An Important Announcement on the Future of FINAL FANTASY XIV (10/14/2011)

[Gulkeeva]

I was looking at that ffxiv screenshot earlier on a JPBBS board and was like.. what games is that!?

Then I noticed the PLD AF1 like gear and a chocobo and was like.. hmm new FF game SE planning?

and then it hits me... FFXIV? wtf someone photoshop the shit outa it to what theyw anted to see? and now I see it on official site

*grabs a box of tissues* woah... thats just too awesome...

1 question though.. peoples machines at items struggle to run the current FFXIV, that kinda FFXIV may just murder peoples machines


here's a bigger pic I saw from the JPBBS
http://www.neko-sentai.com/images10za/up140136.jpg

Guess we know what FFXIV 1.X beta was for now sort of haha

[Burningthought]

New character customization stuff incoming too, hairstyles, and races.

Armoury expansion, adding new jobs and classes. Jobs may progress through questing instead of xp.

It's like they are taking all the stuff people have been bitching about and throwing it into their plans.

Auction house and mail/delivery systems incoming.

[miokomioko]

those are some big titles

[Madeline]

I was looking at that ffxiv screenshot earlier on a JPBBS board and was like.. what games is that!?

Then I noticed the PLD AF1 like gear and a chocobo and was like.. hmm new FF game SE planning?

and then it hits me... FFXIV? wtf someone photoshop the shit outa it to what theyw anted to see? and now I see it on official site

*grabs a box of tissues* woah... thats just too awesome...

1 question though.. peoples machines at items struggle to run the current FFXIV, that kinda FFXIV may just murder peoples machines

More than likely that picture is either doctored up or on the highest, possible settings they could get. There will be ways to dumb it down. Especially under a new engine altogether.

[Burningthought]

More than likely that picture is either doctored up or on the highest, possible settings they could get. There will be ways to dumb it down. Especially under a new engine altogether.

Yeah I hope it scales down better than the current engine, or at the very least is lighter weight than the current engine. I could play TERA at a decent framerate and it looks better than XIV currently does.

More tidbits: Current dungeons will become instanced raids.

Main Storyline cutscenes will be touched up to accomodate the new engine.

Full support for PVP is coming, special zones and armor sets for pvp-only.

Primal summoning, will be tied into the Free Company system, free companies that defeat the primals will be able to summon them.

Wandering Odin: Gets strong and drops better gear after each defeat.
Alliances are coming as well.

PS3 version will not support user generated content (estates)

They are pulling a cataclysm, there will be events happening ingame that will only occur during the rebuilding process for the FFXIV2.0 client. Patches 1.20-1.23 will have content exclusive to the pre-reboot.

[Tomino]

So basically:

- From October 2011 to August 2012 patches will keep coming as scheduled. Game will have subscription fees.

- August 2012 will feature the Cataclysm. Wont be replayable so that's your only chance to be part of it. Well played, Yoshi, and I mean it in a good way.

- September 2012 onward game turns 2.0, with downloadable new client for PC users and PS3 ver I guess.

[Burningthought]

So basically:

- From October 2011 to August 2012 patches will keep coming as scheduled. Game will have subscription fees.

- August 2012 will feature the Cataclysm. Wont be replayable so that's your only chance to be part of it. Well played, Yoshi, and I mean it in a good way.

- September 2012 onward game turns 2.0, with downloadable new client for PC users and PS3 ver I guess.

Looks like it to me, and the PC version will have exclusive Player Generated content as well.

[Airget]

The changes do definitely look enticing, though if they plan on "re-introducing" it at E3 don't you think it's kinda pointless if they start charging now? By charging they are basically going back on what they said about a game they were proud of. If they really are proud of how XIV is now, then why are there going to be so many changes in the next 2 yrs as they charge people to play lol.

[Hyan]

Why is anyone surprised? Oh yeah, those who thought they were doing nothing for all this time just because the live servers weren't affected. Well, you know better now.

[Celeste]

This is interesting.

[Scythiroth]

I must say, I am impressed. Not quite sure I could pay for this game for a year until they have it ready next December though, even knowing they probably need it.

[Gokulo]

Oh wow, dat screen

[Tomino]

Screenshot points of interest:

- Titles next to character names. Hello WoW.
- Khimaera has its HP bar (upper part of the screen) but also separated heads HP, targetable.
- Chocobo as battle pet. PDF mentions both tamed and summonable pet kinds.
- There're a dozens little green/red/grey dots in the lower right corner.
- Everything UI just turned FF13 style

[Burningthought]

The changes do definitely look enticing, though if they plan on "re-introducing" it at E3 don't you think it's kinda pointless if they start charging now? By charging they are basically going back on what they said about a game they were proud of. If they really are proud of how XIV is now, then why are there going to be so many changes in the next 2 yrs as they charge people to play lol.

I'm pretty sure they were fully prepared to foot the bill for the redevelopment, they might as well start charging to get some money during the redesign. Plus 1.19a isn't that bad if you haven't been back for a while.

Mannequins: You can add gearsets to mannequins and change between them with 1 click. Gear that has been added to the mannequins won't take up inventory space.

I think the dots in the corner might be mannequin sets for different classes and jobs? On the otherhand they could be macro sets/action bar sets.

[Draylo]

Pretty exciting.

[Madeline]

Screenshot points of interest:

- Titles next to character names. Hello WoW.
- Khimaera has its HP bar (upper part of the screen) but also separated heads HP, targetable.
- Chocobo as battle pet. PDF mentions both tamed and summonable pet kinds.
- There're a dozens little green/red/grey dots in the lower right corner.
- Everything UI just turned FF13 style

Log display is also only showing the full first name. If you look, you can see Vivi O. and Cain H, etc. Very nice. I've always felt the current log system was a cluster fuck. It's the small things.

[Hyan]

- Everything UI just turned FF13 style

The UI in this game is pretty ugly, approved.

[Gulkeeva]

Read through the pdf's and stuff, and yeah thats a doctored "concept" screenshot, but thats their goal with the new engine... you know it soorta almsot reminds me of how FFXI had those character model screenshots (way before official release) type pics

[Burningthought]

The new graphics engine will cause certain objects to display differently than they do in the current version.
Because of this, we will allow all current players the opportunity to re-customize the race, gender, and
appearance of their characters upon the implementation of the new engine.

:DDDD

[Gokulo]

The new graphics engine will cause certain objects to display differently than they do in the current version.
Because of this, we will allow all current players the opportunity to re-customize the race, gender, and
appearance of their characters upon the implementation of the new engine.

:DDDD

Just wanted to quote that :D

Good stuff.