Originally Posted by IfritnoItazura  |
lol. Are you paranoid or something? I don't see S-E having a strong incentive to lie about the number one way or another. (If not enough people play, they'd start shutting down servers. If too many, they'd happily add more.)
If you read carefully enough, you'd note that Tanaka attributed the small loss of NA client users to mostly RMT and cheater booting (though didn't specify why the JP subscribers' numbers went up)
Why is it so hard to believe that a mature, five years old MMORPG can have relatively stable number of players for a year or two? Although not every game is that way, Everquest basically had about the same number of players from July 2001 to July 2005, for example.
Um. Last time I defended S-E on this by saying that BST can level just fine, I think my sister's BST was Lv.55 and taking a break from leveling. A few days ago, she hit Lv.60, so I'll say it again: S-E did NOT break BST. Made some things harder, yes, but also made converting mobs to EM easier.
BST changed, and probably never going back to the way it was before. That doesn't make it the end of BST, though; people are still leveling it, and it is still an impressively powerful job. (Next time I make this point again, my sister will probably be Lv.65 or 70. heh.)
Anway, the point is that BST adjustment isn't a high priority because it's still quite usable and capable. I'll excuse S-E on that, and flog them or not doing something about SC+MB instead, since that's not so usable or potent in these days of WS-spam-owns-all partying.
Then again, they are pretty busy with a new expansion and whatnot, so maybe instead of complaining, I'll just wait and see what else they are adding to Vana'diel soon. |
I dunno if I'm paranoid or not. I do know they keep harassing me for $$$ even though i have canceled my contract with them verbally. Had to cancel my account they drew money from. An now 3 emails stating it was canceled. Seems to me like if they were so happy with subscriber numbers they wouldn't worry about 1 player with 1 mule.
It cracks me up that NA accounts are the ones being labeled RMT, and hackers. When it was the JPN. Who were the first to bot. hack, cheat, exploit and so on. they are the originators of the windower, ffXIassist. and so on.
Your right they did leave Bst alone presuming it was fine. They also left out a bunch of other jobs as well. All for the sake of boosting overpowered jobs at 75. They even go as far to give jobs with a ton of gear more options. All the meanwhile overlooking jobs that have garbage for gear. Besides its not I who stated " We know we farfed up Bst" comment it was S.E.
As for S.C an Mb'in i have been complaining about that for years. I always wanted each job to make the same skillchain with whatever weapon or job they choose. This would have ruled out the distortion onry party mentality. As for MB i always said it should be a higher DD total.