Well, not in so many words But he did admit that the game will not be fully ready until PS3 launch. It's not really news to any of us, but I figured I'd post it, anyway. I still don't regret playing it, as I'll be way ahead of the PS3ers, but hopefully it's not too late for regaining a large playerbase.

http://ffxiv.zam.com/story.html?story=24007

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I think it's interesting that it sold more outside of Japan. It will probably sell higher in Japan for the PS3 version though.

I hope he kicks everyone in gear and gets everything going and on time for this.

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My only "worry" is that the extended free trial will end, for us Collector's Edition people, somewhere around 22nd of November, which is 1 week before the "end of november", which is when we're supposed to be getting the "fix everything" patch. Even if you had the standard edition, it would end around 30th November, which is likely to be the patch day itself.

Either way, unless they extend the free trial an extra week or two, people are going to start getting charged money before the patch actually hits (or at least before people have a chance to see if it fixes enough). It's very likely people will cancel before the billing date hits and therefore won't make it to the patch.

SE can't afford to let people cancel, because it's extremely unlikely they'll come back once they do. They may possibly get curious around the PS3 launch but it's more likely they'll be playing Cataclysm or whatever the latest hottest thing is by then. It'll be too little too late. Hopefully they'll either extend the trial again, or the patch comes earlier than expected.

But for now, it's back to Crafting Fantasy XIV.

haha

I too was a little surprised at the sales numbers, but then remembered that the majority of computer users in Japan are laptop and notebook consumers.

Im a little worried that SE may not attempt to patch in content or repair things /until/ March using PS3 release as the excuse. I hope they're wise enough to try to maintain current user happiness after December.

I think the November patch is going to set the tone for future updates.

I remember a lot of the big FFXI updates being something really spectacular. I felt like there was almost always something to be excited about, even if it didn't really affect my particular job that I played. The November patch should fix a lot of things, but I hope it also draws people in with some smart additions and fixes. Like Kioko says

I'm hoping this patch will bowl us over, if not it'll be that much harder waiting for the next update to fix things we were hoping to see them change.

By the time PS3 release comes out I think we'll find a small, super hardened player base, and hopefully a complete game. FFXIV's overall success will most likely be judged on how many points it can recover by the PS3 release from the abysmal scores it received in September

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Might be worth reminding people that November is not the content patch. There'll be no new quests, things to do, etc, in the November patch. The November patch is simply for fixing the interface and balancing stuff.

The actual content patch, which will be similar to the old FFXI patches where we got loads of new items to find, quests to do, new spells and abilities, new synthesis recipes, new events, and sometimes some kind of big new system (Dynamis, Ballista, etc), is actually coming in December. However I wouldn't expect a whole lot of this in December because until now they've been working on November's fix patch. I think they've promised new leves and the addition of NMs for December.

They've confirmed that the next "content" patch is then actually coming in March, on the PS3's release date. So between December and March there aren't any planned update patches unless they are going to do more fix patches.

im kinda glad,at the moment, i have been to busy to bust my balls leveling. This seems like Deja Vu with Age of Conan. There is not much tolerance in the mmo community for lack of content with the variety of shit out there. i will continue to play, well because it looks shiny and most of you are all dicks like Kayne and that's just nice.

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Yeah Im feeling pretty crapy about the game. I didnt even log in yesterday. I just played FFVIII haha. Im doing the same right now. I need a day or two to get the drive to start leveling again.

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Yeah no one is missing anything right now by not logging on, the only reason i'm trying to grind out conj to 50 fast is simply to get it over with so I can afk and eat while pressing enter repeatedly while fishing.

I'm sure the game will be good eventually, if we all just hang in there.

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I just don't want to feel screwed over. My fear is somethign I'm devoting a lot of time, sweat and tears to now, someone else will rocket through with changes made.

or it could get slower

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Haha. I don't think the system could get much slower. I think maybe they could pool SP, or make it a standard amount after a fight, like EXP. And it may seem slower at first for some (Like Whisp and main healer), but if there's an incentive to work as a party, then mob kills will go a lot faster and be more streamlined.

Any change would be appreciated. I'm hoping for two things.

1. Make the SP system not retarded by either pooling SP, or calculating it out after battle like EXP.

2. Either increase the drop rate of shards in parties, or reduce the amount of shards needed on crafts.

Those two things would make me very happy.

PS: And those frustrated, just hop on my Whaaambulance. It's a coping mechanism for a crappy game system. It's therapeutic and helps keep you sane.

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Bunch of interesting stuff to be added.

Yay



Thank god

Looks like no mailbox until March though



Even the guy who writes the lodestone announcements is starting to sound desperate

Well I had not played this game for last few days due that I was busy irl. so I am not too worry at this time.

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I am really excited by these and other things.

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Gonna take the Cobra Kai Airship out for a spin.

I look forward to having a company HQ, somewhere we can idle!

Yeah that is one thing I'm really excited for. I'm very curious how they're going to implements ships, and see what kind of things they have in store for these headquarters.

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Some thoughts on a couple things while looking through again:

Firstly, if anyone is wondering where all this info is coming from:
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/topics/detail?id=9a18c549d68b08a4e6f2d162f5bd4263ed466626

Adjustments to item durability
I hope specifically this means increasing the durability on weapons. I find it weird how quickly weapons break compared to armor. I can sometimes go through 6-7 weapon repairs before I need to worry about any of my armor pieces.

The addition of an auto item sort function
Woohoo.

The addition of a repair icon
I hope this means an icon displayed over the equipment on the equip screen.

Changes to how statuses are displayed
This is listed separately to the one that says they're going to add count-down timers on the status effects. So what else needed to be changed?

The addition of a list that contains a player's eight most recently used recipes / The addition of a list that contains all previously used recipes
I'm not particularly sure why they don't just do the second thing first instead of doing just 8 and then adding them all later?

The addition of multiple log window tabs and a feature allowing for multiple log windows
This is oddly actually something I'm most looking forward to. I really want to put the chat stuff in a different window than the general battle log (which I also want to always be able to see.)

The addition of graphic displays to better clarify the effective ranges of actions
Does this mean we're going to see range circles on the ground around us or around a target when casting an aoe spell? Sounds kinda cool.

The addition of a gameplay feature that determines the quality of materials obtained from battle and gathering
What does this mean? It already says +1 +2 ...? I wish it said they'd make +1 +2 items stack together, lol.

The addition of player titles
That's great but how about letting us see the name of somebody else's linkshell first?

Improvements to the action bar, allowing players to freely position the widget
Action bar was fine where it is, never even felt the need to move it. I'd love to be able to put all 3 action bars on the screen somehow though. Sure you can just up/down to switch between action bars but it leaves you open to pressing a button when you're on the wrong action bar, and you can't see the cooldown on stuff not on your current action bar.

Adjustments to enmity rates
Honestly, ever since they changed it in beta, I think enmity has been great. Holding hate on a monster is rather easy now. A provoke at the start of the fight is usually enough as long as nobody suddenly goes all out on it, in which case a second provoke will usually lock it on you for the rest of the fight. What they DO need to fix though is the fact you cant generate hate on monsters that aren't claimed! Makes adds a nightmare and it also stops you claiming with provoke.

An increase in player inventory capacity
I love this as much as the next person, but almost feel it wasn't really necessary yet. Obviously yeah if you craft a lot or gather or hold multiple gear sets then your inventory will get full really quick. But when I think back to the inventory management in FFXI, it feels like increasing our inventory space this soon is SE trying to appease the player base by giving us nice stuff.

Changes to linkshell display
I hope this means filtering the linkshell list so it shows what zone people are in, whether they are in a party, and letting us filter it to only show people who are online.

On the same note, if they're going to stick with the multiple linkshells thing I hope they let people use /1 /2 /3 etc to talk on all of them at once. Right now you kind of get people who are always just "listening in" and never talk because they're on another LS, and I don't like it.

Oh, on the subject of Company HQs, I hope we can like have and/or hire useful NPCs to reside there. Like hire our own repair NPC, craft support NPC, etc. Then obviously something like a company bank where people can stash junk (which may be useful synthesis items for somebody else) would be cool. There's tons of stuff i vendor or drop because it doesn't sound like it's worth anything. But yeah mostly I'd just like somewhere we can gather together. Wonder if we just get one. The linkshell is gonna have to fight over which town it's in.

I'll post more when I think of something.

Nah we all know it will be in Limsa lol

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I like the idea of it being in Gridania, but for practicality sake I'd so go with Ul'Dah.

Or who knows, they might open up Ishgard or something and they'll be in there.

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Those are all very good ideas Ket. I always liked knowing what zone people are in when playing FFXI.

I had 2 linkshells and it was such a pain in the ass to switch between the 2 chat wise. I hated when somebody in the other linkshell asks a question while I was mid synth or something and couldn't switch to the other LS on the fly. /1, /2, etc would be awesome!

The company HQ is a cool idea and it would indeed be nice to have a repair NPC and a bank/mule for shared LS crafting materials and such.

Overall it seems they are on the right path to fixing FFXIV. Good to hear.

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I'm actually excited about this. I probably have close to 2 dozen stacks of yellow copper ore in my inventory alone, and more on the retainer. I don't want to throw it away because I'll eventually be able to turn it into gold nuggets (or so I'm told), but I don't need it right now.

I kinda wish they would give us another free 30 days after this patch considering this is really what the game should have been when it was released (if they follow through on the patch notes), but I'm not holding my breath. It will be interesting to see how many people stick around for the patch since a lot will have to start paying before it comes out.

I say that because Yarr is too stubborn to go to other cities

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Got an e-mail from SE telling me that my free trial ends on Friday (19th).

There's a maintenance on Monday (15th) -- that's likely going to be the deal breaker. They need to patch the game then to catch people before the trials start ending, and patch it good.