Producer Matsui Wants to Hear What We Want!Follow

Thank you so much for the large amount of comments! We will now be closing the thread.

There are a huge amount of suggestions from Japan, North America, and Europe, but I will be looking over each and every post that followed the instructions, and will be taking it all into consideration as I think about the future of FINAL FANTASY XI and the mutual feelings of the community.

I also have one more request for you all. I hope that you all could read over all of the posts in this thread (of course, reading over what you can is fine, too).

After playing with your friends for so long, you often start to think and play the same way as the them, including your linkshell members, and players that you spend a lot of time with and grow close to.

In this thread there are posts from these people as well as people who think in a completely different way. I’d like you to try and understand what adventurers other than yourself are thinking and looking for.

In order to continue to protect the FINAL FANTASY XI that we all love, we need everyone's cooperation or we'll be unable to accomplish anything.

I'd like to place more importance on the community and work side-by-side with you all.
From here on out I would appreciate it if you could consider the fact that there are people in the community who think in a variety of different ways and to sometimes write your feedback and opinions from an open-minded standpoint.

Thank you all very much!

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/26797-Let-Producer-Matsui-Know-How-He-Should-Catch-Up-on-2-Years!?p=357023#post357023

Edited, Aug 27th 2012 2:25pm by Szabo

Zeld more or less nailed SCH's "melee existence" if you want to peg it as such. Though, since SE added Shattersoul, Staff isn't such a terrible weapon anymore. But they basically face RDM's problem of no melee traits, even fewer spells to bolster them such, and even lesser gear selection. If I had to correlate now, they're like where 75 RDMs were, albeit with a slight edge due to SS.

Your analogy is off.

Someone pays the salary of IT staff much like someone pays the salary of video game designers at SE. In the latter case, that's us. As stakeholders in this quid pro quo that SE is getting for our subscription fees, they are supposed to offer things we want. "It sucks" is certainly an answer to not getting what we want. Their job, their expertise in fact, is to design new offerings that we, the stakeholders, continue to want.

Entitled gamers- the way of the future!

Because it's clearly impossible to not be rude and not have blind fanaticism.

Yeah, because asking for what you want is the same as feeling entitled. To be honest, I think game developers these days are the ones feeling entitled, but that's a whole 'nother thread.

this this this. player polls are dangerous. we've got some dumb people playing this game. I can only hope a little bit of Tanaka's "@#%^ you im right" rubbed off on Matsui. Just a little.


Most players dont really know what they want from a game. but all of us at least think we do.

Edited, Aug 30th 2012 2:23pm by Llester