Primed For Adventure

There's a bump we haven't had in a while.

Apparently, they don't know how to tell time. Now it starts in 15 minutes, it should've started an hour ago.

They got a translator for Fujito for direct Q&A

God damn son. 20 minutes for one question.

I tried. I'm bored. When I can fastforward I'll skim it.

It's sad that the two JP guys that do it for fun as fans of the game make a better show than the person paid by Square Enix to organize this stuff.

Community manager job = do next to nothing, still get paid.

Answering more questions than ever

However, every single answer is the exact answer you expect, so really, they're answering nothing.

Two hours of no and more no

It's been so long since we had a good "lolno" question/answer dialogue.

Not too much of interest, but apparently they'll be bumping trust points up from 80 a month to 100 a month. Seemingly with ambuscade for the extra 20.

Important to note they said that if you miss the monthly points, you are SOL. Similar to deeds, you'll just be behind everyone in count forever.

Think that was kind of a given though as some points are tied to monthly ROE.

Ah, the good old "Go *** yourself, we aren't changing ***". I missed the Sage Sundi approach.

Not that it matters at all. There's only so many spendable points, you can't really be behind. Everyone has the same wall.

How many points is full trust right now. 9 categories 1x10 2x10 3x10 4x10 5x10 x9 450? 6 months to cap out entirely?
(only 3 months if you exploit)

Sure, just depends how crazy they go with additions to the options. You'll never not cap, just might take an extra couple months to do it.

I am so outraged by how fujito is running the game, how bad the stuff he makes is and how cynically money grabbing they are that I can't even be bothered to write a long post complaining about it.

The next tier of upgrades to trusts are probably also going to be awful, either in implementation or monetization (inb4 you have to buy the attachments with a new points system and you can only get 100 per month)

For those who missed it, this sums up Fujito's answer to all the questions:

Strongly question what the point of this featurette was supposed to be, if it's just two straight hours of "no, we're not changing anything". Why even have a Q&A event if you're not going to humor any of the questions given?

If anything, showings like these only hurt the game's appeal overall. From a business perspective, it's far better marketing to at least pretend changes might be coming and keep a playerbase in eternal anticipation of things which will ultimately never be realized, rather than give an outright hard "no" to a lot of very legitimate complaints.

Did they at least go over the reasoning for why they aren't going to touch anything ever (aside from a chronic lack of manpower/learned helplessness/etc)?

Got to appreciate the honesty. Imho it's better to say as it is than raising hopes only to get inevitably disappointed later on.

Although one has to wonder what the purpose of those streams are.

The reason:

I was most disappointed by how little the server upgrades seemed to effect anything… also these new dev tools are just… sitting around? Also it seems SE acknowledges they had a huge influx of players coming into the game but aren’t devoting any more resources to strike the iron while it’s hot.

My takeaway from this was:

We made network and server improvements but we still have to lock servers with 2k peaks even though we could hand multiple 3k servers in 2006. And maybe we might consider, maybe… perhaps(depending if corporate lets us) consider some sort of incentive for you to leave a mega server… but we don’t want to make it unfair or something. Maybe 2% off or something.

No, we can’t have cross server things. We looked at it, and said no can’t be done. Maybe matchmaking - probably not though.

Your year long limbus grind is because its solo content for good gear(even though you can solo 8-10k in sortie easily for 40 days and get a full set of +3, or team up to get in 10 days)

REMA are optional, so we won’t do any sort of balances with them. Kikoku is of lockstyle anyways. We will not equalize some of the REMA grind because other players might get upset. You will eat your mythic grind.

Yes, qualtada will continue to interrupt your SCs and yes, he will use refresh roll. No, trusts abilities won’t be buffed with attachments… but their acc sure will.

RSE+1 will not move onto +2 unless there’s some future crossover event which isn’t likely to happen, literally “don’t invest your time if you’re hoping for an upgrade.” As it’s meant to be starter gear.

We talked about sunseting XI but then we got all these new players and thought… we really gotta milk this.

We have BIG things planned, for 2027. Stay tuned for that next year.

I also will not be a trust like Matsui-p.