effects on the caster (streaks, glows, or something) that would make my day. And I totally agree on the Melee animations, they seem repetitive on all class. Some nice camera shakes for TP moves would be awesome and PROVOKE needs to be more visible and have AOE abilities... my 2¢.

Chanse

[Lock_Hyur]

These "headline updates" on the lodestone are starting to depress even me. And Im a "fanboy". (ToT)

Please. SE. Just tell us the resize is a temporary measure while you make new spell animations.

[Zkieve]

Disclaimer;
I have no idea what development a game must be or how is it done, i am just a player. Nothing less, nothing more.


I fear for the game future if the update info they give us is this.I dont care if they are working on a complete overhaul.There is absolutely no reason to "update" us that they are gonna make the magic animation bigger.I only see two reasons.

1 - What you see is what you get.There is Nothing else ready for a long time.
2 - The Yoshida marketing scheme just went down the drain.If you dont got something good to say, then dont say anything at all.

Flame if you like but there is just so much people can take.