Monstrosity information?

[Georgis]

SE's been mostly quiet about it and it's been bugging me big time. The idea of playing as a monster appeals to me greatly (I can't possibly be the only one, right?) so I'd love to know when is it coming out/how it's going to be implemented/etc. Anyone have any info at all?

[Kojo]

I think I heard later this summer, but not 100% sure.

[Georgis]

Oh. I hope this holds true. I really, really do.

[Elexia]

It'll probably be introduced once FFXIV ARR goes live to try to keep everyone from moving over.

[Alhanelem]

I'd rather have monstrosity than Delve, which I'll probably be lucky to ever participate in not playing the current flavor of the month jobs.

[Luvbunny]

I'd rather have monstrosity than Delve, which I'll probably be lucky to ever participate in not playing the current flavor of the month jobs.

Unless they designed monstrosity to be more complex than Delve and Skirmish combined....and you have to go through multiple hoops and gathering ridiculous amount of items and multiple quests just to get it started. Seriously, this team is one of the worst... They could just create something very simple to start and join such as Voidwatch and Meeble, and let you keep doing it over and over to get better at it. But nooooooo, they really want to stall your progress hard, so you can't even try it if you want to. Just save yourself from disappointment and come back next year, maybe they will adjust a lot of things to make it somewhat more simpler and accessible.

[Horadrim]

I'd rather have monstrosity than Delve, which I'll probably be lucky to ever participate in not playing the current flavor of the month jobs.

I'm expecting Pankration 2.0 -- I'll likely leave my subscription up until I deem FFXI completely unplayable for me, but for now I'm definitely spending less time on it... And that makes me sad.

[Luvbunny]

I'm expecting Pankration 2.0 -- I'll likely leave my subscription up until I deem FFXI completely unplayable for me, but for now I'm definitely spending less time on it... And that makes me sad.

You are probably right. Though it would be very surprising. If WoW can cloned Pokemon and made their own version, a good one too - SE should be able to clone Pokemon and give it FFXI twist. I mean SE do have experience with Dragon Quests Monster game. But we are talking FFXI team, they are not exactly known for their mastery of game design. If it is not overtly complicated - they won't do it, it has to be super complicated and make your head spin (and turn off pretty much every casual subscribers) then they will see it as success. If only 5% of their player base try it, then it's a huge success because the "dangle the carrot and stall their progress" strategy is working. Just cancel your subs, come back in 5-8 months time, you should have plenty of contents to consume and never have to deal with the annoyance to get there.

[Alhanelem]

It's not pankration... you actually play as the monster, you don't sit on the sideline and watch something else.

[Georgis]

I probably shouldn't have bumped this, but any new info yet? I haven't seen nothing new on the 'net.