Please add in-game books.

Dear SE, please add in-game books to the world. It would be lots of fun if we could find things like this laying around:


(Skip to 0:22 to see the book.)

I think such books would be a great way to allow players to delve more deeply into the lore, and you could even give out Achievements for finding rare books, or reading every book in the game! :D

Even if the books aren't as long as the Elder Scrolls books, it would be nice to have some additional lore laying around at our finger tips, possibly discussing topics that NPCs wouldn't normally speak of.

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Originally Posted by quantumsaint

Life, Materia, and Everything.

I wouldn't want them as obtainable items, there's enough item glut as is.

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I think a better solution is to make a workable inventory system. We shouldn't avoid adding cool things just because a system is broken. Rather, we should fix the broken system so that cool things can be added.

Already exist in the game. Go to the conjurer's guild or to Mutamix's camp.

I do agree that we could use more though.

I would want them less as something we can carry around (unless they go into a journal like area that can be reviewed at anytime without inventory clutter) and more like books lying around.

Could be a really interesting way to flesh out some lore and story color. you have my like, good sir cat mam.

I liked the book of memories/1000 years of dreams in Lost Odyssey.

Sadly and unfortunately, we live in a tl;dr era. Now if there were video-books ppl would watch them...lol

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Originally Posted by Meow_Zedong

Already exist in the game. Go to the conjurer's guild or to Mutamix's camp.

I do agree that we could use more though.

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Huh.. there's one at the Conjurer's guild? I know there's one at the Thaumaturge guild on the counter you can read that talks about Eras and Elements.

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Originally Posted by kwestro

Sadly and unfortunately, we live in a tl;dr era. Now if there were video-books ppl would watch them...lol

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Except the video I posted is from Skyrim, a game that's even newer than FFXIV. >_>

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Originally Posted by Inaaca

Huh.. there's one at the Conjurer's guild? I know there's one at the Thaumaturge guild on the counter you can read that talks about Eras and Elements.

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Wiki lists 3 with full text - probably more out there waiting to be added.

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Category:In-game_Books

Wtf

ANOTHER book thread?

Well if they have given up implementing story into the gameplay itself I'd support this. They have plenty of lore on the lodestone they could use to do this and it could easily be implemented in days. If you're going to write game story then at least put it in the damn game please.