Coming in Version 2.0!

this is an absolutely awesome post. it's nice and neat. a sure liked thread all together.

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This thread shouldn't be on page 5 ^^

http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/...uarter2013.png

So just to be clear,

"Implementation of the aforementioned features will begin in the third quarter of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013."

So when is that? November 2013?
No, Free Companies, delivery and mail, free company estates, PvP (Colosseum and Frontlines) or Auction House at launch of 2.0.

I don't know why it took me so long to see that sentence and haven't seen it mentioned anywhere in the OP's thread.

Edit: Actually, i remember being confused by this before, so this is the second time it got me!

Third quarter of fiscal year 2012-2013 (march) is October-December 2012, really.

Btw, very informative topic :)

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Third quarter of fiscal year 2012-2013 (march) is October-December 2012, really.

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Ah cool, those are all the things i am looking forward to most. ^^

Amazing post. Thanks for this, Zetsumei!

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Ah cool, those are all the things i am looking forward to most. ^^

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This is one of the reasons for making this post. If there is a features that someone really wants then you can make your own thread about it so maybe devs will focus more on that one and get it done sooner. :)

Also I don't intend for everything in the post to be taken as 'this will be in the launch of 2.0' but rather this are things they are working on that won't happen until 2.0 or later.

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Originally Posted by Munba

Third quarter of fiscal year 2012-2013 (march) is October-December 2012, really.

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Just too bad most will read it as "not before march 2013". SE really need to work on their formulations.

And actually, even if they did mean oct-dec 2012, it still means the development process is planned to start in oct-dec, so there will be no player housing, no free companies and no mail system at launch. Which is rather disappointing, mail system at least is a must.

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Just too bad most will read it as "not before march 2013". SE really need to work on their formulations.

And actually, even if they did mean oct-dec 2012, it still means the development process is planned to start in oct-dec, so there will be no player housing, no free companies and no mail system at launch. Which is rather disappointing, mail system at least is a must.

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Have you seen the raging when something is delayed by 1 week on these forums?

They are making a 4 month window, so when people say where is xxx and decide to rage SE can say "we said the 3rd quarter ending march 2013" I would imagine they are working for them before then but because these are some of the most wanted/needed features they are having long estimates.

I do agree atleast a mail system needs to be ready for 2.0 release, and we can only hope it happens, but I would think its adding alot of leyway for any delays.

They'll just have to make sure 2.0 doesn't seem as incomplete as 1.0 at launch, though I guess that's what the open beta will be for.

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In-game voice in all four languages (Japanese, English, French, and German) after version 2.0. pdf

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Can someone please point me to where this was stated?

I don't remember reading anything about that in the pdfs.

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They'll just have to make sure 2.0 doesn't seem as incomplete as 1.0 at launch, though I guess that's what the open beta will be for.


Can someone please point me to where this was stated?

I don't remember reading anything about that in the pdfs.

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It's in second pdf that I linked. System and content list.

Bumped from page 19.

This may have been mentioned somewhere before, but oh well. Has anybody heard anything on the starter cities? Are they going to change with the rest of the areas at 2.0 or are they going to stay the same?

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This may have been mentioned somewhere before, but oh well. Has anybody heard anything on the starter cities? Are they going to change with the rest of the areas at 2.0 or are they going to stay the same?

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Here's hopeing they are changing

i heard something about a moogle post office................that would be rad.

Hey guys,

As I have been busy playing the new patch 1.21 I have gotten behind in checking the forums. I have been skimming over them here and there but since there was a lot of dev post after the patch I may have missed some infos. I'll go back through the dev tracker today and see if there's anything new. In any case, I updated the second post and crossed out things that were added in patch 1.21. Namely job related things and cutscene replay feature are now implemented.

edit: finished looking through english dev tracker and there was nothing new about 2.0. In reinhart translated thread there was a couple new things so I added those. :)

also in response to this:

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This may have been mentioned somewhere before, but oh well. Has anybody heard anything on the starter cities? Are they going to change with the rest of the areas at 2.0 or are they going to stay the same?

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If you check the PDF with the concept art, it shows some tiny pics of the new city designs. It's hard to tell but you can see Ul'dah has some garlean machina there, and limsa has a big PvP arena. So yea they will change the city too.

When it comes to 2.0 - what period are we talking about in the first place?
i think it's pretty obvious that not everything in the OP can be implemented as soon 2.0 goes live.

so can anyone give a rough estimate about when we will have all 2.0 features?
2013? 2014?
or is 2.0 just the synonym for FFXIV by that time for all the following years?
"2.0" means "someday"?

Alot of things they just say this will happen in 2.0 because they can't implement it with the current system. As far as things that will be there on the launch of 2.0, I'd look to the PDFs as a guide for it unless it specifically says 'after' 2.0. In which case it will be implemented sometime after the launch of 2.0 client.

In general version 2.0 refers to the new game client they are currently working on simultaneously with the current version.

Part of the purpose of this thread is to keep track of what the devs says they are going to do, and to make sure that those really important features that they promised will be in the game actually get put into the game. For this reason I will probably continue this thread even after the launch of 2.0 so people can look back at what they said and ask them why isn't it here yet. If it's a highly wanted feature, people will keep bugging them until they add it. Of course not all features are wanted that badly, so I expect people will only complain about the really big ones.

Awesome thread, thank you for the hard work!

Great OP! /10

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Hey guys,

As I have been busy playing the new patch 1.21 I have gotten behind in checking the forums. I have been skimming over them here and there but since there was a lot of dev post after the patch I may have missed some infos. I'll go back through the dev tracker today and see if there's anything new. In any case, I updated the second post and crossed out things that were added in patch 1.21. Namely job related things and cutscene replay feature are now implemented.

edit: finished looking through english dev tracker and there was nothing new about 2.0. In reinhart translated thread there was a couple new things so I added those. :)

also in response to this:


If you check the PDF with the concept art, it shows some tiny pics of the new city designs. It's hard to tell but you can see Ul'dah has some garlean machina there, and limsa has a big PvP arena. So yea they will change the city too.

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Ok awesome, thanks for the reply ^^. I'm glad they are going to change the cities, even if it's just a little, they are just way too bland and boring right now.

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It's hard to tell but you can see Ul'dah has some garlean machina there

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The pic on the left here? It's a garlean outpost.

/bumpfornewplayers

Yeah, that's not Uldah, It's an Empire base. Here are translations of the concept art for further clarification:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post393706

This is so exciting! I can't stop checking up on the forums because of these posts! Thank you!

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Yeah, that's not Uldah, It's an Empire base. Here are translations of the concept art for further clarification:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post393706

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ooohh I've not seen this pictures translated. I'm gonna add this to OP somewhere.

edit: OP updated with Reinheart images, thanks for provided links :)

In the french interview (Final Fantasy World) there is something interesting (dunno if already mentioned)..

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I have lots of ideas in mind but if I started to explain to the players, they would say: Yoshi-P, begins to finish what you promised. So I'll do what I promised, and then I can begin to tell you about my new ideas. But when I say that I have ideas, that means something concrete. For example, jumping, swimming, transform into a dragon...

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In the french interview (Final Fantasy World) there is something interesting (dunno if already mentioned)..

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Yea some interviews I didn't cover it, because it wasn't translated into english so I couldn't understand it. I could have read it with google translator, but I don't know how accurate the translation is and I don't want to give out wrong ideas. I did however, link the original dev post containing all the 2.0 interviews so people can see all the interviews there, and read them and interpret them on their own.

Being able to transform into a dragon is a pretty neat idea indeed, I wonder if yoshi-p will add something like that. ^^

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Yea some interviews I didn't cover it, because it wasn't translated into english so I couldn't understand it. I could have read it with google translator, but I don't know how accurate the translation is and I don't want to give out wrong ideas. I did however, link the original dev post containing all the 2.0 interviews so people can see all the interviews there, and read them and interpret them on their own.

Being able to transform into a dragon is a pretty neat idea indeed, I wonder if yoshi-p will add something like that. ^^

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It was a npc in xi who did this and i wanted it so bad lol.

love this post! Thanks!

Oh my... Yoshida has posted some awesome information about 2.0 today!

Look!
Now!
Do it!

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Producer/Director Yoshida here,

Thanks for everyone's comment regarding 2.0!

I was originally planning to keep quiet for a little longer until we were ready to release some solid information regarding 2.0, but I have changed my mind. Let me take a moment to release some initial bits of information on the forums (Going to add a link and comment in the next producer letter as well)

As you may all know, you often found the community reps responding with "In 2.0", or "It will come post 2.0", or "It will come with the release of 2.0"

To clarify, all of these questions/answers go through my approval before it is released to the public. If a certain topic fits one of the criteria listed below, the reps will respond with “it will be implemented” or “it will be fixed.”

• Content that has already implemented in 2.0's server/client
• Content that has their specifications finalized and currently being implemented
• Content that has their specifications finalized and planned to be implemented
• Content that is planned to be implemented in updates after the launch of 2.0

We are currently working on the promotional site for 2.0 to prepare for this year’s E3 that will take place on June 5th. Additionally, we are in the final stages of a new video that we have been working on. Everything around me is pretty hectic with tasks related either 2.0 or the Seventh Umbral Era.

We will also be starting a new promotion at the end of the month so please look forward to that as well.

After E3, we will be releasing new information in stages. Please be advised that the promotion will also target new players who have never seen or played FFXIV so it will include content you may all be already familiar with. Don’t worry; I’m planning to include new content for the existing players too. Stay tuned!

There are a lot of features we haven't talked about yet as well:

• In 2.0’s Character Creation, you can change female character’s bust _____
• You can change the length of a Miqo’te's ___
• Each race will start with its own starting gear
• Letters and Deliveries will be delivered by the familiar ________
• Benchmark program is being remade for 2.0
• When you first play 2.0, the 2D world map is covered and you will have to actually travel to that part of the map to unlock it
• New characters and primals will be added to the main scenario

I should stop here. If I say any more, I’m going to give Morbol and Kato a heart attack (or they might just kill me). Either way, we will be releasing movies with lots of in-game footage, so for now stay tuned and enjoy the fight against the threat of the Seventh Umbral Era.

Oh, and Dalamud looks even more insane in patch 1.22 :p

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Oh god.. INCOMING BEACH BALL BOOBS. :l

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You can change the length of a Miqo’te's ___

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I do welcome this. I luff tails :x

Edit: Oh, is there going to be a way to change these post 2.0? If I can have a longer tail, I wanna be able to change it without re-rolling. Though I recommend this not being the case for the first choice..

I love fill in the blank! Okay here we go!

In 2.0's Character Creation, you can change a female character's bust (size)

You can change the length of a Miqote's (tail)

Letters and Deliveries will be delivered by the familiar (MOOGLES!!!)



It better be moogles, damn you Yoshi!

Sounds nice lol

I hope the boob sizes are kept in moderation. One of the things I hate most about games is when they make too big of boobs.

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I hope the boob sizes are kept in moderation. One of the things I hate most about games is when they make too big of boobs.

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This is Japan we're talking about. Japanese men tend to have a bit of a boob fetish, which is understandable given the average cup size in Japan. Its the same has the obsession with light skin and blonde hair/blue eyes. Unlike the European countries, Japan is fairly homogenous. So anything outside the norm is exotic and a turn-on. Big boobs is outside the norm, and this being a world of fantasy, they would be crazy not to let ppl experience the giant boobs they don't get to see in real life.

Course they could just come to America, but thats a lot more expensive lol

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I hope the boob sizes are kept in moderation. One of the things I hate most about games is when they make too big of boobs.

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As long as we can make delicious flat chest I'm cool. :3

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Edit: Oh, is there going to be a way to change these post 2.0? If I can have a longer tail, I wanna be able to change it without re-rolling. Though I recommend this not being the case for the first choice..

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They planned on it when they released the male Miqo'tes and Female Galkas at 2.0. I think they'll prolly allow people to change their character/race/gender and stuff at least once every time they implement a new character change.

Can existing player change their boob sizes?? Please let us do so, I personally don't want to be in losing end when come to this matter :P

Could it beeee...."You can change the length of a Miqo’te's hair."??
I know I'm excited to see new hairstyles!

But boobies on a female Lalafell? >.< Surely not.

However, if Miqo'te's get longer *something*, and an enlarged bust, sure hope they think of something special for the Lalafells. How 'bout slimming down my chubby little butt?