[size= 11px; color: #959595]Rhaegar said:[/size] If it means Nomura, Toriyama, Wada, et al get ousted the way Sakaguchi did, I'm all for it. Whoever replaces them certainly couldn't be any worse.
All I can say is that this is simply a difference in operational policies. For FFXI, forum operation policy wise, we arranged it so that basically the community team answers and posts. Compared to FFXIV, FFXI is currently being developed by an extremely small amount of people and because of this each team member’s work load is extremely high. Due to this, in order to prevent imbalances in responses on the forum due to individual developer answers, the community team looks over every thread and picks up on the high priority topics to report to the development team. Actually, internally we operate a closed forum in exactly the same format as the forum you use and community reps create threads for us internally with the topics they have picked up on. The developers, QA team, community team, and other related personnel are then able to check it out and we can discuss the issues internally. Following this, after getting confirmation from the lead developer, a draft is put together and is then checked by the producer, director, and assistant director, then once the green light is given, the community team makes the response after a consensus has been reached. Due to this kind of operational structure, depending on the development conditions, sometimes responses can be delayed a bit. However, we are currently operating so that we can relay information to you from the whole team. Nonetheless, I think we are holding back a little bit too much, myself included, so in the future we will all try our best to unabashedly make some posts. Of course, these responses will reflect the consensus of the entire team as well. P.S. Everyone makes sure to check Mocchi’s jokes.
Zubis said: So basically, FFXI has a handful of developers left on it, the rest were thrown onto FFXIV, and communication to the public is extremely formal. The fact that developers don't post on the forums is no surprise; as a developer myself I have no desire to get into fights with users all day, but I'm surprised they admitted that there's basically no-one working on FFXI. We all knew it of course, given that their timeline of updates ends next April when their new MMO is being announced. Sad to read though.
amaron said: [quote="52"]You're not missing much.
Zubis said: FFXI has changed a great deal since 2010, but yeah, five years too late.Ã?Â
Rinoa said: LOL @ how it takes 50 layers of people before anyone from the community team makes a response. And a big fat response was written on how big fat responses like it takes 50 layers of people. All that on company dollar. There are better, more efficient methods of organizational structure. There are better, more efficient ways of engaging and putting community involvement to use. This is how you make better MMO games. Japanese business structure just doesn't care to change, nor keep up with the rest of the world. This isn't the industrial age.