Fanfest Dev Panel #3: Misc & General Q&A

[Ichthyos]

I just came from the third (and final) dev panel of the Fan Festival. There wasn't all that much interesting stuff the devs presented today, but I did get a chance to ask two questions!

I missed the first part of the presentation, but a member of the Siren Ballista Royale team told me they just talked a little bit about the recent February patch changes. When I walked in, they were discussing the changes to our ability to sending gil, saying that they know it's been causing legitimate players a decent amount of headaches, and they're trying to refine their solution to the problem so that it still hinders RMTs but doesn't affect us as much.

They also said that all Xbox 360 beta characters will be able to be transferred to your accounts on real servers somehow at the time of the X360 FF11 release (April). They weren't specific about how the world migration would work.

They also showed an image from the E3 2005 video that we all remember (the city on the ocean with all the brass and glass, with characters dressed in FF11 gear) and said that the dev team is working concurrently on FF11 content and content for this new game. They said they were really excited about the new game's content, which will go above and beyond anything we've ever seen before, but the genre of the game has not been announced yet.

They did announce for the first time that they're currently developing full german and french translations of FF11 that will be available for download free of charge for anyone who bought the English version. Also, EU customers apparently haven't had the ability to use debit cards for their FF11 billing, but this is being addressed.

What followed was a bunch of noob questions like "how do galka reproduce?", "why are relic weapons so hard to obtain?", etc etc etc.

I brought a prop of the "new adventurer" question mark to hold over my head to draw attention to myself though, and got called on! I asked them, "The Notorious Monster Absolute Virtue has been popped on many servers, but no one has been able to kill it. In an interview with members of the HNM linkshell Order of the Blue Gartr, Sage Sundi stated that the dev team tests and defeats each Notorious Monster before it is added to the game. I would like to know whether the team has defeated Absolute Virtue with the jobs, abilities, and equipment currently available to us in FF11. Oh and also, are Mithras furry or tan? "

The question brought nervous laughter and glances from the whole panel, and the dev who ended up answering said that "....uhhhhmmmm, we're going to try again with that." or something to that effect. Oh and about mithras, "that's for you all to decide. :wink:"

EDIT: I forgot to say what I think the devs mean. Imho, AV is unkillable and they dont know wtf they were doing.

Other notable questions included:

- a question about lucky egg, four leaf mandragora bud, etc and whether they give TH while in inventory, while eaten, or what. they said, semi tongue-in-cheek, "if you believe, it will happen."

- a question about whether the direction you're facing actually affects synthesis results. he said, "face the direction that your heart tells you to. :wink:"

[BRP]

30 pages.

Anyway, I'd like to hear the answers to the stupid questions.

[Carbon]

- a question about lucky egg, four leaf mandragora bud, etc and whether they give TH while in inventory, while eaten, or what. they said, semi tongue-in-cheek, "if you believe, it will happen."

- a question about whether the direction you're facing actually affects synthesis results. he said, "face the direction that your heart tells you to. Wink"

In other words, "Fuck you."

[Okan]

- a question about lucky egg, four leaf mandragora bud, etc and whether they give TH while in inventory, while eaten, or what. they said, semi tongue-in-cheek, "if you believe, it will happen."

- a question about whether the direction you're facing actually affects synthesis results. he said, "face the direction that your heart tells you to. Wink"

I find it humorous that SE can not give any information on stuff like this. It's not like it's game breaking, but tossing a bone to players would probably spice things up instead of dangling something (like the expansion) in their faces. I know it was meant to be about the expansion, but... SE is SE and will never change.

[Mifaco]

and to think, these questions have been asked already

how many Q&A sessions are there?

[Starfire]

You mentioned a video about a new game they are making... do you have a link to the video by any chance?

[Ichthyos]

Just added to the first post:

EDIT: I forgot to say what I think the devs mean. Imho, AV is unkillable and they dont know wtf they were doing.

and to think, these questions have been asked already

how many Q&A sessions are there?

This was the third and final one.

[Tekki]

Imho, AV is unkillable and they DO know wtf they were doing.

fix'd

Do you think they want you to beat all the end game content before the next expansion comes out? Of course not. They want to stretch CoP out as much as possible.

[BRP]

next update: AV is killable. Kekeke stupid americans.

[Not Kuno]

Good job with the question.

[Lylie]

They did announce for the first time that they're currently developing full german and french translations of FF11 that will be available for download free of charge for anyone who bought the English version. Also, EU customers apparently haven't had the ability to use debit cards for their FF11 billing, but this is being addressed.

Im finally going to understand Wtf is going on in CoP Story...

[DAKPluto]

Hell, I read English and I still don't wtf is going on the CoP Storyline, lol

[Remembrance]

Hell, I read English and I still don't wtf is going on the CoP Storyline, lol

Too true, cs spamming being pissed it won't let you skip ftl :/

At the end lufaise cs it was like a revalation and the sky opening up, becuase I actually read it D:

[DAKPluto]

Eh....I've tried reading CSs (except Airshit of course) and I still just sit there going...... Hopefully 8-1 -> End will help, lol

[BRP]

CoP's plot is good, but its not that good. Have you ever read a book pass Go Dog, Go?

[Avvesione]

Oh and also, are Mithras furry or tan? "

Tan

[BRP]

I can't when people say they are furry. After the CG video and being near them for over several years, how can you not tell. The only thing furry about them is their nose and those lines on their face.

[Xavier]

You mentioned a video about a new game they are making... do you have a link to the video by any chance?

I know I saw it on gamespot around E3 last year.

It looked like FFXI models set in a much more graphically advanced FFXI universe. It was bunched in with other FFXI Xbox360 videos when the game was announced, and TBH, I thought it was how the 360 FFXI was going to look, like they actually overhauled the graphics engine for it.

FFXI-2 anyone?

[ertyu]

Maybe they will drop support for ps2, and you can transfer your FFXI chars over to FFXI-2 >.> /wishful thinking

[BRP]

How did the ToUA demos for today go? Is the event all wrapped up? Its all BS stuff outside the panel and demo.