Comments from the Devs

[Rocl]

I suppose I should've been more specific. A peasant can own Hermes Sandals if they played during 1.0 and received the bonus. Much as you'll get Garlond/Asuran/Onion.

I naturally thought all you peasants would be rerolling your characters on Gilgamesh or some such fuckery which wouldn't have Hermes.

The point is that we have no indication that any more codes will be distributed for these items. If you don't have Hermes, you might not ever. etc

Sometimes I just assume anyone worth a damn who has a 1.0 character is Legacy, my bad for elevating you on the social ladder.

[Deuce]

And I'd argue that the idiot is the one who feels superior for not spending a dime on 1.0 subscription, yet can't understand why those who did (i.e. the people who made ARR a feasible project) are getting extras.

I'm also inclined to believe that without legacy players, ARR would have 1.0's far inferior materia system (among other Yoshida 1.0 experiments). Feel free to contend otherwise from your own (lack of) experience.

Not sure why I'm responding to this, but I think it's a little delusional to believe legacy players are responsible for ARR. They already had plans to restructure the game and improve it by December 2010 and not long after that they announced their plans for 2.0, well before any sort of Legacy campaign was announced. Then when they were tired of losing money running the servers they decided to start charging for service. The legacy campaign just became an incentive for players to stick with the game because by that time ARR had been in development for almost a year and a half.

Sure the materia system and some of the systems in ARR might not exist or be very different if it weren't for 1.17-1.23, which was essentially an alpha test, but to say that ARR wouldn't be feasible? I disagree.

[Raldo]

For the record, fairly certain Hermes Sandals are currently Legacy-only as they were rewarded to people from a now cancelled simultaneous subscription bonus.

You can easily have the sandals on a 1.0 character, but not have legacy status on your account, and vice versa. They are only available on legacy characters, sure, but neither one begets the other.

Bah, beaten.

[Rocl]

Sorry, I'll have to use "characters which survived the Calamity and received the gnarliest of tattoos" instead of "Legacy" in that sentence.

[Raldo]

I tend to use the term "1.0 characters", but that works too, heh.

Even SE has referred to 1.0 characters as "legacy characters" though, so confusion is rampant.

[Spider-Dan]

Well, there's "Legacy" and there's "legacy" (i.e. 1.0), but yeah.

I'm wondering if the "gathering bonus" the earlier quoted person was whining about was the old Armguard bonus to mainhand? I don't even remember what they do now.

[Rocl]

Yeah, I'm fairly certain they've differentiated between Legacy accounts and Legacy characters before, my b

[Spider-Dan]

Not sure why I'm responding to this, but I think it's a little delusional to believe legacy players are responsible for ARR. They already had plans to restructure the game and improve it by December 2010 and not long after that they announced their plans for 2.0, well before any sort of Legacy campaign was announced. Then when they were tired of losing money running the servers they decided to start charging for service.

They announced XIV 2.0 in literally the same statement as when they announced the resumption of fees. Had everyone quit when the game went P2P, I think it's fair to say that ARR would have been scrapped.

In fact, I remember Yoshida saying something about "we need to switch back to P2P to gauge whether it's worthwhile to continue forward" but I have not been able to find the quote.

disclaimer: I mean "legacy" as in "people who paid for 1.0 subscriptions," not necessarily "people who subscribed at the correct time to earn the Legacy account bonus" (even though those groups largely overlap)

[Eanae]

Yeah I highly doubt us rerolls will get the sandals but it's whatever. My 1.0 character will RIP with them.

[Raldo]

Well, there's "Legacy" and there's "legacy" (i.e. 1.0), but yeah.

I'm wondering if the "gathering bonus" the earlier quoted person was whining about was the old Armguard bonus to mainhand? I don't even remember what they do now.

They give gathering+15 now, so that is all I can imagine they were referring to.

[solracht]

They announced ARR in literally the same statement as when they announced the resumption of fees. Had everyone quit when the game went P2P, I think it's fair to say that ARR would have been scrapped.

In fact, I remember Yoshida saying something about "we need to switch back to P2P to gauge whether it's worthwhile to continue forward" but I have not been able to find the quote.

If the quote is somewhere it should be here: http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/teaser/

[Spider-Dan]

If the quote is somewhere it should be here: http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/teaser/

I looked there earlier but didn't see it. I think it might have been in one of the rounds of reviews he did at the 2.0 announcement.

[Reve]

Holy. What is going on here...

Well anyways, on the subject of the recent developer's blog about Carbuncle, I don't know of anyone else noticed, but the Fairy from SCH was shown to also have two different colours as well.

There is the purple/yellow version from the old Job Reveal Trailer featuring ACN SMN SCH and the Green/Pale Yellow one from mostly the official artwork and some recent screenshots.

It's obvious now that for ACN and SCH that different colour probably equals different battles roles for their respective Carbuncle and Fairy summons, while SMN it'll be different summon = different battle roles ( Ifrit physical dps, Garuda magic dps, Titan tank, etc).

Man, they just love to troll about this info stuff though! I'm just wracking my head with how exactly they want this pet job to function... I just hope they learned a lot from their mistakes in FFXI (knock on wood).

It's definitely interesting. I like the color shifts so you can tell exactly what role/function Carby and the Fairy are currently in. I'm interested to see how the jobs will play and how they plan to grow them as the game progresses.

[Cutriss]

Jesus fucking christ 5 pages of Legacy peen-waving, new photos that nobody seems to care about, and Rata explaining how to parse English to someone.

I picked a bad day to quit sniffing glue.

[Kirin]

It's definitely interesting. I like the color shifts so you can tell exactly what role/function Carby and the Fairy are currently in. I'm interested to see how the jobs will play and how they plan to grow them as the game progresses.

Almost makes me wonder, since the recently posted pictures seem pretty deliberate in naming the different colors after stones (Emerald, Topaz, etc) if we're going to see some FF9 action here where setting a specific gemstone either onto carby our your character changes the effects offered.

Emerald = Regen
Topaz = Haste
etc.

[Foxer]

Jesus fucking christ 5 pages of Legacy peen-waving, new photos that nobody seems to care about, and Rata explaining how to parse English to someone.

I picked a bad day to quit sniffing glue.

Playing a game for longer makes you better. Who cares about new pics. Go back to your glue. :<

[Rocl]

port of carbuncle from XI + recolouring = noteworthy: ok

[miokomioko]

Almost makes me wonder, since the recently posted pictures seem pretty deliberate in naming the different colors after stones (Emerald, Topaz, etc) if we're going to see some FF9 action here where setting a specific gemstone either onto carby our your character changes the effects offered.

Unless they've changed Arcanist significantly within the last handful of months, Emerald Carbuncle is the mage-type pet and Topaz Carbuncle is the tank-type pet.

[donnie]

surprisingly IGN with a very positive review on FFXIV

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just published today and already 943 comments >.>

[Takiwaki]

surprisingly IGN with a very positive review on FFXIV

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just published today and already 943 comments >.>

Good to see, but it's still IGN =/