Will the grand finale be carried out as a live event?

It's just a matter of days now, Final Fantasy XIV version 1 is coming to an end.

We know something big will happen in-game sometime before the servers are brought down. But so far there's absolutely no info on how we'll get to experience this finale. It seems to me like they'll probably do it as a live event with GM characters in-game and stuff happening at very specific locations.

This could be a big problem for several reasons:
• Assuming the live event starts 3-4 hours before the intended server shutdown time, it's going to be a hassle for players that are in an inconvenient time zone (I'd have to wake up SUPER-EARLY).
• If the live event unfolds at a specific location, I can imagine HUNDREDS of players gathering there to witness the grand finale. I missed a lot of live events, but I know I wouldn't miss the very last one, and I'm sure others feel the same. Too many players in one area = CRASH.
• A lot of people will want to connect at the same time just for the event. This could mean waiting queues or login timeouts

Do we really want to (half-)experience the grand finale through crashy zones, login queues and sleepless nights? Is that really how you're going to send the current version off?

Please tell me ahead of time if I need to prepare psychologically for a frustrating experience.

I'm not sure I want to have to watch someone else's recording on YouTube because server stability, server capacity or real world schedule are keeping me from experiencing it myself.

Don't expect anything amazing, its all been a big joke up until this point.

I thought the servers were up till the 11'th but with no saving, if they plan to do something nuts it will be then.

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Originally Posted by Ralliare

I thought the servers were up till the 11'th but with no saving, if they plan to do something nuts it will be then.

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Doubt anything happens after nov 1st, it will be a complete ghost town then.

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Originally Posted by Lum

Don't expect anything amazing, its all been a big joke up until this point.

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Yeh...I have pretty much 0 interest in it. Too much lack of info/updates for me to really care ._.

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Originally Posted by Lum

Doubt anything happens after nov 1st, it will be a complete ghost town then.

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So you don't think that anything will happen after November 1st? What exactly would the reasoning behind having the servers open for a further ten days after the final save (only to be taken down, and then put back up for those that want them) be minus being able to carry out their final event before shut-down, without people being able to complain that they can't progress as the event is stopping them - it allows them to do whatever they want, even if completely game breaking in normal terms, as none of it matters minus the event itself.

Heck, we could all end up becoming Demi-Gods for a while, cleaving through legions of Imperials while nigh on invulnerable - the cities could be swarmed with troops, standard NPCs dead, anything that wouldn't normally be possible when things mattered to players.

You wont be worrying about levelling, gearing or anything else, just whatever they have in store. While the event may seem 'tame' at the moment, you have to realise that they have made it possible to keep playing with a minimum of fuss for everyone - they even removed Atomos from low level zones as he was causing issues for players - which we had an entire complaint thread about in here, but without these restrictions, they are effectively free to do whatever they want.

Honestly, at the moment the Imperials are causing me problems when trying to level Thaumatarge but I can accept it as everything is coming to an end within a few weeks, however, if I wasn't trying to play normally, I'd be murdering all those Imperial troops for setting foot on Eorzean soil.

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Originally Posted by InuraBera

So you don't think that anything will happen after November 1st? What exactly would the reasoning behind having the servers open for a further ten days after the final save (only to be taken down, and then put back up for those that want them)

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I am not sure about others but I can't really get into a game/event when knowing the progress is not saved >.< Well..at least not in a MMO. :( So after November 1st, if they do something that is cool and all..but I probably won't participate..not only don't have the time but if its not saved there is just no motive for me.

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Originally Posted by Babydoll

I am not sure about others but I can't really get into a game/event when knowing the progress is not saved >.< Well..at least not in a MMO. :( So after November 1st, if they do something that is cool and all..but I probably won't participate..not only don't have the time but if its not saved there is just no motive for me.

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It's a "end of the world" event all you will probably do is "trying to kill off stuff" but fail in the end and Dalamud kills us all. I don't think this event has any "gear related" meaning to it or anything that would require a save. It's suppose to be an "eye-candy" event. nothing more nothing less.

The grand finale better put WoTG's climax to shame.

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Originally Posted by Starlord

It's a "end of the world" event all you will probably do is "trying to kill off stuff" but fail in the end and Dalamud kills us all. I don't think this event has any "gear related" meaning to it or anything that would require a save. It's suppose to be an "eye-candy" event. nothing more nothing less.

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Right, I'm expecting whatever happens won't have any rewards tied to it, should be purely story-related and eyecandy

Just make it instanced, no battle whatsoever, and 30 minutes of eye candy sequence

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Originally Posted by Elexia

The grand finale better put WoTG's climax to shame.

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HAH! You Wish.

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

Just make it instanced, no battle whatsoever, and 30 minutes of eye candy sequence

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instance this, instance that....

No i'm afraid we all get to die.....

Together!

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

Just make it instanced, no battle whatsoever, and 30 minutes of eye candy sequence

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I'd definitely be in favour of that. With lots of high-quality cutscenes, with no one to force me to skip them <3

Maybe we'll get to hear this music throughout the whole world during the last 10 days...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZITw...feature=relmfu

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Originally Posted by Inzoum

I'd definitely be in favour of that. With lots of high-quality cutscenes, with no one to force me to skip them <3

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psh skip them cut scenes, got to get to the end of the world faster.

i've never skipped a cut scene that i haven't seen at least once, if you cant wait 30sec~3minutes for important story pieces then your playing the wrong game genre.

What's gonna happen is

LAG

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SERVER CRASH

And shortly afterwards in Live Letter from the Producer Yoshida will announce that servers were annihilated by Dalamud and that he hopes everyone will enjoy A Realm Reborn, which will be released sometime in 2015.

I don't know why people are so sure there's going to be a "grand finale."

My money is on nothing happening whatsoever.

This is what's going to happen:
http://i.imgur.com/rtLXy.png

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

I don't know why people are so sure there's going to be a "grand finale."

My money is on nothing happening whatsoever.

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To be honest, I think that is exactly whay is going to happen. Although SE said they won't add anything else to 1.xx after November 1st. If we don't see this event by then, we won't be seeing anything different at all.

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Originally Posted by Kerwin

To be honest, I think that is exactly whay is going to happen. Although SE said they won't add anything else to 1.xx after November 1st. If we don't see this event by then, we won't be seeing anything different at all.

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I'm sure the weather will change a bit and whatnot, but I don't think there will be an actual "event" so to speak.

I think square can't wait to get rid of 1.0. much less make its demise any more nostalgic.

I always thought that the battle seen in the trailer for ARR would be the end of 1.0, it has just dawned on me that the battle showing the eorzean alliance vs the garleans involving louisoix is actually what we will be logging into at ARR release.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

I don't know why people are so sure there's going to be a "grand finale."

My money is on nothing happening whatsoever.

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Probably because Yoshi has expressly stated that he's keeping 2.0 spoilers under wraps because the 1.0 story hasn't concluded yet.

Not only that, but if you're up to date on the Dalamud storyline, then you already know that your character is expected to help fight at the last stand against the Garleans in Mor Dhona, where the grand summoning of The Twelve is slated to take place.

i still wonder how our opening to 2.0 will be if us 1.0 players will get a cutscene new players dont or if that will be handled in 2.0 ending where theyll show up the new eorzea then cut to credits o_o

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Originally Posted by DubstepNinja

I always thought that the battle seen in the trailer for ARR would be the end of 1.0, it has just dawned on me that the battle showing the eorzean alliance vs the garleans involving louisoix is actually what we will be logging into at ARR release.

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This is what I thought as well. With the way the server data save and shutdown are happening, it would be quite difficult for SE to ensure that all people get to experience the cataclysm if they put it at the end of 1.0. Instead, having it at first log in to ARR would be much easier for them to manage and make sure everyone gets to experience it.

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Originally Posted by ShinigamiKayla

i still wonder how our opening to 2.0 will be if us 1.0 players will get a cutscene new players dont or if that will be handled in 2.0 ending where theyll show up the new eorzea then cut to credits o_o

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But then there is this.

Perhaps there will be 2 versions? One for 1.0 characters logging in to ARR, and one for new characters created after ARR goes live?


In any case, it's very exciting. ^^

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Originally Posted by Lum

Doubt anything happens after nov 1st, it will be a complete ghost town then.

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It's a complete ghost town now.

@ OP if you are expecting anything near what your post states, you may be in for a big let down.

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Originally Posted by Inaaca

... if you're up to date on the Dalamud storyline, then you already know that your character is expected to help fight at the last stand against the Garleans in Mor Dhona, where the grand summoning of The Twelve is slated to take place.

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My question is (if there is some kind of "End Event") do we have to have completed all the quests leading up to it in order to participate/view the "Final Cut Scene"?

I have not completed them myself is why I ask.

Like most things involving this game for some time now, I've realized the mentality of going in hoping for something good, but expecting something mediocre is really the best idea.

So I expect there to be very little changed. As someone said, new weather seems almost guaranteed, along with the final image of Dalamud not so much up in the sky anymore so much as on the ground now. They'll probably just toss Garleans everywhere at all times also.

I am hoping, however, for a bit more depth to this doomsday scenario. All the fauna in the game acting bizarrely, as would be typical in such a situation, Dalamud Answers playing on loop wherever you go, even on Chocobo, NPCs killed, etc.

they will have an event but it's more like the one in there office lmao. wooot woot the mmo is off, one less thing to worry bout. they can called it i got time to wipe my ass now event :)


but if there is an event they need to tell us and tell us exactly the times for all time zones so i don't miss it.

Spoiler Alert
FFXIV GRAND FINALE VIDEO

I really be wondering what will be happening in thw last 10 days...

I feel there will be like a Patch 1.23c maintenance during that day while they save the data and then introduce a few new cutsence and some big battle at the end.. Might not even be a quest so there won;t e any new gear or achievements... but I will still be end it to see the cutsence of what is to come and really see our character get pull into the Space of Time being locked away sleeping till the world of Eorzea needs us once more.


Oh man the though of it now just gives me chill bumps.

I really don't care about what I do after the save... As long as I can get that DAMN RAVEN KILLED BEFORE HAND!!! UGH I so need help right now before final save... Keep failing on 3rd phase.

I'm honestly hoping it'll be something like a huge, epic cutscene that will auto-start when you log in regardless of your location.

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Originally Posted by Punainen

I'm honestly hoping it'll be something like a huge, epic cutscene that will auto-start when you log in regardless of your location.

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sort of like the nightmare sequence and inn quests, I guess?

SE final joke.. we get some really insane items after killing the hardest dragon in the game..


on Nov 2nd..

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

I don't know why people are so sure there's going to be a "grand finale."

My money is on nothing happening whatsoever.

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There is definitely gonna be an event, you would know if you'd read the news.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...ndex.html#news

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Our sources within the military caravans report that light infantry units have already been dispatched to the Carteneau Flats, along the outskirts of Mor Dhona. Yet this region, while rumored to be occupied by the VIIth Imperial Legion, is a vast plain with minimal strategic value, which begs the question: why contest such territory?

While much about the situation remains unclear, it is certain that the battle to come will have a lasting impact upon the future of Eorzea. May Nald’thal smile favorably upon our valiant defenders and guide them to victory.

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http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...d5fc8ff2b83f7a

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With rumors of a climactic battle on the wind, it seems the Garleans are seizing every opportunity to interfere with the alliance’s preparations. It is imperative, now more than ever, that we stand together to confront the invaders. Valiant adventurers everywhere, I pray you answer the call to arms!

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It's meant to be an apocalypse. Death, ruin, despair, panic everywhere.

When people complain about Atomos and his pets being at camps to the point where Square-Enix have to fix it, what chance do we have? Because people can't wait five minutes or so until they can do leves or they want to idle at camps safely. Give me a break.

Yes, it's annoying if they spawn and you die, but set your return at that camp and wait. We have two return points now, there's no excuse. A little thought ahead is all it takes. Same goes for anything potentially dangerous you're doing in Eorzea.

At this point in time, it's meant to be a dangerous world, hanging on the edge of ruin. There should be tension and peril everywhere but I'm just not feeling it. That's partly due to the players themselves, on these forums and in the game, and it's also down to the low amount of immersion put in place by Square-Enix.

To everyone being negative: You need to get out of this depressing mentality of putting a downer on every single thing in this game. I'm so tired of seeing it. The apathy is just as bad. We need to be positive and look forward to FFXIV: ARR, try to keep morale high and expect they will follow through on what they promise. Give them this last chance at least, and then they can live or die by it.

Leo is on the money.

There will undoubtedly be some story. Louix has already asked us to become the beacon that summons forth the Twelve, which was the whole reason we went on that pilgrimage in the first place. The newspapers are foreboding the companies assembling for a final confrontation. And if the trailer is to be believed, our story doesn't end until we are sent to a place beyond time to keep us safe. I believe THAT is where the 1.0 story will end.

We also are yet to acquire our "marking" that shows we survived the umbral era.

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Originally Posted by Inaaca

Probably because Yoshi has expressly stated that he's keeping 2.0 spoilers under wraps because the 1.0 story hasn't concluded yet.

Not only that, but if you're up to date on the Dalamud storyline, then you already know that your character is expected to help fight at the last stand against the Garleans in Mor Dhona, where the grand summoning of The Twelve is slated to take place.

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except that was before the story was actually concluded.

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Originally Posted by ShinigamiKayla

i still wonder how our opening to 2.0 will be if us 1.0 players will get a cutscene new players dont or if that will be handled in 2.0 ending where theyll show up the new eorzea then cut to credits o_o

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