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FINAL FANTASY XIV fans the world round, the seventeenth Letter from the Producer has arrived for your viewing pleasure!

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Letter from the Producer, XVII (09/01/2011)

Hello everyone! Yoshi-P here with another post for all you FFXIV-ers. Hot one day, cold the next. The weather’s been getting kinda funky on the cusp of the seasons here. Hope you’re all managing to stay in good health while enjoying your time in Eorzea.

We’re firing on all cylinders heading into the next patch, and there’s been some late nights and weekends spent here at the office. The encouragement we’ve been receiving on the forums has us doing everything we can to get things done.

Lemme start things off with a screenshot of one of the new airships taking to the skies come 1.19.


Looks like that one’s about to whisk some players off into the Gridanian twilight. Nice.

Sorry for the long wait, but they’re finally coming to Eorzea in 1.19, together with chocobo mounts, to help make traveling around the realm more enjoyable. Ride a “horsebird” to get wherever you need to go by land, or book passage on an airship to fly the quickest routes between Ul’dah, Gridania, and Limsa. Airship voyages themselves will take only mere seconds, though there will be sweet little cutscenes accompanying departures and arrivals.


Aaand now on to the update list. Changes coming in 1.19 have been detailed on the Lodestone in some Topics and forum posts, so as I mentioned last letter, this is just a list of changes slated for 1.20 and beyond. There’s a couple healthy-sized ones among them, so I’m looking to update the list again with a more detailed breakdown of those sometime after 1.19 goes live. Without further ado...

Quests


New Content


Guildleves


Behest


Company System


Enemies and Non-instanced Areas


Battle System


Armoury System


Items, Synthesis, and Gathering


User Interface (UI)


Markets


The Lodestone


* View the list of planned changes for 1.19.

Well, time to get back to it. I’ll keep posting letters up until release to keep you updated on where we’re at, so keep an eye out!

Talk to you next letter, or on the forums. See you soon!

SOURCE: http://forum.square-...8823#post318823

[Hackysacky]

i have been wondering, after all the changes are done when THEY think the game is ready for people to pay monthly. Will it be worth it? I can see this game as a FTP but i do not think it can ever be good enough for p2p. The game is just too bland and un interesting. The mechanics aren't too bad but visually its kinda bland. FFXI had a lot of small detail that ffxiv lacks.

[Zarraza]

Hackysacky, on 01 September 2011 - 10:24 AM, said:

i have been wondering, after all the changes are done when THEY think the game is ready for people to pay monthly. Will it be worth it? I can see this game as a FTP but i do not think it can ever be good enough for p2p. The game is just too bland and un interesting. The mechanics aren't too bad but visually its kinda bland. FFXI had a lot of small detail that ffxiv lacks.

I logged on last night to say hello only to find that every single one of linkshells except for one had disbanded due to inactive members. This game won't be going anywhere. I mean, come on. I started playing in March because I listened to people saying, "Oh, well, by May or April the game is supposed to be good." It's now September, and jobs won't even be implemented until two more patches from now. Which is 4-6 months. I will not be sticking around for that. Since even if they implement a job system... that doesn't mean there will actually be content to use them on. I think it's time for me to just chalk the 50 bucks I paid as a waste of money. If anyone even replies to this to bash me, you can't really deny that what I'm saying is at least partially true. Not many people want to believe that the only reason they're trying to fix this game is because it was a huge money sink, and if they abandoned it, it would impact them far worse. Other games from SE like Deus (which is a far superior game) were delayed because of the financial impact this game failing had on their company. They don't really care about the community, it's always been about revenue.

[BakuraSama]

Zarraza, on 06 September 2011 - 08:45 PM, said:

I logged on last night to say hello only to find that every single one of linkshells except for one had disbanded due to inactive members. This game won't be going anywhere. I mean, come on. I started playing in March because I listened to people saying, "Oh, well, by May or April the game is supposed to be good." It's now September, and jobs won't even be implemented until two more patches from now. Which is 4-6 months. I will not be sticking around for that. Since even if they implement a job system... that doesn't mean there will actually be content to use them on. I think it's time for me to just chalk the 50 bucks I paid as a waste of money. If anyone even replies to this to bash me, you can't really deny that what I'm saying is at least partially true. Not many people want to believe that the only reason they're trying to fix this game is because it was a huge money sink, and if they abandoned it, it would impact them far worse. Other games from SE like Deus (which is a far superior game) were delayed because of the financial impact this game failing had on their company. They don't really care about the community, it's always been about revenue.

I'm telling you the only thing they gotta do is ad the name changes back to warrior , red mage , black mage , ect. to the classes and Add a freaking a AH . the fucking game otherwise noone will want to play this travesty , seriously just 2 simple things can save ur game... or least to attract the ppl tp stay atleast... who ever has Lodestone please make this suggestion AH , NEEDED !!