FFXIV Q & A - G4 Live Blog Transcript

[Purrrfect]

Mechanics aside, I really hope for more fluid animations/rag dolls. Damn MMOs and their static death animations. It's 2009 goddamn it.

Get the LBP team to design model handling.

The servers being cross-language/region again kind of surprised me, but I'm glad to see SE sticking to their guns on it. Would be kind of neat if they could work in something like an in-line googletranslate thing to convert text to the language of the system showing it. Obviously you'd need to be able to turn it off. I was also quite surprised to see they were not using pol. I figured that was going to be their hub for gamin going forward, but I guess not.

[Maguspk]

I wonder how much FFXI knowledge will help in FFXIV. The best part of MMOs is when you don't know shit, so everything is new and interesting and you wouldn't know a bad choice or mistake if it bit you in the ass (which happens).

But will knowing a good deal about FFXI ruin that? I hope SE changes game play and world aspects enough that everything feels fresh.

Well every MMO has basics which once you play one you pretty much know it for every MMO. I'm trying to think of what you might mean by this but really, I can't think of anything that would give an advantage to an ex-FFXI player to a FFXIV player. There aren't any 'secrets' unique to FFXI, really.

[Ziero]

I was also quite surprised to see they were not using pol. I figured that was going to be their hub for gamin going forward, but I guess not.

SE pretty much said all newer games they were to release would be handled through he SE account system they just added. A much better, more fluid, easier to access system then an outdate launcher program like PoL.

Well every MMO has basics which once you play one you pretty much know it for every MMO. I'm trying to think of what you might mean by this but really, I can't think of anything that would give an advantage to an ex-FFXI player to a FFXIV player. There aren't any 'secrets' unique to FFXI, really.

I think he meant in terms of knowledge of FFXI abilities, mob behaviors, stat calculations and the such. And if so, the answer would still be "none". SE is being pretty clear this will be a whole new world with a whole new feel for us.

[Null]

This name thing still bothers me. I would be extremly pissed to lose out on my name just cause somebody else transfered it. Might even have to sign back up to FFXI before the next games release to get my name. Also, I'll make a few mules with names I like in case I pick a shitty first character.

I stole all the good MGS names when I first played FFXI. Gray Fox was my main and Solid Snake and Big Boss were my mules.

[Ziero]

I use the same name in as many games as I possibly can so I kinda feel the same about losing my name. It just means I'll have to make sure to get in on the ground floor and beat all you other guys to it.

[mitsurulk]

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