I think in a future patch they should introduce a 'news rack' or something in the adventurer's guild. You basically just walk up to it and can select an in-game version of the Raven or any other supposed "in game publication" that's currently being released.
They could spawn a NPC next to it for a couple of days to occasionally shout and announce a new copy has been released.
At least it would be read in-game then, I can't imagine it would be that hard to do really. You'd just need a new model for the newspaper rack (or whatever it is).
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05-11-2011, 11:30 PMSephr
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05-12-2011, 01:04 AMNuruThis reminds me too much of my job. ;-; grrrrr stupid home delivery newspapers. >.<Quote:
Originally Posted by Sephr
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05-12-2011, 01:49 AMPeregrineThat'd be nice. If they could publish the news articles in-game it'd be great, but there's really not any good format for it in the game. They'd have to actually create it. Usually with every new addition to the game they just modify something they already have which is why you rarely see new minigames and if you do, they're still based off old principles already in the game's coding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sephr
What I'm trying to get at is that publishing them in the game is going to be too much work for them. Their solution was to paste it up quickly and easily on the internet, where you can honestly make a much better newspaper much more easily.
So I'm torn between this being pretty lazy, and this actually being the most efficient and productive way...to do what they have tried to do. There's a role for lore and optional text and ...easter eggs no pun intended... but not when it takes the place of in-game story and are found in an out of the way internet web site for your game.
Ideally archons and that story would have been a part of the game, not a makebelieve figment sidestory on the internet. This is like...official fan fiction here.
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05-12-2011, 01:53 AMNuru
They might even update the "Boot Version" of the game sometime in the future, to be able to display the lodestone news updates, patch notes, etc.
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05-12-2011, 02:11 AMXmbeiI would like that, or even patch notes on it as well for a patch release. The current boot program is a pretty lame page lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nuru
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05-12-2011, 02:13 AMNuruI agree, but i never believe they will keep it that way, hence why they have a Boot Version. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Xmbei
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05-12-2011, 02:47 AMChreesThe first thing that came to mind after reading this was, "Why not add an NPC linkpearl to announce that a new issue has been released?" That way you don't have to miss the shouting in the cities.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sephr
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05-12-2011, 02:48 AMJennestiaThey honestly should have just linked it to the POL viewer even though it lived past it's purpose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nuru
Because it's an event, not a storyline.Quote:
Originally Posted by gifthorse
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05-12-2011, 02:53 AMNuruThats what I'm saying :P After you log in, all there is on that Boot Page is a big "Start" button, and under that is a link to the lodestone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jennestia
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05-12-2011, 03:21 AMKilta_Firelotus
fyi ffxi had a game newspaper to after a while no one read and they stoped doing it.
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05-12-2011, 04:14 AMFrisque
I would also like to toss in: I didn't mind that they posted the story on the Lodestone because it actually gave people the opportunity to read it at work, on the bus, etc.
Odds are that if it was in-game I probably would have just skimmed it and lost some of the comprehension, or God forbid missed the last part altogether because I would be distracted by other things, LOL. -
05-12-2011, 04:20 AMMaxi_IrvingI used to read it periodically. I was quite disappointing when they took it down. =(Quote:
Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus
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05-12-2011, 04:48 AMSorelSeems like a good solution would be to put in both on Lodestone and on an in-game news publication.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frisque
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05-12-2011, 05:53 AMPhysic
they could actually do it in the loader, it already basically uses html, but i think it might be better with a further in game solution.
And really they should make the event actually occur, or at least you can see the effects in game. You can use the lodestone/newspaper type thing for adding further depth and history, but the ending to the event with the dodo, and etc should definiately have been an ingame occurence, and later as you walk somewhere it triggers the men in the shadows scene. Or at the very least you visit the reporter in game and get an echo of what they experienced -
05-12-2011, 06:07 AMXmbei
and then half of us would never get it by the time it was taken down because we wouldnt go to those locations because we wouldnt know about! BRILLIANT!