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    Quote Originally Posted by 6souls View Post
    The game is free-to-play starting at 3 AM ET until the 17th.

    http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/cam...wcb/index.html
    is it though 5souls?

    is this game ever truly free?

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    Question like that, if you download POL from scratch do you still have 25 millions hours of updating to do?

    Or did they fix that

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    Quote Originally Posted by D44kpunk View Post
    is this game ever truly free?
    If you wish to pay to play, that's on you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ratatapa View Post
    Question like that, if you download POL from scratch do you still have 25 millions hours of updating to do?

    Or did they fix that
    It took me 15 minutes to d/l a years+ worth of content. Shouldn't take much longer depending on your connection.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ratatapa View Post
    Question like that, if you download POL from scratch do you still have 25 millions hours of updating to do?

    Or did they fix that
    I just re-activated and was shocked how fast the POL game update was. Assuming they must have placed nearly all of the current data into the installer setup files and skip most of that slow server download.
    You know what screw it, I started it up. I need something to do working from home in this pandemic until Pikmin 3 comes out. I figure I'll reward them for sticking with the game this long and managing to release something new. They even have my macro and game settings backed up to their servers from 2013 still! In a world where AAA game live-services are announced and shutdown within two years, I think that's impressive.

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    macros and game settings are stored locally. i love u tho

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    Yes and there's also a way to back them up to the servers.

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    So is this like really only new Story? Thats it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damane View Post
    So is this like really only new Story? Thats it?
    Hard to say what it might end up adding by the time its all done. What they added this update really didn't amount to much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damane View Post
    So is this like really only new Story? Thats it?
    there will be more someday!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Isiolia View Post
    Hard to say what it might end up adding by the time its all done. What they added this update really didn't amount to much.
    Ok, guess I'll wait and see what they add in the future.

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    Next part was released in yesterday's patch;

    https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/5...nce/9/#3542303

    Quote Originally Posted by Ragnarok.Tristonx
    Don't know where else to post this since I don't have an account w/ bgwiki or the wikipedia page. So far for the missions that came out 9/10 what I have is: Gumbah & Naji (Metalworks) & Stalagmite (D-9) Korroloka Tunel (map 1) & click it again for a fight against 3 mobs this time (bring heals or a dt set they only hit for around 120ish but there's 3 of them and they double attack, didn't sleep from shockwave) & return to gumbah for another cs (rewards: maat's mix [free job points] and 12 omelette sandwiches [Om. Sandwich HP+11% (Max. 150) VIT+7 MND+7 Accuracy+11% (Max. 80) DEF+11% (Max. 120) Enmity+4] & talk to gumbah again for another cs & I believe this is the end for now, no current mission.
    Going to be a slow month-to-month rollout.

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    May 2022 is the 20th anniversary. It's an interesting idea that this storyline might lead directly into that, but I can't imagine that working out unless upcoming parts are either much larger or there are more than the 4 coming soon spots shown on the site.

    It's so bizarre to see how long these kinds of games have lasted.

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    30 months away, 2-3 quests per patch counting the ones already added, you're looking at about the length of an expansion with that if they drag it out long enough, could easily conclude it on the 20th anniversary with something fancy.

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    I just hope it's not too bloated with yet another fucking alternate reality/timeline nonsense plot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gwynplaine View Post
    I just hope it's not too bloated with yet another fucking alternate reality/timeline nonsense plot.
    It's pretty much spelled out in the flavor text that this is what it is.

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    Maybe I'm nutty but isn't WoTG the only expansion that dealt like, heavily with alternate timeline shit? I guess Abyssea counts? but I honestly forgot that had a "Story". ROTZ, COP, TOAU and SOA all take place pretty squarely in this timeline/universe even if they have some hints otherwise right?

    Like i'm legit asking its been a long long time.

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    WotG is, from what I remember, the original timeline. Abyssea is what would have happened to the main game's timeline had everyone un-subbed.

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    WotG jumped the shark with the alternate timelines and such and they can do pretty much anything as arbitrarily as they want after that because there's unlimited dimensions or whatever. Abyssea as well and then RoV, and now this. Once you go multi-dimensional alternate timelines there's no going back without a hard reboot. If the plot and characters can still be entertaining that's good enough at this point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shenrien View Post
    30 months away, 2-3 quests per patch counting the ones already added, you're looking at about the length of an expansion with that if they drag it out long enough, could easily conclude it on the 20th anniversary with something fancy.
    Are we actually still expecting a 'thing' for the 20th, assuming it's not FFXI-R by Nexon? Voracious to me felt like that would have been the thing they would have announced + had more of a chunk of it to release on that anniversary, vs. the half-hour snacksized bites we're getting currently.