4.0 announcement in october is this legit??

http://www.novacrystallis.com/2016/0...ed-in-october/ really hope it is been waiting anxiously to find out some info about next expansion we are gettin

I don't think it is. I tried to look through the interview as hard as I could, and found no concrete evidence. It seems to be something the media came up with for click bait.

Its @ fanfest vegas whenever that is oct/nov

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

I don't think it is. I tried to look through the interview as hard as I could, and found no concrete evidence. It seems to be something the media came up with for click bait.

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yeah didnt have high hopes it was but kinda wanted it to be lol

Honestly they might make some announcements in October - but it will be about a year after that before it comes out

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Originally Posted by Perogwin

Honestly they might make some announcements in October - but it will be about a year after that before it comes out

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I hope not. I love HW, but it is starting to feel a bit stale for me.

That's not right. 3.4 should hit around the end of September. 3.5 will hit around the end of Janurary/early-February. 4.0 will be 3-4 months after that, so May-June '17.

Yes its going to be announced in October, remember that we were in patch 2.3 back in 2014 when they annouced Heavensward. They only showed a trailer of the WoL entering Ishgard and changing into a Dragoon aand hinted to the next class being a Dark Knight. They did not show the new race, untill December 2014, that is when we already had 2.4.

So yeah, seeing the next expansion being announcement is very legit.

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

I don't think it is. I tried to look through the interview as hard as I could, and found no concrete evidence. It seems to be something the media came up with for click bait.

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Even a google translate on the gamewatch page of the interview makes it pretty obvious that they're planning to announce 4.0 at the Fan Festival in October.

Well, maybe it is not clear, but, 3.0 was announce at october 2014 too. So, could be.

if is true gives us something to look forward to tho xD

I thought it was common knowledge that the next expansion was going to be announced at fanfest.

Hate to break it to you all but Kotaku wrote up an article signaling that he has indeed stated that the Expansion will be announced at the Fanfest.

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http://kotaku.com/how-final-fantasy-...ium=Socialflow

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“We actually are making plans for our next expansion,” he said. “The progress is moving along fairly smoothly. With Heavensward, because that was our first-ever expansion, we didn’t quite have a grasp on how the process should be, how scheduling should be, and we wanted to add in as much content as we possibly could, so it did turn out to be a rather aggressive schedule. With this next expansion, we’re trying to make it so our workflow is more organized and streamlined and that we try to make it so we’re planning ahead and making sure we have our ducks in a row.”

That next expansion will be announced at the Fan Festival in October, Yoshida has said. He wouldn’t say what the theme will be, but he did note that they’ve got a “rough ballpark estimate of the flow” of new content updates—4.x, they’ll be called—that we’ll see over the next couple of years.

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Originally Posted by KrenianKandos

Hate to break it to you all but Kotaku wrote up an article signaling that he has indeed stated that the Expansion will be announced at the Fanfest.

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http://kotaku.com/how-final-fantasy-...ium=Socialflow

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Worth noting also that based on what Yoshi is saying in that interview it's likely we'll actually get the expansion sooner than expected. Heavensward was delayed substantially for various reasons whereas 4.0 seems to be very much on track with an optimised production schedule. I'm expecting we'll see it early next year.

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That's not right. 3.4 should hit around the end of September. 3.5 will hit around the end of Janurary/early-February. 4.0 will be 3-4 months after that, so May-June '17.

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I think it is optimistic to assume that another expansion will come out 3-4 months after the final patch of this expansion. An expansion involves a WHOLE lot more content than a patch does, and so a longer delay is to be expected.

I would guess six months at least after 3.5, before we'll see 4.0.

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

I hope not. I love HW, but it is starting to feel a bit stale for me.

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I'm not really that excited for 4.0 because of Heavensward... Hopefully they can showcase something new with it, but Heavensward stuck to formula too much, stuff like Diadem and FC Airships just fell completely flat... Hopefully Palace of the Dead can be different, and 4.0 can have something like that at launch, but right now I'm not expecting much... I expect they'll just reset everything, rather than keeping up this momentum...

Drop FATEs from 4.0 entirely and give me Campaign/Besieged instead, and I'll be hyped as f*ck though... I mean, a trailer will drop and I'll probably get hyped for the story alone, but if it's just "Lv70! New dungeons! New FATEs!"? Meh...

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Originally Posted by LineageRazor

I think it is optimistic to assume that another expansion will come out 3-4 months after the final patch of this expansion. An expansion involves a WHOLE lot more content than a patch does, and so a longer delay is to be expected.

I would guess six months at least after 3.5, before we'll see 4.0.

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more than likely they have already done alot of work on the 4.0 expansion

Yeah even more skill bloat at level 70?

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Originally Posted by Xlantaa

Well, maybe it is not clear, but, 3.0 was announce at october 2014 too. So, could be.

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This. Last xpac was announced at an october fanfest also and while that's not a tradition it did set a precedent I suppose.

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Originally Posted by LineageRazor

I think it is optimistic to assume that another expansion will come out 3-4 months after the final patch of this expansion. An expansion involves a WHOLE lot more content than a patch does, and so a longer delay is to be expected.

I would guess six months at least after 3.5, before we'll see 4.0.

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2.5 Patch Notes 01/20/2015 12:45 AM
3.0 Patch Notes 06/19/2015 4:00 AM

5 month difference.

Yoshi has said that they've learned from 3.0 and streamlined the process so they are working more efficiently this time. 5 months again is the maximum expectation. 4 months is probably most likely, 3 is optimistic.

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Originally Posted by Nalien

I'm not really that excited for 4.0 because of Heavensward... Hopefully they can showcase something new with it, but Heavensward stuck to formula too much, stuff like Diadem and FC Airships just fell completely flat... Hopefully Palace of the Dead can be different, and 4.0 can have something like that at launch, but right now I'm not expecting much... I expect they'll just reset everything, rather than keeping up this momentum...

Drop FATEs from 4.0 entirely and give me Campaign/Besieged instead, and I'll be hyped as f*ck though... I mean, a trailer will drop and I'll probably get hyped for the story alone, but if it's just "Lv70! New dungeons! New FATEs!"? Meh...

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It stuck to the formula because that's what first expansions do. It's wiser to improve what you already have, and take the content deeper. If you exhaust all your options too soon, the devs will have no where to go.

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

It stuck to the formula because that's what first expansions do. It's wiser to improve what you already have, and take the content deeper. If you exhaust all your options too soon, the devs will have no where to go.

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You also want to stick to the formula because of development time. Unlike patches you know they already have to work on new zones, new mob-types, new jobs, adding an entire new system along with the expansion would really make it take much longer to release.

new battle systems (2.1 maps/PvP, 2.3 hunts, 3.1 diadem, 3.3 Aquapolis, 3.35 deep dungeon) is better to wait at least one patch into the expansion. they can do a better job of teasing them though.

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Originally Posted by Perogwin

Honestly they might make some announcements in October - but it will be about a year after that before it comes out

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3.55 or 3.56 will most likely be the last patch, so no it won't be a year... End of or sometime in spring. Do the math!
3.4 is the last 8 man raid sometime about Aug 23 to Sep 6th one of the 3 weeks.
3.5 is the last 24 man raid Nov22nd to Dec 13th give or take...
Both will have the new story that pushes us into 4.0
3.55/3.56 will have the 2nd 1/2 of the 3.5 story just befor 4.0 drops. That puts 4.0 some time in March or April ish..and that adds up to just over 1/2 a year. After fanfest

They will doubtlessly announce 4.0 at Fanfest simply because SE has always been predictable. My timeline would be

3.35 - July 12th
3.4 - September 13th
3.5 - December 20th or January 3rd
3.55/3.6 - April 4th or 11th
4.0 - July 18th, 2017

I don't think there will be a 3.5 or a 3.55. I think the last patch will be 3.45 Reason being is cause heavensward was all about the dragon song war and the dragon song war is over. Yah I know Alexander and Void Ark aren't finished yet. But they really don't need a big patch to be implemented nor do they have to be implemented separately. So that doesn't mean there will be a 3.5 just because those 2 aren't finished. As far as the cut scene at the end 3.3 goes. That I think is the end of heavensward. I believe heavensward will end at 3.45. With no 3.5.

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I don't think there will be a 3.5

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The 24-man raids have always been used as a way for players to catch up on gear, so it'd be weird to not have that for the last part of Alexander.
There's the Warring Triad quests that haven't been finished yet, and they don't add more than 1 trial in a major patch, so that leaves 3.4 and 3.5 to finish off Goddess and Demon.
The Dragonsong arc started in 2.4, it's not just exclusive to Heavensward. The new story arc will be starting in 3.4, going into the next expansion's story (along with a sub story regarding Ishgard, similar to Ul'dah in the 2.x MSQ)

All that said, they already mentioned adding new floors to the Palace of the Dead in either 3.4 or 3.5, so we already know there's plans for a patch 3.5.

Post a link where they stated 3.5 cause I never saw that. So as far as I know that's just speculation till I see proof.

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Post a link where they stated 3.5 cause I never saw that. So as far as I know that's just speculation till I see proof.

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Wouldn't it also be speculation that there won't be a 3.5? We never saw a link stating that there will not be.

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Post a link where they stated 3.5 cause I never saw that. So as far as I know that's just speculation till I see proof.

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The link is in the OP, since the interview talks about both patch 3.4 and 3.5.

there will be more than likely a 3.5 and a 3.55... 3.55 will be used to uncap tomes so people can farm all they want in preparation of 4.0

Hmmmm... so we have

3.4 info in Tokyo gameshow next week or a few days from now

3.5 info in Europe Fanfest

4.0 in October's Fanfest

well 3.4 is only 2 months away so it is expected.

Tokyo Game Show is mid-september.

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Tokyo Game Show is mid-september.

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hm....

by that schedule we can probably expect 3.4 in late September or early October making it a 3.5 months away instead of the usual 2.5 months wait.

If they are planning to set 4.0 release to be during Early Summer 2017 then we may get May 2017 or June 2017 for 4.0 release. Leaving Feb or March for 3.5/3.55 release