EDITORIAL: The Silence of the DevsFollow

These people already left SE years ago. Almost everyone who ever did anything you loved on the previous FF games either quit or were basically fired a couple years back. They all went to Mistwalker and make games for 360 now. (The jury's still out on that one.)

As for FFXIII, if the trend is any indication, then they had to shelve it because the realized that they had spent all of their budget on ridiculous "innovative" battle system developments and high defenition CG cut scenes and forgot to write a script or decent music.

Personally, I see this latest "adjustment" to the game as consistent with SE's overall direction over the past decade, and in line with what they've done with FFXI itself. I quit a while back because I was sick of the way they were constantly whittling away at magic and forcing everyone to melee. For me, the issue with this still isn't the communication. Clamouring about communication seems like the real "ignoring the marid in whitgate." I don't care WHY they continue to nerf the hell out of magic. I just want them to STOP it and try to put this game back to being more than just a time sink and bring back the timing and tactics that made it fun enough to suck me in oh so many years ago.

CoP was a huge addition to the lore of the game, ACP was forgettable strictly story-wise. CoP had its failings in difficulty and level caps but the story was solid and made sense. ACP was a mish-mash of tasks that served no point.

You had within the first 5mins of CoP an explosion in a very popular zone at the time involving NPCs that were well known and a declaration by Bahamut who was mysteriously absent before this expansion. After this intro, you were sent into some dungeons that were unique at the time and were rewarded with a whole new area upon completion.

Within the first 5mins of ACP you were told the world is ending, sent on an errand to grind out some Seedspralls and then after you had to farm some more Seedspralls. Then after your told to go to a zone that was just mysteriously thrown into the story with no explanation.

There is no competition, CoP just curbstomps ACP in every way. CoP is pretty much the "storyline" that brought XI up to the main series anyway so i didnt expect it to compare. Even without the new zones and other things that come with an "Expansion", ACP failed on a storytelling level miserably.

Look at the intros for each expansion and then ACP, you'll see even Zilart (considered primitive by todays standards) completely trashes it.

Adding my support to this thread...

This nerf really doesn't sit well with me at all. I'm currently leveling both RDM and BLM for the purpose of helping out more on low-man type activities. Sadly, before I can even get the chance to use either job SE breaks them beyond repair.

More than anything I just want to know what's up. Intentional? Bug? Can't figure out WTF they did to break it?

I have been a Square fan almost all my life but my respect for the company is dwindling.

Please let us know what you're up to with this and save us some grief.

-Chevis

The nerf appears to be SE's reinforcing their original ideal. A game based around working with others to accomplish goals. Now I will say that the 8/10 resists that my LOLEVLBLM got in dynamis last night was a little bit over kill for a nerf, but the other BLM(Not LOL like me) where able to sleep as normal. normally we needed just two sleepers, last night we needed 3-4 being vigilant. Just requires more PPL.

Mean while, my LOLELVDRK bind/sleep has seemed to not been affected as I do not use it.

I am sorry to all of those who are used to soloing alot, but now you might need a buddy or two to meet the same goals. It's ok RDM, use those Tier II enspells to their Fullest.....LOL :p

The lack of communication from SE on the Nerf was Phail.

ACP was very simple to understand compared to CoP, really. It does not introduce loads of random flashbacks or "characters named ??? in a flashback that get revealed later if you can remember their appearance" to confuse you.

By the time CoP started to make something resembling sense (which for most people is around chapters 5-6), most people have already forgotten the majority of the first half of the storyline's cutscenes. This is not aided by the fact that many of the cutscenes take place upon entering BCNM battlefields and therefore players are encouraged to spam through them to save time on the fight.

Say what you will about how good or bad the storyline of ACP was, but I think it's terribly hypocritical for anyone who supports CoP to say that ACP's storyline didn't make any sense.

This is not hurting our comunities image. This is saying we feel we have a right to know why they make changes that affect all of us.

Do we have that right?
No. By ToS, we don't. We don't even own our own characters.
But it feels wrong, doesn't it?

I think letting them know "Hey, SE, We're getting a bit tired of you making changes to a product we pay for without warning or explanation" is not something to be ashamed of, as you seem to imply.

Hell, when a large part of the customers feels like a *service* they're paying for took a turn for the worse, the providing company's reaction should not be "Oh. Look at you complain. We won't take advice from you again(lol)."

Yeah, it's not like people haven't already been doing this with mules or anything.



Don't lie, you did it for the Royal Redingote.



"hardcore" and 2 "weeks", actually



Congratulations on devoting your time wholly to proving SE's estimations wrong. They should have anticipated people such as yourself.

From what I'm hearing of RDM Maat, the best thing for him to do now may be to try to get a Joyeuse and fight him melee-style. (This will at least be aided now by Composure, meaning that the RDM's self-buffs will last for just about the entire fight anyway without any need of recasting.) That or level WHM to 66, hurr. (I say WHM because it still has one of the easiest Maat fights, and WHM in parties really isn't much different from RDM, plus WHM has spiffy new toys)

Edited, Apr 21st 2009 5:46pm by Fynlar

You forget the Rule of SquareEnixâ„¢: For every 1 person enraged by the company's practices, there are 100 others willing to kill a puppy for the next piece of SE merchandise.

Most MMO companies can't afford to **** people off to their next MMO.

SE can, however.

Of course, over-reliance on a name can spell eventual failure, like the words "video game" did to the US game industry in 1983.(Not saying SE is close to this, but something to think about)

Still, hopefully we get some word from SE, even if its:



Edited, Apr 21st 2009 5:57pm by Donomni

Eh, it works if you actually put in the effort. Joyeuse is a big part of this. You stand a chance of getting Asuran cheesed but that can always happen.



From what I'm hearing, the problem isn't getting a gimped duration sleep on Maat. The problem is that sleeps are having a much harder time simply landing at all. My guess would be that Bind is getting similar treatment.

So yeah... Chainspell nuke might actually be your best bet for now.

Edited, Apr 21st 2009 5:56pm by Fynlar

That's their lack of motivation/friends, not mine. A 70RDM can contribute to a Joyeuse camp/fight just fine.

Thank you Thayos. This nerf has serious left me thinking whether I want to continue with my rdm or just move on to another job or maybe even another game.

As a career rdm I almost feel like I've just wasted 3 years of my life leveling, getting gear and trying to be the best I can be.

While I do not look down on any rdm's who like to melee I do not chose to do so. It looks like by choosing not to I will need to put my rdm away for a time...

Fail SE. Major Fail.