Matsui: "Don't Throw Away Your R/M/E Weapons Yet"

Not sure about the Necropolis because of the switches but the mold and coal at least would be soloable now, you can use the past to get around the gate in the citadel.

Edit: 55 cap you can suicide the ???s since they are always up now and the remaining ones are all soloable till 95 which has been gimped pretty hard from what I've heard.

Except... it's his job. If this were a fashion company, and not a video game company, where he delivered clothing "accepted by 30%, and hated by 50% he'd be out of a job.

The world gets less accountable every year. I remember when that clown flipped the cruise ship and got fired people were like OMG HE DIDNT MEAN IT THO #SWAG #YOLO. He flipped a vessal that cost more than his next 10 generations will make in a lifetime. Of course he got fired.


Implying he gets any share of the profit. One more mistake like this and he's going to get "health related issues" and be sewing shoes with Tanaka.

From their collaborative fall fashion line:

Tanaka would never endorse those shoes. They aren't balanced.

He'd just try to tell you they were.

The balance issue isn't the red shoe, it's that that half of his pants arn't red

We disagree. Telling someone that they aren't doing their job without an understanding of AT LEAST the technical responsibilities is no more than expressing personal dissatisfaction.

His job isn't to make you happy. It's to make Final Fantasy XI. Success and Failure come as a result of his job and aren't measured by YOUR personal satisfaction.


Regardless, I fail to see what flipping a cruise ship has to do with Final Fantasy XI other than your soap-box labeled "Kids these days...."

Furthermore, if you operate under a pre-determined conclusion, the mind easily aligns supporting evidence. It's probably a cognitive bias. I don't have time to look up the name.

Kids these days do suck.

Actually he does have to make us happy, cause if we leave he won't have a game to work on anymore.

Why does this even need to be explained? If there's a sudden drop in subscriptions it's not like the company will be cool with it cause "it's not their problem", it's only their problem to begin with. We can come and go on a whim, nothing to lose, they do lose a lot though.

Maybe he works here?

What makes FFXI a success is retaining, if not growing the playerbase.

That's his job. Keeping us paying to play this game. Keeping the customers happy.

If he wants to revise aspects of the game, he needs to do it in a way that doesn't piss off, alienate, or otherwise drive away players. Failing to do that is failing at his job.

Strictly speaking his job is to make FFXI, full stop.

What determines if he's doing a good job or not is whether he's maintaining/increasing profit, not necessarily if he's "pleasing" the players (though logically that would lead to more profit).

There's a sect of players here that seem to be a bit deluded that them ragequitting over REMs will kill the game, but honestly I doubt that'll happen to XI, it still has a pretty healthy playerbase for a subscription MMO. On the other hand, it's also deluded to assume that pissing off a bunch of players won't have some kind of effect on what the game is raking in.

I do think it's correct to say though, that if you're pissed, you should cancel your account or something, not so much because "grr rage", but more because that's really the only thing they have to go off of since its clear by now they really don't give much of a ***about what people say on the forums, EN or JP.

Didn't say the game is gonna die. But less profit is less profit.

get with the time's, or get the *** out, if you don't like direction of the game quit, nobody cares about QQ bitching about what Dev team is implementing into the game. dude Tanaka is sick, and you think he should still be working on a *** game? do you have a soul? if you were direly sick would you give 2 *** about anything but life itself? or is ffxi your life? horrible ***man, horrible....

Honestly when done properly I think Delve is a really exciting event

The adrenaline rush when we got to our third NM inside the Foret fracture last night was awesome and it's been a long time since I've had such a good time in FFXI

We didn't beat the third NM we tried(Krabakarpo - got it to 50%) but that's mostly because we had bad intel on its behavior and had never fought it before

I'm pretty sure if we go again tonight we should be able to kill it without much problem

Yea son e-thugging for life.

That's silly (i'm using the most polite term I can think of, sorry). That's like saying it's not a clowns job to make you laugh, it's just his job to tell jokes.

If he's not good at his job he gets replaced. Video games = video entertainment. He's not selling a necessity. It's a vice fee like watching TV or a movie. If the movie SUCKS you make no money and no one pays you to make movies anymore.



I posted here for a day and then came back to check in like.... once a day since. If either of us is trying to feel justified for their POV, it's less me (and you've already been called out for acting ambivalent to hide your agenda several pages back).

how is that e-thugging you tool? i'm stating the obvious. if people can't live with direction of game, real life is taking applications. THE END.

I'm not going to take offense to your implications here but I do want to address something.

1) Tanaka is no longer employed by SE. It's not like he's on sick-leave... he just plain doesn't work for them.

2) my joke was implying that I didn't believe he was actually sick. I took the "leaving for unreleased health reasons" as "were politely saying he was fired, or he left before we went bankrupt". The fact that he made disparaging remarks about the FFXIV project when being interviewed FOR THE NEW PROJECT HE WAS TOTALLY HEALTHY ENOUGH TO GO WORK ON, leads me to believe this is accurate.

3) If he was actually sick, I would almost exclusively not make jokes at his expense. Please forgive me if I offended you, that was not my intention "homey"

The obvious? lol...

"homie" is the proper vernacular, and well even if he isn't sick, he must have his reason's why he doesn't wanna work on game anymore. oh well, QQ more.

He played the IRL card, get 'em, boys!

ok, i'm done with trolling have fun living in your mom and dad's basement's and living on forums buh bye!

also: good song Mosin!

Peace out, home slice.