Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

[ChocoboBunny]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

Some neat piece of info if no one has seen it yet is this from SE. People want expansions that are content driven by story not just what we have now, which are rehashes of old zones. The world is huge yet we have only seen half of it.

[dev1002] Delivery System Adjustments
•[dev1002] Delivery System Adjustments
The upcoming version update will see the following changes made to the item delivery system:
•Adjustments
•It will be possible to send EX items to characters belonging to the same PlayOnline account.
•The list of deliverable EX items will be expanded gradually in order to maintain game balance and ensure that proper testing is conducted.

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[dev1000] Dynamis Reborn!
•[dev1000] Dynamis Reborn!
Various aspects of Dynamis will be overhauled in the next major version update and beyond.
•Applicable Areas:
Dynamis - San d'Oria / Dynamis - Bastok / Dynamis - Windurst /
Dynamis - Jeuno / Dynamis - Beaucedine / Dynamis - Xarcabard
•Adjustments:
•Reservations will no longer be required to enter the above areas.
•New key items will replace the "Timeless Hourglass" and "Perpetual Hourglass" items needed for entry.
•The key items need only be obtained once.
•It will be made available at an affordable price via the Goblin NPCs presently dealing in hourglasses.

•Time restriction for entry will be changed to once per Earth day.
•Trigger items will be introduced as a new spawn condition for certain notorious monsters (NMs).
•Monster distribution will receive drastic revisions.
•Monsters will yield experience points (excluding certain NMs).

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[Murphie]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

By now? Nothing that would be practical and/or cost effective to implement. Just stick to windower plug-ins and own console players with your uber 100 line macros and forced AA.

I guess...

I mean, seriously. The game came out in, like, 1993.* People still play on the PS2, despite the fact that the console is (gasp!) last generation, or whatever. FFXI is hurting for players as it is. Let's maybe not try and cut off the tens of people* still playing it that way, eh?


*Not an accurate number.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

Would be nice if that were EX and Rare/EX.

Even nicer would be if you could toss that stuff between two characters on the same Square Enix account. Passing my sick gear to my alt account? Fuck yes please.

Honestly I don't care too much about the PS2 support since I no longer play, but eventually they're going to run out of things that they can add without severely hurting the game in the process because of the limitations of the PS2. Aren't they running out of zone space or something? How could they make new expansions without adding new zones?

[ChocoboBunny]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

Aksannyi haha ya sadly I will take EX over nothing right now since my TaruTaru has my Osode and my Elvann does not ^^.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

Hell if nothing else I'd be happy to send myself all the beastmen's seals I'd gotten over time leveling my mules - something I used to do when I was bored.

[Murphie]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

I think "Leveling my mules" is a perfectly reasonable euphemism.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

If by mules you mean dil-WAIT A MINUTE...

[Murphie]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

I knew it.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

Not that it was some huge secret. I think I once mentioned that Fafnir intervals were prime fapping time.

[ChocoboBunny]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

I dont mind PS2, but I just wish SE would squeeze the other zones out of the PS2 rather than the reskin of the zones being used for Abyssea. Since we dont know the inner workings of the PS2 who knows what can be done. I just hope SE has a nice expansion up their sleeves that shows us the rest of Vanadiels world. Shoot I want to see Far North, Far South, Far East.

[Murphie]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

I will say, I both do and do not understand why they don't just do an optional graphical upgrade for PC/360 users. It would allow PS2 players to still play, and other users to be all "HAHA PS2 PLAYERS OUR GAME LOOKS BADASS CRY MOAR." But, you know, worthwhile expenditure of resources and all that.

[ChocoboBunny]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

They tried that with the new game FFXIV and all I hear from people in that game is, "well if you like FFXI so much why dont you go back and play that." I have heard that so many times I cannot even count and the fact is meh, if they want to hold on to that turd of a game like its the coming of christ they can just keep waiting because he aint coming.

[Murphie]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

FFXIV is not FFXI with better graphics, though.

[ChocoboBunny]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

I agree. FFXIV seems as though was made to be the FFXI update they promised around WotG's release but they put it off and made the mess we have today. Just an opinion but seems very likely.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Official FINAL FANTASY XI Forums Launch! (03/08/2011)

FFXIV is not FFXI with better graphics, though.

Quite honestly the fact that FFXIV used the same races as FFXI is what caused so many people to compare the games. Yeah, you're gonna have comparisons anyway because people simply compare MMOs (WoW vs FFXI for example) but using the same races really did put it in a lot of heads that they were just releasing FFXI-2.

I would have loved to see SE release a new MMO that had absolutely nothing to do with FFXI. Sure you're going to have your typical Humans and Elves as every fucking MMO ever has but I think they could have changed the races up a lot more and then they'd have a lot less people bitching about how XIV is not close enough to XI when SE was supposedly making a different game.

Now you have people like Raydeus constantly complaining that SE didn't just port FFXI to a newer engine. And while they could probably do that, they can't fucking call it FFXIV if they do.