FFXI new expansion (after 5 years) interview

1UP: While there may be another server with the same record, I know that Siren (my server) is currently undefeated in Besieged, so we're either the last one or one of two undefeated servers, and I don't think anyone wants to let go of that reputation, so there's always going to be 706 people in Al Zahbi doing Besieged. Also, I can't let any interview with you guys go without asking you about Dynamis. OK, so picture the scenario: My linkshell struggles to get everyone on in time to try and get highly desirable areas like Dynamis-Beaucedine or Dynamis-Xarcabard, for example, and maybe one out of every four tries we get it. Then we all split the million gil fee, and choose to either lot on Dynamis currency or Relic gear. Once we've settled on that, we spend the next three hours trying to beat the area, weeks after week, often with few-to-zero Relic armor drops. Is there any reason you're torturing us so? Especially with experience bonus rings and stuff, it's so easy to get to 75 quickly now, and yet many people will never have a full set of Relic gear for their original jobs, let alone their fourth or fifth 75 job. Hell, sometimes it makes me want to quit. Is there a reason why it's so painful to get Relic gear to drop? To clarify, I will lot on a piece of Relic gear I'm 74 levels away from equipping for the sheer moral victory of it.

KO: You can always put those Relics on your mannequin. [Laughs] When we first introduced the Dynamis system, we didn't have the instanced Assault-like system that we have now. And while we can't change our system that we have, we also don't think it's a good idea to change drop rates and stuff because of the people who have gone through this and gotten it this way, although we do realize that there are a lot of people who are having trouble because of the one-party reservation system, which makes it difficult. But we can't just go in and raise the drop rates 20-30 percent all at once. We're working on a way to hopefully make a good balance there, but we're always going to be introducing new items and right now we're thinking of new items that will be comparable to those Relic items that you can find and use.

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