Lodestone Forum Regulars Easter Eggs in ARR???

Thal Icebound dude

http://i.imgur.com/5S81dn4.jpg





So jelly right now..

Anybody else found one?

yep the person himself

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...inch-me-please.

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Originally Posted by Zenaku

yep the person himself

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...inch-me-please.

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cool, I am currently going past all the npcs looking for more right now lol

I can't wait until they make a Roken NPC :p

Might be a Legacy thing more than it is a forum regular thing. Which is really cool. Makes me more jealous about missing Legacy than anything else it offers lol

Do any highlanders give yarn balls to cats? :3

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Originally Posted by Antanias

Do any highlanders give yarn balls to cats? :3

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I'll call it right now. You won't get a named mention, but Hildebrand (A highlander) will start giving his assistant yarn balls as a reward.

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Originally Posted by Lucke

I'll call it right now. You won't get a named mention, but Hildebrand (A highlander) will start giving his assistant yarn balls as a reward.

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Even that would be hilarious xD

I'm now terribly scared :3
what if I end up the new brygrid.... :3 -shudders-

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Originally Posted by RoxyLalonde

I'm now terribly scared :3
what if I end up the new brygrid.... :3 -shudders-

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That would most likely happen to Reinheart >_>

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Originally Posted by Antanias

That would most likely happen to Reinheart >_>

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You have a point! thank god :3 my worst nightmare is having a bunch of people say I named myself after a character O_O that happened with my first one Roxy and it was insane the way people kept saying mean things...

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Originally Posted by RoxyLalonde

You have a point! thank god :3 my worst nightmare is having a bunch of people say I named myself after a character O_O that happened with my first one Roxy and it was insane the way people kept saying mean things...

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At least you have eyebrows.

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Originally Posted by DubstepNinja

Thal Icebound dude

http://i.imgur.com/5S81dn4.jpg


So jelly right now..

Anybody else found one?

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Now that is seriously awesome. Talk about being immortalized!

This is very, very cool. I'm gonna be seriously looking for other folks' names in my travels, now.

This team just becomes more awesome by the day.

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Originally Posted by Antanias

At least you have eyebrows.

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lol! XD

/10char

I'll be a sad kitty if Nahaara doesn't get a mention :c

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Originally Posted by Nahaara

I'll be a sad kitty if Nahaara doesn't get a mention :c

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Considering the only bit of conversation like this anyone found all weekend was this single reference, I'd be very surprised if there were more than a handful of similar things in the game as a whole.

Strictly speaking, the only character names that should get used are ones that already follow the naming guidelines too, in order that they fit into the dialogue of the world.

Actually i'll be honest here, if they did this i'd actually prefer if they did name drops for all legacy characters or none at all, instead of a select few and make people feel left out. It honestly doesn't feel fair to me to do it any other way.

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Originally Posted by Nahaara

Actually i'll be honest here, if they did this i'd actually prefer if they did name drops for all legacy characters or none at all, instead of a select few and make people feel left out. It honestly doesn't feel fair to me to do it any other way.

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Well firstly, naming conventions. I don't think you could excuse a "Mjollnir Axegrinder" in-game. Heck, since those posts on the Lore forums, I decided to change my name to something that was 'canon'.

Secondly, there have to be thousands of Legacy characters; there'd be no space to name-check everyone.

Third, 95% of those Legacy characters have minimal or no input into the community via the Lodestone forums.


I don't know why you'd feel left out. Catapult's one of us, so if you spotted the name-check, it's an Easter Egg to all of us here on the forums that recognised it.

If there is a reference regarding Coeurl Mounts to Rogue Muse I would literally scream

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Originally Posted by DubstepNinja

Thal Icebound dude

http://i.imgur.com/5S81dn4.jpg





So jelly right now..

Anybody else found one?

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You're jelly? /blush

Some context to consider: This text has been written by the almighty Fernehalwes. #loremonger

Remember the auction house in Limsa that was locked up and the guard said that if you listened carefully you could hear screaming? I'd like if that room remained locked, only now the guard would warn you away based on the ungodly stench coming from it. Mention something about me leaving almost 100 stacks of various fish on my retainer for half a year.

Poor Placentia. I hope she's alright.

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Originally Posted by Delsus

I can't wait until they make a Roken NPC :p

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Have you seen the naked dude hanging from the Astalacia?

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Originally Posted by Gukster

Have you seen the naked dude hanging from the Astalacia?

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I cannot like this post enough ><

I think the main thing to remember here is that Catapult has been regularly preserving lore, understanding the story, reporting localization bugs, and generally just being involved since the game came out. I've been hanging around the Loc/Lore forums since both went up and, like me, he's always been there.

Ferne's been peppering little references to issues esoteric to the Loc/Lore community all over the place for a long time. Spend a few years having fun and helping them polish their product and reaching out to their community and see what happens. That'll probably get someone a lot farther than making judgments about who "deserves" what treatment.

Unless...

<New thread: RENAME IT MOOSEKETEER OR FFXIV IS GOING TO FAIL.>
</sarcasm off>

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Originally Posted by Anonymoose

I think the main thing to remember here is that Catapult has been regularly preserving lore, understanding the story, reporting localization bugs, and generally just being involved since the game came out. I've been hanging around the Loc/Lore forums since both went up and, like me, he's always been there.

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This sounds suspiciously like work to me

Dub will instead live vicariously through "pissed pirate" for the duration of ARR


That is all

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Originally Posted by Anonymoose

I think the main thing to remember here is that Catapult has been regularly preserving lore, understanding the story, reporting localization bugs, and generally just being involved since the game came out. I've been hanging around the Loc/Lore forums since both went up and, like me, he's always been there.

Ferne's been peppering little references to issues esoteric to the Loc/Lore community all over the place for a long time. Spend a few years having fun and helping them polish their product and reaching out to their community and see what happens. That'll probably get someone a lot farther than making judgments about who "deserves" what treatment.

Unless...

<New thread: RENAME IT MOOSEKETEER OR FFXIV IS GOING TO FAIL.>
</sarcasm off>

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This is sort of important.
They aren't just picking names out of a Legacy Hat.
Catapult 'earned' an in-game mention

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Originally Posted by Gukster

Have you seen the naked dude hanging from the Astalacia?

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I haven't been to Limsa yet....

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Originally Posted by Delsus

I haven't been to Limsa yet....

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From the April 23rd Blog:

http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/jp/bl...20130423_2.jpg

Incidentally, if my Cameo turns out to be a placeholder to either avoid spoilers or fill in for the as-yet unimplemented Hero of the Maelstrom then I will fully understand. This is beta, after all, and the text is not finalised.

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Originally Posted by Catapult

Incidentally, if my Cameo turns out to be a placeholder to either avoid spoilers or fill in for the as-yet unimplemented Hero of the Maelstrom then I will fully understand. This is beta, after all, and the text is not finalised.

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If so, you'd expect there to be a similar mention in the other two cities for the respective Grand Companies. I only got a few hours in Limsa over the weekend, so I didn't see any of the other 'conversation' in the game outside that fine city.

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Originally Posted by Mjollnir

From the April 23rd Blog:

http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/jp/bl...20130423_2.jpg

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I forgot about that one but isn't it a bit, you know nice for Rokien? :p

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Originally Posted by Delsus

I forgot about that one but isn't it a bit, you know nice for Rokien? :p

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Oh I can think of a good few other posters who I'd rather were doing their time on Hyllfyr's ship in this manner... :)

Also, are Hyur a high-level form of bait for the new Fisher class? I heard that it could be done from boats, and this is *exactly* what I was imagining.

Guys, I'm not 100% sure, but I think they just took name ideas and/or people of the community the liked and used them in game.

Some like Catapult and most likely Reinhart, will get a big mention...others:

Dude I swear I ran by a NPC lala named Kikimi in my travels (which was one of the lala names I was knocking around in the naming convention posts a couple months back)...should have taken a picture, I didn't realize she could have been part of a 'thing' at the time. I just thought, huh, they used my name idea :).

Also, keep in mind, Ferny and his crew monitor and read this forum a lot...while creating in-game lore, names etc. It is reasonable that a name or 2 stick out and get 'recycled'


So I think a couple players are being specifically targeted for honor (I'm not one of these). Moose, Catapult, Reinhart....but others, might have had a name or idea that just got 'stuck on the brain' and was unintentionally added. (Kikimi).

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Originally Posted by Delsus

I forgot about that one but isn't it a bit, you know nice for Rokien? :p

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It would fit because he's always got something to complain about yet seems to just "hang around."

Congrats Thal. I'll admit that i'm quite jelly over this.

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Originally Posted by Xeonerable

It would fit because he's always got something to complain about yet seems to just "hang around."

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Rokien would be a small, twin tailed blonde haired, female Hyur
a glasses would a plus point

why only browse the loadstone and not the beta forums tho? I don't post hardly at all on the loadstone where i got about 1000 posts on beta.

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Originally Posted by Mikaboshiff

why only browse the loadstone and not the beta forums tho? I don't post hardly at all on the loadstone where i got about 1000 posts on beta.

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because its beta?
beta wasnt meant to be forever lol

Nobody cares about Kagato Jurai.

:c