E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

[Pai Pai Master]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

Seriously. What's the point of playing a brand new MMO and world if you're still tied to your existing experiences? You're robbing yourself of new ones.

[Osunlade]

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In regards to Feba's comment about SE stating he doesn't have a character he has a doll:

S-E stated that the keyphrase they designed XIV around is "character progression and development." This means they want everyone to fall in love with their characters still. A reason why the racial archetypes from XI are being used in XIV are for this reason. S-E knows people loves these races, and wants people to continue to love them in XIV.

Basically, I don't see S-E cheapening the emotional value of our character. They're designing XIV to further enhance the emotional attachment to our character.

[Aksannyi]

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There will not be any XI character transfers to XIV

Now be quiet.

Thank.

God.

[Feba]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

They forgot to ask the most important question!

What jobs will FFXIV have?

They said nothing of the battle system. Would've been useless to try; waste of a question. It assumes FFXIV even has jobs.

[Pai Pai Master]

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I have a feeling if they couldn't talk about the battle system they wouldn't be very open to talking about specifics like jobs. They did say they want to balance the jobs to be different from their FFXI counterparts so I'd expect a lot of them to carry over. Hopefully we get a better balance of tanks/DD/healing/support from the start.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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They forgot to ask the most important question!

What jobs will FFXIV have?

Oh well.

Better be gamblers in this one, too >.>

It's over. Quite a bit of interesting info. I'm specifically glad that they're keeping the philosophy of party battles with the added options of solo play that FFXI's gained over the years. The focus still seems to be the voyage to max level and the development of your character rather than stuffing all the best content at the endgame, which is also good news. Not to mention the continued focus on crafting a great world and story and building an MMO around it. That should always be the primary focus of MMOs in my opinion; the story should never be a sidethought.

Sadly, there are always going to be players who think that playing an MMORPG is about getting to endgame and they will scream loud enough til everyone believes it.

Doesn't mean we can't take 'em out and hide the bodies, though

[Pai Pai Master]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

It's over. Quite a bit of interesting info. I'm specifically glad that they're keeping the philosophy of party battles with the added options of solo play that FFXI's gained over the years. The focus still seems to be the voyage to max level and the development of your character rather than stuffing all the best content at the endgame, which is also good news. Not to mention the continued focus on crafting a great world and story and building an MMO around it. That should always be the primary focus of MMOs in my opinion; the story should never be a sidethought.

[Feba]

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Now that no character transfers is official, I no longer give two shits.

That, combined with SE's saying that I should look at Feba as a doll instead of a character, and the way it seems like they abandon the one game they make that approaches FF11's greatness, it could be a very long time before another FF game I actually love is released. If ever.

[TheGrandMom]

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Q: Will FFXI characters be portable to XIV in any way?

A: The game is completely different. There will not be any XI character transfers to XIV. However, the character design is familiar and XI players will be able to create a similar character.

A: We will NOT be using PlayOnline, but friend lists will transfer over.

Q: If I'm new to the MMO genre, why would I choose FFXIV over other games?

A: We believe that players will fall in love with the world & story that we have created.


Q: I've been seeing information that the title is free to play, is this true?

A: No pricing has been decided at this time. It is still TBD.

THE END of the discussion

[Balfree]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

There will not be any XI character transfers to XIV

Now be quiet.

[TheGrandMom]

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Q: Why did you decide to make a new game rather than continue to evolve FFXI?

A: It all comes down to, originally, FFXI was designed for the PS2. It then moved to PC and Xbox 360. A lot of people have asked for a port to the PS3. With an MMORPG of this size, you have to develop new content. Porting to a new technology would take a lot of effort. Instead, we decided to use that time to make something new.

Q: Yesterday's trailer that was shown, was that running of a console or was it pre-rendered?

A: There were parts that were pre-rendered and parts that were running on the in-game engine.

Q: Is that the quality you're aiming for? The scene with the Galka fighting, is that what you're aiming for?

A: Yes, that is the part that was running in-engine.

Q: In that scene, we saw many parties and many enemies. Is this the new focus: many parties fighting many enemies?

A: I cannot say too much, but we hope to have battles that are many vs. many and many vs. one.

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Q: What would you like to emphasize with this game? What is different from FFXI?

A: For FFXIV, the keyword that we've been using is "The Growth and Development of the Character." We will have the same type of storytelling and high-quality graphics. We also want to expand and create new in-game systems. The player can grow & develop in a more natural way without putting too much weight on the player. We will expand the job system to make it fairly different from the one in FFXI.

A: Another very important concept that takes a different direction from FFXI, for FFXIV we want to make it so the player can choose to play solo, in a party, 40 minutes, all-day... there will be content for ALL of those play styles and systems for all of those play styles.

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Q: On the beta process, will current XI players get in?

A: As with the actual release date of the game, we don't have a concrete beta schedule yet. We will have a beta and look forward to more information about then shortly.

[Telera]

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we want to aim a bit for the casual user.

At the launch, we intend to have content for solo players as well as large-scale battles. We want a wide-variety from the start.

Sold. At least so far as the beta/trial to see how their definition of solo is, but it sounds infinitely more promising. I might actually have something to play when my duo partner isn't feeling up to LotRO now.

[Andromache]

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Ok, am I the only person who's offended by the idea of thinking of your character as an actor in Vana'diel instead of as a character?

I'm not but then again I'm a drama teacher lol.

I think its a good analogy actually.

[TheGrandMom]

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Q: How can users transmit this demand?

A: We will conduct marketing research.

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Q: Is there any special element in the MMO genre that you will improve with this game?

A: Our plan from the beginning was to make the best Final Fantasy game available. That is our vision for XIV. Then we thought, how can we make the best FF game and we came to the conclusion that it would be an MMORPG. It was decided to make the best FF first, then led to the decision to make it an MMORG and use that genre.

A: However, we are trying to implement a lot of new systems that other MMO's haven't used in the past.

[Feba]

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Ok, am I the only person who's offended by the idea of thinking of your character as an actor in Vana'diel instead of as a character?