The Last Word – Storm over Gridania

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Originally Posted by BruceyBruceyBangBang

That is assuming their priority is to the future PS3 users. You should be going on what you know and not what you suspect their direction is. That being, that they need to build the PC base and the already existing players to feel this is a game worth playing, and not a game we hope we'll never want to do without and arn't sure yet.

Making PS3 assumptions is premature at this stage and probably not worth suspecting over at this point for the fact that this message was sent to the PC users... not the future PS3 users.

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well i wont say they are holding back for ps3 perse, but i definately think they are holding back for a big release later, the cap wouldnt still be 50 if they werent, we'd have more gears and skills.
Basically the stuff they want to implement now is system stuff mostly, testing what they can do, make things smoother. The only new content we have gotten since the new team/direction so far is the last NM patch, and the quests in towns. all the rest were tweaks, bugfixes, and things to make gameplay/menus smoother. they said they have a lot of different teams, and there is still the content that actually already on our clients that they arent using. So while it might come before the ps3, they are definately holding back.

This is what they did in the japanese version of FF11(the one we never got to play) They had a huge publicity stunt that jueno was ravaged by tyrany (Kamlanaut) then they released zilart and it made every hardcore FF fan come play and saved the game.

I AM SO EXCITED OMG
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Also very excited :)

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

This is what they did in the japanese version of FF11(the one we never got to play) They had a huge publicity stunt that jueno was ravaged by tyrany (Kamlanaut) then they released zilart and it made every hardcore FF fan come play and saved the game.

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Perhaps history will repeat itself, in a good way.

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Originally Posted by Physic

well i wont say they are holding back for ps3 perse, but i definately think they are holding back for a big release later, the cap wouldnt still be 50 if they werent, we'd have more gears and skills.
Basically the stuff they want to implement now is system stuff mostly, testing what they can do, make things smoother. The only new content we have gotten since the new team/direction so far is the last NM patch, and the quests in towns. all the rest were tweaks, bugfixes, and things to make gameplay/menus smoother. they said they have a lot of different teams, and there is still the content that actually already on our clients that they arent using. So while it might come before the ps3, they are definately holding back.

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Excuse me, I know I can be sometimes too direct in my thoughts, but this opinion you have is due to not understanding the development process. What you view as holding back actually really is them taking longer to develop major changes to implement. If it has anything to do with holding something back, it's due to it not being finished yet and taking more time to develop.

Holding anything back just pisses off the base of players they already have and contradicts the goals they promised to the player base in January. Plus, they would not start this story regarding the changes happening to Gridania for a non-existing player base. This was directed to the player base they currently have.

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Originally Posted by Cxplorer

I don't want Gridania to go away :(

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I want gridania and the black shroud burned and be rebuilt to look more like windurst lol.

I like Grid, I'll be sad if it is destroyed.

Wouldn't it be crazy if we all got transported back to the 6th Umbral Era, maybe a bit extreme though ^^

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Originally Posted by Reika

I want gridania and the black shroud burned and be rebuilt to look more like windurst lol.

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Currently, the Black Shroud is built like Yuhtunga + Zi'Tah

I'd like to see it become something along the lines of Ronfaure + Zi'Tah


Thanalan is more like Sarutabaruta + Gustaberg (maybe with a bit of Attowa)

La Noscea reminds me a lot of Lufaise Meadows (It would be nice if there were some rivers/waterfalls in it)


On top of changing topography, it would be nice if the textures would also very in different parts of the map as well. Perhaps a slightly more tropical look to the southern part of the Black Shroud, and more Firs and Evergreens in the north...

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Originally Posted by Zantetsuken

I'd like to see it become something along the lines of Ronfaure + Zi'Tah

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This ..

I don't want them to change Gridania, but the labyrinthine design of the black shroud needs to go.