WHO WANTS TO PLAY FFXI EIGHTEEN HOUR STRAIGHT?
Monday, August 25th, 2008Certainly not me. I love FFXIbut the amount of time required to combat the Pandemonium Warden - can you say 18 hours without flinching? - is just insane.
Imagine the hailstorm of feedback this got - too difficult, too time-consuming, too everything. FFXI’s developer heard the frosty reception and released this sweet little memo…and I quote:
| Regarding Specific Notorious Monsters |
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The past two weeks have seen considerable feedback from players regarding the amount of time required to combat the Pandemonium Warden, a recently implemented Notorious Monster (NM). Discussion has spread significantly throughout forums, and it has become apparent that this is indeed an issue of major unrest in the community.
We would like to assure players that the development and management teams place a high value on their feedback, and the issue has since been taken under serious consideration. Together with Absolute Virtue, it has been deemed that the combative techniques for weakening these NMs are too difficult. As a result, some players have engaged these enemies using unanticipated methods which led to extended battle times. It is by no means the desire of the development team to see players involved in encounters that require an excessive amount of time and effort to complete. It was for this reason that previous measures were put into practice which prohibited NMs from being held in battle for prolonged periods. In response to these events, we have determined that further alterations are required to prevent such battles from exceeding a certain predetermined length of time.
HALLELUJAH!