Seekers of Adoulin Excitement

[Demon6324236]

Considering the DEVELOPMENT TEAM was probably extremely hard at work making sure there weren't a large number of glitches considering you guys developed the entire expansion in maybe 6-9 months.

SoA was announced at Vanafest on June 23rd. That was 9 months ago, and I am sure they had some work done before they announced it, so its probably more around a year or more that they worked on it. Not saying your wrong about them working hard on it, but I still feel as though they are giving us to little to late so far as informing us what it will have, which annoys me for a few reasons but outside of that it seems like a wasted opportunity they had to get this game some more players which is something our producer said he wanted to do earlier this year. Rather than using the opportunity that this gave them they instead kept quiet about almost everything since it was announced and only now that it is so close to release are we finally seeing them tell us we will get some video in English of the expansion being played. Mind you I also expect the video to be full of things we already know, giving us very little info, that part is negative on my part but the rest I do not think as being negative, but rather realistic.

[Demon6324236]

Is it going to be a set of NA representatives, or will it be Matsuiakihiko and Mocchi in english?

My guess would be Camate & Oki will be doing ours.

[Sargent]

Greetings everyone!

The Community Team has journeyed deep into Ulbuka to explore all the brand-new content Seekers of Adoulin has to offer. We're happy to say that we are currently planning to hold a live stream in the very, very near future to show off and comment on some of the new aspects that can be found in the expansion. Once we have a confirmed broadcasting date we will be sure to update you all, but please look forward to joining myself and the rest of the Community Team for some awesome live stream action.

Can you confirm a release date for the expansion for PC in Europe? It's shambolic that there is still no word on this with 2 weeks before release.

[tobyx]

While I agree that is ridiculous that EU players are getting that kind of treatment, the reason for not letting us download it from the client is simple. Look at updates the day they come out, the amount of issues people have downloading it, the speed it goes at, if it were a full expansion doing that it would take much longer and it would be hellish wait times for people. When a new update happens right now it takes about 2 hours for a larger update which adds things like Neo-Salvage, many people are forced to wait a while because the servers can not support that many people downloading it at one time, so they are disconnected either during the update or before they can start it. If it were a full on expansion being downloaded, it would take more like 10 hours or more and it would also end up being a much longer waiting line because of the time it takes.

Or at least, thats what I believe, if I am wrong someone please correct me.

In fact, buying the expansion on an online site (for NA there is the official Square Enix store but the European one doesn't have Adoulin) would make you download the expansion as an installer, lessening the amount of data you have to download when the patch goes live.

That would, however, require the expansion to actually be purchasable somewhere

[Retsujo]

SoA was announced at Vanafest on June 23rd. That was 9 months ago, and I am sure they had some work done before they announced it, so its probably more around a year or more that they worked on it.

I don't care how long they worked on it so long as the entire story doesn't get drawn out over 3+ years after release.

[Malthar]

Camate, you still didn't answer the burning question.
What is that operating system that they're using?!

[Dazusu]

You do release Demon, that before all we got was pictures of new expansions and barely that. We should consider ourselves lucky we are even getting this. I for one took off 6 straight days from work to play. Going to be epic honestly.

The epic part will be your rage when 5 of those days consist of emergency maintenance's.

[Riggs]

Wow what a bunch of negative nancys! Thanks Camate for the information that the COMMUNITY TEAM went out of their way to film and narrate a video for us only a few days after there were multiple forum requests. Considering the DEVELOPMENT TEAM was probably extremely hard at work making sure there weren't a large number of glitches considering you guys developed the entire expansion in maybe 6-9 months. I wish I could take 6 days off of work as well and I would if it were up to me. I only hope that all of the new gear introduced in the expansion doesn't make all the recent "best" gear obsolete since I just finally got nearly completely pimped. From what I've seen on the SoA website though, I'm stoked about the HNM type fights and hope they invite some of the old school strategy killing again.

Last thing though, can you tell us if the new 1-Hours and embrava/perfect defense nerf are coming so that I can sell all my enhancing gear to buy it back in 2 months. Thanks!

your forgetting based on SE's history we will get 10% of the expansion on release and the rest when they make it over the next 2 years, however we all pay for it up front, its a great business model

[Cruentus]

I just want to know one thing. I got the Final Fantasy XI: Ultimate Collection -- Abyssea Edition through Steam. If I pre-order Seekers of Adoulin through the official site now, and I do the download and installation, will it work? Or, do we need to wait however long for Steam to get Seekers of Adoulin as DLC or whatever?

[Prothscar]

need to find some way to get Fujito involved in this, that guy is a boss