An elegant, comprehensive visual guide for Final Fantasy XIV.
I've posted this on reddit, but I was thinking maybe it would help here. I'll just quote what I said there since it was a pretty good description.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=657017
Quote:
This is NeoGAF's Official Topic for FFXIV: ARR that also doubles as a briefing on the game for everyone. It was designed to answer all the basic questions, lead people to answers for the more difficult ones, build hype for the uninitiated, and look very pretty while doing it.
Fair warning though; it is big and image-heavy. This is why we give these tips right at the top: "
If the the format looks weird, try stretching your window or refreshing your browser after a few seconds. To make it fit in a smaller window, use CTRL and - (numpad) or mouse wheel down to zoom out. (Images are 1280px wide)". Some people manage to skip over that somehow so I thought I'd reiterate. Also keep in mind that this a 2-post guide, with a link-filled resource section in the second post.
For those who would rather just skip the images (which you'll want to on a mobile device),
there is a streamlined text version with a handy table of contents for skipping around.
Finally, I'd like to point out that as part of this we made a
compilation of 1.0 plot/lore cutscene/summary links. There have been quite a few of those, but I don't know if I've personally seen one contain as much as this one.
So, as you can see, we've tried to make it so this guide will have something for everyone. I hope you can find a use for it, even if it is just giving the link to one thing or another to someone you know or just stare at the pictures dreaming of the moment you'll be able to log in again.
Bayohne (of the community team) seemed to take a liking to it:
https://twitter.com/mattalos/status/370080917173182464