Comments from the Devs

[spd]

I don't know how you guys feel about daily quests, I personally have only encountered them in Tera but it doesn't sound too good to me. Don't you start implementing daily quests when the endgame content you have to offer is too thin and you got to come up with something to keep people busy ?

Most of you have played WoW, I haven't, so maybe you've a different experience with them but as far as i'm concerned this isn't the greatest news. Tera daily quests were horrible and beyond boring, let's hope you can make the concept interesting, but i'm skeptical.

Dailies in WoW felt like an unfortunately necessary evil, they padded out the endgame content, you didn't technically have to do them, and you certainly didn't need to do them everyday, but if you didn't you'd fall behind, the gear from them usually helped you out in getting into raids, but high tier raid gear was better in almost all cases.

TERA's dailies were retarded, they weren't padding the content, they were the content, as long as 14 has content that is enhanced by the ability to do some dailies for w/e sweet rewards that will make the content slightly easier or more manageable and doesn't act like doing 15 dailies a day is required/what you are supposed to be doing.

Or something.

[ArchDizzle]

Post regarding controller tweaks and additional options.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ARR-Tes...300#post938300

As a controller user the sheathe/drawn options for switching between your crossbars is great and I am very happy they are adding it.

[Sigmakan]

A bit confused by that. Can you have an option where itll appear on both? (Or is that accomplished by not labeling with with sheathe or drawn). Otherwise I'm a huge fan of that.

[ArchDizzle]

Looks like not labeling it.

[Khrno]

New RPGSite interview about Lightning, Xbone and PVP.

Once I'm back in Japan I will probably write a long forum post again to explain in more detail to the fans. Myself, I am one of those who really wants to make sure that the FF14 world is kept safely in a FF14 way - so I don't want to destroy the lore. There's going to be plenty of cutscenes and explanation of the reasons in the storylines of why Lightning can appear in FF14.

To answer your question straightforward: The policy has not changed on Microsoft's side.

I really want the community to stick together and not be split into two or be divided because of that reason. That's one of the reasons that means that unless the policy chances, Xbox just doesn't make sense to us.

First of all, we are going to introduce one part of the PVP we're planning to make, Coliseum. This is going to be 4 vs. 4 or 8 vs. 8. With this next beta phase 4, we're going to test that out - so you'll be able to find out what happens when different classes or jobs fight against each other within FF14.

This Coliseum will be introduced with patch 2.0, straight away after launch. Six months after launch, we're planning to also introduce another PVP called Frontline. This is more like a RvR - Realm versus Realm. This uses whole zones - it's a large-scale PVP.

[Reve]

I like that the PvP isn't mandatory. Also good for Yoshi for sticking it to the Xbox Policy. As I read more and more interviews, Yoshi-P is a really smart guy.

[Seiji Okita]

Idk what it is but I just love reading Yoshidas interviews. He seriously seems to be pushing the PvP aspect of the game, seeming to even detail some customization to come with PvP specs? Seems like it could be interesting.

[Jamison]

Post regarding controller tweaks and additional options.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ARR-Tes...300#post938300

As a controller user the sheathe/drawn options for switching between your crossbars is great and I am very happy they are adding it.

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Probably not the best of the three options they were considering, but the easiest to implement on ps3. Ahh well.

[Alkar]

Xbox just doesn't make sense to us.

And to a lot of other people at this point.

[Lucavi]

Idk what it is but I just love reading Yoshidas interviews. He seriously seems to be pushing the PvP aspect of the game, seeming to even detail some customization to come with PvP specs? Seems like it could be interesting.

Frontline = Ballista on steroids. My body is ready.

[Seiji Okita]

Frontline = Ballista on steroids. My body is ready.

This, I'm getting my /quarry macro ready... Blood shall rain from the heavens.


Or something like that...

[Ratatapa]

And to a lot of other people at this point.

What's the use to be a MMO on a console that doesn't have to be 100% online anymore

[Seiji Okita]

Another interview with Yoshida, touches on gear stats, classes transitioning into multiple jobs, and some other minor stuff. Enjoy.

http://www.secrets-eorzea.com/en/new...rets-of-eorzea

[Alkar]

What's the use to be a MMO on a console that doesn't have to be 100% online anymore

Wait, what?

[Fiddle Sticks]

What's the use to be a MMO on a console that doesn't have to be 100% online anymore

Umm, What?

[Shuichi]

New RPGSite interview about Lightning, Xbone and PVP.

Oh yes. I am SO looking forward to the RvR PvP. I love the fact that it's gonna be avail 24/7 and that even DoH and DoL can contribute to the cause. The trick is going to be getting my PvE buddies to get into it.

[Foxer]

I can't wait to see what they have in store for us, PvP-wise!

YEAH!

[Coren]

Oh yes. I am SO looking forward to the RvR PvP. I love the fact that it's gonna be avail 24/7 and that even DoH and DoL can contribute to the cause. The trick is going to be getting my PvE buddies to get into it.

I don't particularly like PvP in MMO's.... but this mostly stems from the fact that there always seems to be PvP-specific gear that takes just as long to attain as PvE gear, and I don't care enough to go after both. I got tired of getting rolled in other games because somebody was decked out in +pvp dmg gear or whatever.

They could make you go PvP in standard-issue gear so that you could see player vs player, not college-kid-with-18-hrs-a-day vs full-time-job-with-kids.

[Wulfgang]

Umm, What?

He's saying the "always online" requirement is irrelevant since you'd need to be online always anyways to play an MMO on any platform. Rata is French and fails at English; I've learned this from the NHL thread.

[Foxer]

I don't know how you guys feel about daily quests, I personally have only encountered them in Tera but it doesn't sound too good to me. Don't you start implementing daily quests when the endgame content you have to offer is too thin and you got to come up with something to keep people busy ?

Most of you have played WoW, I haven't, so maybe you've a different experience with them but as far as i'm concerned this isn't the greatest news. Tera daily quests were horrible and beyond boring, let's hope you can make the concept interesting, but i'm skeptical.

TERA's dailies were only boring because nothing good ever came out of them, reward-wise. The difficulty and originality reflected the reward in TERA. Hopefully FFXIV is different.