Letter from the Producer, XLIV (03/19/2013) Follow

Uh no. Look at the road map, phase one has a lot of stuff, phase 2 seems a bit lighter, and most of it old hat from phase 1. The big things are Grand Companies, private chocobos, and of course game pad stuff. The rest of it is simple more of the same from phase one, which they should be adept at fixing by now, or have already fixed as part of phase 1. You're a glass is half empty kind of person aren't you?

I'm pretty happy with the small numbers on the damage and HP that I see in these shots. I've always thought it was stupid when MMOs have characters with 129,864 HP... it feels like it's done merely to make people say "woo!" when a big number shows up on their screen. For readability and balance, you may as well just drop the final couple digits in every case, since they're never doing anything significant.

not really I want to see the game came out in July or August but I also dont wanna get my hopes up and be disappointed either lol

One other interesting bit I just gleaned after looking at the roadmap again.

If there are 100,000 testers right now, and they only have 5-10 servers as the beta roadmap states, then they're packing in 10,000-20,000 players per server

Even 10k per server is amazingly large.

If they're only taking another week for phase 1 then I imagine things are pretty stable after the initial hiccups he referred to.

It's even more amazing when you consider that Phase 1 only includes the areas around Gridania, so all these players are in only a few zones. I have a good feeling they have stressed the server very well.

Whether it is half empty or half full, it is still half of what it could be which means you're doing it WRONG

Edited, Mar 19th 2013 3:12pm by IKickYoDog

To say that that many are spread over so few zones is impressive though, older mmo's for example ffxi could only hold maybe 600 per zone? I remember system messages asking people to leave whitegate and then come abyssea port jeuno.

Come on now, Wint. Why do I have to be the one who spills your beans? Where is Filth or even Poubelle when you need them?
Of course you know that the 100.000 number (if actually a real number at all) is definitely not the number of players concurrently
logged in at any point of time, but the number of people who ever participated in phase 1 of the beta.

But I can fully confirm that I heard even manymany players hopping buffing and spelling around the aetherite platform in Gridana
seem to not even dent the server capacities. A totally different feeling from 1.XX, or so the rumor says... a truly amazing difference.

Edited, Mar 19th 2013 2:53pm by Rinsui

100K? I was guessing 50K.

I also suspect that some folks may have gotten invites but missed them. I know some Legacy members who weren't checking email because they weren't even paying attention to the beta schedule.

Yea but the number he put was for the people that are playing the game. So i am guessing he just took the number from the logs for every account that logged in even once in the game.

edit : damn wint is fast! ^^

Edited, Mar 19th 2013 3:19pm by Teravibe

I think it may be 100k all right, but I doubt it's 100k at the same time.

And while you two argued about the glass being half empty or half full, I took the shot for myself and you both are left with nothing.