Mailbox / Delivery System NEEDED !

[derekx]

The groundworks for the mail/delivery box should already be in place as it was said by Tanaka that we would get one at the first patch of 2011. Then the whole lead shift came and Yoshi said he would take from Tanaka what he considered most important and work with that. Never would have thought that its now almost may, we still don't have a mailbox and im still spending hours trading stuff back and forth every day.

Just because there was a system in development does not mean that it now is the best time to implement it. First, consider that we don't know to what extent it was fleshed out or the completion status. Also, if there is to be many fundamental changes to core game systems it may just be a time sink that needs completely reworked later.

On another note, the dev team has to be careful spending a lot of time on temporary compromises (or quick fixes) because of how judgmental players and critics are. Everything they implement needs to be polished and rock solid.

Edit: Maybe having to plan around future console technical details is really complicating things. That is something other MMO's do not have to deal with. On-line console functionality can be quite proprietary (working out details with Xbox live/PSN).