FFXIV interview.

[Takelli]

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This bothers me a great deal, especially if individual spells are selected in this manner. Unless they allow us to use macros to switch out sets of abilities, this could be problematic.

Well. They may allow us to macro skills that aren't on the bar. Or, it could be like GW, where as the skills you have set, are set ins tone until you decide to go back to town anc dhange them.

[Malacite]

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Well. They may allow us to macro skills that aren't on the bar. Or, it could be like GW, where as the skills you have set, are set ins tone until you decide to go back to town anc dhange them.

I very, very much doubt it would be "set in stone" given they want to make solo play easier, and the fact that you can change classes on the fly. I'm just curious if there will be a way to quickly swap what skills you have set since as I said, if individual spells each take 1 of the 10 slots that could be very annoying.

[DakAttack]

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I very, very much doubt it would be "set in stone" given they want to make solo play easier, and the fact that you can change classes on the fly. I'm just curious if there will be a way to quickly swap what skills you have set since as I said, if individual spells each take 1 of the 10 slots that could be very annoying.

I don't see why they wouldn't provide us with a way to swap skills in and out. Besides, if you're worried about not having enough slots, you'll probably be better off setting long-sequence actions in a macro to save a lot of bar space.

It's going to be weird having a bar and macros at the same time.

[Kafeen]

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From what I've seen it looks like the actions you have on action are the only ones you're able to use. I don't think you'll be able to change them mid-battle but should be able to between fights, just like you can your class.

[Ziero]

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MS isn't under consideration currently because they see FFXIV as many FFXI players unfortunately do - a next generation, premium version of FFXI that should be on the main Xbox Live service. SE wants the same deal they got as FFXI - Xbox Live Silver.

Anyway, I wish they would have asked about the one thing this game is screaming for - Roleplay servers. I'm not even big into roleplay, but I can't fathom playing FFXIV without it being in-character with whatever I create. From the start there's already better material to go off of than FFXI had.

FFXIV seems to aim to change a lot of behaviors, roleplay servers would be a good change as well. Just keep summoning out of the game and we'll eliminate 90% of the bad roleplay right off the bat.

...wait wait wait, you're complaining about the "poor" quality of the questions asked and then say that your most burning inquiry is roleplaying servers?

I can tell you right now there won't be any specific set of servers to do anything. SE is just gonna mix and match and let the community do as they wish. All i can hope for is that server swapping and choosing is around from the start so people can gather together with like minded individuals to shape the servers in their own ways.

But really, RP servers? That's what you would have wasted a question on?

p.s. I actually enjoy RPing and have done so in FFXI with friends in the past, but I still think it would have been a worse question to ask then what actually was.

[BurningPanther]

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I had no clue there were that many people so eager for role play. I really only hear it brought up once in a blue moon.

At any rate, in lieu of S-E providing a pre-set server for a group, hopefully the pay-to-transfer option will carry over to XIV. That way, if people are really hard up about dedicating a server to one thing(role play, language-specific, whatever), they can conspire with like-minded individuals to all pick a server, transfer there, and perhaps take it over as they see fit.

Best to find out which servers are lowest population, for best results.

[Armando]

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...wait wait wait, you're complaining about the "poor" quality of the questions asked and then say that your most burning inquiry is roleplaying servers?

I don't know. That "free or P2P" question was insanely asinine. Although I don't see RP servers happening at all, anything would've been a better use of a question than that one.

[Ziero]

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At the very least, the "Free or p2p" thing will shut up those who claimed it would be free.

[Armando]

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Yes, and answering "will there be RP servers?" will shut up the people that keep hoping for RP. Any non-redundant question will answer something and shut up someone, that doesn't exactly make it useful.

[Pwnagraphic]

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I forgot about asking if servers were random. But he also said in the interview that he had more questions but they had to wrap it up.

[Ziero]

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Yes, and answering "will there be RP servers?" will shut up the people that keep hoping for RP. Any non-redundant question will answer something and shut up someone, that doesn't exactly make it useful.

There have been far more talks of "free or p2p" then there has over RP servers. In fact, BBQ is the first person I've seen since FFXIV was announced that wanted RP servers. In the end though, they're both bad questions, it's just that one was more common then the other.

[Pwnagraphic]

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I thought that a good chunk of the people on this forum RP. Atleast that's what I took from the whole "no jumping" argument.

[Raydeus]

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Annoying actions are annoying. And that's about it.


About roleplaying I kinda sort of roleplayed with my friends in the sense that we always talked about characters and events in the game as if they really existed. Things like my crush on Prishe or my loyalty to the Star Sybil.

But we never ever got "into character" because that's the part I usually dislike about roleplaying.

Also even though I'd joke about being raised by tarus when people mentioned I had too much mp for a hume and stuff like that it was never "in character". And I've never ever tried making stories and acting them because that's just too much for my taste, I'm already playing a RP game so adding "original content" to the mix is overkill (not to mention from what I've seen most RP'ing stories are pretty crappy.)

So yeah, I don't know what exactly would you call what I do but that's pretty much it.

[Ziero]

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With the whole "no jumping" thing it's not so much pure RPing as it is immersion into the game world. The more realishtic the game world the easier it is to become a part of it while you play. So it's not so much you acting out as a character in the game world, but rather the game making you a part of it's world.

FFXI had very few RPers, it just wasn't really built for RPing in sadly. Especially since the server selection was so rigid and strict, it made it hard for those who enjoyed RPing to gather together. The simple act of leaving server selection open from the start while allowing server hopping will let those who want specific need servers group together if they're so inclined, but SE as a whole won't make servers specific to any function.

Edit: Raydeus kinda just gave an example of my post just now. His talking about characters and events "as if they really existed" is a product of an immersive world and story. The game pulled you in and made you a part of it, even though you knew it was a game. RPers on the other hand become the characters in the game and see the world through that character's eyes. Even if the character has a differing point of view and opinion(or gender!) then the person RPing.

Though I agree, a lot of RPers stories are kind of weak or overblown. But that just makes the good ones all the more interesting!

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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The reason I bring RP up is because, you know, its an RPG. Let's go back for a second and look at these two letters again and what they stand for - "Role Playing."

SE didn't make FFXI unfriendly to roleplay save for the server selection angle - for the most part, it was the players that made it incredibly difficult for that environment to thrive. There wasn't a lot of material to work with at the start, but it was still there.This time we have races and while there might not be default good/evil alignments, there are apparently factions within some of these races and been confirmed in the Miqo'te and human races as selectable.

FFXI had two years to be influenced by the japanese, they don't really have the same concept of RPGs that older western players do. They, like the JRPG-bred players in the west, think RPGs are about story and that's how they approached it. People who play western designed RPGs and who have a history with those tend to think differently. Even a few JP developers out there still skew to the more western style. Not to mention Final Fantasy initially drew a ton of inspiration from Dungeons and Dragons. Its whey we have Flayers and their version of Bahamut and Tiamat as dragons.

And c'mon, Dusk Elezen? Dark Elves. DND again.

This time, things will be different. No JP time advantage. Sorry to say it, but six months of beta culture is much easier to bring down than two years of established player communities. I would like to see SE support a few servers for roleplay for the players that want them.

Its not an unreasonable or wasted question at all, being an RPG, its totally relevant.