Japanese to English translation - Discussion Thread

[Pellegri]

Hopefully they listen to us. They release all these vanity gears but most people will not use them in dungeons. :/

Ya......they're giving us Lightning's set and all these weapons while making them lvl 13....no ones going to use those things unless they're sitting in town or there's vanity slots. Now the restrictions they mentioned will probably be for swimsuits and holiday events since that's usually a restriction in most mmos with a vanity tab, but even then there's so much gear that only seems to have use with vanity slots.

[LWOLFX1]

So here is a serious solution:
1. the first thing that needs to be done is to extend blacklisting and friending into dungeons to make it so people can run with better groups altogether.
2. a pre blacklist check must be put in place in duty finder. This check would prevent a group that took advantage of players from doing so a second time. Only if you passed the pre-requisite blacklist check can you enter a dungeon and then its up to you to prove your worth. (similar to the gear check idea but even if you solve the gear problem you have still not solved anything socially.)
Also if kicked you can blacklist the group you were in just incase because the big AFK is happening because duty finder is throwing people together who hate each other for whatever reason. U have to keep some people separated and give them space or no one gets along. Allowing voting or any politics in MMO is never the answer.

[LWOLFX1]

The fact is allowing a political answer like voting is not the answer. And mostly because this is dungeon related we should extend blacklist and friending into dungeon. The programmers want to be lazy and use WoW ideas that never worked is just idiotic. A Blacklist check to be implemented would allow people to blacklist each other and then duty finder would check each group and 3of3 you do not join the group. You then wait and if you are not a jerk next group will take you. The facts with AFK more than not it is the fault of random duty finder that throws people together who do not get along. Noobs and decent players do not stand a chance of argument with these people so lets separate the groups somehow and force them either into their own heaven or hell. But to just hand over power and control to the players and then let them police them selves is a system doomed to failed . And to anyone who says they have seen it work well.. Uh BLIZZARD TROLL comes to mind.

[ArkhamNative]

Gonna try live translation again Fridays Producer Letter Live 10. I'm not good

Lies!

so don't expect anything professional

Just undertaking such a task (live translating) seems heroic to me. It's also the only reason I watch the LIVE presentations. Without it, they're like a party I'm not invited to. Highly sanitized Q&A summaries after-the-fact by the "professionals" are not at all the same. IMHO.

[Kovensky]

Ya......they're giving us Lightning's set and all these weapons while making them lvl 13....no ones going to use those things unless they're sitting in town or there's vanity slots. Now the restrictions they mentioned will probably be for swimsuits and holiday events since that's usually a restriction in most mmos with a vanity tab, but even then there's so much gear that only seems to have use with vanity slots.

I took it as an excuse to level up my lowest level DoW (PGL)

One thing SE could do would be to only allow unique+untradable pieces to be used for vanity (that is, all non-crafted non-sastasha green items, blue/purple items and event items), and if they want to be mean about it and make you put some effort into it they could also require that the vanity piece is 100% spiritbond before equipping

But yes, really hoping they don't restrict it only to some tiny list of event gear. Also, hoping that whoever designed Brayflox's sets designs more.

[Gilthas]

Didn't see anyone talking about this. But its great news that they want to give us at least one more retainer if I read this answer right:

Q16: The amount of items will increase, but I’m having inventory problems with my current items. Will you be doing anything about the amount of inventory space?

A16: The additional retainer service couldn't make it in time for patch 2.1, so we will be increasing the amount of items that can be stored in the Armoire.

Too bad it didn't make it for 2.1

I wouldn't mind if the third retainer only stored items and you couldn't use it to sell stuff. I wish all untradable and non-convertible items could be stored in the Armoire.

[ArkhamNative]

Didn't see anyone talking about this. But its great news that they want to give us at least one more retainer if I read this answer right...

I don't know that they said "give". Version 1 had a plan to sell extra retainers at $1/month. Plus SE is calling this a "service".

Of course as with both RL and MMOs, your things always expand to fill all your storage space. Increasing space means management becomes more important. Otherwise you have the same stackable items on multiple retainers and even on multiple inventory pages on one retainer, taking up multiple slots instead of just one.

[Gilthas]

I don't know that they said "give". Version 1 had a plan to sell extra retainers at $1/month. Plus SE is calling this a "service".

Of course as with both RL and MMOs, your things always expand to fill all your storage space. Increasing space means management becomes more important. Otherwise you have the same stackable items on multiple retainers and even on multiple inventory pages on one retainer, taking up multiple slots instead of just one.

Oh, didn't interpret that "service" part as being something that you need to pay for with real life money. I hope it isn't and it just has a gil cost.

No wonder they won't let us mule stuff between characters if they want to have us paying for extra retainers.

[prymortal]

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201312/04044251.html

[Nero]

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201312/04044251.html

That is some serious long Interview... O_o