1.0 Epic PvP Plans... anyone else remember?

Was talking to a buddy and this came to mind. Was curious if anyone had anymore detail/images/dev talk about the original PvP the old dev had.

Don't get me wrong, we all know 1.0 had its faults... but I remember minor teasers and plans for a giant PvP that involved creating and maintaining battle ships as crafting/gathering classes while the combat classes go to battle.

Of course I'm sure it got scrapped, but man it sounded epic.

Hamlet Defense
But it was PvE

Yes, there was a short video showing a battle ship attacking another.
The video also showed crafting with multiple players.

It was during a small event for the release, so it's hard to find it.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Hamlet Defense
But it was PvE

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Nooo hamlet was towards the end and made by the new team I thought.

This was planned waaay before yoshi came in. Think it was talked about in early release

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Originally Posted by Keramory

Was talking to a buddy and this came to mind. Was curious if anyone had anymore detail/images/dev talk about the original PvP the old dev had.

Don't get me wrong, we all know 1.0 had its faults... but I remember minor teasers and plans for a giant PvP that involved creating and maintaining battle ships as crafting/gathering classes while the combat classes go to battle.

Of course I'm sure it got scrapped, but man it sounded epic.

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4.1 pvp will be a bigger mode than frontlines : D

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Originally Posted by DemonwrathDeathreign

4.1 pvp will be a bigger mode than frontlines : D

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I missed this!!!!!

Do you have any info you can link me?

And genzo knows what I'm talking about! Woot know I wasn't crazy

Found it \o\
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cW56J8Gc5A

(yes it was really prototype-ish, don't expect too much)

Are you sure you're not confusing one of the 1.0 Limsa Lominsa story quests for 'PvP'? One 1.0 Limsa quest featured a cutscene showing a naval battle at sea between warships of the Knights of the Barracuda and the Serpent Reavers.

I've never heard anything mentioned of any plans to add PvP to 1.0... but having said that, there was plenty of stuff that Tanaka bandied about during 1.0's original development that nothing ever came of so it wouldn't surprise me if 'battleship PvP' was one such concept that he never had any real intention of adding. I think it's safe to say it will never happen now I'm sorry.

EDIT: and it seems watching that video it was indeed a concept that Tanaka's team considered but scrapped early on (probably due to the myriad of issues 1.0 suffered from in Alpha and Beta just plain distracted everyone involved, and eventually got quietly dropped.

Either way, airship construction in Heavensward is probably the spiritual successor to this idea.

Frontline looked so promising. I would love if they added more elements to it like this old artwork suggested.

http://www.ffxivinfo.com/images/cont...frontlines.jpg

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Originally Posted by Mug

Frontline looked so promising. I would love if they added more elements to it like this old artwork suggested.

http://www.ffxivinfo.com/images/cont...frontlines.jpg

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This gave me WoW world PVP vibes. Winter grasp / Tol Barad. You win, your 'team' gets access to a special raid/quests located at the top area. I was excited for it. But they over-hyped a lot of 2.0 during the development stage....very sad as a lot seemed interesting (though not functional at all, Primal summonings would never have worked well)

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Originally Posted by Mug

Frontline looked so promising. I would love if they added more elements to it like this old artwork suggested.

http://www.ffxivinfo.com/images/cont...frontlines.jpg

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PS3 limitation
Let's hope that the 4.x Frontline modes will be like that

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Originally Posted by Genz

Found it \o\
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cW56J8Gc5A

(yes it was really prototype-ish, don't expect too much)

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Ah, yes
I guessed it had to be in a video together with the cake ^^

Thank you for the link.

My biggest wish with this game (aside the dream of having the elemental wheel back...) was a ballista like PvP.

Capture the flag PvP (rehashed over...and over... and over) with Ffxiv now just doesn't do it for me

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Originally Posted by Keramory

Thank you for the link.

My biggest wish with this game (aside the dream of having the elemental wheel back...) was a ballista like PvP.

Capture the flag PvP (rehashed over...and over... and over) with Ffxiv now just doesn't do it for me

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XIV doesn't have capture the flag....?

You member? I Member ^^. Hopefully the new areas will make PvP more popular. Hope the new gear as well.

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Originally Posted by Keramory

I missed this!!!!!

Do you have any info you can link me?

And genzo knows what I'm talking about! Woot know I wasn't crazy

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Here ya go, just 1 out of few links, it will be awesome just scroll to pvp and see the keyword (ARMIES) lol https://www.pcgamesn.com/final-fanta...mblood-preview

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Originally Posted by Felis

PS3 limitation
Let's hope that the 4.x Frontline modes will be like that


Ah, yes
I guessed it had to be in a video together with the cake ^^

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keyword (ARMIES) lol https://www.pcgamesn.com/final-fanta...mblood-preview

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Originally Posted by Keramory

I missed this!!!!!

Do you have any info you can link me?

And genzo knows what I'm talking about! Woot know I wasn't crazy

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here too Yoshida even confirmed a (Large-Scale) pvp in this interview close to the bottom! https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/13...w-Translation?

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Originally Posted by Mug

Frontline looked so promising. I would love if they added more elements to it like this old artwork suggested.

http://www.ffxivinfo.com/images/cont...frontlines.jpg

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I remember this pic, and the talks too, they said they were going to add a big ass PvP fight with many diff side all fighting over a key post somewhere in the would, it was to be a big 5+ sided fight, with al, the CG, beast an and the empire all fighting over the zone. They also said we have zone primers we can sum, in to the fight to help.

But in th end it never came to be, was a sad day q.q

I would like to bring up that Yoshida takes all the promises that both 1.0 made by the company to accomplish additions to Final Fantasy XIV very seriously. A good example of this is FFXIV on ps3. It was an early promise that FFXIV would exist on ps3 and even though it was nearly pointless to release it on ps3 when ps4 was right around the corner, he still made it a priority. Even the previously mentioned 1.0 promises of group crafting and airships have been added to the game, even if not the way they were shown off in 1.0. We craft airships and it requires more than a single person to get this stuff done.

As for the large scale pvp that was teased early on by Yoshida and even the primal summoning that was mentioned. Yoshida has not abandoned these. I'm sorry I don't have the source, after years of development on this game it can be difficult to find specific interviews but Yoshida said the primal idea, which was directly tied to large scale competition between free companies, was just delayed. He said content like that will not be added until it made sense for the story and world. Also Yoshida likes to add systems one thing at a time, evidenced by MTQ's questioning of cross server play. PVP adjustments, free company additions seem like they are all foundations for this large scale pvp. I would guess that a lot of the idea for stormblood, its story and content, comes as an excuse for why the large scale pvp will make sense in the world.