Seekers of Adoulin Arrives March 28th

[Prrsha]

A new monster it seems:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/at...529249&thumb=1

(posted from the Japanese Forums)

It seems to be related to that giant tree we have seen from data map mining.

It does show an interesting look how the art from the art department comes to life on their PCs. On the left the concept drawings and printouts and on the right the finished product.

[Spiritreaver]

A new monster it seems:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/at...529249&thumb=1

(posted from the Japanese Forums)

It seems to be related to that giant tree we have seen from data map mining.

It does show an interesting look how the art from the art department comes to life on their PCs. On the left the concept drawings and printouts and on the right the finished product.

And here is a link to the whole write-up that Elmer the Pointy posted on Alla back in June.

[joker_balade]

looks cute
bet it deadly

[Prrsha]

looks cute
bet it deadly

All things cute in FFXI or Japan are deadly. It's a rule.

[Trumpy]

I swear i seen that thing on Pokemon somewhere!

[Eric]

A new trailer has been released and the confirmed date is now March 26, 2013.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzePg-ws-qU

[Trumpy]

ok that gold thing at the end looks kinda familiar. anyone recognize it?

[MiriOhki]

The site says that the PC version will be a digital download only. Anyone heard whether the 360 version will be downloadable as well or disc only? Kinda hoping the former, because I have a bunch of MS points coming in the mail and would be nice to just save some for that instead of having to buy two copies of the expansion.

[Eric]

More likely than not, the Xbox 360 version will be disc-only.

[Sotek]

That $29.99 price tag has me.... Intrigued....

Hopefully they start releasing more information now (not just teaser text on the main site please), it's going to take a lot to undo basically every expansion release in XIs history to justify that price tag.

Hopefully this plays out like WotG done properly. Most of the zones should have been there from launch along with Walk of Echoes. Lock the beastmen strongholds and both northenland zones, after we control the zone leading to the strongholds we can access them (which would at best take a week given Campaigns mechanics, more since we'd be completely ignorant of them), after we control all the strongholds we can enter Beaucedine Glacier, after we control that, Xarcabard and thus Walk of Echoes, which was the perfect launch event since they could (and did) add to it for several updates. Then they could keep updating Campaign with new mechanics/mobs/Ops, introduce ANNM/Pixie weapons/SCNMs and so on.

SoA needs to do something like that imo, the fact that you need to clear the land of boulders/roots/etc to access areas would work incredibly well with such a concept. Story missions just need to copy CoPs framework, I seem to remember them saying at the vanafest that they know what went wrong with WotG in that regard, so I'm a bit more hopeful there. Jobs, well... Hopefully they demo them on the test server soon rather than posting some worthless teaser text and a trailer akin to Cait Siths, I expect SCH level worthlessness from them for now.

Cynicism aside, I see the words "Big Bridge" on that site...
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