Will Eorzea Rebuild?

This early on in the game (technically "pre-launch" for most), and here we are going full-on Armageddon on it. A bold move says I, and symbolic: Eorzea in Ashes; Reborn.

However, since most of the people who ever play this game will be coming in AFTER we've already moon-nuked the sh!t out of everything, do you think we'll see Eorzeans rebuild their land in the same "real-time" lore-development that we saw it demolished?

Not back into what it was, mind you, just... re-develop. Any long-term plans in the works? As expansions come out, maybe cities rebuild a bit - open new stuff? Areas that were blocked become cleared?

I'd like to see that, methinks.

No. The exact opposite of what you want will happen. I have no proof, but trust me, that's how it will be.

Ul'dah will be reborn. Now every NPC, shop and Guild will be in the magical corridor where the Market Wards are now.

I don't think it will be an all-out armageddon. I think the world outside the cities will be terraformed while the cities themselves will be opened up and reorganized/redesigned. If civilization was destroyed the Grand Companies probably wouldn't still be around nor would Limsa build a gigantic colosseum.

I'm gonna go ahead and say think New Vegas. The area around it is pretty much laid waste to, but Vegas itself stood up pretty well. Granted, there will most likely be a war going on between the Garleans and the Eorzeans, but it's something to consider.

I think it would be something like this:

The big catastrophe is happen -> End of FF XIV-1 -> FF XIV-2 start -> 10 years later ....

We weren't ready to become the heroes of echo so the Twelve sealed our souls for seven years.

It all has to do with the aether and the primals I think. Eorzea being drained of it aether will see gigantic catastrophes happens that will reshape the land and the primals will also destroy many things. Maybe?

I hope they have a big cutscene where the world gets destroyed and reshaped.

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Originally Posted by Xenor

I hope they have a big cutscene where the world gets destroyed and reshaped.

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I'm think more on the Lines of this being, the New Opening CGI to the game, to be Quite honest...I'm leaning towards this route.. but it would be nice to see that sort of thing in-game as the Transition unfolds from 1.0 to 2.0

I don't care about this fluff. I just want to finally be able to be an actor in the game rather than a spectator.

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Originally Posted by Felis

I think it would be something like this:

The big catastrophe is happen -> End of FF XIV-1 -> FF XIV-2 start -> 10 years later ....

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It probably will be like that lol. SE has a nice habit of placing games "X years since massive calamity"

Although I think if the world is being rebuilt then 2.0 would be the perfect opportunity to add quests where crafters can help rebuild things =D. I personally hope they don't time lapse through it because I really enjoyed WotG because of the whole sense of danger accompanied with the Crystal War. I think it would be fun that if the cities are partially destroyed and from the catastrophe that low level players are advised to stay in doors at night because wolves and ghosts wander into the streets. Would really add a lot of dynamic to the game and make everything feel less "safe"

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Originally Posted by Starlord

I'm think more on the Lines of this being, the New Opening CGI to the game, to be Quite honest...I'm leaning towards this route.. but it would be nice to see that sort of thing in-game as the Transition unfolds from 1.0 to 2.0

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I was just thinking this as I came back to the thread. It would make perfect sense since they did announce a new opening CGI.

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Originally Posted by Xenor

I was just thinking this as I came back to the thread. It would make perfect sense since they did announce a new opening CGI.

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I'm not sure if they have a choice on this matter; the apocalypse can't exactly happen off-screen - and yet they can't let us run pants-sh!ttingly free as the world comes crashing down. Logic says the servers will go down, games will merge, and we'll load up into a new epic cutscene followed by the rail-guided "first quest" again.

That's going to be one very long maintenance session. I can see the game being down for days.

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Originally Posted by Xenor

That's going to be one very long maintenance session. I can see the game being down for days.

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It's too hard to tell. It all depends on how they approach it, if everything goes well without a hitch, how many people are working on it. 10 years ago I could see it taking days. I really have no idea what is involved though so just a guess, but days seems a bit much.