New SoA Trailer 2012.12.27

[Destinye]

Areas and monsters look nice but the lack of job footage makes me worry. Please don't make the same mistakes again SE, not another launch PUP disaster.

Unless Geomancer was supposed to be Necromancer and they changed their mind last minute due to "impossibilities" I highly doubt there will ever be a "PUP disaster."

3+ years for WotG was kinda pushing it, esp since it didnt really open anything up.

You forgot to mention in those 3 years they were producing FFXIV otherwise you couldn't possibly think that the fact Zilart - ToAU didn't have that kind of span on content additions that WotG was just this "grand prooect we'll span through 3 years for the sake of it" xD.

[Spira]

lol the Velkk description is funny..

Yet despite all this, they're also adorably idiotic, so it's difficult to harbor much ill will against them.

[Priran]

The new heroin has what looks like Chinese flair.

new endgame event: dragon chasing

[Jeryhn]

Rewatching the video a couple times, it seems things in the environment tend to block your path, with the vines growing over the cave and the bridge collapsing.

Perhaps they'll make having a geomancer important in the expansion as a way to clear barriers or construct paths?

[Scythiroth]

Geomancer uses Cut!
Geomancer uses Strength!

Spoiler: show

All I could think about reading that lol.

[ronin sparthos]

From what SE glossed on during teh fanfest, this expansion is supposed to be centered on territorial development which probably means having the proper guilds in Adoulin clearing roads for the mutual benefit of all people on teh server. I'm likening the whole thing to Campaign Ops that mean something and the overall development motif as a new Campaign that has real consequences for failure. If no one opens up the roads and maintains the pathways then everyone on the server suffers which takes us back to that forced grouping that has been both a boon and detriment to this game.

That was the problem with the original campaign and it's ops - failing or just ignoring the content never had real consequences. You'd just pack up and move onto the next zone with a sword on the map and not really care if a zone went beastmen or not. I'm hoping they learned something from that fail and get some large scale, meaningful PVE going on to keep people busy in Adoulin for months through wanting to secure zones, battle monsters to open up areas with dungeons / point rewards.

You know, things that casuals and hardcores could participate in at any time.

[Esby]

Very underwhelming trailer.
Cliche storyline, recycled envirorments, unimpressive graphical effects and gimmicky jobs that are just going to step on the feet of other existing jobs that need all the help they can get (*cough*RDM*cough*PLD*cough).
It doesn't seem like this expansion is going to get me back into the game.

[NynJa]

Rewatching the video a couple times, it seems things in the environment tend to block your path, with the vines growing over the cave and the bridge collapsing.

Perhaps they'll make having a geomancer important in the expansion as a way to clear barriers or construct paths?

I fkn hope not...after all the bitching of "certain content favors certain jobs and makes others useless", SE will turn around a FORCE content that REQUIRES a certain job just to participate?

[fantasticdan]

Unless Geomancer was supposed to be Necromancer and they changed their mind last minute due to "impossibilities" I highly doubt there will ever be a "PUP disaster."

Was SCH supposed to be necromancer as well? That was complete shit at release.

[Souj]

Anyone know where to find all the other expansion's trailers? This trailer seemed really lame compared to all the others and I wanted to make sure I wasn't remembering wrong, but it seems all I can find is bullshit fanmade trailers.

[Kyreth]

I'd like to finally see an expansion where if you don't push, the bad guys push you back. ToAU made it slightly annoying if you lost the AC, WoTG was basically LOL if you didn't slap enough beastmen around.

Whenever they do the final expansion, I want it to be "hey, we'll keep the server around as long as you fight back, but if you f-it up, Ragnarok bitches." (no pun on my server intended)

And then watch the world end, one dwindling server population at a time.

[Kyreth]

Was SCH supposed to be necromancer as well? That was complete shit at release.

No, that was people fapping to the idea of necromancers, like they have since, oh, ToAU at least. If not earlier.

[Slycer]

"Chocobo Shirt" item (has a choker thing on the displayed body piece):

http://blog.square-enix.com/ff11/2012/12/post_364.html

In case it wasn't obvious, it's a bonus item exclusively for the purchase of the more expensive $39.99 edition that includes all the old expansions also. They don't have stats yet so they aren't yet sure what the bonus will be.

[Yugl]

That blog is 10% FFXI 90% Food. Wtf.

[Kaisha]

"Chocobo Shirt" item (has a choker thing on the displayed body piece):

http://blog.square-enix.com/ff11/2012/12/post_364.html

In case it wasn't obvious, it's a bonus item exclusively for the purchase of the more expensive $39.99 edition that includes all the old expansions also. They don't have stats yet so they aren't yet sure what the bonus will be.

I'm a sucker for extras. Sounds like an excuse for me to spend $10 extra and grab a 360 copy since I wanted a physical copy anyhow for my collection.

Spoiler: show

And then torrent the PC files right afterwards until SE gets an updated Steam copy out, since I'll be needing a second key anyway for my 2box.

Curious if it includes a Destrier Beret also.

[Kincard]

No, that was people fapping to the idea of necromancers, like they have since, oh, ToAU at least. If not earlier.

I believe they stated in interviews once that PUP was supposed to be their Necromancer because of the limitations of undead only being around at night (lol). It was long while ago.

[Correction]

FEED ME STAR BITS AND I BECOME A STAR

[Spira]

Very underwhelming trailer.
Cliche storyline, recycled envirorments, unimpressive graphical effects and gimmicky jobs that are just going to step on the feet of other existing jobs that need all the help they can get (*cough*RDM*cough*PLD*cough).
It doesn't seem like this expansion is going to get me back into the game.

(referring to bolded)
gee. you saw that from the trailer?

it doesn't matter what they show. your mind has already been made up, but you're still here to rant.

[Alkar]

Yeah..... I'm not sure how you can judge a storyline from a trailer or jobs that don't even appear in it and have had no gameplay trailer released yet.

[Esby]

Of course we can, this is SE we're talking about. They have a habit of putting every plot-important detail in their trailers.
It will be like every other FFXI expansion plot released so far: take an overused plot (the evil ancient race, the apocalypse, the empire with a dark past, time travel...), slap in some fanservice (the mandatory jailbait main character and some big ass summon from previous FFs) and call it a day.