September Version Update Preview (08/29/2008)

[LD]

Only thing that fucks this for me is not being able to use my chocobo in the past. One of the few places it'd be particularly useful.

Can't complain about opening up 10+ inventory.

[FallingHigher]

Gaaah wish they'd explain more about the 'simplified customization system' for Adventuring Fellows. Guess I'll just have to wait!

[The Stig]

I hope this simplified system would be like how a PUP equips its puppets ...

But that's too much to ask ...

[octopus]

seal storage is nice, but it's not too much of a big deal to me.

[Stiker]

Seal storage = Good.
Warp NPCs not disappearing during campaign = Good.
Chocobos in the past = Good.
Not making the same mistake with Chocobos that they made with the warp NPCs (running away during campaign) = Very Good.
Fellow Updates = Don't Care.

Overall, I approve. Not the best teaser in the world, but hey, stuff they are offering will be useful.

[Thistle]

*Please note that chocobo whistle usage and digging will not be possible in past Vana'diel.

That's cruel. Believe me when I say more digging areas are needed. I mean "needed" in the same way more 75 camps were needed pre-ToAU.

Yay for seal storage though!

[Mugmug]

Another bad update. This is all stuff that we should have had awhile ago. I guess people are so used to shitty dev support that they get excited over anything, which is understandable.

WoTG should be much farther along then it is, maybe in 2010 we'll finally be able to do something useful in the expansion we bought a year ago.

[shukuffxi]

Mugmug nailed it down 100%.

[Octavious]

I don't see how people have such bad inventory space. I only have my main character and I store all my gear at the Armor Storage NPC. I do have a second character but I use it to hold cool Soul Plates I get off different HNM hehe. I mean seal storage is kind of nice, that frees up the 4 stacks in my mog, but this is by no means an amazing update teaser. >_>;

It's nice to see them adding new material, but the continued oversight of older issues kind of gets irritating. I mean christ it took them how long to finally 'fix' AV and I'm hoping it's an actual fix, not an SE fix.

Chocobos in WOTG, awesome, uh wait what the hell do we have to chocobo to? If you have all the maws I don't see how this helps that much either. >_>;

[dejet]

Another bad update. This is all stuff that we should have had awhile ago. I guess people are so used to shitty dev support that they get excited over anything, which is understandable.

WoTG should be much farther along then it is, maybe in 2010 we'll finally be able to do something useful in the expansion we bought a year ago.

1) WoTG has stuff to do. i like having my maxed rank thank you^^
2) the AN sets are pimp(not best but the basty one is a nice solo set(hope the body is like +8 eva/str, tho that might be a little to much.
3)HNMs are there, hell some the items from the norm NMs are worth getting even!
4)i like having my pet out in towns!
5)saying "stuff we should of had" do you by this mean that
1) we should not get it?
2)they should not tell us about it?
i guess each year you dont want a raise a your job then?or do not want to be told about it because it should of been?

also who the hell cares about new relic weps? really tell me why the fuck 90% the people should give a dame about them? 1 in maybe every 100 people(prob less 1/1000?) will even get close to getting the new weps. SE talking about them is like shitting on 99% of the people who play the game.

this is stuff they should be telling us about. myth weps we will find in the .dats, its harder to find stuff like this out.

ok sry for the flame.

anyways i love everything about this update note.

tele npc always got me mad valefor basty blows and cant hold onto any zones. maybe this will even help us take over some zones again.

its true that i tele almost anywhere in the past but ill take the birds tho i wish they would add some to zones outside jeuno where basses are.

npc mines only at like 55 but i always tell myself when i see this "ok time to lvl her" never do maybe this will push me again to get a lvl or two.

and as for seals ZOMG, i needed this i have like around 6 stacks of BC's and always wished for this day!! dejets happy!

just b/c people said it before ill rank this at a B+/A-. id say A- just to piss off the people who want them to call out new AF every update/relic wep give away.

[Attila]

Q.Q

This is what I see.

[Hyan]

I liked the last update's fluff note better, but this one ain't too bad

[Therin]

I'm really excited about this. Plus the update notes were actually kind of funny, rather than failing at humor like normal.

[Eron]

So do we know when this update is happening yet? If not, anyone care to make an educated guess? I'm thinking it'll be the second week of September, but I'd love to hear that they told us and I just missed it in all the QQing and '2005 called' crappy posts.

[dejet]

I liked the last update's fluff note better, but this one ain't too bad

if you ask me the last one was made of win!!!!!!!!
the new FFVault woot! now thats something i say people have a right to QQ about. but stuff like this is great i just do not get it. i guess they want the update days notes today? but then again they are working on stuff still, would you be happy to see "the next update will have relic weps, a new battle system and tars can glow to 15 feet to kill everyone for making fun of them!"

and then the day comes sry we forgot about ps2 limit!

But all jokes aside my guess for the crap update notes on days is because they dont have everything ready and do not want to speak about it till they know it can be done/is ready to go.

[theo]

This is all stuff that we should have had awhile ago.

We see this argument almost every update thread and it never makes a lot of sense to me. Is the dev team supposed to scrap any ideas that fit that criteria? Just because you wanted it a year ago means the rest of us can't have it? I'd rather get it late than never at all.

I'm pretty happy about chocobos because I haven't done a lot of exploring in wotg yet. I know, slowpoke.jpg, but I'm happy that I'll be able to go collect my missing maws without having to walk my ass all over the place.

[travOtaku]

This is all really nice stuff. I for one hated when I would have to sit AFK for 20+ minutes to wait to teleport around the past because some solo fag was holding the last campaign mob way off in BFE and keeping the battle going just so he could get 500 more EXP than everyone else.

[Octavious]

This is what I see.

@Attila:http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3601/12818pf9.jpg

@Eron, I think the 8-12th of Sept. was an estimate from someone awhile back. Although it could be sooner/later as well, I think they said "early september" which would place it in the first two weeks hopefully.

Eh, with that I think we could see some interesting update notes on monday of next week. I'm still hoping for the usual job adjustment teaser. I haven't really campaigned at all since maxing rank and realizing the gear from Allied Notes is kind of mediocre. Although if they release some good body pieces I would blow some of my 250k AN on them for sure.

[spooky]

I get the impression there are going to be no more update notes after this...

[Sonomaa]

you guys should all be overjoyed you dont have to listen to septimus on ventrilo after version update notes.