Will ARR have a strategy guide planned?

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Originally Posted by ispano

Among a plethora of other websites. Far simpler than digging through a book.

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And while people get content done using their trusty SE-sanctioned guide, you'll be waiting for weeks or months as people slowly enter in anecdotal data in poorly formatted Wiki articles. Yeah!

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Originally Posted by Donimo

And while people get content done using their trusty SE-sanctioned guide, you'll be waiting for weeks or months as people slowly enter in anecdotal data in poorly formatted Wiki articles. Yeah!

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Or people will get it done without the guide just fine. Or anything from the web for that matter. My opinion is that if you NEED the guide to get around and do things, then you're likely not playing the right game

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Originally Posted by Zehira

Funny, when I buy any game I really never feel the necessity of buying a guide book because I can always check out the internet what to do. It would be a good idea for PC users who want to play it with full-screen. You see how you played in 1.0 without a guide book because quest logs tell you what to do.

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That is why i said to not make it much of a "guide" but more like a themepark magazine that each page you see you go "Woah!"

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Originally Posted by ispano

Or people will get it done without the guide just fine. Or anything from the web for that matter. My opinion is that if you NEED the guide to get around and do things, then you're likely not playing the right game

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Yep. For example me and my group did CoP without any guides since non existed at the time. All info has to come from somewhere and that's usually people that figure out stuff for themselves and decide to pass along the info.

I just hope that the game succeeds enough that people take the time to make a detailed wiki website like XI's wiki or the old zam site and even ffxi somepage (if anybody remember that one) where everything is listed about every game aspect, including equipment guides and even trivia about item and monster names etc

It was so much fun looking up a BCNM battle and read that the monsters in it were named after the main characters of the TV show Charmed and such.

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Originally Posted by Warlock

That is why i said to not make it much of a "guide" but more like a themepark magazine that each page you see you go "Woah!"

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Like what you are doing with your "FFXIV Artwork Collection" thread? Oh yeah, I will totally buy it. :p

People loved to buy guidebooks for collection purpose, they comes with pretty cover usually, a very nicely page layout, and bonuses like map. I have tons of guidebooks i never read, i just have them for the exclusive arts, behind the scene, bonuses that comes with them.

Strategy guides are kinda a waste of money without some sort of bonus stuff you just don't get with the internet.
Like, ~cloth maps~

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Originally Posted by ispano

Among a plethora of other websites. Far simpler than digging through a book.

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Honestly though, the idea of having a physical reference book is novel to me (tee hee), but it just doesn't really work for MMOs or games that self-update often. It'd be neat having a sort of PDF-based guide for smartphones though. That'd be handy.

I still remember how much fun we had picking apart the Brady Guide for XI. How wrong it was, was hilarious.