Hamlet Defense?

[Elexia]

Pardon my lack of information, and it's dificult to read all the post in this topic since it appears that everyone who wrote knew what this is but...

What is/are Hamlet/Hamlet Defense?

No one knows what it was to be but a blurb in a "2011 version update", speculation leads to a Besieged/Campaign type of system where you defend a city.

[Alcide]

The fact that something is coming in the future is, by definition *information*. The fact that it's not enough for you is absolutely inconsequential.
You're not entitled to know every little detail of future development until such details are finalyzed. Demanding it over and over doesn't change this simple fact.

LoL
And if they keep saying just this for months can you still consider it "informations"? Every little detail? We know nothing about anything. Whenever we try to ask basic questions the only answer we get is "we'll tell you sometime in the future" and sometimes we are even ignored! (I remember a post of someone making basic, simple, general questions, with tons of replies from people saying he made really interesting arguments, it was here since the forum's launch and the moderators or the devs didn't bother to answer, same thing for another guy making questions about the future of the battle system)
Obviousely i can't claim for more infos, but still you can't fool yourself pretending we are communicating with the devs, coz clearely we are not, simple fact.

[Abriael]

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The point is, we're trying to keep comunications wide and open so we can help the game appeal to us. We're doing it for us, for Square, and for you.

Demanding for them to publicize non-finalized information not only helps no one, but is also detrimental when a developer communicates information than is afterwards revealed incorrect or changed.
You're doing it for your personal curiosity, please don't presume you're doing it for me.

[zaviermhigo]

No one knows what it was to be but a blurb in a "2011 version update", speculation leads to a Besieged/Campaign type of system where you defend a city.

To add to this "hamlet defense" battles were in an interview with Tanaka pre the game coming out. He said they were to be like besieged. Those of us who heavily followed ffxivcore,eorzeapedia, and zam read a lot of these articles, and it should be on one of the above, I'm too lazy to find it :[

[Sorel]

Pardon my lack of information, and it's dificult to read all the post in this topic since it appears that everyone who wrote knew what this is but...

What is/are Hamlet/Hamlet Defense?

No one knows what it was to be but a blurb in a "2011 version update", speculation leads to a Besieged/Campaign type of system where you defend a city.

Specifically, the Hamlets are the 6 outlying towns surrounding the 3 starter City-States.

[gifthorse]

Specifically, the Hamlets are the 6 outlying towns surrounding the 3 starter City-States.

apparently not.

[Jinko]

I think the previous dev team left the game in such a state that they are having to rewrite massive portions of code, If that is the case then they probably have no idea when things will be ready, its never a good to give out information and time-lines if you can't hold to them.

As for the hamlet system it sounds like they have something better scheduled so I think waiting a bit longer for something potentially better is a good thing.

[Sorel]

Change is indeed in the air. No doubt about that. How Golden Bazaar, Wineport, Quarrymill, and the other towns will fare ... who knows??

[Jamel-Irief]

Demanding and asking/debating isn't the same. People are infact entitled to have different views on subjects like this.

A quick visit to certain MMORPG centric websites will very quickly let you observe the present, real world of how information is giving out to customers and also to upcoming customers of games still in development. Online gaming is a competetive market for game developers, and it would only be in SE's best interest so follow that trend and release some more specific info if they wish to entice people to pick up this game. I.e. people had no idea that patch 1.17 contained 20 mid-rank NM's instead of other hyped up features.

You can say that SE is not at fault for several people hyping future patches. But if proper information was given out even just 3-4 weeks in advance, a lot of the hype would dissipate slowly.

For every week that goes by, the outside world of this forum loses allot of interest, and the true test for this games future must be about getting new people to actually buy the game (or just to get some of the 600,000 that bought the game to come back). They won't if they think the game's dead.

That's my view on the subject.

[gifthorse]

Demanding and asking/debating isn't the same. People are infact entitled to have different views on subjects like this.

A quick visit to certain MMORPG centric websites will very quickly let you observe the present, real world of how information is giving out to customers and also to upcoming customers of games still in development. Online gaming is a competetive market for game developers, and it would only be in SE's best interest so follow that trend and release some more specific info if they wish to entice people to pick up this game. I.e. people had no idea that patch 1.17 contained 20 mid-rank NM's instead of other hyped up features.

You can say that SE is not at fault for several people hyping future patches. But if proper information was given out even just 3-4 weeks in advance, a lot of the hype would dissipate slowly.

For every week that goes by, the outside world of this forum loses allot of interest, and the true test for this games future must be about getting new people to actually buy the game (or just to get some of the 600,000 that bought the game to come back). They won't if they think the game's dead.

That's my view on the subject.

Maybe they don't release info because their plans for the future are crap, and they know that if we knew their plans we would leave.