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Sounds terrible, why don't you move away?

Back on topic I think the fishing will be fine. It's probably similar to the other gathering classes, which don't seem to be all that complicated as well. The only problem I would have is that if the fish you are catching are worthless. We will soon see, but I would really like to sell some fish on the AH.

Hey all,

As Yoshida brought up in previous Letter from the Producer LIVE, fishing is designed to be a casual concept that can be enjoyed between battle content or while waiting for Duty Finder matching or for your friends to log in.

While fishing, your catches will go into your inventory, and you are able to both sell it back to the market, use it as an ingredient in your food recipes, or use it immediately for bait to lure in different fish. You can also fish up coral to be used in various accessories and even more surprising items.

Saw this on devtracker:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/62415-Yoshi-p-says-Button-pressing-is-stressful.-....?p=1014104#post1014104

I don't understand how he's missed this topic (or he just doesn't care), but we've made it very clear that we DON'T want fishing to be something done for us. We DON'T want it to be mindless. We don't fish to wait for friends or for achievements. Most of us fish for money, or because we found the old mechanic genuinely fun.

What the hell is he thinking turning it in to this? This new mechanic actually has less interaction than the fishing game in animal crossing, and that only takes two button presses. Two!

He's succeeded in destroying an entire class, one a lot of people put a lot of work into, for what? So we can chat? So we can get dem cheevos? Who gives a damn about those things. I want to be able to fish. I want actual interaction. A single key press for the entire interactive part of fishing is mind boggling in how backwards it is. Yoshi, I don't know how you don't understand this, but this is a role playing game. Let me repeat that.

THIS IS A ROLE-PLAYING GAME.

You obviously only care about combat. We can all tell. But in an RPG, we get to choose what role we want to play. If I wanted to play a pure combat game I'd play Mortal Kombat. In MMOs, I like to fish. Stop forcing us to play the role you think we should play and give us gatherers (including the botanists and miners) actual content and interactive game mechanics. Go back to 1.0 for all I care. The 1.0 mechanic was world's better than what you're giving us now, and it wasn't even that good.

This is all so beyond me now I don't even understand it. I can't wrap my head around what Yoshi is thinking. "Conversation with nature"? If I wanted a conversation with nature I'd go outside. Instead I'm playing a video game, and because it's a videogame I expect some interaction. Just a little bit. Two button/key presses-worth of interaction is required. And yet somehow you seem to be giving us less than that. I'm surprised it wasn't just automated to the point where we do nothing.

I'm furious that this is what it's come to, and that we had to wait to phase 4 (which will be all of three days) to get to it, and that you were so clammed up about the whole thing, the entire time knowing that we knew exactly what you were going to do, and knowing that we didn't even like the idea of it. And yet knowing all that, you went ahead with it anyway. If this is what we can expect from the development team for everything not concerning combat, then I feel sorry for all the people like me who were hoping to continue our adventures in a world where combat was not strictly required. A living, breathing world where we could play the way we wanted to play.

This, this I would like to have actually!! I am usually bored to fish for cooking at least I was in WoW anyway but it was awesome to try and catch a rare fish for an achievement!!

And people should drop the whole real life/MMO fishing thing cause it is really meaningless, I mean I live in an area that almost any direction you choose you will end up at the sea

The money was always nice, but I enjoyed fishing for the achievements, like getting my Lu Shang's and Ebisu, winning the fishing competitions, etc. Not to mention exploring and seeing what I could catch in different places.

I half hate myself for saying that, but I hope for something similar to Lu Shang. It was long and annoying, but man did it feel good to finally get that fishing rod. Anothing thing about fishing that I enjoyed was the social aspect. There was always someone in La Theine around that pond near Valkurm. You get to chat a little, save the occasional newbie from an elemental or goblin aggro. Good times.

You're right Wint. The true fishermen in FFXI knew each other just because you would end up in the same places.

Like 55-65~ we would fish on the ferry for the sharks (it was silver shark there i think?). The bots couldn't handle the ferry, so only real people on the ferry, not to mention the occasional Kraken!

Then there was the Oasis town which started off as a great place but soon became a silent bot infested mess. /sadface

Do you remember ice fishing in, uh, was that Xarcrabard, uh, Xar(tab)(enter)? Also something that had to be done with a mobile group. Those elementals would aggro and you would need someone to watch your back! We went in groups so that one guy was farming tiger tusks and would run interference on the elementals.

Is fishing in FFXIV going to be this memorable? Can't wait to find out.

Edited, Aug 13th 2013 1:57pm by Gnu