Future Expansions

[LeoDeSol]

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I love this game, but it is too held down by the PS2 user base. The PS2 users make up a lot of the players, so they can not be written off to allow new features.

SE can't really put in content unless it can be accessible by PS2 and PC/360 players. So, you will not see too many new textures, especially on things like faces and hair styles. I doubt we will ever see new races or Manthras either because of this limit, but I'd believe we'd see Manthras or a new race before we ever see a level increase.

SE seems to have built in a lot of new stuff into ToAU that will allow for a steady steam of new things to do. New Assualt, more new areas, new events, new type of rank system, new type of Signet system. My guess is any future expansions will be mostly story driven rather than new area/stuff driven.

[framerate]

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level increase will hurt merits.. I don't think they can do it.

I'd like to see a time mage job... =)

[Matera]

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Level increase will hurt sub jobs too. Blm with Convert? No thanks. That's just if they raise the cap by 5 too.

[Tatha-Kitten]

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they could actually limit the job abilities available as a sub, they did it with dragoon. you can't call a wyvern with drg sub. and that's not 2hr anymore :p

[Aksannyi]

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Imagine if you had something like a "Ten-hour" ability, which would be the combination of your 2hr with your sub job's two hour. Just imagine the possibilities of a RDM/BLM using Chain-afont. ^.^ Of course it would never happen in a million years, but just once I want to do that. (On a side note, used Chainspell last night on an angry horde of lizzies that decided to spawn and link with the one I was fighting ... thank goodness for AoE spells!)

I like the idea of the cities expanding/developing. You'd think that they'd do that over hundreds of years ... plus, this would bring in new opportunity for new quests and even expanding the items available for sale by NPCs. That would be pretty sweet.

[Darkhound]

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That would take the game so much out of balance and would ruin the game and in a very not fun way, but yes... imagine manafon + astral flow or someting like that heeh swweeeet

[Shahar]

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I'd like to have more options as far as the looks of my character, should specify and say more options visible by more people other than myself (.dat edits). lol The ability to change a few colors on armor would be nice too.
New cities, or the visible growth of the originals would be great too. There's just so much to the new expansion SE hasn't put in yet so looking forward to another expansion is somewhat premature imo. Can always keep an eye out on the copyright registration and see if SE registers something new. I remember awhile back someone found the new registeration of ToAU. ^^

I want to be able to fight on Chocobos. That would rock.

haha chocobo jousting! that'd be awesome

[Aksannyi]

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You know what else? I'd like earrings, rings, capes, and whatever else to maybe be visible. Maybe not specific differences in rings and such, but just like a line on your finger to show that you are wearing one. And I must say that the first time I equipped a cape, I was rather disappointed that it didn't show on my character.

[Mog]

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Definately. I'd like to be able to flaunt my taru's earrings. Would make him look a lot more bad-ass

[Deltran]

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Id like to explore the far east the roots of the SAM!

[Darkhound]

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I am sure we will get to see the far east in the future!!!!

As for the rings and capes etc, that is limited given memory issues!!!

[Deltran]

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I am sure we will get to see the far east in the future!!!!

As for the rings and capes etc, that is limited given memory issues!!!

they better so much far east stuff already, hel 2 jobs devoted to far east things

[zoogelio]

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Idon't think this is the last expansion. If I remember correctly, CoP was the last planned expansion when they were originally working on CoP (its story is the typical FF story and follows the typical path). I think when they were working on CoP in the first half of 2004, they mentioned they had begun work on the next expansion (probably just preliminary talks). Now they say they have no planned expansions. I suspect they won't think about the next expansion until they have finished activating everything they planned for ToAU assuming FFXI's player base is still pretty good (based on their statements in the RPGfan interview). Basically, all they had originally planned for was FFXI 1.0 + RotZ + CoP. Everything else beyond that would be new territory.

The dev team seem to be giving the impression of switching from long-term planning (which was just adding and implementing all the major elements they had planned from the start [which I don't think included Dynamis or Ballista though]) to short-term planning, where they make something and don't think about the next step until the expansion has played out and they have seen how everything has been accepted before they think of what to develop next.

I am kind of surprised in that interview that they said all of Aht Urhgan exists on that map. I thought Al Zahbi, the western capital, is pretty close to the eastern border of the new map... unless the western and eastern capital are not 2 capitals separated by a large distance (like the capitals of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire) but like twin cities or two cities in relatively close proximity. Or maybe the eastern half has fallen, being defeated by the Far East.

Still, though, I would be disappointed if they do not add the Far East to the game. They have made so much of it, with Tenzen, 2 Eastern Jobs, and a whole slew of weapons, armor, items, and food from there, it would seem cheap from a creative sense not to add it. Then they can still add Geomancer & Chemist, the 2 recurring FF Jobs that have been left out so far. Chemist had the perfect appearance for the Near East. I should also mention everyone is clamoring for male Mithra and we know there is a lot of land to the south, with at least 2 nations down there: the Mithra and the other one, the one hit by Emptiness, not to mention a number of tropical islands the Tshaya Mask is from and which are mentioned in Ifrit's backstory in the Vana'diel Tribune. We also know there is the Far West and the island in the north the Gigas originate from. We still haven't seen the heart of the Orcish Empire (no Orcish Emperor yet).

[Jei]

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Rainbow Cape hmm... You sure you wanna make this visible on your char?

[spiffaliffa]

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okay re type to many errors LOL

So heres what i think would be awsome

If you could be a true pirate with a boat or ship(Air/Sea) Dosent matter and like just travel for days under your own direction not like u stear but not a fixed route or well yea stearing and you could Seize other ships and get inbig pirate fights
And stuff that would be Awsome