FFXIV Random Speculation/Question thread II: Let's Speculate the Speculations

[Lucavi]

I'm talking more about the engine, not the design philosophy. You design your goal for the world, then build the engine, then reshape your design to accommodate the tech that you've put in place.

That's why you see so much shit getting cut out of the final versions of games. The design for the world had to flow with and against the limitations of the tech provided.

[Spira]

could'nt you do that with pretty much every modern final fantasy game?

correct answer to this is actually FF2. It may have been the first FF with Cid and Chocobos.. but other than that didn't have most of what is now FF traditional staples.

but i might be biased since its my least favourite FF

[Meresgi]

How did it even become about player kill PVP ?

You can still have PVP (competion style) in PVE and it doesn't need anymore balancing because you aren't killing anyone, I thought Warhamer had interesting public quests where the loot was distrubuted by who did the most damage.

I hate PVP but if it were more competive and less about ganking and killing people I would probably see things differently.

I think Aion failed because it didn't have much in the way of PVE content, most PVP style games lose their shine after a couple months.

The thing about ganking though is anytime you give 1 player the ability to be an asshat and kill another player...they will do it lol. That's one of the reasons I stopped playing on PvP servers on WoW. When I was out questing on a lvl 25 alt, I didnt feel like trying to pvp against a lvl 80 in full relentless gear.

Aion did fail in that regard, their PvE is being non-existent. The warhammer public quests were awesome, I wish more MMO's would implement them along with the camp reputation vendors and even the dye (dye in Aion sucked, you couldnt even choose where to apply it).

I just more or less don't like the idea of pvp/pve MMOs. I understand they want to cater to as many people as possible to get more cash flow, but I think people would be better served to have a PvP MMO to go to and a PvE MMO to go to. Usually when i'm dying to pvp I end up playing CoD or BF2 anyways.

[Uubu]

wow really nothing new posted from JP/EU sessions today?

[Hyan]

Considering EU session starts in 1h 20mins, nope.

[Destinye]

wow really nothing new posted from JP/EU sessions today?

What are people expecting? The same content from a month ago will still be here. They don't add more content till around open beta.

[Zeno]

I'm more interested in how stable the server are. Closer they are to stabalizing the server, the closer they are in reaching phase II

[King Zuca]

I'm more interested in how stable the server are. Closer they are to stabalizing the server, the closer they are in reaching phase II

yes, exactly this. im thinking a bit more ahead, like the faster they do this the more likely i'll be testing this badboy on the playstation in the fall. :D

[tri]

It would be awesome if your Chocobo acted as your mule/mog house and you could call it to you anywhere on the map. Thus being able to dump items to storage or switch your job on the fly where ever you would be at.

I'm pretty sure i've read somewhere that your mount could add inventory space.

[Lucavi]

What are people expecting? The same content from a month ago will still be here. They don't add more content till around open beta.

This is why people complaining about having to scroll back 3 pages to see "new" info are hilarious. There -is- no new info. Its the same damned alpha.

[Vydos]

Well I'm kinda hoping to see more video's about crafting or mining and how it looks. Only saw one video of smithing and that person got an error at the end.

[tri]

Still, i doubt people went through all the content in the alpha sessions so far...

[Destinye]

Still, i doubt people went through all the content in the alpha sessions so far...

This is the content in Alpha:

The classes the available to play in some form
Every playable race/gender but Miqo/female hyur/male elezen
The GuildLeves that's available (and been done)
A few cutscenes/quests here and there
Leveling (Oh no I said a bad a word!)
A field, cavern and city area
Some various weapon and casual attire
The general game mechanics

That's it.

Alpha's aren't about content so I can guarantee after a month we exhausted everything the alpha has to offer. Unless you were being sarcastic that is.

[Uubu]

From my experience, staying in smaller groups keeps the game stabler. Still need to have a group do a successfuly battle regimen since its all spamming now. Also finally was able to upgrade my armor/weapons to level 10/12 gear and see what new areas I can reach fight. Id say 90%+ of the alpha population is still in the maint town, and the area right outside the main towns still.

Also was able to stay in the game longer while in the next "zone" if that entices people to keep moving up and stop messing around in the same areas

[King Zuca]

So, seeing as how we have pretty much sucked the alpha dry of its information, I've got but one more thing to speculate; how many more test phases do you think they will go through before entering beta 1 or alpha 2, whatever they want to call it.

i'm going to guess they will go as far as test 7 before moving forward.

discuss.

[Loaar]

I saw a bunch of people crafting (blacksmithing) near the end of the EU test. Can one of them fill me in on where to go to get a leve you can do at level 1 or what NPC tells you recipes?

The only leve I can get says I need to be Blacksmith level 5 and non of the guild NPC's had anything to tell me but random chatter.

[BlackheartX]

So, seeing as how we have pretty much sucked the alpha dry of its information, I've got but one more thing to speculate; how many more test phases do you think they will go through before entering beta 1 or alpha 2, whatever they want to call it.

i'm going to guess they will go as far as test 7 before moving forward.

discuss.

Personally I don't expect anything till the middle of next month.

[Jinko]

On 2 ch they were throughing the date June 6th around for Beta, duno where they got that from or whether it was true, could have been speculation though.

[Ghostsix.Midgard]

NA test was WAY more stable for me, NO DISCONNECTS AT ALL for me which is a first. Kinda sad how happy I was just to be able to be logged in constantly..

Anyway did some smithing, some mining and some storyline quests (class quest)
HD vids inc~

Archer level 8 learned Wide Volley~

[Ghostsix.Midgard]

Smithing for a local Guildleve. Local leves are based in town, think of them as town quests that involve synthing, no fighting etc

Spoiler: show

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZUBH6VIK