Is 2.0 Actually A New Game?

It's not, right? It's just SE's way of hyping far-off changes to server structure/addition of content/ui/map design/etc. But the basic classes we have now prior to the release of whm/blm/drg/pld/etc, and characters we're working on, and the present storyline, and all that - it's staying around?

I'm pretty sure that's the way of it from my reading the notes, but want to be certain. If SE wants to charge me a small fee to go on having fun for the next year or two, I'm ok with that. But if they're planning on charging me for a year or two, and then bringing out a radically redone game where all I've done previously suddenly comes to very little or nothing.... then I'm not so ok with it and would rather find other uses for my free time.

They made it clear all our character data will be ported to the new game, yes. :)

No it's just going to slowly change over the next year and a half. They are saying you will barely notice the chagnges, in a sense. As for the current classes sticking around? no one really knows.

It said in the notes that you will retain your character data, levels, and gil. I don't know about items, but pretty sure that too. When the game is released, you get to remake your character since there will be new race genders and the graphics will be different.

You are playing a prequel to the new XIV story. Things are going to change. READ before you post

its not a new game
but its when all the changes will be in for the most part so itl feel like a new game

its the comparison of a major expansion that most other games bring out, you know the kind that usualy changes the game

Basically there will be new story, new graphics, new engine. It will be an entirely new game with 1.x serving as the frame upon which 2.0 is built.

But our characters and their classes will be unchanged. Yoshida has promised us that we will not lose any of our progress.

I wouldn't agree with that. The game will be so utterly different and every landmark, monster and player we know will look different with the new version. It's more of a re-release than an expansion, as all existing content will feel different.

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It said in the notes that you will retain your character data, levels, and gil. I don't know about items, but pretty sure that too.

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FFXIV 2.0: Now featuring "dated" gil.

(just kidding. ... I hope.)

No, it will be a new game... including a new game client, running on new game servers with new game features and mechanics.
We are currently playing the prologue.

I wonder, will a new game disc be required?

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Originally Posted by Morningstar

I wonder, will a new game disc be required?

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Apparently the new client will have a digital download according to the documents that were released with the announcement.

2.0 through a SE client torrent downloader, joy XD

Would the new engine change the realism of the game? would it look something like that Art work they display with the UI? if it does then it be more of a downgrade for me ; ; i been posting everywhere that been talking about the new stuff i know the pictrue is art work and not in game but still wonder if the engine change the overall look of the game ; ;

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Originally Posted by viion

2.0 through a SE client torrent downloader, joy XD

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Well the client is getting upgraded as well so should be much better :D

From what I can tell the Client is being updated prior to 2.0

From a technical standpoint it is going to be an entire new game, running on entirely new server software and using an entirely new client. But from a player's "game" standpoint, it will still be Final Fantasy XIV.

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Originally Posted by Ark_mage2

From a technical standpoint it is going to be an entire new game, running on entirely new server software and using an entirely new client. But from a player's "game" standpoint, it will still be Final Fantasy XIV.

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You mean the look of the art work or something else?

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Originally Posted by Zenaku

Would the new engine change the realism of the game? would it look something like that Art work they display with the UI? if it does then it be more of a downgrade for me ; ; i been posting everywhere that been talking about the new stuff i know the pictrue is art work and not in game but still wonder if the engine change the overall look of the game ; ;

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Personally, I hope so. I'm probably in the minority but I don't particularly like the art style we currently have so I'd be up for it changing.
Also, I hope they fix all the clipping issues, it's so annoying and I've never played another game with this many of them >_<

It's not a "new game", but the software code behind it will be drastically different and the lay of the land is being changed. We'll still have the same nations the same quests the same characaters (plus new race/gender options)

It's more like an expansion pack to the current game, your data will be kept intact but behind the scenes it will get ported to the new server/database

If you are a customer you will get a free download of the updated client. If not then a new disc will be required.

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Originally Posted by Falcus

Personally, I hope so. I'm probably in the minority but I don't particularly like the art style we currently have so I'd be up for it changing.
Also, I hope they fix all the clipping issues, it's so annoying and I've never played another game with this many of them >_<

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They can change the area but still keep the look of the art the game look better if they change it to what the display in the art work or more like rfit,aion it be a downgrade for me.