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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.


We'd have asked a lot more, however we ran out of time and the dev team hadn't had lunch yet.
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Macros: 4000 new macro buttons. Same amount of macro lines for each button however.

Fuck right off.
 
Dowzer said:
Macros: 4000 new macro buttons. Same amount of macro lines for each button however.

Fuck right off.
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Yeah. =/ But in good news! they did said they don't give a shit if you use unofficial windower or not so.. guess we can. I still find it funny as hell that they tried to add plugins and failed!
 
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.
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Mother fucker. After all the other bans they've got accomplished, they'd better not start to pussy out now.
 
"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."

<too weak> and a video at that.
 
DarkMagnus said:
"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."

<too weak> and a video at that.
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I feel like they are stalling while they frantically try to figure out how to kill it ;/
 
BG said:
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'.
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SE Devs 4 months ago: "Yeah, it can be killed, we'll show you how it's done."
SE Devs last week: "FUCK, we can't do this shit man...what do we do?"
SE Dev Team Leader: "Just write something to 'enfeeble' it. Then you can bring it down and say 'hey, we did it!'"

Pussyasses.
 
Euphacent said:
Great, 4000 new macros... but you still can't just press one button to swap all of your gear. Dumb.
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But they did say they don't care if you use unofficial windower, so you could just use those macros! unless you play ps2/xbox
 
chinis said:
But they did say they don't care if you use unofficial windower, so you could just use those macros! unless you play ps2/xbox
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which is bs. The macro system has been outdated for awhile and they need to fix this.
 
Burne said:
which is bs. The macro system has been outdated for awhile and they need to fix this.
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Yeah they do need to fix it. =/ 6 per line is the main problem, we should send bug reports! I could do without all the other stuff, but i like ws'ing in 1 macro
 
Relic Weaponskills aren't the "Paragon" skills in the first place. Well, most of them aren't.
 
Tristam Green said:
SE Devs 4 months ago: "Yeah, it can be killed, we'll show you how it's done."
SE Devs last week: "FUCK, we can't do this shit man...what do we do?"


Pussyasses.
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lololol haha
 
Good to know they still don't know the first thing about their own damned game or what its players want. Same amount of macro lines, ahahahahaha.
 
DarkMagnus said:
SE's window mode is <too weak>.
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Window mode is meant to play the game in .. window mode, so i don't see why it's too weak. This change is atually quite big for people not using windower. This makes the game more pleasant, you can check the web for help etc. Also on some graphic card windower is <too weak>. Like Cadaerva mire being so dark that you can't see anything.

As for macro line, well, when i have a macro line with 6 lines of gear swap, and use it in laggy place (like dynamis, einherjar w/e) there is often one line that doesn't work so i'll let you imagine what happens with 7,8,9 ..10 lines.
 
pchan said:
Window mode is meant to play the game in .. window mode, so i don't see why it's too weak. This change is atually quite big for people not using windower. This makes the game more pleasant, you can check the web for help etc. Also on some graphic card windower is <too weak>. Like Cadaerva mire being so dark that you can't see anything.

As for macro line, well, when i have a macro line with 6 lines of gear swap, and use it in laggy place (like dynamis, einherjar w/e) there is often one line that doesn't work so i'll let you imagine what happens with 7,8,9 ..10 lines.
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Yeah, all 50 PC players who don't use the windower because they're scared SE would ban them(lolidiots) or it just doesn't work on their computer; those very very few people will benefit from this. For everyone else, it's useless. They're not going to ban you for using the 3rd party windower, and theirs sucks, so why would you want to use theirs other than to get the retards who think it's the same as botting/hacking off your back. Hell, just tell them you changed and they'd never know.

Oh, and with the darkness, you can actually change that in the settings or just hit F11 to turn on the backlight(level is also changable) to see what you're doing better.

The amount of lines doesn't have problems. I have windower macros that are 20 lines long and I don't have problems in dynamis or besieged.
 
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