Blitzball!

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Originally Posted by Derio

I would love it. At this point you cant really say making it is waste of resources because look and the Vermillion crap that came and died fast.

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What? That's the definition of wasted resources. LoV was billed as a major content piece for 3.1, and taking one look at it indicates the devs put a frightening about of effort developing something that ultimately went on to die the day it launched. There's a reason 3.1 is widely considered the worst patch post 1.0.

I can see Blitzball being pretty popular if done right. Let there be teams of players instead of vs NPCs or AI companions. Heck depending on how it goes or if its able to be more active (i.e no pausing or minimum) could even make it possible for those not interested in playing but wanting to watch spectate and cheer on favorite teams?

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Originally Posted by Theodric

Why would you prefer not to see it implemented just because you didn't enjoy it? It would very likely be completely optional and it's a fan favourite where mini-games in the franchise are concerned.

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Because I'm being selfish and hoping the next Gold Saucer addition is a minigame I do enjoy such as the Snowboarding or Battle Square games from VII.

Granted with Swimming coming in Stormblood and FFX costumes and minions coming from the fanfests there's a good chance we are getting Blitzball. Hopefully it won't fail like Verminion.

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

Give us Blitzball, because the new diving feature is just asking for it. Also make it better than the flop that was Lords of Virmillion.

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..2...3... Teach us how to Blitz!!

I was thinking about how they could potentially make Blitzball and think that the idea is to make it so passing and shooting can be done whenever to make it less stop-start like the original. They could make it so that your character throws/shoots in the direction your character is facing and can look around with snap-back to centre. They could make blocking able to be done like a real sport by getting in the way. The only time when the game needs to pause during the game is when someone collides with someone to do the tackling component of the game.

These are some ideas I've had thinking about it and there's obviously some anti-cheese mechanics like preventing anyone from coming in x yalms from the goal to prevent people from making it impossible to score by body-blocking the whole goal.

I would play the hell out of Blitzball if they implemented it. Can't count how many seasons I went through in X

I would normally never say no to more content but than I remember things like the LoV...I looked really forward to this one, hoping it would be kinda like Pokemon and yet somehow the devs wanted to invent the wheel again and turned it into that..its way to complicated for a simple mini game and not really fun (imo). So I kinda fear if they would even implement the Blitzball everyone love or if they would create a new version of it (never played it ^^;). And to make it even better they would put a huge grind behind it, because we cant have just some simple mini games that we just play for fun, no we have to make it RNG and a grind so that people would need to put hours over hours of time into it..

If its a fun, simple game in the gold saucer: Yes please. If its a grindy, RNG and complex game: No please dont.

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Originally Posted by Mission

You could say that about any piece of content though, there are different types of players, I personally play golden saucer stuff just about every day. But when a new raid comes out Besides spending the time doing the dungeons to gear up for it, I complete it one time then don't do it again. I don't even touch the savage stuff.

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Actually pretty much every piece of content is alive and kicking except for the Gold Saucer and Diadem. All dungeons queue well. Guildhests. Coils are relevant with WT. 2.X Trials are relevant because of WT. Even the Crystal Tower raids queue fast. Gathering/Crafting is relevant. 3.X trials are relevant due to lanners. Hildebrand is still relevant. Scholasticate is still relevant.

Essentially, Gold Saucer is the only thing that has pretty much no incentive besides just doing the mini cactpot and punching game for challenge log.

2 people in the Saucer doing activities = dead.

20 people in the Saucer doing activities = alive

Chocobo Racing is dead. All the games in there are dead. LoV is so dead not even the greatest necromancers of the forums here can raise it. Same with Diadem. But even that has waaay more useful things than 50 MGP every 10mins(hyperbole)

Maybe I'll finally be able to master the jecht shot. I wonder where they would put the blitzball arena? Idk about the gold saucer as it doesn't really fit the theme of blitzball. Either way, I'd love to see this added.