Company Information next week, not this ;\

[Dreamer]

Please take the VII out of my XIV.

Sure will do.

14-7 = ....7!

Quote of the week.

[Kam]

NOT!
This will be a big freakin let down. dont lie to yourself....
If anyone wants to make a 500k bet that this next "update" wont change or add anything worth mentioning i'm in....
and if i am wrong i would gladly fork it over cause that would mean the game would be worth playing more than 20 mins~
PPL dont get all amped up it will make the let down that much harder.
BTW only addressing thoes that want to see xiv change for the better not the fanboys that say "FFXIV is fine, you all are dumb".

Its the start of a good change. I'll bet 500k to that.

[Kam]

From what various forums have posted on this, the jist of what Yoshida's saying is

*some recipies are too complex

*battle system changes are not the only ones in the works

*company info next week end

Also his post above the one we're all talking about seems to be a joke about having patience

This is only what i can gather indirectly.. It'd be awesome if we could get someone to translate.

[Alcide]

It's basically a system like Evolith where you can upgrade gear with enchanted items, like my Iron Falchion can get socketed with + 10 Accuracy vs seedkin etc.

It sounds like something really cool for the customization, but I really don't know if the economy would benefit from it :/ this could cause a lot of confusion for the newbies. I hope the official translation can give us more info.

The other side of it is Yoshi-P's honesty. He always seems to be brutally honest, even when it comes to adding information that is disappointing or unfortunately vague.

I really wouldn't call it honesty, he's always vague and it's starting to get annoying... but again, waiting for official translation.

In his post, Yoshi-P says that information regarding grand company will be released next weekend.

In the the 2nd part, he mentions that the development team is working on both the economic system and the battle system at the same time and he plans on talking about these changes in his next letter.

He also mentions that what they are working on will greatly change the play style for all the jobs and each of the changes are closely connected to each other, (not sure what he means). because of this, he doesn't want to release partial information(information on just one of the changes)because if he did, it will lead to random guessing in regards to the changes, he goes onto saying that the changes they are making when announced might seem useless but these changes are meant to overall balance the entire system when finished so he hopes we understand that.

I hope you misunderstood, cause otherwise this must be a joke, in 6 months we've never had even a sign of life during the weekend... unless Yoshi-P don't decide to post something only on the Japanise forum and then we won't have a translation till monday (yes it is silly, but I blame him because he can't speak english, IMHO it's something essential for someone doing his job, actually I blame everyone who can't speak english in 2011, but that's OT)

About the useless changes... well that's not a problem, after they increased the mobs' size, they added the aggro mark and now we know they'll increase the animations' size... we won't be surprized.

Lmao! SE is pulling the FFVII card, now we know it's bad

SO TRUE.

[zaviermhigo]

YES BELGIANROFL IS GONNA BE GONE SE HEARD OUR CRIES!!!!!

haha this must be the reason why he stays, he has a hatebase here.

[zaviermhigo]

haha your kidding right? I played AoC from beta to 1 month before XIV the community was full of hate for Funcom and each other.

I played on an RP server, i should of said that, it would make my community a bit different. I don't actually RP, but I have a deep distrust in gaming community that attract 15 year olds so I chose the RP server, and the community there was older and more mature like FFXI (not at the moment, don't play XI now thinking they have a mature fanbase :/ so sad, not saying XI had an overwhelmingly mature playerbase but no other game in the world would someone cure you at level 10 randomly when you were about to die, some of this is gone in XI now)

I just thought it was a better community base than lets say WoW or DCUO (i played that game until 15 year olds overtook it with their "lulz0r newb meet me at wayne enterprizes (they can't spell)", and that was almost verbatim. So yeah sorry, didn't meant to overgeneralize AoC my experience is a bit different than the average.

[Shikyo]

Its the start of a good change. I'll bet 500k to that.

I hope you are right, man i do i wanna see this game be big and completely annihilate anything that steps up in this genre

[Nephera]

I think they went with some VII-esque stuff is back a few months before the game came out an article came out saying they wanted to attract FF rpgers instead of just the XI people. Go read a forum of just people who played FF rpgs, and what they said about XI or XIV getting a number in the series, they are vicious and ignorant, why attract them lol. I miss when mmos didn't try to attract the masses. Heres hoping ffxiv sucking hard for a bit will make it a good community (like XI or Age of Conan, that game might not be great but AoC has a great community because the game sucked hard for two years and all the people who didn't really want to play gtfo)

>age of conan had a good community

No

[Maverick_Hawkeye]

he goes onto saying that the changes they are making when announced might seem useless but these changes are meant to overall balance the entire system when finished so he hopes we understand that.

Oh lord I hope you've mistranslated this...

If they ALREADY are making excuses for why 1.7 is going to be useless... then... /shudder

[LuxLex]

*some recipies are too complex

Hope they are talking about cooking. HERE COOK THIS THING WITH 8 INGREDIENTS WHICH ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND IN THE MARKET AND COST BETWEEN 4-10K EACH FROM AN NPC! THEN NPC IT FOR 300 GIL WHEN NO ONE WANTS TO BUY IT CAUSE IT IS CERTIFIABLY USELESS. HAVING FUN YET?