New Vanafest incoming.

[Byrthnoth]

Based on Achtelle's dialogue, at least one of those might not be far from the truth.

[Rocl]

Based on Achtelle's dialogue, at least one of those might not be far from the truth.

8) Bro-thnoth, if there's one thing you never have to tell me, it's Campaign Freelance info/lore!

[Spira]

I honestly don't care about the current state of balance with the jobs... well I do but I still want new ones to show up. Please don't disappoint SE.
Dancer and Scholar were great additions imo so I want to see new ideas implemented. I wonder if alongside this expansion they'll announce a new port of the game (PS3/Vita?).

the state of balance isn't going to matter that much. job balance has always been in flux. the addition of new 2hrs is going to change everything all over, then maybe it'll setlle, but once the new expansion hits (if theres new jobs, which is probably likely) its all going to change again.

i'm hoping for a port to PSVita/PS3 as well. it would be totally in line with the FFX HD port to Vita. XI is a lot easier considering they already have much higher quality assets continually being utilized for PC and XB360 versions, which can be just as HD capable. It'd also be a nice nod to the PS3, for which newer version no longer natively support FFXI (if at all).

[Alkar]

Yeah, that's exactly why I want new jobs. Some could also help with new subjob options like DNC and SCH did. I just wish they would release a pet job that could be used by other pet jobs to boost their own, it's kinda sad that there's really no way to enhance your avatar/automaton/jug with subjob abilities.
Geomancer surely would fit with the whole theme of this new area but let's see what happens.

[Eurell]

This is dumb. We all know that vanafest is to announce FFXI going free to play for a year, then they will be shutting down servers.

[Byrthnoth]

I doubt we're going to see any new jobs. Perhaps they'll surprise us, though. I wasn't expecting an expansion either.

The major concern I have right now is the timeline. Assuming the .dats Spira mined are the current progress of the expansion, they have a very long way to go before release. Getting people pumped up about this and then not releasing it for ~a year seems like SE's style. If they wait for 6 months after VanaFest, I think that would be okay. People who left sometime around ToAU/WotG and get excited about it will have time to return to the game, get to 99, and burn their way through Abyssea before the expansion comes out. If they wait much longer than that, I think those players will start to burn out like everyone who has quit in the last six months.

[Alkar]

I think the zones were put there for us to find and nothing else. They probably put some early version of them to let us speculate a bit before dropping the actual bomb at Vanafest.
There are 2 Dev Talk sessions so I highly doubt they'll have nothing to say or show about the expansion other than the name.

[Lyramion]

I doubt we're going to see any new jobs. Perhaps they'll surprise us, though. I wasn't expecting an expansion either.

The major concern I have right now is the timeline. Assuming the .dats Spira mined are the current progress of the expansion, they have a very long way to go before release. Getting people pumped up about this and then not releasing it for ~a year seems like SE's style. If they wait for 6 months after VanaFest, I think that would be okay. People who left sometime around ToAU/WotG and get excited about it will have time to return to the game, get to 99, and burn their way through Abyssea before the expansion comes out. If they wait much longer than that, I think those players will start to burn out like everyone who has quit in the last six months.

The real question is... How do I change the Nyzul Isle Lamps and only WHERE could I find DATs for it

Spoiler: show

http://data.motor-talk.de/data/galle...3604691124.jpg

[Slycer]

In case anyone hasn't seen, looks legit:

http://lockerz.vo.llnwd.net/v1/photos/medium/x2_d0d969e

I don't have initial source of the image, so I'm not really sure where it was searched. I tried searching a few EU databases and I couldn't find anything, but none of them looked like that.

[Kaisha]

New jobs would just be an utter waste among the rest of the entire game, especially when everyone will have it at 99 within a day, making it a boring play thing since SE never has a job 'finished' on expansion release. I'd rather retweaked everything for existing jobs.

At any rate, I'm curious what they'll have to show. If our dat hunting is a sign of things we'll probably just get a tune and concept art preview at Vana'fest. If they actually have something to show, then those rom9 files we got were either old, or they were indeed trolling us.

[Eanae]

Everyone would be 99 in a day and bitching about how it'll take a year for any form of artifact gear to come out for them.

[Spira]

hmm.. looks like theres a new FFXI arranged soundtrack that'll have a limited first press for sale tmr

chip tune XD i think its cute

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/music/sem/page/ff11chips/

[Apelila]

Gah, make sure your volume is down before opening that.

[Selamis]

Ahhhh, man I want to hear an official announcement on this, but definitely exciting and looks promising.

[Spira]

10 more hours to Vanafest.. right?

[Eanae]

10 more hours to Vanafest.. right?

8:30pm est, so about that, yeah.

[vadre]

Someone just posted this on the official forums:

http://eu.square-enix.com/sites/defa...e159b14d8c.JPG

Looks like it has a full design for phoenix, perhaps we'll see a return?

Edit - To give context, he (Vivivivi) says it's from Vanafest.

[Sagacious Sundi]

Salsa's description says it's from the west. Cactuars are Spanish. Pleaseee let there be a jumbo cactuar HNM, complete with 'stache.

[Kirin]

Just throwing this out there.

Can anyone dig up the listings for when Abyssea was announced? I curious now if this is a full expansion or an add-on. Wondering if there are any "type" codes differentiating game releases.

[LidenbokValour]

Oh man, looks like this weekend will be full of caffeine and energy drinks, just like the old days!

New expansion neems more than likely, although it will take a lot for me and the rest of my friends to get the horn back for FFXI. It's in absolute fucking shambles at the moment, I'll give them a chance though the game in general is still something special to me. Just not worth playing right now.