The Last Word – Storm over Gridania

[Physic]

I don't understand people who say things like, "This probably wont come til PS3 release", maybe partly because of the time dedicated, but also for some other irrational reason I just cannot understand. Does this change make a PS3 user want to play when it's promised to them after they buy the game? Remember what happened the first time? Yeah. It makes absolutely no sense.

If anything, they will try to fix all aspects and drastically change the game before finalizing the PS3 client version. Not only will this make more sense technically, but also for future marketing.

If you hear one more person use the, "it will probably be held for the PS3 release", let it be known they probably suspect the least likely outcome of anyone.

Well the point is the ps3 is probably the major relaunch of the game, hence you as a developer want to have a lot for people to look at and say, this is worth my money, or this is worth me renewing. Of course there is another marketing strategy where if it looks like something is constantly improving, you may also want to invest in it. But based on the lack of content added in the last 7 months, when some of this content is obviously small, and probably already developed/easy to develop it seems they are saving a lot of the game for something.
keep in mind,
level cap is 50, even though we have had higher level mobs in the game from launch
no behests/leve quests for 43+ even though making a behest at this point would have to be fairly simple, pick some monsters throw them in the area, the end.
almost everything mentioned in development from the start of the game has not been added, when the game premiered they showed new hairstyles actually modeled. they havent come into the game at all. There is armor on npcs, that we cant wear, that follow pre existing patterns (raptor skin harness sets)

dats show skills with descriptions that we dont have yet.

fact is they must be holding back content, because some of it is basically already in game.

[Xmbei]

All good points but another thing I failed to mention is I think they will do the same as they did for FFXI and when the ps3 release does come an xpac will be released along side it. Like they did for NA FFXI release. Also yes download speeds are great now for downloading these functions. I am just afraid to do each zone over again will be more than 1.5 gigs, because when it comes to a remap of current zones they also have to redo so many other things with it, such as mob distribution, and other things that would need to be redone on things that people forget that remapping a map would impact.
On the downloading thing though, yes its gotten quicker over the past few months for FFXIV. Just remember Blizzard uses hard download from there servers, XIV uses torrent style so if not a lot of people online getting the patch its slower because its not dedicated purely from thier servers.

[Chrees]

Well WoW doesnt exactly update twice a month. they tend to wait until they have a mess load of crap to put out before they do it. If we were to wait 3 or 4 months for content patches they would be bigger. cept not many of us want to wait 3 or 4 months for one patch, better to have 1 a month.

Well it's not like I'm saying they'll be putting out huge patches like that twice a month. Did you read Xmbei's post that I'm responding to? All I'm saying is that releasing a patch with these map changes could result in a patch of that size, and if other companies are able to distribute patches of that size, then we could see one of that size as well without it having to be a part of an expansion pack.

Now we just have to hope that they get their patching client up to snuff by then...

[Reika]

They cant tell us EVERYTHING they put in a patch. that would just kill the adventure

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Well the point is the ps3 is probably the major relaunch of the game, hence you as a developer want to have a lot for people to look at and say, this is worth my money, or this is worth me renewing. Of course there is another marketing strategy where if it looks like something is constantly improving, you may also want to invest in it. But based on the lack of content added in the last 7 months, when some of this content is obviously small, and probably already developed/easy to develop it seems they are saving a lot of the game for something.
keep in mind,
level cap is 50, even though we have had higher level mobs in the game from launch
no behests/leve quests for 43+ even though making a behest at this point would have to be fairly simple, pick some monsters throw them in the area, the end.
almost everything mentioned in development from the start of the game has not been added, when the game premiered they showed new hairstyles actually modeled. they havent come into the game at all. There is armor on npcs, that we cant wear, that follow pre existing patterns (raptor skin harness sets)

dats show skills with descriptions that we dont have yet.

fact is they must be holding back content, because some of it is basically already in game.

That is assuming their priority is to the future PS3 users. You should be going on what you know and not what you suspect their direction is. That being, that they need to build the PC base and the already existing players to feel this is a game worth playing, and not a game we hope we'll never want to do without and arn't sure yet.

Making PS3 assumptions is premature at this stage and probably not worth suspecting over at this point for the fact that this message was sent to the PC users... not the future PS3 users.

[Cxplorer]

I don't want Gridania to go away

[Judge_Xero]

...turning up utterly divested of aspect. ...is an affront to the very laws of nature. ...camp-bound transient...

Man, I wonder if anything is gonna happen to our Aetherites. What could the Garlean Empire be doing to suck the power out of the crystals. I bet the beast tribes are gonna be angry. If we loose the ability to Teleport everywhere, would the Grand Companies be able to help us out?
...Stay Tuned for the next episode of FFXIV!!

[Rau]

I don't want Gridania to go away

Rofl. You are a minority unfortunately ;(

btw, I remember you from fantaji while we were waiting for fairith upload patch xD

[SirEdeonX]

Man, I wonder if anything is gonna happen to our Aetherites. What could the Garlean Empire be doing to suck the power out of the crystals. I bet the beast tribes are gonna be angry. If we loose the ability to Teleport everywhere, would the Grand Companies be able to help us out?
...Stay Tuned for the next episode of FFXIV!!

Actually the unaspected crystals have more to do with Mor Dhona ;P Can't say more lol its the main storyline

[Griss]

I don't know whats going on, but i think i like where its heading.