My interview with SE's Dev teamFollow

..posted here:

http://blogs.gamersinfo.net/index.php/ffxi

Just got out of the interview with SE's dev team!

I'm just going to dump everything here:

New Windower on Tuesday. "Will SE now start banning those using the 3rd party Windower and it's plug-ins?"

The veiled answer: No. They hope that everyone will start using the new official Windower, but if you use the 3rd party one for stuff such as the plug-ins, it will be at your OWN RISK.

Macros: 4000 new macro buttons. Same amount of macro lines for each button however.

Stuff like Bloodpace or JA timers: SE tried to modify the interface but failed on their first attempt, they're going to try again soon.

Dancer: Meant to be a front-line healer who can shoulder other jobs if need be. Dancer was meant to shine in parties of less than 6.

Scholar - Backline with JAs, not just magic. SE feels there wasn't enough backline people.

ABSOLUTE VIRTUE - Can be killed, SE intended to show a video at Fanfest, however they didn't have enough time to create it because AV simply takes too long to kill and they'd need people to stay overtime (laughs from dev team) to work on the video! They intend to post it.

And they hinted they would add an item to 'enfeeble AV'.

RELIC WEAPONS - New weaponskills are being added in the new expansion, and when they do so, they will go back and revamp the relic weapon skills to keep them the 'paragon' skills. When I asked this question, they took quite a bit of time to formulate a response, so it did definitely hit a nerve.

Updating FFXI for the new computer technology, Xbox 360 and PS3? No. Redoing character models and such would require too much resources.

Is WOTG the last expansion? No. SE wants to visit continents to the Far East, West, and the South.

We only had about 25 minutes with the team between myself, and reps from 1up, Joystiq and RPGsomething.. so didn't get to remotely ask all the questions.

That interests me because, while it suggests that they wish for relic weaponskills to remain the most powerful and difficult to obtain, the new weaponskills are going to be very powerful in their own right. I wonder if they will top the Rampage/Hexastrike/DancingEdge/Guillotine sort of 'tier' of weaponskill though (as in, will they replace the current dominant weaponskills of their respective weapons. To my knowledge so far, the only semi-confirmed one through a video is a new Sword weaponskill)

At your OWN RISK as in you will probably get a virus, but if you don't, we aren't going to ban you. *laughs at all the people going around saying windower users were going to be banned*

Nice work on the interview!

I highly doubt all of those people who said they were 'banned for using windower' were just 'using windower'.

Edited, Nov 16th 2007 4:40pm by amaron

I am glad someone asked a question about the new wewaponskills. Good Job!!

Very excited about new weaponskills, good stuff.

Same number of lines? RAGE!

gonna have to agree, looking through that site (gamersinfo.com) this would have to be THE most elaborate friday thread in the history of the internet, there's just way too much irrelevant info on there (irrelevant to ffxi that is)



by far the most interesting information in this post. Though it seems strange that the dev's think that relic weaponskills are "the paragon skills" since only about 1/2 of them currently are considered top tier for that weapon type, and only 1 or 2 would be top tier if it wasn't for their added effect. They tend to be out damaged by the slugwinders(crazy modifiers but some other penalty) and multihits(gotta have the acc to land all hits)

lol

if you are Japanese you gain +1 to occasionally and suddenly interview the developers at SE.

true story

HOLY sh*tSTORM, YES!

*Begins cleaning self*
*Hits green arrow*

400 posts? Yar.

Edited, Nov 17th 2007 12:02am by Donomni

im gonna keep this somewhere just because i know in about a year we will hear ffxi is dying

Finally someone asked about those weaponskills. Although they didn't get much info on the new ones the relic weapon re-do something I will be interested in seeing.

Edited, Nov 17th 2007 12:08pm by Laxedrane