E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

[jenova_9]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

ya I respect that door idea but once I'm in FFXIV's world, I'm not going back.

Vana'diel will still be in the back of my mind though. I wonder how the summons will look this time? Ifrit? Shiva?
new ones? They said crystals have a new role so I think they aren't used for crafting anymore, well maybe, it was fun collecting crystals. The painting art has a crystal in town, I wonder if it's more than a homepoint.

I'm so glad the battle isn't full button mashy real-time. It will be interesting how it will work now. I also wonder what they plan to experiment with the chocobos. AF gear should return, it's really cool because like the first FF games you can just know someone's job based on their AF, but I wonder if jobs might be a vague definition now that the growth system might be more complex
in that there might not even be archetypes so to speak. Well its hard to say, of course there will be mages and fighters and
supports, but I wonder if the Jobs will be treated as Jobs or just an overall extension of the variety of skills a person will learn.
Yet I think roles will be just as pronounced this time, so the classic jobs we know won't be lost in the system as augments to the greater whole.

[Yellow Mage]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

You know, interviews have stated a focus on "many vs. many" or "many vs. one" combat, but what about epic "one vs. one" fights? Those certainly aren't impossible, and even in FFXI already two come to mind from the top of my head: the Genkai 5 fights, and Clash of the Comrades.

Which reminds me. Story-shmory, it should never hurt too much to allow the player to re-experience things like mission battles again. Also, I wonder if there is going to be a fellow-style system, and how it's going to be implemented.

ADD: About the "Mog House" door, what kind of similar utility would be brought to XIV's equivalent of a Mog House? Would it just be a door back, and you'd use this door to go between "Houses" and universes?

Makes decent speculation, but it did end up being quite a technical impossibility anyway. FFXI fans should still take heart that the spirit of their characters could still very much be bipresent.

[Aksannyi]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

Only problem with the door thing is that I can't dualbox both games lol.

[Sekighara]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

but if each player has a pack chocobo they can't mount, just guide around, that might be pretty crowded in some parts
since for every player there would be a chocobo in the zone.
unless a chocobo can carry the equipment of the whole party too, but it would need some type of security measures.
and does this mean chocobos are owned? not rented/no time limits anymore?

and chocobos wouldn't be allowed in towns, so where would all that gear be stashed? does that mean each player has less inventory slots? well I'm all for realistic encumbrance but this might be tricky if chocobos can't be used like horses for travel.

I still don't get why travelers guide their pack mules instead of mount them as well for faster travel? well ya that's less weight for the chocobo if it only has to carry the extra gear, but this is very interesting!

maybe its only a pack mule when you put stuff on it. Or maybe only in dungeons.On the travelers subject Because the mule cant carry to much weight and if it carries it the traveler doesn't so has more energy to defend himself, hunt, and travel further.

[WishMaster3K]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

Yeah I did, that would be so fucking sweet. Holy fucking christ if they can find a way to add that I will even pay them twice as much a month for it.

Don't you complain about paying normal fees as it is?

[Aksannyi]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

Don't you complain about paying normal fees as it is?

Must have me confused with someone else. I pay for three FFXI accounts and 2 WoW accounts.

[WishMaster3K]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

Well then *someone* got upset when the Mog Satchel came out, citing that "paying an extra $10" and finding the extra money or something to that effect was already cumbersome and a burden.

My apologies.

[Murasame]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

When I look at the XIV logo it makes me think large group combat will be based around collision detection.

I have a theory about the weapon based growth as well.

Every one would start out with basic weapons. As you use the weapons you learn various abilities and magic loosely associated with FF theme jobs, but you also gain access to new weapon types, which in turn give access to new abilities.

When you switch weapons and start learning new abilities your previous abilities either fade away or start to change in some kind of hybrid fashion.

Characters would have limited "growth" slots, and if they came across an ability they really liked, they could lock it in their growth slot so it doesn't degrade or change when they switch weapons.

An example, You start out with an Onion sword and learn a melee ability from it as well as unlocking scythe. You lock in your melee ability and start using the scythe which gives you a dark magic spell.

Alternately, you could start out with an Onion staff that teaches you a black magic ability, and also branches off into scythe. You lock in your black magic and pick up the scythe to learn the dark magic. Or move onto a different staff which gives you a different ability.


What do you all think?

[Aksannyi]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

Well then *someone* got upset when the Mog Satchel came out, citing that "paying an extra $10" and finding the extra money or something to that effect was already cumbersome and a burden.

My apologies.

I said that might be the problem for some to afford the $10, as I have been there in the past, and I also am fundamentally against the idea of paying real life money for an in-game item. I think it's pretty fucked up that I had no intention of buying the damn thing to begin with but they snaked $10 from me by giving me 80 extra inventory spaces I desperately needed.

So if you see that as an objection to paying for the game, then yeah, guilty as charged, but it was a much higher issue than the ten bucks.

[WishMaster3K]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

Right. Misread it. It was a long post and I didn't really pay attention [http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/new...ml#post832523].

I think the text in my sig is too big.

[Aksannyi]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

Well if you didn't read it fully then you have no real right to comment about it. I have no problem paying for this game or any other, but throwing shinies at me in attempts to get me to spend more of my RL money - which I actually do give them a lot of already - was kind of a dick move. Satchel should have been in an update, not bundled with a RL item I had to pay extra money for.

And glad this thread is TOTALLY about going over this argument again, right? Stop fucking bitching at me over something that you didn't even interpret correctly to begin with.

Jesus, the more I come here lately the less I like it. I'm sick to death of reading some of the stupidity and dickheadedness on BG, but at least there every little comment I make that OMG MIGHT be interpreted as being elitist in some fucking way isn't picked apart and thrown back at me. What the fuck is with people here lately? Every time I turn around someone is making an asshole comment to me, and frankly I'm tired of it. I don't go out of my way to piss anyone off here. Excuse me for being in perhaps one of the top HNMLSes across all servers and taking pride in that fact, seeing as I worked my fucking ass off to get there in the first place. Next you're gonna tell me that because I don't want a DNC main healing my party I'm an elitist bitch. (And yes I really got that invite yesterday, turned it down. Especially because they wanted me to tank, too, on WAR...) Yet I'm the bitch because people are stupid and I don't take any shit?

Fuck it. Seriously if you want to bitch at me do so in PM, I'm tired of the open blasting of me and my practices on this forum. I enjoy the way I play the game, I'm having more fun now in Excellence than I did for the past few years I've played this game so I don't know why people have to make such a big deal if a comment I make is not cuddly and nice. I'm not cuddly and nice and neither is endgame and that sucks to deal with but it's how it is.

This goes to anyone who has been giving me shit lately. I don't talk out of my ass and I don't intentionally put people down unless they really deserve it. I know how the game works and I know how to do a lot of things. I've been more than helpful to people on this forum, I've voiced more than my share of positive and negative opinions and I've had just about enough in the shift in how I've been treated here lately. If you feel I've personally insulted you for anything at all then you can bitch me out in a PM and chances are I'll apologize, but last I checked I was friendly to everyone here up until some recently started being dicks to me.

[WishMaster3K]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

A Lot of angry things.

Totally not my intention. Sorry that people are assholes; the internet has a habit of making them all show up en masse.

Oh!
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How about we all figure out how the hell to get into Beta so we can all play together!?!?!?!

I, for one, am going to be stalking Lago from Day 1 >_>

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TOTALLY hoping that if you have a Security Key, you get first dibbs. <_<

[Malacite]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

Jesus, the more I come here lately the less I like it. I'm sick to death of reading some of the stupidity and dickheadedness on BG, but at least there every little comment I make that OMG MIGHT be interpreted as being elitist in some fucking way isn't picked apart and thrown back at me. What the fuck is with people here lately? Every time I turn around someone is making an asshole comment to me, and frankly I'm tired of it.

=3

[Aksannyi]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

Wasn't completely directed at you WM. A couple people here have made it their new mission to call me out for being elitist or something, I don't know. It's getting to me. But I also go from 0-bitchy really fast so ... yeah. Needz anger management. And hugz.

[WishMaster3K]

re: E3 2009: FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Coming in 2010

No soup for you.

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Moving on, the general consensus is that a lot of "end-game" players aren't willing to sacrifice "all their hard work" to jump into a new game.

Unless I was mistaken, what really separates FFXI from any other game?

It's as if people don't realize that this is just another game, that just has a WHOLE lot of shit that other games don't.

It's no different from paying to play a really huge (liek xbawks) game, albeit, with a glorified chatroom.

But to each-his-own, I suppose. I was recently thinking about actually fishing for a Lu Shangs, and when I heard this announcement, I quickly realized that I've been losing interest in FFXI for a while (too much to do, too little time).

So maybe that's the source of my happiness.

FINALLY, A KILLER APP FOR THE PS3!!! (sike, I just needed A REAL EXCUSE to get it, but FFXIII Versus was going to be my reason anyway).

Also, lol everytime someone says "my character". We pay SE for the rights to control an avatar. They can do what they want with our characters at any time for any reason.