Expansion pack....when?!

When are they going to release expansion packs? I want to be a samurai or summoner.

PS3 release will most likely happen well before an expansion pack. We'll start paying subscription fees around PS3 release time, so it would be ridiculous timing to ask PC users to buy the expansion.

And you can't release an expansion before the core game is complete. That would also be a bad move.

seriously want an expansion before the core game is fixed? wtf is wrong with you

I seriously hope there will not be any expansion before 2012. even so i prefer free content/update

December 2012

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Originally Posted by Lerris

PS3 release will most likely happen well before an expansion pack. We'll start paying subscription fees around PS3 release time, so it would be ridiculous timing to ask PC users to buy the expansion.

And you can't release an expansion before the core game is complete. That would also be a bad move.

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Really? I'm betting my money on the Ps3 Release being treated as an expansion pack. New jobs so high lvl players wont have nothing to level with the newer players with the Ps3 surge.

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Originally Posted by Enthy

wtf is wrong with you

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I quietly ask that same question every time anyone mentions an x-pack.

I can't see the relation between Summoner/Samurai and an expansion pack. Unless it's "Re-rise of The Zilart"... And what the people above me posted: should not add content until the existing one is working as it should.

not until the game get fixed

I agree with Jynx.

Though it may not be a full expansion, I expect some big guns at PS3 launch to hook new players and give old players a reason to play with them. We'll see, though.

Oh yeh defaintly, forgot about that, they will do something for ps3 release to try capture back players. They have to its not really a choice haha.

with all the content and addtions thats will be added between now and the release of the ps3 for free that could of potentially been put into a purchasable copy think your self lucky!

*** that, I'm not spending more money on this game. Give me content (that should have been in the game before it was released) through updates. I already shelled out $70 for the collectors edition under a year ago.

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Originally Posted by Cxplorer

When are they going to release expansion packs? I want to be a samurai or summoner.

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It's coming out in August. Just wait a few months and then you will have it. It comes with summoner and ninja jobs, not sure about samurai.

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Originally Posted by ManekiKanji

with all the content and addtions thats will be added between now and the release of the ps3 for free that could of potentially been put into a purchasable copy think your self lucky!

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I do consider myself lucky to some extent, but as its been said - we're basically Beta Testing for the Re-Launch. They really haven't given us anything substantial yet. I mean, they couldn't launch an expansion saying "20 new NMs for level 30 gear!" and "40 Side-Quests that amount to 100k gil and gear you'll throw away!" and "Monsters and Ability Effects 1.5 to 2x bigger!" That's not an expansion.

They're still teasing us with Grand Companies and Dungeons. They'll add those and if its still free, then it will be lucky because I think the game should have launched with basically everything it already has and Companies and some Dungeon content (though that could have come in at around month 2 or 3 and I'd have been satisfied).

The game is on the cusp of what I thought it would be and almost right on schedule - 6 months later. Though still more work to be done on Battle System and whatever else they cryptically and vaguely comment on (jobs & armory, I'm looking at you). It's really time to hammer those systems out and Re-Launch by September (in my opinion) with a finished product, plus additional content (zones, jobs, dungeons, HNM - an expansion worth) and this game will be good to go a year late with re-hooked subscribers.

I really expect fees to kick in around then, too. I'd pay now, but I suspect many wouldn't.

That's my vision, anyway. Still waiting on the developers'. ^^

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Originally Posted by Jynx

Really? I'm betting my money on the Ps3 Release being treated as an expansion pack. New jobs so high lvl players wont have nothing to level with the newer players with the Ps3 surge.

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I'll happily take your money.

New classes/jobs do not imply an expansion pack, and a new class/job system is forthcoming.

An expansion at this time makes little sense. The core areas have not yet been completed.

... to not set up for future expanding seems stupid to me. I'm hopeful they don't have any teams dedicated to making an expansion (though in the same vein it wouldn't surprise me for them to want to make us pay for content in the near future to recover some of their losses).

It's not like we expect it on the shelves tomorrow.

Also @ Lerris - New skills typically DO mean expansion if you use XI as a reference. No job was ever added spontaneously in a patch. So if they add a boat load of content for PS3 launch including zones, missions, new skills (classes). That's pretty much a content of an expansion for free in the "FF" meaning of the word. XIV could change that meaning of course but that remains to be seen.

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Originally Posted by Frebaut

This thread is so lame. Seriously an expansion pack??? Shit man they havn't even completed the basics of the game yet. Hell their still designing the game. I don't understand how people are this stupid.

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No need to insult. He just wants those jobs/new classes and was letting people know.

Actually considering that FFXI came to western shores with Rise of the Zilart packaged with it, I would not put it past Square Enix to use an expansion as a major selling point for PC and PS3 when they relaunch their marketing campaign for the MMO.

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Originally Posted by Benji

Fuck that, I'm not spending more money on this game. Give me content (that should have been in the game before it was released) through updates. I already shelled out $70 for the collectors edition under a year ago.

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and you got 1year of F2P which come to a 155.40$ take off your 70$ that 85$ of F2P :) we sure are lucky huh :)

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Originally Posted by Lerris

I'll happily take your money.

New classes/jobs do not imply an expansion pack, and a new class/job system is forthcoming.

An expansion at this time makes little sense. The core areas have not yet been completed.

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SE would be stupid to release the PS3 version when the games "Core areas" have not been completed yet, and probably a few months after they find it to be deemed "Worthy of release"

Not releasing the PS3 version as a form of expansion is dooming them to loose out on a large portion of potential customers...why is that? What will people see when they hear FFXIV is releasing on the PS3? Lets roll through some of the possible situations a consumer may think of.

1.Finally gonna get get this game right now! been following the updates and it looks/sounds like it's ready for purchase
2.WTF there is a FFXIV I didn't hear about this.
3.Sounds cool, lets see how the PC version of it fared in review....WTF! Why would I buy a port of a 4.0 game!

SE needs to draw massive ammounts of media attention with the PS3 release or risk being passed by with lack of attention and the brutal release reviews lingering on the release. SE would be signing the games death warant if they didn't release the PS3 version as a expansion pack.

Will they charge PC users for the expansion pack is another question. It would be a good form of "thanks for sticking with us while we worked shit out guys" if they let us upgrade to the new version for free.

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Originally Posted by Zenaku

and you got 1year of F2P which come to a 155.40$ take off your 70$ that 85$ of F2P :) we sure are lucky huh :)

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Lol nobody will play this game for a year, even for free.

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When are they going to release expansion packs?

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When the game is in a position where it can be financially successful, no sooner.

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Originally Posted by gifthorse

Lol nobody will play this game for a year, even for free.

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Then why there lot's of ppl online? and it's F2P and wont go P2P too 4-5month so that be 1year of the game been out.

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Originally Posted by BloodPact

I can't see the relation between Summoner/Samurai and an expansion pack. Unless it's "Re-rise of The Zilart"... And what the people above me posted: should not add content until the existing one is working as it should.

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Well, We do have Kan-E-Senna and E-Sumi-Yan...They totally give off a Zilart vibe with the naming schemes. >_> For all we know they could conquer the Black Shroud!

"Storm over Gridania" and whatnot,

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Originally Posted by Zenaku

and you got 1year of F2P which come to a 155.40$ take off your 70$ that 85$ of F2P :) we sure are lucky huh :)

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oh sweet, a year of ftp on a game i wasn't playing until recently because it got quite boring quickly. thanks!

i was pretty disappointed when this game launched and didn't have the content i had hoped it would have. hopefully in a couple months this game will have some stuff in it that will make me want to pay, but it's not there yet unfortunately.

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Originally Posted by Benji

oh sweet, a year of ftp on a game i wasn't playing until recently because it got quite boring quickly. thanks!

i was pretty disappointed when this game launched and didn't have the content i had hoped it would have. hopefully in a couple months this game will have some stuff in it that will make me want to pay, but it's not there yet unfortunately.

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You don't have to be rude everyone knew what they was signing we knew we was not going to get anything new from Open beta --> Release. The game have lot's of work yes and i don't even play that much. The game for me just not does meet to FFXI so far it seem to becoming a wow clone with dungeons even yoshi-p said it be somewhat like other mmo dungeon so i don't know how i feel about that :(

only time would tell >O

Wow this thread...

......but Im tired of waiting! My conjurer is at lvl 30 right now. I want Ishgard! I want my chocobo! I want airships!! aaaargh!!

Im pretty sure that they will release an expansion by the end of the year. Why? Because they need money and we need content so.....yeah! (personal opinion btw)

Grow up OP

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Originally Posted by viion

December 2012

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The end of the world?

I would like to see the xpac before PS3 release so that the box artwork and content will include the new stuff to boost sales.

So i see it as:
Battle fix, June.
2-3 good content patches, June/July/August.
Steam release, September.
Expansion (Ishgard, Chocobos, Classes ect), October.
PS3 release, December.

You can add 2011 or 2012 to the end of those months lol!

Oh P.S Triple Triad!

this thread makes me laugh. as other has mentioned, the core game isn't even complete to the new directors standards, as why it is still f2p (in other words, i guess you can say it is still in beta >_>). and you are already asking about an expansion? lol

Cart before horse.

The expansion will come with the PS3 release. They already have the PS3 version ready but they are holding it back for obvious reasons. Once the core of the game is fixed we should start seeing things progress at a much more rapid rate as content that was pulled at release will be adjusted and put back in along with new content. Maybe however they may just save as much content they have ready as possible and combine it with the expansion to make it huge to generate even more hype for the PS3 launch.

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Originally Posted by AlexiaKidd

The expansion will come with the PS3 release. They already have the PS3 version ready but they are holding it back for obvious reasons. Once the core of the game is fixed we should start seeing things progress at a much more rapid rate as content that was pulled at release will be adjusted and put back in along with new content. Maybe however they may just save as much content they have ready as possible and combine it with the expansion to make it huge to generate even more hype for the PS3 launch.

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I agree.

Also would it be worth giving it to PC for 2-3 weeks to fix bugs?

Or even give PC a week head start as a 'reward'?

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Originally Posted by Picoman

I agree.

Also would it be worth giving it to PC for 2-3 weeks to fix bugs?

Or even give PC a week head start as a 'reward'?

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I am hoping that the "reward" for the current PC players is that the expansion is free :p

I think the quality of the game needs to be high enough to charge a subscription fee before they can justify charging people for an expansion. The PS3 release will bring new content but a proper expansion wont happen until later. I expect them to start charging for the game with the PS3 release aswell.

Oh they did say they would be doing a PS3 Beta as well didn't they, so I think that they will get some content in before that starts as they wouldn't want to give off a bad impression. PS3 Beta won't be limited like ours was they will most likely get full access to everything that we do, just like the 360 Beta of FFXI maybe they will even let them keep their characters too like they did with the 360 and just give them a world transfer when it finishes. So they should have a month or two of that then the expansion ships with the PS3 release.

I would totally agree with an expansion pack coming out when the ps3 release hits, I mean it makes sense. SE is going to need something to help people to want to buy their product, and when the ps3 release hits an expansion pack would be the perfect thing.

I mean really when you think about it, with a new expansion, I'm sure social outlets like IGN and Game Informer, etc... will all re-grade SE's work, and once they do, they can kind of throw away the 4.0 they received, and replace it with the hopefully better score they would receive from their expansion pack.

Let's see, when FFXI first came out in Japan, it was basically the same thing that FFXIV is now. They used Japan as a larger Open Beta type ordeal before shipping it around the world. When FFXI first came out it only had THF, WAR, MNK, WHM, RDM, and BLM.... After the first expansion FFXI received a ton of new innovations and classes, for example, BRD BST DRK DRG NIN PLD RNG SAM and SMN... In other words, they basically increased their number of classes by 200%, I see no reason as to why when the ps3 release happens we can't see something close to that effect.

Overall I believe them to be releasing an expansion pack with the ps3 release, it follows how FFXI was raised if you will. I still have a lot of faith in this game, and I think once patch 1.18 hits, we'll see a lot of core changes occur that will allow an expansion pack to be more viable. Besides, it might be nice to release an expansion pack with the ps3 release including all of the content updates we've received thus far, I feel like that would be a nice touch if that was added as well.