The Last Word – Storm over Gridania

[AlexiaKidd]

I hate to be a buzz kill, but then what do you think will happen to the already implemented story missions? If the world is changed, how are they going to execute this correctly? Without giving too much away, the story missions progress though giving you signs that the age is coming, especially at the very end.

If the world is gutted due to the war in the Umbral age, it will not be cohesive when starting your character anew. In order to implement this change, they might need to have two separate maps. The continent in the astral age and the continent in the umbral age which would segregate the newer players from the more experienced and most progressed through the story.

This also could be a message that hints that the grand companies will be implemented very soon too and, although very possible.. don't get me wrong, not the redesign of the zones.

Who knows! The possibility of either or both are very exciting also, the thought of how exactly they are going to go about them.

Very true, however I kinda get the feeling that what they are doing with the story is more for our benefit to explain things that they are changing. Kinda hard to explain but basically I think come the "relaunch" (when they think it's good enough to pay for possibly PS3 release) they will have already restructured all the story missions and things, so they won't see any of this stuff when they start. Kind of like we are in a prequel of sorts to the actual game so we get to experience the changes to the lands and the story of how and why it happened but for new players it will have already happened.

I only played WoW on the trial while the servers where down because of the earthquake but did Cataclysm bring something similar? My LS friends who joined me who had played before were telling me "oh this is different" and "it wasn't like this before" but to me never having played it before it just all seemed normal.

In an interview with Yoshi P. they asked him what he thought FFXIV 1 year anniversary would bring and he said it would be when new players and old players would return and current players would tell them that all this stuff has happened and we need to save the world, something like that anyway. I kinda get that this is what he was hinting at.

[SirEdeonX]

Very true, however I kinda get the feeling that what they are doing with the story is more for our benefit to explain things that they are changing. Kinda hard to explain but basically I think come the "relaunch" (when they think it's good enough to pay for possibly PS3 release) they will have already restructured all the story missions and things, so they won't see any of this stuff when they start. Kind of like we are in a prequel of sorts to the actual game so we get to experience the changes to the lands and the story of how and why it happened but for new players it will have already happened.

And to me, this is just brilliant To actually feel the world is moving along with us (even though it was cuz of a bad game release XD)

[Physic]

And to me, this is just brilliant To actually feel the world is moving along with us (even though it was cuz of a bad game release XD)

honestly, i dont think this is about drastic changes to maps, its probably about companies, or the new dungeons, etc. So i dont think we will have to worry about changing the main storyline too much. It would be cool if they did have that type of dynamic world, love to be wrong about that.

[Mack]

honestly, i dont think this is about drastic changes to maps, its probably about companies, or the new dungeons, etc. So i dont think we will have to worry about changing the main storyline too much. It would be cool if they did have that type of dynamic world, love to be wrong about that.

Well the world is changing for sure, we know this because Yoshi said he's changing the maps a little especially Black Shroud...me personally, I don't think those changes will be drastic enough to the point where they have to redo the cutscenes or anything...at least the way I see it is they will change a lot of the areas that have nothing to do with how the main storyline is laid out right now because otherwise it would be way too much work. Either way, whatever they do I hope the shroud is better than it is now, I especially hate the long transition regions (like from Gridania to Emerald or Bentbranch to Tranqil - my god what the heck where they thinking...).

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Very true, however I kinda get the feeling that what they are doing with the story is more for our benefit to explain things that they are changing. Kinda hard to explain but basically I think come the "relaunch" (when they think it's good enough to pay for possibly PS3 release) they will have already restructured all the story missions and things, so they won't see any of this stuff when they start. Kind of like we are in a prequel of sorts to the actual game so we get to experience the changes to the lands and the story of how and why it happened but for new players it will have already happened.

I only played WoW on the trial while the servers where down because of the earthquake but did Cataclysm bring something similar? My LS friends who joined me who had played before were telling me "oh this is different" and "it wasn't like this before" but to me never having played it before it just all seemed normal.

In an interview with Yoshi P. they asked him what he thought FFXIV 1 year anniversary would bring and he said it would be when new players and old players would return and current players would tell them that all this stuff has happened and we need to save the world, something like that anyway. I kinda get that this is what he was hinting at.

I'd love the world to change because of the umbral age, but no matter how you look at it... it's a huge undertaking. The only reason why I say this is to point out that no one should expect this any time soon. Should just take this along with the new side quests that were implemented recently about Grand Companies. Everyone is seeing signs of the age coming and are starting to prepare.

I mostly read this message as the age is about to be here and that grand companies will be making their way into the game very soon.

[Xmbei]

I'd love the world to change because of the umbral age, but no matter how you look at it... it's a huge undertaking. The only reason why I say this is to point out that no one should expect this any time soon. Should just take this along with the new side quests that were implemented recently about Grand Companies. Everyone is seeing signs of the age coming and are starting to prepare.

I mostly read this message as the age is about to be here and that grand companies will be making their way into the game very soon.

Sound's like what I think will happen.