Carbuncle.Maletaru said:
»What...?
They just announced:
Besieged level 99
RoE for Sortie
Gamepad mapping for targeting nearest enemy
Dynamis timer adjustments for flexibility
Race change
Vanabout will auto-set and not count towards the 30 RoE cap
To be fair, all of this stuff required almost no development effort and has truly minimal impact. It was a little surprising to see in maintenance mode, but for all the things you listed:
Besieged bumping up mob stats is literally only to make the event take a little longer because Japanese players complained they couldn't get their RoE for their one measly silver voucher. Great, now it's MORE of a time-sink (x2) each month to get your 1/6 of a chance to get Ka-Thwacked, or get a Loud Thud and a Voidtorso: BST.
RoE for Sortie looks incredibly lame and they shouldn't have even bothered. A one-time NQ Old Case? Really?
Gamepad mapping is nothing more than assigning F8 to a controller button. (that being said, being able to configure controllers without having to shut down FFXI/POL and use a different configuration app is helpful)
Dyna timer is cool I guess. But only done because nobody bothers doing Dyna these days (my group won't go any more outside of Statue Crusher campaign).
Race change is mildly interesting, but not going to affect me because I chose right the first time.
Vanabout... we shall see.