Friday's Dev Panel interview with AllakhazamFollow

Is this not proof that SE likes to use "difficulty and system restriction" as an excuse? Or am I reading that wrong? How can you say you can't do it, then say it is possible?

Just like all the other stuff they claimed they couldn't do and done..

I blame the Dev budget being cut by SE whoring Ivalice and FF7 to kingdom come.

Then laziness.

Yeah I'd have to say the interview didn't really show anything worth looking forward to. Not really exciting.

Lots of unfinished business at hand.

I don't do land Kings anymore because of the bots. It's not that a certain LS has superior claimers, they just have a better bot. That being said, people have a valid reason to *****. Ridill can only be obtained in the Aery, not Einherjar. Most people I know do Einherjar just for the E body or misc kings gear. That's a problem, and that's why people are upset. Either you join the botted LS or you don't claim thus wasting your life sitting in a hole. I hardly call that fair.

Anyways, now that I've given my individual item commentary:

The interview doesn't strike me as very encouraging.

Somehow the Mazemonger is going to give gear that is both "not good for PT'ing in" and "gear for low level". I read that as "we don't think low level gear should be any good."

The "good" things they're putting in there, it seems we hear it all the time. "We're looking into stopping RMT" "We're gonna fix jobs" "We're gonna add avatars." Sounds like a rehash of last year's panel.

The "bad" things... aren't real promising. They seem to have spent a lot of time talking about what they won't do. I don't say can't because I do not believe there's a problem they're listing that can't be fixed, they simply won't. Limitations is always the excuse until they get it to work, then they say "Surprise! We planned this all along!"

Seeing SE throw their hands up in surrender over cheaters at Land Kings, then claim they're confident at stopping cheaters at everything else is sickening and pathetic.

If this is what it's going to cover, they'd be better off not letting the Dev panel talk at all.

http://blog.square-enix.com/ff11/

I like the gear that is apparently going to drop from these chests.

+5 Str in Fire weather for low level melee pants gear is godly, as are the persons dressed up in those costumes.

You do know the appearance rate for fire weather in the low level areas right?

Amusingly enough, I found more to look forward to in that SE blog than I did in the Dev Panel discussion.

1) The implication of Jueno in the WotG missions (whether or not it's the past I can't tell)

2) a Jeuno flag to go along with the nation flags (maybe something good for moghancement?)

3) The last shots looked like possible Dancer relic. (was reskinned Dancer gear)

That really is too bad. It was something mentionned by a lot of players that would help move the game for new players to make gil more quickly and have access to all levels of gears...

Personnaly, I always hated jeuno, and I hate Whitegate even more, so I would've loved a chance to hang in Windy a lot more... *sigh*

Edited, Dec 6th 2008 11:13pm by FrancoisX

The very large one i don't know, because it would be a pain to use in a party or in a constricted zone.I don't want to be in party, and suddenly be blinded because the smn cast behemoth and he overlaps the entire party, or he casts behemoth in a place like phomina aqueducts, where they can't fit.



Wow, you guys are idiots.

Look, you don't say "Nothing is planned." because you are admitting you cant ban people that do it at all. You don't admit this, because you pretty much remove any fear or nervousness that SE one day might ban you for botting. You even are saying that you wont change kings at all in anyway to fix this, by instancing or what.

It looks bad to see you not willing to change or even deal with this, and its giving the message that if you ever want to camp a ground king, you have to bot.

This. (Mythic acquisition)

With as tight knit a group endgame tries to play itself off as (Looking at you BG forums)Why they haven't organized a global boycot of these mobs as a display of seriousness to SE is beyond me. Is the individual greed so much that you're going to keep trying the same methods, pounding your head into the wall so to speak, instead of doing something that might catch an eye?

the PW fiasco was a blooming nightmare, but it caused a reaction out of SE. I see no reason why people won't use that level of political ploy to force SE's hand on this. If it's been an issue for that long, then a larger display has to be made, IMO.

AV buttons diddn't work, SE has publically stated no plans to change kings, so it's time to start putting your foot down harder.

As far as all the other negativity, I'm still pretty disappointing in the forum playerbase reactions. My opinion is that they went in with overly high expectations, or rather, didn't go in at all and had overly high expectations of the news. It was a one day event, there wasn't any REAL new expansions comming out to show off, so honestly, what more was there to be expected? We got answers to some questions, even though we don't like them, but instead of ******** over forums, which isn't working when it comes to NMs, how about something a bit more prevalent?

Less complaining about the problem and more pushing for the solution has always been my policy. It kind of influences my pov on things.