Letter From the Producer IX.

[lordpyriel]

I think SE should make a challenge that is on par with Vanguard: SoH. Take some ideas from it, etc.

That's just me tho. :/

[Jynx]

Mid June? Man...such a long wait. Funny how there is no word on crazy doomsday guy in his letter though.

[Shiyo]

@Wobi, sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I was insulting you for not being 50, I'm really tired and I just meant that it's easy to get 50 in this game and no one has an excuse for "IM NOT 50 ITS HARD TO LEVEL!" or something, everyone can eventually get 50 no matter what. OMG...I feel like I'm talking about wow, that hurt my head. Anyways, I WANT low level content, I don't want all the content to be at the level cap, that's lame.

I also despise HNM's and never killed or camped one. I loved sea, sky, VNM's, ZNM's, limbus, and nyzul. I only liked lowmanning all those events(Besides nyzul of course, 6 man was required).

[Wobi]

@Wobi, sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I was insulting you for not being 50, I'm really tired and I just meant that it's easy to get 50 in this game and no one has an excuse for "IM NOT 50 ITS HARD TO LEVEL!" or something, everyone can eventually get 50 no matter what. OMG...I feel like I'm talking about wow, that hurt my head. Anyways, I WANT low level content, I don't want all the content to be at the level cap, that's lame.

I also despise HNM's and never killed or camped one. I loved sea, sky, VNM's, ZNM's, limbus, and nyzul. I only liked lowmanning all those events(Besides nyzul of course, 6 man was required).

Fair enough, I just hope they roll with the more progressive content. That time spent completing goals = progress. If you were unlucky you could spend hours farming Diorite against other shells and walk away empty handed, sometimes the drops rates were so bad even uncontested you could throw away 5hrs up there with nada to show for it. ZNM was brilliance, the drop rates were decent enough and sometimes you got a nice piece of situational gear from the NM's you battled along the way. All the while collecting pop items to progress to the next tier and once you did the last one you went back to the start. However you could take different branches each time fighting various monsters and could adjust which ones you battle if the team you had that evening was more suited for one over the other.

Einherjar also had a system of progression but man was it hard sometimes

[Shiyo]

WOW's design also isn't the pinnacle of MMO design either, but every MMO seems to think it is. So copying it is the new cool thing. I want unique to be different and not play the same game until I die of old age. It shouldn't be unique just to be unique, it should be unique AND fun AND challenging AND awesome. I'm sick of WOW, I'm sick of casual games, I'm sick of single player lobby "RPGS", I'm sick of dungeon gear grinds, I'm sick of beating MMOs in a month.

It sucks, it really does.

[Totobi]

I'm sick of casual games

Better find a new game, then, as FFXIV was marketed as casual.

[Len]

Better find a new game, then, as FFXIV was marketed as casual.

Final Fantasy XIV has no identity yet - casual or otherwise.

[Corrderio]

Final Fantasy XIV has no identity yet - casual or otherwise.

Tanaka said in his interviews he was going to make this casual compared to XI. And from how the updates are going I'd say it's a pretty safe bet to say it's going to be casual.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

Waa waa WOW waa waa

Please stop your complaining, Yoshi-P presented us with polls, we voted, and what ever was the majority is going to be considered or implemented. So either deal with it or stop playing.

[Duelle]

WOW's design also isn't the pinnacle of MMO design either, but every MMO seems to think it is. So copying it is the new cool thing. I'm sick of WOW, I'm sick of casual games, I'm sick of single player lobby "RPGS", I'm sick of dungeon gear grinds, I'm sick of beating MMOs in a month.

You don't seem to understand that gamer demographics have changed in the last decade. You can't get away with super grinds, "non-casual" development and cockblocks anymore. It simply isn't feasible.

As far as "beating" MMOs in a month, you're just making me think of that top 2% of the players that whined that WoW was too easy during Wrath of the Lich King while I was happily working on hard modes and clears in Ulduar and ToC25. I assure you, there's working joes like me, moms, dads, grannies and retirees that take their time with things.