A new FFXIV:ARR fan site in the works

Hey everyone, I've been a long time member here and an active player (character: Lunch Box) on the Balmung server up until services went offline. I'm getting really excited about the 2.0 release and was starting a new fan fueled website devoted to A Realm Reborn and wanted to invite players to join.

Currently in development, the site will offer the common elements you will find with most fan sites like forums, wikis, and general game news. However, we're also looking to offer players some additional functionality that other sites don't.

Currently on the roadmap we have the following planned:

Enhanced profiles - These will allow you to follow other members and receive updates as to what they're talking about. These profiles will allow you to add images, share updates, follow others, and more.

Character Profiles - You will be able to add multiple character profiles to your account so others can see what you enjoy doing, what servers you play on and you will be ale to find others will similar interests

Groups -Pretty self explanatory, but basically a good way to join conversations with those that have like-minded interests. Raids, grand companies, etc.

Linkshell / Grand Company Websites - We looking at offering websites dedicated to your clans, grand companies, and linkshells. These will be mappable to your own domain and allow you to feature images of your group, display rosters of character information for users in the LS and allow you to schedule events for raids, dungeon runs, caravan escorts, or the occasional group gathering.

In addition to the above, A huge focus of the site will be put on fan supplied walk troughs and video. We even plan on having our own "Let's play" series to help new users become acquainted with the game and to attract those who may not have heard about it.

If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of or if you have some suggestion, please head on over to the site and fill out the form to let us know you're interested. Additionally, thanks to all who have already expressed interest.

Lastly, a big thanks to Square-Enix and the devs for making a game that we can really get behind and look forward to. Let's make it a great launch for both the game and the community backing it.

Head on over to FFXIVARR.com and join us!

Oh neat! Incorporate an items database once ARR launches for more traffic :) I like the design so far.

And you have the cutest name, I could just eat you up! ;)

That's the plan! Would love to make a valuable resource players.

P.s. - No relation to "Pandoras Box" or "Love Box" on the same server (:

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Originally Posted by Nuinn

Oh neat! Incorporate an items database once ARR launches for more traffic :) I like the design so far.

And you have the cutest name, I could just eat you up! ;)

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Subscribed. ;)

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Originally Posted by Emulord

Subscribed. ;)

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Thanks! I'll keep you updated!

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Originally Posted by Zehira

New forums need a PM system, please.

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This will be implemented. thanks for the feedback and be sure to sign up for updates!

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Originally Posted by maxaud

This will be implemented. thanks for the feedback and be sure to sign up for updates!

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Yeah, I just noticed. lol

just a question, is your site is like.. uhhh facebook a little bit? when i hear such things as profile updates and stuff.. kind of reminds me of fantaji.com

anyway i think xivpads cover up what I need for now :)

I thought this is the future of SE's fan site but it has no copyright (scanned ip address) I was wrong.

Yeah, I sure can't wait to see what it looks like. ^_^

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Originally Posted by Zehira

I thought this is the future of SE's fan site but it has no copyright (scanned ip address) I was wrong.

Yeah, I sure can't wait to see what it looks like. ^_^

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It an unofficial fan site, by fans, for fans. Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Seirra_Lanzce

just a question, is your site is like.. uhhh facebook a little bit? when i hear such things as profile updates and stuff.. kind of reminds me of fantaji.com

anyway i think xivpads cover up what I need for now :)

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I hope to not make another Facebook clone. Come check it out after we launch and see if there is anything you like.

Looking forward to it!

I signed up. Thanks for doing this. Keep us updated!!!

It could be interesting, but with pads, and mozk-tabetai.com/ it will be hard to stand out, there is also gamerescape, for the general wiki.

For your site to stand out you will need all the information on the above sites, constantly updated (mozk updates before the servers go live after a patch usually)

I wish you luck and I will be checking the site out when it goes live, you just have a lot of work to do in order to make it stand out from the other sites. I check your bullets and it seems like a lot that pads does, you need to give players a reason to go to your site over pads.

I agree that there is a lot out there and we're late to the scene.
We plan on taking player criticism and feedback and shaping the site into something valuable.

I appreciate the feedback. Look forward to seeing you when we launch.

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Originally Posted by Delsus

It could be interesting, but with pads, and mozk-tabetai.com/ it will be hard to stand out, there is also gamerescape, for the general wiki.

For your site to stand out you will need all the information on the above sites, constantly updated (mozk updates before the servers go live after a patch usually)

I wish you luck and I will be checking the site out when it goes live, you just have a lot of work to do in order to make it stand out from the other sites. I check your bullets and it seems like a lot that pads does, you need to give players a reason to go to your site over pads.

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Nice layout and I'm impressed you guys used the colour tones from the official site. Thing is though I'll echo what has already been mentioned in this thread regarding several other really spectacular fan-sites that have done a tremendous amount of work gathering information.. so like Delsus said, you'll really have to pull off something that no-one else has exhibited before.

That said, don't be discouraged and keep being very very creative... and I shall be eager to see the launch. All the best and good luck.

If XI taught me anything its make a wiki and ffxivah and we're good for a decade. Signed up :)

Nice website! (^0^)

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Originally Posted by Ramesses

Nice layout and I'm impressed you guys used the colour tones from the official site. Thing is though I'll echo what has already been mentioned in this thread regarding several other really spectacular fan-sites that have done a tremendous amount of work gathering information.. so like Delsus said, you'll really have to pull off something that no-one else has exhibited before.

That said, don't be discouraged and keep being very very creative... and I shall be eager to see the launch. All the best and good luck.

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Thanks for the kind words! We look forward to adapting to players needs and finding that sweet spot that will really provide value.

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Originally Posted by VitoScaletta

If XI taught me anything its make a wiki and ffxivah and we're good for a decade. Signed up :)

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Thanks! If we're able to get pricing information from Square-Enix we'll def build something. In the mean time we could build a user generated price index but I feel that it would be a pain for users to want to keep up on that.

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Originally Posted by Yukagama

Nice website! (^0^)

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Thanks! Sign up and we'll notify you when we launch!

you should look up Guildwork hosting site. They have already made a good layout for FC/LS and are determine to update for coming ARR.

Hope your site have a alluring theme to get ppl come to stay :)

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Originally Posted by Seirra_Lanzce

you should look up Guildwork hosting site. They have already made a good layout for FC/LS and are determine to update for coming ARR.

Hope your site have a alluring theme to get ppl come to stay :)

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Our Linkshell sites will be based off of WordPress platform so almost anything will be possible and we may even consider user supplied themes if they had one they like.

Do you have a particular theme that you enjoy using at Guildwork ?

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by maxaud

Our Linkshell sites will be based off of WordPress platform so almost anything will be possible and we may even consider user supplied themes if they had one they like.

Do you have a particular theme that you enjoy using at Guildwork ?

Thanks!

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Nah lol, i like making my self one.

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Originally Posted by maxaud

That's the plan! Would love to make a valuable resource players.

P.s. - No relation to "Pandoras Box" or "Love Box" on the same server (:

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We've got an impressive diversity of boxes running around on Balmung.

Think it might help if you have some members do articles on individual classes/jobs sorta like torwars did for star wars. The pod cast might be a little much, but it would be a nice place to find up to date info.

Hit me up some time, I plan on doing update reviews for XIV:ARR.

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Originally Posted by KaiTBF

We've got an impressive diversity of boxes running around on Balmung.

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That we do! Was a pretty decent server, lots of helpful people.

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Think it might help if you have some members do articles on individual classes/jobs sorta like torwars did for star wars. The pod cast might be a little much, but it would be a nice place to find up to date info.

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We'll be open, and will have a submission process for user supplied articles and videos.
If someone shows good strengths here, we would probably make them a full fledged author on the site.

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Originally Posted by Cedri

Hit me up some time, I plan on doing update reviews for XIV:ARR.

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Definitely will! I saw your signup, you're right.. we are a strange bunch at times.
Let's talk about this closer to launch.

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Originally Posted by maxaud

Definitely will! I saw your signup, you're right.. we are a strange bunch at times.
Let's talk about this closer to launch.

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Right on man.

While we're on the subject of fan sites I thought I would give mine a mention as I put a lot of work into it yet most people don't seem to know it exists, despite being one of the first. :P

I went down the same path as you with social networking features such as character and personal profiles, friend features, timeline etc. but it hasn't proven popular. People don't seem to want that kind of stuff. FFXIVPads is popular because it interacts with game data rather than being fully user generated content. I've been late to the party with that kind of stuff.

With my site I'm trying to provide as much info about the game as I can without going down the Wiki route, IE provide quality pages over quantity. I've already got an item DB on there which I will be upgrading to ARR during the beta. Of course it can't be launched until the NDA is lifted but expect good things then. Guides for content such as raids and primals are something I am very keen to add too.

Anyway take a look if you get time. http://www.ffxivinfo.com

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Originally Posted by Xenor

While we're on the subject of fan sites I thought I would give mine a mention as I put a lot of work into it yet most people don't seem to know it exists, despite being one of the first. :P

I went down the same path as you with social networking features such as character and personal profiles, friend features, timeline etc. but it hasn't proven popular. People don't seem to want that kind of stuff. FFXIVPads is popular because it interacts with game data rather than being fully user generated content. I've been late to the party with that kind of stuff.

With my site I'm trying to provide as much info about the game as I can without going down the Wiki route, IE provide quality pages over quantity. I've already got an item DB on there which I will be upgrading to ARR during the beta. Of course it can't be launched until the NDA is lifted but expect good things then. Guides for content such as raids and primals are something I am very keen to add too.

Anyway take a look if you get time. http://www.ffxivinfo.com

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Good stuff! Lots of good info.
I'll be sure to link your your site and give a shout out when we launch.

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Originally Posted by maxaud

We'll be open, and will have a submission process for user supplied articles and videos.
If someone shows good strengths here, we would probably make them a full fledged author on the site.

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That is good to hear! I might try out for one =P. Best of luck for your site, I will support 100%

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Originally Posted by VitoScaletta

If XI taught me anything its make a wiki and ffxivah and we're good for a decade. Signed up :)

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already done

and done

It can be challenging to find your niche in the sea of existing sites. Best of luck!

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Originally Posted by DarkDragoon

That is good to hear! I might try out for one =P. Best of luck for your site, I will support 100%

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Thanks! much appreciated. The support of the players is what will make the site a success.

Have to admit I really don't like pads, or mozk-tabetai.com so a new fresh site is a great idea, Thank you :)

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Originally Posted by Kyri

Have to admit I really don't like pads, or mozk-tabetai.com so a new fresh site is a great idea, Thank you :)

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Thanks for the support!

I dislike Guildwork so I still use Google+.

It would be nice if you allow them to create a new account by using your Facebook or Google+ account. I just don't want to give out my e-mail to other fan sites. :)

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Originally Posted by Zehira

I dislike Guildwork so I still use Google+.

It would be nice if you allow them to create a new account by using your Facebook or Google+ account. I just don't want to give out my e-mail to other fan sites. :)

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We're going to allow Facebook logins. Haven't really entertained the idea of Google but it could be an option if others want it.

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Originally Posted by maxaud

We're going to allow Facebook logins. Haven't really entertained the idea of Google but it could be an option if others want it.

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That's fine. :)

Most of Google+ users have Facebook accounts anyway.